JF Fullum sent me some pics of the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a while, outside of the hole in Mark’s back yard. It’s a giant chocolate skateboard that his mother gave him for Easter, and mind you, he’s a grown man now, but I’m just jealous. It came from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. so I guess I can cut my mom some slack.
Ho, ho, ho… Stop it, my sides are splitting and I’m about to pee my pants… OK then. Emily Stefano is a mechanical engineering student at Clarkson University, and she’s working on a thesis called, wait for it… MegaRamp Thesis. To what end? Emily needs money to travel to a Megaramp site and attach a bunch of gadgets to some skaters to gather data and determine how to make it better. Not so ridiculous considering the original construction of the megaramp was designed on the “let’s wing it” principal. She’s already conducted interviews with some mega ramp riders and apparently talked to some suits at the X-Games who want her to sign a non-disclosure agreement before it goes any further. Emily’s is hoping for some extra traffic to her site to help generate some buzz. The blog is kind of vague if you want details on the actual thesis, so I’ve asked her to distill everything after the jump. What’s the official term anyway, MegaRamp or Mega Ramp?
In honor of May Day, I thought I ‘d post some sweet granite benches in Moscow. CLick through to get a a wider view of this Russian street skating spot.
This is pretty underwhelming, the wheels don’t even spin. I do have a couple other skateboard-themed products from the realms of personal hygiene marketing that are coming in the next couple of days that are definitely more interesting. Until then, here’s the Spinbrush. – Thanks to Mrs Kilwag for the tip.
The Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is one of those programs that you either love or hate. Always low budget, it’s like one of those cable network comedy sketch shows, only it’s actually really funny, and at times very surreal. It’s on Adult Swim, so that ought to give you a good idea of what to expect. This video is an excerpt from a parody of MTV style “youth programming” called the “Jim and Derrick Show,” and it’s shot at a skatepark. Hit the ramps! – Thanks to Daniel Evans for the tip.
Insert Van Halen reference here.
Skater: Mirlo
Trick: Rock to fakie on a street barrier
Where: Panama, Central America.
Photo: Jerzick Oliveros
Thanks to Milorad Vardic for sending it in. You can see the full frame shot plus a bonus street sequence after the jump.
This week’s Shot of the Week is from Jim Gray, pictured at Skate City in Whittier, CA. This shot was used for his first advert ever, which was in Action Now magazine, circa 1980 or so. He can’t remember who took it, and I can’t seem to find it in the couple of Action Now’s that I have access to. So maybe our readers can help. I’m working on putting together an interview with Jim, so if anyone has any questions they’d like me to consider, go ahead and email them to me.
Check out the Shot of the Week.
I found this Mexican comic book, Los Super Juniors over at Weirdo Toys. And speaking of Mexican skateboarding, check out this video from Steven Bailey found at the Mercava Skateboards. It’s got spots from different states in Mexico, including the one where tipster John Aguilar learned to skate tranny when he was a Super Junior. It’s a super rough looking the banked ditch/half pipe thing in Mexico city behind the Corona beer brewery. Look for it at about 2:38 into the vid.
2023 Update: Follow me down a rabbit hole while I try to track down Mexican comic books.
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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.
