by The Editors on December 17, 2010
Yesterday kept hearing about Bill Weiss and the relaunch of Digital Skateboarding. Yes, the very same Digital Skateboarding from way, way back in 1999. Here’s what Weiss and the crew are saying:
Ten years after we produced our first video, we are thrilled to release digitalskateboarding.com, a new website bringing you video parts and interviews with the best pro and am skaters from around the world. . . Our early efforts were often wild and hardly perfect, but our videos quickly became synonymous with great skateboarding, partying and sense of humor.
Seems like they’re jumping right back in where they left off. And it looks good. Check it.
[Link: Digital Skateboarding]
by The Editors on December 14, 2010
Details on Jason Lee’s new skateboarding TV project Shredd (produced by Jack Black) is sneaking out thanks to a post on Deadline Hollywood.
Shredd centers on Jon Johnsonsen (Lee) who, as a 17-year-old superstar skateboarder in 1985 was on top of the world until a risky skate move landed him in a coma for 25 years. When he wakes up, he is 42 but stuck in the 1980s mindset of a teenage boy and must cope with all the changes in his life.
Now that, friends, is comedy gold.
[Link: Deadline via Television Blend via @NealHendrix]
by The Editors on December 6, 2010
In a month when the covers of both Transworld Surf and Surfer Magazine feature portraits of Andy Irons against a black background, Surfer’s office mates at Surfing Magazine have a completely different take, according to a post by Stuart Cornuelle titled In Defense of Cowardice.
They’ve chosen not to do any work at all toward understanding or reporting the Andy Irons story. Not that they don’t have the scoop. Cornuelle writes:
The things we can’t say in our magazine could fill a…magazine…and Surfer’s the same, as is Transworld, and Surfline (ask L. Samuels), and even the venerated Stab, which is practically owned by Billabong. Make what you will of the fact that Brad Melekian, a Surfer Magazine writer, penned his Andy opus for Outside instead.
No. Surfing Magazine is going to remember Andy doing a big freesurfing cutback because as they say:
We’re not journalists. We don’t really chase leads or hound sources. We don’t chain smoke and flask-nip into the wee hours for no pay, just the satisfaction of spitting on the graves of our heroes. Sorry. Bookmark TMZ for your gossip fix — “you and every housewife in America,” to paraphrase Melekian’s well-researched article.
Guess it’s better than “the dog ate my homework” and Cornuelle got to call out Transworld Surf, Surfer, Stab and Billabong for good measure, but is this really a story to be proud of ignoring?
[Link: Surfing Magazine]
by The Editors on December 3, 2010
The former publisher of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine has jumped back in the action media game with a new title for the other team. Source Interlink’s Action Sport Group/Grind Networks announced last night that Jamey Stone is their new director of marketing. Stone will reportedly “oversee and direct the group’s marketing initiatives and business development operations.”
“Working for the ASG / Grind Networks is a huge honor,” said Stone, who grew up in Oceanside, Calif., surfing up to the professional level and skateboarding in the underground San Diego skate scene. He lives there still today with his wife and two children. “Growing up reading SURFER, SURFING and SkateBoarder, I never imagined that I would now be a part of this amazing family. I am very excited about all of the great things on deck for ASG / Grind Networks and look forward to adding to an already amazing legacy.”
We’re glad to see one of the most authentic, hardworking guys in skateboarding media back on board.
Strangely, this news comes on the heels of another departure at Bonnier Corp’s Transworld Media. Former Transworld Senior Marketing Director Vipe Desai left the company on Tuesday November 30, 2010 to pursue another opportunity after being at the company since April 26, 2010.
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by The Editors on December 2, 2010
The “do a documentary about yourself” virus seems to be turning into a epidemic. In the past it appeared that documentarians would select a person, event, or topic and create a documentary with or without cooperation of the subject. These days it seems that the best way to turn up a career is to create a documentary about yourself. Count in the Bones Brigade on the turning up the heat on the past.
On Monday, November 29th at Los Angeles International Airport, seven individuals that have had an extreme influence on skateboarding sat down to discuss work on a documentary of their experience. They met at the Encounter restaurant in the middle of the airport to begin work on this monumental film. . . Stacy wrote, “Those skaters known as the Bones Brigade are now old enough to take a look back. At a time in the 80’s when many people were mourning the second death of skateboarding, the Bones Brigade through passion, drive, creativity and a surprising sense of teamwork redefined the sport for their time and the future”.
People write autobiographies all the time, so there’s really no reason for us to be down on Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Rodney Mullen, Tommy Guerrero and Stacy Peralta for making a film about how great they were, because it’s true—they were great. We’d just appreciate it more if someone else was saying it.
[Link: Powell-Peralta]
by The Editors on November 29, 2010
Real Estate expert Jason Lee is apparently working on a new TV series for Adult Swim that would have something to do with skateboarding, according to a story on CinemaBlend.com.
Lee wasn’t very specific on the details of the pilot, however he did say that he would be starring and directing in it and that it takes place within the skateboarding world. . . . “It’s very twisted, it’s very out there being that it’s Adult Swim, but I’m very proud that it takes place in the world of skateboarding because not much is done in that world, and so I get to play with that. We’re gearing up to shoot that in a few weeks, so fingers crossed.”
For the record we’ll watch (and even occasionally pay to see) anything Jason Lee appears in.
[Link: Cinemablend.com]
by The Editors on November 24, 2010
by The Editors on November 22, 2010
Source Interlink announced today that they have moved four of their off-road motorcycle properties (Dirt Rider, ATV Rider, MiniMoto and EnduroCross) into the loving arms of Action Sports Group’s Publisher Norb Garrett. He seems happy about it.
“Bringing these dynamic titles and events into the ASG/Grind Networks group is another key step in our strategic plan to create the world’s largest action/adventure sports media company,” said ASG/Grind Networks SVP Group Publisher Norb Garrett. “By adding the largest off-road motorcycle title Dirt Rider, ATV Rider, a fast-growing arena motorcycle series such as EnduroCross, and the MiniMoto event, we have added an important piece of our overall content strategy for the Web and TV through both our vertical and horizontal efforts with our action sports portal GrindTV.com and Yahoo! Sports content partnership. Additionally, the brands create exciting new cross-marketing opportunities for our advertisers and marketing partners.”
If anyone can save these properties, it’s Norb. Follow the jump for the rest of the official release.
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by The Editors on November 22, 2010
While on the road with Vice co-founded Shane Smith, Girl Skateboards’ Spike Jonze was “detained” in Yemen until the two could come up with the money to be released, according to a story in the New York Post.
. . . while filming their search for al Qaeda for an MTV investigative series that premieres Dec. 6 — “The Vice Guide to Everything.” They avoided jail and retrieved their footage with an $8,000 political bribe.
Compared to some of the location fees paid for the last Jackass movie $8,000 is pretty cheap.
[Link: NY Post]
by The Editors on November 19, 2010
Ari Marcopoulos will be releasing his latest photography book Directory with Rizzoli International Publishers and Nieves in April 2011, according to a post on Slamxhype.com.
Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images. Co-published with Nieves, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist. . . Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends.
Guess we’ll have to add this to the collection as well.
[Link: Rizzoli via Slamxhype.com]
Yesterday kept hearing about Bill Weiss and the relaunch of Digital Skateboarding. Yes, the very same Digital Skateboarding from way, way back in 1999. Here’s what Weiss and the crew are saying:
