There’s something inherently funny about the idea of Abe Lincoln on a skateboard. Ask MC, he’s heard me discuss the idea before (Abe and I also share a birthday-MC). If ever there was an heir apparent to the Far Side, it’s got to be the slightly darker Bizarro. Before the holidays he ran this cartoon called The Gettysburg Tweet. The artist Dan Piraro has it in color on his blog. I like that he posts his comics on his site without removing them after a period of time like so many other syndicated comics. I wonder if he had to negotiate that in his contract.

Our gift to you, a little wonky because I’ve never compressed HD vid before and it choked on the raw upload. But you get the point. We love our audience. Thanks for tuning in during 2010, looking forward to 2011. We’ve got lots of ideas.

So bummed out. I had sketched out and idea to do pretty much the exact same thing, but like pretty much everything else, no time to do it. The folks at DVS came up with a good one. It’s pretty well executed. I would have put actual mongo skate footage in the spot, but they stuck true the genre of the commercials, never actually showing the problem just showing the people who suffer from it. And who am I kidding, the production values on this are 10 times better than anything with the S&A name on it. That’s part of my New Year’s resolution, to get back to more original content and actually produce some of the ideas that have been collecting dust. This bit is one of a series of videos in the same vein that are part of a really vague contest they are having called InNovation whether the idea is to invent something or come up with an idea or don’t do anything. Like I said, it’s vague. – Thanks to Greg Baller for the tip.

There’s a picture of a tattoo of an iconic photo of Duane Peters on a Swedish skate blog called Old Bastards. No information on whose tattoo it is, I translated all the comments and they’re mostly about when the U.S. Bombs are going to be playing in Sweden. [Source: OMSA]

Mixing it up a little in Time Lapse Theater. This week we have the factory bowl wooden pool replica courtesy of Dietches at OMSA. Somewhere in Germany.

Mike McGill, Kevin Staab, Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi in a promo for The Quiksilver All 80’s All Day Vert Challenge on January 7th, 2011 at SurfExpo in Orlando, FL. The video is mildly amusing, coming off better than most of the skits in Animal Chin, yet highly reminiscent of course. Skaters committed to show so far are Tony Hawk Christian Hosoi ,Mike McGill, Kevin Staab, Andy Macdonald, Mike Frazier, Ben Schroeder, Buck Smith, Henry Gutierrez and (wait for it….) Rodney Mullen????? Apparently. No word on whether his parents will let him skate vert yet. Video plus one with slightly extended highlights from last year, after the jump. – Thanks to Bob Mechtly for the tip.

A sculpture of a skatepark, on a skateboard, in a skatepark. Pretty simple. Nansei calls this “Let’s Go Surfing Instead.” – Thanks to Aaron for the tip.

Destiny made sure the comment with this video was held in moderation. Laziness made me withhold it until I could make it into it’s own post. So yeah… Commercials… Skateboards… Ubiquitous. This web site is now irrelevant. Two skateboard spots for Dickies, one featuring Patrick Melcher and two featuring “SLAM.” Dickies pants indestructible? Sure they can withstand extreme dude’s hijinks, but they are destructible vs repeated old man butt slides on the transition. – Thanks to Eric for the tip.

Apple has some HTML 5/CSS3 demos online as their way of justifying blowing off Flash promoting Web Standards compliance in their devices like the iPad and iPhone. The typography section features a rad Bryce Kanights photo of Tony Farmer.

Skate Fails are a collaboration between Alex Trochut & Xavier Mañosa that can be found over at Apparatu. The collection features decks that look like they are made out of spilled paint or decks that have somehow been melted and made pliable. How do they achieve this effect? They are ceramic. The trucks look real, but some of those wheels might be ceramic as well. Skateboard art is… a mixed bag in general. The skateboarding public in general seems to have lower expectations for what qualifies as “art.” It’s nice to see someone fully execute a concept. I like several of these pieces, in particular, I’d love to have that red one hanging up on my wall. – Thanks to Michel Skart Poulin for the tip.