Little girls intimidating grown men, as seen in a TV commercial for Norms Restaurants in California. The rider is Annika Vrklan. [Source: Hoopla Skateboards]

MC says the quick ones ride skateboards.

Dan Dengler makes skateboards from cross sections of trees, among other things. We’ve seen it before, but not at this scale. They are gigantic, and immense, hence Gimmense.

Steve Olson baffles paparazzi who can only identify him as an old man who carries a skateboard. The Daily Mail reports: He looks old enough to be her father, is so badly turned out he could be accused of not owning a mirror, and carries a skateboard to perhaps retain a sense of his youth. They don’t identify him by name once! He’s just a random old man with a Peter Pan complex. So… excellent. Olson was apparently dating an actress named Paz de la Huerta, who had a brief and really annoying series of appearances on Boardwalk Empire. I guess she’s going to be on again, which I am not looking forward to, because her character is the worst. Just like I love the movie Sid & Nancy, but I can’t separate Chloe Webb from the character she plaid in it, she was just too good at it. UPADTE: OLD STORY! I was cracking up so hard I didn’t even look at the date! That’s a relief I don’t have to watch her on BE again, no offense Steve. – Thanks to Kyle Duvall for the tip.

Antonio Gaspar is a physiotherapist. I’m not sure how that differs from a physical therapist, but maybe that’s the difference that allowed him to “develop” the Fizio, which is a skateboard made by Powa bungie corded to an equally futuristic looking stand. The purpose? To make physical therapy more fun. I guess you are supposed to wiggle around on that thing while it’s in the stand. Once you’re healed enough you can ditch the stand and go skateboarding. I’ll bet you can buy a Wii fit and a skateboard for the price of this thing. Powa makes a lot of stealth bomber looking skateboards. [ Source: Longboardism ] – Thanks to Matthijs for the tip

Hermes style wings fir your shoes. Shoe + wings = shwings. These aren’t intentionally marketed at skateboarders per se, more like marketed with skateboarding. – Thanks to Josh Burt for the photo.

Special 40th Anniversary Santa Cruz Skateboards wine made by Joseph George Wines, and available for about the same price as a reissue board. NHS has really taken the quality of their corporate labeled schwag up a notch. – Thanks to Berlin Dave for the tip.

Sometimes I get PR for industry events, and sometimes I take them up on their offer to attend the event under the guise of “covering it,” which usually means I get in free with my kids, and we all enjoy it for the most part. It’s fun, but I’m not paying for it, and I can take it or leave it each time. Sometimes I feel guilty, not for the big corporation, but for the freelance PR agent that gave me the press credentials and got essentially nothing from it. I hope that doesn’t affect your job performance review. To make up for it, here are some photos from the San Francisco stop of the Dew Tour. Thanks to Lorrie Palmos for sending these in. You might remember her from her long standing “Shot of the Week” that’s been up since June. It might be time to retire that part of the web site. (The SOTW curator spot is open!)

Blowing It starts off with a moving eight minute tribute fallen crew member Keita Farnsworth who died in 2012. The rest is dedicated to three years of good friends and good sessions. It’s amazing how many spots there are in the Oregon area. Watch Jake Arciniega Doug Weaver’s Blowing It after the jump.

Skateboards made from recycled aluminum. There’s no guarantee it was a beer can in a past life, but Beercan Boards sound better than “Diet Pepsi can Boards.” They’ve taken the old aluminum death plank board of yesteryear and upgraded it with a channel beam which I assumed was to give it stiffness, but it turns out that’s also part of the “TruckTrax” system that allows you to micromanage your wheelbase to your OCD heart’s content. Who needs that? Downhill guys, of course. The boards aren’t even expensive compared to their wooden brethren. Right now, the corporate site only features downhill boards, but Keystone Skate Supply also has some more traditional shapes. I don’t know if those are also traditionally priced because Keystone’s web site is kind of jacked. To help preserve the ends, Beercan boards have “bottle caps” made from 100% recycled milk jugs. In the event that you do wear it out, you can recycle your recycled board and get a new one for $40. I’ve never seen one or ridden one, but the concept seems pretty solid, especially given the target audience. If I had a beef it would be that those concaves look a little clunky. It’s…