TRASH
CULTURE VACUUM
Guerrero, Thiebaud and Klindt presented their art show GET SOME
"Canvas America" in San Diego. A couple days later, an Ed
Templeton curated exhibition of skate-directed creativity
received rave reviews at the Huntington Beach Museum of
Arts. The Figure Five Gallery SF debut of Lance Dawes and
Gabe Morford equally excited the arbiters of taste and cul-
ture, so we all know the crossover effect is fait accompli.
Some guys get all the chicks.
Deluxe team guy Micke Reyes
moves boards and bodies
of all kinds in his quest for
ultimate world domination.
PERINEAL TRIBUTE
At Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Kareem Campbell's
backside 180' flip will live as long as the sun can't fade it.
LATER DAZE
The Action Sport Retailer Pigfest featured a memori-
al ramp jam dedicated to the memory of Frank Hawk.
The late Mr Hawk's son Tony demonstrated some lines
that served notice that in the circus presentation ori-
ented world of theatrical vert riding he still is the stan
dard. The hot rumor of the trade show concerned the
alleged sale of Stüssy, Inc, the supposedly impending
sale of Rusty, Inc, and, the biggest non-secret in the
World, the rumored defection of Marty Jiminez
and Channel One from the Acme stables.
Another burning jibe was hurled at a certain
manu by a wood vendor who claimed he was
owed $38,000 for boards built. The futuristic
resurrection aspect to the show was under-
scored by the presentation of the "new Hobie
Sports" board as well as goods "created" by
deceased surf legends Duke Kahanamokou
and Dewey Weber. Mike McGill offered his re-
pop old Powell signature model logo which he
claimed to have "traded" some of his "Animal
Chin royalty money for." Birdhouse magnate
Hawk continued to offer a version of his old
Bones Big Board also. Eddie Reategui was
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ROACHED IN
PEACE
Spots come and go, but the passing of
two legendary landmarks could not go
without notice. The New Spot in Van
couver, BC, was the home of homeless
street throngs while the Ramada Pool
in El Paso was ridden for almost ten
years. Both will be missed and our
condolences go out to all concerned.
vending his Animal Christchin shirts for
good measure. The "new" Duane Peters
10 model shocked many with its func-
tionality. On-point types included G-Dog.
David Hackett, Shogo Kubo, Wes Hump-
ston, Jim Muir, Tony Alva and old school
skateboard builders Dick Brewer and Phil
Edwards. Former Makaha skate team
managers Jim Ganzer, Mike Doyle and
Skip Engblom were also present as were
ex-Hobie types Dale Smith, Bob Skold-
berg and Johnny Freis. Modern individu-
alists dealt with their mysto trend towards
historification. Danny Way announced
he's training for Formula One racing and
may soon be piloting a go-kart in profes
sional racing. Rocco lost his whole
empire slot car racing with Keith
Cochrane. Jim Fitzpatrick and
Ice-T swapped photo poses with
the Duffs' cafe fuzzy bunnies. Mr
Fitz was reportedly offered 80
grand by a consortium of promi-
nent skate industrialists to do an
unaligned contest. Swank pre-
miered the Foundation super vid
and spoke of getting 14,000 hits on
the internet. Tumbleweed Ancell
played slack key guitar with Hawai
ian legend Mike Young while Kana
ka ruler Titus Kinimaka looked on.
BACK YARD
The Ozzy video featured Cheese
Boy and Salba looking demonic in
SKATE
MUSEUM
Lance Mountain is busy col-
acting skate memorablic
bit by bit, in this case it is
an actual brick from Justin
Harman Plazo donated
by Rick bosetn
INDY 500
The World booth at the trade
show was voted best of show
for the 111th straight year.
their devilish
attire. Salba
has been cir
culating on
the North
ridge earth
quake zone
guided by his list of 105 empty
pools. Following his recent decima
tion of the Rigoletto pool in
Woodland Hills, LAPD officers
showed up at Glenn Kennedy's
nearby store to admonish the local
skaters to avoid the place. One of
the cops reportedly told Kennedy,
"Hey, tell Salba not to grind the
stairs there, the owner's pissed-off."
When questioned as to how the
LAPD was hip to Steve Alba, the
cop replied, "Hey, think we don't
read the magazines?"
a
Burnside boy Mark "Red" Scott
is now named "Red Hot" after he
tried to cool off following a heated
concrete cure where he grabbed
can of water which turned out to
be gasoline. Scott was fully en-
gulfed by flames. He's back skating
hotter than ever with frontside wall
rides on the very top of Burnside.
Titus Dettman, promoter of the
longest running International Skate
Championships, was overheard
wondering just "how many world
championships you could have a
year?" Meanwhile, ESPN is consid-
ering a series of eleven world titles
reportedly extremely in sync with
the International Association of
Skateboard Companies.
LOST WEEKEND
As for the Hard Rock Newport
ESPN World Championships, a
couple thousand witnessed
them live. The ramp seemed
to have a couple of idiosyn-
cracies to its contours. As
For Kareem and Weiss,
there is nothing like a
le cold one after a demo
DRY
to set things straight.
predicted, Tony Hawk
had it wired. Sonja
Catalano reigned
supreme replete with
her own prom queen
photo ID machine. El
Dorf sold Vision gear
while Vans booted up
all deserving customers. The cul-
tured high watermark occurred
when Tracker Larry Balma refused
to disrobe for MTV's cameras while
a scantily clad video ho begged
him to do so. Perhaps she was
overly stimulated by his street rod?
Think crew chief Keith Cochrane
was denied access to the contest
area, as was Rocco. Mr Steve retali
ated by apparently obtaining some
very bogus ID and thus entering in
an obviously underhanded manner.
Cochrane, on the other hand,
appeared genuinely distraught as
he "couldn't coach his riders."
Team rider Sergie Ventura was so
bothered by Keith's lack of coach-
ing that he handily won the high-
est air event, while Digo hummed
along obviously in jet-lagged slum-
ber. Both Rocco and Cochrane
spoke of a future organizational
boycott. IASC leader Jim Fitzpat
rick appeared perplexed at the
event's conclusion. Mr Fitz was
speculating regarding the disposi
tion of the purported 105 thousand
dollar budget.
REAL DEAL
Amid the fear of cuts and axes,
Coco Santiago left the Deluxe
Label while Kelly Bird was in the
camp and ended up riding for Black
hot seat as to the direction of his
future. The world smiles bright-
ly on Quim Cardona and
Joey Bast as hopes of the
next generation. Micke
Reyes ran around trying
to sell Omar Hassan to
the powers that
be and was
told that
he was not
a real "Real"
type. Also,
the Anti-Hero
team was last
seen camping out
at Fort Miley and
had the spider
bite scars
POSER OF
THE MONTH
ACCUSED: Mark Oblow
CRIME: Bean to fakie
SENTENCE: Sweatpants
to prove it. At a secret underground
test site, John Cardiel broke his
wrist going for broke in a full pipe.
Other soldiers included Stranger,
Roy, Orkin and Morford.
Kelly Belmar filled his pool so
that work could begin on his new
shallow end. When the pool is
empty, nothing gets done. When
it's full the phone never rings.
"It doesn't matter what you do if
UTTER DISGRACE
it looks like you
have style."
-Fausto Vitello
"If someone's
not worth
suing, it's
not even
fun to beat
'em up."
-Wes
Humpston
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