Fashion spread with Chanel skateboard for a magazine called Grazia, Spain, with help from La General Surfera. Source: Visual Optimism

A college somewhere in Seattle. Kind of funny that they’d rather bolt on a bunch of chunks of aluminum and spray paint a stencil on this ledge than let someone skate it.

Kevin sent in some pics in response to the post on the backyardskate project. Same idea, bigger scale. UPDATE: added a picture of the finished bump.

Thanks to Mrs Kilwag for the photo. She did not happen to catch the price on this sculpture of a frog on a skateboard.

This week’s Shot of the Week (Who am I kidding? It should be “Shot of the Month”) is from Lorrie Palmos. Nostalgia is great, but moves like this never go out of style.This shot made me smile while wading through a sea of noise on Facebook.

Skate scavenger (excuse me, sKavenger) hunt in Portland this Friday in Portland. More info at shift2bikes.org. Let’s get bent out of shape about it!

The original ‘Alice’ from artist Jim Phillips is very sought-after and easily sells for a few big ones, but the counterfeits are quite popular too nowadays. Also, the graphic must have been spotted by various manufacturers in the past, who appear to have put very different efforts in copying the original Santa Cruz model from 1989. So go ahead and waste your time looking  for the differences!

Hey there, I’m building a concrete nipple/pump bump at my house & figured I want it symmetrical so constructed a crude rotating aluminum pipe screed, figuring it should all work in theory but wondering if anyone done anything similar & of any problems in doing it this way. Pouring it this weekend so figured I’d put it out there for any useful hints or tips. Thanks Check it out on Backyard Skatepark