Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done. . . According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS.1 Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.2.
Open Space: The Untold Stories of Mike Basich is up and on the 241-usa.com site in its entirety and worth watching if you have a spare 37 minutes. Mikey B. has always followed his own path and this film puts it all in perspective.
While his contemporaries continued to channel the sport’s core sponsors into career success, White became an overnight industry, trading niche overachievement for mainstream sports superstardom, his image used to launch clothing lines for US superstore Target, his face fronting campaigns for American Express and Hewlett Packard and his signature splattered across the covers of posters, books, DVDs, video games.
When we read stories like this we think back to the time when Shaun was just a tiny kid in a helmet standing quietly by as his mother begged event organizers to let him forerun the US Open halfpipe even though he wasn’t technically old enough.
Last summer while in Portland we had the opportunity to take a tour of Nemo’s Portland, Oregon headquarters with agency founder Trevor Graves. Having known Trevor for a long, long time, mostly as a snowboard photographer, we were blown away by how smooth, professional, and polished Trevor and Nemo have become. [click to continue…]
A partnership that links Wendy’s and Ubisoft’s Shaun White snowboarding video game has helped the Winter Dew Tour sell out of its title sponsorships for the first time. The quick-service restaurant and the video game manufacturer struck a multifaceted partnership deal. . .
Those who missed the Mammoth Lakes opening, or who just love snowboarding art and the memory of Jeff Anderson have another California chance to check out the I Am Snowboarding art show this time on December 10, 2009 at Club 6ix at 60 Sixth Street (between market & Mission) in San Francisco. This stop will feature music by Stagger and Fall, Attitude Problem, Gull and DJ Baron. As always money raised goes to support the JLA Memorial Fund.
Carter Spencer, 39, the Saskatchewan man who hit and killed skateboarder Christopher Kniffen, 19, and then fled the scene has been sentenced to four years three months in prison, according to a story on CBC.ca.
Court heard that Spencer was high on drugs and drunk when the truck he was driving hit Kniffen, who was skateboarding home from work. . . In sentencing Spencer on Thursday in Regina, Judge Ted Malone admonished the man for leaving the scene of the accident.
Kniffen (pictured right) was on his way home from work when he was hit. Spencer will also be “prohibited from driving for 10 years” after he gets out of prison. Four years just doesn’t seem long enough, really.
Girl Skateboards has gone red is remembrance of World AIDS Day.
