With all the domain mistakes we’ve made over the years we’d be the last ones to poke fun at someone forgetting to renew their domain names. That said, it appears that Bryce Kanights and the crew at Skatedaily.netare apparently havingsome issues with Network Solutions. Here’s what Bryce says:
Yeah, the domain registration had expired without a notice. A bit odd, but, the site should be up and online within the hour. Fingers crossed.
We know the feeling. It’s always funny to see what the domain registrars put up when a site is down. But a skier for Skatedaily.net?
Emily Chivers Yochim, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College, has a new book out from the University of Michigan Press. The book is titled Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity reportedly uses a group of skateboarders to investigate the status of the young American male.
Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding’s portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white heterosexual masculinity offers.
And that’s just the description. We have a feeling this isn’t going to be on the best seller list anytime soon, but kind of wish we had a review copy all the same.
Noah Salasnek had one of the smoothest skate styles in snowboarding. He never forced his way into anything, but always stood out. Thanks to some prodding from Chris Roach, Noah got in front of the Powder and Rails cameras to talk about the day.
We still smile whenever we think about his old Sims graphic–the one with the trucks and wheels on the base. We’re glad Noah’s story is finally getting out.
Boardistan is thrilled to be the first action sports brand to announce its plans for a full compliment of content features built especially for the upcoming Apple tablet device if and when it is finally available to the public.
“When Steve Jobs announces his Jesus Tablet we will be ready,” The Publisher of Boardistan said in a press release. “Our editors have been working with our design team for months testing and analyzing the way users interact with our content. After compiling the data we have chosen to implement an amazing technology called WordPress 2.9. This open-source content management system will allow us to digitally distribute our surf, snow, and skate content on all tablet devices through a revolutionary application called “a web browser.” This, coupled with the tablet’s portability, will allow Boardistan.com users to view our content absolutely free whenever and wherever they choose.”
The all-new Tablet platform will also allow users to interact with the content by adding their own comments to posts, but more importantly, users will be able to search Boardistan’s 10 years of action sports content for their favorite brands, riders, and topics and then share this information through social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, and even email.
“We really do believe this is the future of media and we are just ecstatic to be including our users in our cutting-edge plans for the digital future,” The Publisher said. “Being first isn’t new to us, but it never seems to lose its thrill.”
Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we near the Apple Tablet’s pending launch.
Greg Martin and the UK-based crew at Friday are proof that doing good work and sticking to the game makes great business sense. And it looks like there are a few others who understand, according to a post on BoardSportsSource.
Friday Management Group (FMG), has announced the signings of snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen (NOR), US star Jake Blauvelt and US up-and-comer Matt Ladley to its roster.
Raymond Dulieu, the founder of Freecaster.tv, the European online action sports event streamer, has reportedly partnered up his web business with the Extreme Sports Channel, according to a story on Broadband TV News.
As part of the agreement between the two parties, Extreme will see its popular website www.extreme.com rebranded “Extreme.com powered by Freecaster.tv”. . . Online content will be managed by Freecaster.tv and expanded to include live streaming of action sports events.
Sounds like an extreme deal made in extreme heaven.
You may have missed the party, but there is no reason to miss all the madness that went down in the photo booth at Thrasher Magazine’s20th Annual Skateboarder of the Year Awards Party in San Francisco last Friday night December 11, 2009 at the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason.
Check it out and you might see a couple friendly faces . . . or maybe even a little more if you look very, very closely.
If nothing else it’s a great reminder that today’s digital photo booths aren’t exactly as private as they used to be.
One of snowboarding’s true originals gets a little much deserved coverage as Shawn Farmer shows up on VBS.com’s Powder & Rails.
Powder and Rails takes you to the Legends of Tahoe event at Donner Ski Ranch for a couple classic Shawn Farmer moments. Some may say he’s crazy, but we’re here to prove he may actually be a genius. At Shawn’s apartment, we check out one of his inventions and engage the man in some snowboarding discourse. From his first video scenes to his preference for gigantic boards and rapping, no stone is left unturned. We even get a Farmer philosophy lesson just moments before he closes the convo by shot gunning a beer.
In his most recent column for Huck magazine surf scribe Jamie Brisick drinks “three-quarters of a bottle of bad red” wine, watches some Jackass clips and then settles down to explaining just why Spike Jonze’s video for The Beastie Boys Sabotage is so amazingly rad.
Spike Jonze’s music videos. . . exude humour, mischief and the refusal to grow up. The first one that comes to mind is ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys. As a seventies American kid, this is powerful on several levels. I’m reminded of Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, SWAT and Hawaii Five-0. The tone and urgency of the song is pure nineties, but the moustaches and suits and mock screen credits belong to the seventies. It’s an incredibly fun, high-energy video, but for me, and I suspect for many of my contemporaries, it is also nostalgic.
And after approaching bad red wine with high expectations, no one does nostalgia better than Mr. Brisick.
With all the domain mistakes we’ve made over the years we’d be the last ones to poke fun at someone forgetting to renew their domain names. That said, it appears that Bryce Kanights and the crew at Skatedaily.net are apparently having some issues with Network Solutions. Here’s what Bryce says:
