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.
OFF! is a “super group” lead by ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris and they are reportedly bringing “back everything we loved about old school West Coast skate culture.” Sounds good to us.
Saturdays, NYC’s hipster surf boutique, worked with Shut NYC to create the Saturdays x Shut Skateboard Deck. The board is 29.6 x 7.75 and features 7-ply hardwood maple, Ace Trucks, Shut Wheels, Bones Abec 7 Bearings, and it’s all made in the USA. Completes are $180 and are currently available on the Saturdays website.
Following the premiere everyone rolled over to the for an after party at The Roosevelt Hotel.
If you (like us) missed the movie and all the Hollywood celebrity action, just click right here to see all the photos of stars like Danny Way and his Mom (above), Ken Block, Tommy Lee, The Dingo, Johnny Knoxville,Daryl Hannah, Steve-O, and Adriana Patridge.
We’re guessing there were some skaters there as well, but not many of them made the red carpet cut it seems.
Leave it to a longboarding bank robber to put on a wig, a San Diego Padres snapback, and roll into a Wells Fargo bank only to hair out at the last minute and walk out. That’s what happened on Saturday, April 7, 2012 in La Jolla, California according to a story on KTLA.com.
The man walked into the Wells Fargo branch at 7714 Girard Ave. in La Jolla at about 1:38 p.m., the FBI said. He handed a demand note to a teller. The teller looked at the note and then at the man. The would-be robber may have panicked at that point, because he grabbed back the note and walked out of the bank. . . No money was taken and no one was injured in the robbery attempt.
The man, who police described as in his mid-30s or early 40s and white, may have had a last minute change of heart. Sad it couldn’t have happened three minutes before he walked into the bank.
The International Association of Skateboard Companies will host their 2012 Skateboarding Summit at the Doubletree Hotel in Orange, California May 10-11, 2012. And now, through April 16, you can get an “early-bird” registration discount.
The IASC Skateboarding Summit is a two-day event that gives the leaders in skateboarding a chance to come together in a non-competitive atmosphere to educate themselves on topics meant to broaden their perspectives, connect them with their peers, and to inspire and further their business. . . . This year’s summit will host three special events: The Skateboarding Hall of Fame and Icon Awards, as well as special screenings of the new Bones Brigade Documentary by Stacy Peralta and the new Danny Way documentary Waiting for Lightning by Jacob Rosenberg.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln classics and religious studies professor Tom Winter has reportedly become an “Internet sensation” after a photo of him skateboarding was posted to Reddit.com, according to a story in the Journal Star.
The photo inspired dozens of memes — photos with humorous text superimposed. . . “Nine pages of memes and a site I never knew about before yesterday,” Winter said. “It’s a pretty good photo.” . . . By Thursday afternoon, the photo had gotten more than 756,000 views on Imgur.com, the Internet image hosting site on which it originally appeared, and 1,300 comments on Reddit.com. Users of Imgur.com wrote mock captions for the image, which features a skateboarding Winter, arms out and holding a briefcase.
People see a wise, older man skateboarding and are astounded. Yes, that’s how bad skateboarding’s image is.
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.”
