Here’s a few photos of recent work at Brooklyn Street Skate Spot thanks to Pete Lewis at Foul Weather Press.

  This quick sketch from Blockhead artist Ron Cameron shows the best way to shoot a board at home. Ron is working on a book and sent me this so I could photograph a super nice and rare Blockhead deck I found  in an old toy store in Belgium last year. The method works just fine and is tested and approved by Sean Cliver himself.

Can you tell that I’m sort of on vacation from S&A? I’m thinking about you, loyal readers, if that helps.

An ice cream cake in the freezer at a Portland area Dairy Queen. Sir? What are you doing? Can I help you with that? No Sir, I ‘m afraid I can’t let you take the top off unless you are going to buy it. I’m going to have to ask you to leave, Sir.

I’ve been told this commercial airs on TV but so far I haven’t seen it. Donny sent me a phone cam capture, and Simon Woodstock found it on YouTube. Ray Barbee in a Just for Men commercial after the jump.

Salon.com has an article on why ESPN’s efforts birng the X Games to a worldwide audience aren’t as successful as they’d like. Are the unsuccessful? I’m not sure. Are you paying attention? That’s the main part of the article. Essentially, what ESPN seems to miss, is that that the statement “I am a skateboarder” is a far different one than “I am a basketball player”. The author Matt Reevy get’s it. There’s are a couple good quotes in there (like this post title) that sum it up pretty well. I guess my mission here at S&A is finished.