HarvestBoards.com

2012-01-09

I'm not really into electric skateboards, but Chaotic Moon has come up with a super cool Kinect controlled board. This thing is awesome!

Chaotic Moon Labs' Board of Awesomeness from Chaotic Moon Studios on Vimeo.

Link to reference: Chaotic Moon

Jereme Rogers Rants Naked Again

2012-01-07

A New York judge on Friday set bail at $75,000 bond or $10,000 cash for Jereme Rogers, who is now is now charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief, carrying a possible maximum sentence of one year in jail for going on a naked rampage at the Shelburne hotel.

He was caught in the nude, while smashing paintings in the Murray Hill hotel's hallway. Rogers caused $2,500 in damage by grabbing three paintings off the wall, smashing them against the floor until the glass broke. He then ripped the canvases with his hands, according to the criminal complaint against him. "He was yelling about how he was the son of God," a source told The New York Post.

This seems to be Jereme's favorite past time besides skating, in 2009 he was arrested for dropping his undies and preaching -- bottomless -- from a rooftop in Redondo Beach, Calif.

Nederland Skateboard Park, Colorado

2011-08-01

This summer while visting Colorado, I stopped by a rumored skatepark in Nederland. I wasn't expecting much, but was shocked to see a nice sized park. I'm still amazed how every small town has an epic park! The park was built with the help of Tony Hawk. It has a nice kidney bowl, deep end with capsule bowl, and a street section with a very steep tile section.

Photos by Adrian Willett.

The soul we all share

2012-01-17

I am a motorcycle lover, and I have a special place in my heart for vintage custom bikes. How does that have anything to do with skateboarding? Everything! Ok, well, one thing! "Soul"

I just watched this short film (made by Levi's... yeah, the jeans brand) but has nothing to do with Levi's or Jeans for that matter. This film is about a group of guys in Copenhagen (Denmark) who do some beautiful vintage motorcycle work (check them out at wrenchmonkees.com)... and much to my happy suprise, also included a bit of skateboarding!

So, getting back to "soul". Although skateboarding is pretty mainstream nowadays, it wasn't always that way.. In fact, when I started skateboarding, it essentially meant that I was looked at as a bit of a misfit from the social norms (i.e. I spent my days skateboarding instead of playing baseball or football... imagine that!). By way of example, I remember when I started snowboarding too - this was well before X Games and snowboarding events in the olympics and so on. Fact was, skiiers saw the mountains as THEIRS, and we were shredders who "ruined the slopes". As such, we'd get ragged on, hated on, and even (literally) spit on from skiiers riding the chairlifts overhead! And I'm not an old dude (I swear!)... Point is, these sports have come a LOOOOONG way in a relatively short time.

Ok, back to "soul" for real this time: To put it as shortly as I can: These guys (the wrenchmonkees) are just a group of dudes who loved what they did and, despite not having the training (at first) or even much of an idea of how to pursue their dream or whether it'd even work - they went for it... and now they are a very accomplished (yet still small and cool!) shop of dudes who turn out sick motorcycles!
Directly related to this is the short bit about skateboarding - in the film - where one of the guys talks about how he loves skating and how he began making his own skateboards at a young age because he simply didn't have the dough to buy new decks.... but no lack of soul or 'why not give it a try' attitude... so he actually made his own decks and even sold a few along the way! The skating, like their motorcycle biz, shares the same soul, which is simply doing what you love to do, and sharing that with the people you love to do it with!

If you're reading this, you surely enjoy skateboarding... and I'd be your best times skating are not just marked by "that" trick you finally landed, but also the hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours you spent working on it AND your best buds you were hanging with that whole time!

So enough ranting from me. If you share that soul I'm talking about, this article surely hit a note for you... if not, sorry dude. In either case, check out the video and enjoy.

wrenchmonkees

Link to reference: wrenchmonkees short film on vimeo

WOW, thats a BIG wave!

2012-01-04

I know this is a skateboard site, but lets face it, we're board sports fans... all boards!

Also, in the wake (pun intended) of the recent Skateboard World Records article, check this World Record Wave! (click link below for video and article)

And a message to Mr. McNamara, if you're reading this (of course you are):  "Sir, you have gigantic ... guts!"

Link to reference: World Record Wave (ridden by Garret McNamara)