Just in time for Oprah Winfrey’s two-part confessional interview with the Biggest Liar Of All Timeformer competitive cyclist but now banned for life Lance Armstrong comes World Industries’Live Juiced deck.
If you need to ask you don’t need this board. But get it ASAP before they’re sold out. And yes, that’s Sheryl holding his nuts in a jar.
The graphic, created by artist Ron Lemen,features what appears to be a man in cycling shoes, surrounded by bottles of urine, with a syringe in his mouth, tying himself off to shoot up with EPO, baby. For a closer look at the Juiced graphic, follow the jump. It’s good. To check out the rest of the World Industries line-up click the link. [click to continue…]
We had one word when news arrived that Shaun White was cutting his hair: FINALLY! And it’s apparently for a good cause. Nice. He’s the ginger Jon Bon Jovi!
You have two days left to bid on one of Tony Hawk’s Boards + Bands memorabilia collab auctions to raise money for the Tony Hawk Foundation and its mission to help build skateparks.
The Boards + Bands fundraising initiative merges the worlds of skateboarding and music to benefit the work of the Tony Hawk Foundation. Hawk invited a select group of professional skateboarders to donate their personally ridden skateboards and submit the name of their favorite songs. Harper then sent those boards on to the appropriate artists with one simple message: “Please write the lyrics to this skater’s favorite song on his skateboard, and we’ll use it to create more skateparks for kids.” . . .The skaters and artists who have collaborated include Bucky Lasek and Adam Yauch, Rodney Mullen and Ben Harper, Jamie Thomas and Bob Dylan, Mike Vallely and Tom Petty, Steve Caballero and Metallica, Bob Burnquist and Ben Harper, Lance Mountain and Jimmy Cliff, and Tony Hawk and Paul McCartney.
Shaun White has a new $3.85 million beach house in Encinitas, California according to a story on TMZ.com. And the view doesn’t look so shabby.
. . . despite the $4.25 mil price tag, the boarding master managed to knock off $400k in negotiations … and bought it for a cool $3.85 mil. . . The 3-bedroom, 3-bath house is siiiiick too … it literally sits right on the coastline, and has a private staircase leading down to the beach.
Looks like the perfect little place to hideout and escape winter. Follow the jump for some video from right out front at Shaun’s.
Rob Dyrdek has reportedly sold his home in the Hollywood Hills for $2.125 million according to a story in the LA Times.
Built in 2005 and designed for entertaining, the home features a two-story entry, an open floor plan, 20-foot ceilings, five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 4,706 square feet of living space. There is a swimming pool, a patio and a lawn.
The only bummer is that he bought the house in 2008 for $2.459. Guess considering “these economic times” that’s not all that bad a deal, really.
Christian Hosoi will post up at Salman Agah’s world famous LA pizza joint Pizzanista the evening of Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 6 to 10 PM and sign copies of his book, Hosoi: My Life as a Skateboarder Junkie Inmate Pastor.
The evening will also feature special guest Ray Barbee, a custom Hosoi-designed pizza, limited edition T-Shirt, pizza boxes & stickers, and Vans giveaways. In fact, the first 10 people to purchase the Hosoi book + pizza receive a Vans gift certificate. Yep. It’s true. Pizzanista! is located at 2019 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, California.
Jazz piano prodigy Austin Peralta, the son of Bones Brigade co-creator Stacy Peralta, has died according to a story in the LA Times. He turned 22 on October 25, 2012.
Flying Lotus, the beat producer and label head who released Peralta’s music, confirmed the news Thursday morning via Twitter, writing: “it kills me to type that we lost a member of our family, Austin Peralta. I don’t really have the right words right now.” Peralta’s cause of death has not been announced.
Peralta, who released two jazz albums by the time he was 16, was reportedly working on a new album on Brainfeeder. Our thoughts are with Peralta’s family and friends.
For several videos of Austin playing keyboards, follow they jump.
O’Neill founder Jack O’Neill had a herd of media people rolling through his front yard yesterday after someone noticed what looks like a whale fossil in his front yard at Pleasure Point, according to a story on KSBW.
On Thursday, O’Neill’s house became even gnarlier when a lower-than-usual low tide revealed a gigantic skeleton just outside his back door and seawall. . . The bones were vertebrae that had been fossilized. . . As word of the skeleton spread on social media websites, several hypotheses and theories arose. . . Many hoped it was a dinosaur. . . Gary Griggs, director of University of California Santa Cruz’s Institute of Marine Sciences, said the skeleton was most likely an extinct Pliocene-era whale.
It would appear that wise water creatures have loved Pleasure Point for eons.
Nothing better on a Thursday afternoon than a little retro skate edit featuring all the heavies from the Del Mar glory days. Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Tod Swank, Dave Swift, Owen Nieder, Kevin Staab, and Grant Brittain. Rad.
