When I was in 9th grade I was the only skater in my school and everyone thought I was an idiot who dressed weird. Or least that’s what I thought everyone thought of me. Come to find out years later all the women wanted me and the guys all wanted to be like me. I blame it on the media. But now skateboarding is hot in the media, and we’re tracking it here. But not very well.
Just keep it disorganized. Otherwise it might suffer the same fate as BMX racing. According to the Wall Street Journal article, the reason skateboarding, a much more popular sport than BMX racing, isn’t in the Olympics and BMX racing is, is because there is no established governing body for skateboarding. And should there be? If it leads…
Here’s an interesting article about some rich guy wanting to build skateparks in Iraq as a way to revitalize the economy over there. Regardless of how you feel about the war we can all support this, I suppose.
Once again, some ad agency shows the skateboarding world they don’t have a clue when it comes to portraying skateboarders accurately in an ad campaign for Cisco. Then again, are skateboarders really their target audience? Probably not, but why not get it right? I actually am a consumer of Cisco products since I’m a business owner, and if…
We’re starting a new section of the site called “skateboarding in the media” where we’ll post interesting, humorous, or offensive use of skateboarding in the news, movies, corporate ads, etc. First off is Apple Computer’s latest Mac vs. PC ad entitled Meant for Work. Check out the screenshot below, see anything familiar? Yep, he’s got some chocolate…
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