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.
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…]
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.
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…]
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.
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.
In an effort to help you spend at least an hour of your Friday correctly (if you haven’t seen it before), we present Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy in its entirety (plus a little advertising). It’s the story of Brewce Martin and the infamous Skatopia.
Skatopia’s owner, Brewce Martin, dreamed of a place where he could live and breathe skating… a place where people forget their “outside” lives by plunging into high-energy craziness. A continual work-in-progress, this rural farm is a mecca for skaters who want to live outside society’s rules.
Enjoy. Oh, and don’t forgot, this is still going on. Bowl Bash 18 runs June 20-23, 2013.
Don’t think we’ll ever get tired of watching skaters attempt anything at El Toro. But theses edits are especially compelling when the warrior ends his attempts with a “Ow, fuck, fuck . . . I’m done dude, oh god. God dammit, fuck. . . ” Those were, however, some seriously valiant attempts.
