Australian customs officials arrested a 33-year-old Australian man on November 20, 2008, after they discovered that the two skateboard decks he was carrying from Auckland New Zealand contained a little more more than 8-plys of maple.
The decks were opened, allegedly revealing three packages containing 600 grams of white powder. . . .Preliminary tests indicated the presence of cocaine, Customs and AFP said.
If found guilty he could face 25 years in prison and or a $550,000 fine.
Is Quiksilver’s stock price really going to drop below the one buck line today? Because with twenty minutes to go it’s hovering at $1.25. But it got an immediate 18 cent bounce in after hours trading. . . wonder what’s up?
This is the kind of TF that makes us think taking all that money might be worth the grief Ryan Sheckler has survived all these years. This place is like a cathedral of skateboarding.
The December issue of Slap Magazine might just be a collector’s item. It’s the last print issue before High Speed Productions, Inc. takes tall that skateboarding, life, and art and progresses right into the digital world. Can’t say we’ll notice any difference. We never read the print version anyway.
That makes these four shows really old news to the people who care and completely untimely and irrelevant to those who happen to accidentally stumble on to the broadcasts while trying to find something to watch.
Turns out “another view” was right when they posted the following: “The bulk of the TV audience doesn’t care if the event is live or a year old.”
According to Alana Johnson at The Nielsen Company, the LG Action Sports: Cincinnati show which aired November 8, 2008 at 2 PM EST (and was really only one month old, mostly) averaged a .5 rating. That means it was on in 570,000 homes and was watched by 687,000 people over the age of two. For comparison recent summer X Games have been scoring in the 1.0 range (meaning about twice as many people watch them).
For action sports television a .5 is pretty solid. Not a Dancing with the Stars 12 rating solid, but not bad at all. The show’s placement couldn’t have been better for catching random jocks on the couch: it was sandwiched in between two football shows: Varsity Rivals and CBS’s College Football Today. And, if that’s who sponsors want to hit up (and we’re not saying they shouldn’t) then it looks like the LG Action Sports World Tour programming is delivering.
We got an email from Bryce Kanights the other day letting us know that the Sick Boys mini-site has launched and that we should check it out. We did, but Skate and Annoy posted it up super smooth so please go there and check out all the info on the re-release of the seminal 8mm film starring:
Tommy Guerrero, Mickey Reyes, Bryce Kanights, Mike Archimedes, Julien Stranger, Jim Thiebaud, Ron Allen, and Steve Caballero as well as shots of Christian Hosoi, Tony Magnusson, Eric Dressen, Danny Sargent, as well as other less famous names. It’s sounds like the skate video equivalent of unearthing King Tut’s tomb.
Ed Templeton has a new show opening November 15, 2008 at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, California.
For Map of the Inner War, Ed Templeton saturates the gallery with over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper. Templeton documents his life, and the lives of the people around him, in a rich stream of images – images of himself and his wife, Deanna, in their day-to-day lives, and images of others, at home in Orange County, California or during the many tours he makes as pro-skateboarder and artist.
Carleton Curtis and the crew from Transworld Skateboarding went to Rob Dyrdek’sMonster RD 1.5 shoe release party at the DC store on Melrose so we wouldn’t have to. Thanks, Carleton.