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Coastal Carnage Presented By Converse Shoes and Red Bull

Admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:19:01 +0000

Coastal Carnage Presented By Converse Shoes and Red Bull

Coastal Carnage will be a mini bowl jam with a $50,000 purse on July 24-26 2009 in Huntington Beach, California. This event is sponsored by Converse Shoes, Red Bull and The Skateboard Mag. Friday is Practice, Saturday is for Qualifying and Sunday is the finals. Below is a drawing of the bowl.

Coastal Carnage Bowl Rendering

Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art

Admin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:02:52 +0000

Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art

Full Deck presents an anthology of skate art from the 1960’s to the present. The skate artist’s aesthetic raw, passionate and personal is energized by a devotion to the act of skating and a DIY embrace of skate culture.

Since the first graphic was drawn onto a board, the culture of skateboarding has grown hand in hand with visual arts movements such as the Mission School (Barry McGee, Chris Johanson) and graffiti art. The skate culture’s embrace of individual style, approach and intention is, I think, what continues to draw new skaters to this renegade art practice—a hybrid in a realm of its own. And like the inclusive surf community, skaters and skate artists span several
generations.

The multi-media skate art community fosters the highly unique mix of painting, graphics, photography, filmmaking, music, stickers, magazines and clothing—the ever-growing creative by-products stemming from this alternative and popular mode of transportation. The colorful graphic paintings on the bottom of a skateboard are one of the purest forms of self-expression: highly personal and mostly created without artistic boundaries—just like skateboarding itself.

Carrie Lederer, Curator of Exhibitions & Programs

Featured Artists
James Barsness • Tiffany Bozic • Todd Bratrud • Steve Caballero • Sean Cliver • Lori Damiano • Corey Duffel • Phil Eggleston • Skip Engblom • Jeremy Fish • Todd Francis • Mike Giant • Mahtab Habibian • Damien Hirst • Faye Jaime • Ian Johnson • Bryce Kanights • Obi Kaufman • Mike Kershnar • Billy Kroft • Tom Ledin • Amanda Lynn • Holly Lyons • Chris Main • Gwen Manfrin • Marilyn Minter • Johnny Mojo • Takashi Murakami • Pushead • Matt Ritchie • Jenny Schmid • Kirk Shelton • Deth P Sun • Winston Tseng • Jake Watling • Derek Weisberg • Christopher Wool • Tobin Yelland

From the Collections of
Mark Aviles • Sam Cunningham • Marc D’Estout • Skip Engblom • Cari Herod • Myche Howe • Ian Johnson • Ryan Maddox • Chris Main • Steven Muegge • Eric Olsen • Jason Strubing • Ann Trinca • Gwynne Vitello • Tony Vitello • Mark Whiteley • Dan Worden • Catherine Clark Gallery • Consolidated • Element • Enjoi • Foundation • Playgrounded • Santa Cruz Skateboards • Santa Monica Airlines Skateboards • Skateworks • SLAP • Streetcorner • Thrasher • Toy Machine • Western Edition

Skateboards
July 5 - Septmeber 13, 2009
Opening reception, Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 6-8:00pm

Bedford Gallery
1601 Civic Dr.
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
925-295-1423

Go Sk8 Iphone Application

Admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:43:45 +0000

Go Skate Iphone Application

Go Sk8 has officially hit the market. The Go Sk8 iPhone application is a new tool to play the traditional game of skate. The developers of Go Sk8 have gone to great lengths to spice the game up by adding three different skill levels (basic, medium, advanced) and four obstacle options (ledge, manual, transition, flat-ground), making it the only skate application of its kind.

Go Sk8 is a true test of a skateboarders skill, ability and consistency. Instead of each skater performing tricks they are comfortable with (as in a traditional game of s.k.a.t.e.), skaters must physically perform whichever trick is determined by the “trick wheel”, which can be anything thing from a list of hundreds of tricks on different obstacles.

Professional skateboarder Danny Gonzalez had this to say about the Application” I love this app. The design is fresh and it doesn’t freeze like other apps. By adding in different skill levels and obstacles it makes an otherwise basic game of skate a lot more challenging”.

Go Sk8 can be played on any iPhone or iPod Touch and is guaranteed to make any session at any spot more fun.

How to Play

How to play

GO SK8 is not a virtual game. It is a new tool to physically play the Game of S.K.A.T.E. The app randomly selects tricks based on what you are skating (flatground, manual, transition, ledge) and your level (Basic, Medium, Advanced).

GO SK8 can be played in a three different ways:

2 Players Same Trick

Player A spins the trick wheel. The trick that appears, Player A needs to do. If Player A misses the trick, he then gets the first letter “G” and then Player B is free to spin the trick wheel. However, if Player A makes the trick, Player B then needs to land the same trick. If Player B lands the selected trick, Player A spins the trick wheel again. If Player B misses the selected trick he then receives the first letter “G”. Each player continues to spin the trick wheel until they miss a trick.

This way is played exactly like H.O.R.S.E. in basketball.

2 Players Different Tricks

Player A spins the trick wheel. Regardless if player A makes or misses the trick. Player B spins the trick wheel for a new trick. This continues until Either Player A or B misses a total of 5 tricks and receives G.O.S.K.8.

One Player

This is for one player. You will be Player A and the Phone will serve as Player B. Player A spins the trick wheel. If you miss the trick you receive the first letter “G”. If you make the trick the phone Player B receives the first letter “G”. This continues until either Player A or B receives a total of five letters G.O.S.K.8.

Free Trick

On every level you will see “Free Trick” on the trick wheel. When this appears, you are free to try any trick you wish.

Battle at the Berrics - Chris Cole Vs Mike Vallely

Admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18:32 +0000

Battle at the Berrics - Chris Cole Vs Mike Vallely
Damn when Steve Berra started going over the rules i knew it was going to be rough on vallely. No No complys, no boneless etc etc. Ah and then it flips and Mike V says there is no way he is keeping it clean its skateboarding and he is bringing it 80’s style!! Mike V hung in there all the way to the end but Chris Cole came away with the win.

PJ Ladd’s Summer School

Admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:58:24 +0000

PJ Ladd's Summer School

Pj Ladd is going to be teaching Summer School this summer on the Plan B website with something called Flatground Fundamentals. Pj will break down the 12 basics of flatground from kickflips to treflips.