It’s going on right now! Get the details for the contest over at the Department. NOTE: The finals are downtown Portland at Pioneer Square. The whole thing is part of Red Bull’s Manny Mania amateur contest series. BURNSIDE ART SHOW BENEFIT after the contest. Opening at NEMO (1875 SE Belmont) from 7-11pm. Proceeds from the sales got to Burnside. Artists include, Bryce Kanights, Chet Childress, Rich Burton, JayMeer, Gus Van Sant(!), Rich Charnowski and more. Exhibit will be up from June 26-July 31.

Yo, loyal viewers. Here is just the opposite of the big pool party (Protec) in California, The second Burnside non-test. No stars, no free guitars, just local skate studs and mall graders. This thing really felt like some sort of family reunion. Even though I do not ride there that much anymore, people are always welcoming. I was only there for about a half hour so I am sure I missed a ton of good footage, but here is what I captured. P.S. What is Q’s secret for such a strong looking body?

The official web site for the Burnside Project is kind of a mess, hosted on two separate Blogspot accounts, and hard to read and find your way around. If anyone needs/wants help rebuilding the site, consider this my formal offer to do it, pro bono of course. On the plus side, there is a bit of written history that is a work in progress, going back and getting things right is a daunting task. The best part is an old section with a wealth of tiny pictures of various stages of Burnside, mostly from Kent Dahlgren, going way….. back. It looks like it was made back in the modem days, cause the images are pretty small, but still they are an amazing resource. Check out Burnside Photoview.