Be careful what you sign. You may think you are just going to appear in a local paper, but you may end up plastered all over the packaging for consumer goods. It happened to Benji Galloway, and he ended up on the box of Vizio TV’s.

As promised, more skateboard hygiene products. I first came across this on the old Grand Royale site, the magazine and record label that used to be run by the Beastie Boys. This was back in 2000 or so, and the fact that this skateboard shaped container existed out there somewhere had been in the back of mind since then. They didn’t have any explanation, just the picture, so I downloaded it. Earlier this year I was doing some “research” for Skate and Annoy and I stumbled on one for sale. Turns out it was from Avon, and contains bubble bath. I picked this one up for about 7$. Totally worth it.

Well after last week’s fiasco, I dug up this shot from when I went on a road trip to Boston back in ’88 or ’89. I can’t remember. This shot is an enlargement from one I took at a spot called Metals. I don’t remember the skater’s name, but he was just one of the many friendly, stoked locals I met. Everyone flowed when I was there. This was probably some sort of wall jam plant off the side of the metal bank that was an freestanding sculpture. Check out the full frame Shot of the Week.

For those of you not familiar, the Principality Sealand is micronation off the coast of the U.K.. It’s basically an old antiaircraft gun platform anchored in international waters and later abandoned after the end WWII. Since 1967 it’s been occupied by an eccentric man and his family, who declared it a sovereign nation. So far it has survived foreign invasion (really) and legal challenges from the U.K.. It seems the only “industry” is an internet connection that provides colocation and no copyright laws. For security reasons, they don’t allow visitors. In 2006 there was an electrical fire and helicopter recuse that caused the principality to incur a healthy debt, which is probably how Red Bull was able to talk their way onto the “island,” no doubt with the some help from the corporate check book. And so now, we give you (via Red Bull), skateboarding in the world’s smallest country, the world’s most expensive one minute skate video. – Thanks to Eric Cherry for the tip.

If you are going to be in Hollywood on June 12th, here’s your chance to win two tickets to the 11th Annual TransWorld SKATEboarding Awards, courtesy of the online skateshop called Gnarled. Let’s get this straight, we’re not sending you to Hollwood. Instead, Gnarled.com will send you two tickets to get in the door. All you have to do is leave a comment in this post about how much you love TransWorld SKATEboarding, and the funniest one will win. Contest ends at midnight, Pacific time on June 5th. Winner will be chosen by… my wife.

Ryan Sheckler is a doll, and I mean literally, or at least virtually. Check out the Ryan Sheckler dress up doll at Stardoll. Sorry about the knee pads, couldn’t resist. Sheckler is the only other skater available, but they do have Dennis Rodman. I still love Dennis Rodman. Yes, I want to gay-marry him. You can even make your own dolls. I tried to make a GVK dress up doll, but all them ended up looking like a very crazy looking girl. – Thanks to Ben Roberts for the tip.

Mike Perkins, the owner of Toxic Skate in Vancouver, Washington came out to Skate Life NW last weekend check out the wares. He was handing out pens made from recycled skate decks. He wasn’t selling them or anything, just trying to figure out what to do with thrashed decks. Pretty cool.

So there’s a contest series that is half snowboarding , half skateboarding, set across three nonconsecutive days. I’m not sure how it works, but apparently they’ve been doing it for 11 years already. The whole thing takes place on Mount Hood, and the first day is June 12th. The skateboarding events are going down at the Windells facilities, and Bonfire Snow is the other main sposnor. Flyer and bonus shot of Steve Reeves after the jump.

Sleestock 2009 is this weekend, June 6th and 7th in Hood River. I had planned to attend but the concrete doesn’t wait for anyone. I might be able to make it out for a bit on Sunday. If you get into town early on Friday June 5th, Wally Inouye’s IPS skate shop will have three live bands (Pink Gravel, OAC, & The Vipers) as part of Hood River’s First Friday, starting at 5pm..

It’s… imminent. Photoshop work by Kvon.