The Tony Hawk Cinnamon Sugar Cupcake will be sold at all ten national Sprinkles locations, including their store in New York City (780 Lexington Ave), from September 21st to the 23rd. 100% of the proceeds from the Tony Hawk cupcakes will be donated to the Tony Hawk Foundation.
We’ve all experienced surf, skate, or snowboard films that seem to be in perpetual completion, however, no one has Andy Warhol beat. Forty-four years ago, Warhol filmed San Diego Surf with collaborator Paul Morrissey, in La Jolla, California. This was “just months before” he was shot, according to a story on Artinfo.com. And now, the Museum of Modern Artin New York City is finally premiering the film as part of their 10th Annual film preservation festival.
The Warhol-directed feature, whose loose narrative centers on an acrimonious married couple played by Superstars Taylor Mead and Viva who rent their beach-side home to a group of surfers, was only partially edited at the time. Morrissey was then commissioned by the Andy Warhol Foundation in 1995-96 to finish editing the film, with the help of Foundation curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley.“Even twenty five years after his death Warhol continues to surprise contemporary audiences,” Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner said in the premiere announcement yesterday. “This never-before-seen film expands Warhol’s filmic legacy and demonstrates Warhol’s read on the west coast and its surfing culture.”
We’re guessing it’s going to be an amazing time capsule of a crazy New York artist’s version of the San Diego surf scene. But hey, Tom Wolfe did it, why not Andy? San Diego Surf will be shown for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on October 16, 2012. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.
Today, (August 23, 2012) Boston Market made a $10,000 to the Ryan Sheckler Foundation at their “restaurant” in North Arlington, New Jersey. Ryan was there to accept the check and to sign autographs.
“Ryan’s dedication to his charity and his passion for Boston Market made him the ideal host for today’s event,” said George Michel, CEO of Boston Market. “Not only is he a legend in the skateboarding world, but he has found the time to give back to those in need as well. Boston Market is proud to support Ryan’s organization and offer quality food with great service to our guests.”
Well, at least it wasn’t McDonalds. Can someone please pass the loaded mashed potatoes? Passionate? The potatoes, you’re passin’ it. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
Terry “Tubesteak” Tracy, the legendary Malibu surfer who reportedly kicked off Hollywood’s love affair with surfing by loaning Kathy Kohner “a surfboard in exchange for a peanut butter sandwich” has died, according to a story in the OC Register. He was 77 years old.
As he told the Register in 2002, he took to sleeping on the beach at Malibu in the mid 1950s and built a wooden shack that included palm fronds and thatched bamboo mat. He lived in it for two years, holding court there as many of the best surfers of the day would surf at Malibu. A girl appeared one day at the shack – which eventually was bulldozed – and she wanted to surf, Tracy said. The girl reminded Tracy of a short girl he’d once met at a party, named Gidget. He said he told this newcomer to the shack that he’d loan her a surfboard in return for a peanut butter sandwich she was carrying. He took to calling her Gidget.
The girl’s father wrote the book Gidget and we all know the rest of the story. Tracy later became a fixture at San Onofre beach. According to the story he “died peacefully at his home Wednesday.” Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
According to a story on Eonline.com, the Beastie Boys have filed a lawsuit against Monster Energy Drink “claiming the [company] tried to create “an association” with the Beastie Boys by using several of their hit tunes in a promotional campaign without properly licensing them.”
First up, the plaintiffs don’t want to see Monster Energy’s promotional video for its 2012 Ruckus in the Rockies event, which the suit claims was posted to the drink’s website in May, in its current incarnation ever again. . . According to the complaint, the video is “comprised substantially of excerpts from the Beastie Boys Sound Recordings and the Beastie Boys Musical Compositions totaling more than three minutes in duration.”
Looks like the group is sticking to the letter of Adam Yauch’s will in which he stated that “in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.”
The story of Sal Masekela’s relationship with his musician father Hugh could be hitting the big screen in a feature film from Olympic Pictures and Paul Haggis, according to a story on Deadline.com.
South African filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil has been hired to write and direct the film. The project follows a son emerging out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa’s racism. The untitled Masekela project will be produced by Leslie Urdang and Dean Vanech of Olympus Pictures, Haggis and Michael Nozik of Hwy 61 Films, and Selema Masekela.
We’re looking forward to this one if only to see the Hollywood version of Sal’s autobiography.
Songstress (and former Transworld Media intern) Tristan Prettyman has come a long way since IMing MP3’s of her home-recorded tracks around to friends and family. Now, the Wall Street Journal takes us all on a tour of the place where she wrote most of the songs from her upcoming album Cedar and Gold (which drops September 25, 2012).
After . . . Tristan Prettyman’s engagement to pop star Jason Mraz ended in 2010, she retreated to the cedar bungalow where she’d lived as a child. Her father, a former carpenter, had renovated the house months earlier, hoping it would be a place for the couple to live in after they married.
Sounds like Tristan has all she needs: a great place to live and the continually broken heart that inspires her best work.
We’ve heard all kinds of horror stories from the Wavehouse in San Diego, but rarely have we heard anything about the more mellow Flowriders like the one at Raging Waters in San Dimas, California. That is until we saw these photos of Katy Perry getting the blow off in the Daily Mail.
Kind of reminds us of something that happened to Bruce Irons once at Teahupoo. . . This is the before photo, follow the jump for the after. . . [click to continue…]
Yes, believe it. Two of the biggest stars of the Insta-Twitterverse were in the same room at the same time for an interview and you’ll be surprised by who comes out on top. It’s Tony Hawk vs. Justin Bieber.
David Duval apparently won the British Open Golf Championship in 2001 and though we don’t follow golf at all, someone alerted us to the fact that while Duval is in Lytham St. Annes for this year’s event he’s been rocking a Burton hat. Though we’re wondering if wearing a Burton hat while discussing all his injuries is such a good idea. Here’s what he said today, according to a story on Golf Digest:
“Yesterday I hit three or four shots that almost put me down,” he said. “I’ve worked my tail off. Unfortunately for me I’ve had multiple nagging little injuries. I’ve had tendinitis in both shoulders; I’ve got it in my elbows; I have bone bruises in my knees right now; I have a back problem that’s well-documented; had tendinitis in my wrist; I’ve had vertigo. Is that it?”
The big question is: is David just doing it as a favor to his friend Jake, or is Burton looking again at new ways to unseasonlize their brand?
Tony Hawk has collaborated with Sprinkles Cupcakes on The Tony Hawk Cinnamon Sugar Cupcake. But don’t worry. It’s only to help raise money for The Tony Hawk Foundation and it’s only for three days.
