Today (April 30, 2013), on iTunes Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals released a special version of Jah Work to help support the family of Australian Almost Skateboards pro Lewis Marnell who died in January 2013 from diabetes complications. Here’s what Almost’s Luis Cruz says:
Lewis had left his guitar with me so he had something to play when he was in the US. I had forgotten he left it. One day, Ben Harper was visiting me and noticed the guitar. When Ben and I started talking about it, we thought it would be cool for him to make a song using Lewis’ guitar. With debt looming over Lewis’s funeral, Ben decided to get his original band back together and make a song for Lewis. All proceeds of the song will go to helping the Marnell family with all funeral costs.
We’ve watched this Patrick Pearse edit for Desillusion Magazine three times now and we swear, our monitor is beginning to get that worn, smokey, intimate, Marlboro haze that Steve Olson creates so well.
Portland, Oregon’s Timothy Copeman is a hardware repurposer, recycler and upcycler who give new life to old hammers with interesting materials and then sells them in his Etsy story Copeman’s Corner. Some of his coolest hammers feature handles made from old skateboard decks. Here’s what Copeman says about this one:
This handmade handle was created from White Oak and an up-cycled Anti Hero TNT Skateboard Deck then securely fitted to a vintage reclaimed claw hammer head. Go big or go home! . . . Entire hammer weighs approximately 1 lbs 9 oz and measures 13.5 inches long. . . This hammer was designed to be put in your tool box and used! All my hammers are guaranteed not to break with normal use for the first six months! See my shop policies for details.
How much would you have to drop for one of Timmy’s skateboard hammers? $40 to $45 a piece. Click the link for more details.
Now, thanks to a collaboration between Real Skateboards and Know Projects, Inc. (the minds behind Know Skateboarding) everyone can ad a little flavor to their social media photo posting with a new iPhone app called InstaReal. Just watch the edit, download the app, and start you can remind the world that people need to #mellowthefukout
Zumiez 13th Annual Couch Tour kicks off its nine-stop tour on May 25, 2013 in Seattle, Washington and from there on out it’s a free six-hour event for the kids each week for most of the summer.
With summer just weeks away, what better way to let the good times roll than an epic day filled with buzz-worthy live music, pro skateboard demos, celebrity meet and greets, am skateboard contests, DIY activities, and free giveaways from amazing sponsors? Neff,Oakley, Skullcandy, Sector 9, TransWorld SKATEboarding and Drink Water present the 13th annual Zumiez Couch Tour – it’s the latest in fun, variety and sport, and it’s all for FREE!
We’re super stoked on them for having Drink Water as their official drink (no reason to help poison the kids all summer). For complete dates and details follow the jump. [click to continue…]
The skaters definitely earned their money in the Brazilian X Games held April 19-21, 2013. Here’s how Nyjah Huston won in the Street League Skateboarding finals. For the complete, condensed, easy-to-process results, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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. . .
