Legendary skateboarding photographer Grant Brittain will be opening a showing of his photos from the Oceanside, California skateboarding scene tonight, April 22, 2013, at The Privateer in Oceanside, California. The show titled The O-Side Skate Connection runs April 22 through May 19, 2013. The opening reception begins at 6 PM Monday, April 22, 2013. The Privateer (a great coal fired pizza restaurant) is located at 1706 South PCH 101, in Oceanside, California.
This new Lowcard edit makes backyard pools look so smooth and buttery, but if you think it’s easy you probably need a little one-run reminder of just how tight and kinky they are. Speaking of which. . . Oh, just watch the edit.
Earlier this month, with all the talk of Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft coming out with smart watches, we were thinking about the action fashion watch marketplace and what companies like Nixon, Vestal, Freestyle, Home etc. . . are going to do now that all that most of their products do is report the time of day.
In the always-on era we’re all beginning to suffer from what writer Douglas Rushkoff calls Present Shock. Thanks to digital technology we’re all living so in the moment that the past and the future are losing their impact on our daily work flow. So, not only have watches become useless jewelry, but the time of day (our only reason for wearing them) is quickly becoming one of the least important data points in our digitally cluttered lives.
This is probably why G-Shock is making their wrist jewelry a little more useful by loading it up with Bluetooth so it can communicate with a smart phone and subtly let people know know if they’ve got mail, a message, changed time zones, or even lost their phones to an unscrupulous mini market manager. Here, let Stevie Williams explain. . .
We’ve haven’t seen Adam Dyet skate for a while and this little outtake from Darkstar’s Forward Slash is a good reminder that things are all good with the man.
Vans Off The Wall TV features a show titled DERP aka “derelict places.” For whatever reason, ruins have always be cool places to hang out and especially to skate. In the first episode of DERP skaters to go the Kupari Tourist Complex in Dubrovnik, Croatia. After that it was on to Hanover, and Athens. Click the links to watch them all.
Sanjay Dastoor, of Boosted Boards, presented his “electric vehicle” to the super brains at a TED conference and they clapped their hands when he revealed a $1,200 electric skateboard. As we’ve always thought with motorized skateboards, is simply pushing all that difficult?
Rob Dyrdek really does have the whole promo thing down on lock. This week the Tribeca Film Festival will be screening a Street League Skateboardingpromotional advertisement documentary by Adam Bhala Lough titled The Motivation. We do so love the age of advertorial, especially when it comes to documentary filmmaking. Oh, and as you might imagine The Motivation looks to be very good as well. That’s called synergy. The Motivation premieres Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 9:30 PM EST.
If surfing is more your thing, the festival also will be showing the “initially Quiksilver funded,” Bob McKnight co-executive produced, ESPN Films owned film Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau. It’s directed by Sam George and produced by Stacy Peralta, Paul Taublieb, Agi Orsi, and Dan Silver so it’s probably good, too.
After accidentally stumbling on to the ridiculous ABC Television “diving with the stars” reality contest show Splash and not getting it, we thought it even odder that Tony Hawk would make a five second guest appearance on the show ollieing off the show’s high dive to the cheers of a live crowd shouting: “Tony. Tony. Tony.”
Those who spent any time at Mr. Hawk’s Fallbrook facility will remember hours spent jump ramping into the pool on hot days, so this is really nothing new.
But we were left wondering: Is this the kind of compelling action sports content we can expect from TMZ Action Sports?
Tonight at the T.F.R. Gallery in Encinitas, California a collection of images from the biggest names in skateboarding photography will be all together in one place. Photographers include: Grant Brittain, Brian Gaberman, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Mike Blabac, Anthony Acosta, John Humphries, Joe Hammeke, Mike Burnett, Matt Price, Dave Chami, Jai Janju, Zack Dowdy, Ryan Allan, Arto Saari, Joe Brook, Peter McBride, Blair Alley, Joey Shiged, Aaron Smith, Rhino, Dave Swift, Dan Zaslavsky, Mike Gould, Seu Trihn, Jaime Owens, Rodent, John Bradford, Miki Vuckovich, and Tod Swank.
Inspired by Grant Brittain’s iconic photo of Tod Swank, the Push Photography Show is celebrating skateboarders pushing in the streets. Proceeds from the sale of the Push photographs will go to the non-profit skateboard initiative Just One Board.
