Looks like Santa Cruz and Huntingting Beach will be getting a little “surf city” competition this weekend as Sheboygan, Wisconsin hosts the world’s top freshwater surfing festival, according to the Sheboygan Press.
Hundreds of surfers will be hanging out on the North Beach at Deland Park in Sheboygan this weekend for the 21st annual Corona Dairyland Surf Classic, showing off their skills and surfboards at one of the world’s top freshwater surfing destinations.
Organizers claim they’re not going to let a lack of waves get in the way.
The New York Times Magazine tells the story of Spike Jonze and his latest film Where The Wild Things Are. Writer Saki Knafo has written the best story we’ve ever read about Spike, and we’ve read them all. It’s long, but well worth it.
Trevor Andrew makes a great rock star. Then again he always did. But now, he’s doing it for real with his music. With a new album coming out some time in the next four to six months, he sad down with JamBase.com to talk about the band, the music and how Santigold got him going on the right track:
She’s a great supporter and a great business woman. She just schooled me to the game and once I had all these songs written – it was really a private thing; I did it by myself – she was the one who took it to the next level and was like, “I’m getting these to producers.” She did that and really motivated that and just encouraged me. [She said], “Just because you’ve lived your dream with snowboarding doesn’t mean you can’t have a new dream.”
Backcountry.com’sPresident John Bresee discusses user generated content and how his company has been able to leverage all those free worker bees into increased sales, in an interview with BusinessWeek.
Our belief is that user content should exist to directly support the products we sell. So we don’t have a video area where people can upload videos of people snowboarding. We don’t have any authority in the world of snowboard videos, but we do have some authority in that we’re good at selecting products for snowboarding. So that’s where the content goes—right on the product description pages.
Not exactly a new idea, but it appears to be working for them.
Sean Cliver had us with the “free vodka,” but here is the rest of the book signing info via Mr. Cliver:
So I finally got around to setting up a book release party for my latest effort, The Disposable Skateboard Bible. Please check out the attached flier for details, but the shorthand gist of it is that the party/signing will take place on the night of Thurs., Sept. 10th, from 7-10pm at the HUF LA store (410 N. Fairfax, LA, CA 90036). Free vodka!
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon has had a series of skateable scenery over the years. In 2003 the set for Lorca In A Green Dress featured a perfect miniramp with one side that went up to 14 feet of vert. That thing kept us distracted for most of the play.
Backstage spy shot of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of All’s Well That Ends Well, as shot by Abraham Hyatt, shortly before he got the boot.
Anyone into Shakespeare and skateboarding will find much to keep them busy in Ashland, Oregon pretty much any time of the year.
Two surfers at San Deigo, California’s Black’s Beach discovered the body of a man in the surf at about 7:45 AM yesterday (August 31, 2009) , according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune
The body of a man was pulled out of the surf at Black’s Beach yesterday morning.. . . The man appeared to have been in his 30s and was wearing board shorts and a white T-shirt, Buchanan said. No further details have been released.
Not exactly the best way to kick off a Monday morning surf session.
Looks like Santa Cruz and Huntingting Beach will be getting a little “surf city” competition this weekend as Sheboygan, Wisconsin hosts the world’s top freshwater surfing festival, according to the Sheboygan Press.
