Do we really need to say anything else? Richie Jackson and Sierra Fellers on the bottle table with Erica Yary and Rob Brink. Yep, we’re even more stoked on Richie now. . .
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Tonight (Thursday, April 4, 2013), Los Angeles’ Known Gallery kicks open their new show Skateboard High School | Years of Pictures by Patrick O’Dell. For a little backstory on why you might want to visit the opening, click here to read Chris Nieratko’s love letter to an O’Dell photo on Vice.com. The opening party begins at 8 PM. Known Gallery is located at 441 North Fairfax Ave., in Los Angeles, California.
[Link: Known Gallery]
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Ricardo Camargo of Vapor Studio, just tipped us in on a new project he’s working on called Lit, by NZN labs. Lit is an action tracker that no only keeps track of all your walking and running, but also surfing, snowboarding, and skateboarding and pulls it all together for some social competition as well. Camargo and his partners are currently trying to raise $100,000 for the project on a site called Indigogo.
LIT’s advanced sensors analyze your movements 24×7, scoring both activity and action by interpreting steps, distance, duration, intensity, strokes, paddles, jumps, rotations, turns, g-force, airtime, and more. . . Earn points for activity and bonuses for action. Points become the currency used to challenge yourself, your friends, and the world. . . LIT is 24×7 wearable and built to go where you go. Snow, surf, dirt, pavement? No problem. LIT is built for extremes. It’s rugged, shock resistant, and water resistant to 10 ATM / 100 m.
NZN Labs has already raised $27,000 but in the next 30 days they need going to need $70,000 more. To see how you can participate and help make Lit a reality, click the link.
[Link: NZN Labs]
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Cowtown Skateboards PHXAM is going down this coming weekend April 6-7, 2013 and if you’re not going to be sweating balls with the rest of the crew in Phoenix, Arizona the next best thing will be to watch it online.
Top amateur skateboarders from across the globe including Vans’ own Daniel Lutheran, Nassim Guammaz, Kyle Walker, Patrick Ryan, John Fitzgerald, Alec Majerus, Antoine Asselin and Rowan Zorilla will compete for more than $8,500 in cash and prizes. Skullcandy will also host the “Best Trick” Contest and award $2,500 to the best trick of the weekend. The Official PHXAM After Party tops off the event with the Black Lips, Andrew Jackson Jihad and more music on Saturday night at the Marquee Theater in Tempe, AZ.
Check it out live on PHXAM.com or on your mobile device via the Vans Live app. Follow the jump for the official details. [click to continue…]
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The organizers of this year’s IASC Skateboarding Summit (scheduled for May 8 – 10, 2013 at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim, California) have announced their lineup of speakers and there are very few surprises. However, as IASC Executive Director Josh Friedberg says:
“The depth of experience and variety of viewpoints from our speakers this year will give everyone who attends some great food for thought, I can’t wait to hear what these guys have to say!”
For the complete list of the brave industry stalwarts who will be sitting at the tables up front and facing the audience (as well as a complete list of inductees to the Skateboarding Hall of Fame) follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Everything you know about the birth of the Dogtown skate scene may be different than you thought, or maybe, just maybe, everyone is playing along with someone’s sick joke in the film Day At The Pool from House of Salt.
The film features blazing interviews with Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams and the rest of the Dogtown crew. They all reveal that one anonymous kid from the swimming-pool suburbs of Los Angeles may have been singularly responsible for the skateboarding revolution that redefined adolescent life in America. Upon further probing, blazing interviews become heated as an intentionally hidden secret is uncovered.
Guess we’ll never know without watching a film the Austin Film Chronicle calls “. . . the Spinal Tap of Skateboarding. [click to continue…]
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Scott Stevens gets flipping with a deck and some trampolines. Pretty sweet.
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Power House Productions, the nonprofit organization behind Detroit, Michigan’s Ride It Sculpture Park, got a little help from the Tony Hawk Foundation in the form of a $30,000 donation (including $5,000 from THF board member Kevin Rose) to help continue construction on the “skatescape along East Davison Street.
“Being recognized by the Tony Hawk Foundation, a name synonymous with the highest level of the sport, is a point of pride for the neighborhood,” said Mitch Cope, Co-Director of Power House Productions. “These kids just can’t believe it. . . Ride It Sculpture Park has always been a very personal project for us, in part because it mixes aspects of our youth that were such big influences—skateboarding and art—and also because it has the greatest potential for impact in our neighborhood of any of the projects we’ve done. It’s a focal point for creative, social activity that is free and open to all.”
For the official word from the Tony Hawk Foundation, as well of a list of the rest of the Winter 2013 THF Skatepark Grants, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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A group show including work from Russ Pope, Neil Blender, Hagop Najarian, John Sollom, and Mike Myers titled Microscopic Hinges opens April 4, 2013 at the Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow in Laguna Beach, California.
Curated by Russ Pope, the show includes small and medium scale works serving to mark this place in time for the five artists as individuals and friends. Some people might call it coincidence – some call it destiny – but there is no denying that microscopic hinges link us all together, binding our past, present and future. Like a chapter book flipped to the middle, these five have a unique bonded history – with more to come – but April 4th they show us what progressive art in Orange County looks like today.
The opening begins on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7 PM. AR4T is located at 210 North Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. For more info click the link.
[Link: AR4T]
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Valhalla Design & Conquer’s Action Logo March Madness is down to the elite eight. In this round it’s Adidas vs. Vans, Powell vs. Element, Burton vs. Santa Cruz, and Volcom vs. Quiksilver.
Only you can help decide which of these logos makes it into the final four and eventually on to the finals of Champion Action Logo of 2013. Click the link to make your vote count.
[Link: March Logo Madness]
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