As seen in the Miami Herald: Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler: millionaire and icon at 16. I’m sooooo happy for you. No, really. What’s there to be jealous about, youth, talent, absurd disposable income? At least I have this crappy web site.

They are all over the place, popping up like baseball fields. This is the golden age of skateparks kiddies. Make sure you take advantage of it. News of eight new parks after the jump.

TV ratings are down in the Dew Action Sports Tour’s second season, but attendance and sponsorship are up and officials are optimistic.

Ok. Not as clever as Do the Dude. Attendance up? That doesn’t mean squat if the ratings are down. Corporate America will pull the plug if you can’t bring home the bacon. They’ve done it before.

OK. Here we go again. Another site launched trying to target the social networking aspects of MySpace and YouTube directly towards skateboarders. This one goes as far as to have a press release spelling it out. On the surface it makes sense, but the fact that they have a press release in the first place should be a tip off. Smells like teen marketing all right. The title of the press release is “YouTube and Google Video are too Mainstream for Skateboarding Culture” So it’s Mycityskates.com to the rescue right?

Troy Sliter sent in some pics of Pier Park. Some are from opening day. Others, not so much. Rather than integrate them into the already existing feature, I’ll just put them up here. More after the jump.

We’ve edited some footage from an interview we did with Warren a little over a year ago. In the interview he talks about skateboarding and about life and death. We’d like to give back to the skate community like he did for so many years.

Here’s a link to a really good video interview of Warren Bolster put together by Pam Rittelmeyer and Mike Papadopoulos. It’s got interesting bits about the industry and a puts a human face on the name behind the classic photographs. He talks a little about his personal difficulties, and you really get a sense of how passionate he was about skateboarding and surfing. It was filmed right before the Concrete Wave collection of his photographs was published. Highly recommended. Thanks to Billy Runaway for the tip.

Meet some modern-day pioneers who turned Oregon into one of the most well-known skatebarding (sic) destinations in the world. – I’m guessing that means Dreamland interviews? Episode 1803 of an Oregon Public Broadcasting show called Oregon Field Guide will be broadcast Thursday October 19, 2006. It repeats at 2:30am and 6:30pm on Sunday.

What is skateBARDing? UPDATE: Watch it here.

The captions read “Business in front. Party in the back!” This house with a private bowl is for sale in Salem Oregon. Check out the Claiming blog for the details. Update: Post has been removed – WTF?

Yeah, I don’t know what the hell that means either, but it’s a direct quote from the November issue of Teen Vogue, which has a crush on skateboarders. They’re so dreamy, you know?

Yes kids, it’s time for another fake installment of Grover’s Video Korner, where we spell quality with a “K” and a smile. This week we’ve got Pier Park opening day video as seen on two TV news channels. Watch Rebel’s Jay Smay completely forget about the existence of Burnside on camera. This link comes to us from Earth Patrol Media’s YouTube Tuesday where we usually poach our videos. Except this time it’s our upload that he poached from us before we linked to it. So we are poaching ourselves recursively, which should allow us to go back in time and purchase a bunch of NOS Natas boards and sell them on eBay for a fortune. Also included is Gar’s video from opening day with decidedly less awkward slang from news anchors. At the end you can see me taking this shot. Too bad I couldn’t focus. Last but not least, there’s a clip on the Antigravity Press site.