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.

So I went to the Dalles, Oregon to check out the new Spohn Ranch skatepark about a week ago. I remembered to set the alarm so I could get there before it was overrun with kids. I remembered to set the timer for the coffee maker. I remembered to charge the camera battery. I remembered my tripod. I remembered my sunglasses. I remembered CD’s for the 80 mile car ride. I forgot my wallet. I forgot my skateboard. Super!

D*Face is back at the Ridiculous Pool, this time with a contraption that attaches a can of spray paint to a skateboard and leaves a trail. Now you’ll never have to ask “What’s the line over the death box?” Photo essay online at Concrete Disciples or catch the video after the jump.

– Thanks to MC and Ryan Hass for the tip.

Despite an unfortunate choice of subtitle which the author says was chosen by the publisher, The Skateboard. The Good, The Rad and the Gnarly looks promising. It’s not the first time the subject has been take n on, but it’s probably the most in depth to date, even though there is a good deal of overlap with Disposable. The Skateboard (TGTBATG) is less of a visual catalog and history of board graphics and more of a collection of essays on the history of skateboarding. The photography (by Lucia Griggi) is good and thankfully the grunge look is kept to a minimum in the otherwise clean layout. The Author Ben Marcus is a writer and former editor of Surfer Magazine. Ben put a lot of effort into interviews and fact checking through the skateboard community. His real desire is to put out a book for each decade, and he gathered information like that was going to be the end result. MVPBooks is the publisher, and you can see some excerpts on the book’s Facebook page, or check out a few spreads after the jump.

If you’re a regular reader you know we cover skateable architecture here, even when it’s only marginally so. Many skaters have/had the adolescent fantasy of being rich enough to design your own house and make everything skateable, but nobody has really done it. I imagine if you find yourself in a situation where skateboarding is paying for your custom house, you’d probably want a bit of a break from it. Pierre Andre via Etnies funded a small prototype of a a design by architect Gil Le Bon Delapointe (scroll down). It features furniture from the Skate House Study collection. if it gets built it will certainly trump a certain domicile in Athens, Greece. The protoype was part of the Public Domaine show in Paris, France, the same one with the clever video of board graphics. Check out the action video and interview with the architect after the jump.

– Thanks to Marek for the tip.

Again with Natas from the Public Domaine show in Paris. Maybe he came up with the idea but it looks like someone executed it for him. What a cool thing to have in your reel of motion graphics. Hat’s off to Emil Kahr Nilsson, and Natas for his role.

– Thanks to Betsy for the tip.