Another Mayer Hawthorne video, this one with buttload street skating. Mayer Hawthorne must dig skateboarding.

Grover spotted this kid at the Dew Tour. I had a good AKOTM lined up from MC’s recent trip to Montana, but this one is topical now, so here we are. Last year the Dew Tour produced another excellent AKOTM thanks again to copious amounts of free sugar water, caffeine and Ball Park Franks temporary tattoos. Sadly, looking back I’ve only updated AKOTM once since then. BONUS! Check out the runner up for AKOTM, it’s sour skateboarding businessman of the month.

Got to skate the Dew bowl with a bunch of my friends. It’s pretty amazing for a portable structure. About Pier Park size in the deep. Slightly deeper maybe. That’s Andy Macdonald over the hip as Grover digitally records him.

This edition of drive by cellphone shots, these aren’t tank traps on the Maginot Line, rather light fixtures and car barriers at a high school in Redmond, Washington.

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.

We stopped by to check out Spohn Ranch’s modular bowl being assembled for the Dew Tour. It’s pretty impressive. Up close the individual sections don’t appear as massive or thick as you might think. There were a couple local faces in the crew which was nice to see. Word is that a Wally Holiday crew is coming in to do the finishing. Grover was ribbing the crew because some of the sections were out of numerical order, judging by the big numbers scrawled on the back. One interesting thing, the parking lot is sloping, so the whole structure is being erected on scaffolding with a giant corrugated metal subfloor. Check out the pictures after the jump.

So what happens when one company puts together a video for another one? Check out Merde Skateboards short but sweet video featuring a couple Cold War riders.

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.

I envision a post apocalyptic future where gangs of longboarders maraud the outskirts of a dying civilization, raiding the unprepared and the weak, pillaging and plundering for the only currency left from the the modern world’s halcyon days, the recycled skateboard. Seriously, soon enough broken boards are going to become almost as valuable as a new board. Shwood makes sunglasses out of old skatebaords, something we’ve recently seen before, but this incarnation is constructed in a different manner. Shwood is out in the burbs of Portland, and fittingly, local filmer/photog Joe Stevens put together a video that shows the skateboard pre-demise, post-reincarnation and everything in between.