NorCal skaters can get a pair of Omar Salazar’s newly updated Nike SB pro shoe (as well as his new signature Spitfire Wheels) at an early release show on Friday, October 28, 2011 at PLA Skate in Folsom, California.
The function which begins at 8 PM, also features the photography of Jeff Landi, Joe Brook, and Greg Hunt.
PLA Skate is located at 330 E. Bidwell Street, Folsom, California.
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Rip Curl has announced their two wildcards for the Rip Pro Search San Francisco and they are Dillon Perillo and Dean Brady. Yeah, they look ready for Ocean Beach, right?
“I’m excited to be competing in the Search for the second year in a row,” said Perillo, “especially since this year it’s in California—my home state—which makes me even more excited to surf my hardest and try to take down a few of the world’s best surfers.”
Brady even gets to face Kelly Slater in Round 1.
The waiting period for the Rip Curl Pro Search begins Tuesday, November 1, 2011. Which reminds us, the paddle outs are going to be half the show. Follow the jump for the official word from Rip Curl. [click to continue…]
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Last night (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) skateboarding filters, editors, and stars gathered at Hollywood, California’s Music Box for the “invite only” International Skateboarding Film Festival Awards presentations. Festival founder Fabrice Le Mao, (pictured right) welcomed everyone to the awards and then they went down a little like this:
Best Commercial: Torey Pudwill’s Big Bang directed by Dario Rezik
Best Skate Shop Video: TA-HA From Furnace Skate Shop directed by Don Luong
Best Short Or Web Video: Dylan by Greg Hunt
Best Documentary: In Search of the Miraculous
Best Photography: French Fred for Javier Mendizabal Cliché Commercial
Best Editing: Phil Evans for Format Perspective
Best Original Screenplay: Mike Manzoori for Aimless
Best Independent & Emerging: Altered Focus Burma by James Holman and Alex Pasquini
Best Soundtrack: In Search of the Miraculous by Pontus Alv
Best Brand Movie: Stay Gold by Jon Minor
Best Director: Pontus Alv for In Search of the Miraculous
Congrats.
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Why just buy a DVD when you can get oh so much more. Capita has released their Defenders of Awesome Collectors Edition and it is loaded with Capita goodness including:
Full Length Defenders of Awesome CAPiTA Team Video!
DVD Menu with Special Features and Exclusive Content not Released online!
Union Custom House/CAPiTA Ultrafear Bindings!
Behind the Scenes Photo Booklet!
Metaphor Logo Keychan!
Magical Pixie dust and Awesome hidden gems!
All this for only $229.00 and available in the C3 store right now. Or you could head over to YoBeat, leave a comments and maybe win the whole setup for free. [click to continue…]
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When science fiction writer (and Boing Boing blogger) Cory Doctorow was flying through London’s Gatwick Airport yesterday, he lost his favorite 686 belt when security personal decided that the belt was technically a “restricted item.”
The guard who confiscated it had this explanation for why the belt buckle was being confiscated here when all the other UK airports I’d flown out of it with had let me keep it: “I stick to what they’ve told me” . . At that point, a supervisor, Pete Sutherland, the security leader for Gatwick North, gave me a copy of Dangerous and restricted items: what you cannot take on board a flight, which lists, under “work tools,” “screwdrivers.”
Doctorow says that in the three years he had the belt he’s used the screwdrivers dozens of times: “always in some moment of traveller’s extremes, when something really important was really broken. They’ve been figurative lifesavers, and I think if I had them long enough, they’d have been literal ones.”
Sounds like we’re going have to get him another one.
[Link: Boing Boing]
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Billabong’s plans to follow a Hollister like retail strategy is apparently paying off in the eyes of investors, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
SURFING brand Billabong International says its strategy of buying retail outlets will increase the struggling company’s margins. . . Billabong’s comments that it is on track for strong earnings growth this financial year helped its shares rise nearly 9 per cent yesterday. The stock closed 31¢ up at $3.91, partly offsetting the slump in value this year caused by a fall in profit.
Steve Jobs probably would not have disagreed.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
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On Saturday, October 29, 2011 Lib Tech and Snowboy Productions are bringing their rails to the San Francisco Civic Center as the Downtown Throwdown hits NorCal. It all starts at Noon at Fulton and Larkin Streets. Expect a bit of a crowd, for sure.
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Former Transworld Business Editor Josh Hunter is now directing Southern California’s latest action fashion trade show for GLM Shows ( Surf Expo’s parent company). It’s called Launch and it sounds a lot like a more corporate version of the Agenda Show.
This “juried show” will be held July 25-26, 2012 in Santa Monica, California’s Barker Hangar. It appears that Launch has lined up a few fashion hitters to help kick things off. For more background on Launch check out an interview with Hunter at Transworld Business or follow the jump for the official word.
[Link: Launch Show] [click to continue…]
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Kelly Slater appeared on the somnambulant CBS Sunday Morning news show on October 23, 2011. The six minute clip has all the now-cliche comparisons to Tiger Wood and Michael Jordan.
“He’s won so many times not even he can believe it,” the host says. And Slater replies: “It’s almost like it happened to someone else. I sort of hear it and it’s baffling to me.”
The interesting part is the piece is a sneak peek into the Kelly Slater Wave Company where Kelly is lending his name to another quixotic search for the perfect fake wave. Watch the clip to see.
[Link: CBS Sunday Morning via Stab Mag]
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The camera that switched up the entire perspective of action sports videography has just gotten super boost. The HD Hero2 from GoPro is now twice as powerful as the original version. Check these details:
Wearable and gear mountable, waterproof to 197′ (60m), capable of capturing professional full 170º wide angle 1080p video and 11 megapixel photos at a rate of 10 photos per second, the HD HERO2 is the world’s most versatile camera. It is simply the smallest, lightest, most powerful HD camera in the world for capturing and sharing immersive videos and photos of your favorite activities. Whether your goal is to capture a great day out with friends or you’re gunning for the cover of a magazine, the HD HERO2: Outdoor Edition can help you nail it and look like a HERO.
Yes, you heard that right: 10 still photos per second at 11 megapixels. And all this for only $299. Someday, we might even give one a test run. For all the details, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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