Shaun White is certainly maximizing his celebrity building NYC party time, last night (Sunday, April 22, 2012) he with Australian actress Abbie Cornish at the Tribeca Film Festival party for her movie The Girl at 1Oak. What do Señor Blanco and Ms. Cornish have in common, aside from loving to sit a tables buried in free bottles of Stoli? Ah, yes.Creative Artist Agency represents them both. What are the chances? Damn, our entire post blown out of the water by the fact that Cornish signed with William Morris Endeavor in January 2012. Sorry. Maybe they’re just friends. Thanks, Jenny!
Mike Jaquet, the former founder of Freeze Magazine and Vice President, Television and Properties Sales at CBS Sports Network is packing up and moving the entire family to Park City, Utah.
“I’ve always been passionate about winter sports and appreciate the opportunity to return to the industry and join the USSA,” said Jaquet. “The USSA is an innovative sports organization and I look forward to further building the brand and growing the various sales and marketing initiatives.”
Rail shredder Forest Bailey has just signed on with Dragon apparently.
“I’m very excited to be joining the Dragon Alliance,” said Bailey on joining the team. “With the most proper goggles and a team stacked full of homies, it was pretty much a no brainer.”
A 32-year-old snowboarder died last Tuesday (April 17, 2012) while riding off-piste at the French resort of Val Thorens, according to a story on Valthonet.com.
The man was with a group of three snowboarders who had hiked up the Mont du Borgne, on the Saint Martin de Belleville side of the valley when the tragic accident happened. . . At around 7 pm the snowboarder was swept away from the rest of the group by a huge avalanche measuring 100 metres wide by 300 metres long. . . The rescue team dug the victim out of the avalanche just before nightfall and performed emergency CPR but the man could not be revived and was pronounced dead.
Our thought are with the man’s family and friends.
This Olympic snowboarder doesn’t just spend time on snow-capped mountains; she crusades to save them. A key board member of Protect Our Winters, or POW, Bleiler engages the winter sports community and Congress to help combat climate change by advocating for regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. After all, if there’s no snow, there’s no snowboarding.
Because nothing is sexier than a easy to clean, BPA free, toxin free Alex water bottle.
It seems to us that the toughest part about being a celebrity would be attending all the events that you have nothing to do with but have to attend because you’re a celebrity and there are celebrity photographers there to take your celebrity photo so it can be included on celebrity websites and celebrity TV shows.
Take last night for instance (April 18, 2012). Shaun White attended the premiere of a movie called Five-Year Engagement at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. He got all dressed up. He wore a black suit with a black tie. And smiled for the cameras standing next to Robert De Niro.
What could possibly bring Shaun White and Bobby De Niro together? Or, yeah. They’re both represented by Creative Artists Agency. Just think how stoked their agents are because being a celebrity and getting celebrity endorsements requires staying a celebrity. And the way you stay a celebrity is by attending celebrity events where there are celebrity photographers who take your photo so it can be included on celebrity websites and. . . Wait, did we say that already? What a vicious circle fame is.
It appears that it took the North American’s a while to figure out that bowl riding isn’t about monster airs and corking tricks. It’s about flow and line and style. But they seemed to finally figure it out. By next year’s Holy Bowly they might even be ready for reals.
Seems like Salomon/Bonfire riders Chris Carr, Louif Paradis, Chris Grenier, Taka Nakai, Scotty Arnold, Teddy Koo, Desiree Melancon, Harrison Gordon, Kohei Kudou, Ryuichi Kabeta, and Rio Tahara, have been on vacation all year long. Here is more proof from the land of the rising sun. [click to continue…]
“The action sports landscape has grown and changed dramatically since we launched the Dew Tour in 2005. The multi-stop series format was what the industry wanted and needed then. The Dew Tour changed the industry forever, taking the sports to a whole new level. The new Dew Tour, which will include three major events across Beach, City and Mountain venues, represents what the athletes and industry want and need today,” said Wade Martin, President & CEO, Alli Sports. “We believe our partnership with Mountain Dew represents one of the most unique, integrated relationships between brand and property in all of sports. This partnership extension and the new approach we created for the Dew Tour together with Mountain Dew, the athletes and the industry, truly underscores that.”
The new tour will feature stops in Ocean City, Maryland; San Francisco, California; and Breckenridge, Colorado. For the official word, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
