Inglewood LA Street Plaza

Inglewood Street Plaza

Spohnranch has a new street plaza opening in the Inglewood neighborhood of Wilmington California. It’s replacing some prefab ramps with prefab concrete. They actually placed the whole park on the existing slab, traced it, and then cut out the concrete and laid the new pieces in place. They predict a lot of communities will be […]

SOTW 9-22-08 Bonsor Skatepark full pipe

SOTW 8-22-08: Bonsor Full Pipe

This week’s Shot of the Week is courtesy of Dylan Davies. It’s a nice 4×5 camera shot of Grant from New Zealand at the Bonsor skatepark full pipe in British Columbia, Canada. Every time I see pictures of this park it makes me think it’s some old relic, but I guess it’s actually from this […]

Cannon Beach Skatepark

Cannon Beach Skatepark

Cannon Beach is a sleepy little beach town that is just about 10 minutes south of Seaside, Oregon. Cannon Beach’s new park opened in May of 2008. Placed to Ride built a new concrete park on the site of the old one which was essentially just a steep “E” shaped asphalt banks on a flat […]

Team Pain builds Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs half done

Team Pain is about halfway done in Colorado Springs. Catch three pictures of the bowls after the jump. What’s next? The street area, of course. Thanks to Tito for the pics. How are those inverts coming?

Tom Wally Innouye at Donald skatepark

SOTW 9-8-08: Wally Innouye at Donald

This week’s Shot of the Week is from Carl Warren, and it’s a shot of Tom “Wally” Inouye with his wheels at the edge of the coping on the hip of the bowl in Donald, Oregon. Check out the full frame version.

Gresham skatepark RFP

The City of Gresham, Oregon released a request for proposals yesterday. Some items of interest: The RFP calls for a covered skatepark. Descriptions of obstacles and features describe a street plaza style park. The first half is supposed to be complete by December 2009. It’s about 15 miles out from Portland.

Taking the Power Back: One Man’s Quest for Light

“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.  It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.” -Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 On August 29th, Derek Anderson (Mark Conahan’s age) committed a breach of peace when he scaled a 300-foot crane located […]

More pictures from Battle Ground - Oregon Trifecta stop.

2008 Oregon Trifecta: More Battle Ground pics

OK, the last of our 2008 Oregon Trifecta coverage has finally come straggling in. That’s Bacon’s Tim Johnson in the shot above. Check it out.

SOTW 9-01-08: Chris Miller at Pier Park

SOTW 9-1-08: Chris Miller at Pier Park

This week’s Shot of the Week is Chris Miller going over the mouse hole at Pier Park, making it look effortless, and it comes to us from Rich Burton who has more shots from the same session EPM. Just yesterday Miller was still being talked about at Pier Park. I’d like to see him enter […]