Where Kwality is Spelled with a “U” as on YouTube. I’ve been meaning to get Grover to contribute a few key video finds a week or so, since he seams to spend a lot of time surfing YouTube. His other passion for the personals on Craig’s List has no place here. Kicking off the inaugural post is this slam section compilation titled Skateboarding Pain LOL which may or may not have been compiled by Funny-Videos.co.uk, but was definitely poached from EPM. Now to talk to Steve…

While not quite as sexy as harassing congressional pages, The Mayor of Harpenden (UK) is under investigation for allegedly harassing and threatened a 13-year-old boy over noise level disputes caused by an allegedly crappy driveway skateboard ramp. I think they call it a car park over there. UK readers, a little help? The inmate numbers in the picture above were added by us, as an editorial statement. I don’t to get sued by a gaggle of flouncy barristers in their funny wigs.

This is what it will look like. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Sha-na-na-na. Sha-na-na-na-na-na. Get a job. Sha-na-na-na. Sha-na-na-na-na-na. Dip dip dip dip dip dip… Awww, you get the point. Thanks to Danimal for the tip and the scan which looks like it’s already been Xeroxed. Find out who’s hiring after the jump.

Council meeting begins, ends with skateboard issues seems innocuous right? Well, some business owners in Bradford County Florida are butting heads with local skateboarders, with one incident culminating in a fake barfing display. Ahh… what a gold mine. First off, there is the obvious comedy value in fake vomit, reminiscent of the scene in Repo Man where the old lady yells at Otto to pick up the trash can he just drove into. You pick it up! Could this just be civil disobedience in the face of the quagmire of red tape bogging down the local skatepark planning process? We can only hope so. Slightly more disturbing is nuisance tax proposed by the offended businesses who want to legislate the wearing of helmet and pads so that more fines could be levied against skaters. Read how an unruly teenager put the Annoy in Skate and Annoy after the jump, plus more fake vomit than you ever knew existed.

Skateboarding as a school activity has been done before I think. The article at deseretnews.com is pretty standard, with the exception that the program was instigated by 60 year old man who had just learned to skate from a former student who now owns the company Skate Pass LLC. I’m not sure how much actual skating the teacher is doing, so we’ll take that with a grain of salt. The succinct title of this post is a quote from a 5th grade girl in the program.

It’s true, I was there. His name was Jason Beaudry and he was assaulting that bank to wall with some wallrides. First, he started with a normal backside wallride. Oh yeah, get your bs wallride as high as you can and then move on to another trick.

But it’s not his fault. I’ve always wanted to do one of those sequence in one frame shots that mimic strobe photography at night. So here it is. It’s not Mike Poor’s fault that this isn’t much to look at. It’s one heck of a long railslide though. I had to shoot it several times because my Nikon D70 is only semi-pro, limiting the number of frames per second as well as the buffer of frames it can hold in one sequence. In any case, At least Mike had the presence of mind to add a little something to make it more fun. It’s something I didn’t notice until I looked at them later. This here is the teaser to make up for the delay in posting the Illinois road trip pics. This the same skate park in Champaign that I posted earlier.

The concept of this picture turned out to be more interesting than the reality. Shoot an invert with a guy touching the bottom of a boar, flipit 180 degrees and make it look like the skater is balancing on the other guy’s fingers. It looks weird all right, like Grover has been shrunk down, but it’s all unaltered. See it rightside up after the jump. Skater: Steve Grover. Hands: Mark Conahan. Concept: Grover. Skatepark: Newberg.

I quote from the press release: “In the 80’s there was no bigger skateboard company than Powell Peralta. . . . One of the key factors to Powell’s dominance as a skateboard powerhouse were the ground-breaking graphics. Using extremely dark and detailed hand drawn image of skulls, snakes and dragons, PP was the first skate/street company to throw such taboo images into the mainstream. . . . Today designer Danny Drake has teamed up with George Powell to reissue a collection of 8 of the most memorable graphics in skate history on updated bodies. These PP items are an extremely limited edition and are only available in “The Rail” at Nordstom”.