Help finish the Lincoln City snakerun. Dreamland has donated time, materials and money over the years to make Lincoln City the best skatepark possible. The local kids have also been recruited to donate time and labor. Here’s your chance to help finish the snakerun. Skaters for Portland Skateparks has set up a Lincoln City Skatepark benefit fund. SPS is a registered non-profit so get over there and make a tax-deductible donation to help finish the park’s latest addition. SEE the construction pics

Oh man, it’s going to be so good. (Updated)

Apparently all you have to do is ask. These images are from last weekend. According to our anonymous source, a surf shop gave up the location with only a slight runaround. Come to think about it, that’s the same way I found out about the Nude Bowl as a youth visiting from the Midwest. I went to the nearest skateshop and just asked. But getting back to the Graveside scenery, it looks guh-narly. One tightly cropped panoramic shot after the jump. Don’t ask, we aren’t telling.

ShOP stands for Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research (er… SHOPSR?) Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research (ShOP) is an online forum for the publication and distribution of peer-reviewed work in the Social Sciences and related disciplines. Started by the Postgraduate community at Sheffield University, Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research publishes: Articles which provide a detailed, systematic and theoretically based analysis of the phenomena of society Contributions to conceptual, theoretical or methodological debates within the social sciences Studies and articles relating to current social and political issues Back in 2003, ShOP Issue 7 focused on skateboarding. I’ve been know to ramble a bit too much on esoteric skateboarding rants, but ShOP has six papers with a total of 134 pages covering various social aspects of skateboarding from an anthropological and zzzzzzzzz…… [Photo: Background- Ryan Hass]

… are soon parted. While sifting through the surf and skate detritus at 4Q Conditioning the other day, I became obsessed with an old model of Rat Fink on a skateboard called Superfink. All of the sudden I needed one right away, despite the fact that I was completely not into monsters and hotrod stuff as a kid and preferred WWII airplane models. The original Superfink model came out in 1964, but was reissued by Revell in 2004. Ed Roth’s official site is out of stock, but I found one soon enough for $13 bucks. The vintage ones don’t appear to be showing up for sale anywhere, so I pulled the trigger and it showed up on my door step a few days later. As usual, I dissected and over-documented almost all the fun out of it. As a result, I’ve taken to adding the word “fink” to words whenever I can. “Fink” is such a cool word. Repeat it over and over in your head. If you don’t like it, then fink you!

Marek Litinski sent in some pics from his recent trip to his homeland, Czechoslovakia. This spot is located in Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. They’ve got a web link for the skatepark complete with a history and construction photos. Of course I can’t read it, but it looks like it was built out in the middle of nowhere in an old government building, as evidenced by the official portraits various nefarious Russians above. Here’s what Marek had to say: About that wooden bowl… Scene sucked, to the extend of non-existence. Placed in very small village in an obscure Czech country side. Posiblly a Czech type Donald situation. So I wouldn’t be surprised if one day somebody ripped it a new one, which isn’t gonna be spectacular in any way because those trannys are like six feet tall. That bank wallride is around twelve, which makes it not so easy to skate so thats where you get your stoke on. What’s the meaning of the Donald reference? Donald Oregon and Putting hte cart before the horse. The city must have gotten a grant from somewhere and decided to build a park “for the kids” before there was any skateboarding to speak of. Now…

Man, when I don’t make a timely post you guys get all over me. I was saving this for a rainy day, but I keep getting tips on it, so here it is. Modern Design Classics remastered with skateboards. This is a collection called Skate Study House now showing at a gallery in France called Colette. They’ve got one of those web sites that is expertly made and fun to look at, but is a pain in the ass to actually use. To get to the pictures you have to click on the jumping News robot and then look for the dancing Gallery robot. It’s all in Flash and there’s no direct link. Skate House Study is supposed to be an homage to the Case Study House project, which was an expirement where major architects were commissioned to design inexpensive modern homes during the 40’s up until 1966. I’m not sure how they are an homage other than the style of furniture (sans skateboards) would have fit well in those houses, except for the inexpensive part. The collection was made by Pierre-André Senizergues and Gil Le Bon de Lapointe. Who are those guys? You may recognize PAS as the man…

Ryan Hass writes: Here is the answer to prefab in New England.  Back in 2000-2003 these parks were springing up all over the place.  Asphalt footers, huge cracks and terrible seams are par for the course.  Not to mention these objects are usually dropped into place with little or no thought about layout. Suh-weeeet!