Here is a little HD Clip from the Cliché team meeting/BBQ.

Shoes are an important milestone in our short history as humans. From mobility, protection from the elements and the droppings of dogs. We wouldn’t be where we are without shoes, we owe our shoes for everything. Including the 14 hour work day in sweat shops making Adidas fashion footwear designed by Michael Sieben. I’m a starving artist myself so I give no discredit to Sieben’s capitalism.

Michael Sieben has been illustrating in the skate world for some time. From the pages of Thrasher adorning his artwork throughout numerous articles to the whimsical bottoms of Bueno skateboards (the gods of the interweb currently are smiting their website). Probably the most bizarre bit of advertising video can be found here. Image curtsey of Adidas.

i doubt anyone else will care, but after about 9 years of searching, i tracked down Karmas first pro graphic on Dogtown! thanks Rob!!

"Winona Ryder goes naked for “Skin Cancer“. In an effort to help raise awareness for the disease, Winona Ryder posed nude for t-shirts and posters in which she is covered only with the words “Protect the Skin You’re In” and “Save Your Ass”."

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My friend Daniel Lebron is back in the states after a six year or so hiatus. We went skating yesterday around Sacto. Wasn't quite Macba, but it was fun. These are a couple of sequences from a trip to Mallorca a while back and a mypod that never got used.

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I have known Jeff Grosso since he was a kid and he would come down to skate the Del Mar Skate Ranch.
I was so stoked to get a chance to shoot him at the Culver City park a few months back. Don't FS rocks look cool? This is in our Interview Issue #54, see what Jeff has to say.

you ever see this? i may be a nerd, but im pretty excited about it!

thanks the MAG!

Three pages of skateboard-related tattoos. BME zine tattoo gallery.

Over a year ago Kilwag called for submissions or a SnA tattoo gallery. What ever became of that?

This edition of Saturday Starrs features Skateboarders from Hell which is a spoof of one of those old biker exploitation movies, although stylistically this is half 1950’s and half early 70’s. I can’t actually tell when this was made. The fashion on some the extras could be late 70’s or early 80’s. It looks like it was shot on 8mm film, but the titles look like really clean digital work. Maybe they were added years later, or maybe it was shot on old stock. I feel like I should know who some of the “actors” are. It’s kind of hard to tell via YouTube, and it’s further complicated by the presence of an advert for Tail Devils tacked on the end. Hopefully Scott Starr will shed some light on Skateboarders from Hell.

Saturday Starrs #5: The Today Show - 1977

From the archives of Scott Starr. (More Saturday Starrs)

Back in issue #55 of The Mag I wrote negative comments about ESPN people replacing vert skating with something called "Super Park." My negative commentary was not as personal as some may have thought. My real goal was to let the skaters in the X Games know we had their back and that the corporate types shouldn't be making decisions such as that without consulting the group as a whole. Blah, blah, blah. read more ...

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Not that anyone should be interested in the lives of aging, but once hot television starlets like Christina Applegate. It was in the news recently that her skateboarder boyfriend Lee Grivas has died. In every article I found the news states the same phrase, “26-year-old skateboarder Lee Grivas”. In reality he was an Alaskan fisherman… but skateboarder somehow got to supersede the title of fisherman in all the trashy journalism out there.

Perhaps we’ll see a sudden influx of value added to the H-Street Jason Rodgers model on eBay… I had that board, I never got to have relations with Christina Applegate. My only failure in the formula is that I never fished commercially in Alaska… that and a lot of pressure flips performed on that board. Forgive me. [Image: VA Skateboards]

I don’t know why MC hasn’t really publicized this, but he’s had a little side project going on for quite a while called The Skate Comics Depository. It’s a collection of his own H.O.M.O.S. work as well as highlights of other items related to skate comics. Even though I hate to encourage outside web authoring interests for our “staff” because it makes them uppity, you should check out SkateComics.com. I think I would have gone with the Skate Comics Suppository instead. In a related note, guess who just registered SkateZines.com?

DVS just announced their Shop Liftin' contest aimed at finding the sickest shop talent both behind and in front of the camera. Check here for all the details.

Joesf Heffner sent in a few pics of a backyard project he is working on. Looks like a concrete quarterpipe with a little run up. Hopefully he’ll chime in with the approximate costs and time involved. Enlarge those pics after the jump.

Silas Baxter-Neal is the first to be seen rolling through The Berrics in HD. To be more precise, it was shot in HD then compressed into a little flash video. It still looks nice though.

Isn't it strange how a song can heavily influence your perception of sombeody's footage? Well, here is a good example. Check out the Remix version of Sean's part. Here's the original one if you haven't seen that one.