Skateboarding

Barred On The Berrics

by The Editors on March 1, 2009

BerricsIf you’re wondering where XX Wins The Berrics War story went, here’s the deal: Danny Bickerstaffe wanted us to pull it down saying:

We would greatly appreciate the removal of your Battle At The Berrics winers post since we have not yet posted the video on the site.

Nothing like trying to pound a big, fat, blue Genie back into a bottle, huh? But since we were invited guests plus the fact that easily half the people who saw the results were pissed that we “spoiled the whole thing for them” we have pulled our two sentence post. Danny did say that “The final game will be posting on Monday.” So we can all quit hitting reload on The Berrics site now and give those servers a break.

See what happens when you invite a bunch of wired, social media connected people to your private TF?

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Skatelab Up Against A Walmart

by The Editors on February 27, 2009

Photolab.JpgLooks like Op isn’t the only company with Walmart dreams of global domination. The Skatelab in Simi Valley, California and Alantic Beach, Florida has announced that they now have product displays in 450 Walmart stores and by the end of April they will be in 1,750 stores.

Killer T-shirts and hats only $7.50. Support SKATELAB and go get your kids some of the new gear today!

Just wondering. . . will this make Skatelab the world’s largest selling skateboarding T-shirts and hats? If not, it will certainly increase Skatelab’s brand awareness in the all-important “uneducated, foul-mouthed, fat, ugly, and unemployed” demographic.

[Link: Skatelab.com]

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Brandon Biebel’s Firsthand Online In HD

by The Editors on February 27, 2009

BiebeltitleMiss skateboarder Biebel’s Firsthand on Fuel TV last weekend? No worries. The entire show is now up (in HD) on the Fuel.TV website for viewing any old time. Funny how good HD looks and how we’re already starting to take it for granted.

Sadly the Fuel player isn’t embeddable or we would have put it right here. Maybe someday. . .

[Update: Thanks to Rowe, we’ve got the HULU.com version after the jump.

[Link: Fuel.TV]
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Familia’s Twin City Hop

by The Editors on February 27, 2009

Opening Web.JpgSteve Nesser’s Familia Skateboard Shop has made the cross-town hustle from St. Paul to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is celebrating the move this weekend, according to as story in the City Pages.

Check out the store’s ‘Grand Re-Opening’ this Saturday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m., featuring a special in-store Todd Bratrud art show and hang out with the Familia crew at The Red Stag later that night, with tracks from DJs Millions Billions and Tendercakes.

Sadly, we’re not going to make it to that freezing Midwest skateboarding hotspot this weekend nor any weekend in the near future.

[Link: Citypages.com]

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Battle Of The Berrics Hits Wall Street

by The Editors on February 27, 2009

Ob-Df327 Skate G 20090227113824.JpgWe’ve been talking about how The Berrics has been blowing up lately, but we never thought it would be something The Wall Street Journal would be interested in. Wrong again. Today, writer Conor Dougherty kicked the lid off skateboarding’s little secret like only The Journal can.

This aggressive minimalism renders the Battle almost unwatchable to anyone who hasn’t spent time on a skateboard. But it’s addicting to skateboarding purists, who find a contest of smaller tricks more relatable than the skate competitions on television, where grisly falls and jumps as long as 75-feet get much of the attention. . . . At the stroke of midnight PST on Saturday and Sunday mornings, skaters around the world will log on to watch.

Yep, The Berrics has gone global. No doubt. Tune in this weekend for the finals.

[Link: The Wall Street Journal]
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The Berrics Design Group Hustling Pepsi

by The Editors on February 27, 2009

Sih Pepsistand.JpgWhen a new Pepsi skateboarding display went up in some far away land, The Berrics Design Group jumped right in to offer the caffeinated sugar water company some help:

Why the arm of Pepsi’s marketing group is way hipper in other countries than here, in America, where skateboarding is really popular, is beyond me. Hey Pepsi! If you want the Berrics Design Group to help you out in the U. S. of A, let us know. Seriously. We’ll charge you a lot less than what those guys charged you for your new logo. I promise, a lot less. The Berrics; everyone’s doing it, why should you be left in the dust?

Way to hustle. Maybe that’s why The Berrics is continually on the up.

[Link: The Berrics]

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Jeremy Fish Ambushes Fecal Face

by The Editors on February 26, 2009

Photo-1In preparation for his Fecal Face Dot Gallery opening tonight, February 26, 2009, skate artist and former Think Skateboards art director Jeremy Fish has painted a 30-foot-long mural with three dimensional characters in it according to a story in the Xpress.

The mural-in-progress, which covers two of the Fecal Face Dot Gallery’s four walls at Gough and Market streets, depicts a wooded scene of half-finished cartoon animals and trees. Fish carefully draws the perky lips belonging to one of the trees that overlooks what seems to be a future battle scene. . . . The artist has been crafting the mural for 25 hours, but states he only has a few hours left of touching up the details. World-famous skateboard filmer and photographer Dan Wolfe is in the room shooting time-lapse photographs of the process while old-school East Coast hip hop bumps from small speakers in the corner.

The Ambush opening party is tonight at 6 p.m. at Fecal Face Dot Gallery – 66 Gough St. (@ Market St.), San Francisco, with an after party at The Uptown, 200 Capp St (10-2am).

[Link: Xpress and Fecal Face Gallery]

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Another Skater Gets Run Over Towing

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Sadly, another skateboarder (who was hanging on to the side of his friends car and then leg go) was run over and hospitalized this week. This time it was in Denver.

Authorities believe the victim was holding the driver’s side door of a Ford Mustang while his 16-year-old companion was driving the car westbound on 85th Avenue. . . . Police are investigating how fast the Mustang was going and why the teen let go of the door just before he was struck by the car.

Apparently, the Denver Police don’t know that this scene plays out over and over and over again.

[Update Feb. 26, 2009: 9news.com is reporting that 15-year-old Austin Ayers has now died from his injuries. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.]

[Link: Denver Post]

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Iconoclast LA Pop-Up Until April 11

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Iconoclast La Store

Get them while you can. The new Iconoclast Pop-Up will be popped up at 451 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA until April 11, 2009 so for the next 35 days it will be the spot to get limited edition art, prints, books, and other stuff from some of our favorite artists:

The Iconoclast Editions pop-up shop features work by David Ellis, Jimmy Baker, Harmony Korine, Neil Farber, Jacob Dyrenforth, Ohad Meromi, Charley Harper, Lisi Raskin, Ryan McGinness, Larry Clark, KAWS, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Chris Johanson, Raymond Pettibon, Shepard Fairey, Todd Cole, Mark Gonzales, Evan Hecox, Jo Jackson, Todd James, Takashi Homma, Os Gemeos, James Jarvis, Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Steve Powers, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell, Terry Richardson, Mark Borthwick, Craig Stecyk, Ed Templeton, Henry Chalfant, Tobin Yelland, Clare Rojas, Antonio Adams, Cynthia Connolly, PAM, Andrew Pommier, KR, Cheryl Dunn and many more.

We were going to say something about Mike Mills and celebrity salad bar designers, but we’ll save that for another time..

[Link: Iconoclast LA]

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Donated Transworld Mags Dumped In Landfill

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Home-NewsThree years ago Jeff Seymour, of Carlsbad, California wanted to help out the troops. So he started a program called “Magazines and Movies for the Troops.” With donated magazines and movies from Transworld Media and many other Southern California souces Seymour hoped to spread a little love from home, according to a story in the San Diego City Beat.

Now it looks like most of those donations ended up getting dumped straight into a San Diego landfill. According to the paper a supervisor at the Miramar landfill witnessed “a group of Marines dump as many as six pallets full of the donations—magazines, books, DVDs and hygiene products, packed in boxes plainly marked “For Our Troops in Iraq”—into the landfill last summer.”

“Transworld Media donated thousands of magazines, most of them so new they still hadn’t hit the stands yet,” he says. “They donated cases of beanies—like those skullcaps that kids wear—worth about $20 apiece. I asked them, ‘Do you think the troops will wear these?’ And they replied, ‘Hey, do you know how cold it gets over there?’

Guess, we’ll never know. For the rest of the Marine Corp FUBAR follow the jump.

[Link: San Diego City Beat]

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