skate the world: photographing one world of skateboarding!!!

got this national geographic and levi® skateboarding's book, “skate the world: photographing one world of skateboarding” by jonathan mehring yesterday evening.

foreword by tony hawk.

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photo: pinkviolence.

hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the world’s greatest professional skateboarders in action. in this dynamic collection, award-winning photographer jonathan mehring takes us from new york to hong kong to istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul of skate culture on six continents. featuring stars like tony hawk, nyjah huston, and eric koston, mehring’s images have been published in top skateboarding magazines, and espn named him one of the sport’s ten most influential people. now, in his first book, mehring invites us along on his exhilarating photo adventures across six continents.

by capturing these experiences on camera and including complementary images contributed by other top skate photographers, mehring presents an exciting and artful look at skate culture around the world. with an adrenaline rush on every page, this book celebrates the joy of skateboarding and its power to inspire young people to overcome obstacles—on the board and off.

check out national geographic and levi's® skateboarding.

p.s. check out the national geographic link above too!

put it back in the streets!

first it was the espn x games then street league and now the olympics? com’on, tony! this is not funny at all...! skateboarding should remain in da streets and not in some fancy stadium!

could skateboarding become an olympic sport? following the success of snowboarding and freestyle skiing at the sochi winter olympics in january, the organisers are apparently considering it seriously.

tony hawk has been invited to several meetings about it and recently told larry king he believes it will be part of the games by 2020.

read more, here.

can you imagine olympic sponsors putting out ads like this?

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image: mpora

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tony hawk - collectible action figure!

the simpsons - 25 of the greatest guest stars. series two.

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image: pinkviolence

like i mentioned in this previous post, here, that i'm not a big fan of tony but i scored this tony hawk simpsons figurine by neca earlier in da' evening at toy outpost at plaza singapura. it actually comes in a pack of six but i sweet talked my way to the sales lady just to get this particular figurine. she gave me a good deal too! only 30sgd, outta the whole bunch, which cost nearly 300sgd! hells yeah!!!

i fukkin' ♥ toys!

check out neca.

peace.

p.s. i'm so fukkin' stoked that i finally have my hands on this! =)

tony hawk versus homer simpson showdown!

image: matt groening

remember the simpsons episode above, that was aired a few years back? no? oh well...

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image: neca

the simpsons 25th anniversary – 5″ collectible action figurine!

to be really honest, i am not a big fan of tony hawk but this is a must have figurine, made by neca.

i ♥ toys!

check out neca.

peace.

riley hawk is pro!!!

if you don't already know who, riley hawk is, go google him!

who turned 21, won the skateboard mag's year's best am and turned pro for baker skateboards today? riley hawk! andrew reynolds, tony hawk and all the homies were there to surprise him. here's the video of riley getting his first pro board. congrats riley!

check out the ride channel.

tony hawk, riley hawk & the flip team skate tony's backyard park.

tony hawk invites legendary bones brigade member lance mountain and some of the flip team over to skate his backyard park. joined by greyson fletcher, curren caples, arto saari and riley hawk, the banana boards come out, taking the session to a whole new level.


check out the ride channel.

enjoy!

skateboarding is a crime (with tony hawk).

this flick below is not even funny and tony hawk is pretty lame, in my opinion. but do check it out, anyways...

objection! witness is grinding the jury box.

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life goes skateboarding, 1965.

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photo: bill eppridge / time & life pictures

a teeter-totter on wheels is the new fad and menace…

thus did life introduce to the magazine’s readers its own unique (if somewhat shrill) take on a toy that would evolve into the emblem of a singular subculture and eventually, a lifestyle.

skateboarding, life opined in 1965, is “the most exhilarating and dangerous joyriding device this side of the hot rod. a two-foot piece of wood or plastic mounted on wheels, it yields to the skillful user the excitements of of skiing or surfing. to the unskilled it gives the effect of having stepped on a banana peel while dashing down the back stairs. it is also a menace to limb and even to life.”

[in the previous month, the magazine noted, two children in different parts of the country were killed when they careened into traffic while skateboarding.]

today, when grown men and women make a living (in some cases, a very nice living) inking endorsement deals and competing at skateboard tourneys around the globe; when skateboard video games sell millions of copies; when skateboarders like tony hawk and marisa dal santo (and their winter doppelgangers, snowboarders like shaun white and gretchen bleiler) are stars who not so much straddle sport and pop culture as transcend both; when industries (clothing, gear, skateboard park construction) have grown as the appeal of the sport has exploded — today, it’s difficult to imagine a time not that long ago when skateboarding was so new, so absolutely marginal, that a major national magazine could safely assume that at least some of its millions of readers had absolutely no clue what skateboarding entailed… or what a skateboard was.

here, on go skateboarding day, life.com looks back at the early, thrillingly anarchic days of a quintessentially american sport and pastime that, over the years, has been embraced by millions around the world while still, somehow, retaining its rebel cred.

skateboarding, as the old saying has it, is not a crime. but as these pictures show, riding a deck can sure feel criminally fun.

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view more pictures here.


check out life magazine.

peace.

jesus is my homeboy and he skates too!

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heavenly divine drop in! fukkin' a, j-man! i bet he skates betta than tony hawk does! hahaha! =Þ

peace.