Rob Dyrdek always seems to be in the money. And now, he’s helping kids get into their parents money as well with a new deal signed with BillMyParents, the online teen-targeted payment system of the San Diego, California based Socialwise Inc.
“I’m excited to work with BillMyParents. I like what they do,” said Mr. Dyrdek. “Giving teens freedom to pick what they want and also letting parents in on that, I think it gives parents insight into what their kids really want and gives teens the opportunity to learn financial responsibility. It just makes sense.”
Kind of crazy that a company can build a business on something as simple as a parent giving their kid a credit card, but leave it to Rob to make sure he gets paid. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Last night (March 27, 2010), Nickelodeon held their 2010 Kids Choice Awards. Both Shaun White and Ryan Sheckler were up for Favorite Male Athlete in a list that included basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
Shaun White (who looked remarkably unexhausted) may have presented an award to Taylor Lautner, but he didn’t win. Apparently, the little girls still understand and Ryan rolled away with the win. Had this been the Cougars Choice Awards, there likely would have been a different, more tomatoey, winner.
Anastasia Ashley and Gretchen Bleiler will be helping two “adventure-seeking guys. . . perform an itinerary of tasks designed to K.O. the B.O. with Old Spice,” according to a post on WalletPop.
The guys, chosens as part of Old Spice’s Fresh Collection Intern Challenge, will split up and spend four days with either Ashley in Fiji or Bleiler in Zermatt, Switzerland. There they will do silly stunts to promote Old Spice like this:
Don traditional Swiss lederhosen and tear up the mountain while snowboarding some of the world’s best snow. Attach 10 Velcro-padded sticks of Old Spice Matterhorn to the Lederhosen suspenders and hand out to 5 other skiers and snowboarders on the mountain – while yelling out “You smell like Matterhorn!!” – at the same time. Use your helmet cam (provided by Old Spice) to capture video of you in action – and reaction shots.
In Fiji Ashley will apparently hook the boy up with a lesson on how to blow a conch shell. We’ll just leave it at that.
Former child actor and Snowboard Academy star Corey Haim dropped dead in his apartment this morning after an apparent “accidental overdose” according to a story on Fox6.
Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. . . . Coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said an autopsy would determine an official cause of death. . . Haim collapsed in front of his mother inside an apartment in the Oakwood Apartment Complex, located between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, officials said.
Iris Martin is a “former psychotherapist” who blogs for the Huffington Post most likely without getting paid in hopes that people will buy her seemingly self-published books. But today Iris is not talking about Mortgage Wars. No. Today she is expounding on what the United States can learn from Shaun White.
White’s recent round of interviews and appearances has provided a portrayal of an old soul in a highly tuned young body–and potentially a global leader in the making, if still in a somewhat unassuming embryonic state. He has not only transcended the myth of the hippie-haired snowboarder on his quest to stick the perfect run, he has laid down a style of being in the world that’s awesome for our times.
Ms. Martin is probably the first (and hopefully last) writer to reference Goldie Hawn, Ghandi, New Age theorist Michael Sharp, the Obama Administration, Bill Clinton, the Dali Lama, Marie Antoinette, Edward Gibbon, and Toynbee and Burke in an essay about snowboarding. After slogging through the entire piece we’re not sure it something anyone else should attempt. But we agree with the premise: we all could learn a lot from Shaman White. . . especially in the revenue department.
Not that we’re not getting enough Shaun White all over the rest of the world, now we get to see his bright, shining, flowing locks along with boardercross gold medalist Seth Wescott on boxes of our favorite breakfast cereal.
“It’s great being on a Wheaties box,” said White. “I remember being a kid and looking up to the guys whose faces were on these boxes and thinking how cool it was. I’m just stoked that Wheaties wanted me on the box and I can represent my sport in such a great way.”. . . “Having your very own Wheaties box is something many athletes strive for; so today it is an incredible feeling to see my box and know it represents determination, hard work and focus in a sport that’s relatively new to the winter games,” said Wescott. “To earn two consecutive gold medals means so much, and the culmination of now having a Wheaties box is the icing on the cake.”
The boxes will be available in stores beginning in April 2010.
Early Olympians reportedly competed nude. In that sense, this Terry RichardsonRolling Stone cover of Shaun White rocking out shirtless over his burning board makes some sort of sense.
Shaun White has revolutionized snowboarding, won the big gold in Vancouver and lit his snowboard aflame, Hendrix-style, on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone, joining an elite club of athletes to appear on our cover not once, but twice. . . And as the focused, business savvy White tells it, a lot of his recent success on the half-pipe and off can be attributed to a new addition to his life: “Getting into music has changed my personality and my way of doing things,” he reveals to RS writer Vanessa Grigoriadis. “I”m far more open now.”
Jimi Hendrix would be proud. At least the rest of Shaun is covered up. . . click the link for video.
Talk in the Rally world regarding Ken Block is often harsh, mostly because he was able to come out of nowhere and immediately become one of the most talked about rally driver in America. But all that aside he won the 2010 Rally America 100 Acre Wood Rally for the fifth time in a row this weekend according to a post on RallyBuzz.
“I can’t tell you how difficult and challenging this weekend has been,” said Block. “This is the location of my first national rally win, so I have now won this rally five years in a row and it is a pretty good feeling to get the Fiesta home in first. The Fiesta is a big change from the car I was racing before, but I am finally starting to come to grips with how to drive it and how to go as fast as I can. It is very fun to drive and I am really enjoying the Fiesta.”
Travis Patrana was leading by over a minute when rear suspension damage put him out of the race. In an odd twist BMXer Dave Mirra finished fourth.
Juliette Lewis says she tired of talking about her relationship with actor Brad Pitt and would rather talk about something else, according to a story on CBS42.com.
She says, “It amazes me that people are still fascinated that we went out for years. I was a teenager at the time. It’s a lifetime away. I was in my high school years and it was a wonderful, loving relationship with a fun, smart guy.Then it was over and he went on to become incredibly famous. The far more significant relationship was my marriage to an incredible pro skateboarder (Steve Berra). But no-one wants to know about that.”
Really? Seems like we know some people who would love to know about that. . .
Rob Dyrdek always seems to be in the money. And now, he’s helping kids get into their parents money as well with a new deal signed with BillMyParents, the online teen-targeted payment system of the San Diego, California based Socialwise Inc.
