Walker Ryan’s video joint the Shuffl Video will be premiering in San Diego on Monday, June 28, 2010 at Point Loma’s retro-modern swanky Pearl Hotel, according to a post on The Skateboard Mag.
There is a limited capacity for this showing, and tickets will be exclusively available at certain shops in the San Diego area. The second premiere is going to be held at Utility Boardshop on Thursday, July 1st at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to that one!?
The Shuffl features Austin Kanfoush, Dave Abair, David Cole, John Lupfer, Paul Sewell, Ryan Harris, Walker Ryan, and Tom Remillard. Bring some inflatables and watch it from the pool. Show starts at 8 PM.
Seems lately that all of us are getting forced into being a little more professional about our data (gross understatement). Seattle-based photographer Chase Jarvis breaks down his digital workflow from beginning to end.
It’s basically a free seminar on keeping your data safe. And we all could do more of that. . .
For this coming winter Burton has reportedly hooked up with Disney to produce a “Tron-inspired” snowboard boots inspired by the upcoming Disney film, according to a story on Stitchkingdom.com.
Burton will offer an exclusive snowboard boot that blends the best-in-class functionality and technology of Burton Snowboards, with the DNA of the original TRON. Inspired by the story’s strong graphic look and feel, the Burton boot is made to look like something out of the future, yet seen through the eyes of a snowboarder back in 1982 when the first film released.
So is that primitive future or future retro? Burton will not be alone. Oakely, Hurley, and Adidas are also getting in on the exploitatron.
We mentioned Kevin MIchael Connollytwo-and-a-half years ago when his photo show The Rolling Exhibition was touring the country. Born without legs, Connolly has spend the past several years rolling around on a skateboard and taking pictures of people looking down on him. In October 2009 HarperStudio published a memoir titled Double Take. It’s about growing up in a happy Montana family without getting a leg up. the book was just released in paperback and the reviews are still pretty good.
Alli Sports, the NBC/MTV owned parent company of the Dew Tour announced today that they have purchased the Carlsbad, California based online retailer Standard Boardshop. Founder Pete McAfee appears to be very happy to have someone else paying the bills.
“Myself and the rest of the Standard Boardshop team couldn’t be more excited to join the Alli family,” said McAfee, General Manager of Consumer Products for Alli. “Alli Shop will allow consumers the opportunity to shop online for the latest in apparel and products from many of the top brands while at the same time consuming in-depth editorial content.”
With media dollars drifting away it’s probably not a bad idea for Alli to get into the business of selling physical products that kids will actually buy. Although the idea of content and shopping reminds us a little of the old Swell.com model that never really worked out all that well. Then again, it’s nice of Chris Miller to look after his people so well.
Moore’s own history is a thing of shreds and patches, casually, almost randomly, assembled. But what he has done, subtly and beguilingly, is write a book about surfing that often is not really about surfing but about simply being alive (and, in some cases, dead).
Matt Warshaw says the book is “Warm, smart, funny, and beautifully written.” West of Jesus author Steven Kotler says it is a “wonderful and engaging book . . . [that] combines folk history, pop art, and great old-fashioned travel writing.” Moore also quotes Ben “the world’s greatest surf writer” Marcus in the first few pages of the book so we might just pick it up.
Transworld and Group Y have crawled into bed for the summer panel discussion season, now Agenda and Shop-Eat-Surf are joining the media/B2B love fest as partners on Agenda’s print show guide.
Shop-eat-surf will publish business profiles in the show guide of the show’s featured artists, plus brands exhibiting at the show and retailers attending the show. The guide also includes product showcases from exhibiting brands, maps of the show floors, event listings and messages from show sponsors. . . “We’re happy to partner with Agenda and its audience of top brands and retailers,” said Shop-eat-surf President Andrew Horan. “Agenda is an important trade show for the action sports, street and fashion industries, and we’re excited to present our style of online business news and information to a print publication, and to this audience.”
It’s a perfect collab when you think about it. What better venue for Shop-eat-surf’s old web content than a trade show brochure? Follow the jump for all official details. [click to continue…]
The executive directors of the LA Skate Film Festival have announced the addition of two new members to the The Academy of Skateboard Filmmakers.
So far, ASF has proudly gathered the following members: Stacy Peralta, CR Stecyk III, J. Grant Brittain, Greg Hunt,Ed Templeton, Ricky Bedenbaugh, Bryce Kanights, Jamie Thomas, Mike Manzoori, Fred “French Fred” Mortagne and recent newest additions, Ty Evans and Geoff Rowley. . . ASF’s objectives are to advance and promote the art of filmmaking within the skateboarding industry. Its members will nominate the films and select the judges amongst other creative tasks.
Filmmakers still have four days left to enter a film in the festival. The submissions deadline is June 9, 2010. The festival runs at LA’s Downtown Independent Theatre from August 31 and September 2, 2010. For more information follow the jump. [click to continue…]
As much as we would love to have spent the last few days upgrading Boardistan.com, we’re just thankful to have our old site back in one piece and functioning. Seriously. Thank you to everyone who noticed we were down and texted, IM’d, or emailed encouragement and/or theories on exactly what happened.
We can assure you, none of the rumors were true. We were neither hacked, nor hired away by any large companies who do not allow blogging on the side. And we most certainly were not strong-armed into taking the site down by powerful men with smooth, confident South African accents.
Our problems over the last few days were much more mundane and entirely too retarded to discuss here in any kind of detail other than to say this–– If a set of hard drives are reportedly backing each other up automatically that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea to have a couple more back-ups as well.
As we learned last week, sometimes DIY means “destroy it yerself.”
