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Today etnies.com launched the CrapShoot feature on the team’s 2010 Skate & Create experience. This feature is like taking a trip back to the 90s, without all the hassles of dial-up internet. Check it out.

Typhoon! and Bo Asian Bistro will host a special fundraiser to benefit Bend’s Division Street Skate Park (DSSP) on Saturday, August 28 from 3 pm until 10 pm in downtown’s Tin Pan Alley (behind the Franklin Crossing Building) between Franklin Ave. and Minnesota Street.

The Division Street Skatepark Project, the brainchild of local skaters, is currently in the process of raising construction funds. Situated on Division Street under the Bend Parkway, the land is currently vacant and strewn with large boulders. The project crew has formed a 501(c)3 nonprofit in order to secure grants and funds for building the park. Inspired by Burnside skate park in Portland, the founders plan to follow their example of revitalizing a potential blighted area by building a skate park to the highest standards and maintaining control of the project through development and usage.

Yesterday marked day four of The Big Push 2010 and the teams were still battling with the weather. Quite a few undercover spots were found and things looked a little brighter as they were able to resume filming. Day four also saw a second man take a sizable hit. Sam Beckett from the Vans team is now sporting a sling and unable to partake in anymore skating.

New pro Andrew Cannon will be hitting the road doing a back to school tour. He will be organizing games of S.K.A.TE. at select shops across the United States beginning August 31st.

Our own Bryce Kanights was recently interviewed by the redesigned UK site ‘Caught in the Crossfire’. BK delves deep into how 30 years of sitting, standing and laying in gutters on the streets while behind the lens has lead to capturing some of the most epic images in skateboarding.

The Big Push has wrapped up day number three. Most of the teams have been affected by the relentless rain that has been falling and the forecast isn’t looking so bright for the immediate future.  Take a peek at each team’s report from day three.

Yesterday éS launched the year 2004 on the timeline website, Skateboarding Starts With éS. Re-live your skateboarding history when Javier Sarmiento joined the éS team, Cale Nuske won the Australian Skate of the year Award and PJ Ladd took home $10,000 for the Second Annual éS Game of SKATE, all along with the launch of Eric Koston’s popular K6 model.

Originally launched a couple of months ago in its native French tome, the premiere issue of Europe’s Pause skateboarding magazine has been released online in its English version. Click through the 84 pages to read an exclusive interview with Mark Gonzales, along with behind-the-scenes moments with Six Stair productions, a check in with France’s Adrien Bulard and Slap’s editor and perceptive lensman Mark Whiteley, Thomas Campbell discusses what’s cool about skateboarding, and a much more…

Although the winner has already been announced, we wanted to point out that Transworld Skateboarding’s 2010 “Skate and Create” videos have been posted online. Have a look at the final edited submissions which were shot within the same four walls, with the same set of obstacles, for nine consecutive days at a time, from this year’s quadrant of competing footwear teams including adidas, Fallen, etnies and Lakai.

In a news shocker for all those directly involved, Baltimore’s brash and hot-headed cop has been fired stemming from a now-famous incident with a 14-year old skateboarder which was caught on tape just over three years ago. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore Police Commissioner overruled a disciplinary panel’s recommendation today and released veteran officer Salvatore Rivieri from his duties immediately. He was within a year of retirement with full benefits. Apparently there’s truth to the saying, “Payback is a bitch.”