TRASH
GONE BOARDING
For a week, art technicians labored over
the pristine white walls of New York's
Alleged Gallery, making them perfect. Over
$1500 was expended in the effort by
Aaron Rose and associates, who refined
the art space to the demanding specifica-
tions of Mark Gonzales. So what did the
maestro do when he showed up to mount
his latest one-man show? Gonz covered
every inch of the pristine art emporium
with black spray painted low rider trucks,
poems, treatises and deep gashes. Not only
that, but the artiste drew on girls panties,
which were proudly worn by comely uber
models. The opening drew hundreds, and
was notable for team Supreme's cap gun
assault upon some staid art goers. The
soundtrack for the affair was personally
selected by Mark and consisted entirely of
NWA and Morrissey
cuts played back to
back. Old Gonz art
from his '93 show
was selling for
$1500. Not a
bad
investment considering these pieces were
originally offered at $25 each.
Tommy Guerrero and Mic-E Reyes
ors and victories,
and shopping
around for a ramp
location. The plan is
to build a 60 foot
wide monster with
big transitions.
How serious is he?
Bob's been auditioning spots that rent for
75¢ per square foot.
After a suitable disappearance from pub-
lic view following his politi-
cal advocacy career, Jim
ULTIMA OPORTUNIDAD Fitzpatrick has reemerged
AHORA ES TU
This is your
last chance
¡BOTALO!
Dump it!
DEVIL'S DANDRUFF
with a self-penned
Hollywood screenplay in
hand. Reportedly, the hot
property concerned is a
skate epic, and the power
brokers at Disney Co who
produced Toy Story are rap-
turously in lust with it..
Furthermore, Fitz the thespi-
an was busted recently
directing community theater
in Santa Barbara. As for the
International Association of
Skateboard Companies,
unconfirmed rumors have the
organization queuing up an
amateur competition series.
Recent coverage of Fitpatrick and crew's
pro skate lobbying on the MTV Sports
Festival has caused a national response
that elicits an average 75 phone calls per
day from skaters who desire tips for polit-
ical agitation. A new
politically-oriented
dedicated web site is
said to be the next
move on the IASC
agenda.
Waste not, want not. Choppy Omega would rather
blow it away, than throw it away on the trip to the
airport in Lima, Peru.
are preparing an exhibit for a gallery site in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Reyes, who says he's
now over the cop stuff and into his "holy
vaginal vortex phase," is also set to show in
San Francisco at the Plus One Gallery.
The claim that public skateparks
are going to be the fastest growing
aspect of the sport in the immediate
future continues to be made.
It is estimated that 42.
parks will open this year
in California alone. A flurry
of activity in Carlsbad serves
as an example. Here the city
fathers are working to place a
new facility very close to the
exact spot that the original first
skatepark was situated, as well
as the later Mike McGill ram-
plex. Thus, history repeats
itself over 20 years later. The
question is, will this third
time be the charm, or will
this new park go the way
of its two predecessors?
WOOD CHUCK
CHAD
GUEVARA?
Before the Muska was
the Muska, Che was Che
and that was that.
Bob Burnquist has been saving up the
abundant proceeds from his recent hon-
SNOW JOB
Jake Burton's
American Express
credit card TV com-
mercial apparently
has ruffled a few
feathers on the glis-
tening white slopes
of corporate snow-
land. As widely
observed, isn't
Jake's actual last
name allegedly
Carpenter? It's not
that the snowboard building mogul has
violated some truth in advertising princi-
ple, which is irritating some. Apparently,
HENRY SANCHEZ: Can still rock the mic.
several other manus feel the
conferring in Dana Point, CA, with
television endorsement SKATER OF THE YEAR Corky Carroll, the musician who
implies that Mr "Burton"
somehow gets the implied cred-
it for actually pioneering the
sport. Still, in the business
world, popularity breeds dupli-
cation. The ad agency types are
now supposedly considering a
Sims spot in which the notori-
ous skateboard high-jumping
James Bond snowboard stunt
doubling Mr Tom "does some-
thing from his real guy lifestyle."
Gee Sims could charge luxury
THER
items used in his everyday existence like
yachts, air conditioned tree houses, Jaguar
automobiles and a dozen Rolling
Stones concert tickets for his friends.
HARD COPY
Just so you heard it here last, the rumor
mill creeping out of Oceanside, Califas,
now has Thrasher publishing a surfing
magazine, which supposedly will be edit-
ed by Mofo. The previous
Clockwise from
above: After being
named Skater of the Year
for 1997, Bob Burnquist
accepts the accolades
from someone who's
been there before. The
Ashland girls minus
Coco Spice were in the
house. The Goodfellas
rock the night away.
Grant Brittain?
And from the tainted newsprint of the
Wall Street Journal, can it be true that
Variflex, the onetime biggest volume-pro-
ducing skate company in the world, was
actually being shopped around? And sold
to the lowest bidder?
SKATER DATER
The upcoming release of the Mo
Wax/A Rose tome on skate art/graphics
is soon to be joined by
POSERS OF
THE MONTH
Criminal (left):
Arun Rindanio
Crime:
One foot Nose Slip
Condemnation:
Castration
Assailant (right):
Andy Lesch
Assault:
Tractor stall
Aggravation:
X-treme Games
month's transglobal
attributed installment was a "porn book"
leaking from here called Twistgrip. What's
next, the news that High Speed is doing
a rough trade title, entitled Slap? As for
Mo, isn't he out in SF attending a
Buddhist healing conference with J
several other "history of
the sport" books. One out of Canada is
said to involve commentaries by the likes
of Tony Alva. Drew Kampion just
released Stoked, which yieled a glimpse at
the sidewalk surfing rage of yesteryear.
The author was seen at the release party
pressed the song "Skateboard Bill"
a couple of decades ago. Corky,
who was last campaigning on
eight wheels as a Miller Lite Beer
All Star, claimed to be working on
his 15th CD. Dale "Sausage
Man" Smith is quietly showing
around his own 200-plus page
manuscript luxuriantly festooned
with photos and historical arcana.
such as people riding orange crate
scooters in the 1920s.
Also on the historification bent is
the Skateboarding Hall of Fame Museum
that finally opened in Calis' Simi Valley.
This brainchild of LA Dodger Scott
Radinsky and Todd Huber features a
fully-detailed replica of a 1970s skateshop,
an 8 foot pool, a right hand kidney and
15,400 square feet of other wonders. On
the scene for the roll-out party were
Mark Richards, Lance Mountain,
Chicken, Sausage Boy and TA. For the
record, it is properly identified as the
California Skate Lab.
LAST LAUGH
"Everybody works for
Spike Jonze; he's the
Howard Hughes of
skateboarding." -Gonz
"Carlsbad spent years
outlawing skateboarding,
and now they turn around
and come up with
$350,000 to build a
skatepark. I don't think
this is a dream, this is the
future."-Paul Schmitt
"Modern skateboard
art? They should invest some money
and hire somebody that can draw."
-Wes Humpston
"Skateboarding used to be just a bunch of
loser geeks in shorts shining up their mon-
keys." -Mic-E Reyes
"I broke windows."-Karma Tsocheff
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