The final design and contractor for the replacement of Seattle’s skatepark that was dozed by Bill Gates has been chosen. You can check out the renderings or follow the saga at SeattleSkateparks.org. It’s a newline design, but who is the build contractor? For some reason it’s under wraps until the contract is signed. Construction is supposed to start in the spring. What I want to know is where are they growing those alien-like blurry trees that are showing up in the renders? – Thanks to Scott Shinn for the tip.

If you’re not into the wacky snow skate technology, or it’s raining instead of snowing, you have to make your fun. Kevin Porterfield from Dokument skate shop in Salem, OR threw together a quickie quaterpipe for some indoor action. Catch two photos after the jump.

Carl Warren sent in a photo of on again, off again contributor Mike Estes on some sort of contraption called a snow skate. I’ve seen pictures of these things, couldn’t see how they would be rideable, but apparently they are. Are there truck-like mechanisms on these things? No bindings either. It looks like a tiny ski mounted to a skateboard like a hydrofoil. This is exactly why we kicked him off of Skate and Annoy. What’s that? I’m being told here that he actually quit. See the full frame shot after the jump.

House of Neil has some shots of a massive drainage ditch at Kahalui airport on Maui that came up in reader comments a week ago. No action shots, just landscapes.

BMX’ers and skaters don’t have a beef in Belgium. Hell, they even share their websites. Bocal Mostard (translation?) is a collective of skateboarders and BMX riders. They met together to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of a snake run in the city of Liège, Belgium. It looks like there was a mass thrash, art events and live bands. Sounds pretty good in any language. Check it out.

Yes, it’s officially international day here on SnA. We’re suckers for far away spots that we’ll never see. Check out the Momentum Japanese tour video. There are some cool and unusual spots, and of course, well, the skating. The spot above reminds me of Palma de Mallorca, Spain while Chris Haslam calls to mind Montgomery Burns channeling Howard Hughes. “Get these Kleenex boxes off my feet! – Certainly, sir. And, uh, the jars of urine? – Oh, we’ll hang onto those.”

October of last year we published some pics of a DIY concrete project in France called La Caverne that prompted one of our smart-assed readers to comment “put some coping on that shit.” Salah Mehdi sent in some pictures of just that. I don’t know if “coping” is a masculine or feminine noun, for some reason they didn’t cover that in high school French classes.

Johan Fründ put together a video titled Best of Both Bowls Contest 2008 that covers contests in some indoor bowls in Dusseldorf, Germany. Machine gun fast cuts and some great skating. Check it out. These bowls look familiar….

Michael Goetz of The Skateboard Archives shot Chris Nukala at a renegade project and it showed up as Thrasher stoke of the day.

Of course we’re recycling it at as well, but the