And another from the “We’re way behind” files comes this addition to the shit people say collection, Shit Photographers Say. Yes, Crailtap put it six days ago, but we still like this one because it features Thrasher Magazine’s likable workhorse editor/photographer Michael Burnett.
[Link via Skunk Magazine]
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We’re kind of bummed that it took us this long to notice, but on March 6, 2012 Bob Kronbauer (the creator of Pacific Skateboarding, Clubmumble.com, VancouverIsAwesome.com et al) decided to “lay the Club Mumble website to rest.” Here’s what he said:
Like any project, if you let something sit for long enough without stoking the fire and tending to it and shaping it (or launching new Honoris Professio projects, etc), it gets old. And it gets obsolete as new technologies come in and make it easier and easier to publish. I’ve been publishing online since 1997 when I started the first online skateboarding magazine (Pacific Skateboarding, remember that?) and if I know one thing for certain about myself it is that I have to dedicate myself completely to something or else I simply can’t be involved in it; I have an all or nothing kind of personality.
Kronbauer tried to get some of the many notable contributors to take of the site and maybe share a slice of the advertising with him, but no one wanted to do it so as he says he’s “closing the book on this chapter of Club Mumble. No longer an active blog, this site will now act as a time capsule for all of the super interesting projects that the members of our Club have shared here over the past few years.”
We’ll miss the site and most of all we’ll missing linking to the always engaging content.
[Link: Club Mumble]
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BuoLoco tracked down Scotty Wittlake to get his view on energy drinks in the action sports space. Wittlake, while worried about upsetting people with his views, put down his straight truth:
“I don’t mean anything negative toward people who ride or work for energy drinks,” Wittlake said. “But for me personally it’s almost a metaphor for everything that I disagree with in the world. The environmental impact, the mass marketing to kids to consume things they don’t need and they are mass marketing something that is nutritionally detrimental to kids health and everyone health. . . It’s every thing that I hate. And these days they completely co-oped boardsports in general. You can’t watch a snowboard video online that doesn’t start with a big monster logo. They’ve just worked their way into board sports and now there is so much money that they own snowboarding. “
Can’t say we heard anything from Mr. Wittlake that we didn’t agree with. Watch the video. You’ll like Scotty more and energy drinks less. And that’s great.
[Link: Buoloco]
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The snowboarder bandit, who in the past has preferred Volcom beanies, nailed his perfect 10 when he robbed a U.S. Bank inside an Irvine, California grocery store located in the 3900 block of Portola Parkway on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, according to a story on 4NBC. It was his 10th bank robbery since December 2011.
The suspect fled from the scene and appeared to divert from his usual headwear – a beanie cap – in favor of a motorcycle helmet during his latest robbery, police said. . . .FBI and Irvine police are investigating the incident, and said they had not determined what or how much the suspect stole. . . He is described as white man in his mid-to-late 20s, between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall, weighing between 120 to 180 pounds with blond hair and blue eyes.
Maybe now that he’s switched to helmets police can begin calling him the crotch rocket bandit and leaving snowboarding out it.
[Link: 4NBC.com]
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Over the past five years 500 workers have been killed in fires at garment factories in Bangladesh. Last year a fire reportedly swept through a factory that made Hawk Clothing for Kohl’s killing 29 people. ABC News used this as an opportunity to ambush Tony Hawk at a skatepark opening to see if he thought celebrity clothing endorsers should keep closers tabs on the safety of workers in the factories that make the clothes that carry their names.
“It’s tragic,” Hawk told ABC News. “I think that the safety standards need to change and I support whatever change that they can make there. . . I definitely want to follow up and make sure that it’s safe. I mean that’s the bottom line, it has to be safe.”
Nice work, Tony. Kind of a cheap shot from ABC News who obviously knows that every single thing American’s consume in mass quantities is made offshore in factories where people are paid next to nothing. But hey, celebrities sell news, right?
[Link: ABC News]
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Penny Skateboards is stoked to announce that free surfer Nick Rozsa is the company’s first signed athlete. For more about who Rozsa is, where he came from, and where he’s headed check the video.
[Link: Penny Skateboards]
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2012 Vans Wängl Tängl Art Exhibition – hosted by Looking Sideways. The show features work by Blaise Rosenthal, Ed Templeton, Corey Smith, Danny Wainwright, Tim Karpinski and many more. Follow the jump for all the official details. [click to continue…]
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This is just another post to make you feel old. NHS CEO/President Bob Denike has now been with the company for 25 years, according to a post on Strange Notes. During a celebration last week Denike shared the story of how he ended up with the company.
“I first met NHS founder Richard Novak at Winchester Skatepark in 1977, he was with the “S” that day, Jay Shuirman. I was 15 years old. They gave me a set of wheels to test ride and when my Mom saw us talking, she pulled me away and told me to never talk to those guys again. They looked pretty wild back then; long hair, dark glasses, beards, smoking, and she was just being a Mom. Well, I did not listen to her. (Good decision number one for me.) I remained in contact with Richard and NHS off and on all the way through college. After graduation, I had a “real job”, working at Frito Lay in L.A. and I absolutely hated it. One weekend in 1986, I decided to go to an ASR tradeshow and I ran into Rich at what was the craziest tradeshow booth at the show. It struck me that a few people working at the NHS booth were either severely hung over and/or drinking beer in the middle of the day. Getting a taste of what I had been missing, a couple weeks later I resigned from Frito Lay (good decision number two), telling them “I need to pursue my dreams”, which at the time consisted of skateboarding, playing music, drinking beer and hanging out with my future wife Kay.
Follow your bliss, kids. For the rest of the Denike story, follow the jump.
[Link: Strange Notes via Thrasher]
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Victor Perez has been skateboarding since 1977. He was sponsored by Kryptonics and Santa Cruz in the 198o’s but as with many skaters his interests turned to art. His latest work is the Sk8Lamp, a series of high-end lighting centered around skateboard inspired shapes and reclaimed lighting fixtures.
Sk8lamps is different. It’s about the repurposing of otherwise discarded materials to a new, improved state. The lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical pieces are removed from devices no longer deemed aesthetically pleasing and given extended life. It’s more than a recycled skateboard, a recycled lamp, or a recycled idea. It is Upcycling. The Upcycling is art. The Art is unique.
The work pictured at right is titled the Rolling Verical Cheese and it’s for sells for $315. To check out more click the link.
[Link: Sk8Lamps]
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Jack McCoy’s latest film A Deeper Shade of Blue has been making the rounds at film festivals, and here is little clip of it just so we can see what everyone is talking about.
This is not a surf movie, it is a film about surfing’s deepest roots: in the subconscious; in ancient lore; in the craft of surfboard building; in man’s perpetual quest for a joyful relationship with the natural world. . . . In eleven interwoven chapters, today’s leading surfers are linked to those who came before, for a deeper appreciation of what it means to be a surfer and the soulful underlying power of modern surf culture.
The film opens in Australian theaters today (March 22, 2012). Click here for a profile on McCoy from the Sydney Morning Herald
[Link: A Deeper Shade of Blue]
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