Thanks to funding by Diesel filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel’s award-winning film Skateistan: To Live and Skate In Kabul has been released and is viewable online here.
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
For more information on the Skateistan project click the link.
Billabong is forecasting 2010-11 earnings to be “relatively flat” thanks to a stronger Australian dollar causing problems with the company’s bottomline, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Billabong chief executive Derek O’Neill said the surfwear maker expected its net profit after tax (NPAT) to rise modestly in the current financial year. . . “Notwithstanding the impact exchange rate movements may have on reported NPAT… the company’s constant currency guidance of 2 per cent to eight per cent NPAT growth for the 2010-11 financial year remains unchanged,” Mr O’Neill said.
For the rest of these compelling insights into Billabong’s financials, click the link.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centermay have said there wasn’t much to worry about after a 7.5 quake hit the Mentawai’s earlier today. That didn’t help some Austrailian surfers on a surf to Macaronis when a reported 2 to 3 meter tsunami came rolling through, according to a story in The Australian.
Three boats were anchored nearby last night. Two of the boats were smashed into each other by the tsunami. One, the Midas (pictured above right), was destroyed. All passengers – mostly Australian surfers – are safe and accounted for. . . One of the boats, Freedom III, is on its way to the Macaronis Resort to see what damage was inflicted, and whether the guests had been injured. . . “Freedom III is on its way there now, to do its duty of care,” said World Surfaris manager Shaun Levings. “We’re still waiting on a report.”
Apparently, everyone from both boats in “safe and accounted for” though we’re not sure having to bail off a burning boat into a tsunami following an earthquake is what they bargained for. Especially after a long day at Macaronis.
The Swatch TTR TV show investigates exactly what “style” means in terms of snowboarding. It is a question that will probably never be answered, but as usual, we know it when we see it. What is most interesting is that the word “gay” seems to be alive and well in describing snowboarding that sucks.
A tsunami warning has been issued for Indonesia after a 7.5 earthquake hit tonight at 9:45 PM local time (7:42 AM PST, Oct. 25, 2010) according to MSNBC.
It said the quake, which hit at around 10:42 am ET (9:42 pm local time) was located 149 miles south of Padang. . . A tsunami warning was issued by the Indonesian earthquake monitoring agency.
The quake’s epicenter was reportedly 8.8 miles deep and located near the Mentawi Islands. Apparently, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the “historical data suggested any wave it created would not be destructive.”
We could tell from the warm orange glow pulsing from the windows of the CO Exhibitions Gallery on Saturday night, October 23, 2010 that were in the right place. Hipsters smoked on the front steps and smiling design fans strolled off into the night with custom signed Draplin prints rolled up under their arms.
Inside Burlesque of North America’s old warehouse in Minneapolis’ North East side, a QR code on the wall linked mobile phone users to a personal welcome from Aaron regarding the Thanks MLPS show. CO even provided headphones. But all these nice touches paled in comparison to the enormous, orange wall filled with 400 black and white Draplin logos. It’s a reminder of the impact Draplin has made on snowboarding and graphic design in general. Pretty much everything Draplin Design Company has created over the past ten years is on the wall.
This show is a coming home of sorts, according to Draplin. “I went to school here [Minneapolis] for two hot years, fell in love with it and then fucked up and went back down to California and threw it all away,” he says. “This is my ode to the two years I had here. It shows all the warts and moles. The good, the bad, a lot of ugly and hopefully a lot of fun. That’s it. Just to say thank you, because this community was the kick in the ass that I needed.”
The Thanks MLPS show runs until till November 20, 2010. Follow the jump for more photos and a short video interview with Aaron. . . [click to continue…]
Loveland Ski Area officially ripped open Colorado’s 2010-2011 season on Sunday, October 24, 2010 and look who was on the first chair: snowboarders, of course. As sometime Colorado local Todd Richards said yesterday on Twitter: “Its officially open season on the white ribbon of death.”
This year’s opening was a little later than last, but it didn’t seem to bother anyone according to the Denver Post:
“It’s been a really strong turnout,” Loveland director of marketing John Sellers said. . . “Everyone’s been saying that the snow’s riding great,” Sellers said. . . . Eight inches of natural snow fell on the slopes in the two days leading up to the opening, making for good conditions on the big day, Sellers said.
Just tempting enough to lure snowboarders out into the trees on those brand new boards. . .
The Volcom Damn Am wrapped up yesterday in Costa Mesa, California with Oklahoma City’s Kyle Walker on top. David Loy took the best trick according to a post on The Skate Park of Tampa. Here are the rest of the finalists.
1. Kyle Walker
2. Louie Lopez
3. Anthony Estrada
4. Anthony Schultz
5. Alec Majerus
6. Brodie Penrod
7. Tommy Flynn
8. Boo Johnson
9. Tyson Bowderbank
10. Kevin Romar
11. Jack Olson
12. Kechaud Johnson
