by The Editors on December 14, 2010
Not be left out of the Billabong retail gobbling game Rip Curl has announced that it has just picked up 15 Perth-based retail stores according to a post on Ragtrader.com.au.
The Torquay-headquartered surf company revealed it has bought nine ‘Wave‘ surf stores, two ‘City Surf’ stores and four ‘Cite’ streetwear stores. . . Rip Curl Asia Pacific CEO Steven Kay said he hopes to build on Wave’s 25-year history, overseen thus far by Wave founders Chris and Vicki Prastidis. . . “Perth is the gateway to one of the great surfing and youth markets in Australia and Rip Curl want to put more effort into the region,” Kay said.
Independent action sports retailers are getting few and far between.
[Link: Ragtrader]
by The Editors on December 14, 2010
US Marines reportedly name their guns and treat them as they would a girlfriend. It appears Torstein Horgmo has a similar attraction to his snowboard. . . or something like that. Oscar talk is making the rounds.
[Link: Method Mag]
by The Editors on December 14, 2010
Details on Jason Lee’s new skateboarding TV project Shredd (produced by Jack Black) is sneaking out thanks to a post on Deadline Hollywood.
Shredd centers on Jon Johnsonsen (Lee) who, as a 17-year-old superstar skateboarder in 1985 was on top of the world until a risky skate move landed him in a coma for 25 years. When he wakes up, he is 42 but stuck in the 1980s mindset of a teenage boy and must cope with all the changes in his life.
Now that, friends, is comedy gold.
[Link: Deadline via Television Blend via @NealHendrix]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of the Homeland Security Investigations raided three Abilene, Texas retailers last Thursday (December 9, 2010) and rounded up more than $100,000 in counterfeit DC Shoes, Fox Racing, Famous, and other branded merchandise.
The targeted stores have been previously identified as openly selling counterfeit clothing through the store fronts. ICE HSI agents had conducted surveillance and made undercover purchases at all three locations. Items purchased through the undercover operations were determined to be counterfeit by industry representatives. . . Some of the counterfeit items seized include: t-shirts, polo shirts, jeans, purses, hats, jackets and sweatshirts.
Nice of Homeland Security to watch out for corporate America like that because American corporations are America (or something like that.) Follow the jump for the official release. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
We can’t really figure this surf film out. Isolated features what appears to be amazing camera work and a cast that includes: Josh Fuller, Travis Potter, Jenny Useldinger, Andrew Mooney, and Jimmy Rotherham.
Isolated is obviously well-funded. It’s being produced by Ryan Phillippe. But all the fancy graphics, spear-holding natives, and over-the-top voice over aimed obviously at a mainstream audience makes the trailer a little tough to watch. Not to say that Papua New Guinea isn’t a frightening place.
“Enter a forbidden land on the most secluded corner of the globe. Where five world class surfers journey into a world left behind. They search to ride untouched waves and bring surfing to the edge of civilization. But what they find will change them forever.”
Is there really “no turning back?” Did they all die? Guess we won’t know until we see the film.
[Link: Isolated Film]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
A week ago, Stacy Peralta was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame, so it seem rather serendipitous that we would stumble onto writer Jamie Brisick’s recently posted profile about the man at home in Santa Monica (of course).
Stacy Peralta is an award-winning film director, former Z-Boy, and lifelong surfer. He’s also an avid collector of rare succulents and aloes. That this fetishistic hobby of his can be traced back to the days of empty pools and raffish Dogtowners seems either terribly ironic, or totally obvious. Southern California backyard pools were often surrounded by cactus and succulent gardens, and Stacy was always looking beyond the coping.
Read the rest for a look into the mind of one of skateboarding most iconic artists.
[Link: Jamiebrisick.com]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
According to a new report by snow injury statistician Jasper Shealy, reported in the Wall Street Journal snowboarders may experience more injuries on the hill, but they die much less often than skiers do.
On paper, snowboarding appears to be more dangerous but less deadly. The injury rate is 50 percent to 70 percent higher than in skiing, Shealy said, which he suspects is due to the people doing it. Snowboarders tend to be young males. . . While snowboarders get injured more often, the death rate is about one-third lower than in skiing. That snowboards don’t release from the feet of the snowboarder is likely explanation, Shealy said. When a rider falls, the edge of the snowboard drags on the snow and acts like a brake. But that can also cause fractures, he said.
Last year the National Ski Areas Association say 25 skiers and 13 snowboarders died on snow. We’ll take the injuries, thank you.
[Link: The Wall Street Journal]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
Maverick’s big wave pioneer Jeff Clark opened his new Maverick’s Surf Shop at 25 Johnson Pier, Pillar Point Harbor, Princeton-by-the-Sea, according to a story in The Mercury News.
The new shop will put Clark, a father of three, front and center as the public face of surfing in Half Moon Bay. Clark’s previous shop was harder to find, on a narrow street in the warehouse district of Princeton. Now when tourists come to the harbor looking for directions to Mavericks Beach, they’ll be able to ask the man himself.
It’s about time. . . Congrats.
[Link: The Mercury News]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
The lawsuits against No Fear appear to be piling up as the Carlsbad, California based company has reportedly failed to pay their rent in many of their mall locations, according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.
Among the malls that have taken No Fear to court are the Irvine Spectrum and Block at Orange, both of which filed lawsuits in Orange County Superior Court; and shopping centers in Arcadia, West Covina and Valencia, which filed suits in Los Angeles County Superior Court. . . Irvine Co., which owns the Spectrum, obtained a judgment against No Fear in October after the retailer failed to defend a lawsuit that said it was $49,000 behind in rent. The judgment opened the door for an eviction, but an Irvine Co. spokeswoman said the No Fear store at the Spectrum is still open. The clothing company settled each of the Los Angeles County lawsuits out of court.
As many retailers are probably saying this time of year, “If we can just make it through Christmas everything will be alright.”
[Link: Los Angeles Times]
by The Editors on December 13, 2010
Each year it seems the highlight of Thrasher Magazines S.O.T Y. Awards in San Francisco is the photo collection from the infamous booth. It always seem to be a bellwether for the NorCal skate party scene.
This year’s Leo Romero party was no different. Check out all the party pics from Friday night (December 10, 2010) at the Great American Music Hall.
[Link: Thrasher Magazine]
Not be left out of the Billabong retail gobbling game Rip Curl has announced that it has just picked up 15 Perth-based retail stores according to a post on Ragtrader.com.au.
