Alli Sports, the NBC/MTV owned parent company of the Dew Tour announced today that they have purchased the Carlsbad, California based online retailer Standard Boardshop. Founder Pete McAfee appears to be very happy to have someone else paying the bills.
“Myself and the rest of the Standard Boardshop team couldn’t be more excited to join the Alli family,” said McAfee, General Manager of Consumer Products for Alli. “Alli Shop will allow consumers the opportunity to shop online for the latest in apparel and products from many of the top brands while at the same time consuming in-depth editorial content.”
With media dollars drifting away it’s probably not a bad idea for Alli to get into the business of selling physical products that kids will actually buy. Although the idea of content and shopping reminds us a little of the old Swell.com model that never really worked out all that well. Then again, it’s nice of Chris Miller to look after his people so well.
Photographer Grant Brittain (who’s been on an art show terror lately) will be showing some of his portraits and other works in a show with Josh Higgins at San Diego’s Subtext Gallery from July 30 – August 29, 2010.
Friends and fellow artists Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins will grace the walls of Subtext in a joint venture of unrelated themes. Brittain’s portraiture of some of skateboarding’s greatest names through the years features icons and underground heroes. Higgins’ poster-art focuses on his work with punkers, musical heros, and charitable causes. Together, the collective work suggests what it would be like to eavesdrop on these guys hanging out, having a beer, and comparing broken wrists and paper cuts.
It’s a long way off, but you might as well put the opening party in your calendar now: Friday, July 30th, 6-10pm
Analog (Burton Corp’s streetwear clothing company) will be hosting the opening reception for a photo gallery showing of images by some of the action sports world’s most creative camera cowboys at the Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Beach, California on June 23, 2010.
Moore’s own history is a thing of shreds and patches, casually, almost randomly, assembled. But what he has done, subtly and beguilingly, is write a book about surfing that often is not really about surfing but about simply being alive (and, in some cases, dead).
Matt Warshaw says the book is “Warm, smart, funny, and beautifully written.” West of Jesus author Steven Kotler says it is a “wonderful and engaging book . . . [that] combines folk history, pop art, and great old-fashioned travel writing.” Moore also quotes Ben “the world’s greatest surf writer” Marcus in the first few pages of the book so we might just pick it up.
[This post was updated at 4:03 PM, June 18, 2010] We got an email on June 17, 2010 announcing that “due to some unforeseen circumstances” Joey Coleman, Joe Quattrocchi, Jamie Gonzalez, Nick Wisda, and Shane Wallace are “no longer with OK Skate.” All we can say is “Damn, that was fast.”
Shane Wallace has now confirmed that OK Skate is open for business, that he is no longer involved, and that he has “been advised to only release very limited information.”
Other sources report that part of the management team wanted to “do things right this time” and apparently their idea of “the right thing” differed from that of the people who control the OK Skate brand.
OK Skate’s new CEO Rick Schwartz says that some changes have been made:.
“We have made some changes and unfortunately some members of our team are no longer with OK Skate,” he said in an email. “Also, we have closed our retail store. However, the OK Skate web site www.okskate.com is operational and we intend to make it bigger and better than before. The company will be focused on being a web only business. . . . Like any new company that is still in “start up mode” we are still working on refining our business. We intend to keep serving our customers so we can provide them with a great selection of products.”
Method Mag nailed down a twofer interview with Shawn Farmer and Terry Kidwell when the guys were in Stuben, Austria for the Longboard Classic. Watch and learn.
When you have your own snowboard factory you can do silly things like lay up boards with vinyl record and/or album cover top sheets. . . that’s what Dave Lee and the crew at Signal Snowboards did for their monthly “Every Third Thursday.”
It just goes to show, good snowboarders can ride anything.
Alli Sports, the NBC/MTV owned parent company of the Dew Tour announced today that they have purchased the Carlsbad, California based online retailer Standard Boardshop. Founder Pete McAfee appears to be very happy to have someone else paying the bills.
