We’ve always known the guy’s had skills, but Steve Olson’s latest gig as Boardwalk Empire star Paz de la Huerta’s strolling companion was even hard for us to imagine. Funny thing is, the British tabloids don’t know who “the mystery man” is.
He looks old enough to be her father, is so badly turned out he could be accused of not owning a mirror, and carries a skateboard to perhaps retain a sense of his youth. . . But believe it all not this grey-haired man, who appears to be stuck in a timewarp has someone managed to tempt 26-year-old actress Paz de la Huerta. . . The Boardwalk Empire didn’t seem to care who was watching today as she shared a very public embrace with the mystery man in New York City.
Apparently, the Daily Mail gossip pages are still being written by shriveled up old ladies. To us it looks like Steve is keeping the whole “Mr. Lucky” thing rolling along quite nicely. Click the link for more photos.
On Monday, July 11, 2011 the crew from Santee, California based Wavejet was at the Oceanside harbor showing off their new water jet powered longboards. Forget paddling with your arms, or standing and paddling with a paddle. Now we can all just flip the switch to on and let the surfboard do the paddling for us.
If Wavejet really works (which is difficult to tell from the video) all those with physical limitations (and those too lazy or fat to paddle for more than a minute) will be able to catch waves no problem. We can’t wait until these things are zipping around the line-up dropping in outside the SUPers. Follow the jump for more photos. [click to continue…]
They don’t have Dane Reynolds but now DC Shoes can add Mitch Coleborn to the surf team where he will join Craig Anderson, Ry Craike, Clay Marzo, Marc Lacomare, Mark Healey, Reef McIntosh and Dillion Perillo.
The 24 year-old Australian native started surfing at the age of 10 in Maroochydore on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Coleborn burst into the international surf scene in 2007 after winning back-to-back events and taking the 2007 Australasian Junior Ratings title. You may also recognize Mitch for his notable part in the most forward thinking surf movie to date, 2009’s Modern Collective.
Put him in a house with no corners and tell him to . . . Turns out the PAS House that etnies founder Pierre-André Senizergue set up at the Public Domaine show at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris wasn’t just an architectural fantasy after all. According to a story in Curbed LA the designs are for a real house that Pierre-André is planning to build in Malibu, California (see model above). Quoting the A | N Blog Archpaper.com:
The project, located at the top of Las Flores Canyon in Malibu, will by sometime next year be the home of skateboarder Pierre Andre Senizergues (hence the name PAS), a former world champion skater, and owner of skateboard company Sole Technology. It’s being created by designer Gil Lebon Delapointe and LA architect Francois Perrin, who for the prototype of the living area bent plywood, previously soaked in water, using a traditional skateboard ramp fabrication technique.
Don’t kid yourself. There’s money in storing other people’s kids. Woodward Camps knows better than most that there is almost no end to the stacks parents will drop to put their kids somewhere else for a week or 10 each year. So, in order to get more parents to spend more money Woodward is partnering with Boreal Resort on Woodward Tahoe set to launch in the summer of 2012, according to a post on the Boreal website.
Gary Ream, President and long-time leader and creative force behind Woodward explains, “Woodward Tahoe will bring a brand new set of experiences and opportunities to everyone who visits Boreal. As Woodward continues to grow its presence in winter sports, Tahoe is the perfect next step. We have learned a great deal from our success at Copper. Bringing “The Woodward Experience” to Boreal will be a great opportunity and an exciting adventure for all of us.”
And it’s just in time for the 2014 Olympics. Follow the jump for the rest.
A doctor from Getzville, New York has been arrested for the hit-and-run death of 18-year-old skateboarder Alexandria M. Rice, according to a story on WGRZ.com. Alexandria was skateboarding home from work at 11:20 PM, according to Buffalo News, when she was hit and thrown 60 feet down the road.
Police arrested and charged Dr. James G. Corasanti, 55, Getzville, with DWI and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. . . Authorities say Rice, was riding her skateboard near 573 Heim Rd. when she was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene. . . A police investigation located Dr. Corasanti at a gas station on Millersport Highway. Police say a 2010 BMW was later located in the Dr. Corasanti’s garage.
Sure, doctors are people, too. But to think that someone who has taken the Hippocratic Oath could drive away after running down a girl on a skateboard blows our minds. If Corasanti is guilty (he is currently out of jail on a $100,000 bond) this should be a career ender for the gastroenterologist and clinical associate professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Our thoughts are with Alexandria’s family and friends.
It’s nice when sunny days come on weekends at Mt. Hood. Especially when there’s an event. Bonfire got the best of it all for their 14th Annual Pipe To Pipe event, according to this little video from Yobeat.com.
As you may have noticed we’ll watch anything having to do with OG skate photographer Grant Brittain. So, here is episode four of Brittain’s Vault in which he discusses old photos of the Dew Tour’sChris Miller.
Stuart Smith, 48, the owner of TriBeCa, NYC’s Bikini Bar Surf Shop reportedly fell nearly six floors to his death from the rooftop garden above the shop’s 148 Duane St. location just after midnight on Sunday morning (July 10, 2011), according to a story in the NY Daily News. A passerby reportedly found Smith in the street.
“We believe it was accidental,” a police source said. . . The shop specializes in custom surfboards and includes a tiki bar serving espresso and Hawaiian desserts.
Our thoughts are with Smith’s friends and family, especially his wife Aileen Oser.
Fashionistas in Lake Elsinore, California (and those who bus in on super savings shopper/casino tours) will now be able to purchase quality RVCA clothing at close-out prices thanks to Billabong’s new RVCA outlet store in the Lake Elsinore Outlets, according to a story in The Press-Enterprise.
The store, which carries merchandise for men and women, opened Saturday in a space next to Skechers. . . The brand (pronounced ‘Roo-ka’) is widely available in retail stores across the country, but this is the Costa Mesa-based company’s first outlet store.
Could there even be a better outlet mall neighbor for “Roo-ka” than Skechers.
We’ve always known the guy’s had skills, but Steve Olson’s latest gig as Boardwalk Empire star Paz de la Huerta’s strolling companion was even hard for us to imagine. Funny thing is, the British tabloids don’t know who “the mystery man” is. 
