The Fuel Games iPhone and iPod Touch skateboarding game Vans Sk8 Pool Service is out today and up on the iTunes store for $4.99 and though we haven’t had a chance to check it out, it looks like they’ve come through on their promises.
Click here to download the game from the iTunes store. We’ll check back as soon as we get this thing reviewed.
[Link: Fuel Games via Skatedaily.net]
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After losing nearly $77 million and being sold off last year by Quiksilver, Rossignol is doing some cost cutting of its own according to a story on France24.com.
The group. . . is to cut about 450 jobs in total. . . . Company chairman Bruno Cercley said in a statement that the layoffs were “unavoidable,” adding that the group was “determined to get back into balance in the next two years.”
That adds up to about 30 percent of their workforce.
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This is a perfect example of why we don’t get all that excited about riding in Alaska.
[Link: The Mountain and Wave]
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In recent article in the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research titled Ten Problems with Technology writer Raphael Cohen listed out ten reasons why even though the US military sinks “billions of dollars into new technology” it isn’t always used by the new “i-pod generation” of American Fighting man.
Number 10 on the list was “The Coolness Factor” and here Cohen said this about Oakley eyewear.
In terms of ballistic protection, a cheap set of no-name ballistic sunglasses will work just as well in most situations as a $100 pair of Oakley M Frame sunglasses, but they will not look as “cool” and certainly do not carry the same status. Soldiers often choose equipment that highlights their machismo. Just as teenagers model their look on what movie stars wear, young soldiers take fashion cues from their “movie stars”–usually operators in the special operations community.
Raphael’s suggestion: let them wear Oakleys when they’re out killing people to protect our freedom.
[Link: AEI]
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Although we enjoy the creative output from the group of surfing brothers known simply as “The Malloys” we still can’t help but write silly captions in our heads whenever we see posed, wistful group photos like this one on the Nixon site promoting their work in a new documentary film on surfing in Ireland titled Waveriders. But we don’t want to play this game alone.
We’ll kick it off with ours:
Three tools escape from their shed.
Post your captions in the comments and the person with the best caption will win something.
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Sole Technology’s Don Brown and Pierre Andre discuss the re-release of their seminal skate shoe the etnies Rap in a new video clip up on the etnies site. Say what you will about the state of the skate fashion industry, but it’s still nice to see the big guns out on the interwebs pitching their own products. . . . isn’t it?
[Link: etnies]
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Santa Cruz surfer Sam Skelton, 24, and his friend Ryan Mackey apparently had a little nose to nose with a Great White shark last week while surfing at Platform’s, according to his first person story in the San Jose Mercury News.
While waiting for a set, a dark, large object in the water catches my peripherals. There, within eight feet of me, placed still in the water, the ocean’s most infamous predatory fish — a great white shark. . . The clarity of the water allows me to see its gills, the speckled skin going from dark to light, and its sheer size, which looks about 10-12 feet long. Fear penetrates my bones, heightened from all the shark-week programs and cheesy TV dramatizations that hype the great white as vicious and bloodthirsty. . . . In a frenzy of four-letter words mixed with “shark,” “holy,” and “big,” I paddle parallel to the beach, directly away from the predator, passing Ryan, who does not know yet what all my commotion is about.
The two eventually paddle in yelling shark the entire way, but no one else seems to care. To get the full feeling of giddy relief read the rest of the story. . .
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
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It’s like it’s just not making it in the world anymore unless you appear in a video game. Ken Block has reportedly signed on to be a character in the rally car video game Colin McRae Dirt2, according to a post on Gamers Daily News.
X Games team-mate of the late Colin McRae, Block is at the forefront of a new breed of pro drivers, competing as Subaru Rally Team USA Driver #43 in the Rally America National Championship and the world-famous X Games. He has also gained notoriety for his mind-blowing stunts in his Subaru WRX STI. For Colin McRae: DiRT 2, Block is working with the development team at Codemasters Studios as technical consultant, lending his wealth of knowledge to the game and advising on car handling.
Ken is apparently stepping in as the new face of the game after McRae died in a 2007 helicopter crash with his son and two family friends. Click here to watch Ken’s new promo video for the game.
[Link: Gamers Daily News]
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Dreams came true on March 28, 2009 for Clairemont, California’s Jonathan Azevedo when The Make-A-Wish Foundation built him a skateboard park right in his own back yard.
“I just rode in a imousine to and from SeaWorld and there is a ramp in my backyard. And that’s not possible. That denies every law of physics and the space time continuum,” he said. “How is that even possible? Seriously, I’m freaking out.”
Sounds like Jonathan was about as happy as a kid could be, right? Not surprisingly people in the comments of the story immediately began complaining about the “traffic this monstrosity will generate.”
You stay classy, San Diego.
[Link: CBS8.com]
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The headline to this Canada.com profile on Jasey-Jay Anderson Anderson shows passion for both fruits and labour comes off sounding more like a political story from some British tabloid than a piece about the legendary Alpine snowboard racer turned blueberry farmer.
At age 33, the Canadian snowboarding veteran has broadened his horizons to include a four-acre blueberry farm in Quebec, but Anderson hasn’t lost his zest for the slopes. In fact, Canada’s overwhelming success on the World Cup circuit — a 26-medal haul this season — has rekindled his competitive passion.
For the rest of what Jasey-Jay has been up to lately (in addition to labouring with fruit), click the link.
[Link: Canada.com]
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