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Rick Fork, a.k.a. Rick Froberg was a quiet guy with a devious sense of humor when he worked in the back room at Transworld Media. But all that changed when he got on stage with his bands Drive Like Jehu, Pitchfork and Hot Snakes.
The contrast between the two was shocking and we never could figure out how all those heavy sounds could came out of such a thin, quiet, honestly nice guy.
Froberg’s art shares some of the same qualities as his music—it’s bold, skilled, sinister and primal, yet intelligent, referential and nuanced. He genre-hops with ease; from digital drawings to acrylic paint to heavy ink and back again, creating stark images of character collages, WWII-era comic figures and Dali-esque cartoon landscapes.
Filter magazine checks in with Froberg in an interview about art, music, and the realities of getting paid.
[Link: Filter Magazine]
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NHS management breathed a sign of relief when the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to postpone by one year a new federal law that would have required products made for children 12 and under to be tested for lead starting Feb. 10, 2009.
But that relief came after NHS’s owner Richard Novak had already laid off 17 employees because of sagging sales and worries about the new regulations.
A victory for good sense,” said Tim Piumarta, director of research and new product development at NHS, a Santa Cruz company with sales of $23 million a year. “This untenable legislation, as it was written by non-scientists in Congress, threw the entire global product supply channel into mass confusion.”
NHS and many other companies will now have a year to work out the lead details before complaining about it again next year.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
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This is old and we think we ignored it the first time around but, hey look, an inflatable longboard that rolls up and packs away when it’s deflated. At least it will float when we throw it in the ocean in disgust.
[Link: Ubergizmo]
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Club Mumble’s Bob Kronbauer has decided that there are a few people who have given so much to skateboarding that they deserved a pro model. The Skateboard Mag’s Grant Brittain is the first and it looks like there are a few more coming.
The pro models are for sale in limited editions of 99 available at Skateone.com. Click here to watch the video which explains it all.
[Link: Club Mumble]
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Notice all the rad surfing by gnarly surfers in this savage surf clip? Oh wait, no surfing? Whoops, guess this clip is all about fashion. Say it ain’t so Joe. . .
[Link: Hurley]
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While the idea behind Toms Shoes is pretty cool (for every shoe they sell, they give one away) it seems like an odd thing for Element Skateboards to partner up with them because, we’ll you can’t skate in Tom’s shoes. Can you?
The Toms and Element Skateboards line launches today with a collection of five styles of shoes –three for women and two for men. Also, Element has designed a Toms branded skateboard to push around on while wearing what else? Toms shoes. . . .Element will follow the Toms “one for one” rule — for every skate deck or board bought, Element will give a board away to a child in need of some wheels. . . . The shoes are all $46. Skateboards retail for $150 for a complete long board and $50 for the smaller deck.
Guess you can longboard in pretty much anything.
[Link: LA Times via Blackbook]
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Ever question skateboarding’s ability to heal? First Skateistan and now the Uganda Skateboard Union. If this isn’t a viral video for some corporate interest, it should be. Thank you, Board Master.
[Link: Uganda Skateboard Union via Club Mumble]
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Elijah Teter and the wall of cameras at Boreal.
US Snowboarding Grand Prix Tour Director Eric Webster serves himself a bit of vegetarian lasagna and salad off the buffet line in the VIP lounge in the Boreal Lodge and walks over to the cafeteria style picnic table. His radio crackles as he sits down.
For the past 11 years the former professional snowboarder has been spending his winters making sure the US Snowboarding Grand Prix events happen. His arrival at Boreal Resort is a bit of a homecoming. “During the 1988-89 season, Burton had a team house at Tahoe Donner and we used to ride and train here all the time,” Webster says. “It’s good to be back. The resort has been great to work with.”
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Nokia Corp. and Skullcandy have apparently agreed to settle their differences outside of the courtroom according to a post on Law360.
A judge has signed off on a request to drop Nokia Corp. without prejudice from an infringement suit brought by Skullcandy Inc. over two patents for an integrator that allows a user to use a music player and a mobile telephone through one set of headphones after the two sides agreed to resolve the dispute out of court.
So that’s where Skullcandy’s next big funding round is coming from. It’s beginning to make sense.
[Link: Law360]
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