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Agenda Show 2014: Optimism Everywhere

by The Editors on January 13, 2014

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Tim Gavin was on the front steps of the Long Beach Convention Center with a couple of friends when we rolled up for the Agenda Show on the morning of January 7, 2014. He was wearing a Filament T-shirt and telling another friend to be sure and come by the booth. “Stop by later,” he said. “It’s booth N-13.”

It likely wasn’t his plan (we didn’t even speak with him), but the industry veteran put us in an optimistic mood from the start. If Gavin were a different sort of man we’re sure he could come up with plenty of excuses to stay away from what is now the largest action fashion and skateboarding show on the West Coast. He’s done this gig before. He’s built and run extremely successful brands (DVS, Matix) and he’s seen them slip away into “reorganization.” But there he was, out front at the show with a new skate shoe brand and a head full of lessons learned the last time around.

It’s seems 2013 is the year of rebirth for many people. Paul Naude is in a similar, though much more high profile, position himself. After building the Billabong USA business up from next to nothing after licensee Bob Hurley started Hurley International in 1999, Naude saw the ship he helped sail nearly sink in heavy financial seas. After a failed attempt to buy Billabong, Naude could have taken some time to “pursue other interests,” however he was out in the Agenda Show aisles putting his considerable reputation and might behind two new brands Vissla and D’Blanc and helping action women’s fashion veterans Mandy Fry and Summer Rapp with their soon-to-launch women’s line.

Click here for our Agenda Show Photo Gallery. [click to continue…]

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One World, One Love, One Wheel

by The Editors on January 9, 2014

The designers behind the Onewheel Kickstarter project began with the hope of building a hoverboard. What they ended up with is an electric one-wheeled skateboard. We’d like to think it looks a little better than a Segway, but we’re not sure. If you like the idea, there are 17 days left to fund this project. They hope to raise $100,000 and they’re getting pretty close.

[Link: Onewheel via Engadget]

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Color Magazine Reaches End Of Rainbow

by The Editors on January 9, 2014

Colorlogo2013_webAfter 10 years of producing Color Magazine, Canada’s Fourcorner Publishing Inc. has announced that they will no longer print the magazine and are taking an “extended hiatus from the traditional methods.”

“I may have received back just as much as we gave [while making the magazine]—which was always all of ourselves,” said founder Alessandro Grison. “I am forever grateful for the amazing people I met and got the opportunity to work with over the years. I’m thankful to walk away enriched by memorable experiences.”

The rough times in action sports media continue. Sadly, we’re guessing this won’t be the last bit of bad news we’re expecting  in the coming months. For the official word from Fourcorner, follow the jump.

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Stereo Skateboards Moves To Syndrome

by The Editors on January 6, 2014

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Jason Lee and Chris Pastras are happy to announce that they’ve moved Stereo Skateboards in with Syndrome Distribution (you know, with Birdhouse).

We picked a partner that will help us improve on our products, and obviously deliver the goods! Stereo is truly honored to be alongside the brands Syndrome produces and distributes. Same team, same sound, new channel! Cheers to an Epic 2014!

Sounds great. . .

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John Lucero Awarded TWS Legend Status

by The Editors on January 6, 2014

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He’s been a legend for decades, but now thanks to the Transworld Skateboarding Awards, Black Label’s John Lucero will have the trophy to prove it.

“John’s been doing things his way for over 25 years with the timeless punk rock D.I.Y. attitude that embodies true skateboarding and it doesn’t look like he’s stopping anytime soon,” said Transworld Skateboarding’s Editor-In-Chief Jaime Owens. “That’s why we’re proud to give this year’s Legend award to Mr. John Lucero.”

The 16th Annual TransWorld Skateboarding Awards are going down tomorrow night (Tuesday, January 7, 2014) in Long Beach, California. For the official word from TWS, follow the jump.

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CCS Licenses Nyjah Huston

by The Editors on January 2, 2014

CCS, the mailorder action fashion company, has announced that they have now purchased the right to use Street League skateboarding wizard Nyjah Huston in their promotional/advertising activities. Mr. Huston will hopefully be handsomely rewarded in this transaction as he needs more fuel for his Audi. For the official word from CCS, follow the jump. [click to continue…]

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Want A Good Book For Christmas?

by The Editors on December 20, 2013

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This is about as far as we’re going to go with the whole Christmas Gift Guide idea. Four books: two for people who like to read and two for people who like to look at pictures. Word books first.

Welcome To Paradise Now Go To Hell
by Chas Smith

In his debut book Welcome To Paradise, Now Go To Hell writer, editor, filmmaker, and handsome father Chas Smith weaves many of his best surf story lines into a tale of surfing (and violence) on the North Shore of Oahu. Its centerpiece is the story of Smith being verbally assaulted by world champion Mick Fanning and the shit-storm that his reporting of that incident caused. But there’s also more about surfing in general, the North Shore, Hawaiian history, and just how much Chas Smith the writer admires Chas Smith the man. We couldn’t stop turning the pages once we started and ended up reading it straight through. We guessing you will, too. It’s good.

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By Nick Carroll

This tell-all surf memoir is the “autobiography” of the two-time ASP world surfing champion Tom Carroll written by respected surf journalist and editor (and Tom’s brother) Nick Carroll. It’s a family book. It’s a surf book. Here’s the official pitch:

On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he’d done so much to legitimize. Tom’s family and friends struggled with him, kept his secrets, and looked on in anger and fear as the wheel began to grind him down. Then a window opened, but getting through it made charging Pipeline look like a piece of cake. This is the story of an unlikely moral education: of humility, family, damage, brotherhood, youth, stupidity, glory, single-mindedness, and surrender, and about the feeling of water moving under a surfboard, how it can bind past to present and make sense of lives.

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Flow & The Rise of Superman

by The Editors on December 17, 2013

Years ago, (seems like a lifetime now) I rolled in late-night to a bar called Whiskey Creek in Mammoth Lakes, California. It was a weeknight and the place was half empty, but the other half was all local: goggle tanned ski instructors, lift ops on their last dollar, off duty cat drivers, and bored, alcoholic wives of the idle rich scattered around the room. The band had just finished playing and I made the mistake of rolling up to the bar next to an older guy who had already been there too long. He turned, one hand on an old fashioned, looked me straight in the eye and before I could say hey, said, “I’m working out a way to put anyone in “the zone” any time they want.”

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Dave Bachinsky On The Always Grind

by The Editors on December 13, 2013

We’re going to watch Dave Bachinsky then go out at skate. Because we find him that inspiring. Is it the trucks?

[Link: Venture]

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Harper & Hawk Launch Boards + Bands 2

by The Editors on December 9, 2013

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Harper wrote lyrics to “Pleasure And Pain” on Christian Hosoi’s board, and Hawk had members of The Clash write lyrics from “London Calling” on his. Photo by Jody Morris.

On December 5, 2013 Ben Harper and Tony Hawk kicked off the second annual Boards + Bands auction to benefit at-risk youth from the Clive Davis Theater at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, California.

The Boards + Bands initiative brings together the worlds of skateboarding and music to benefit the work of the Tony Hawk Foundation, which helps bring high quality public skateparks to underprivileged children in low-income communities. The chosen recording artists have hand-written the lyrics on one-of-a-kind skateboards from each skater. . . . “The second annual boards and bands has arrived!” said Harper. “I couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve done at the Tony Hawk Foundation—it is an honor to serve as a member of the Board. Skatepark building is community building, so please help us spread the word about this year’s auction. Thank you!”

Musician and skater match-ups include some interesting combinations like Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin “Candle In The Wind” on a Chris Cole deck; Daft Punk “Technologic” on Aaron ”Jaws” Homoki’s board; and Panda Bear “You Can Count On Me” with Andrew Reynolds. Last year the boards got pretty expensive but just click on www.BoardsAndBands.org and throw in your bid, or follow the jump for the official word from The Tony Hawk Foundation. [click to continue…]

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