Cafe Press style technology is not exactly new in skateboards, there’s Board Pusher and Zazzle, plus more on the way. Still, I envision a time when you go to a skate shop and pick out a blank that matches your specs, then browse through an assortment of pro graphics, pick one and wait a few minutes while the board is loaded onto an oversized inkjet printer and the graphic is applied. The process at the Board Factory in Downtown Disney is similar, except you design the board yourself (hello clip art!) and the print out is applied via heat transfer. From the price of the completes, it looks like they are using some cheap wood. Still, it’s an interesting concept that we have not heard the last of. Downtown Disney? Orange County? I don’t know if it’s in Florida or California, but I imagine they have the same thing in both places.
[Source: Orange County Register] – Thanks to Tito for the tip.
Night time pull up diapers for relieving potty training stress. Go Diego Go riding a skateboard. There’s some snowboard and hang gliding action too. Pampers Easy Ups is the product. And No, we haven’t picked up NAMBLA as a sponsor. Uhm, Enlarge-o-rama.
Mondo curb launch ramp is located a block and a half east of the 3D Center of Art and Photography in Portland Oregon. Enlarge-o-rama.
When your friends get back into skating, it’s best to cut them some slack. One child’s doll suitcase is another parent’s pink pad suitcase. All hail Gordo!
Today is my birthday. Over the weekend my wife put together a little surprise get together a bar I like called Vendetta in NE Portland. GVK brought me this weird-ass doll on a skateboard that he picked up for the occasion at Goodwill. Some disturbed child drew on her face, making her look like a… disturbed child. This carcass gets used for other themes too, like Santa Claus. I don’t have any double A batteries, so I can’t tell if she makes music while skating, although I assume so, because the tag says “Musical Motion Dolls.” I keep this thing locked in a closet at night because I’m afraid it will come to life and kill me. Check out the 90’s-style micro wheels and low rise trucks.
Oh yeah, come skate with Kilwag at the old man session, tonight at 9pm – D.O.S.. I’ll be flailing around in the back bowl.
I can’t remember how I found this, but I ended up watching the trailer for Born to Skate and getting stoked on the different terrain and approach to a skate video. It was supposed to be an independently released feature-length film. It’s multi-discipline as well, featuring street, vert and even freestyle in the trailer. Of course, it’s over a year old and from Germany, so I have no idea whatever happened to it. It looks like it’s worth checking out though.
Source: Design You Trust
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Rip City’s indoor bowl is almost finished, but the sessions are not going to flow freely until an arrangement is reached with the next door neighbors. It seems like the construction and skating is just too much noise for the business that shares a wall with them. What sort of business needs a cap on the decibel levels? Are they doctors, lawyers or accountants? It turns out the spoil sports operate a juggling supplies operation with mostly online sales. Nope, you heard right. Skateboarders are disturbing the jugglers. At this point in the post I’d like to publicly heckle my friend Shawn Fendick for owning juggling supplies and a unicycle. Am I some sort of clown that amuses you? Yes.
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I want to start off this month with a couple of rants, so forgive me please. First up, to all people selling decks on eBay, stop using terms like “Vintage” and “NOS” when you are selling a fucking reissue!! Using the word vintage implies that the deck is 20 years old or more. Your shitty reissue was made 3 years ago. The only thing vintage is probably the crappy PC that you used to type up the shitty sales pitch! The same goes with the term NOS. It stands for “New Old Stock”, meaning it’s an old deck that is as new, and has never been set up. When using this term, the inference is that it’s an old deck, not one that I could walk into a store and buy today. Are the sellers being unscrupulous and trying to fool ignorant buyers? Probably, yes. By inserting the word “vintage” you are making a claim that isn’t true. So stop. Also, while I’m on the subject of sellers that piss me off, stop listing the same deck week after week, month after month with the same inflated price! Look, it’s not rocket science. If your deck isn’t selling at $399 auction after auction, maybe it’s not worth $399 and the buyers by staying away are telling you that. But you are being too stupid to listen. It doesn’t matter what you paid for it 3 years ago, or what you think it’s worth. If you have it up for 3 consecutive weeks and it doesn’t sell, then your valuation is wrong and the current market price is lower. So lower the price or stop relisting the damned deck! I’m sick of seeing the same decks month in month out with the same stupid, unrealistic starting price on them.
