What do you get when have all the best skate goods and you’re punk as F%#@!. It’s easy; you get Blackwax in El Cajon (San Diego), California. Don’t let the fact that they’re located inside the mall, fool ya. BlackWax has the best mix of music and Skate goods under one roof. Oh, and BlackWax [...]
After getting a lot of feed back on the post I made about the Consolidated Don’t Do it campaign. Birdo, the owner of Consolidated Skateboards got in touch with me to explain his side of the story. You can read the entire letter below. “Hello Chris, I read your article about the Don’t do it [...]
At the new Toy Machine “factory” store, they have a great deal on Short sleeve plaid shirts. I have a couple of these shirts myself and like them a lot. Damn, if I had only waited two years, I could have gotten them for $12.99 . technorati tags: skateboarding, toymachine, shopping
I know how popular Myspace is these days and I know how everyone wants to customize their Myspace Layout. Well, I came across a really great site called Myspacetoolbox, and they have a nice “layout generator”. You can pick any background photo or logo that you like and customize text colors, sizes and fonts. Basically, [...]
If you go to Veoh.com you can download the full version of Barbarian at the The Gate. It was a Foundation video from the early 90′s, with great skating and fun antics from Josh Beagle, Heath Kirchart and Ronnie Creager. As far as I know, this video was only available on VHS video, so to [...]
Last year in Cincinnati a 17-year-old was shot in the shoulder as his friend was robbed of his Jordan’s. Fights break out, and recently in Citrus Park, Florida, a crowd charged a glass mall door. That was a quote from an Adbusters article titled “How Nike Conquered Skateboard Culture”. It’s a good read. The Nike [...]
Eric Koston joins the blogging world, with his own photo blog. It’s a part of a promotion that Panasonic is doing for their camera line. It’s pretty cool, check it out. technorati tags: erickoston, panasonic, photoblog
If you have production, purchasing, and inventory management experience and live in SF or want to live in SF. Then you should check out Deluxe’s open position for a “production assistant”. Deluxe makes Anti-Hero, Spitfire, Krooked, Real and Thunder, so you know it’s legit. It would be worth it just to see Gonz roaming around [...]
This post has nothing to do with Skateboarding. But, since everyone’s been crazy about Soccer(world cup) lately, I thought this might be a good fit, however, not politically correct. This is just funny. You can buy this t-shirt from a place online called tshirt hell. If you think this shirt crude, you should see what [...]
I did a post a while back about the CCS catalog that’s online (read about it here). Today, I discovered that Active has the same kind of thing going on. It’s pretty cool that you can check out the same version of their print catalog online. Check it here. technorati tags: catalog, shopping, skateboarding, activemailorder.com, [...]
