We just can’t get enough of Shaun White around here and that’s about to change because Ubisoft, the makers of Shaun White Skateboarding, has just announced that Shaun’s game will soon support stereoscopic displays on 3DTVs, according to a post on Gamasutra.
Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title will use Sensio 3D technology, which Ubisoft last used in last year’s release of Avatar: The Game. . . “The gaming experience is very sensitive to image quality, and we know from past collaboration with Sensio that the company’s Sensio 3D format delivers the highest-quality images,” said Shaun White Skateboarding Executive Producer Patrick Naud.
It will be great to see that rich, thick, forest of red hair flowing right out of the TV as Shaun shreds past. Wonder if Shaun will do some signature Oakley 3-D glasses to go along with it?
Nokia (the other phone company) started out bringing skateboarding video games to the street or is it vice versa via their Push Project. Now they’re doing the same this with snowboards through a partnership with Burton Snowboards for Push Burton.
Beginning in 2009, Nokia’s Push project has been working on a small scale to integrate sensors onto skateboards, collecting motion data about tricks and movements the skater is making while riding. This data is pushed wirelessly to a Nokia phone carried by the rider, where individual tricks are collected, analyzed, scored, and potentially tracked onto a game-like interface. Nokia is now working with Burton Snowboards to produce this platform on a larger scale to turn snowboarding sessions into connected games.
Not really sure what the application is, but it is reportedly launching in 2011. Maybe this will get a few kids (and bloggers) off the couch. If only there was an iPhone app for this. . .
LA’s Project Space (a collab art space between Arkitip and Incase) is hosting and opening reception tonight (September 23, 2010) for Ari Marcopoulos’ new collection of photographs (and book) titled Now Is Forever.
Now Is Forever is a travelogue of previously unpublished photographs from around the world. Premiering for the first time at Project Space will be Moroso Crew, a 60-minute cinema vérté documentary Marcopoulos shot in 1992 on illegal drag racing in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Cohl Orebaugh, 14, of Liberty Lake, Washington is reportedly the new Guiness Book of World Records record holder for “most blunt to fakies” in an hour (794), according to The Spokesman-Review.
I thought I did pretty good,” he said. . . Orebaugh said he exceeded his expectations when he completed 794 blunts and fakies in an hour at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake. He expected to do around 500 of them.
It is difficult to believe that it was only a year ago that news began getting out that Transworld Skateboarding Editor Eric Stricker had died. Guess when you miss someone it seems like they’ve been gone so much longer than they actually have.
We didn’t hang out with Eric, travel with him, or spend the kind of time that so many in the skate industry did, but every single time we saw him we left happier and more stoked on skateboarding than when we’d arrived. Whenever we had a stupid skateboarding history question or a “what’s the story behind this guy” query, Stricker always, no matter what deadline he was on, took a minute or ten to give the answer or tell the story. It was almost as if he wasn’t doing it for us, he was doing it for skateboarding. He wanted to make sure the stories all got out correctly. Which is what made him such a great magazine editor.
Today our thoughts are with everyone who had the gift or being close to Eric. Especially his family.
When the bloated former pop singer Britney Spears goes shopping for a new skateboard she heads straight to her local mall and drops in on Zumiez, according to a story on People.com.
Britney Spears had an active afternoon with her boys Preston and Jayden: The trio headed to the Westfield Topanga, the pop star’s neighborhood shopping mall in Canoga Park, Calif., where Spears stopped into Zumiez, a snowboarding and skateboarding shop.
The blingineers at Nixon have created an extremely icy timepiece for the overall winner of Street League which will be named in Las Vegas on September 25, 2010.
The Champion will be awarded a one-of-a-kind Nixon 5130 Ceramic watch adorned with 12.76 carats of diamonds.
For those who believe wearing their fortune on their wrist is the best idea ever, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Broadcast Wheels have released their new FW2010 catalog and placed it on their website. Make no mistake, we’re not really sure we why we even like this stuff. Maybe it’s because their filmer wheels have the words, “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” on them. Go figure.
Siamak Michael Rahimi, 56, of Santa Monica, California owns a big building in Los Angeles that he likes to use to hang tremendously huge advertising banners from. The most recent banner was for Vans Shoes. Problem is the banners are illegal in Los Angeles, according to a story in the Daily Breeze.
Rahimi. . . was arrested for installing and maintaining the jumbo-sized exterior advertisements on a vacant building and adjacent parking garage he owns at 9800 South Sepulveda Boulevard, across the street from LAX, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. . . Rahimi, LAX Enterprises and Westside Investment Group were each charged with 12 counts of illegally erecting a supergraphic sign, 12 counts of illegally maintaining an off-site sign, 12 counts of obstructing Fire Department emergency entrances and exits from the building and 12 counts for failing to identify the person or entity responsible for installing and maintaining the signs.
Wonder if the VF Corp is going to cover Mr. Rahimi’s legal costs?
It’s good to know that even we could give Tony Hawk a run in a game of Skate Nerd. Lance Mountain, on the other hand, is on a whole different level. The guy could be world champion.
