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On February 23, 2009 the City of Malibu, California voted to outlaw downhill skateboarding a.k.a. “speedboarding” according to a story in the LA Times.
Malibu, with its many winding canyon roads, voted to prohibit skateboarding on some of its most twisted streets and passes. . . . “The intent is not to ban skateboarding in the city of Malibu,” said Reva Feldman, the town’s administrative services director. “The intent is to protect the public and also the city.” The city will post signs prohibiting skateboarding on 10 public streets, Feldman said. Violators would be fined between $25 and $100.
When fun is outlawed, only outlaws will have fun.
[Link: LA Times]
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Waialua, Hawaii resident Clinton Patterson fell from his electric skateboard in July 2008 and died five days later from his injuries. Now his wife Jennifer is suing the “California-based motorized skateboard manufacturer and its Hawai’i distributor,” according to a story in the Honolulu Advertiser.
The lawsuit alleges that the wheels of the board came in contact with Patterson’s feet or the board, causing an abrupt change in speed and direction, effectively throwing him off the skateboard. The suit claims that the board was poorly designed and built. . . .The electric skateboards are manufactured and sold by Chase Boards LLC in Orange County, Calif. The lawsuit also named Bionic Wheels LLC, a Honolulu-based distributor of the product, as a defendant.
Sad story all the way around.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
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SkateDaily.net just reminded us that Thrasher Magazine has put year two up on their website in it’s entirety. They’re just scans (so they don’t Google well) but every page from every mag is there. The kids can laugh and the old guys can re-live the glory days of 1982.
[Link: Thrasher Magazine via SkateDaily.net]
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Simon Evans is a former pro skateboarder who wrote for the British skateboard mag R.a,D. in the early 90s. Now he is an artist with a new show which opened last night (February 20, 2009) at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. Here is the logic behind the show:
. . . these days he’s expressing himself in scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white-out. He uses everyday materials to create vivid stories through collages. For a new show at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea, he’s tells the story of Robinson Crusoe, creating the things Caruso used to keep himself alive when stranded on a desert island. Evans said he was hoping to bring text and visual art together.
The show runs through April 4, 2009, but you can check it online right here.
[Link: James Cohan Gallery via WYNC.org]
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On March 6, 2009 the Hibbleton Gallery will present a new show entitled “Spare Change,” featuring work by Russ Pope, Andy Jenkins, Mike Myers, Chris Pastras, and Chris Yormick—all legendary figures in the Skateboard art and design world. The opening reception is Friday, March 6, 2009 from 7-11pm. It would probably be a good idea to be there.
Hibbleton Gallery 112 W. Wilshire Ave, Fullerton, California.
[Link: Hibbleton]
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Cody Behrns, 15, is a skater who is already running his own retail business out of an old train caboose in Pittsford, New York, according to a story in the Democrat and Chronicle.
Cody has managed Small Town Skate Shop for a year, and while the Pittsford Sutherland High School freshman says business has been slow during the winter, he expects sales to increase as the weather improves. . . . He’s planning a new venture for the spring: a line of sweatshirts sporting his company’s logo. The sweatshirts will be in six different colors priced at about $35. He said it’s more cost-effective as a business owner to sell some items that aren’t a national or international brand to eliminate paying a distributor and other fees.
In the business for one year and already he’s seeing the value of going private label? Sounds like Cody is on the road to success.
[Link: Democrat and Chronicle]
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It would be easy to say that the Berrics is just Eric Koston and Steve Berra’s private TF. But with the website (which may be the most popular skate site on the web) and the people who roll through, the Berrics has become a holy place to skateboarders around the world.
Who better to send in to check it out than porno reviewer and master of “writing about whatever I want no matter what the assignment was” Chris Nieratko. That’s what ESPN Actions Sports did. It goes a little something like this:
The Berrics is the marriage of two names and two pro skaters Eric Koston and Steve Berra, thus The Berrics. They are both fantastic skaters in talent and in personality but as much as they are equal partners on paper and in bank debt it is Steve Berra that greets you at the door with velvet suit and top hat, swinging his cane and scaring the Sugar-Honey-Iced-Tea out of you with talk of Wangdoodles and Snozwangers. He is friends with aliens. He flies around in a spaceship. He lined the ceiling of the building in space-age polymers so that no infrared helicopter camera can locate the warehouse’s whereabouts. Oh and the warehouse moves like the island on Lost.
You getting the picture? Follow the link for the rest.
[Link: ESPN.com/ActionSports]
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