It’s time for another installment of crap Commodore 64 skateboarding games, and this time I’m showing Skatin’ USA, a 1990 release by Atlantis Software, a UK company that would go out of business in 1992 after an 8 year stint. It looks like the premise of the game is an American kid on a skateboard battling English Punks. Seems like those two parties ought be be natural allies and not enemies!

The Thrasher edition is undeniably the coolest Polaroid camera I’ve seen. This is no easy feat as their cameras already had an appealing, iconic design. No two are exactly the same because the graphics are manually applied through hydro dipping. Despite that hand touch they are priced the same as their standard Gen 3 cameras. You might be thinking that you can’t really take skate photos with a Polaroid camera, but there’s sort of a workaround for that.

Blik is selling self-adehesive vinyl wall art with Keith Haring’s skateboard drawing. You would be forgiven if you thought this was just art done in his style and approved by his estate, but he did indeed draw this when he was still alive. This version has been cleaned up and given a different color way. Turns out now there are several color waysand line variations of this artwork being sold in various types of prints in “open editions” now.

Yes those are two different eras in the post title, but it totally makes sense. For $479 you can buy a skateboard with some 3D printed plastic panels glued onto it and then spray painted in what counts as “over 12 hours of 3D printing and meticulous hand-finishing.” Yes, that face is the face you should be making if someone tries to convince you this is worth almost $500, but you can get yours from Gimme Hoop in one of 3 finishes. If you buy one, friends will ask where you found it and admire your taste.

I can’ get enough of these Cold War era Russian skateboards. Here’s a board from 1986 courtesy of a cat named Jah Fish of Facebook. Translated text says the price was 26 Rubles, or about $34 possibly, according to some speculation found in various discussion on the internet. It’s impossible to say because you could not legally trade Rubles for dollars then. I have no idea what the buying power of 26 Rubles would be other than this skateboard. I’ve seen sources claim average monthly income in Russia would have been anywhere from 190 to 266 Rubles, so this skateboard would have cost about 12% – 14% of that.

These aren’t the first Devo skateboards, there was a possible bootleg as well as an official model from Globe circa 2008, although I never actually saw them for sale anywhere. It’s all moot now, as we dance the pool to these six new official Devo decks you can pre-order a the official Devo merch site. Five of the boards feature art based on the first 5 album covers I can see omitting Smooth Noodle Maps and even Total Devo but what about Shout! and definitely Something for Everyone? Oh yes, we have to mention the truly devolved Energy Dome model! All the boards feature different top graphics as well. These look great, and they should because they cost $120 (!) each except for the Energy Dome model, which is $150.

Another board from the old Canadian company Dominon. It’s no Rood Dood, but it’s still kind of interesting. This one almost looks like they licensed the likeness of Looney Tunes character The Road Runner. Who knows maybe they did. There’s an artist signature that looks something like T. Pailot or T. Millot, and other small text that could be a copyright, but doesn’t look like it says Warner Brothers. – Thanks to Blis Jo Toen for the pics.

The orange-faced turd with a combover that sits in the Whitehouse thinks Portland is “Like living in hell” and has hinted he may send the National Guard here. Meanwhile, Portland does not give a toss what that jackass thinks, and we all remember what happened the last time he sent unmarked, masked police to randomly kidnap people off the streets. That truly was like living in a dystopian hell. Get bent Donny. This “Portland is what me make it” sign is in the window at Crafty Wonderland in their Alberta Street location, and has been for a few years. It’s kind of a reverse Portlandia episode, instead of “Put a bird on it” it’s “Put a skateboard on it.”

One of the actors/operators of the E.T. suit is Matthew De Merrit who was 12 years old at the time the movie was filmed. He was born with no legs and still uses a skateboard to get around, although it looks like he may have graduated to electric version these days. The photo above right is from the L.A. 40th anniversary screening in 2022.

Camp Snap 8 is the latest in the category of digital products designed to mimic old analog media. I was prepared to write this off as unnecessary and probably overpriced but after some cursory investigation I have to admit this thing look s pretty cool. It’s moderately priced at $150 and seems to deliver super-8 style video footage in a really cool form factor. Sure, you could take video with any digital camera and post process it to achieve the same look but this all-in-one approach is cheap enough to be worth buying if it fits the aesthetic you want to achieve. There are a couple different settings but it’s pretty basic in operation. The only thing I could see making this better would be if you could affix some aftermarket lens adapters like a fisheye. Who knows, maybe you can jerry rig something up to it. The cam is not primarily marketed towards skateboarders but they do feature in the product page. Hey Camp Snap, You guys know where to send the review unit!