The California Surf Museum is having an opening for a skateboarding exhibit called “Clay to Urethane: 1965-1975” that will coincide with a book signing with Ben Marcus, the author of SSkateboard, The Good, the Rad and the Gnarly. Some skate legends confirmed to attend so far: Logan brothers, Steve Cathey, Denis Shufeldt, Frank Nasworthy, Gregg Weaver, Chris Yandall, Dale Smith, Jim Goodrich, Eddie Katz, Buddy Carr, Pineapple Saladino, Larry Balma, and more.

Saturday, August 13th from 4-7 pm.

I missed this one, got outbid early on and literally missed bidding again by one second.

For your consideration we have listed a box of 60 original skateboard necklaces. These were a canadian product from 1976. You are buying and original display box with 60 individually packaged skateboard necklaces. New old stock from 35 years ago. A nice retro find.

I have no idea what the actual necklaces look like, but the packaging is the best. I live for this kind of thing. Hang one?

Holy Cow (skates) It’s the legendary GSD and his seminal zine Skate Fate. I’ll bet he hates being called legendary.GSD is celebrating the 30 (!) year anniversary of Skate Fate by releasing a 320 page best of volume, which you can pick up for a reasonable price at Blurb, except the shipping (fixed pirce from Blurb) is pretty steep. Anyone want to go in on a joint order? Press release and sample pages after the jump.

An interview with two big names in the 90’s era of skateboard graphics, Sean Cliver and Marc Mckee over on Memory Screened, a blog that appears to be entirely devoted to skateboard graphics, which is an awesome idea. Funny thing is, I have no idea who writes it. It’s described as:

an archive for my eponymous monthly page in Skateboarder mag. Absolutely shameless, unrated boardnography, exposed! – minus the Ebay guilt

Trouble is, I haven’t seen a copy of Skateboarder Mag outside of the occasional subscription spam in my email since… well It’s probably been 10 years. So eponymous or not, I don’t know who writes the column. It’s alsmot enough to make me want to check it out. I found this on a round about way, I think I was following web links from the comments and ended up here eventually. Looks like Skate Daily has a pingback there too. Oh yeah, definitely worth checking out, the archive of World Industries catalogs from 1989-1992. That’s totally something I’d expect to see… well, here on Skate and Annoy.

Check out this video from Skater Made with Jesse Martinez. It’s an interesting look at Jesse and a peek at another skateboard manufacturing facility. Tip to tail printing. Can’t get enough of that, unless you ask me to do it.

Keith Haring illustration of one of his iconic figures on a skateboard. They made playing cards at one time during his heyday, and now you can buy the stickers at Ikea.

– Thanks to MC for the tip.

No info on this other than it might be from the Public Domain art show in Paris. The YouTube post has Natas Kaupas in the title, but maybe that refers to the Natas board? Not sure, but it’s super-cool. Does anyone know what the scoop is?

– Thanks to Eric for the tip.

Neil doesn’t cover the international listings of eBay so I’m not stepping on his toes with this UK listing of a Ray Barbee soft sculpture doll made by some old birds at Powell to mimic his graphic. Allegedly owned by Sean Cliver at one time. What say you Sean?

– Thanks to Jon Haynes for the tip.

Some people like to geek out on skateboard paraphernalia, while others like to geek out on intellectual property rights. Our worlds have collided. If you know Zorlac you probably know it was sold some time in the late 80’s, with Jeff Newton remaining on in some capacity, but the company definitely had an altered vibe. Some time in the next decade the brand ceased to exist for all intents and purposes. Some time after the millennium Jeff started up Gringo skateboards, using some similar imagery and marketing, and then suddenly Zorlac reappeare, but with Newton at the helm again. I wondered how he gained control of the trademark, or if he was just barging it since no one else seemed to be using it. Back in 2000 Rob Mertz was quoted in Transworld Business (summarized here) about the apparent retiring of the Zorlac brand, right about the same time all the old school guys and collectors were coming out of the woodwork. The phrase “Smooth move Ex-Lax” seemed appropriate at the time, but eventually Syndrome wasn’t going to take it, ahem, sitting down. Property, intangible has an interesting piece on the battle for the Zorlac trademark that Newton apparently lost. It’s written from a skateboard-agnostic perspective and contains a bit of history as well. Worth reading if the name Zorlac holds any place in your head or heart. The image used for this post was from a Starkist Tuna promotional t-shirt featured in the May 2008 eBay Watch. If you look closely you can see a small Zorlac sticker on the ramp. It seemed fitting.

Update: Turns out Jeff Newton posted the link on Skull & Bones.