by The Editors on November 18, 2008
Apparently, Shop-Eat-Surf’s Tiffany Montgomery has been holding out on us. She hasn’t been going as deeply into her subjects as she could have. But that all changes today. Because today Tiffany has announced an extra special, super premium, members-only section of her site that will only cost $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year. It’s called the “Shop-Eat-Surf Executive Edition.”
. . . members get access to our new Executive Edition and discounts on upcoming Shop-eat-surf events. Your membership fees also will allow us to expand and enhance our independent business news and information service for action sports executives. . . .The Executive Edition will be full of stories that take a deeper look at industry trends, companies and people. You’ll find analysis, indexes, perspective and professional development advice from industry leaders.
Because there’s nothing action sports executives need more than in-depth coverage of shopping and eating. Click here to send Tiffany some cash.
[Link: Shop-Eat-Surf]
by The Editors on November 18, 2008
Former Mack Dawg Productions filmmaker Brad Kremer has just announced that he will be heading up Burton’s cinematography division.
It has always been a dream of mine to work for Burton,” says Brad. “I am honored to be a part of such an amazing team and I am looking forward to redefining snowboard media with Burton.”
Soon, everyone who wants to get paid doing action sports media work will need a similar patron.
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by The Editors on November 17, 2008
Surfboards, by Longboard Magazine publisher Guy Motil was recently awarded a 2008 National Outdoor Book Award for “Design & Artistic Merit.”
This consummately designed and photographed book is about those sleek and simple contrivances that allow surfers to harness the natural power of an ocean wave. Much of Guy Motil’s life has been entwined with the sport, and the text clearly bears out his intimate understanding of boards and their myriad permutations. Whether you’re a surfing dabbler or a serious devotee, it won’t disappoint. One look at this sumptuous book and you’ll agree. It’s a must-have.
This is great news in an otherwise bad month for Longboard Magazine. On Friday October 31, 2008 the magazine’s staff was reportedly “sent home” and publication of the magazine has been temporarily suspended.
In the meantime, Guy Motil is currently at work on eight more book projects: four on the sport of surfing (both shortboard and longboard) as well as a history of aviation and a book on motor sports. Anyone interested in contributing to these projects is encouraged to contact us at Publications@voyagerstudios.us.
[Link: National Outdoor Book Awards]
by The Editors on November 17, 2008
The December issue of Slap Magazine might just be a collector’s item. It’s the last print issue before High Speed Productions, Inc. takes tall that skateboarding, life, and art and progresses right into the digital world. Can’t say we’ll notice any difference. We never read the print version anyway.
[Link: Emerica]
by The Editors on November 14, 2008
Apparently, Saturday afternoon viewers really will watch anything on network TV, especially if it’s got some wild flyin’ extremo sports in it.
We recently joked that ASA Entertainment was putting some of their four-month-old event programming up on CBS saying:
That makes these four shows really old news to the people who care and completely untimely and irrelevant to those who happen to accidentally stumble on to the broadcasts while trying to find something to watch.
Turns out “another view” was right when they posted the following: “The bulk of the TV audience doesn’t care if the event is live or a year old.”
According to Alana Johnson at The Nielsen Company, the LG Action Sports: Cincinnati show which aired November 8, 2008 at 2 PM EST (and was really only one month old, mostly) averaged a .5 rating. That means it was on in 570,000 homes and was watched by 687,000 people over the age of two. For comparison recent summer X Games have been scoring in the 1.0 range (meaning about twice as many people watch them).
For action sports television a .5 is pretty solid. Not a Dancing with the Stars 12 rating solid, but not bad at all. The show’s placement couldn’t have been better for catching random jocks on the couch: it was sandwiched in between two football shows: Varsity Rivals and CBS’s College Football Today. And, if that’s who sponsors want to hit up (and we’re not saying they shouldn’t) then it looks like the LG Action Sports World Tour programming is delivering.
by The Editors on November 13, 2008
We got an email from Bryce Kanights the other day letting us know that the Sick Boys mini-site has launched and that we should check it out. We did, but Skate and Annoy posted it up super smooth so please go there and check out all the info on the re-release of the seminal 8mm film starring:
Tommy Guerrero, Mickey Reyes, Bryce Kanights, Mike Archimedes, Julien Stranger, Jim Thiebaud, Ron Allen, and Steve Caballero as well as shots of Christian Hosoi, Tony Magnusson, Eric Dressen, Danny Sargent, as well as other less famous names. It’s sounds like the skate video equivalent of unearthing King Tut’s tomb.
[Link: Sick Boys via Skate and Annoy]
by The Editors on November 13, 2008
We feel sorry for sports writers. It’s seems their whole game is spinning babble-filled yarns about nothing so they can justify getting paid to write stories about silliness. USA Today’s action sports specialist Sal Ruibal worked overtime on his recent Shaun White story. Here’s what we mean:
Shaun White is a major league mench.. . . The Yiddish word for a person of honor and integrity wasn’t coined with red-headed, board-shredding millionaires in mind, but 22-year-old White has grown into it. . . . The former uber-grom has emerged from sixth-grade phenom status to become one of the world’s best athletes in snowboarding and skateboarding. He owns multiple gold medals from the Summer and Winter X Games, Summer and Winter Dew Tour and 2006 Winter Olympics.
How’s that for a mainstream sports pitch? Major league, Mench, Yiddish, shredding, uber. . . We can almost hear the paper’s editors: “If that doesn’t make every fat-assed, couch plowing, football fan put down their beer and read a newspaper, nothing will.”
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on November 11, 2008
Kelly Slater has a new book coming out titled Kelly Slater: For The Love (click the link to view a digital version).
The book, written by Kelly with master surf journalist Phil Jarratt, is reportedly “filled with never before seen photos and untold stories from Kelly and his closest friends” and features an intro by the surfing crooner Jack Johnson.
Good news and bad news: The good is that Kelly is on a Quiksilver store book signing tour, the bad news: he’s only going to sign 200 books at each location so you might want to get there early. Here they are:
NEW YORK
November 16, 2008 3PM – 5PM 519 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 212.226.1193
November 18, 2008 7PM – 9PM 587 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10017 212.888.7526
CALIFORNIA
November 20, 2008, 7PM – 9PM 1422 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica 310.899.9400
And if you’re a Citibank credit card holder Spin Magazine is throwing one more signing (click here for more info):
November 21, 2008 8-10 PM Malibu Performing Arts Center, 23825 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu
Probably wouldn’t be a bad book to add to the signed surf collection.
[Link: The Mountain And Wave]
by The Editors on November 11, 2008
We just got the Propaganda Newsletter Holiday 2008 edition in the email box and noticed that down at the bottom someone was a nice enough to include a little plug for Boardistan. They even made their own graphic out of our stylish, yet subdued header. Here’s what they said:
Grab your Sack Lunch and make your way over to the Independent Republic of Surf, Skate and Snow for juicy news and other bits of info.
Thanks. That was a nice surprise.
[Link: Propaganda.net]
by The Editors on November 10, 2008
According to a story in the North County Times, nearly 500 people packed into Oceanside, California’s Crest Theatre for a California Surf Film Festival showing of the classic surf film Endless Summer narrated live by its legendary creator Bruce Brown.
Brown, 70, wearing a lei and a Hawaiian shirt with an Endless Summer motif, also attracted a standing-room-only crowd. . . . “It caught the imagination of a lot of people,” Brown said about what he called his first “big budget” surf documentary.
Kind of wish we could have attended this one. . .
[Link: North County Times]
