In fact, none of their sites were up. Wonder what’s going down at Source Interlink? Aside from their ASG websites, we mean? We’d call them to see what’s up, but we’d kind of rather wait to see how long it takes them to figure it out.
[Editors’ Note: By 3:15 PM the sites were back up. Nice work]
Randy Laybourne is opening a new collection of photographs today March 28, 2009 at Concepia in Friday Harbor, Washington. The show titled Going (flickr collection here) features images from Randy’s recent relocation/honeymoon trip from California to Canada. The opening party, which is also the grand opening of the gallery is today from 2-5 PM. If you can’t make it click here to watch the live camera feed.
And we have to admit, watching Brian Conley step off a moving ski onto a board (no straps) while holding a camera in his right hand, and then get barreled on a Boco Grande monster is just plain crazy. Check it out.
The communications person at the Tigard, Oregon Police Department needs a raise. We hear a so many stories about cities and police departments having trouble with skateboarding and yet, none of them ever do anything to promote cooperation. In Tigard the police department decided to host a skateboard competition this Sunday, March 29, 2009, The Tigard Police Skateboard Challenge 2009, according to a story in the Tualatin Times.
“It’s a chance for us to reach out to them and build a better relationship — and hopefully be viewed differently by that group of kids,” said Sergeant Mike Eskew, the officer in charge of youth services. . . While he has never had a bad experience with a skateboarder himself, Eskew acknowledges the animosity traditionally built into skateboarder/police officer relationship. . . . “I think we’re even targets of scorn on video games,” he said.
How sad is it that this “no duh” action on the part of a local police department seems like genius public relations in a world otherwise filled with incompetance? Hopefully, more police departments will take note.
What would an Ipath shoe be without a little hemp? The Darius classic boat-shoe stylings features saddle stitched hemp, canvas, a shock absorbing mid sole, and not surprisingly, a secret stash pocket. This is a shoe even some of us Vans fans might wear.
The Surfing Heritage Foundation is apparently running into a little opposition in Dana Point, California as organizers push for the proposed $30 million project to be built in what the OC Register describes as a “sprawling, passive park along Pacific Coast Highway and Niguel Road.”
It is the proposed park location that has locals a little upset. At the Surfing Heritage Museum Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 many were not interested in seeing their open space replaced by a 30,000 square foot building no matter how cool its contents.
“For you surfers who didn’t want a freeway ruining your park in San Clemente, we don’t want a building ruining our park in Dana Point. We will support your surf museum, and you need to support open space,” McCabe said. . . Though the current plan met with much opposition at the meeting, some people supported the planned location. San Clemente resident Tom Morey, creator of the iconic Boogie Board, said Dana Point residents should trust their elected leaders, who should do all they can to put the museum in Dana Point.
The location had previously been approved by the City Council as the home of a new library in 2002, but plans to build it fell apart after the proposed $18 million project was denied a state grant. When the Surfing Heritage Foundation approached the city in 2007 with the idea of building a museum they inherited the conceptual plans for the formerly approved 33,300 square foot library. “Instead of books being there it’s going to be surfboards,” said foundation executive director Tom Pezman.”
We love the idea of the museum, and Dana Point is undoubtedly a perfect place for it, it’s just a tad ironic to see surfers fighting on the side of ripping out a park to put in a building.
Stephen Teran is a 6’5″ shoe salesman from Tucson, Arizona who happens to have Volcom as his Twitter username. He has 60 followers and likes to update with comments like “Taking the trash out. I want to go home already. Supposed to leave 2 hrs ago,” and “buying some sonoran hot dogs.”
Tonight Mr. Teran got the following tweet from the Volcom marketing division’s Willie Marshall: “@volcom yo hit me up, I got a proposition for you.”
Shocker: It was announced today that Andy Irons is joining Billabong’sKustom Footwear program. A “delighted” Kustom GM Harry Truscott has released this seemingly un-ironic statement:
‘Kustom and Andy Irons are a natural fit,’ says Harry Truscott, General Manager at Kustom Footwear. “Andy will be a huge addition to our team.”
Huge addition? Absolutely. Natural fit? Okay, if by “natural” Truscott means that AI is pretty much strapped to the Billabong wagon right now (not a bad wagon to be strapped to, but strapped is strapped) then his quote makes perfect sense.
Calvin Galbraith, 17, of Halls Head Australia got a lucky break while surfing last Friday, according to a story in the Mandurah Mail.
At 6.45pm, Calvin, along with three friends and his brother Scott, were 30m offshore just north of Blue Bay trying to catch one last wave into shore. . . The TAFE student felt something grab hold of his leg. . . .Gradually the grip got tighter and pulled Calvin down off his board. . . .“It felt like my leg was being clamped in a vice,” the teenager said. . .“I looked down and my whole foot was in its mouth then I saw a tail thrashing in front of me; that was when I realised it was a shark.”
Calvin got away with six stitches and a puncture marks all over his lower legs. But what comforted us was that this was another shark attack stories that didn’t mention pain. It is somehow easier to deal with when the bites are described as a “pressure” or “tugging” sensation and not, as we would expect, as the excruciatingly painful nightmare. Don’t know why, but it does.
Though we rarely venture into the land of the Action Sports Group online, we tried to visit Surfingthemag.com a little after noon today and nothing came up. So we tried Surfermag.com. . . nada. Skateboardermag.com? Nope. Snowboardermag.com? No.
