Free at Ripzu tonight at 7pm. I belive there are some familiar Northwest faces in this vid.

This proposed design for a retirement village is gay, literally! It’s a concept for a Palm Springs retirement community for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered individuals looking to avoid traditional golden year facilities. MC must be planning for his retirement, because he’s the tipster on this one! I’m totally gay for that building. I hope it gets built, although I’m skeptical. I’d believe it if it were in Europe somewhere. [Source: Cool Hunting]

Enjoy (?) this horrible game with a beloved character from a horrible cartoon. And you thought he only dug slalom. Nothing but screen captures after the jump. – Thanks to Kevin Cann for the tip.

Duane Peters is back on the horse again after his gnarly injury. Looking like Duane again, not really taking it easy at all. Amazing considering the doctors wanted to amputate his leg. A little video after the jump. – Thanks to Eric Fleming for the tip

Home foreclosures and mortgage woes mean lots of empty pools in some parts of the country, and it even affects people with built-for-skate facilities like the Barrio Bowl in Las Vegas, reportedly selling for 32k to appease the bank. This picture comes from Picasa user Eric, and minimal details are available on Concrete Disciples. – Thanks to unlikely CD troller MC for the tip.

January was a fun month overall. Normally we get the post Xmas letdown in January because everybody is all spent up, but not this year. We got plenty of high priced decks in every category with a number of decks going for over $2000. Alva decks of every description were going super high, and we had a couple of classic Chinese rip-off graphics. Plus a great selection of bargain decks too. Editor’s Note: This marks the first appearance of eBay Watch on the new back end for the Features section. It’s a work in progress and a bit buggy but I decided to push forward regardless. Right now you won’t see the comments in the “Recent Comments” on the sidebar. It’s segregated right now, but it will come together soon. Same thing goes for the search function, segregated for now, but when the whole site gets integrated… I’ll have to actually make features again.

Check out this photo of Powell Peralta rider Aldrin Garcia setting a new high ollie record of 45 inches on Tuesday. He almost looks like he’s doing a lien air off an invisible jump ramp, but as you can see in the video, it’s his tail tweaking out. Amazing stuff. UPDATED: Indeed a superior camera vantage point, notwithstanding the seven second PG-13 intro thanks to, uh, Barf.

I’m swapping out hard drives and cleaning out an email attachments from a program I haven’t used in two years. (Eudora is dead! Long Live Eudora!) and I found these blurry cell phone snaps of some skateboard valentines from 2009.

Just checking in with kids. Over the course of 2-3 years these guys have progressed out of their pre-pubescent kick flips into some really mature skaters. Full of pubecences. It is easy to make a good video with good subjects. Enjoy GVK Out. This has nothing to do with the image above.