Culture Buzz Skater Joe Pease made this video using just sunlight, his skateboard, and a camera. Beautiful!
Culture Buzz It's a tiny skateboard made out of vinyl records. They're sold in Williamsburg, and they come with a pair of sunglasses. Your vinyl collection is totally complete now. (via subtletyinexcess.tumblr.com)
Sports Buzz 11-year-old Japanese skateboarder Nanaka can execute kickflips better than most guys twice her age.
Culture Buzz Apparently micro-nostalgia has determined that it’s 1999 again. Case in point: the latest lightsaber Gogurt ad to promote the 3D release of “Episode I: The Phantom Menace.”
Sports Buzz What, you can't nail a 720? This 8-year-old can. [Jack's note: Feel free to turn the volume down on this one if you are an old man like me who doesn't understand what the kids are listening to these days. Yikes.]
Sports Buzz Living life on the edge. A documentary by Zeppelin Filmes on Brazil's world longboarding championship in Teutonia, an insane downhill race where skaters often exceed 70 mph.
Okay, he's pretty good. Eight-year-old Evan Doherty became the youngest skateboarder ever to land a 720. (via collegehumor.com)
Definitely the coolest thing I've seen all day. Fake? Yes, but still cool. (via nervemedia.tumblr.com)
He's only 10, but he's already better at skateboarding than I am at just about anything. Well except maybe the glockenspiel, but that's a dying art man. (via reddit.com)
Check out Pierce and Chris Brunner, who are only 12 years old in this video. They're amazing. (Via)
Here's a video of local Christchurch skateboarders doing their thing after the massive earthquake. The video shows the massive damage that the quake did to the area and how widespread it is. (As seen on officialhype)
New video from a band called Foster the People features dudes skateboarding ON DOGS. It's not as horrifying as it sounds.
Thrasher Magazine events always start off with a bang. An inch or two away and Jay Smiles wouldn't have gotten up from this one.
You wouldn't normally associate luxury brands with skateboarding, but this Hermès finger skating video is slick and cute. Via The Culturist.
I'm not sure that strapping a Painted Turtle to a mini skateboard really qualifies as a skateboarding turtle, but man, look at him go.
Not sure if it is still around, but Tony Hawk Pro Skater should take note. Definitely would love to skate around some space invaders.
A strangely awesome video of a Hot Pocket doing skateboarding tricks appeared on Lemondrop.com (and in my dreams) this week. Now your hungry AND fantasizing about Tony Hawk — what could be better?
This is your average monkey trick video until he falls (and gets REALLY upset). I don't understand what the sportscaster is saying and yet I agree.
Sports Buzz The only upside to California's high foreclosure rate: A huge surge in the number of abandoned pools skateboarders can take over. The NY Times reports on how skateboarders around Fresno are finding and draining the pools of recently foreclosed houses, turning them into skate parks.
Jason found this crazy downhill skateboarding video and gives the sage advice to fast forward two minutes in to get closer to the INSANE ACTION! You can also click here for the HD version.