Chris Lynch turned me on to this St louis area backyard project, the pool that cannot be named: After hand digging, hand mixing over 650 bags of concrete, hand stacking aforementioned concrete, 63 feet of tile, and 15 different types of coping; the pool that cannot be named has reached completion. And Actually, that was almost eight months ago. I had this labeled saved as a draft and eventually forgot about it. There are three videos, in order of completion from Show Me Pools, and the middle one is a time lapse movie. UPDATE: Added another video with skate footage, which is slow motion for some reason. GVK must have been the filmer… Thanks to Tim Jamison.

Christchurch, New Zealand has been rocked twice this year by deadly earthquakes. I picked up this vid from reader comments, can’t find it now. Sorry, nameless reader. Thanks for the tip. Surreal street skating terrain. Check it out after the jump.

Near I can tell, this video is like a DVD extras talking about Bones Wheels footage shot in Florida. Idon’t know if the actual Bones footage as seen the light of day yet, but check out that product placement on Seth Levy. South Florida Pool Invasion from Drew Perlmutter 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.

More plastic skate army men, although a little more literal than the the ones from Toyboarder, and near as I can tell these aren’t being mass produced. There is zero information available from the the artist Steve Nishimoto’s web site. These might be nothing more than doctored photographs. [Source: Hypebeast] – Thanks to Seth Levy for the tip.

Jim Gray made these stickers ages ago. No, it’s not from my collection, I just saw it on his Facebook page. This is damned funny. I hear Jim still makes a mean sticker.

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.

MC’s driftwood skateboard made an appearance in GVK #70. As Mark explained it, “I got the idea to make a skateboard out of driftwood.” Photos by Rich Burton, courtesy of Earth Patrol Media after the jump.

…and all you lose is a little Facebook anonymity. Seriously, I almost wasn’t going to do it because you have to grant the Pepsi app access to your wall and a bunch of other info. You can bypass Facebook and register with the Pepsi site to vote as well. What’s all this voting? it’s another installment of Refresh Everything where people vote on which ideas to fund. This whole thing used to be a innocuous way for Pepsi to promote their name and do some good will until the corporate archdemons at Pepsi figured out a way to let you “power vote” by entering special codes found in bottle caps of certain Pepsi products. Scumbags…. But seriously folks, the cause is good. Vote now to help get money for Marginal Way DIY park in Seattle. The video is amusing. It’s hard to be angry around cute kids and a Desmond Dekker soundtrack.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports: CAPITOLA – A 17-year-old boy riding a skateboard downhill Tuesday hit an 83-year-old woman crossing the street. The Capitola woman later died in a San Jose hospital, authorities said. Apparently the kid saw the lady at the last minute and tried to avoid her, but that’s not good enough is it? No charges filed as of yet. [source: LA Weekly] – Thanks to… everyone for the tip.