Apparently, this was a show that aired on Fuel TV last summer. We don’t get Fuel so we never watched it. This is a show about a famous tough guy Kala Alexander and his Wolf Pack crew. Thug life meets the surf. And now, thanks to Hulu.com (the new online TV “network” set up to put iTunes out of business) we can see all the episodes of the world according to Kala.
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Transworld Business is reporting that the seminal core skateboard magazine Big Brother will make it’s return in digital format as part of Jeff Tremaine’s new website Jackassworld.com.
“Right now the plan is that Big Brother will be a section of Jackassworld,” says Tremaine. “We’re going to put up all the back issues and anything we do skateboarding-related will be housed there as well.” . . . New content for Big Brother will focus mostly on skateboarding, and most, if not all of the O.G. Big Brother lineup are lined up to contribute, including Dave Carnie, Sean Cliver, Rick Kosick, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Earl Parker, and Tremaine himself. “Hopefully Marc McKee and everyone else from the original crew will start contributing,” says Tremaine.
We have missed it, but we’re guessing it will never be the same. Because as we all know, money changes everything.
[Link: TransWorld Business]
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From Vividas.com:
Vividas Group PLC said it has signed an agreement with surf company, Rip Curl Pty Ltd, to stream the Rip Curl Pro surfing event all over the world.
The UK smallcap company added that the deal is part of an evaluation lisence agreement between the companies which will translate into a minimum annual revenue contract of 90,000 aud for Vividas.
Vividas said it believes that the contract will validate the scalability of the Vividas Live streaming technology and that the company will be ‘very well positioned’ to sign similar contracts within the surfing industry and for other live sports events.
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The energy drink maker digs it claws in even deeper to the bare back of surfing with a new “series of documentary shorts that offers a 360-degree look at” ‘chopes.
The video, which bowed on Red Bull’s niche surfing site this week, amps up the vicarious thrills of surf footage by allowing fans to take control of the action. Using Immersive Media’s interactive video technology, viewers rotate perspective by manipulating the mouse to look to the right or left, up or down, back or front.
“We’ve always supported action sport athletes,” says Josh Kendrick, athlete marketing manager for Red Bull North America. Surfers “allow for more innovation, creativity and individualism than in baseball or football and we dig that.” In “Inside Tahiti,” Red Bull uses the new technology to tap into surfers’ passion for innovation and their love of surf footage-a cult genre that dates back to 1966 surf doc “The Endless Summer.”
Click play and watch the intro for yourself.
[Link: Red Bull Surf via Media Post]
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Filmmaker Britton Caillouette, has produced Sliding Liberia, an “unorthodox surf safari” film which follows Stanford University political science PhD Nicolai Lidow and three friends on a surf trip to Liberia according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Shot on vintage 16mm film and digital video, Caillouette’s film captures the surreal dysfunction that sits at the heart of Liberia, a country crippled by war and founded on a lie. “Our national motto is ‘The love of liberty brought us here’,” one local notes, speaking of Liberia’s founding in 1822 by freed American slaves. “But me personally, it does not sound good. There were people on the land, so what about them?” . . . Unlike most surf films, Sliding Liberia makes no effort to keep its discovery secret. “Initially I was nervous about showing everybody where the waves were,” Lidow says. “Then I realised how selfish that was. The locals want tourists to come; they realise it might be good news for the local economy. So now we’re hoping that everyone goes! In a place like that, surfing really can change people’s lives.”
The film also reportedly captures Liberia’s “first surfer” a boy named Alfred (pictured right). For more info on the film visit the website at Sliding Liberia.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
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Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer has formed a new joint venture with super agency IMG. Apparently, the new company is called Ari Fleischer Sports Communications.
The New York-based consultancy company will offer management advisory services, including media training and interview preparation, image management, crisis management and media relations to a wide range of athletes, coaches and high-profile sports industry executives. Fleischer will serve as the company’s President. Sandy Montag, Senior Corporate Vice President of IMG Sports & Entertainment, will serve as COO of the company.
Maybe Ari can teach IMG client Shaun White how to answer questions relating to fire extinguishers and chasing little girls around pool tables.
[Link: Sys-Con.com]
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He’s a great guy and a great story and it seems that USA Today, just can’t get enough of skateboarding’s chairman of the board Tony Hawk. And Tony seems ever ready to do answer all the same old questions.
Hawk, like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, belongs to that rare breed of athlete-entrepreneurs whose names and brands have transcended their sports and become mainstream icons in the popular culture.
He is definitely a work-a-holic who keeps his empire rolling.
[Link: USA Today]
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The New York Times features an interview with filmmaker Gus Van Sant by Blake Nelson, the author of the book the Paranoid Park is based on. The story (if you haven’t heard already) is about a skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard and then goes on the deal with all the feelings that go along with that. Van Sant talks a bit about skateboarding:
I had been a skateboarder in the ’60s, which was a long time ago, but I didn’t think that it was so much different. I worked on a film, “Skateboard,” in 1978, so I met the skaters of that time. That type of culture almost gets like gang culture or surf culture, territorial. I didn’t think it connected with the characters in the “Paranoid” story. They go to a skate park where the hard-core skaters are, but the real lifer skate people were only an inspiration to your characters.
Click the link for the rest.
[Link: The New York Times]
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We should have known that it would take a comic book for 3rd graders to grab the attention of the snowboard industry.
This time someone sent an email out to some “industry insiders” telling them about a heinous new book out titled Jake Burton Carpenter and the Snowboard that is accused of couching Jake Burton as the inventor of the snowboard. It’s already been linked up on Fuel.tv, the Burton Forums, Transworldsnowboarding.com, and Group Y marketing club’s blog. The error filled email includes the following:
Burton has teamed up with a kids’ book publisher to create their skewed version of snowboard history — for very young kids to “learn” from in early elementary school. Probably so that they’ll be inclined to buy Burton product as they get older. If you read this cartoon book, despite its after-the-fact footnotes, it is clear that Burton is trying to brainwash little kids these days that Jake invented snowboarding.
Strangely, it appears that no one has read the book, because if they had, they’d realize that it’s just a goofy, mainstream comic book for 3rd graders featuring the story of how Jake founded his snowboard company. Yes, a kookie little book for 3rd graders. . . and the snow industry thinks it’s a conspiracy.
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The site has been stagnant for almost two weeks, however, today a new site showed up at TransWorld Business. After a quick cruise through the site we’d have to say it looks . . . well, just like a WordPress blog. Wonder what theme they’re using.
The old content looks to be gone-daddy-gone. Hopefully, they’ll hook it up later. It would be a shame if 16 years of action sports business content simply vanished from the web. Not to mention throwing an industry leading site down into a content race with anyone who wants to download WordPress and choose a theme.
Transworld Business appears to be a work in progress. Which is great. The site has needed some sprucing for years. We’ll keep you posted when we get a chance to check out the site in more detail (and after Transworld tech people get a chance to tune it up a little, because yeah, there are many problems with the site currently).
[Link: Transworld Business]
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