This is going to be interesting. We’re guessing California Skateparks knows what they are doing.
[Link: via @Valerotti via @espnxgames]
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One of our favorite Tweeters in the past few months has been @whoisJOB. For a while we mistakenly thought it might have been some ploy by Postsurf.com’s Lewis Samuels to keep things even more interested for him on the North Shore, but today we find out that it is acutally LikeBitchin.com’s Charlie Smith.
In a post titled “I Tweet Jamie” Smith writes:
Twitter is terribly retarded, unless you are famous. Then it is fun. Jamie O’Brien is just famous enough for fun and I have spent the last few months writing his tweets. It started slow. He was in Bali so I said things such as, “I am looking for a restaurant that serves breastmilk.” People responded less than favorably. “You are a sik fuk!” It built throughout my tenure. A month ago I wrote, “Bagels are donuts for fags” and felt very pleased with myself. People responded less than favorably. “Stop hatin!”
We kind of hope he keeps going. Don’t know what they will mean for Jamie O’Brien, but we’re guessing he can probably take care of himself.
[Link: Likebitchin.com]
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[Link: Thrasher]
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Nothing clears the line faster than a shredded wetsuit and blood, and maybe that’s one of the benefits designer/artist diddo is going for with at least one of these new wetsuit designs.
The first edition contains four original designs: a rusted iron diving suit evoking the days of Jules Verne, the anatomic musculature suit as a homage to our inner strength, a wet suit which gives the illusion that the wearer has been attacked by a group of hungry sharks and finally a whale shark patterned suit that celebrates the brilliance and originality of our natural water world.
Think we’ll just stick the the rusted iron diving suit. Then the outside of the suit can reflect the insides our knees.
[Link: by diddo via NBC Los Angeles]
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It’s a good thing we never seem to tire of beating the dead pony named print, because the news from the world of magazine advertising (not surprisingly) just keeps getting worse in Q2 2009, according to a story on Media Buyer Planner.
All categories tracked by the Publishers Information Bureau were down by double digits, with automotive, financial, insurance and real estate being hit the hardest, writes Media Life. Automotive fell 47.8%, while financial was down 48.8%. Toiletries and cosmetics performed the best, down 14.1%. . . Total rate-card reported spending for the second quarter was down 22%, while total spending for the first half was down 21.1%.
But how are things going in the land of action sports magazines? Well, as we say nearly every quarter, the only mags from our world that get tracked by the Magazine Publishers of America are those produced by Bonnier Corporation’s Transworld Media. And while it could be argued that it’s not fair to only pick on them, we don’t have the time (nor the magazines) to count up the ad pages in all the action magazines. So here’s how it looked for Transworld Media vs. Q2 2008 based on total ad revenue and advertising pages.
$2009 $2008 %change Pages 09 Pages 08 %change Transworld Snowboarding 1,069,312 1,897,419 -43.6 52.84 98.33 -46.3 Transworld Skateboarding 7,358,215 9,149,705 -19.6 334.67 433.20 -22.7 Transworld Surf 2,536,506 3,710,912 -31.6 230.67 353.00 -34.7 TransWorld Motocross 3,111,709 4,004,212 -22.3 248.71 336.01 -26.0 RIDE BMX 1,256,788 1,231,590 2.0 127.33 131.02 -2.8 Quad Off Rad Mag 1,174,915 1,739,876 -32.5 123.19 189.96 -35.1
That’s a drop of 424 pages of advertising in three months and while we don’t really think the revenue amounts are accurate (they’re based on full rate card pricing), it does represent a ($5,226,269) pretty large percentage drop.
Good thing Bonnier’s foodie magazine Saveur is continuing to break records.
[Link: Magazine Publishers of America Photo via Italy from the Inside]
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You’ve seen it elsewhere, but this is the “official” release of Absinthe’s new snowboarding film teaser for Neverland. Perfect timing on the title, no?
[Link: Absinthe Films]
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The National Steinbeck Center, a sometimes functioning, strangely modern looking museum plopped right in the middle of the lettuce fields of Salinas, California celebrates the life of California writer John Steinbeck and that’s why we find it odd, that they are looking for “skateboard art” for an art show they are curating called “What the Deck.”
The National Steinbeck Center is seeking artists for an exhibition and fundraiser that will have the artists showcase their work on a skateboard deck in the “What the Deck?” art show. The works of about 50 artists will be exhibited in the center’s rotunda. Live skateboarding and exhibit sponsors are needed, with proceeds to benefit the National Steinbeck Center and Dorothy’s Place soup kitchen in Salinas.
Nothing says skateboarding like the Joad family. . .
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Seems like it’s been a while since we’ve been to a good ol’ VeeCo movie premiere in the heart of the OC. And this one is going to be good.
[Link: Volcom]
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The waves at The Billabong Pro at J-Bay were so good that for the past two nights we’ve been falling asleep with a computer on our laps and cracking it open each time we’d wake up during the night to check in on the comp. We were kind of hoping to wake up early enough this morning to see the finals (click here to watch it on video), but ended up missing them by about an hour and a half. Four AM has always been a rough hour for us, but not apparently for Joel Parkinson. He kicked the final off with a 9.47 and even though Damien Hobgood was killing it like few goofy footers have he couldn’t line up the scores.
“I knew the waves were dying down towards the end of the day and it was going to be important to get on the board early in Final,” Parkinson said. “I’ve been sitting up the point at Boneyards for most of the event and trying to find the ones that would run all the way down the point – that one was no different. As I stood up I had a really nice line on it and I tried to make the most of it. Turned out to be a crucial part of the heat.”
For all the official press release results, follow the jump, or click here to watch all the heats on video.
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Kelly Slater and an ESPN made-for-TV pro surf association? That’s the idea being discussed in a story posted on Wetsand yesterday.
You’ve probably read the details by now, about ESPN giving the whole pro surfing thing another shot, but with real money and a completely new format that will culminate in an eight-event summer tour, ESPN coverage, live webcasts and a three-year commitment. But there is a significant rub. The tour will feature only 16 surfers, and allegedly, those surfers will be comprised of the top 8 rated surfers in the world, and 8 hand-picked wild cards. . . Slater has been understandably critical of the way the sport has been governed for some time. His dissatisfaction stems from the fact that the ASP is a toothless body, which it is. It has no real assets. It acts merely a sanctioning body that’s controlled by the owners of its events: Quiksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl, Hurley, Vans and O’Neill.
For as much criticism as the “toothless” ASP gets, it’s difficult to imagine a scenario where adding ESPN to the team would make it better for surfers, surfing, or the audience.
[Link: Wetsand]
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