The story of how Spike Jonze brought Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are to the silver screen will probably fill a couple books someday, but for now there is the We Love You So blog that was launched last night. Here’s how the site is explained:
In October 2009 Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are will hit movie theaters worldwide. . . The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees. . . This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality. . . Keep reading…
The Hawk Family spent a romantic Mother’s Day in the ER room of a local hospital after Tony’s wife Lhotse “crushed her hand in our automatic gate” according to messages on Tony Hawk’s twitter account. And if that wasn’t enough, while they were waiting to have Lhotse’s hand examined two hospital employees came by for autographs. Here’s how Tony put it:
ER: L sitting on bed in pain, me changing K’s diaper behind her. 2 hosp employees come in to ask for autographs and stand waiting. REALLY???
Lhotse’s escaped with “multiple fractures to ring finger,” but her rings wedging in the gate apparently saved the rest of her hand from even more damage. Get well, soon.
Timebomb Trading, Canada’s action distributor of Etnies, Emerica, és, thirty-two, Dragon, LRG and RVCA, has a brand new original art piece in their HQ thanks to Randy Layborne. And it looks pretty nice.
Check out all the details on Randy’s flicker account.
From our “there will never be a worse time to launch” files comes news that long-time surf industry soldier (and former Longboard Magazine sales lead) Mike Aguirre has launched a “new, fresh, now” surf magazine called morSURF.
“There are still lots of people who like to read stories and in-depth articles and who enjoy the quality of photography in print,” said Aguirre. “But for those surfers who want their information digitally, keeping the magazine viewable online is good PR and is also great for our advertisers because their links are active. We believe morSURF’s online presence will ultimately lead to increased sales and subscriptions of the printed publication.”
Spoken like a true print salesman. For those who love longboards, fish, hybrids, standup paddling and still read print magazines, morSURF could be the perfect media fix.
The City of Encinitas California has been hard on Bucky Lasek. They made him go through months of planning and inspections, but it looks like his big ol’ 13.5 foot deep bowl is finally becoming a reality. And it only took one access road and 20 truck loads of cement.
Transworld Business put up some photos of the recently finished skatepark in Windell’s Camp Building Out Back. From the looks of it we’d pay for a week at Windell’s without even getting on snow. [Link: TransWorld Business]
Snowboard instructor Keith McIntosh, 36, was testing new snowboard gear on Austria’s Kaunertaler Glacier on Tuesday April 5, 2009 “when he triggered a massive snowfall,” according to a story on the Daily Record.
His three British friends – who had been waiting on the peak for their turn – said Keith had barely gone 200ft when the snow-face fell away and engulfed him. . . Keith, of Clydebank, near Glasgow, was among Britain’s top snowboarding instructors and he moved to the French resort of Chamonix in 2002. . . He lived with his wife of seven years, Melanie, 37, and two-year-old son Arren.
When you’re $1 billion dollars in debt and you have a huge payment to European lenders coming due on June 30, 2009 you have to cut back: even on the annual report, according to a story in USA Today.
Every spring, Quiksilver’s (ZQK) investors could look forward to having a thick annual report land in their mailboxes, filled with colorful photos of tanned bodies and monster waves. Not this year. . . As part of cost cutting not only at the Southern California surf wear company but at many companies, the traditional printed annual report to shareholders is slimming down if not disappearing completely.
Every little bit counts. Wonder if they’ve ratcheted back on Fed Ex, too?
