As we don’t read print magazines all that much it took a while before we were able to check out the recent Sports Illustrated story on Kelly Slater by writer Gary Smith. Here is a piece:
Well, then … why did he ride the ocean? What was his purpose? The more he stared at the question, the more jumbled the answers grew, his whys like old clothes crammed in a drawer. They’d seemed to fit once, but the longer he looked at them now, the more holes and wrinkles he saw, the more whys he didn’t even recognize. Where the hell to begin?
It’s one of those stories where the writer tries a little too hard and ends up getting in the way. But it’s worth reading because it’s long and it’s about Kelly.
Rejoice West Coast shreds! There’s no need to head to Mt. Hood just yet. Mammoth Mountain is staying open until at least June 14, 2009, according to a blog post on the LA Times.
And we always love it when Mammoth says, “at least” because we know if they really wanted to they could keep the mountain open until July 4th, no problem.
“We’re actually putting Stowe up for sale. So it’s official now,” Peter Tulupman, spokesman for AIG, told The Burlington Free Press this morning. . . Tulupman declined to comment on how much American International Group Inc. — which is mostly owned by the U.S. government after a sequence of federal bailouts in the wake of Wall Street’s collapse last fall— is seeking for the iconic resort which includes the lavish Stowe Mountain Lodge and the mountain’s operations.
As we learned in Hal Clifford’s book Downhill Slide resorts are all about the real estate that surround them and it is a buyers market right now. Anyone?
Illusion Labs takes their iPhone game Touch Grind to a much larger screen. Our question: if you’re going to fingerboard on a table, why not really fingerboard on a table?
Last night we downloaded an upgrade to the iPhone/iPod Touch game Vans Sk8 Pool Service (which is now only $2.99 for a limited time) and it reminded us that we still haven’t posted our review of what is probably the best skate game for the iPhone? So here it is two months late:
Our copy of Vans SK8 Pool Service arrived from Vans in a box on a brand new 8 gig Apple iPod Touch. How cool is that? We popped that thing open and began playing the game right away.
Follow the jump for a little overview of what we experienced. [click to continue…]
Product placement appears to be one of the last standing forms of advertising that works in the mainstream market. Check this report from TMZ.com on how Billabong is getting some play from the vampires:
After Kristen Stewart was snapped smoking wearing this Billabong jacket on the set of “New Moon,” rabid fans quickly feasted on every last one available in stores across the country. Now, some opportunistic peeps are trying to flip the military-esque outerwear on eBay for upwards of $350 — and people are actually buying them!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t know how a Tom Green and Dave England feature film could slip by us, but this straight to DVD delight titled Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts appears to have all the proper ingredients for shred film delights including a cornball story:
Max and Eddie have finally achieved their dream of managing a successful snowboarding team, but as the party atmosphere heats up, the temptation to run wild takes hold. Now that the team is a success, Max and Eddie are rolling in cash. But sometimes success makes us lose sight of the things that matter most, and forget how we soared to such heights in the first place. Realizing that they’re suddenly at risk of losing everything they’ve worked so to hard to create, these two reformed slackers fight to save their team and take back the mountain.
Ah, the story of rebellion and redemption on a snow-covered mountain. We can hardly wait.
It’s possible. When it happens it will definitely give Vans Sk8 Pool Service some pretty strong competition, right? But we’re not exactly convinced on this one just yet.
