via the Chris Hall friday jumpoff…

I’m feeling it.

Brandon has a bunch of old footage in a video. I hear about shit late sometimes. It’s because I live in a cave.

Red Bull is good at having the money to come up with good skateboarding projects. They should, since they sell you teeny-tiny cans of drink for over $2. There is about $3K to be given out to some people for getting ill on custom barriers (how much did those cost to build?) and posting it to their site for the contest, (how much does it cost to build and maintain a site like that?). Check out RedBullJerseyBarriers.com for clips and info. OneUp and Pitcrew are in it, along with a grip of other well known shops. Who is gonna take home the paper at the end? Go avhead and vote for your favorite at the site. OneUp is keeping it grimey and filming in the street. Some other shops are keeping their barriers in their clubhouses with lights and A/C or something. I’m waiting for someone to put the barrier over some gaps or down stairs. Maybe get a truck and meet one of the other shops halfway and do some Lego block assembly with the barriers like Daewon.

It’s just another thing that makes me wish I was in Pittsburgh this summer.

The Onion is honestly one of America’s finest news sources. The only complaint I have is that it’s connection to reality is a tangent at best. They are the best at what they do, and their podcasts are so good it’s addicting. This totally isn’t new news, but it’s something I just discovered; AV Club. A division of The Onion with more of a basis in reality. Here is the part where some of you fuckers can chime in and say, “I’ve known about that since blah blah blah.” I honestly don’t give a fuck. If you worry about things like who knew about what before anyone else did, I don’t care. Enjoy splashing about in your pool of coolness or whatever. Try holding your breath until I catch up to how cool you are. It might be a few years.

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In the New York Times, Tonk Hawk writes about traveling with a skateboard.

There was a standoff at that X-ray machine, with the supervisor making the final call: no skateboards as a carry-on. I asked the supervisor if he wanted my board. Unfortunately, he thought I was bribing him. I finally threw it in the trash.

In Rome, we had a similar situation where I wasn’t allowed in first class because I had on jeans, oh, wait… That’s a different part of the story. Like I was saying, in Rome, our friend Jerome had to completely bubble wrap his deck at check-in for some reason. After they had the whole thing bubble wrapped and taped he dropped it in the trash.

As far as traveling with weapons, (is that why they cant be carried on?) my dad told me a story about when they used to travel with pistols in the carry on bags. I’m guessing that was in the 70’s.

From the Are You Fucking Kidding Department comes the new iPhone. Original 8GB iPhone cost; $600. New, improved 8GB iPhone cost; $200. I fucking hate them, but I love them. As much as I want to not buy one, I will be getting one anyway. The GPS alone is worth it, oh, and the headphone jack not being recessed… Sold.

If you know anyone who wants an original 8GB iPhone, with a brand new case, absolutely zero scratches on the back, hit me up.

A lot of people will recognize this style and consider it a Banksy. It is not a Banksy, there was someone doing it before him and his name is Blek le Rat. He has an interview posted up at Fecal Face dot com right now. Blek has two websites of his work, here and here.

Blek came long before Banksy, which is not a discredit to Banksy at all, because both of them do what they do very well. What has seemingly skyrocketed Banksy into super-stardom is the mystery surrounding his identity. People can only speculate things about him from his work. It reminds me of a technique that Apple uses based on it’s new products and technology. Apple doesn’t talk about what it is planning very often and by doing so it forces other people to talk and speculate. There is a mystery involved with upcoming Apple products. When something is released, everyone wants to know about the magic in side of whatever it is that makes it work the way it does. There are websites such as Macrumors that are dedicated to sniffing out info on things before they are released. Like Apple, Banksy forces others to speculate, wonder and generally be curious about who he is and what he is all about. Like a new band that “nobody has heard of yet” people want to be the first to know more about the mystery man Banksy – so they search and build interest and talk to friends and spread interest.

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Beautiful. Widescreen, good talent, nice color - best video you can download today. I already saved the .mov file from the site, you should do the same. You can always use QuickTime Pro to cut out the parts you don’t want to re-watch such as the time lapse sections or camera-in-the-van sections with four keystrokes.

I was looking to find the video of Rhymefest, (one of the greatest rappers of all time) when he visits Lil Jon to record a song, but I cant find it online anywhere. Until then, I give you this one;

The fine art of talking yourself out of being arrested for skateboarding is learned at an early age. There are other situations where talking to the authorities is dangerous. Check this link out to see a lawyer guy give a talk about one of the top five constitutional amendments. It’s a WMV file, so you may need to get flip4mac so you can avoid that awful Windows Media Player application. It’s free, so don’t stress on it.

To go along with the link above, a short little animated video:

Blind spot - Animation Gobelins