Scotty Lago was on Jimmy Kimmel last night (February 26, 2010) and he killed. Watch and see for yourself.
[Link: Hulu]
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February 2010
Canada’s Jasey Jay Anderson won the men’s snowboard parallel slalom gold medal today (Saturday, February 27, 2010) in a nearly blinding rain storm at Cypress Mountain. Austria’s Benjamin Karl who took silver and France’s Matthieu Bozzetto claimed the bronze.
With this this win Anderson capped off an amazing career as a professional snowboarder. Alpine racers have it tough. Snowboarders don’t like them, major snowboard manufacturers don’t support them, and they have to train harder than most. But anyone who thinks that Alpine racers aren’t snowboarders needs to open their minds a little wider and remember that no matter what you think about them at least they’re not boardercrossers. . .
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Now everyone can get exactly what they want on their own trunks thanks to a California company called Shortomatic. Building a pair of trunks with a customized graphic on it is as easy as selecting a waist and leg length and then uploading some art (photo, pattern, graphic) and pressing send. Shortomatic will then make your shorts (in the USA) and send them back to you.
We believe that while there is so much personal style and competition applied to water bound pursuits, then surely the equipment should reflect the same level of distinction. . . . Boardshorts obviously have their roots in popular surf culture, but our approach is much wider then this niche; we think of our product as the new ‘swimming trunk’. As at home in the swimming pool, hot tub or lake as on the beach, a board or just plain sunbathing!
The only problem? The shorts cost about $100 a piece. . . but you can get your name in the waistband. Wonder if they’d let us make some mangina trunks?
[Link: Shortomatic via Coolhunting]
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The Quiksilver Pro 2010 from Snapper Rocks is on for today (February 26, 2010) at 2:30 PM PT with Men’s Round 1 match ups. Watch it live on QuiksilverPro.com.au or on Fuel.TV or click here to download the free Quicksilver Live app for iPhone.
Don’t think it doesn’t start off with bang bang bang. Check out the match ups:
Heat 1: Dane Reynolds (USA), Roy Powers (HAW), Brett Simpson (USA)
Heat 2: Damien Hobgood (USA), Jeremy Flores (FRA), Matt Wilkinson (AUS)
Heat 3: Bobby Martinez (USA), Tiago Pires (PRT), Tanner Gudauskas (USA)
Heat 4: C.J. Hobgood (USA), Adrian Buchan (AUS), Travis Logie (ZAF)
Heat 5: Kelly Slater (USA), Ben Dunn (AUS), Marco Polo (BRA)
Heat 6: Adriano de Souza (BRA), Michel Bourez (PYF), Blake Thornton (AUS)
Heat 7: Taj Burrow (AUS), Chris Davidson (AUS), Neco Padaratz (BRA)
Heat 8: Mick Fanning (AUS), Kai Otton (AUS), TBA
Heat 9: Joel Parkinson (AUS), Kekoa Bacalso (HAW), TBA
Heat 10: Bede Durbidge (AUS), Mick Campbell (AUS), TBA
Heat 11: Jordy Smith (ZAF), Drew Courtney (AUS), Dusty Payne (HAW)
Heat 12: Taylor Knox (USA), Luke Stedman (AUS), Nathan Yeomans (USA)
Heat 13: Tom Whitaker (AUS), Andy Irons (HAW), Jay Thompson (AUS)
Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS), Daniel Ross (AUS), Luke Munro (AUS)
Heat 15: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW), Patrick Gudauskas (USA), Owen Wright (AUS)
Heat 16: Dean Morrison (AUS), Jadson Andre (BRA), Adam Melling (AUS)
[Link: Quiksilver Pro 2010]
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Medals were awarded today in the Women’s Parallel Giant Slalom. Yes, it is a form of snowboarding where racers see who can get through a course faster than everyone else. Here’s how it stacked up:
1. Nicolien Sauerbreuij, Netherlands Gold
2. Ekaterina Ilyukhina, Russia Silver
3. Marion Kreiner, Austria Bronze
For full results click here.
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HARVEST by haroshi’s Skate & Destroy exhibition at Tokyo’s PLSMIS Gallery completely refigures the idea of art and skateboard decks and makes simply painting on decks seem like cave drawings. haroshi’s thoughts on the show (via Hypebeast). . .
I looked at these unusable decks every day and thought there must be something I can make with these. I decided to make some accessories with the old decks and this was the birth of Harvest. The works of Harvest are through the perspectives of a skater and as an artist. As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable. Also, as an artist I want to explore the possibilities of what can be done with skateboards. We see the care and effort that a skater can have for his/her deck and we also acknowledge the origins of a skateboard. We believe that if the small things we do can connect to sustainability then we’re doing something right. We’d be satisfied in our effort when people look at products and start thinking of ways to recycle.
The artworks are mind-blowing as are the photos of the show by Brandon Shigeta. To view photos of all the pieces in the show visit haroshi.com.
[Link: Hypebeast via @Trevoratnemo]
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Wall Street Journal writer Conor Dougherty’s latest skateboard story for the business paper of record surveys the world of painting on skateboard decks and asks the age old question: yeah, but is is “wheelie” art? Get it? We are reminded of the old definition of art we learned our first day in art history class: art is what artists do.
As long as there have been skateboards, there have been pictures on them. The early boards in the 1960s tended to have child-friendly graphics such as images of surfers or baseball stars. Artistic styles shifted with the evolution of the skateboarding subculture, moving into images depicting everything from skulls and cartoon cigarettes to children finding their parents having intimate relations. Like skateboarders, the artwork they favor often exudes youthful protest and subversive themes.
We guess the bigger question is this: if an artist who doesn’t skateboard paints on a skateboard deck is it skate art? Our answer is no. Now were are those Jeffery Koons Supreme decks was saw lying around some where. . . ?
[Link: The Wall Street Journal]
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Dogtown and Z- Boy legend Bob Biniak (pictured right in one our of favorite Craig Stecyk photos) died on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at approximately 12:51 PM after suffering a massive heart attack on Sunday, February 21, 2010. He was 51 years old.
In an email sent to friends and family by his wife Charlene quoted on Glen E. Friedman’s blog said, “Bobby loves Life and lived more in his short life than many us of can ever imagine to do,” she said.
Friedman remembered Biniak as a “Bad Ass Mother Fucker” in his post.
Back in DogTown’s heyday Biniak was known as one of the toughest, hardest skating dudes out there. Few could match his skills skating the infamous pipes out in Arizona or on the vertical flat wall of Mt. Baldy. In pool skating he was a clear innovator as witnessed by my lens, and Craig Stecyk’s even earlier when he was interviewed in SkateBoarder magazine’s first ever “Pool Riding Symposium.” . . . In my personal experience he was far and away the toughest guy on the original Zephyr skateboard team.. . . Bob waited for no one and was the ruler of every situation I ever saw him in.
Biniak leaves behind his wife Charlene and baby daughter Brie and an innumerable skateboarders whose lives were changed by Bob’s pioneering skating. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
[Link: Idealist Propaganda]
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Globe International Limited CEO Matt Hill today announced that the company is reporting a net profit of AUS$800,000 for the half year ended December 31, 2009 even though total revenues were down $13 million or about 22 percent.
This comes as good news for those who remember that last year at this time the company was reporting losses of AUS$9.3 million dollars for the same period.
“The Group’s main goal for this financial year was to achieve a significant turn-around in profitability so it is pleasing that the first half financial result is in line with this goal. However, trading conditions continue to be difficult and, while not unexpected, it is disappointing that revenues declined for the half. Conditions remain hard to predict and while there are some signs of recovery in the Group’s account base we will continue to approach the next six to twelve months with caution.
Caution is not a bad idea this season.
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In the LA Times former outdoor blogger Pete Thomas profiles San Clemente, Calfironia’s three Gudauskas brothers who nearly all made the ASP World Cup Tour together. Pat and Tanner did. Dane did not. But as no one will find surprising, Dane takes it all in with a positive spin.
Says Dane: “Everyone was on their own journey, but we were all trying together so it was like we were all part of every win and loss, so it was hard. But to see it come down to that final competition was pretty cool, and to see it go in a positive direction for those guys was a really nice treat.”
Cool. Nice, and polite till the end.
[Link: LA Times]
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