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Our man, Todd Bratrud has teamed up with Uncommon to bring his unique art work to mobile phone cases. Click here to customize a case for your iphone.
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DIY America just dropped the second part of their Skate And Create focusing on perseverance with Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell, and others.
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As one of few professional skateboarders with a college degree, John Rattray tries his best to stay busy in all of his downtime. From a Scottish family that always kept themselves occupied with Aberdeen businesses, he’s of the camp that “You can’t just go and do nothing” with your life. Between all of the skateboarding, he’s packed the holes with books, so we give you Rattray’s Reading List as our newest Facetime. Watch the video of Rattray skating and giving his reading recommendations in Facetime:…
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We’re in the heart of the holiday season and if you’re anything like I was growing up, you’re hoping to get some skate gear to bolster your holiday cheer. But rather than reflecting on just what you want to find beneath your tree this Christmas, I’d like you take a moment to remember the good folks that make those goods available and who, more importantly, are at the heart of every solid skate scene: skate shops.Every good skate scene from Berkley, California to New Bedford, Massachusetts to Birmingham,…
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Recently switching to Blackbox distribution and adding Jamie Thomas to it’s line-up, it might be easy to forget that Insight clothing has had it’s own thing going for quite some time. It’s no secret that it’s a really artsy clothing company. So, in light of recent news, an art show on their compounds is somewhat of a return to that central philosophy of creativity and self-expression. Two Saturdays ago, they held an art show with various artists—friends, established photographers and well-known…
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Thunder Trucks has posted up their two part trivia game, entitled “Stump the Chief,” as a means to put Jamie Thomas on the spot and decide what will be his next truck design. As the Chief gets correct answers, he’s able to rule out the silly truck designs. See which tricks are left on the drawing board and vote for which one you want made in a limited run of Thunder trucks. See the whole game here.
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Element skateboards’ pro Mike Vallely certainly has his fair share of stories. From his days as a rising star in the ’80s skate scene with Powell Peralta, his upbringing in Edison, New Jersey, his solo demo tours labeled, ‘Man vs. Skatepark,” his adventures with Bam Margera and crew and all the infamous scuffles he’s gotten in over the years. Skaters got a taste of some recent Vallely rhetoric with his appearance on the Shred or Die feature “Free Lunch.” And some of you out there asked Mike your…
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Habitat officially announced that their footwear rider, Al Davis, is now on the skate team’s am squad. The announcement holds true to the roots of DNA (the umbrella company that makes and distributes Alien and Habitat), which originated in Ohio and continues to be one of the only renouned skate companies run out of the middle of the country. A Cincinnati/Kentucky native, Alex “Buttahs” Davis, had a big part in Anonymous Skateshop’s “Streets is Talkin” and is welcomed to the Habitat squad with an…
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Chris Mulhern is an independent skate filmmaker coming out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He’s working on his third big video titled, “This Time Tomorrow” and with each new project his filming style and the skaters he works with gets a little more refined. Starting out while going to school at Philadelphia’s Temple University, Mulhern made his first film about his friends and the skate scene at Temple that revolved around the rough brick plaza at Cecil B. Moore in North Philly. “I’d Rather Skate…
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Few people deserved to turn pro than Justin Brock after his part in Nike’s “Debacle.” Dude killed it. Finally, after a few months as a pro, his first interview has come out on the DLX site. He talks about what he likes to skate the most, discusses hopes for a pro shoe and all sorts of other stuff, with Danny G. from Miami. Check it out here.
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