It’s nothing half of Las Vegas hasn’t seen at those summer pool parties, but Ryan Sheckler has shown some skin for PETA youth division’s “Be Comfortable in Your Own Skin, and Let Animals Keep Theirs,” campaign.
“I’ll never put on a mink coat. It’s just not right,” Sheckler says in an exclusive video interview with peta2. “Be aware of what you’re actually doing and what materials you are using. You’re taking a life from an innocent animal.”
We agree with Ryan. For the full page ad and the official word from PETA2, please follow the jump. [click to continue…]
AOL, the company that can’t figure out what it is in the post-dialup world, still has a lot of money and they’ve been giving it to people who can do interesting things with it. One of those things is a new show called My Ink in which sporting stars take us all on a tour of their bodies via their tattoos. Episode two stars Ryan Sheckler, who from the looks of him, is nearly out of canvas space at this point, but that doesn’t mean he’s not nice to everyone he meets because he is. We know this.
Sheckler became the center of attention when he took his shirt off and lounged by the private pools in front of his VIP area. Female fans flocked to his bungalow wanting to get up close and personal with the heartthrob. He warmly greeted and chatted with his admirers and even took photos with a bevy of beautiful bikini-clad partygoers.
Yes, that’s what fame will get you, boys and girls. Keep riding that skateboard and get a good agent.
The line-up for Ryan Sheckler’s Skate For A Cause presented by etnies and benefitting Autism Speaks on Saturday May 14, 2011 at the etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest, California looks pretty heavy. In fact it’s running 30 deep and includes pretty much everyone. Many of the skaters will be competing for $15,000 in prizes.
The Ball Park SkaterCross will start at noon with a $3,000 purse. The best trick contests will begin at 2 p.m. with $4,000 for the CCS best trick on tranny, $4,000 on the Red Bull tech center and $4,000 on the Power Balance stairs, rails and hubba section. . . Fans can experience the live skate action with VIP seating inside the etnies skatepark available for only $50.00 per ticket. Preferred seating in the bleachers outside the skatepark is also available for only $20.00 per ticket. Tickets can be purchased by visiting shecklerfoundation.org.
Now we know where the skate world will be on Saturday. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Ryan Sheckler reportedly posted a photo of himself on Twitter showing a new Red Bull hat. Then, someone who follows Sheckler’s tweets much more closely than we do noticed what looks like a Storz & Bickel Volcano in the background. Ryan pulled the image down from his Twitter feed but not before someone posted the photo on a site called The Dirty with the headline Lay Off The Ganja Sheckler.
Now, according to TMZ, Sheckler’s lawyers want the photo removed from the site saying:
Your unauthorized use of the RS rights and promotions of your website, products and items involving RS’s name likeness, copyrights and related trademarks and may violate RS’s right of publicity, constitute trademark infringement, copyright infringement, dilution and unfair competition among other rights. . . Additionally, your actions may have placed RS in breach of current agreements has has in place, and may expose RS to liability and/or damages.
The issue does bring up one good question (not that Sheckler’s lawyers mentioned it). Does posting a photo on Twitter give anyone free license to use that image on the web or in print any way they see fit? Not necessarily, according to a recent federal court decision reported in PDNonline.com. Photographer Daniel Morel is suing several news organizations (AFP, Getty Images, CBS, Turner Broadcasting) after they lifted one of his Haiti earthquake photos from his Twitter feed and ran with it. A judge agreed with Morel saying his lawsuit could continue because the “defendants failed to prove they had a license to use Morel’s images.”
Sheckler’s celebrity status coupled with the fact that the photo he posted of himself sitting directly in front of a “plant ingredient inhaling device” is in some twisted way “news” likely means there’s not much his lawyers can do about it. Not only has The Dirty left the photo up, they added this comment: “The kid is claiming war against me when he is the idiot who posted the picture. How much weed did you smoke dude?”
Seems the smoothest route through all of this would have been for Sheckler to ignore the post entirely. But then the lawyers wouldn’t have written that letter. And lawyers love writing letters.
When we can’t actually be there it’s nice to know Rob Brink is. He apparently covered the whole Sheckler Skate For A Cause event held May 29, 2010 at the etnies skatepark without once lifting his finger from the shuttler release.
Click the link and you’ll see exactly what we’re talking about. It’s almost animated GIF overload, but in a good way.
Yes, this is Ryan Sheckler acting. . . as opposed to being Ryan Sheckler reality TV star. He plays a young hockey star with The Rock in The Tooth Fairy.
Ryan Shecklersat down with Sports Illustrated’s Arash Markazi for a Q&A this weekend at the X Games and here’s what he had to say about his fans and haters:
My fans are the best fans in the world and my haters are the biggest haters in the world, and I love both of them. I [frigging] laugh at the haters. I laugh at them. It’s the most funny thing to see them. I try to put myself in their shoes and look at someone that’s doing way better than me and making way more money than me and I look at them and I’m proud of that guy. I’m happy for them. But the haters that are sitting there, running their mouth and talking [trash], they’ve never had to work for anything. They’ve never had the pressure of 100,000 people watching them. They’ve never been in that situation. So go do something productive with you life. Leave me the [heck] alone; I’m doing [stuff]. I got things to do with my life.
Stardoll (Fame, Fashion and Friends) is another one of those sites that we don’t understand at all. But apparently the little girls understand. Stardoll is the “largest online community for girls who love fashion, shopping, decorating, creativity, and making new friends from around the world” and Ryan Sheckler is there and ready to dress up.
Apparently, Stardoll has more than 20 33 million users and Ryan is more popular than Beckham. Wonder if there is a “buy it now” button anywhere on the site?
Christian Hosoi took how the GoPro Legends Bowl title of other legends like Sergie Ventura, Jay Adams, Aaron Astorga and Dave Hackett at the 4th Annual Sheckler Foundation Skate For A Cause event held Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the etnies Skatepark in Lake Forest, California.
The skateboard community united today and exceeded expectations by raising $100,000 at the Sheckler Foundation’s 4th Annual SKATE FOR A CAUSE event, presented by etnies, in Lake Forest! Every skateboarder that won gave their winnings back to the Sheckler Foundation too. . . The money raised will go to building a skatepark on the Port Gamble S’klallam Reservation as a part of the “Be the Change” project.
