Skate and Annoy: Daily
Tony Hawk Foundation in Detroit
Here’s another video about the Detroit’s Ride It sculpture park, this one from the Tony Hawk Foundation, that just raised another 25k for the project. Portland’s own Evergreen Skateparks is there working on it.
Tree Top Apple Sauce
This is Packaging from Tree Top Apple sauce that calls to mind a certain Hack Job.
Lego vert session
It’s a lego vert session. What more do you need to know? It looks like it’s a combination of stop action and computer animation. Like all good skate videos, it’s got a slam section.
Just Move! Stampgate
I saw these and tried to find some to add to my collection of skateboard related future landfill but they weren’t even available at usps.com. Then I discoveredthe reason why, they were recalled! An entire run of stamps for the U.S. Post Office is going to be destroyed because the designs promote unsafe behavior in kids! The Just Move! series features skateboarders without hemlmet and pads, an at bat baseball player without a helmet, soccer player without shin guards, and other assorted so-called unsafe behavior. Won’t someone please think of the children?!! Yes, please think of the children who will inherit a government whose postal system can’t stop losing money. Unbelievably, these concerns were raised by the President’s Council on Fitness. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! [Source: Postal Mag]- Via Tim Jamison on Facebook.
Billy R(ip)uff stamp
I bought this Australian stamp from 1990 on Catawiki for $1. It’s actually a postcard with a stamp and a postmark of Stanwell park. I guess the guy could be Billy Ruff, since he is riding a G@S ‘Clown puppet’ bootleg deck from 1987! The clown on the stamp doesn’t hold a puppet and there are no names or brands, but still …
Confusion Zine & Blackriver
That’s Skreech on the cover of the latest Confusion zine. Apparently he’s turning over a new leaf after evaluating his life via Dragonslayer, so he’s going by Joshua instead of Josh. He didn’t ditch the “Skreech” moniker though. He’s no dummy when it comes to marketing. In addition to the Skreech interview, this shot of Elias Assmuth on a skateboard made out of a fingerboarding ramp got my attention. Radness! Those guys at Blackriver Ramps take their skateboarding every bit as seriously as their fingerboarding, or vice versa.
Rad epoxy
As seen at a Big Lots store, half off the last price marked = 25 cents. At first glance that RAD sticker looked like a straight copy of Read And Destroy magazine. It says “Epoxy Stickers,” but what would really be rad is Epoxies stickers. – Thanks to John Egertson for the scan.
Annoying Kid of the Month
Since we got all bent out of shape last time, I’m not going to show you any identifying features of this kid, except for the soccer cleats he wore for a couple hours at the skatepark adjacent to his game. Good thing mom brought the scooter. And yes, every GVK video might as well be Annoying Old Man of the Month, so stuff it!
Fake Natas sighting
Few people know or remember that while he was recovering from his ankle injury, Natas had to resort to a career as a part time department store model to make ends meet. That’s not Natas, or at least it’s Not-as.
Rip City PDX grand re-opening
Rip City Skate grand reopening on Friday. This thing should be skateable by then. Yeah, it’s a blurry cell phone shot, sorry. Maybe there’s something to those Nokia commercials. The new location is kind of accross the street from Jiffy Lube. It’s basically a half a block south of NE 33rd and Sandy Blvd. UPDATE: Added a little video of the event.











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