Bob Kronbauer (of clubmumble.com fame) has partnered with Threadless to curate a collection of tees from some amazing artists. Bob chose 4 artists from the skateboarding world to each design a tee based on Outer Space. Check out the tees from Andy Jenkins, Don Pendleton, Michael Leon and Geoff Mcfetridge.

You can see the full collection [...]

Melcher and his mustache win 3rd place at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Alaska.
The reigning champ, musician Alexander Antebi, preened and vamped his way to third place in what he dubbed his “Ziggy Czar Dust’ getup, professional skateboarder (and Bristly Chap) Patrick Melcher took second place, and Benjamin Juergens came out of nowhere [...]

Some how this doesn’t surprise me. Mike V has signed a deal with Affliction clothing. Extreme, dude.
[via radcollector]

A while back Active Ride Shops (activemailorder.com)had to file chapter 11 bankruptcy. Now it appears that board sports retail giant Zumiez has offered up $7.2 million to purchase Active.
The terms of the motion state that Zumiez would purchase all of Active’s inventory for less than market costs, as well as pay $100,000 per store acquired. [...]

Love this video from Patrik Wallner called Translations. Element Pro Michael Mackrodt rips it up in his part with his fast skating, lines and use of fun looking terrain. Also I love that everyother trick is not a hand rail or him jumping down big shit. 
You can see the full Translations video on skateboarding.com.

Blitz President Per Welinder talks to Tiffany Montgomery over on shop-eat-surf.com about the future of Blitz. With the loss of some key brands (Birdhouse and Flip) over the last year.  Some are wondering what’s happening with Blitz. Per mentions that within the next 45 days that two established brands will be joining the company. Wonder [...]

The Action Sports Industry blog 5ones.com has launched a cool new web app. They’ve launched Earth, which is a Skate, Snow and Surf spot directory that allows you to share and search for local spots. They’re just getting started , so it’s not full of spots just yet. So, head on over there and share [...]