Former Snowboarder Magazine online editor (and award winning photographer) Laura Austin is curating a photographer show at the Lomography Gallery Store LA during the month of November 2012. The show is titled Everyone’s A Photographer. The show features images from Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin herself.
The opening party for the show kicks off Friday night, November 2, 2012 at 7 PM and features free drinks from Pabst, Peligroso Tequila, and O.N.E. Coconut Water with DJ Aaron Castle and others spinning through out the night. The event is free but they’d like you to RSVP to store.losangeles@lomography.com.
On Saturday while we were rolling a quiet bowl and casually carving pumpkins the rest of the Southern California skate world was at Bucky Lasek’s house for the annual Bucky’s Bowl-B-Q. Here’s a little of what you missed.
In short, The Mad Ones is a snowboard video features the antics of Forest Bailey, Forrest Burki, Patrick McCarthy, Shaun McKay, Wyatt Stasinos, Nick Russell, Kael Martin, Bryan Fox, Mark Landvik, Lucas Debari, Nick Ennen, Scott Blum, Dan Liedahl, Alex Beebe, Will Lavigne, Jamie Lynn, Sebi Geiger, Marco Feichtner, Atsushi Hasegawa, Kohei Kudo, and Austin Hironaka. A project by Liam GallagherThe Mad Ones was apparently “inspired by the Beat Generation and specifically the writings of Jack Kerouac.”
Better get a cup of coffee ’cause this one’s 53 minutes long. If you prefer old media a limited run of DVD’s will reportedly be available soon for $15 each.
The next time we’re asked “what’s wrong with today’s college students” we’ll point to this video of an entitled, bratty, obnoxious, rude, cargo-short wearing, flipflop sporting longboarder on his way to class. It is obvious that this kid should have been spanked as a toddler. Sadly, he’ll likely end up the CEO of a major corporation, because these are the skills American business seems to appreciate.
The Danny Way Waiting For Lightning bio-pic officially hits theaters (and digital downloads) on December 7, 2012.
Waiting For Lightning is the inspirational story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way. The film follows the journey of a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him fame and a lifetime of accomplishments. Way’s drive has no limits as exemplified by his creation captured on screen, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China’s Great Wall on a skateboard. It’s a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the challenges life presents, and how high and far dreams can fly.
Here’s a little taste for everyone who missed the premiere.
Chicago skateboarding leader, mentor, and legend Reggie Destin died Saturday, October 29, 2012 from the injuries he suffered when he was hit and run down by a drunk driver in the early hours of October 19, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. He was 42.
On Saturday, just hours after Destin’s death, dozens of people — most of them skateboarders and many of them in tears — gathered at Uprise, a skateboard shop near the scene of the accident. The group of about 50 walked somberly to the 1700 block of North Milwaukee Avenue and placed a white skateboard — similar to a “ghost bike” left as a memorial to a slain bicyclist — at the site where Destin was hit. Flowers, pictures and other mementos were left at the memorial.
As might be imagined Hurricane Sandy is brining it to Long Beach, New York. A crew is out right now (October 29, 2012 11 AM EDT) doing step offs into bombs like this. Storm riders for sure. [click to continue…]
There’s really not much more to say about the first episode of Alana Blanchard’s new video show, other than Kauai is beautiful and Alana and her friends spend a lot of time in bikinis while cameras pan their tans.
Sure, the San Francisco Giants may have won the 2012 World Series last night, but the really big news in NorCal was the Downtown Throwdown. Okay. Just kidding. It looks like a few people showed up to see snowboarding on the streets of San Francisco. Yobeat was there. Here’s what they saw.
Former Snowboarder Magazine online editor (and award winning photographer) Laura Austin is curating a photographer show at the Lomography Gallery Store LA during the month of November 2012. The show is titled Everyone’s A Photographer. The show features images from Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin herself.
