Hawaii’s Kai Barger won the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships edging Brazil’s Jadson Andre, 20. Follow the jump for the entire ASP press release.
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Think iPhones aren’t changing the face of action sports media? Check this: Surfline is reporting that the the Surfline iPhone app developed by Oakley has been downloaded 200,000 times in only six weeks.
With only a few short weeks on iTunes, the global surf report iPhone application has been downloaded across the world with the top country’s being United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada and France rounding out the top 5. . . . Surfline CEO Jonno Wells says, “This application has given surfers the ability to check surf reports for their favorite beaches on the go. We are very excited about the early numbers we are seeing with this application and look forward to continuing to provide information to surfers at their fingertips.
No one should underestimate the power of the iPhone.
[Link: Surfline.com]
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We posted this story a couple days ago, but from the email we’re getting it seems like everyone wants more, more, more. Follow the jump for all the photos from The Smoking Gun or click here for a special homophobic image from the boys at Board As Fuck.
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Just a little reminder regarding January 21, 2009 and the Crossroads Retail Show and kind of wondering what this means for ASR and skateboarding if Crossroads becomes more successful.
[Link: Black Box Distribution]
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Stephen Sprouse was a graffiti artist and designer who did some work with Louis Vuitton artistic director Marc Jacobs back in the day. Sprouse died in 2004 but that hasn’t stopped the fashion house from bringing out a new Stephen Sprouse collection this week. And nothing says street fashion more than a skateboard.
For the launch, the luxury goods company is also creating two limited edition pieces, which will only be available at the SoHo location: a Stephen Sprouse graffiti skateboard replete with a hard case monogram skateboard trunk, and a Stephen Sprouse “Roses” T-shirt. The company hopes to sell three graffiti skateboards with trunks for $8,250 each, and 70 T-shirts for $250 each. “I don’t expect them to last very long,” Lalonde said. “By Friday, there probably won’t be any more left.”
Then again, nothing shouts “I’m a slave to fashion” more than owning a $8,250 skateboard that comes in it’s own Louis suitcase. . . As a well-placed friend of ours said: “Sad to say, but after they sell all three boards (prob in 3 mins) they will be the second biggest skateboard company in the world next to Sector 9!”
[Link: Women’s Wear Daily]
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Kauai’s one-armed shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton just finished second in the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships January 5, 2009 in Sydney, Australia, according to a story in the Honolulu Advertiser. Hamilton was happy to finish behind France’s Pauline Ado.
“I’m really happy with my performance at this event,” said Hamilton, 18. “To make the final is really good for me. I haven’t had a good result in a while, so hopefully this will give me some confidence for the rest of the year.”
Congrats. We continue to be blown away by Bethany and look forward to seeing her surf on the WQS this season.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
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Note to action sports marketing people: if your web designers build an amazingly beautiful site, with boss photos and flossy graphics and then the first thing people see when they visit is a progress bar counting down while a big, honkin’ flash movie loads. . . you need to hire new web designers. It’s really that simple.
For even more fun follow the jump to see what Plan B Skateboard’s site looks like on an iPhone.
[Link: Plan B Skateboards]
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With a publication as smooth and clean as The Skateboard Mag you’d think that everything would be all digital and tech. Apparently not, according to a Kevin Wilkins post on Bob Kronbauer’s Clubmumble.com.
For each new issue of The Skateboard Mag our map goes up on this chalkboard. It’s in my basement, 36 floors beneath the surface, in Lincoln, Nebraska . . . First, with my knuckles, I erase inside all the old squares. Then I draw in new arrows and labels. I think I learned this on-the-wall method from Grant. After that we usually go back and forth a few times, adjusting what pages go where. There’s a similar set-up in our Solana Beach office, but they use grease pencils on glass and erase it with some kind of huffer’s delight.
Sometimes a little analog action can dull the sharp edges of the digital world and put a little soul back into this whole media dealio. Not that we would know anything about that.
[Link: Clubmumble]
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ASG goes all existential on us with their newly re-designed Surfer Mag site. Yes, we know it is today, we were just hoping to see some content. . . maybe it’s all below the fold. [Note: this has been fixed since the post went up, but it is still a complete waste of space on their homepage.]
[Link: Surfer Mag]
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ASG parent company Source Interlink’s owner (and Tony Hawk supporter) Ron Burkle has just announced that his Yucaipa Cos owns an 8.5 percent stake in Barnes & Nobel, according to a story on Bloomberg.com.
Burkle intends to monitor Barnes & Noble’s performance and consider the option to discuss strategic opportunities with the company’s board or executives, according to a regulatory filing today. The stake makes Burkle, 56, the fourth-largest shareholder of Barnes & Noble, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.
Wonder if one of those strategic opportunities will be cutting all competing magazine titles (TransWorld, Storm Mountain Publishing, etc. . . ) from the magazine racks in the bookseller’s stores? Burkle definitely knows how to leverage his assets so you never know.
[Link: Bloomberg.com]
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