Visited the new Gresham skatepark being built by Dreamland today and took a few snaps. There’s a lot packed into this thing. The park is about 7 miles east of the Ed Benedict skatepark on SE Powell Blvd. No word on opening day (the Gresham website calls for it to be subtantially completed in January 2010) or how soon before they start on phase 2. More photos after the jump.

More skateable architecture. A little bumpy perhaps, but who’s complaining? Good thing I had ths one in the can because I’m calling in sick to S&A today. Enjoy the Henderson Waves bridge if you are in Singapore. They are lenient on gum chewing, so I’m sure this spot is not a bust. Not a Singapore local? Head on over to Designboom. – Thanks to Alex Shults for the tip, via Sleestak.

My wife picked this up at Target for about $10. She buys things for me all the time with the understanding that I usually return them after photographing them, but it looks like this guy has found a permanent home here. It’s kind of weird looking and causes a lot of double takes from visitors. The “09” stands for 2009, as these things are supposed to be limited editions, but it with the helmet it makes him look like a football player holding a skateboard he stole from some skatepunk he beat up. Ah, nostalgia. Enlarge-o-rama. Alternate view after the jump.

I’ve been contemplating some designs for skate spots in my head lately. One idea that I’ve had for a while consists of parallel tracks of wave like bumps varying in frequency and staggered side by side. Watching this video was both disappointing (because it’s kind of been done) and validating at the same time. It looks pretty great for found terrain, but if it was built for skating I’d lie to see the tracks staggered and directly adjacent. I have to applaud the length of these things though, they certainly didn’t skimp on the concrete. – Thanks to our resident secret bike spy in the house, Mike Estes. Update: Added some actual skate footage too.

My inbox has been flooded with protests and requests that I ban the entity known as Daddy Yo. It’s not worth all the drama and distraction, and so I am taking the easy way out and reinstating the Daddy Yo ban. You can follow Daddy Yo at his own blog which I assume is going to dedicated to the patent on his mountainboard hybrid. The innovation here is supposed to be that the trucks are mounted on the upturned nose and tail, although I swear I’ve already seen this before, recently, and at the very least, on the Wheelee Board. I couldn’t find the actual patent online, but Michael was kind enough to send me the text from the application.

We had a sparse couple of days this week, so I thought I should do another Saturday Starrs, Digging into the Scott Starr archives this week for a segment from a news feature show called Evening Magazine that originally aired in 1983, two years from the release of the Bones Brigade Video Show. Peralta was one smart cookie. I’m sure he engineered getting this thing on air. There’s about the same amount of footage of Stacy talking about Rodney as there is actual footage of Rodney. Two points of interest: This is possibly the first public video evidence of the flatground ollie, and Rodney Mullen sounds a little like Michael Jackson in these clips. Listen to the squeaking of those truck bushings.

Check out a few skateable features at the The Julliard School of Music in New York, NY designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro Architects. Courtesy of SpaceInvading. – Thanks to Skate D for the tip.

BBQ at Toxic Skatein Vancouver, Washington on Saturday the 5th. Sponsored by Merde and Bacon.