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Zarosh Eggleston is busy building his own little skatopia called Cachagua Land on hill top in California. Helping to fund it along the way, hand screened Platipuss skateboards from the multitalented artist himself. I saw this DIY concrete extravaganza in a video before. I can’t recall what it was in though, maybe Strange Notes? Spend some time trolling around Platipuss (sic), there’s a lot of interesting goings on going on over there. Zarosh accepts donations for concrete.A big enough donation will net you a limited edition t-shirt or deck. Of course you can buy one one of the others outright too. Check out his screen rig up top. I’d love to pick his brain on that. That, and why he strayed from the traditional spelling of Platypus.

– Thanks to Eric Shea for the tip.

The grand opening for the Swell Art Show in New York City is today (July 1) in the Chelsea neighborhood. The exhibit takes place in four different locations, however the relevant gallery is the NYEHaus, a hard to find house turned gallery located at 358 W 20th Street (between 8th and 9th avenue). Three excellent surf/skate artists are on display there, Steve Olson, Craig Stecyk, and Michael Halsband. After the jump are some pictures from the preview last night. The show is from July 1st till August 6th.

Elmo is getting to be a regular here. His stance is getting better. Chutes and ladders… I was thinking it would be fun to make an oversized Chutes and Ladders game board based on stairs and railings, and using Tech Deck figures as the game figures. The metaphor doesn’t quite work with skateboarding where sliding down the railing is a positive experience and not a punishment.

– Thanks to Mark Pendergrass for the tip

The S&A secret agent form Amsterdam found these mannequins at a http://www.desigual.com store in Amsterdam. I say “secret” agent because he comes from a country with a comparatively liberal attitude towards sex and drugs, and yet he feels it’s best to remain closeted about being an adult skateboarder. Sorry Matthijs, you’ve been outted. It’s not a choice, you were born that way. Come to Portland and live your lifestyle out in the open. Congratulations on your excellent taste in grip tape.

From the Flickr photostream of Andy J Miller’s. look for it on a t-shirt somewhere.

Stock image photos of hipster skateboarders and photoshopped stickers of social networking icons. Not much else to say about this login screen for Yahoo mail, except…

– Thanks to Andy, Andrew, G… … and Nik for the tip.