David Mann - Peggy Sue

Friday T&A on S&A: Easy Riders

Peggy Sue is a painting by David Mann who used to do a lot of work for Easy Riders until shortly before his death in 2004. His first gig was illustrating posters for Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Choppers magazine. I poached this from Max Schaaf’s 4Q Conditioning. There’s a gallery of David Mann paintings online […]

Sports Illustrated Kids - Kona skatepark

Sports Illustrated Kids tours Kona

Sports Illustrated Kids has a video tour of Kona skatepark. Think of the intended audience and get prepared for you Federal Recommended Daily Allowance of flyouts. For a video tour, there sure are a lot of still photos. Check it out

Portland’s skatepark ambassador

MC should wear a Miss Skatepark Oregon sash when he skates Pier Park. This is his third appearance in a Portland based periodical skating Pier Park.

Men Men Men Men, Manly Men, Manly Men

Like shooting fish in a barrel: MF: What’s your perspective on fitness for skateboarding? I skate a lot with my shirt off, so working out has always been important to me. I almost have as much fun working out as I do skating. And seeing your body change, and seeing yourself get bigger and more […]

Seattle Metropolitan magazine

The return of skateboarding business dude

The April 2008 cover of Seattle Metropolitan magazine features another skateboarding business dude used to illustrate the 14 hottest company to work for in Seattle. I quickly leafed through a copy at the airport, but I didn’t see anything else skateboard related in the article. Perhaps I missed it. I couldn’t bring myself to fork […]

Concrete Decor Magazine: Skatepark Artform

Concrete Decor

Here’s an interesting short video about concrete skateparks as an art form, from the perspective of a concrete worker. It’s a podcast put together by Concrete Decor Magazine, and mainly features Michael Dahl talking about hte work he and others did/do with Airspeed Skateparks [Source: Wall of Gray]

Samaire Armstrong with a skateboard

Friday T&A on S&A: Samaire Armstrong

Is Samaire Armstrong a celebrity? Maybe not-so-much, but she was in Not Another Teen Movie (Warning, that link is a buzzkill.) and was a regular on The O.C. for a while as well. She posed for some pinup pictures in Stuff Magazine and Maxim, which are both owned by the same company. In an interview […]

Print odds

Odds and ends in print

Skate Daily noticed that although Rick McCrank is active in Peta print ads and product giveaways, he’s still got a suede shoe model, unlike another Peta collaborator, Ed Templeton. Also in this month’s Print Magazine is a half a page on design variations in Nick Hornby’s book Slam, the one that features a protagonist that […]

Christian Hosoi in Theme?

Theme magazine is a quarterly publication that covers global avant-garde Asian culture. Issue 13: rebel includes an article called Christian Hosoi Reborn, Skateboard bad boy to Jesus freak. with photos by J. Grant Brittain. Check it out on the website.