Growing up skateboarding, I always wanted to ollie the highest. I could never land it very high, however, I was always able to ollie onto things, and over things, just couldn’t do it stationary. Or just for the sake of an ollie, but give me an obstacle and I could throwdown quite a bit. Earlier this year, the World Ollie Record was broken, and here is the footage to prove it:

I came across this today and just had to post it. It seems that surf great, Kelly Slater and artist, Emil Kozak have collabo’d to bring you two very cute surfboards, that could make you look very ‘festive’ in the water. Now it’s obvious that surfboards are on the brink of a huge shift in design and style, and you will see more and more boards popping up next year that emulate skateboards. We just posted a blog about Super Surfboards and what they are doing, and it’s great but if art on surfboards is going to be looking this cutesy, they are going to have to send me some matching wrapping paper to go with it. I am really hoping we don’t see Kelly using these in the water.

Scumzine, is the newest addition to the Seshn blog network and man is it a good read. It’s written by our O.G. contributor, SirJorge. This guy has been a music fan for a real long time and now he has a place to spit honest game in the form of an online zine that is witty and creative. Check it out if you want the real scoop in what’s going on in the music scene.

Also, don’t miss the Mannerist Blog which is full of useful music reviews for you to check out. I am sure you will find some new stuff you’ve never even heard of on here to add to your ipod playlist.

If you are into metal and you like to skate, you need to check out Black Tide. These kids skate just like you and they are all 20 or younger. Did I mention they can rock as hard as anyone out there? 

Rune Glifberg took first place in the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest, making for a great month for Glifberg. He’s coming off a banner month with skate magazine coverage and now this! Rune Glifberg also won the event last year, ousting some heavy hitters in skateboarding. Quiksilver has been pushing their skateboarding division as of late, and this contest is definitely one of the better events that I’ve seen in a while. You can check out full photo galleries, videos, and more from the Quiksilver Bowlriders contest via tackyworld.com.

So I recently decided I needed a fisheye lens, but I didn’t know which lens to get. So who would be better to ask than Dean Blotto Grey? I asked him and he highly recommended the Canon 15mm Fisheye 2.8 lens. He claimed this was the ONE if I wanted a fisheye lens. So I looked around and it retailed for around $630.00. More than I was willing to pay at the moment. So Blotto decided to sell me his for a pretty damn good price. I have had it for a week now and am in love. I just have to careful not to overuse because too many fisheye shots can get old fast.

Here is a shot Blotto took with the lens of Jones in Utah.

And here is one of my shots with the lens of a good friend Ebo.

So clearly I have some work to do to catch up with the quality of Blotto’s shots, but he should watch his back. I am stoked on the lens and recommend it to anyone looking for a fisheye. And a shout out to Blotto for hooking it up. Check out his site to see what he has been up to. 

Heres a few skate shots taken over the weekend in Denver.

Beijing, China is now the home to an indoor refrigerated snow dome housing 1 big booter and 2 smaller ones, two rails, a funbox, a couple barrel features, a wallride, and a poma lift so you don’t have to hike it.  They’re calling it the Burton Qiaobo Mellow Park but what it means is 365 days of riding a year… if you happen to live there.

Joining the elite crew of stopping the information bandwagon, and hackers alike, Chocolate Skateboards has unleashed Chocolate Television. That’s right, Chocolate T.v. is full of videos and footage from the Chocolate Skateboards crew and more. To take advantage of this, you need a fast internet connection, and Flash Media Player isntalled and ready to go.

The only disadvantage to their television of skateboarding glory, is that you can not fast forward, rewind, or use any other major controls. That, and you can’t download the videos, but you could always subscribe to the Chocolate Skateboards podcast…now there’s an idea.

Check out Chocolate Skateboards Television via the Official Chocolate Skateboards Website.

Fallen Footwear has been promoting their latest video offering through their ads in magazines, online trailers, and teasers for a while now. Most of the videos are easily accessible, and a lot of media is still out there on youtube and other places. But to consolidate the effort of bringing quality video to you, they have launched a video gallery with their own media player.

Now you can get all the Fallen Footwear skateboarding footage onto your computer via the official Fallen Footwear website. The videos range from recent footage, trailers, teasers, to older footage, all in high quality streaming media. Not bad, not bad at all. Looks like Fallen Footwear might be trying to one up Lakai’s Fully Flared release, which recently won a Transworld Award for best video.

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For those of you that follow along print media, you may have noticed that the Transworld Awards happened this past weekend. The show went off, and the pro’s were all hyped as the honors went out to some unlikely and some obvious winners. I’m not sure if I agree with the Habitat team winning best team, but to each their own.

Mariano cleaning up was cool though, Congrats to the Comeback Kid!

Here are the rest of the winners for the Transworld Awards 2008.

BEST ROOKIE
Silas Baxter-Neal

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