Ghetto Juice’sJoe McElroy (former creative director of Nike’s surf brand Hurley) is now creative director at New Jersey based ERGO clothing, according to a retardedly silly press release sent out last night including this quote reportedly from Condalisa Rice.
“Joe Mac has a lush background in the industry, and a creative eye like that bastard who invented sliced bread.”
Oh, you wacky press release writers. This is good news for Joe and great news for ERGO.
Ben Marcus, the author previously known to Boardistan.com readers as “The World’s Best Surf Writer,” has written a 256-page book on skateboarding titled: The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and The Gnarly. The Skateboard includes a complete history of skateboarding from crate scooter to the present time.
In writing the book (which features photography by Lucia Griggi) Marcus interviewed nearly everyone who had anything to do with skateboarding over the past 70 years, and while print space is limited, the stories that made it to print is impressive. With the exception of a flopped and spun photo of Tony Hawk on the third page we’ve enjoyed every page we’ve looked at. The Skateboard: The Good, The Rad, and the Gnarly would be a welcome addition to anyone’s skateboarding book library.
Skaters scheduled to attend the opening on Saturday include: the Logan brothers, Steve Cathey, Denis Shufeldt, Frank Nasworthy, Gregg Weaver, Chris Yandall, Dale Smith, Jim Goodrich, Eddie Katz, Buddy Carr, Doug “Pineapple” Saladino, and more.
Confession: we’ve skipped out on every single opportunity we’ve had to attend the Vans Warped Tour. Apparently, in contrast to Blink-182, we actually could “wait for the summer and the warped tour.” Seventeen years, as it turns out (sorry Steve Van Doren).
Yesterday, however, thanks to the All Girl Skate Jam (pictured above), we found ourselves in Carson, California for the fifth to last stop of the 2011 Vans Warped Tour. And, we’re happy to report, the kids are alright.
Someone, please hook Jack Mitrani up with a full-time acting gig so he can move on from snowboarding. This Burton “Winter Storm Warning” news segment is the best thing he’s ever done. It’s like he was built for this. From here on out Jack should do the acting, and Danny Davis, well, he has a nice mustache, but he should probably just keep riding that logo stick.
The first season of Street League was, at times, painful to watch. I wasn’t the only person to liken it to watching golf. Nieratko thought it looked like kids playing on a slide. “They slide down, then they run back to the top, and slide down it again, then run back to the top…” I sometimes see a combination of freestyle and jump ramps when I watch it. Rob himself even admitted that the first season was “slow as fucking shit.” Is this how skateboarding is going to be perceived?
Click the link to read the rest because, as usual with Carnie stories, it is real and insightful. And those are two words we rarely use in connection with skateboard media.
Tony Hawk has a new line of 2 and 4 GB Birdhouse flash drive decks available at Staples, according to his twitter feed. They cost $10.99 for 2 GB and $12.99 for the whole 4 GB. Click here to buy some.
While the pain remains the same, these slow motion slams actually look extreme artistic. It’s a ballet of bummers. A symphony of slams. A festival of failure. A party of primos. And it’s likely that you’ve seen this all before. Time for another look.
After a week on the hot, bikini-ass strewn sands of Huntington Beach, California it’s nice to know the heads at Windells are still keeping things chill on snow at Mt. Hood. We’re taking this as a nice little snow refresher after a salty week of wading waste deep in nearly naked teens.
Now in its ninth year, the BNZO is offering a NZ$50,000 prize purse for top-placed riders in both events. MINI will also launch this season’s ramped up version of the Creative Use of Space Award (CUOS) that started for the first time at last year’s BGOS events. Worth a total of $85,000, this year’s CUOS will include three key elements: most creatively built slopestyle feature, most creative trick utilizing the CUOS slopestyle feature and most creative halfpipe trick.
Live online coverage of the event begins August 12, 2011 (August 11, 2011 PST) on www.opensnowboarding.com. Click here to watch it or follow the jump for all the official details including a complete schedule. [click to continue…]
Get-N Classic, Volume 1, the Vans surf film that premiered last week at Newport Beach, California’s Lido Theatre is now available for free download at Vans.com. The film features Joel Tudor, Nathan Fletcher, Pat, Tanner and Dane Gudauskas, John, Ivan and Nathan Florence, Dylan Graves, Alex Knost, Andrew Doheny, Kalani Chapman and Jason “Ratboy” Collins.
Filmed and edited by Graham Nash and Reagan Ritchie, Get-N Classic, Volume 1 captures this unique juncture in surf history and chronicles the travels of the Vans Surf Team as they have crossed the globe in search of surf and adventure.
Any film that kicks off with a Surf Punks song is fine by us. Download a copy of Get-N Classic for smartphone, iPad, iPod, or in full high-res by clicking here.
Ghetto Juice’s Joe McElroy (former creative director of Nike’s surf brand Hurley) is now creative director at New Jersey based ERGO clothing, according to a retardedly silly press release sent out last night including this quote reportedly from Condalisa Rice. 
