In case you didn’t already know, the Maloof Money Cup is coming to New York on June 5th & 6th and Flushing is being converted to a permanent skatepark. The Unisphere is gone, and no one seems to care. It looks like a sick park, though.

The schedule has been posted as well as the roster. I submitted an entry to get a press pass, but I’m not holding my breath. Seating is limited and getting tickets seems to be pretty tough.

Competition Schedule (Rain or Shine)

SATURDAY, JUNE 5
10:00 a.m – Gates Open
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m – Open Practice
12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m – Volcom Street Pro
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m – Tech Deck Best Trick Contest

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m – Open Practice
10:00 a.m – Gates Open
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m – World Industries Amateur Street Competition
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m – Volcom Street Pro Practice
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m – Volcom Street Pro Finals & Awards

Festival Village Live Music Schedule (All performances will be at the Skull Candy Stage)

SATURDAY JUNE 5
12:15 p.m.-1:00 p.m – CHIDDY BANG
2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m – Sainthood Reps
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m – Tidal Arms
4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m – Mike Del Rio

SUNDAY JUNE 6
12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m – Score 24
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m – DJ Suss One
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m – Hester Prynn
4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m – The Sleeping
5:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m – Special Musical Guest

Roster
TOP 48 MMC NY STREET SKATERS (in alphabetical order)

Adam Dyet
Alex Olsen
Anthony Van Engelen
Billy Marks
Brandon Biebel
Brandon Westgate
Brian Anderson
Brian Hansen
Bryan Herman
Chris Cole
Chris Haslam
Chris Pfanner
Corey Duffel
Darrell Stanton
David Gonzalez
David Gravette
Dennis Busenitz
Dustin Dollin
Emmanuel Guzman
Eric Koston
Geoff Rowley
Grant Taylor
Greg Lutzka
Jake Duncombe
Jamie Tancowny
Justin Brock
Keegan Sauder
Leo Romero
Lizard King
Luan Oliveira
Marc Johnson
Mark Appleyard
Mike Carroll
Mike Mo Capaldi
Nick Dompierre
Nyjah Huston
Omar Salazar
Paul Rodriguez
Pete Eldridge
Peter Ramondetta
Sean Malto
Stefan Janoski
Tommy Sandoval
Torey Pudwill
Zered Bassett

NY Wildcard Skaters

Danny Falla
Eli Reed

Plug: Don’t forget you can pick up your own haveboard.com hoverboard t-shirt (or even the Animal Chin Shirt) in the store!

French artist Nils Guadagnin* went out and created a replica of the popular hoverboard from the film, and it actually hovers! Here is an explanation of what type of magic was used to pull it off.

Integrated into the board and the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board. A laser system stabilises the object in the air.

via Geek Tyrant.

HOVERBOARD – NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.

*Check out Nils’ Wallpaper Exposition. I think you guys would appreciate it.

space 1026 today 7:30pm.

Skate Talk had Jereme on as a guest back in December and they are having him back on this evening. It’s at 8pm pacific time (11pm EST). You can tune in here.

If you see this post and have any questions for Jereme, post them here in the comments and maybe I’ll call in.

[UPDATE] Hilarious episode! He goes to the bathroom with the mic on towards the end and you can hear him in the bathroom “naked gun style” practicing what he is about to freestyle. There is also some other activity that the slap boards speculate was him doing coke. It’s at around the 1h10m mark.

A couple weeks ago Bad Shit were in town on the Skate Rock Tour. Enjoy this clip of the total chaos that went down, leaving Exit looking like a war zone…broken walls and all.

Watch the clip on Youtube or Vimeo.

Did you miss the Exit Deck Heads Show? I think the boards are still there. If you missed the show or want a nice little recap, stop by exit or  scroll down and check out all the photos I took. I’m surprised I even brought out a real camera, let alone posted them all. There were a lot of awesome boards!

NP: Nick Fried from Jon Wolf on Vimeo.

Thrasher just posted some great FDR coverage from their recent Skate Rock tour that took Philly and the rest of the east coast by storm. Despite always being a Philadelphia skateboard destination, it’s nice to see FDR getting well-deserved exposure and visits from some of skateboarding’s elite in the recent months. Head over the Thrasher to check the Burnout feature with more photos from the day.

Rememeber when Birdhouse came through Philly and hit up FDR and the Warehouse? Well they posted their tour video. It is pretty dope. Willy’s 360 nose grab judo over the hip at the warehouse was much gnarlier in person, though. I wonder if the sequence they shot of it will ever be used anywhere. Thanks to Zeeg for sending the link.

Birdhouse Skateboards East Coast Tour from Birdhouse on Vimeo.

A Solo Exhibit with M@ke/Shift Gallery

This months exhibit space is at 2212 E Norris St, Philadelphia, PA 19125

Two Receptions:
Friday March 7th, 2010 from 5-8pm
Saturday March 22nd, 2010 from 4-7pm

Artist Bio: Born in California, Joe Minuto spent most of his life on Long Island and currently resides in Mastic, NY. Until his high school graduation in 1995 his focus was on art, and he continued on to the fine arts program at the Columbus College of Design in Ohio. He later received an associate degree from Suffolk County Community College in NY. Early on in his art creation there were traditional starting points and mediums that Joe tended to be drawn to. As of late, he has been fascinated by experimenting with different types of materials. “Good Grief” in Philadelphia is his first solo exhibition.

> Event Postcard
> Sample of his work
> Joe Minuto skates too!

M@ke/Shift Gallery is a roving exhibition of emerging artists in available spaces. 2212 Norris @ Tulip in Fishtown is a 1900 sq ft commercial property w/garage, subdivideable w/separate entrances, utilities & bathrooms. Adjacent to the Frankford Ave Arts Corridor. Available for sale or lease.

Come visit during Fishtown’s 1st Friday May 7th, 5-8pm & after the Kinetic Sculpture Derby/ Trenton Ave Arts Fest May 22, 4-7pm.

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This year we decided to go all out for our annual skateboard art show. We managed to get over 80 of the most talented artist around to contribute to this years show and also recruited help from 3 of Philadelphia’s favorite galleries Amberella, Jinxed, and Jolie Laide for a special collaborative project. This will be a night to remember. Never before has Philly been able to pack this much art, skateboarding, and Philly Love into 4 walls!

Hope to See you there!

For List of Artist’s Showing at “Deck Heads 3″

Chris Pastras
Clint Peterson
Silas Finch
Scott Kmiec
Sean Gallager
Concetta Barbera
Dave Rankin
Adam Pietras
Justin Berry
Bill McRight
Chris “Salty Snacks” Kline
Ben Woodward
Anthony Pasarela
John Freeborn
Dave Fox
Dave Weeks
Dave Glass
J.L. Schnabel
Jason Goldberg
Eric Eaton
Paul Romano
Smitty
Hoode
Andrew Clark
Fatt Matt McGarvey
Matt Kosoy
Jon Bocksel
Dietrich Meyer
Chris Clark
Joseph Livewell
Steve Miller
Bill Pierce
Jude Martys
Joey Gothelf
James Heimer
Joe Castro
Ki Realer
Pat Heid
Brit Hawk
Squindo
Eric Kenney
Bill Reeves
TJ McGlade
Nick Zegel
Jason Andrew Turner
Ricky Geiger
Jesse Clayton
Adam Wallacavage
Katherine Allan
Kris Chau
Eugene Ewing
Dave Fox
Stephanie Kao
Amber Lynn
Mark McQuilling
Bill Sands
J.L. Schnabel
Heather Jo Wingate
Melissa Lomax
Jeffro Kilpatrick
K Wiz
James Heimer
Jon Parkton
Mike Niemiec
Christine Larsen
Matt Cavanaugh
George Tan
Patch
Ralph “Awesome Dude”
Shaky “Awesome Dude”
Pat Bryan
Todd Marrone
Ryan De La Cruz
Frost 215
Paul Clark
Yis “Nose Go” Goodwin
Chris Picco
Sheldon Abba
Matthew Gribben
Kevin Baker
Donald Baechler
Tom Costa
Daniel Gerwin
Christina Sucgang
Simon Slater
Robert Siegel

Unlike our silent auction shows of the past this event will be “CASH AND CARRY” event. So bring your greenbacks!

Jetty Team Rider, Alex Duke has an art show tonight in Fishtown at Slingluff Gallery. “You most likely have seen Alex’s work on a number of consolidated decks, along with designs for Crimson, Division East, 1031 & Jetty just to name a few. It should be a good time! CHECK IT! “, says Nick of Zeeg Is Breathing.

This is so awesome!

Altamont presents
Skate Rock
At Exit Skateshop
Sunday May 2nd at 5:00pm
Featuring Bad Shit and The Goat
with the Altamont skateboard team

Plus special guests:
Emanuel Guzman, roadie (Bad Shit)
James Hardy, roadie (Bad Shit)
Chris Cole, roadie (The Goat)
and Chet Childress, roadie (The Goat)

Altamont has gotten together with Bad Shit, The Goat, Thrasher, The Skateboard Mag, Nixon and theAltamont skate team plus special guests for a musical meltdown tour on the East Coast. Will Phelper vomit on Atiba? Baca vs. Theotis in the battle of the roadies? Will anybody remember to bring their skateboards?

This is a FREE show! Doors Open at 5pm so you better be lined up by NOON or you will not get through the doors! This is your only chance to hang out with Andrew Reynolds, Tony T., Spanky, Phelps, Atiba, Sammy Baca, Theotis, Chris Cole, Chet Childress, Emanuel Guzman, James Hardy, and the rest of the Altamont crew. All at Exit Skateshop in Philly! Special Guests, prizes, and giveaways all night long!

Thank you Exit Skateshop

Kinetic’s new spot is:

Kinetic Skateboarding
5321 Conchord Pike (202)
Wilmington DE 19803
(302) 477-1533

Sorry for not posting this sooner.

Photo: Zoli

What: Fundraising Bowl Jam for Millersville Skatepark

When: Friday, April 30th 4-8pm

Where: 492 Letort road, Millersville PA 17551

Who: Hosted by Matt Arment (Nelson) – 717.989.7133

NOW AVAILABLE in 7.5, 7.75, 8, 8.25

skateswords@gmail.com

I saw the following on twitter:

@tonyhawk im all for creativity and innovation but i just cant get into it. tricks or no seeing a grown man skate like a 4yr old isnt rad.
@tonyhawk

…and had to see what he was talking about. That’s when I read this:

This guy Almir from Slovenia has a unique way of skating: http://j.mp/cWOb7O He is desperate to try the Megaramp. Deathwish or genius?
@delaneyfearon

Then I watched this:

I’d love to see this dude’s attempt at the Mega-Ramp. I’ll bet it’s worse than Duffy’s freefall.This dude is no William Spencer.

from 2003 … where in the hell did those 7 years go?..

Mike Mazur of Focus has been hosting a bar/skate night at Mad River in Old City, They have a spine ramp to session and drink specials. There have been guest bartenders as well. I believe it’s every Tuesday night.

$1PBR’s
$2 Mixed Wells

Spine ramp is back in action

Last week they had a flatbar. No idea if that will be there again this week. I think I might check it out tonight.

This is last week’s flyer. Justin isn’t guest bartending tonight.

[Update] I lifted this photo of Kyle Nicholson rocking a Benihana on the spine ramp from the Nocturnal site but Greg mentions in the comments that “your you’re(edit) only allowed to to do(edit) lip tricks on the spine or you get yelled at… apparently its to loud?” I didn’t make it out on Tuesday so I’m not sure what the deal is. I’m gonna try to make it out next week.

[Update 2] Skip Millard Guest Bartending 4/13

This is Rich Alder’s part from Night Prowler (Habitation Studio. 2009), a video out of Japan. You can check out the entire video on vimeo.

Photo from Skateboarder Magazine, pulled from Traffic Skateboards.

For those of you that don’t know, I recently broke my collarbone. Well I need a little help paying my bills since I’m uninsured and don’t have a full time job. Gonzo had a run of haveboard, will skate… Animal Chin shirts printed for me at Awesome Dude Printing to help me cover some of the costs I’ve incurred from breaking myself without coverage.

They are $25 bucks. The order processing is handled by paypal but you don’t need a paypal account. You can still pay by credit card without a paypal account, it is just handled by the paypal site.

If your shipping address is different than your billing address, it won’t show up on the paypal receipt but I will still get the shipping address separate from your billing address. I will confirm all shipping address personally by email. The order will show up from jonathan.finnegan at gmail in your inbox and your card statement will read “PAYPAL *J FINNNEGAN”.

You can also buy stickers (5 for $2), the hoverboard shirt ($12), or a Animal Chin Shirt / Sticker combo pack ($26). There is even 1 small OG graphic and 1 small brown logo shirt left

I am not charging any shipping on orders in the U.S.

Thank you in advance for your order, if you do happen to order. I appreciate you all checking out the site and contributing in the comments. An order would be greatly appreciated to show a little support. Thanks!

It’s about that time to refresh haveboard.com and get rid of the look I built at the end of 2006. I’ve learned quite a bit since then and you’re now looking at the new haveboard.com. If you are reading through an RSS reader, I suggest clicking through and checking out the new digs! I hope you like it.

[nerd paragraph] I used a lot of css3 techniques and took stab at exploring progressive enhancement with the design. You can read about why things don’t need to look the same in ever browser over at O3 World. This refresh/redesign has been in the works for months and I finally decide to work on getting it to a point where I am comfortable launching. I have a lot of plans to expand on this new look. More information in the footer as well as a better 404 page are just a few things planned for this iteration of the site but I wanted to launch something new considering the old haveboard.com had been around since the end of 2006.

You will notice that you can now vote thumbs up and thumbs down on individual comments. You don’t have to be logged in or be registered to use this feature. I’d love to see this voting get some use.

There still may be a few bugs here and there but I tested pretty thoroughly across multiple browsers so things should be pretty much in order and viewable. Internet Explorer users are definitely not getting the full range of the redesign. If this is you, I suggest trying out Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. Things should still work, it just may not work or look as well in IE.

If you find any errors, please let me know what is going on as well as what operating system and browser you are using and I’ll look into it. You can let me know in the comments below or send me an email. Feedback is greatly appreciated, whether good or bad. Constructive criticism would be preferred over plain old criticism or hatred.

The new shop will launch in the next day or so. Stay tuned for that and thanks for reading haveboard.com.

I also set up an event in my google calendar to email me daily with the link to remind me to vote everyday. I suggest you do the same in whatever calendar app you use. If you aren’t sure how to do this, ask in the comments for whatever calendar program you use. If I can’t help, someone else out there may be able to help you out.

If you have a facebook account, voting literally takes less than 30 seconds. This park is going to be amazing. Do your part and help the 610 win that Pepsi money!

Josh Friedberg has turned his blog knowskateboarding.com into a really sick skateboard website aggregator. Haveboard.com is not yet up in the mix, but Josh says we should be listed there real soon now up there as well. Thanks Josh. Knowskateboarding.com is now pretty much the one-stop shop for all your skateboarding news online. If only we can get Crailtap.com to finally get an RSS feed.

You may know Josh from back in the day when he founded 411vm. He left 411vm back in 2005 but after recently winning a Nikon contest, he has vowed to bring it back. Currently 411vm is just a feed of the news from grindtv.com (who took over 411vm) but hopefully that will all change soon.

[Update: Vans is now the title sponsor, throwing down a $1500 cash purse.]

If you need something more than still life Wagner, check out this video over at Vimeo or this one on youtube.

Josh Stewart is releasing Static 1 on DVD on April 1st. This video is 10 year old and still a classic to watch before a session. The new Theories site is pretty dope as well. I’m behind on my skate site lurking so I’m not sure how long the new design has been up.

The DVD will also include Stewart’s earlier works: Cigar City and Rising as well as director commentary. Watch the trailer here (.mov).

Hat tip to Traffic Skateboards for the heads up on this news.

Delaware Josh is involved with the fundraiser planned above to be held at FDR Skatepark. Link to the post he sent me (with a direct link to the flyer) here.

“Delaware josh, a very essential dude as far as building & ripping the park is organizing some skate related action for any & all to participate in such as a possible smoke bomb time trial around the park, spine contest & a janky micro quarter contest as well. also vert dogs, dont forget – we fixed up the vert ramp last year & its good to go, and for the mini-ramp champs, we’ve got you covered as well. we’ve also lined up some grub, merch/swap & most importantly some amazing sponsors who have put up a ton of awesome stuff for us to sell & raffle off & every red cent we raise on this day will go directly into the park. being a hand built park that gets used and abused as much as it does, it constantly needs repair, paint & of course, expansion is always a goal. just like the best custom sickle, its never done & always needs attention. so stuff some cash in your pocket for some killer stuff & to help us raise some loot for the park – strap your board to your bars or sissybar & plan on spending all day with the scum under 95 in south philly. it will be a day you will never forget.”

Get down there and contribute! The park is looking great this year. DE Josh organized a cleanup this past Saturday that was a huge success. He said they painted pretty much everything and filled in cracks and uneven concrete all over the ground and walls. They still have to do a little coping repair, but the park is looking great from what I hear. Josh has been planning some new construction and expansion for this summer based on what proceeds they can raise at this fundraiser. I have been working to get a shipping container or other suitable storage shed down there so everyone can store their tools, equipment, and leftover material safely as this will facilitate renovations and expansion work like woah.

Big ‘tings poppin’ this year in the Philly skate scene across all fronts so get involved! Contact Josh Marcinizyn at 302.528.0981 or delawarejosh@gmail.com to help out with this particular fundraiser or to contribute whatever you can to keep FDR awesome. A few hours of your time, some donated material or equipment, a six-pack or a couple bucks goes a long way down there…