We first heard about the the Supermodel Skateboard series last September, a collaboration between the Swiss brand Doodah and fashion photographers Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer (Vogue Paris, i-D, and others). Each board in the series featured hot (and naked) models Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Toni Garrn and Edita. Erin Wasson (far left in the image above) will be joining her partners in Aphroditic awesomeness as the newest addition to the set, announced yesterday on Doodah.ch and available in mid-August.
Using hot chicks on skate decks goes back to the beginning of time, and while a definitive history would border on impossible, check out a breakdown of our favorite Hot Famous Chicks on Skateboards below…
Terry Kennedy and his Supra squad are fresh off a crazy city-to-city sneaker promo tour for TK’s first signature shoe “The Society.” After TK and Co. partied it up at KCDC in BK, we caught up with the skater to talk about what it’s like having his own sneaker, how different of a home Supra is compared to Ice Cream, and why he thinks his sneaker takes top billing over the Air Yeezy. Check out the candid video interview with the skater below…
This isn’t a Jenna Jameson anal-sex post, although you’re entitled to keep hoping. Zoo York is teaming up with the Queen of the Valley on a new deck to celebrate fifteen years in each of their respective industries.
This graphic, created by The CollaBros, is limited to 500 pieces and dropping at select skateshops for $75 this month. Or, save your money and Click Here to find out how to win one for free. Your choice. See more pics of the deck below…
While most cool-guy skaters focus on kick-flipping and 40/40 grinding rails, German shredders apparently have a need for speed. The police in Berlin are searching for a man who was speeding down a highway at 62 mph on his skateboard.
According to reports, the skater (who remains at large) is a professional stuntman. He worked up to the illegal speed by holding on to the back of a motorcycle to build momentum and then “free-wheeling” his way to the unheard of 62 mph. Although he’s evaded the po-po thus far, we're thinking it won't take long to catch the predator, thanks to a gang of YouTube clips that have popped up since the boarder took flight. Watch the crime caught on tape below…
A couple weeks ago, we showed you a first look at Paul Rodriguez’s Signature Collection for Incase. That was the more limited, more premium (and more expensive!) collection, but Incase just hit us up with some photos of the standard series that will be dropping in wider distribution.
This tier of the Signature Collection will feature the same styles in ballistic nylon, but lacking the premium leather accents of the LE series. It will be available in the next few weeks at skateshops around the country and at Incase. Check out a full rundown of the collection below.,
Vans was in NYC this week to celebrate the launch of the sneaker they created with smoking hot Victoria's Secret Supermodel Marisa Miller. Although the California-brand is best know for it’s mash-ups with skaters and artists, Vans said eef it and added the leggy-model to their already stacked collabo roster.
Besides bringing the Sports Illustrated cover model by to meet the crew (she looks even better in real life!), Vans thanked its NYC connects by gifting these skateboards designed by Taka Hayashi to friends, family, and VIPs. You might recognize the graphic from the Authentic LXs that Taka did in back in May. Hit the jump for close-up photos of the decks.
Being a professional skateboarder has its fair share of perks. Money, women and a signature sneaker are just a few of the benefits that 23-year-old Kevin “Spanky” Long gets to reap. But with the release of his new Emerica shoe, The Spanky, he’s putting all the glamor aside to promote it through a grueling 24-hour commercial.
Called Kevin All Day And Night Long, the clip follows young Kev on a skate marathon with artist Donny Miller (pictured above on the left), covering over 24 miles in California and documenting the adventures they encounter along the way. It will be aired online on June 24 at 6 AM (PST), so catch up on your sleep now. Watch a quick trailer below.
In the decade before Jackass-related content started to flood MTV, Big Brother magazine was the source for all half-crazy skateboarding enthusiasts. Is today’s world ready for it to return?
It’s kind of hard to tell what’s staged and what’s real when it comes to these type of video clips these days, but it’s almost irrelevant. If it’s fake, it’s still a good counterfeit, and if it’s authentic, well, all the more better. Watch as this dude does not pull of a 360 inside a construction tube, but does eventually go round and round.
We’ve got good news for the action sports junkies among you. A new video sharing website has launched called Shred or Die that was co-founded by skate king Tony Hawk. It can best be described as a ‘YouTube for action sports’ and features videos with an emphasis on skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, BMX, motorcross, and if there’s scantily clad models in bikinis, a runway show here and there too. Users are encouraged to “shred” or “die” uploaded videos, thereby providing a peer based voting system that highlights the best possible content and moves the good stuff up the list, while keeping the crap stuff in check. In addition to providing targeted content, the video player itself offers a lot of cool options. It gives users the power to toggle slow motion, a jump back 5 seconds button (great for watching gnarly bails), and even a frame by frame option so you can catch all the action. Test out the features with this clip above of Tony Hawk skating at Soggy Bottom in the Mojave Desert.
Picture this. You’ve just spent over 3 hours blowing up 8000 balloons using 2 air compressors and now it’s time to pop them. What to do? Why not throw them in a skate bowl, have someone drop in, and see what happens? That’s exactly what these skaters did, and to their fun filled delight, the wheels don’t even get caught on the balloons, they just pop them. And keep in mind these pops are 100% authentic, per the description for the clip: “The popping sounds are not added in. That is the real audio of balloons popping.” As is the off camera laughter, which is the real comedy gold in this clip.
Tony Alva, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne at the Lords of Dogtown art show/Photo: Dan Levy
If you're kicking it in SF, drop in on the Stussy store (1409 Haight) to sample the latest art from skate-legend-slash-artist Tony Alva, artist Greg “Pnut” Galinsky, and Vans honcho Evert Lee. The show, titled Southern Comfort, kicks off at seven and follows it up with an after party at Milk. The artists plan to tour the show around the globe, setting their sights on London, Athens, Tokyo and others. The original mayor of Dogtown, who just turned 50 two weeks ago, ain’t slowing down.
In a nice departure from his paintings of mystical ships, silly pink bunnies and flying skulls, artist Jeremy Fish drops his new ‘Dead Rapper Series’ of hand painted skate decks. He featured Jam Master Jay, Biggie Smalls, Buffy, and last but not least, O.D.B. As the artist notes, “these hand cut decks are made with defective skateboards,” so no board was killed in the making of this art project, just rappers. Check out some more of his sketches, paintings, skateboards, and otherworldly creations on his website.
This clip of Jake Brown eating it at the X-Games is quickly making its way around the internets and media alike. After dropping in and successfully landing a huge 720, the skater went for some major air and then disaster struck. He fell more than 40 feet from the top of the ramp and slammed down onto the half pipe. The slow motion footage of his sneakers popping off really drives home how hard this dude really hit. Amazingly, he was able to walk away from this thing on his own two, but slightly injured, feet.
Remember that infamous clip of bad boy pro skater Mike Vallely smacking the shit out of those four kids for calling him a “skater fag”? Here it is if you don’t. Although this new clip certainly isn’t as violent as the latter, it’s worth a watch as Mike applies some lethal force to a security guard whose bark ends up being a whole lot worse than his bite. The clip basically closes with Vallely putting the dude in a choke hold and telling him to bounce before he really gets hurt.
