This week’s Shot of the Week is a Micah Breshears photo of Jeff Taylor taken at John’s Bowl in Albany Oregon. Check out the Shot of the Week.

Midwest tour from Lifeblood Skateboards. These guys are rulers. Check it out, let them crash on your couch. The per diem is pretty slim. Technically not a sponsor of the site, but have I mentioned how much I like Johnny Turgesen? And Midwest uber alles.

For some reason this picture of Grover (somewhere on the east coast) made me think of the Digital Underground song Underwater Rimes [sic], probably the blueish cast it had before I adjusted the levels. Bonus?

The Shot of the Week is Cameron Schafer with a kgrind 180 out as captured by Joe Stevens. It looks much better in enlarge-o-rama.

An artfully done video of indoor skatepark construction in an old tobacco factory in Madrid, Spain with mostly recycled materials. It’s a bit long but it’s interesting, the soundtrack on middle timelapse section section had me cracking up. Check it out.

– Thanks to Sarib Khalsa for the tip.

A lot of talk recently about the X-treme sports television contest industry giving back to the community in the form of permanent skate facilities instead of building temporary throw away parks. The Rob Dyrdek Foundation and Street League Skateboarding series is kicking in:

Newark, NJ – August 24, 2011 – Mayor Cory A. Booker, Members of the Newark Municipal Council, Devils Arena Chairman Jeff Vanderbeek and world-record holding professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek will hold a press conference to announce a $110,000 donation from the Rob Dyrdek Foundation to the City of Newark that will enable construction of a new skateboard facility at Hayes Park East, on Thursday, August 25, at 11a.m., at the Prudential Center at 165 Mulberry Street.

To be fair, $50,000 of that donation is “design services” which is bullshit. Any good design-build firm will include the the design for a nominal cost if not free. It’s only “valuable” when you get into companies that don’t build their own parks or situations where state laws (Like in Washington) don’t allow the same firm to design and build the park. 35K is in donated obstacles from this years tour which leaves 25k as an actual cash donation and not an inflated write off. It’s not as impressive as something like the Tony Hawk Foundation, but it’s a good thing and let’s hope we see more of this.

[Image of Rob standing on a pile of cash: Gentlemanly Conduct]

I’ve seen pictures of a miniramp on a trailer before, but the Goat Ramp implementation has to be the slickest yet. check out the photos and some sequences of the setup on the link. I’m not sure how they get the seam to disappear where the hinge is, but it looks like they figured it out.

I guess there was was a decent turn out at Tobin’s house the day after the Trifecta. Chad Balcom shot some phonecam video.

Jon Horner illustrated a Where’s Waldo style poster that came free with issue of Sidewalk magazine. You can see it here, and it pretty cool, although I’m not sure if it’s the whole thing or not. Powell ought to hire him to do a whole book.

– Thanks to Simon Mrozinski for the tip

Happy birthday to Patti McGee!