A reader named Rossco sent me a link to a Jason Jesse Sun God mini board that his friend Stephane Rouget had carved out of stone… Yes, out of STONE. A stone cutter in this modern age belongs to be a club whose membership has got to be getting smaller with each decade. Marrying an ancient technique with the fleeting graphic arts of skateboarding certainly caught my interest.  After checking it out, I decided to ask Stepahne for a short interview to find out more about the project.  The board is a carved on a 1:1 scale, and includes concave and a kicktail. It’s more or less an exact replica, outside of the thickness. Thanks to Stephane for taking the time to answer some questions. [Photos of Stephane:  Ben Perry]

Well it’s been almost 4 years, so here’s an update on Jurassic Skatepark aka “Chink’s Peak Skatepark” in Pocatello, Idaho, that was open from 1976 to 1980. Mike D from Skate Hard Idaho sent in some pictures taken there a little earlier this year. He’s been cleaning it up in exchange for the occasional session. There’s preliminary talk of renovating sections of it D.I.Y. style but it is by no means a done deal.

Found in a Box VHS Skate Theater is a brand new feature on Skate and Annoy. The format of future episodes is bound to change as the kinks get worked out. Radical Moves was released in 1986. It’s basically an extended contest video of the 1986 World Expo in Vancouver, BC, presented as a drama. The total run time is 87 minutes, but Part 1 is only about a half an hour. The footage is presented pretty much intact, but you’ll have to endure the occasional surprise interruptions. Highlights in Part 1 include Jeff Phillips playing himself briefly as a character in the movie, Dave Crabb entering all 6 contests ( Hal Pipe, Bowl, Freestyle, High Jump, 360’s…), Bob Pribble getting denied entrance, character evaluations of skater disciplines by Russ Howell, and the narrator ogling a female Swedish freestyler named Gogo Sprelter. Admittedly, this episode is a little heavy on Freestyle, but that’s just the order it was presented in the original. If you’re interested, there’s a real life accounting of this World Expo from a German contestant on sk8boarding4life.com.

Here on S&A, Simon Woodstock talks about his mad clown graphics from the 90s, boxing, a burning circus, shoes, booze and much more!

About four years ago, when I used to have a lot more spare time, I was contacted by a guy in a dark alley who said he had unearthed a vintage skatepark in Pocatello, Idaho. OK that’s not entirely true. We had a mutual acquaintance on the OMA forum. There used to be thread on it over there but it has disappeared, perhaps erased as part of a witness protection plan for the government. UPDATE: Another 4 years goes by, and we have another update. The park is on private property near a trailer park, still owned by the son (and former park local) of the man who originally had it built. What’s the name of park? No idea. Anyone? Anyone? The park is on private property near a trailer park, still owned by the son (and former park local) of the man who originally had it built. Adam Crofts is the Idaho semi-local gumshoe who pounded the transitioned pavement to get these pics. The property owner is a swell fella, but he’s worried about liability, which is why he dumped dirt and garbage into the pit. Needles to say, it’s a bust, even if you could scrounge up the…

A while back I got the idea to do a new print zine concentrating on the Pacific Northwest, but like most things I think of, it sits in the idea pile. I was going to call it Northwest Lumberjack, partially because of the implied pun and partly because you average Portland area skater often dresses like a lumberjack/longshoreman. I think its a good idea, but I don’t really shoot skate photos anymore, or have any money to spend on printing. For that matter, it seems like every skate publication of any merit has a Portland bureau. So there likely won’t be a Northwest Lumberjack zine. Maybe a one off issue of Skate and Annoy. In keeping with the lumberjack theme heres a skateboard made from a piece of wood, not laminated. Tim Laidllaw was camping when he spotted a section of a tree floating in the river and thought it might make a nice skateboard. By Tim Laidlaw In a drunken stupor while camping Aug 13th saw a plank of wood floating in a river from the cliff overlooking the river near our site. It looked like a fun project and I thought I’d be able to whittle a longboard…

JFA released its first single in 1981, dark times in the history of skateboarding. Near as I can tell, they were the first “Skate Rock” band. In 2009 they released a live CD, and have plans to go into the studio to record again. On the eve their 30th year, in a time when skateboarding has never been more accepted in the public eye, here’s an interview with lead screamer, Brian Brannon of JFA. Do you find yourself surprised to be playing JFA shows in the year 2009? I’m guessing you hadn’t expected it to go on this long. I didn’t expect to live this long so yeah, it’s kind of surprising. We always said if it stopped being fun, then we’d quit doing it. But needless to say, we’re still having fun! Can you remember your first time on a skateboard? Well I started out lying down and pushing with my hands. Then sat on my put and pushed with my hands. Then I got into sitting backward and pushing with my hands (would that be switchstance?). Then a few days later, I finally reached Warp Speed. Who did you look up to or get inspiration from as a…

Editor’s note: This was originally supposed to be my first installment of a regular column in Concrete Wave magazine. For whatever reason, it became apparent that it wasn’t going to be printed, so I decided to present it here, as it was written for Concrete Wave. You can download the mockup of the layout in PDF format. At the end of the article there are additional pictures related to the story.

Guest Post by Peter Brown. Who Killed the Chromoly Truck? Who Killed the Chromoly Truck? Many months ago I posted a comment on Skate and Annoy having to do with the San Diego Trucking Company’s chromoly truck called the Stealth. I never saw a set in person and most of our readers had ever heard of this truck from the early 90s. They resembled the G&S chromoly truck almost exactly, and it turns out they have pretty much the same history, spanning three brief years between 1989 and 1991. After digging through my extensive skate mag stash it appears that both G&S and San Diego advertised exclusively in Transworld. One of the San Diego ads listed 70s slalom champ, Henry Hester, aka “Bad H.” as a contact, and of course Bill Danforth (if not Phil E.) was the guy most closely associated with the G&S truck. So I was able to contact Bad H. and Danforth to ask them about these trucks, and Hester put me on to the inventor of the chromoly truck, Terry Myers. I also wound up getting snubbed by G&S, which for some reason didn’t surprise me. Most interestingly I corresponded through Facebook with someone claiming…

The InterWeb is cool, but print zines are cooler. Although it’s about hundred times easier to make a print zine in the digital age (especially with photos,) it’s still quite a bit of work. When you factor in the cost the project gets to be less appealing, especially if you want to distribute a lot of copies. Every once and a while I get the urge to make another print issue of Skate and Annoy. My biggest problem with print issues is that I’m always waiting for some event that I want to put in it, and I keep adding pages as I go along. – “Man, I gotta include this too!” Pretty soon they become these massive projects that approach the size of a phone book. And then it becomes a major expense to print them unless you know someone at a copy shop (I don’t) or you can go out and sell adverts (I don’t want to.) In the end they either don’t get made or else only a few copies are printed. I salute those of you who actually pull it off, but for the lazy, busy, and budget constrained, the micro zine is a viable alternative. I’m not…