Friday August 24, 2007 : 03:05 PM
Portland Plans Its First Street Plaza
Street skaters in the Portland area, your time has finally come! No longer will you be confined or plagued by the vast amount of bowls and transitioned skate terrain within and outside of the city limits.
Portland Parks & Recreation has finalized the public design meeting schedule for the Ed Benedict Skate Plaza project. Ed Benedict Park Public Open House/Workshop Meetings have been set up to review design ideas and provide input into Portland’s first skate plaza. The first meeting is set for Thursday, September 13th and the second meeting takes place on Thursday, November 15th. Both meetings will take place from 7pm to 8:30 pm at Early Boyles Elementary School Cafeteria located at 10822 SE Bush St. (1 block south of SE Powell Blvd.)
Directions are right here.
The Ed Benedict Skat Plaza is the 5th skatepark targeted to be built from the total 19 park siting project.
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Thursday August 23, 2007 : 01:45 PM
New Parks Rise Up in the SF Bay Area
After five years of meetings and political red tape, the long awaited X Park skatepark in Benicia, California is nearing completion with an opening date set for Saturday, September 29th. Meanwhile in the Southern end of the Bay Area you might have previously learned that this huge public pacifier going up too. WTF?
Still, the skaters in SF continue to wait for their day to celebrate and shred their very own legal and skateable landmark.
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Thursday August 23, 2007 : 12:59 PM
It’s 18 And Under At London Bridge
Now this is a new one…an age LIMIT at a skatepark. It seems the management of the new London bridge skatepark have imposed a rule banning skateboarders over 18 from skating the park. Yes, we’re serious. Here are some words of wisdom from the management:
“In the case of Whites Grounds, we are not permitted to allow unaccompanied adults on the site at any time as young people. If a young person was to be assaulted or groomed during our supervised sessions, we would be held accountable.”
Interesting to say to least. More information over at The United Kingdom Skateboarding Association website. Thanks to the folks over at Sidewalkmag.com and Slam City Skates for bring this to our attention.
Posted by Chris
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Wednesday August 22, 2007 : 03:24 PM
Pendleton Launching ‘Little Giants’
Little Giants is a new documentary series directed by Mumble Magazine’s Bob Kronbauer with distribution through 411.
From the press release: “Little Giants is a new documentary series that focuses on influential artists who are connected to contemporary art, street culture and skateboarding.”
Volume one will feature Don Pendleton who was the artist behind the look of Alien Workshop and has worked Element and other brands as well. The HD film will be 30 minutes long and include a collectible booklet. Watch your local shop in November for what will certainly be an amazing piece of work.
Posted by Chris
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Wednesday August 22, 2007 : 08:32 AM
Dirty Ghetto Dreams
Stevie Williams has touched down in London for a nine stop demo tour across Europe. He spoke to the Associated Press who published this very brief career overview.
Posted by Chris
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Tuesday August 21, 2007 : 09:08 AM
…Smells Like Chili
If you’re in the San Francisco area this weekend, Toad and Salmon’s 3rd annual Chili Bowl Cookoff takes place this Saturday, August 25th at Crocker Amazon skatepark (aka The Chili Bowl).
Show up to skate, lurk, and eat some chili with Barndog and the lovely ladies on the scene. Who knows? You might just end up in the pages of Magnethead’s glossy little zine or on Schmitty’s worldwide blog.
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Tuesday August 21, 2007 : 08:54 AM
East Infection Website
DVS has launched a website for their current East Infection tour. It features a pretty well done Google Map feature to get you to the demos as well as a very frequently updated news area, photos and some solid video footage. Check it out and bookmark it.
Posted by Chris
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Tuesday August 21, 2007 : 01:10 AM
Bringin’ Back Billy Rosser
The rise in popularity with Patrick O’Dell’s weekly installments of Epicly Later’d has spawned lovers and haters alike of the “behind-the-scenes” skate celebrity webisodes. Well, the dudes over at 29 films have become so inspired by O’Dell’s brainchild that they whipped up a humorous parody with the long lost and troubled 80s skateboarding hero Billy Rosser.
The Pulaski Park legend’s quote, “Back then, we didn’t skate for the cameras, we skated for the love…and the girls” is pretty much right on point.
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Monday August 20, 2007 : 06:25 PM
adidas Relaunches
adidas has just relaunched their skateboarding website…new colors, new apparel, new photos and, of course, new shoes. Worth a look.
Posted by Chris
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Monday August 20, 2007 : 01:01 PM
Discover Your Focal Point
Slap magazine is soon to close the doors on its Focused contest where the staff is looking to discover the best of the next generation of skate photographers out there. Get to it and submit you entires. There’s still time!
Just be sure to look through your lens when you’re out there shooting and you’ll be one step ahead of the game. Got it? Good.
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Monday August 20, 2007 : 08:32 AM
Spin to Win
For the third time in a row, snowboarding phenom, Shaun White took to the air to spin and rise above the crop of skateboarding’s best vert skaters at the Dew Tour in Portland. After his second run Snow White emerged once again as “the guy to beat.” Yeah, Shaun is that good, especially when technical lip tricks and switch skills are no longer scored highly as lofty (and stinkbug) rodeo rotations. We’re not complaining, we’re just making an observation that The Flying Tomato has ushered in another paradigm of progression on the towering Skatelite battlefield…it’s called “fly high, or die grinding.”
Final Results
1. Shaun White
2. Pierre Luc Gagnon
3. Bob Burnquist
4. Andy Macdonald
5. Alex Perelson
6. Rune Glifberg
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Sunday August 19, 2007 : 10:10 AM
Shoes Off, Lights Out!
The crew over at MegaRamp have recorded a song to recount Jake Brown’s recent cheat with death at X Games 13. Listen in on the lyrics and jams of “Tear Down the Walls” arranged by Danny Way, Rene Rene, Eddie Rap Life and Jake Brown with sound bites from Dave “The Voice of Skateboarding” Duncan.
Solid work boys!
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