Here’s a couple stills from episode one of a series called Gusto. It features Mark Hubbard and Grindline Skateparks, and will likely be shown Saturday, the 15th at the Skateboard FIlm Festival in Seattle, Washington on August 14-16. You can watch the abruptly ending trailer after the jump. Who is going to make the GVK documentary? I don’t know much about thee festival, like for instance, is it the first one? I do know they have a very nice Worpress theme!

If you are in the Portland area on Friday, there are two video premiers going down. The first one is at Burnside, Shrunken Head will be showing Cancer Dust and the new Concussion video titled Straight to the Bottom. If that’s not enough, there’s a release party for issue #8 of the PDX zine Sauce. That’s 10pm Friday night at Burnside, and it’s free. Also that night, The Dept. will be premiering the new video “Debacle” from Nike SB on Friday June 12th @ 8PM. This vid focuses on the ams and includes full parts from Justin Brock, Daryl Angel, Shane O’Neill, David Clark and Grant Taylor. The whole thing was shot in HD and features some handiwork of The Dept.’s own Tyler Brown. Flyers for both events after the jump.

This month’s Sponsor Luv post for Bacon Skateboards – Bacon has teamed up with the skateboard site Subpublic.com to give away a really freaking nice video camera, but you have to do some work. The Bacon team will name a trick and then you have to submit a video of yourself doing the trick, then everyone gets to vote on who makes it to the next round. Everyone that votes has a chance to win one of several decks though. Official details for the competition are here. Catch the first round challenge after the jump.

I almost did not make this on my son has improved so much over the course of 6 months this is almost hard to watch if you saw him skate yesterday. I’m sure some people will enjoy this Grandmothers and older relatives and maybe Wes. It chronicles our trip to So Cal in the fall of (08). At the time I had to lie to get jack in to all the skate parks as the minimum age was 6 and he was 4. Enjoy? – DADDY OUT.

For those of you not familiar, the Principality Sealand is micronation off the coast of the U.K.. It’s basically an old antiaircraft gun platform anchored in international waters and later abandoned after the end WWII. Since 1967 it’s been occupied by an eccentric man and his family, who declared it a sovereign nation. So far it has survived foreign invasion (really) and legal challenges from the U.K.. It seems the only “industry” is an internet connection that provides colocation and no copyright laws. For security reasons, they don’t allow visitors. In 2006 there was an electrical fire and helicopter recuse that caused the principality to incur a healthy debt, which is probably how Red Bull was able to talk their way onto the “island,” no doubt with the some help from the corporate check book. And so now, we give you (via Red Bull), skateboarding in the world’s smallest country, the world’s most expensive one minute skate video. – Thanks to Eric Cherry for the tip.

East coast favorite and former Spitfire pro JR Neves passed away saturday, still no official cause of death. This is a detail from a Brooks Fritz shot of Neves at FDR back in 2005. Be sure to check out the whole image at Skateboard-revolution.com. Deluxe has posted an old video part as well.

Sure, it gets a little mean spirited (and long) in the middle, hard to watch, but it’s still damn funny juxtaposition. [Source: LOLFactory]

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?

Enjoy my stream of consciousness, started by watching a Black Ox skateboard animation. Black OX on a skateboard. Black Dicks (oops!) Black OX action figure His nemisis, Gigantor Gigantor by the Dickies. Dickies skateboard. – Thanks to Janis for the tip.

The second installment (See part one) in the trifecta series. This was a great contest. Skateboarding is not a sport but this was real competition. This was also the best run of the series. It has become a regular thing we all look forward to during the dog days of summer. Hope to see yall there. We will leave the light on and keep the damn raccoon out my truck. Out Grover.