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I don’t want to see a Frito’s commercial with a skateboarder on it. It’s not in the spirit of skateboarding. We’re not supposed to be in the limelight. We’re supposed to be the scuttlebutt. We’re not supposed to be heroes. We’re supposed to be zeroes. If we look good, we look bad.”
Just a reminder that tomorrow Saturday the 25th the Raise It! Mike Franklin Spring Invitational benefit is going down at the Santa Clarita Skatepark. Should be fun times see you there!
We recieved some great press in the Winnipeg Skateboarding Magazine and just need to share it. Page three gives a quick review of the Puck. The whole magazine rocks and we are proud to be in it. Take a minute and check it out. As always, keep on Pucking.
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If you are looking for a fun indoor edit to watch whist you are browsing the web today enjoy this footage of Brian Anderson, Tony Trujillo, Rick Howard Mike Carroll and more at the Crailtap TF.
Here is a bowl Placed To Ride is helping put together in congunction with the Breathe Foundation. The whole things is being sponsored by Creme Skateboards.
At least the board didn’t snap in half when dad-kong pulled this monster trick off. Who Thought Building A Skateboard Could Be SoSexy!
And with that said, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Read The Full Story HERE.
With only two years’ practice, Kaden Campbell floats off the lip of an 11-foot concrete bowl, whips his skateboard around in mid-flight and descends smoothly to the bottom.
Read The Full Story HERE.
Futuristic warrior by Dan LuVisi for the cover of his upcoming Last Man Standing.
And a few more links:
1. Alien/Winnie the Pooh mashup. Via.
2. Woman sentenced to prison for selling art with forged signatures (and using various other fraudulent tricks) on an art auction television show called the “Fine Art Treasures Gallery,” which aired on Friday and Saturday nights on DirecTV and the Dish Network.
3. Great review of an annotated collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I learned:
In the introduction to “Snow White,” we learn that “the Grimms, in an effort to preserve the sanctity of motherhood, were forever turning biological mothers into stepmothers.”
Via.
4. Apparently the Uglydolls lunchbox can’t legally be sold as a lunchbox.
*Previously: Pooh vs. Hobbes.
*Buy Alice in Wonderland toys at Entertainment Earth.
Two skateboarders pass each other at the Venice Beach skateboard park on Saturday April 17, 2010.
King of Coins by Rosemary Travale. See also: Plush Maxwell from Scribblenauts. Visit her webstore.
Ten of Swords by Daniel Elson, who has some great original art on sale at Rivet Gallery.
You can see the full tarot deck to date here. Also, I’ve begun receiving tarot card submissions from other artists, and am posting them here.
This is Simparch’s Silvas Capitalis, or Forest Head:
SIMPARCH situated an iconic head, on the grounds of the Kielder forest, located near the Scottish border. Large enough to enter into with stairs to a 2nd floor, this large anthropomorphic offering was inspired by the Celtic gods of Britain whom are frequently anonymous and depicted merely by the head alone.In the relatively new and cultivated monoculture of Kielder’s “working” forest, a giant head sits knowingly watching and listening to the nuances of daily forest life - the creatures, the wind, and the roar of harvesting equipment.
Each of the 107 layers of a plywood maquette were scanned and enlarged to make full scale paper templates. The lumber was cut to the drawing and stacked/glued/pegged together, then shaped with chainsaw and grinder.
Via.
And a few more links:
2. Penelope Trunk explains how complicated your life becomes when your blogging pseudonym becomes famous.
3. How to Train Your Dragon Happy Meal toys.
*Previously: How to Train Your Dragon paper toys.
The Star by Mike Maihack. See also: Cleopatra in Spaaaace! Visit his webstore.
You can see the full tarot deck to date here.
Templeton Elliott has dyslexia, dysgraphia, has been hit by a car, been in a drug-induced coma, and might have broken his ankle but never got it checked out.
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Minneapolis ripper Steve Nesser joins the I-Path family this week after leaving Adio who hooked up his feet since 2002. Check this welcome clip and weep, sick stuff from the man who has monster pop.
IPATH, Birdhouse, Indy and Spitfire put together a complete Steve Nesser package for somebody to take home. All you have to do is head over to our Facebook and answer a simple question about Steve. While you’re at it don’t forget to watch his welcome video.
