Truly gratuitous Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk on the cover of the Fall 2011 editions of MIT Sloan Management Review. Why, I’m not sure, because he’s not really central to the article, except as an illustration of consumers modifying products to make something new that didn’t exist in the marketplace. Not exactly a timely reference to the now popular DIY […]

Children’s Playmate

Six months behind the first issue of Thrasher, but still highly influential. Children’s Playmate, the June/July 1981 issue from Children’s Health Publications. No other skateboarding content in this issue. Not bad for a goat, a duck, and a chicken.

Friday T&A on S&A: She’s fond of that skateboard.

Arabella is either really fond of that skateboard or this is a scene from a remake of Ghost with Ray Barbee in the Patrick Swayze roll. It’s from the folks at Front magazine who have appeared here before, and in fact seem to have a skateboard fetish in general. A random click on Melissa’s Sexy […]

Florida Skateboarding Life

Life Magazine covers skateboarding in Florida courtesy of photographer John Falls who went down to Florida to cover the Florida Bowl Rider’s Cup in Kona. And holy cow, that looks like some more artifacts from Thrasherland-style parks in those photos. It’s at this point that I’d like to remind Rick that I still know exactly […]

You are dumb

If she was blonde I’d insert some sort of dumb blonde joke but that would be insulting to dumb blondes. This chic is on TV, the new 90210. From US magazine. – Thanks to Mrs Kilwag for the tip.

Tony Hawk has Fast Company

Tony Hawk had a short interview in the How Did I get Here? column of the October issue of Fast Company. Turns out there is interesting reading material at my mother in-law’s house.

Friday T&A on S&A: Lady Gaga

That’s no lady, that’s… oh I don’t know. Lady Tries Too Hard with a skateboard, shot by Terry Richardson for an upcoming issue of the French fashion mag Purple. http://mother-monster.com/ [Source: Rushcard] – Thanks to Eric Cherry and Karl Whetzel for the tip.

Good, but NSFW

Skateboards on the cover of Good magazine. Conahan isn’t a fan of online magazines that use the fake page turning mechanism. I wonder how he feels about online magazines that have “issues.” This might actually be a print magazine, I’m not sure. In any case, I think this issue is about crappy jobs and the […]

Reservation Horse Tow

This is from a February, 1980 National Geographic article on the Apache Indian Reserve. Genius. Simple, yet effective. Pure. Enlarge-o-rama. – Thanks to Ryan Mann for the tip.