The Vancouver Sun reports that a civil suit against a guy who spray painted at a skatepark has resulted in an award of $6400 to the city.

This is allegedly a billboard for Yahoo! as found on Flickr and reported by Mashable. This guy has awesome form, and uh, errr… Well there you have it. – Thanks to Tyler Knowlton for the tip.

We’re having web host issues, so the site is messed up right now. I’m not getting much help or information from my host right now, so I can’t tell you when it will be functioning again. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please bear with us. Well, we’re back. Unfortunately, I spent my time dealing with nonsense instead of making posts. S&A will be back up to speed again within 24 hours. That’s Tim Eberly overamping my photo framing abilities.

The Side Project has a video of the photo shoot for an advert for Secret antiperspirant for women. Before seeing the video I just assumed it was all posed photoshop work,you know, because I’m a male chauvinist pig. But, it turns out to be an actual sequence of a skater named Leticia Bufoni. The only major thing photoshopped appears to be sneakers. The ad appears in the October 2009 issue of Glamour. If your subscription lapsed like mine did, check it out at the The Side Project. I believe Lisa Whitaker is associated with this site. You may remember her appearance as a stunt double in a cigarette commercial for Capri Slims. – Thanks again to GN for the tip.

Daddy Yo chipped in with this patent for the omnidirectional toy manipulator. In his own words: Here is the patent application for that skateboard doll. Looks like they plan on embrassing alot of different sports. What? No rollerblades? Hey, pretty good. Pretty good. Maybe I should reinstate Daddy Yo. Thoughts everyone? He’s got a patent of his own that is pending, but that’s for a different post, possibly. Anyway, my favorite is the bull rider, actually.

We’re changing our direction to all BMX, all the time! And it’s not even April 1st. Spotted in the wild at Toy-R-Us. Enlarge-o-rama. Bonus reader pic after the jump.

It’s “I” day. We covered the I Tattoo a back in 2006, but I’ve been getting a lot of repeat tips on this one, and this picture is actually different from the advertising we featured before. The original source on this is something called People of Walmart. – Thanks to Brock Essick, Thomas Roszkowsk and others for the tip.

Colorado’s News Leader reports that a bear who got stuck overnight in the bowl at the Dreamland’s Snomass skatepark was able to use a ladder to climb out. I wonder if they tried giving him a skateboard. We had a similar problem with homo sapiens at Pier Park.

Skateboarding begat fingerboards. Fingerboards begat tiny plastic ramps. Tiny plastic ramps begat… FINGER PANTS!!!!!!! Actually, these Finger Pants aren’t exactly new. Back in the 80’s there was a fingerboard sold that came with a glove that you wore. The glove had the upper torso of what looked by a Ken doll attached to it. Two of the fingers were cut off and were decorated like little Hawaiian shorts. It also came with a pair of tiny plastic shoes and socks molded in one piece. It’s something I have in a box somewhere, but that’s never here, nor there. These came from Wall Mart. There’s a URL listed on the package, but the skatemonstertoy.com domain appears to have expired. It’s such a great product, they had to name it twice. Finger Pants, and Shred Threads! Look at the illustration. If these pants fit to scale, the top of your junk would be visible. Awesome.

Back in June we reported on the Stardolls online Ryan Sheckler dress up doll. It looks like they’ve added Tony Hawk and Bam Margera too. Sheckles must have pitched a fit, because he’s been removed from the site, and hold on, in the short delay since I first found out about the new additions, Tony Hawk has been removed as well, but maybe that’s because his celebrity likeness looked more like the test tube spawn of John McEnroe and Jimmy Carter. [Source: Examiner.com]