There’s more than one paleolithic skatepark out there waiting to be re-sessioned. This one near St. Jean de Luz, France might require a mountain board with some 100mm 55a wheels to get rolling. The asphalt looks very pitted. Pretty mild terrain for a skatepark, even by 70’s standard. Maybe the bigger stuff is under the dirt. Check it out on, errrr… FatBMX.

If you’re a model or a regular gal posing for a photographer’s portfolio, it’s only a matter of time before someone sticks a skateboard in you hands. Hey, you’re casual, radical, and fashionable. These photos were both brought to my attention by MC, so you can guess what his web surfing habits are like… Up top: Valerie Van Der Graaf photographed by? These pictures are i a few places on the Interwebs™, but I can’t find a credit for them so here’s a random link. Bottom: From the portfolio of Shannon Lee Miller, as seen on White Zine.

Forgot to post these actually, from the Team Pain park in Arvada, Colorado. Photos courtesy of COSkate.com. A nice video montage too, after the jump.

This week’s Shot of the Week is from Micah Breshears. It’s Rex Pearson at Battle Ground, Washington. The thumbnail above is cropped horizontal. Too tall for the front page, so hit the enlargement.

Skate Bench #1 on sale for $255(!) Which is $75 off! Originally part of a kickstarter campaign. Looks pretty cool, but the price is hard to swallow. Videos after the jump. Fancy pics at Kem Studio.

The Sidewalk Shop is an excellent place if you’ve got a fetish for pre-urethane wheeled skateboards and/or crows. I only wish they’d credit the source of the old photos and let you enlarge the images of the old boards. Definitely worth spending your time there.

From the Onion, truly America’s greatest news source. I heard a piece about the Onion on NPR’s This American Life. As interesting as it was, it kind of sucked the joy out of it a little. Reminded me of a science fiction story I read where scientists analyzed humor and discovered the actual cause of what made people laugh, at which point nothing was funny to anyone, anywhere, anymore. What was the name of that story? Anyone? [Source: Westway]

I’ve got a couple milk crates worth of old urethane skateboard wheels that I’m not sure why I saved, or what I thought I was going to do with them. I have used about 12 sets of them to stack screens freshly coated with emulsion for screen printing, but that got annoying so I built a drying rack. I have I’ve often wondered about all the wads of inert urethane buried in landfill. Sure, you can grind them up and mix them with fresh urethane or make earrings out of them, but it’s plastic, and eventually it just gets harder and harder, and the wold only needs a finite amount of lunch trays. Surprisingly, a species of mushroom has been discovered in the rain forests of Ecuador that can and will survive on polyurethane in landfill conditions, so you know, go ahead and enjoy your unalienable right to use urethane as you want. Hell, build a pipeline from Canada to pump wheels directly to your country. Good news, actually, but where are we going to build the urethane eating farms, and what the hell are we going to do with all those mushrooms? Also, if you haven’t already noticed, I’m…