Check out the trailer for the powerful film Alekesam that explores the life of musician Hugh Masekela and his relationship to his son, action sports announcer, Sal Masekela. As director Jason Bergh says:
It began as a simple, four minute promo for my dear friend Sal Masekela’s new album, and emerged as the greatest project of my career, and the most important story I have ever told. The world has known Sal Masekela as the face of action sports for more than fifteen years. But they have not known the man behind the name, Selema Mabena Masekela, whose last name represents not only worldwide musical success and fame, but personal and political struggle.
The students of San Clemente’s Clarence Lobo Elementary School had their handball courts turned into Volcom billboards last week as a surprise in what VeeCo calls a “community service project,” after the school’s student body president called them for help, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
“We saw that the handball courts were kind of ugly,” said Randi (above right), daughter of Chris and Stacey Jones of San Clemente. She came up with a plan and consulted with her mom about how to get it done. . . The handball walls had been “plain gray” and kind of dirty back in November, when Randi began working on the project. Now there are murals on one side and fresh blue paint on the back, sporting the school’s name.
Get ’em when they’re young and you’ll have them for life.
A large sewage spill in San Diego County reportedly flowed right down the Tijuana River and into Imperial Beach on April 4, 2012 and no on notified anyone of the spill, according to a story on NBC San Deigo.
The spill was caused by a software malfunction in the treatment plant, an engineer for International Boundary and Water Commission told NBC San Diego. . . Raw sewage and runoff water spilled in the plant for three hours before any of the workers realized, the plant’s engineer said. . . The spill flooded parts of the plant’s system, which filters about 25 million gallons of Tijuana sewage. As a result of the sewage spill, the filtration system shut down, allowing that water to flow unfiltered into the Tijuana River.
Officials said they didn’t report the spill because the water that got out was “actually cleaner than the water that’s in the river,” county spokesman Gig Conaughton. No so said surfer and sewage taste tester Anthony Marsh. “It’s like a really raspy taste, and you could see the foam and the brown in the water.”
ActionWatch, the “action sports industry’s premier source for market intelligence,” has formed a joint venture with Australasian Surf Business Magazine to provide market intelligence from the independent surf retail channel to the Australian surf market.
“The experience we have gained developing the ActionWatch program in the U.S. makes us much more efficient with launches in other countries,” said ActionWatch co-founder Cary Allington. “We’ve wanted to better utilize the infrastructure we have developed by expanding into other countries for a long time, but we needed a perfect partner. It is clear to us that ASB is the perfect partner for us in Australia.”
When we heard that Burton Snowboards was hosting a party at the Palm Springs Ace Hotel during Coachella we were kind of bummed that we learned about it on a Hollywood gossip site. Then we saw who showed up and it all made sense.
Vampire Diaries couple Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev posed with fans at the Coachella Burton Snowboards party in Palm Springs. . . Ian was so enamored with the free Burton sweatshirt he received at the party that he posted a picture of himself wearing the sweatshirt’s logo over his posterior.
Apparently, Somerhaider and Dobrev are celebrities of some sort and celebrities reportedly help sell clothing especially when they put your logo on their ass. See how that works?
Supra’s light, sleek, smooth runners the Owen got a new dual color way upgrade. Royal blue mesh, royal blue microfiber, and neon accents sit atop a neon EVA sole with royal blue traction pods (above) and a Grey mesh, black microfiber, red accents on a white EVA sole with black traction pods. This brings the Owen to a total of 9 styles. Not bad for a sneak around shoe.
What does every backwoods, self-sustaining snowboard hideout need? An iPhone app, obviously. And that’s exactly what snowboarder Mikey Basich just launched with his Area-241 app. The app gives daily glimpse into world of legendary big mountain snowboarder and Do-It-Yourself master Mike Basich at his Area-241 and while on the road.”
“I am super stoked to see Area-241 come to life in a Mobile app” said Mike Basich, “I spend the majority of my screen time on my iPhone now-a-days and I am stoked to be able to showcase my latest projects and adventures as well as share my snowboard history and personal archives in this cool app.”
James Robert Eising, 18, of Mt. Eden, New Zealand died after falling in on organized downhill skateboarding race in Birkenhead, New Zealand.
James was one of about 200 people who were scheduled to skate-board down Colonial Rd – a windy and steep road that leads to the Chelsea sugar refinery. . . [Eiseing] was the last in his group and was going about 40km/h. There is a sharp right-hand corner and the first three skidded around but managed to negotiate the corner. The deceased then lost control of his board, skidded, spun in the air and cartwheeled and then crashed on to his head.”
Eising was wearing a helmet and full pads. Our thoughts are with Eising’s friends and especially with his parents and two sisters.
Blake Harris won the Billabong’s City Squared street skateboarding event at Queensbridge Square on Melbourne’s Southbank on Sunday April 15, 2012.
“It was good, I’m pretty happy, it’s been a good day. This thing (the obstacle) is deadly, the hub bas were pretty nice, but the box was pretty dangerous, I’m glad to be walking away. I got smashed earlier on a normal nose blunt, but apart from that I’m okay, everyone was shredding… good times. I’m definitely happy, this was definitely one of the top competition wins I’ve had,” Harris said after his win.
Four-time ASP World Champ Stephanie Gilmore downed current ASP World Champion Carissa Moore 15.76 to 15.06 to win stop three on the ASP Women’s World Tour, the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival on Saturday, April 14, 2012.
“This is by far the best start to a season I’ve had in my career,” Gilmore said. “To have three Finals straight off the bat, I’m kind of tripping out. It’s really cool. That was a really close final, I’m sure it could have gone either way. I watched Carissa’s (Moore) wave from behind and she did that huge first turn and then raced to the next section, but if she did another turn straight away, I’m sure she would have gotten the score. I’m glad it went my way though.”
