The Skeleton Crew is riding in to Portland with “more riders than any other video ever” for the premiere of Group Effect at the Hollywood Theater on October 16, 2009 at 8 PM. The new film includes (but not limited to) the following:
jarad hadi, tyler verigin, nick dirks, chris grenier, jed anderson, cody rosenthal, ricky tucker, knut eliassen, harrison gordon, jared johnson, bryan fox, austin smith … nick russell, eero ettala, bode merrill, laurent nicolas paquin, louif paradis, max baillargeon, will lavigne, jonas michelot and joe carlino plus probably 100 more.
All homeys, no nerds. Follow the jump for the teaser.
A 64-year-old man working on the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic snowboard venue at Cypress Mountain reportedly fell from a 50-foot-high scaffolding on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, according to a story in the BClocalnews.
On Tuesday the 64-year-old, who came to work on venue the from overseas, fell off scaffolding approximately 50 feet high, said fire chief Martin Ernst. . . Ernst believes the individual is still in serious condition.
Ouch. Please remind us not to be running around at work on scaffolding when we’re 64.
With a trace of natural snow in the higher elevations of California’s Donner Summit, Boreal Mountain Resort fired their lifts up today (Friday October 9, 2009) to be the first resort in California to open according to the LA Times. Just in time for this weekend’s Jibassic Public Invitational.
[Editors’ Correction: Thanks to a Boardistan commenter we have updated this post. Loveland Ski Area on Colorado’s Loveland Pass was the first North American resort to open on Wednesday October 6, 2009. See what happens when we lose wireless for a day. . .
Olympic gold medalist Seth Wescott lost a bunch of videos when his house was broken into sometime in September 2009, according to a story on WBZtv.com.
Chief Scott Nichols of the Carrabassett Valley police tells the Portland Press Herald it’s believed the burglary occurred sometime in September while Wescott was out of the country.
According to police, the videos have no monetary value, but “are of “extreme importance to Mr. Wescott.” Wonder what else was on those videos?
Intrawest, the company that operates nine resorts in North America, wants everyone to protect themselves by wearing helmets when they ride on their mountains, according to a press release sent out today.
Intrawest will recommend that all skiers and snowboarders visiting its resorts wear helmets and there will be mandatory helmet requirements for all children and youth(1) participants in Ski and Snowboard School Programs as well as all students participating in freestyle terrain park programs, regardless of their age.
Last night while we were hunkered down waiting for the Samoa tsunami to hit all the other glamour stars were at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for the premiere of Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page’s new roller derby film Whip It. Even Covergirl Gretchen Bleiler. One question: where’s Hotel? He looks good on black carpet, too?
We never like to laugh at people who are ignoring the crowd and trying something new, but occasionally we can’t help ourselves. Storm Snowboards marketing video, just might be one of those times.
On the first night of Louie Vito’s collapse into the pop cultural cesspool that is reality television Todd Richards was there to document it all. This is that Todcast.
Hey, computer nerds. Check out this big news from Burton. The company has reduced server costs by over 80 percent according to Novell.
Burton migrated all of its mission-critical systems to Dell* servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, including SAP* ERP, Business Intelligence, CRM, Enterprise Portal, as well as its Oracle* applications. The company plans to use the built-in Xen* virtualization to reduce its number of physical servers and adapt quickly to changing workloads. The ability to quickly deploy virtual servers will greatly improve the IT staff’s ability to add new applications as needed. Virtual servers will also help the team create better development and testing environments on existing hardware.
Take that AT&T. For more of this scintillating info, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
The World Freerunning & Parkour Federation website reports that TR will be hosting a special MTV show on October 22, 2009 titled Ultimate Parkour Challenge.
If you loved the opening chase in CASINO ROYALE, then this show, hosted by Todd Richards, will blow your mind. . . Born in the suburbs of Paris, Parkour/Freerunning turns an urban jungle into an action-packed playground. Moving quickly, efficiently or just plain creatively, Freerunners re-imagine the world as they cruise over, under, around and through whatever is in their way. . . Join 8 of the WFPF Founding Athletes as they live up to their motto, “Know Obstacles. Know Freedom”!
Apparently, the show was originally scheduled to air in April, but got pushed off until October. Oddly, members of the hardcore Parkour community are not happy about the show nor the organization promoting it. Which is kind of funny in itself.
For his part Todd says the show is basically, “Me talking about ninjas getting paid.” And as we all know, Todd has been a ninja supporter since way back in the day.
