It seems you can’t throw a stone at a hippie in a street fair without hitting an urban artist using old skateboards as a substitute for canvas. This was from my neighborhood last night. It looks like Central America, but it’s just Last Thursday on Alberta Street. Actually, this is mostly an excuse for testing out the WordPress iPhone app.

Viral promotion video from Freeboard, maybe indirectly. We’ve covered caster board hybrids before, but surprise surprise, Freeboard is still in business. The extra caster wheel makes it possible to ride sideways on the board if you want, making this Tetris tribute with neon head gear possible. On the one hand, it’s kind of cool. On the other, they aren’t doing much to help thier case. – Thanks to Tim for the tip.

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Hewn from a solid chunk of wood, as seen at Axhead Wood Carving, where you can also find hefty boards carved out of old table leafs, weighing in at 11lbs. Oh right, and also spoons. Ryan carves spoons too, usually out of wood that has fallen off of trees on his property.

Judi Oyama is organizing a show called “Praise the Board” at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History from September 4 – 27. There’s a skateboard contest being held in association with the exhibit on the 19th. The show is designed to showcase the talent of local Santa Cruz artists and how they have contributed to the worldwide success of skateboarding as a sport. This isn’t an official NHS function, it’s more a case of contributing artists tooting their own horn. The image above is one of the things Judi has collected in preparation.

Can’t make it Santa Cruz? Your generous benefactors at Skate and Annoy are working to bring the show to Portland after the run in Santa Cruz. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, contest details after the jump.

Smile On Your Brother is a skate art auction to benefit Contributor, a Canadian initiative to donate skateboards to kids who can’t afford them. Looks like starting bid is $125 but hey, they’re completes! Featured board is by Devin Barrette. Auction runs between August 24th and October 25th, 2009.

Tribute to the Fallen Skater by sculptor Jud turner. Originally found on Skull a Day.

– Thanks to Concretin Nik for the tip.

That’s right, MC is bringing the H.O.M.O.S. back to Skate and Annoy. There was no falling out, and thus no makeup sex, just.. uh… well I don’t know. Welcome him back readers! This comic above was my attempt at dealing with the loss almost a year ago. I actually enjoyed the process, but took me a half a day to do it. Stupid artists.

Artist, skateboarder and EPM Monday covergirl Ashley Anson is having an art opening at Cal’s Pharamacy aka The Dept on August 7th from 7-10pm. With the Lincoln City stop of the Trifecta cancelled, you’ve got no excuse not to be at 15 NE Hancock on Friday. Check the flier after the jump.

This week’s Shot of the Week is from Brian Baade, He mounted a camera the Greek’s board during a practice run for the X-Games skatepark event. If you watched the X-Games yesterday you might have noticed that is is actually a still image from the actual footage they played after coming back from a commercial. Check out the Shot of the Week, Bonus frame after the jump.

R.E.load Bags had a line of messenger bags called the 80’s skate series that was essentially bootlegs of famous skateboard graphics. The product description had said they were a tribute, but the “Hammerhead” bag is pretty much the only one that wouldn’t be considered copyright infringement. Fortunately, a friend of Neil Blender’s saw them and tipped him off. The bags were removed from the web site almost immediately. They look totally cool, they should have licensed them instead of just ripping them off.

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