Best of Skate Fate

Holy Cow (skates) It’s the legendary GSD and his seminal zine Skate Fate. I’ll bet he hates being called legendary.GSD is celebrating the 30 (!) year anniversary of Skate Fate by releasing a 320 page best of volume, which you can pick up for a reasonable price at Blurb, except the shipping (fixed pirce from […]

Memory Screened

An interview with two big names in the 90’s era of skateboard graphics, Sean Cliver and Marc Mckee over on Memory Screened, a blog that appears to be entirely devoted to skateboard graphics, which is an awesome idea. Funny thing is, I have no idea who writes it. It’s described as: an archive for my […]

Gleaming the overstock

The alleged Gleaming the Cube prop that sold on eBay was a hit, so if you missed out on that you don’t have to blast a dookie, just head on over to Overstock.com where you can buy a shirt for $18.99, which doesn’t seem like much of a deal, especially since they sell for $15.99 […]

Beastie Boys make some noise

Fortunately, there is some marginal skateboard related footage in here so I can present it here on S&A without making excuses… except I just did. It’s a trailer for the 30 minute extended version of “Fight For Your Right Revisited.” The Beastie Boys have a forthcoming release called Hot Sauce Committee Part Two which is […]

View from the cheap seats

No matter what the watermark would lead you to believe, this is not the Powell Peralta 80’s Vert Challenge, but rather the Quicksilver event. SInce it was a Powell Peralta production, I thought it was going to be a slick production but it’s a guy in the audience pointing a camera over everyone’s head. Maybe […]

Don Gerard for Mayor

Don Gerard, one of my college roommates is running for mayor of the town we went to school in. Champaign is also the town where he grew up. I suppose I should put “college” in quotes because I don’t think we were ever both in school at the same time while we were roommates in […]

Quiksilver All 80’s All Day Vert Challenge

Mike McGill, Kevin Staab, Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi in a promo for The Quiksilver All 80’s All Day Vert Challenge on January 7th, 2011 at SurfExpo in Orlando, FL. The video is mildly amusing, coming off better than most of the skits in Animal Chin, yet highly reminiscent of course. Skaters committed to show […]

Reservation Horse Tow

This is from a February, 1980 National Geographic article on the Apache Indian Reserve. Genius. Simple, yet effective. Pure. Enlarge-o-rama. – Thanks to Ryan Mann for the tip.

Hoverboard homage

The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest was a 1986 retread of the original 60’s version of the show. Episode 16 of season 2 was titled Other Space and features hoverboard action. In the words of Grover, who unearthed this footage, “They hover the shit out of this episode.”