In this edition of bootleg boards we have a Schmitt Stix that doesn’t look like fake at first sight. Although the graphics are pretty damn accurate, the shape is completely different. The original “Flower Picker” was designed by Jay Henry and came out in 1988. This deck even has the name of the artist near the back truck, just like the original one. Sold on eBay for $50 with Venture trucks and ? wheels. Why do most people write ‘Midgette’ while this one is ‘Midgett’? I’ve seen one Airbourne LSD that says ‘Midgette‘ too. Anyone knows? (That’s his name, not to be confused with Allen Midgette – K.ed)

Little girls intimidating grown men, as seen in a TV commercial for Norms Restaurants in California. The rider is Annika Vrklan.

[Source: Hoopla Skateboards]

MC says the quick ones ride skateboards.

Steve Olson baffles paparazzi who can only identify him as an old man who carries a skateboard. The Daily Mail reports:

He looks old enough to be her father, is so badly turned out he could be accused of not owning a mirror, and carries a skateboard to perhaps retain a sense of his youth.

They don’t identify him by name once! He’s just a random old man with a Peter Pan complex. So… excellent. Olson was apparently dating an actress named Paz de la Huerta, who had a brief and really annoying series of appearances on Boardwalk Empire. I guess she’s going to be on again, which I am not looking forward to, because her character is the worst. Just like I love the movie Sid & Nancy, but I can’t separate Chloe Webb from the character she plaid in it, she was just too good at it.

UPADTE: OLD STORY! I was cracking up so hard I didn’t even look at the date! That’s a relief I don’t have to watch her on BE again, no offense Steve.

– Thanks to Kyle Duvall for the tip.

Antonio Gaspar is a physiotherapist. I’m not sure how that differs from a physical therapist, but maybe that’s the difference that allowed him to “develop” the Fizio, which is a skateboard made by Powa bungie corded to an equally futuristic looking stand. The purpose? To make physical therapy more fun. I guess you are supposed to wiggle around on that thing while it’s in the stand. Once you’re healed enough you can ditch the stand and go skateboarding. I’ll bet you can buy a Wii fit and a skateboard for the price of this thing. Powa makes a lot of stealth bomber looking skateboards.

[ Source: Longboardism ] – Thanks to Matthijs for the tip

Hermes style wings fir your shoes. Shoe + wings = shwings. These aren’t intentionally marketed at skateboarders per se, more like marketed with skateboarding.

– Thanks to Josh Burt for the photo.

Special 40th Anniversary Santa Cruz Skateboards wine made by Joseph George Wines, and available for about the same price as a reissue board. NHS has really taken the quality of their corporate labeled schwag up a notch.

– Thanks to Berlin Dave for the tip.

This is Packaging from Tree Top Apple sauce that calls to mind a certain Hack Job.

It’s a lego vert session. What more do you need to know? It looks like it’s a combination of stop action and computer animation. Like all good skate videos, it’s got a slam section.

I saw these and tried to find some to add to my collection of skateboard related future landfill but they weren’t even available at usps.com. Then I discoveredthe reason why, they were recalled! An entire run of stamps for the U.S. Post Office is going to be destroyed because the designs promote unsafe behavior in kids! The Just Move! series features skateboarders without hemlmet and pads, an at bat baseball player without a helmet, soccer player without shin guards, and other assorted so-called unsafe behavior. Won’t someone please think of the children?!! Yes, please think of the children who will inherit a government whose postal system can’t stop losing money. Unbelievably, these concerns were raised by the President’s Council on Fitness. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

[Source: Postal Mag]– Via Tim Jamison on Facebook.