Check the Zoo team in Canada:

Battle skateboards are on the way.  Straight out of Hastings printed by Lovenskate on Chapman wood, designed by Sam Roberts who we interviewed here , Sizes are 8.00 and above – keep an eye out for these. http://battleskateboards.blogspot.com We wish them luck in this era of a shitload of mico breweries.

You probably already saw this – but it should be good especially as the final is going to be run on the same format as this:

Check the new episode of Tales From the Black Glove by Blueprint, Boston is heavily represented by Kevin Coakley and friends and then there is pretty much a whole Kevin Coakley video part of offcuts, sick stuff.

So Lovenskate have their Super Jumbo Premiere, and Carhartt have their Spektra Premiere on the same night – November 7th.

Super Jumbo is at Jaguar Shoes
Spektra is at Slam City Skates

Both will be good. Which one to go to?

It’s all about the japans. Spotted on strangenotes.com

Podcast: Download (13.8MB)

So winter has set in, you cant go shreadboarding as much, what are you going to do? Well why not have ago at a bit of needle work.  Get yer Dickies out, get these patterns that Sieben has done for Sublime Stiching and start threading.

Knit one, pearl one – oh wait thats knitting in it?  We recon French is going to be all over this when he gets back.

Crossfire currently have an interview up with the legendary Jim Philips, who was responsible for some very iconic graphics over at Santa Cruz in the 80s. Check it out 

Whilst your over there don’t forget to pick up tickets for the Halloween Massacre this Saturday 1st November – click below for more details:

The definitive late 80s San Francisco skate video ‘Sick Boys’ will be available on DVD in November, a must have as copies on eBay have been rare or expensive. You want to see Julien do the first frontside boardslide on a handrail, Natas and Tommy Guerrero rip everything and a big pile of legends all shot on film? You need this.

Check the trailer:

Blueprint have just put up a bunch of photos on their site from the Tweaker Freaker show that opened last week and will be running downstairs in Slam until the middle of next month. Check the photos here and also check the Blueprint site for a tonne of regularly updated goodness like video clips, photos, news and heavy bloggage from the team in Tales of the Black Glove.