In this Ride Channel In Focus, Thrasher Magazine’s Michael Burnett kicks down just about everything anyone needs to know to shoot great skateboarding photos. The obvious problem for most beginners is remembering all this before pressing the shutter release. Follow the jump for Part 2. [click to continue…]
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Jeff Tremaine and Dickhouse productions is at it again, this time with Tyler the Creator and Odd Future. Their new show is on Adult Swim and it’s called Loiter Squad. Yes, it’s so funny you’ll spit soup through your nose.
[Link: Loiter Squad via Hypebeast]
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Can’t stop laughing at this Brad Parker Sbyke video? Then follow the jump for a peek at where the greatest motocross racer of all time ended up. . . [click to continue…]
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Larry Stevenson (center) with his son Curtis, Dale Smith and the crew.
We’re sad to report that Skateboarding Hall of Fame member Larry Stevenson, the founder of Makaha Skateboards (and inventor of the kicktail) died yesterday March 25, 2012 after a long illness. He was 81 years old.
Larry put together the first skateboard exhibition team in 1963 with …Bruce Logan, Woody Woodward, Danny Bearer, Scott Archer, Gregg Carroll, John Fries, Joey Saenz, George Trafton jr, and Squeek Blank.
Aside from Makaha, Stevenson was a competitive swimmer, lifeguard, and magazine publisher of such titles as Surfguide Magazine and later Poweredge Magazine.
On December 4, 2010 Stevenson was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame alongside skateboarding other legends Torger Johnson, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero, Eric Koston, Bob Burnquist, Patti McGee, and CR Stecyk.
For a video of Larry’s son Curtis accepting the award for his father, follow the jump for the entire Larry Stevenson story or click here for Stevenson’s LA Times Obituary. [click to continue…]
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After repeatedly asking skateboarders to stay away from a grom camp skateboard competition at an Auckland, New Zealand skateboard park Craig Platt appeared to have finally lost his temper and knocked one kid off his skateboard and then pushed skateboarder Leighton Smith, 38, in the neck, according to a story in the Otago Daily Times. The altercation became such a big deal that it was featured on a morning talk show on TVNZ.
A nice reminder to always be careful when interacting with angry papa bears.
[Link: Otago Daily Times and TVNZ]
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Torey Pudwill’s winning run
Tampa Pro Street Results 2012
1. Torey Pudwill $20,000
2. Chaz Ortiz $15,000
3. Sean Malto $10,000
4. Leo Romero $5,000
5. Felipe Gustavo $4,000
6. Chris Cole $3,000
7. Nyjah Huston $2,000
8. Kyle Berard $1,750
9. Greg Lutzka $1,500
10. Ryan Decenzo $1,250
11. Matt Bennett $1,000
12. Billy Marks $1,000
It was 1, 2, 3, With T Puds, Chas Ortiz, and Sean Malto.
Follow the jump for Best Trick. . .or click here of the Skatepark of Tampa. [click to continue…]
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How’s this for a little Friday flashback? Videos from the Bones Brigade, photos from Grant Brittain.
[Link: The Skateboard Mag]
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It’s Friday so that must mean there’s a new Weekend Buzz with Mikey Taylor and Davis Torgerson. Hear tales of Mikey’s first and last car crash, Davis’ trick, and the official definition of the Active Erica to fake. Speaking of Erica, what is up with the first four seconds of this clip?
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Seems like Bear Mountain’s Hot Dawgs and Handrails was forever ago, but that hasn’t stopped Volcom from reminding us how rad it was or how hard Daniel Brown, Dylan Alito, Scott Blum rip the place up to the sounds of The Line’s Seventeen Dream.
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And another from the “We’re way behind” files comes this addition to the shit people say collection, Shit Photographers Say. Yes, Crailtap put it six days ago, but we still like this one because it features Thrasher Magazine’s likable workhorse editor/photographer Michael Burnett.
[Link via Skunk Magazine]
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