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Ramp It Up Starts Tour In San Diego

by The Editors on April 23, 2012

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Ramp it Up, a traveling version of Skateboard Culture in Native America exhibit which has previously been at the Smithsonian Institution, will make it’s first stop in San Diego, California at the San Diego Museum of Man on April 28, 2012, according to a story on Indian Country.

The day will include a tour led by exhibition curator Elizabeth Gordon and professional skateboarding demonstrations on the half pipe mini skate ramp, which has been designed and built by Spohn Ranch Skateparks. Opening festivities are included in the price of regular admission. For those who can’t make it to the opening event, fret not—the exhibit will be at the SDMoM until September 9.

Click the link for the rest of the tour, or to see if you can bring Ramp It Up to your city.

[Link: Indian Country]

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Gretchen Bleiler: Sexiest Environmentalist

by The Editors on April 19, 2012

Gretchen-Bleiler-450 0Rodale, the publisher of fitness porn mags like Men’s Health, Bicycling and Runner’s World, made a their list of the Top 50 Sexiest Environmentalist and at the top of their list? That’s right, Gretchen Bleiler. Here’s what they say:

This Olympic snowboarder doesn’t just spend time on snow-capped mountains; she crusades to save them. A key board member of Protect Our Winters, or POW, Bleiler engages the winter sports community and Congress to help combat climate change by advocating for regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. After all, if there’s no snow, there’s no snowboarding.

Because nothing is sexier than a easy to clean, BPA free, toxin free Alex water bottle.

[Link: Rodale via Alex_Bottle]

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Brain Farm’s New Schiebel Cineflex Drone

by The Editors on April 18, 2012

Brain Farm has just shut down the “who has the coolest camera” race with the Schiebel Camcopter S-100 unmanned Cineflex camera.

The S-100 navigates via pre-programmed GPS waypoints or is operated with a pilot control unit. Missions are planned and controlled via a simple point-and-click graphical user interface. The pair of these two high advanced systems gives us the ability to capture fully stabilized high quality images with ease.

Good lord. We can hardly wait to see this little UAV fitted out with proper energy drink logos. . .

[Link via Snowbroader]

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Draplin: Outstanding In His Field Notes

by The Editors on April 18, 2012

Yeah, this has nothing to do with snowboarding, skateboarding, or surfing but so what. Aaron Draplin is interesting. The designs he creates are interesting, and more than that, the stories he tells are interesting (even after the third of fourth telling). So here. . . get interested in the Field Notes story.

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Volcom Paints Free Ad At Elementary School

by The Editors on April 16, 2012

Volcom SchoolThe students of San Clemente’s Clarence Lobo Elementary School had their handball courts turned into Volcom billboards last week as a surprise in what VeeCo calls a “community service project,” after the school’s student body president called them for help, according to a story in the Orange County Register.

“We saw that the handball courts were kind of ugly,” said Randi (above right), daughter of Chris and Stacey Jones of San Clemente. She came up with a plan and consulted with her mom about how to get it done. . . The handball walls had been “plain gray” and kind of dirty back in November, when Randi began working on the project. Now there are murals on one side and fresh blue paint on the back, sporting the school’s name.

Get ’em when they’re young and you’ll have them for life.

[Link: OC Register]

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Grant Brittain’s SK80’s Photography Show

by The Editors on April 13, 2012

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Legendary skateboard photographer Grant Brittain has taken a journey through his archives an pulled out his best images from the 80s for a solo showing opening Saturday, April 21, 2012 at San Diego’s Bottlecraft Beer Shop

Sk80′s captures the rise of an underground movement of youth culture shot from an insider perspective. Fully immersed in the infancy of skateboarding we now know today, Grant not only shares the raw power behind the craft but candid moments with friends; including skate legends, Natas Kaupas, Mark “Gonz”, Sinisa Egelija, Hawk, and Kevin Staab to name just a few. Join Grant and the Skateboard Mag crew for an evening of fond memories, great beer and good times.

SK80’s opening party begins at 6 PM on Friday, April 21, 2012. Bottlecraft is located at 2161 India Street, in San Diego.

[Link: Yeller Studio]

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Sesame Street At Known Gallery

by The Editors on April 11, 2012

LA’s Known Gallery will host a group show titled Sesame Street presented by The Seventh Letter & Neff Headwear and co-curated by Agenda’s Aaron Levant beginning April 28, 2012.

The show will feature the work of Madsteez, Aaron De La Cruz, Amanda Lynn, Anthony Lister, Askew, Augustine Kofie, Axis, Carlos Donjuan, Dabs & Myla, Dame, Danny D, Ewok, Franco Vescovi, Jaime Oliver, Jasper Wong, Jeff McMillan, Joe King, Kelsey Brookes, Leo Eguiarte, Mambo, Mark Dean Veca, Matt Nichols, Mr. Cartoon, Munk One, Nate Van Dyke, OG Abel, Patrick Martinez, Persue, Pose, Revok, Rime aka Jersey Joe, Samuel Rodriguez, Sage Vaughn, Sever, Slick, Stash, Steel, Todd Bratrud, Trevelen, Victor Reyes…

Known Gallery is located at 441 North Fairfax Ave, in Los Angeles. For more details follow the jump [click to continue…]

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Ben Brough Lights Out Beach City At AR4T

by The Editors on April 10, 2012

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On May 5, 2012 (yes, it’s Cinco de Mayo) Laguna Beach, California’s AR4T Gallery will host an opening reception for Ben Brough’s new solo show, Lights Out Beach City.

Lights Out Beach City expands on the highly vagrant work imagined by Brough over fourteen years using space, color, cartooning, collage, and painting techniques. Screeching imagery of food, music, coastal living, cinema, sex and landscapes in styles and mediums selected to clash by intention. Using mediums “found within arm’s reach” and presenting the show in a space as imagined, designed and installed by Brough, the viewer will be presented with a raucous landscape that brings to mind the fast and hard-edged DIY ethic only ever found lurking in the deepest subcultures of youth and punk rock. Brough’s ‘Lights Out Beach City’: art anthem of summer 2012.

The opening starts at 6 PM. AR4T is located at 210 North Coast Highway, in Laguna Beach, California. Follow the jump for more info. [click to continue…]

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The Art Dump Clocks In Art Show

by The Editors on April 5, 2012

4Cb6D9F073B311E1B9F1123138140926 7On Friday evening, April 6, 2012 members of Girl Skateboards‘ The Art Dump will open a group art show at THIS Los Angeles.

The show will feature works from Andy Jenkins, Eric Anthony, Hershel Baltrotsky, Michael Coleman, Christian Morin, Andy Mueller, and Chris Waycott. Not only that, but the first 100 people to arrive will get a free tote bag from incase featuring “the faux-office-inspired graphics of The Art Dump.”

The opening begins at 7 PM. THIS Los Angeles is located at 5906 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles.

[Link: THIS Los Angeles]

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Ian Ruhter’s Wet Plate Dreams

by The Editors on April 2, 2012

Former pro snowboarder and photographer Ian Ruhter’s latest work with wet plate photography has taken him from the small canvas to the massive. Driving around in a delivery truck (that doubles as his camera) Ruhter has been capturing beautiful, one-off works of photographic art that are astounding in both their content and their scope. Watch the video and you’ll see exactly what we’re talking about.

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