Reader D.I.Y. from the U.K. This spot first started with something called the rainbow ledge, a curb that kind of looks like a rainbow. It’s apparently mostly a one man operation, or at least it has been in the past. I don’t know where this guy finds all these curved preformed concrete curbs, I want one. There’s some videos after the jump, but you might as well head on over to the Rainbow Ground to catch all the pictures, including construction phases.

– Thanks to G-S-E PC for the tip.

This week’s Shot of the Week is a Thom Bleasdale photo of Robert Mead at a skatepark in Barnstaple, North Devon. Check it out.

Year # 2 has started a great saturday BBQ/SSSS. The unofficial caretaker of Pier Park (Mike Swim) has the saturday session rolling again. So bring your meat and pads and take a dip in the deep end with the grown-ups, but most of all bring your meat skills. Swims Saturday Skate Session (Pier Park)

…which will come in handy this weekend if she wants to work on these DIY projects. Marginal Way in Seattle has a benefit this Saturday Sunday and Brooklyn Street Skate Spot in Portland is having one this Sunday, which is Mother’s day… so yeah, bring your mom I guess. Saturday. Flyers and video scrapbook of BSSS through the various phases (courtesy of KC) after the jump.

Zac Mckenzie loops the capsule in Gold Beach, Oregon. Short clip after the jump.

– Thanks to Sam at SkateOregon.com for the tip.

These photos are from the “Spomenik: The End of History” photo documentary project by Jan Kempenaers. They are part of a series of photographs of memorials in the former Yugoslavia commissioned in the 60’s and 70’s to commemorate Wolrd War II battles and concentration camps. Two of these monuments look marginally skateable. I tried to find the one on the right (Jasenovac, a network of concentration camps) on Google Maps, but it proved fruitless. If anyone else has better luck, let me know. Now that Yugoslavia is no more, these 25 monuments have all been abandoned and are in various states of disrepair. Truth.fully, theses two are barely interesting from a skating standpoint, but the rest of them are architecturally fantastic. Kempenaers exhibited the work and published a book in 2010.

[Source: Sue Du Jour] – Thanks to Aaron Shims for the tip.

Welcoming Inspectrum skateboards as a sponsor to Skate And Annoy. Inspectrum is a small company from Bakersfield, Ca dedicated to skateboarding and having a few laughs. If you don’t believe it, check out the Urkel Jerks shirt. Video after the jump.

Chet Childress and Al Partanen hooked up with Skate Daily to pitch a reality-esque skate show a couple years back. It’s been shelved, but why let it go to waste. This is the second Portland based skate reality show to meet an untimely demise, maybe third time is a charm. Watch the pilot after the jump, or head on over to Skate Daily for the deluxe edition with the bonus disc.

Check out these pics of a ramp compound found on Rampbook, aka Negative Ion. This behemoth is made from the carcasses of no less than 11 other Colorado ramps, a few of which have been shown on S&A before. Check it out and noodle around Negative Ion a little, there’s all kinds of good stuff squirreled away there.

I saw this in Concrete Wave a while back but I forgot to post it. I thought it was a gag advert at first, in part due to the fact that you can’t currently find any mention of it on the Venom web site. However, it appears to be aimed at a real niche market… people with downhill gear that wish their boards had tails. My first thought was to goof on it, but this is one of the oddest yet most functional products I’ve seen. I know you’re saying “just buy a board with a tail” but then this isn’t meant for you. It’s meant for guys who typically spend a lot of cash on downhill equipment and like to have their setup dialed in. These boards are not disposable in the tradition of the typical short board that gets ridden until it falls apart in a comparatively shorter time. It is what it is. Goofy but extremely useful for a subset of skateboarders. It sells for about $20.