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Kevin Long Skates All Day And All Night

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.

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Big Brother Magazine Is Back

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?

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Beanie Sigel Can Skate?

Looks like Beanie is expanding his brand a bit. The Philly-based rapper recently teamed up with DGK head-honcho Stevie Williams on a limited edition set of skate-decks. There are 300 total skateboards that will be available in very select retailers. Nice change-up for the Broad Street Bully.

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Winding Down: Harlequined

Kirsten Dunst gets a Miu Miu makeover for Spring. [Dlisted]

This home-on-wheels only looks like a garbage truck. [Likecool]

If you’ve got between $25k and $300k to throw around and love skateboarding, check out these custom backyard skate parks. [Ballerhouse]

We showed you their computer case, now behold the ultimate blunt case by ‘Halliburton.’ [Sybarites]

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Skater’s Pipe Dream Ends Disastrously

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.

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Tony Hawk Hopes You’ll ‘Shred Or Die’

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.

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Skateboarders Invent New Ways To Snap, Cackle, Pop

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.

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Skate Royalty Host SF Art Show

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.

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Compex’s Weekly Re-Cap: Ollie Up!

adidas dropped in. [Link]

LEE Quinones got $100k richer. [Link]

K-Swiss got pimped out. [Link]

Dead rappers got skated on. [Link]

DVS kept it original. [Link]

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Skate Or Died!

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.

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