First and foremost, Sean Malto is now riding for Girl Skateboards as a professional! Secondly, he’s been ripping it up for a long time, and here’s a quick video from his session at Steve Berra’s skateboard park. It’s quick, but it’s good! Kid’s got some major skills.

I didn’t know the Birdman was still relevant in skateboarding. Sure, he did help reinstate vert skateboarding for the X-Games, and he has been doing work with Birdhouse skateboards, and a few commercials here and there, but overall, I haven’t really heard or seen anything major from Tony Hawk in a while.

Until this morning, when Crunchgear announced that Tony Hawk will have a limited edition Sidekick coming out sooner than later.

Wait…is the Sidekick still relevant?

Tony Hawk’s still a highly demanded famous person, even if he has retired from skateboarding as a whole. Then again, there is the boom boom huck jam tour coming through a town near you.

I know that this site is geared towards different board-sports and being active, so I figure I’ll tell you about my most recent snowboarding trip. It was pretty insane.

Last year I found out that we we’re scheduled to play a show in Lake Tahoe, Nevada on January 4th, 2008. Since my brother and I don’t get to spend much time together anymore, I figured it would be cool if he came out to the show and we made it a snowboarding trip. We always used to go when we were younger, but with him being in school and me always on the road, we haven’t made it out to the mountains together in a while.

Anyway, almost as soon as I booked our flights out to Nevada, our show out there on the 4th was cancelled. I’m not sure why, but for some reason it just wasn’t going to happen. By this time it was already too late to cancel my trip out there, so my brother and I just said “Fuck it, we’re still going!” And we did just that.

We flew out on January 2nd, rented a car, and drove to the hotel. Apparently we made it just in the nick of time because as soon as we arrived at the hotel, they informed us that the worst blizzard the state had seen in over 25 years was on its way. Of course my brother and I didn’t think to check a weather report before we left, but we thought, “Whatever, better for us”. It honestly wouldn’t be the first time that we almost died in a blizzard- but I won’t get into that story now. The hotel concierge told us that it was going to snow about 5 feet that night. All I could think was how fucking epic it was going to be.

It turns out that it ended up snowing for 2 days straight. It sucked though because the snow was so thick and the wind was so strong that they wouldn’t open any of the ski-lifts. So for an entire day we were stuck in the hotel at the bottom of the mountain. It wasn’t until the second day of the blizzard where we got fed up enough to say, “Fuck the lifts!” My brother and I contemplated and decided that we didn’t fly all the way out to Tahoe just to sit in a hotel room.

Even the nonfunctioning ski-lifts couldn’t stop us. We geared up and began to hike up the mountain on foot. I’m not sure exactly how far we made it up, but I know it took us almost all day. The conditions were hellacious. The visibility was extremely low. On top of the thick drenching snow, there was a dark grey gloom in the air which yielded hail, rain, and all together doom. There were times when I couldn’t see my brother just 10 feet in front of me. We had two-way radios just incase we were to separate.

Like I said, I’m not sure how far we made it, but after getting pretty damn high, and pretty damn far, we decided to get one good, long, crazy ass run in. And it was just that. The way down was even more insane than the hike up. We were speeding down the mountain basically blind due to all of the conditions. On the way down we actually found a park. We hit some jumps and rails, but nothing super intense. I knew we must have been going the wrong way because we definitely didn’t see the park on the way up. And I was right! By the time we hit the bottom of the mountain I saw a huge sign that said, “Welcome to California”. We had to take a long-ass cab ride back to our hotel in Nevada, but overall the juice was worth the squeeze. We flew home the next day but the drive to the airport was completely agonizing. The storm had passed and there was nothing but clear skies in the forecast. The sun was shining and there were several feet of untouched powder just begging to be owned. WHAT A SHAME! But after everything, now that I think about it, I’m just glad to be alive.

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We know you’ve been on the edge of your seats, but you can take a deep breath now and get to work! SOFT&FURRY™ is a project dedicated to creativity and collaboration. The premise behind S&F™ is to elicit participation in an alternative logo design competition. The winning logo will adorn the packaging and other associated elements of an all new, fully custom, handmade line of designer collectible toys.

That’s right! You can submit up to 3 logos every week. The S&F™ review board will post the weeks winner every Sunday night. At the end of 8 weeks a grand champion will be picked from the 8 finalist. And then you’ll just have to wait and see what’s next…

The first submission deadline is this Friday, so you better get crackin’

Analog Clothing has released some footage of their voyage through Japan. Analog has been really making some moves as far as skateboarding clothing is concerned, so it’s no surprise that their team made things look really easy on their trip through the land of the rising sun.

Blue Velvet
Four Songs
Phratry/ BC Records

Blue Velvet’s latest EP release Four Songs showcases the band’s new lineup. After a recent addition, the band is now comprised of two guitarists, two percussionists, a celloist, and a keyboardist. The New-York-City-based band has kept the same musical formula since their self –titled 2004 LP– no lyricist. The album begins with a drone of amplified, but not distorted guitar and a couple of drums. Cello comes in, giving a haunting sound, and keyboards add another thick wall. Each song starts out simple, layers are added, a mish-mashing of music making ensues. All live, with no editing equipment, loops or samples, the album has an edgy live quality. Since it’s only four tracks, let me walk you through each one. “Docile” is a simple start to the album, and sounds too much like the second track of the same name. “Blue Cannon”, the third track, and also my favorite, is the peak of the album. The track has a jazzy feel, with the climactic feel of a chase scene in an old 40’s gangster movie. “Untitled (Two)” is a track with dissident and uneasy keyboard smashing, an exciting way to end an album of rerecorded, previously released work. – Jonathan Mendick, Manenrist Zine

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Danny Berk gets first place honors for the overall standings in the boys division at the YMCA Surf Series.  Danny, 14 yrs young, from San Diego seams to be on the right track and we look forward to seeing more stuff from Danny in the future.  Congratulations Danny, and keep it up homie!

Here is a photo of Danny rocking the pinky artist colab  attak tee -  evil repeat hoodie - and the Da Purse Stitch Cap.   Stop by Antiapparel.com and pick up some gear.  You too can look cool like Danny Berk chilling in front of his moms ergo’ed out gas guzzling SUV.

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ergoPHOBIA is hosting a skate contest in Puerto Rico on August 2nd @ Skate Town Park in Rincon.  There will be a team signing and guest judging by Ronnie Creager, Gary Smith, and Andrew Cannon.  See flyer for details.

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Josie Graves and Shawn Hale are the featured team riders in this months ad campaign.

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