Smile On Your Brother is a skate art auction to benefit Contributor, a Canadian initiative to donate skateboards to kids who can’t afford them. Looks like starting bid is $125 but hey, they’re completes! Featured board is by Devin Barrette. Auction runs between August 24th and October 25th, 2009.

Jessica Starkweather at the Oregon-you-know-what, you know-know-where edition. I take this shot of her every time I see her at Pier Park, though usually the timing is better, as it’s actually a double truck frontside carve grind. Enlarge-o-rama.

14 year old Kyle Ohlson keeps sending me photos. I’ve advised him to size down his watermarks and lay of the photoshop filters, and he takes my advice and sends me more photos. So here you go Kyle. This shot above is Jake Selover. Apparently the locals at this Bend skate spot have taken to wearing costumes on their Friday night sessions just for the heck of it. Whether or not they are also taking advice from GVK is unknown. More after the jump.

Weird/old/crappy/cool skateboard of the month this time is courtesy of Andy Cvar, who bought it off German eBay a while back. It may not seem like much up front, but hit the jump to see why this board made me snort my Miesterbrau out of my nose with involuntary laughter. If you’re not a P.E. fan and don’t get the title reference, here’s the bonus clue: He’s the principal on Strangers With Candy.

Oops! St. Helena California

Helena Police log reports increasing attendance at Grindline’s new St. Helena, California Skatepark.

Wednesday, Aug. 12

1618 — Report of approximately nine kids skating without helmets at the unfinished Crane Park skatepark. Police responded and told the kids not to come back until the park opens.

Friday, Aug. 14

2042 — A man on Main Street complained of a stomach ache. He said he’d been drinking all day and hadn’t had anything to eat since the morning. He was taken to St. Helena Hospital for evaluation.

Just what the title says. Looks like the Surf Expo was held in a giant, empty building. Why not set up some street obstacles? I mean, why not? I think GVK was in charge of the music for this one.

This would have been a good photo, were it not for the fact the skater has no head.

You go to work and you come
You sit around every day
You got a lotta, lotta
Jackin’ down the street on my funky three
Tell me why there’s people bigger than me
Six foot yesterday, now I’m five foot three
‘Cause I’m headless

On paper, it’s perplexing. But hearing it in context is another thing. Name the band jack wads.

Colorado’s News Leader reports that a bear who got stuck overnight in the bowl at the Dreamland’s Snomass skatepark was able to use a ladder to climb out. I wonder if they tried giving him a skateboard. We had a similar problem with homo sapiens at Pier Park.

Here’s a shot of Mark Partain that I took at some event that I was at. Can’t seem to remember what it was called, or when it was. All I can remember is someone saying the crowd smells like beer. Enlarge-o-rama.