Siamak Michael Rahimi, 56, of Santa Monica, California owns a big building in Los Angeles that he likes to use to hang tremendously huge advertising banners from. The most recent banner was for Vans Shoes. Problem is the banners are illegal in Los Angeles, according to a story in the Daily Breeze.
Rahimi. . . was arrested for installing and maintaining the jumbo-sized exterior advertisements on a vacant building and adjacent parking garage he owns at 9800 South Sepulveda Boulevard, across the street from LAX, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. . . Rahimi, LAX Enterprises and Westside Investment Group were each charged with 12 counts of illegally erecting a supergraphic sign, 12 counts of illegally maintaining an off-site sign, 12 counts of obstructing Fire Department emergency entrances and exits from the building and 12 counts for failing to identify the person or entity responsible for installing and maintaining the signs.
Wonder if the VF Corp is going to cover Mr. Rahimi’s legal costs?
It’s good to know that even we could give Tony Hawk a run in a game of Skate Nerd. Lance Mountain, on the other hand, is on a whole different level. The guy could be world champion.
Who better to guide a Wall Street Journal tour of the NYC Burton Store than long-time snowboard entrepreneur Rohan Marley. You can probably guess the rest.
Last summer Stoked Mentoring got some funding from Nike 6.0 and brought 12 students from inner-city Los Angeles to Huntington Beach each week of the summer. While there they learned to surf and collaborated on a magazine called STOKED.
The 16 page mag reflects their personal stories and how Stoked has helped transform their lives. Besides an introduction to journalism and photography, the students surfed with Nike 6.0 athletes, scored VIP treatment at the US Open and broadcasted the story of Stoked to the world via the event webcast.
Isn’t it nice how Nike 6.0 gets us to post their stuff by doing something cool for Stoked Mentoring? We fall for it every time. Then again, if they were really preparing the kids for the future wouldn’t they have worked together to build a website rather than a magazine?
Follow the jump for the rest of the story and photos from the summer. [click to continue…]
The Annual Bear MountainHot Dawgs & Hand Rails event on Saturday September 18, 2010 was a reminder that Tahoe Dangerzone star Nick Visconti isn’t just another sports model with a pretty face, pleasing physique, and melodious singing voice. No, he’s a real-deal rail slayer.
“I felt like I rode hard and landed progressive and creative tricks on each feature,” says Nick Visconti. “The level of riding was amazing. Literally on another level. Any one of the competitors could have taken first because everyone was destroying it.”
Burton’s hardcore unitSpecial Blend/Foursquare‘s joint seasonal advertising/promotional video Fuck It is now available in the iTunes store for $8.99 (and on DVD for those stuck in the 2000s), though we have to say, this long teaser was quite enough for us.
We don’t follow and/or watch NBC/MTV’s Dew Tour, but like most of America we follow Shaun White. In Salt Lake City last weekend he whooped all the other vert dogs to win one on the Dew Tour and even landed the armadillo on his last air. The results looked like this:
1. Shaun White 94.75
2. Pierre-Luc Gagnon 90.50
3. Bucky Lasek 88.25
4 . Andy Macdonald 83.50
5 . Bob Burnquist 63.00
Jeff Harbaugh checks in on the progress Quiksilver has made lately. He says things at the action fashion giant are looking up.
Quik is the poster child of a company that’s done what it needed to do following the twin blows of the Rossignol acquisition and the recession. As somebody who’s done a bit of turnaround work, I can tell you it’s no fun, for either management or employees, to be dealing with negative stuff month after month. Quik maybe has a little more work it wants to do on its balance sheet, but it’s largely out from under the reverberations of that deal though, like all of us, not of the recession.
And all they had to do was trade off a chunk of the company. Click the link for the rest of the analysis.
