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Spencer Hamilton, for the third consecutive day, has done something newsworthy to make it into the Daily Shit. This time he did it by taking home first place and $500 in the first Lord of the Lines contest in Ottawa. Will he show up to the next contests in Montreal and Winnipeg? Only time will tell...... Jim Thiebaud is giving away a dozen pairs of the new Thunder/Etnies Johnny Romano shoes to a dozen people smart enough to check out his Twitter account. In other DLX related news, Krooked just posted a full part from Luke Croker that was tucked away in their online catalog.

If you haven't seen Diagonal, the new Euro vid from Adidas Skateboarding, it's now up on their website, where you can also check out the new Buzenitz pro shoe.... It's official, Spencer Hamilton is now on KR3W's Am team. Congrats Spenny.... If vou're in Vancouver, Bowl Series #15 kicks off today at noon at Selynn, with an after party featuring China Creeps and The Vibrators at The Cobalt tonight..... Mike McKinley's WIld in the Streets video is now available for you to watch via "the youtubes", as my grandma would call it.... and last but not least, head out to the kick off of the Lord of the Lines contest in Ottawa at Top of the World if you're in the neighborhood today...

Well, it's slow as shit for news so far this week, so why don't you head on over to the KR3W site where you can watch Tom Penny, Lizard King, Dan Murphy and Spencer Hamilton rip shit up during their Go Skateboard Day weekend in Quebec City? Also, you should be getting ready for Matix's Lord of the Lines which starts up tomorrow at Top of the World in Ottawa. An insane amount of people turn out on Rideau St. for Canada Day every year, so good luck keeping your concentration during your run, guys.

Don't forget to head on over to the Baitshop tonight to see the Toronto premiere of Globe's United by Fate. What? Social interaction isn't so appealing when you can just watch it here? Well, how's about a chance to hang out with Chris Haslam and Ryan Decenzo? Both of these fine strapping young gentlemen will be in attendance, so your girlfriend has something to throw herself at....

Ha. I can't believe someone's already made a parody of a Jereme Rodgers hip hop track. "Whisper" is some funny shit..... Debacle, Nike SB's latest video offering, is available to watch (or download) for free in full HD quality today. Watch Daryl Angel, David Clark, Grant Taylor, Theotis Beasley and Shane O'Neill rip shit up right here..... Speaking of HD, Plan B has a new welcome to summer video up on their site that's also all super high quality.... and not speaking of HD, you can watch a Jason Adams bonus clip from the new Tiltmode video over at their site, and the new Blind video is available for download on iTunes for just $8.

Well, we're about to make your day. Cliche has put all of their videos, in full, up on their website, including their latest video, Cle. If haven't seen it yet, it's amazing. You'll see why the Euro guys continue to be light years ahead of us when it comes to video creativity.... NIke SB has pictures of the new P-Rod skatepark in LA, which looks pretty sweet indeed.... Harry's wife sent me a link to this site where people make jewelry out of old skateboards, so I could include something for the ladies today. So, there you go girls, we're even for another six months, minimum.

Scandalous. Chris Nieratko got Mike Anderson's girlfriend pregnant..... Skate Junt has a new promo video out and it's awesome.... There's tons going on for Go Skateboarding Day this Sunday, visit here to find an event near you. If you're in Quebec City, hit Exo Shop for the KR3W demo.... if you're in Vancouver, Saturday you can go see The Goat play at The Biltmore Cabaret and Sunday you've got a chance to hang out with the ENTIRE Emerica team for Wild in the Streets.... if you're LA, Paul Rodriguez and Nike SB are opening up a new skatepark, visit their website for more details....

Thunder and Etnies just released a limited edition set of trucks and shoes in memory of Johnny Romano - all proceeds will be be donated to the Johnny Kicks Cancer foundation, so get out to your local shop and buy'em.... Holy shit. I figured this project died, but apparently, the documentary on Skateopia called Skateopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy is getting screened next month at AceFest2009 in NYC.... The first round of the DC Nationals went down at The Forks skate plaza last weekend, and there's a whole video about it for you to check out, right here.....

If, like us, you're from the east, you'll appreciate this new video from Supra Distribution featuring Jay Brown, Pat O'Rourke and Paul Liliani called Heat from the East..... Go Skateboarding Day has a new website with some fancy interactive map of GSD events worldwide.... and here's a clip from the new Black Label video, God Save the Label, which I'm hoping someone will send our way once it's out.... Lastly, Andrew from Deluxe sent this link over. We laughed.

Vancouver photographer Seth Fluker will be having his first solo exhibition show in Toronto on Thursday June 18th at 107 Shaw Gallery. Everyone Needs Standards will be on display until July 9th, 2009 and the show will mainly consist of new work, so maybe sure you pop on by and check it out.... There's new Wild in the Streets tees available for sale over at Antisocial. 100% of the sales from the I Heart Leeside and WITS shirts (which are only $10) and will go towards the Leeside Skatepark in memory of Lee Matasi.

A big giant goddamn congratulations to our friends at Concrete Magazine, who are celebrating their 100th issue Saturday night in Vancouver. Head on over to antisocial from 7 to 11 pm, then hit the after party at the Biltmore Cabaret. And make sure you buy Caissie and Kelly a beer (or something stronger), they worked their balls off on that thing. Congrats fellas..... In other news, Emerica just created a Stay Gold microsite with a shit-ton of clips from the forthcoming, and more than likely awesome, video.

So by now you've likely heard the big (not so) secret news - Eric Koston is now officially on Nike SB. And what better way to announce it then on Wednesdays with Reda? There really wasn't another option for awesome there.... in another bit of SB news, Debacle, their all HD Am video is getting premiered across the US as we speak. The good news for us backwards Canadians is that the video is going to premiere online June 24th. Now if only we could figure out this "internet" thing... Chris Nieratko, who hates snowboarding and who might hate Canadians, also hates baby talk. Check out his new Vice column, and you'll see.

The Underworld West team are Going Up Country on a skate camping trip to the Okanagan from June 25 to July 2. If you want to see Micky Papa, Dan Redmond, Lee Saunders, Arte Lew, Hayden Kelly, Dustin Montie and Chad Dickson skate, you had better be at the Penticton, Kelowna and Osoyoos skate parks in the evenings..... The Vancouver date for the Zoo York State of Mind premiere has changed to 9pm at the Met. So if you're going somewhere else for it, you're going to the wrong place, dumbass.... The Real Skateboards catalogue is now up, and aside from having a shitload of videos on it, it also features a very funny cameo from Chris Nieratko.

Are you getting all tingly in your privates for Go Skateboarding Day? Maybe you're feeling left out by not being in Vancouver so you can hang out with the entire Emerica team for Wild in the Streets. But if you're in Quebec City, you're stoked. The KR3W team (Tom Penny, Lizard King, Dan Murphy, Furby and Spencer Hamilton) will be on hand for a bloc party at Exo Shop on June 21st. Don't you miss it.... Have you bore witness to the Jimmy Carlin Expericence yet? You should, it's fucking hilarious. Also, check out Dennis Durrant's Dreamspot while you're at it.... then go watch Frank Gerwer do his best Anchorman impression over at the Antihero catalogue.

If you're in Portland tonight, you should stop by the 1st Annual Cal's Pharmacy and check out North County Invitational, featuring artwork by Jason Lee, Andy Jenkins, Chris Johanson, Jo Jackson, Chris Pastras, Clint Peterson, Russ Pope, Roger Seliner and Tobin Yelland.....

Lastly, don't forget about Brian Caissie's artshow Yesterday's History, tonight at No Limits Distribution.

Hahaha. Oh Jereme....

Some asshole stole Montreal photo- grapher Geoff Clifford's camera gear - so a bunch of Canadian skate photographers are throwing a little benefit piss up / art show - Geoffstock! - this saturday at Off the Hook (1021 Rue St. Catherine). Go out, spend $5, get shitty and help Geoff out....

C1RCA just posted a welcome video for Walker Ryan to the team that's pretty tits.... there's a strange little "inside the actor's studio-ish" video of Ty Evans speaking to a class of kids at the Walker Art Centre that's actually quite interesting.... you should expect this, knowing what week it is, but the Thunder catalog is now up for your perusal.

Our good friend and Concrete photo editor Brian Caissie is having a gallery showing of his photography and scrapbooking work (which we showed you a while back) presented by Obey this Friday at the No Limits office (#68, 5th Ave West) in Vancouver from 8pm to 11pm. Get out there and support your local scrapbooker.... Would you want to spend a day with Gonz? I think that's a resounding "yes" from all of you. Well, thanks to Fourstar, now you can.... And if you hate American Apparel as much as I do (no offense to my friends who fold tees there) here's a funny little cartoon that The Current did on them, that made me giggle.

Holy fuck. Jordan Hoffart. Wallenberg. Varial heel. Thatta boy Hoff. Watch the footage over at Thrasher.... Element's got a film about... well, themselves, coming out called Make it Count. It's a look at the brand, how it started and how it rolls today. It'll be available for free on August 1st, but in the meantime check out the trailer.... You know what time it is? It's time to go look at the new Krooked catalog.... And lastly, why not enjoy a little sneak peek at what a day in the life of Fourstar is going to look like?

What? It's that time of year already? The new Spitfire catalog is online, and as you would expect, it's awesome. Look for the other Deluxe brands catalogs to hit the web in the coming days. Oh, did you know Chris Cole now rides for Spit? Well, he does.... In a super brief bit of news DGK just sent me a link to a video of D-Wayne warming up for the big show in ATL.... Those on point fellas over at Supra Distribution just posted up a sweet little video of Travis Stenger, Mike Vince, Bryan Wherry, AJ McAllister, Joey Williams and Ian Twa hitting the streets of Barcelona. Enjoy.

If you like watching high-quality european erotica, there's a very good chance you'll also enjoy the latest offering from Puzzle Video, as their new video just hit the interwebs.... There's a new episode of Zach TV up over at the Organika site. It's got his mom AND Bobby Worrest in it!..... Patrick Melcher came in second place for Best Imperial Moustache in the World Beard and Moustache Championships? Apparently this is true. Boardistan told me so.... Corey Sheppard is a fashion designer now. It's true, he's in the midst of designing the majority of the new gear for Sessions 2010 Spring line....

Our friends at Vancouver is Awesome and Emerica are presenting a little tour, and Bradley Sheppard wanted you all to know about it. It's called, Still Trippin' and all sorts of rad dudes will be melting brains across British Columbia starting June 2nd. ... Some poor fucker did an interview with Nieratko at NJ Skateshop and some interesting facts came to light. Did you know that Chris and his friend Steve invented the Half Cab shoe? Watch this fascinating piece of journalistic gold right here.... Element Shoes just released another trailer for their new video, Sole, and you can watch the shoey goodness over at their website.

So, holy crap. Some girl got Todd Bratrud's King Shit logo from the first issue tattooed on her forearm. Is it weird that I want to apologize to her mom? Haven't seen the new RVCA promo video yet? Then you should probably go here and spend the next 10 minutes rectifying that problem.... For the first time in 30 years, Skull Skates is actually sending a team on tour. Appropriately titled the Salty Dog Tour, you can check out Bill Danforth, Barry Walsh, Marc Tison, Mike McKinlay and Brent Jordan ripping up random locations in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, starting on May 27th. For more details, visit Skull Skates.

If, like us, you just can't get your fill of time lapsed videos, check out this one of Randy Laybourne's latest mural installation over at Timebomb Trading's new digs in Burnaby. it's a gooder..... The Cuba Skate Revolution continues over at Red Bull Skateboarding, where Chris Nieratko and a bunch of skateboarders you've probably heard of, bucked the embargo and delivered skateboards and gear to the children of Cuba.... Lastly Brandon Westgate is the latest addition to the Zoo York pro team. Betcha someone's got a mental part coming in State of Mind....

Furni Creations and Don Pendleton have teamed up to create two very unique alarm clocks to benefit Elemental Awareness. Each clock is hand made out of wood that comes from a 200 year old barn in the Swiss Alps. Once the clocks were finished, Pendleton painted some of his signature art on them for a one-of-a-kind look. To spend some dough on a sweet clock for a good cause, bid on 'em here.

Oh, and I totally gapped on mentioning that Mike McDermott and Ryan McGuigan opened up the Green Apple Skateboard shop in Winnipeg on Friday. Sorry dudes. But the good news is, they have a kick ass commercial already. If you're in the 'Peg, you know where to go.

Philthy Animal Bernard and his partner in crime Dave "Slimer" Kristiansen, best known as the maniacal vocalist of Canadian thrash legends RAMMER have combined two of King Shit's loves, metal and comic books, together. Meaning they made a metal comic called Chromium Dioxide and its release party is this Sunday at 751 in Toronto.... Steve Rodrigez and the boys over at 5boro are celebrating their 13 year anniversary with an art retrospective and party on June 5th at the RedBull Space in SoHo, which not surprisingly is the day before Back To The Banks kicks off.

Geoff Dermer just spread the news out to us media types that Kitsch Skateboards has a brand spankin' new website. It's true, I investigated it. If you're in Toronto this Friday, Converse Ontario's team manager Wes Loates and the almighty Paul Otvos are part of an art show down at the Sleeping Giant Gallery called Can of Peas that you'll probably enjoy. If you're looking to watch the Pro-tec Pool Party this Saturday, you can watch the HD live webcast at the Van's Pool Party website from 1pm to 9pm PST. Our pal Nick Ceglia is having a photo show in... New Jersey... at Division East skateshop starting at 8pm. It's called "Things I Don't Remember" and you should go to it, assuming you're stuck in... New Jersey.

Apparently, Jim Thiebaud's Twitter posts are a little boring. So to spice that shit up, he's getting guest twitterers - and the first one is Chris Nieratko. He says "I have been asked to do the gayest thing ever...twitter. I think starring in dude on dude pornography would be less gay. But nevertheless I have accepted the 24-hour job and for today I will be playing the role of Jim Thiebaud." So far, it's pretty funny..... There's a new Canadian skate video in the works by Jarvis Nigelsky called CIty of New Lights, featuring the likes of Micky Papa, Josh Clark, Ryan Bonnell, Lee Saunders, Dustin Montie, Spencer Hamilton and Chad Dickson. Look for more about it here in the coming months, and it'll be released in November.

Zoo York's got all of Zered Basset's leftover footage from its State of Mind video up on their site, and it's worth spending some of your precious time on.... If you've seen the mag, you've seen the photo of him landing it, now you can see the video of Dan Arget kicking the shit out of himself in the moments leading up to him landing his front board on what I'm going to call the Arget Rail from now on... Nieratko did a funny interview with Mike Anderson while they were in Cuba that's over on the eS website. Defy the embargo and go read that shit right now.

Finally, you can order one of our new logo tees from our online store. They are sick as hell, thanks to The Baitshop. If you're a shop wanting to carry'em, e-mail us.

DC Shoes is giving away a ton of stuff over at Shred or Die, with a self film, self edit contest and they also have a new trailer for PROOF which is intriguing.... Habitat has a new website, which is very nice. So nice that you should go see it right now.... REAL has a sweet new line of boards out, and they launched a kick-ass little microsite for 'em you should check out...

We'll be back to our regular newsy type posts on Monday. For now, we're going to continue to sell you on coming out this Saturday to help us celebrate the launch of our print edition down at The Bait Shop. The Blind video is being premiered and The Lovely Gentlemen are presenting a mini ramp contest, called Sex Panther, sponsored by Krew and Supra. $5 gets you entered and gets you a TLG beer cozie. Plus, you'll also be able to grab a copy of King Shit before the rest of the world, so I think you're out of excuses to NOT come party.

Rasa Libre just relaunched their website, why not mosey on over and see what Matt Field and the boys have happening? Kyle Leeper has a new Roam feature over at the Quiksilver site. Stevie Williams has a new interview up at the Venture site. And despite rumours of economic collapse, Blueprint has got their shit together with a new catalog and new video in the works.

Just a reminder we're helping throw a kickass King Shit launch party in Toronto down at The Bait Shop this Saturday. The new Blind video is being premiered and The Lovely Gentlemen are presenting a mini ramp contest, called Sex Panther, sponsored by Krew and Supra. $5 gets you entered and gets you a TLG beer cozie. Plus, hey, you'll also be able to grab a copy of King Shit before anyone else, so come on down.

It's philanthropy day here at King Shit. First off, our pal Chris Nieratko invaded Cuba to give quality skateboard decks to kids who don't have access to them, thanks to that idiotic embargo. You can read a little about it on his blog, and look for the full story in Vice and The Skateboard Mag in a couple months. Secondly, our friends over at Supra Distribution are giving away a set of the super limited edition Girl (Red) Mike Carroll decks in a contest you can enter right here. Andy Jenkins is responsible for the art, and part of the proceeds of the deck sales go to fight AIDS in Africa. You can watch a little video where he and Carroll explain the project here and learn more about Project (Red) here.

Thanks to everyone who went ahead and subscribed to the print mag the very first day it was available. There's a solitary tear running down my cheek. That shit is touching. Speaking of which, we're helping throw a kickass jam this Saturday, May 9th to launch this thing down at The Bait Shop. There's a little homemade video being premiered (I think it's for some mom and pop company called Blind) and The Lovely Gentlemen are presenting a mini ramp contest, called Sex Panther, sponsored by Krew and Supra. $5 gets you entered and gets you a TLG beer cozie. That all sounds good, but you'll also be able to grab a copy of King Shit before anyone else, so drop whatever bullshit plans you've got going on and come party.

Holy crap. Check out the trailer for Nike SB's new AM video, Debacle. The super high production quality (and seemingly all HD?) video gets its release June 10 in Los Angeles, and features the likes of Justin Brock, Daryl Angel, David Clark, Shane O'Neill, and Grant Taylor.

In other news that is sure to make your privates tingle, Vancouver filmmaker and all around nice guy Corey Adams
just launched his very own website. If you'd like to find out more about who Corey is and why you should be interested in visiting his website, you can read to interview we did with him right here.

This is why Crailtap is the best goddamn website in skateboarding - how do you top Brad Pitt making fun of Mike Carroll? You don't. You just post a link to it and go back to the old website drawing board.

In other news, our print mag gets here on Monday. So we'll have a big preview of what's in up on the site on Monday morning to give you a taste of what's to come - then you'll just have to head to your local shop and pick one up on May 11th.

Lastly, what's my dad doing in a commercial for Undergrind Skates?

If you're a fan of Mike Giant's work, then you should go visit his website, because he's updated it with a TON of new tattoo, graffiti and art stuff. Then, go support the white on black motif by buying some Rebel 8 stuff.

Well, once again the Vans Pro-tec Pool Party is soon to be upon us. On May 16 at the Vans Skatepark at The Block in Orange, CA, the proverbial shit will go down. If like us you're not living in Cali, you can watch the whole thing go down on the live HD webcast.

Have you seen the trailer for the new Aleks Lewandowski video, Feel Free? I doubt it. Go watch the retro inspired goodness with Nate Broussard, Mike Barker, Garrett Hill and some other dudes. Lastly, Plan B has part two of it's Arizona trip up for your viewing pleasure over at Plan B TV.

Our pal Todd Bratrud has a couple interviews out there on the interwebs right now - one by Magnus Randall and one by Don Pendleton.... In other news, there's tons of videos out there for you to kill time with today kids. Lindsey Robertson
has a the right idea with his Dream Spot
over at the Mystery site.... The nice folks over at Four Star Clothing just revamped their website and have the Tribe Called Map Quest tour video up too.... Nike SB's Euro team went to Italy, and all they came back with was this stupid video.... C1RCA just posted up a welcome video for Ryan Gallant that you should see...

If, like us, you just can't get your Spencer Hamilton fix, head on over to the Kayo Corp website, where they've posted Spenny's part from Strange Brew up for the world to see.... Oh. A rap video featuring the lyrical talent of Mr. Jereme Rogers? How nice. I'd ask Nieratko what he thinks of it, but I think we already know..... Have you seen what we can only assume are viral Nike videos with various dudes getting interviewed by a japanese talk show host? Pretty funny. Roll over here for one with the #1 skateboarder in the world!

Well, it was speculated on and now it's official - Nick Dompierre is now riding for DC Shoes and apparel. Also, Ryan Gallant is now repping C1RCA full time.... Now if we could only figure out what Koston's next move is....

Chris Cole has a little interview up at the Thunder Trucks site that you really should pop over and enjoy.... Analog Clothing just revamped their website with an all new look - featuring team interviews, photos, videos and more....

Our friends over at The Baitshop are having a little soiree tomorrow night called A Disposable Art Show, featuring 25 great artists works on decks supplied by Freedom Fighter Skateboards. All of them are up for grabs, with the profits going to The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. We'd be there, but Harry Gils is getting married that afternoon and we'll be shit faced and off our asses by the time the thing opens.... head on over to the Berrics and pick out who you'd want to see go head to head at the next Battle at the Berrics.... the Etnies blog has a little interview with Davis Torgerson that's worth checking out....

Before we say anything else, please go visit the new snowboard site we started, called King Snow. If you think snowboarding is retarded, then don't go. Now, on to the goods.

Andy Jenkins and Girl Skateboards have released another Product (RED) deck series, with the majority of the proceeds going towards HIV awareness and prevention in Africa. Check out this video where Andy and Mike Carroll talk about the project and why they're involved.

On a lighter note, Altamont is presenting "The Best of Times" photographs by Boogie at the Altamont Showroom in SoHo, NYC (29 Greene Street) next Thursday. Bummed I don't live in NYC... Also, Blind just created a microsite for the new Blind Video that's worth paying a visit to.

Somewhere Bill Hicks is smiling because Spencer Hamilton just got put on Supra Footwear's Am team. Thatta boy Spencer.... Andrew Pommier has finally gotten his new website up, so obviously you should click here and pay it a visit... Vans just revamped their site with a whole lot of new interviews and photos of their team.... Element is going to be cleaning up parks across North America on Earth Day (which is tomorrow). Click here to find out which one's closest to you, then go help out.... And Arkitip is putting out a newspaper? Does that mean we have to put on an olde tyme radio show variety hour?

Dave Carnie is selling a slew of prints from his Portland art show, Minutwar, over on his new website - they're awesome, pony up and buy one. Speaking of art, the Show and Tell Gallery has a new solo show by Vladimir Kato called Well Hello There that opened on Friday. Judging by the art, it's awesome. Go check it out if you're in Toronto from now til May. The David Lynch Foundation has a documentary on Zarosh over at their website (bit strange, we know). It's pretty rad though... Hi Fi Wheels just released their promo video, Full Frequency over here... and DLX TV has a little bit of demo footy you should check out.

Congrats to Chris Nieratko, whose seed found fertile soil in the belly of his lovely wife, Cris. Go read the funny story about it.... Red Bull's Manny Mania returns to NYC for an invite only pro contest on June 7th. But thankfully, they'll be taking the contest on the road across the US so you and your little friends can manny your way into the hearts of a nation.... The Tilt Mode Army has a new teaser trailer out for their upcoming video, Bonus Round. As you can imagine, it's pretty funny... DC Shoes is celebrating Mike Blabac's 20 years as a photographer, with his own limited edition shoe (the Blabac Azure Mid) and Mike will also be releasing a book called Blabac Photo later this year, with some of his favorite works.

One of the best tour videos of all time, Beauty and the Beast is available for download on iTunes for just $1.99. A fair price for awesome, we think you'll agree. Unfortunately, my computer is telling me that it's not available for download in Canada. Which is bullshit. Getting back to the awesome though, Danny McBride (of the amazing HBO show Eastbound and Down) made a funny video about skateboarding.... Toronto artist Smolik is getting a solo show at the Sleeping Giant Gallery this Saturday, if you're around, check it out....

If you pick up the new issue of The Skateboard Mag, you'll see a rather glowing review of King Shit on page 46. Thanks for the love guys. Andy Mueller has a new photography website that's pretty great... DLXTV just posted a clip with some of the Real guys skating the San Jose street plaza. Check out the Dude, Bro Mayhem montage over at Strange Notes. Our Euro pals on the other side of the Atlantic, Puzzle, have just released their March/April video, and it's rad. Go support one of the last skate video magazines still in production today.

Tonight head on down to the Show & Tell Gallery for the book launch of A City Renewal Project. Both artists will be there signing copies, and it's also the last chance you'll have to see the In/Version show before it's taken down. Winter sucks, especially in Portland, but it Chet Childress, Daniel Shimizu, Matt Beach and Al Partanen stuck it out at at Nike SB's Warehouse. Jon Humphries is responsible for this little black and white gem. The Adidas team went to Mexico, and contrary to everything I've heard about the place lately, they didn't get their heads chopped off by a drug cartel. No, in fact, they made this skateboard video.

Emerica has a sweet little contest where you can win a year's supply of kicks by putting your stamp on a Reynolds 3. Head on over to their site to get the forms, then get coloring. The Emporium Gallery in Montreal is hosting Brooklyn-based artist Sam Friedman's new show, So Is It Just Bacon here? from April 16 tot he 22nd.

If you're in Toronto tonight, head on down to Lee's Palace to see Jesse Landen and Dan Arget's band, Born to Busk, kick the living shit out of music as we know it. If I can tear myself away from this whole "putting a magazine out" business, I'll be the one waving a lighter in the air from the bar area for their whole set.

Our pal Chris Mulhern, still hard at work on This Time Tomorrow, edited a promo for Philly's Pusher Wheels you should check out. Skate Fairy has a floating camera. 'Nuff said.

There's an Anti-Hero art show going down at Sunken City in San Pedro, CA this Saturday, featuring all sorts of awesome crap from their archives. In other unrelated news, we can't decide if we love or hate this circus shit... Oh, and Element is set to announce a new pro on May 1st.

Fourstar's North of Everything video is up over at their site for your viewing pleasure. Go treat yourself. Mystery just posted Gilbert Crockett's Dreamspot, and it's apparently a turkish bath? Loyal pawns, put on your stretchy pants and prepare to pop a boner, Leo Romero now rides for Toy Machine.

Lastly, our pal Colin Adair is entered in the Faces Photo Contest. Go vote for him here, here, and here. And also, here, here and here.

Ich ben ein Berliner? I wish I was, so I could go check out this art show featuring Ed Templeton, Barry McGee and Raymond Perribon at the CircleCulture Gallery. Oh, and to make it even more awesomer, it's so being curated by Aaron Rose.

Organika just posted up Rodrigo Peterson's part from Concrete Jungle up on their site, but if you'd like to watch the whole thing, just click here. ULC just posted a memorial clip of the Anti skatepark up on YouTube.

Nieratko is a karaoke terrorist, and you'll laugh your balls off if you watch the video, it's priceless... Scotty MacDonald has a "scoop" over at his Push blog. Did you know Jordan Hoffart, Sascha Daley and Renee Renee have a new rap group called White Willows? Me neither. I assume it's a joke. Actually, I kinda hope it's a joke... Lastly, Etnies just gave their website a facelift and posted a new video feature about their recent trip to Japan. Go check it, then send me some birthday wishes or something.

Dave Chappelle rides Expedition One wood? Makes sense, actually.... There's a great interview with Ed Templeton in the new Monster Children magazine. Check out a sample of it here, and then the one we did a while back with Ed here... there's a new art and culture magazine coming out of Vancouver called Selector that should be out in a bookstore near you presently... Porous Walker's newest art exhibition, Me vs. Me, opens at the Receiver Gallery in SF tomorrow. The show was inspired in response to Porous's recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and features a slew of old and new work - from drawings to mixed media sculptures. Should be a good show.

Holy crap. It's the video day of all video days. Powell just released the new trailer for its first video in a long time, FUN! and it's huge - two minutes long. Can't wait to see your part HotFart. Just like you can't wait to see your interview layout in the first issue of our print mag. I guess we'll both just have to wait.

The boys across the pond over at Puzzle Video just released their latest bi-monthly video. Zoo York is making some heads explode with the new trailer for State of Mind. Organika just put up an edit of all Walker Ryan's footy from UCSD that didn't make it in Concrete Jungle.

Slap's got an interview with the one of the best skateboard artists working today, Ron Cameron that's pretty great. 20 years of amazing artwork, for everything from Blockhead to RVCA, take a spin over there and check it out.

You heard that Corey Wilson just got added to the Quiksilver Canada roster? Well he did, and he joins the almighty Jordan Hoffart on what I assume will be a growing roster. Last but not least, Bakerboys Distribution just updated their website with all sorts of new content and if you're interested in checking out the latest Alien Workshop and Habitat gear, DNA just posted an online catalog you can peruse.

Here's a video you can ease your way into Monday with: instead of the usual bullshit "day in the life" video, Real just posted up a funny little Last Nite video with Justin Brock. It's jokes.

Also, 48 Blocks posted up an interesting interview with Jason Dill - as if a Dill interview could be less than entertaining. He talks about everything from Mind Field to Fucking Awesome.

Our pal Ben Frey is part of a huge group show in Toronto this Wednesday called JK LOL, taking place at the Studio Nine Gallery (1400 Queen Street East).

Man. So much good news today. First, head on over to REAL's site and check out the latest Lost Days and Throwaways for some cut footage from the new Real video - it's... ouch.

Nieratko's got new doodles, and his blog over at Vice is pretty goddamn funny too. If you've got an iPhone, go get yourself set up for a game of Skate Dice. The boys at KR3W just added Danny Wainwright to their growing roster, after nabbing Lizard King not that long ago.

Looks like some architect built the house of our dreams in Athens - appropriately titled The Ramp House - a completely skateable habitat. Those crazy Greeks, always on the cutting edge of something or other...

We're a bit late on this one, but if you haven't seen it, the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are looks, in a word, inspired.

There seemingly isn't anything news worthy happening this morning, so instead you get random weird stuff. A text message that kills you? Real life super heroes? Awesome. A photo series that's about as creepy as you can get - explained here and shown here. FInally, If you haven't read it already, Metal Monkeys is the funniest thing we've posted here in a while.

Carnie found the right way to start up a magazine yesterday - apparently we've been doing it all wrong, all we needed was a Craigslist ad. Poweredge? Really? Should have gone with a Broslist ad, brah.

There's a strange happening at the ROM tonight - an artist, a city councillor, a curator, and an artistic director are all weighing in on the subject of Street Art in Toronto, at a little event called Talking Street Art. Should be a lively evening, to say the least.

The panelists include: Adam Vaughan (Councillor, City of Toronto), Dan Bergeron aka fauxreel (artist), David Liss (artistic director, MOCCA), and Devon Ostrom (curator, Housepaint).

Looks like Vans is getting set to release a book about their history called Birth of Icons, on June 1st. In the meantime, they've got a site up with some video interviews with Steve Van Doren and Steve Caballero to give you a sneak peak of what's to come.

Ty Evans reedited the intro to Final Flare, and set it to an UNKLE song - works perfectly. Go figure. Now behold the beauty of ULTRA DEF!

Finally, check out Dan Murphy's video over on the Mystery site. That is all.

One of our favorite Toronto stores/galleries, Magic Pony, is finally having a show this year. Life Drawing, a group exhibition of works on paper featuring Ginette Lapalme, Howie Tsui, Lauchie Reid, Lee Hutzulak, Marc Bell, Melinda Josie, Michael Comeau, Selena Wong, and Tara Azzopardi goes down on Thursday March 26th. Not only is it Magic Pony's first show of the year, it's also the opening of their newly expanded gallery space, Narwhal Art Projects (680 Queen St West.) Go there.

Alex Klein has an interview over at Slap about his documentary and life in general. Read it, and then you can read ours. Actually, read ours first, Whiteley's interview is a little bit better than what we did.

Is anyone else as excited to see the trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are as I am? Are you willing to pay money to see it?

There's a new book out called New Skateboard Graphics that looks pretty interesting. With interviews ranging from Jamie Thomas to Michael Leon, the book looks at modern deck art and graphics in the disposable world of skateboarding. Seems like a familiar topic (cough cough Disposable cough cough), but a focus on contemporary deck art is kinda neat.

Oh, and if you like twittering (or maybe have twatted once or twice yourself) Deluxe's Jim Thiebaud is keeping the internets abreast of the situation down at the Tampa Pro, via his Twiiter thingy.

Finally, Daewon Song skates in socks to celebrate his new DVS/Almost shoe. That is all.

Ever hear of an art collective called The Side Effects of Urethane? Me neither til yesterday, when we stumbled onto their latest exhibit, called Aalto. Skateable art? We're backing it.

In other, less arty news, here's a little mini ramp video of Nate LaCoste over on the Roger Skateboards site. Bird of Prey? Bit random, but plenty awesome.

Wanna watch the Tampa Pro but don't want to get that Florida stink on you? Fuel TV's live webcast begins Sunday.

For the first time ever, Emerica's Wild in the Streets main event is going international - and it's heading to Canada. The Emerica team will be heading up to Vancouver for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, 2009, and Wild in the Streets. This year, all proceeds from WITS will be donated to LeeSide. More details on this soon, kids.

Converse just dropped their zine, Parlour, into skateshops in the US. Hopefully it makes it across the border too cause it looks pretty as hell.

Real just posted up it's final run of interviews for the first issue of Manifest. Head on over to Real's site and read interviews with Justin Brock (by Kelch), Damian Bravo (by JT Aultz), Huf (by Mike Carroll), and Nick Dompierre (by Josh Kalis). Good times.

And now, a slew of randoms... Finally, hippy jumps done properly. Thank you, Richie Jackson... If you haven't seen bad paintings of Barack Obama yet, you're welcome.... AM Getting Paid will once again give us a reason to visit the Montreal peelers....

It was so hard not to use puns to tell you about the two new shoe related trailers that have dropped recently - the new Element Shoes video Sole, has a new trailer out and it features the likes of Chad Tim TIm, Levi Brown, Mike V and Darrell Stanton.

Also just hitting "the internets" as my grandma calls it, is the trailer for the new AM video by Nike SB, called Debacle. It features Justin Brock, David Clark, Daryl Angel, Grant Taylor and Shane O'Neill - all shown in that awesome HD thing that everyone is all apeshit about.

Lastly, check out the all too brief clip of Jamie Tancowny in the new Emerica's Stay Gold video. It's right after the Bryan Herman one.

Looks like KR3W has added some royalty to their ranks, with Lizard King now officially on the team. Check out Erik Ellington's thoughts on the matter here.

Also, looks like Converse just picked up Tony Silva for their growing team, and of course there's a welcome video to prove it.

There's a shitload of art events going down in Toronto tonight - our pals at The Baitshop are holding Battle of the Hands at their space, Show & Tell Gallery is opening up it's new space with the In/Version group show, and there's a fundraiser for a new art magazine called Bad Day at the Lennox Contemporary Gallery.

You will not be bored Friday night. No sir.

Our pal Chris Nieratko went on a trip with the Red Bull skate team (including Canada's own ripper, Ryan Decenzo) and Fuel TV has a huge video of what went down over at their site, in glorious HD. It's funny, I remember hearing about this trip from Chris back when he did his doodles...

In other super gnarly news, the eS team were robbed at gunpoint in Lima, Peru. Everyone is fine, but the whole story is super sketchy and worth a read over at the eS Blog.

If you're in Toronto, head on over to the Lennox Contemporary Gallery on Friday, March 13th for a fundraiser for a new local art mag, Bad Day, headed up by a friend of the site, Eva Michon.

Braydon Szafranski's dad was a porn star? These and other fascinating tidbits are in an interview with Braydon over at the Hubba Wheels website.

Want to see a strangely awesome clip of Gonz listening to weird music and skating around NYC? You have Fat Bill to thank for it.

In other random news, Elwood Clothing has a new website for your to peruse, and if you're an aspiring skateboard filmmaker, the deadline for submissions to the Skateboard Film Festival is March 30th. Get on it.

Ice block skating? How have we as a people not figured this out previously? Ryan Smith and the good folks at Mystery just put on a clinic for us, Inuit-style in their latest DreamSpot feature.

Real just posted up new interviews with Ernie Torres, James Hardy and Dennis Busenitz on The Manifest. Drop what you're doing and click on those links, kids.

Oh, and you should support Roger Skateboards by watching their Roger of the Month video of Ryan Spencer.

The internet had provided you with two interesting interviews this monday morning - the Fallen site has an interview with Josh Harmony and the Thunder site has one with Mikey Taylor.

Also, our good pals over at the Show & Tell Gallery are about to turn the Toronto art world on its ass once more by opening the doors of their new space (1161 Dundas St. West) this Friday March 13.

To celebrate, they're having a large group show called In/Version featuring some fantastic artists including Labrona, Know Hope, Dan Buller, Edward Maloney, Frederick Hryszyn, Jody Hargreaves, Alex Produkt, Elicser Elliot, Daniela Roessler, and Nathan Brown.

Legendary photographer Glen E. Friedman now has a blog aptly titled "What the Fuck Have You Done?". His work is amazing, and there's some gems on there you might not have seen before. Check it out.

Our pals over at Deluxe have finally gotten sucked into Facebook. To celebrate (and in spirit of getting as many Fans as they can) they've set up a contest with Thunder Trucks. The deal is this: go become a fan on facebook, and then post a 1 minute video on their "videos by fans" page. The 15 best clips will win a free set of Thunder Trucks, picked by their new office monkey.

Do you like MTV cribs, but always think the classy upscale homes on it are hard to relate to? Then head on over to C1RCA and check out this cribsish tour of Tony Tave's house with your host Adrian Lopez.

If you haven't heard of the city of Poway, CA passing a bylaw that'd require all skateboarders register and be fingerprinted with hand scanners if they want to use the public skatepark - it's true. We assume Skynet is involved somehow, and it has become self aware. The end is nigh.

Podcasts? That essentially means free videos, kiddies. Zoo York just posted the second part of their Euro tour up on iTunes, and Lakai just posted the Slo Mo to Regs bonus feature from The Final Flare for free as well.

If you're in Montreal tonight, get your party hat strapped on and get on out to Create or Die, a weekly shindig produced by Gab Ekoe and presented by King Shit and 33 Mag. This week they feature the photography of a pal of ours, Felix Faucher, and the premiere of a new MTL skate vid, Filmo Brillo. If you feel the need to tie one on, head on over to Bisou (4147 Rue St. Laurent).

Oh, and if you're a fan of Girl Skateboards, you can now buy Yeah Right!, Fully Flared and Final Flare on iTunes, with more of their video library to come. I believe that calls for a celebratory "Boosh!".

Is is just us, or are there some good skate videos to look forward to this summer? The new Blind video looks rad, and from what we're hearing, the new Zoo York video, State of Mind, is gonna turn some heads too. Plus, any video titled Dude, Bro, Bro Dude automatically has to be awesome.

Got this thanks to Slap - their blogger and pal Isaac McKay-Randozz just updated his website with all sorts of great photos.

The almighty Rebecca Chaperon, who was profiled on the site not that long ago, has a new show opening in Vancouver called School Gils Rule at Little Mountain Studios on March 19, running until April 14th. It's, as you might have guessed, a series of paintings related to Rebecca being a Catholic school girl. Should be interesting.

If you haven't seen it yet, Nike SB just put up a bunch of fantastic ad photos by Jon Humphries to help promote their third Custom Series (where team riders help design the colorways for the kicks). Car shredding? That's some advertising we can get behind.

If you happen to be in Portland tomorrow night, head on over to Cal's Pharmacy to check out our pal Dave Carnie's amazing photo exhibit, Minutwar. Dave's photos are really, really really good. Look for a feature on it here sometime in the not so distant future.

It should come as no surprise that to people who named their website and magazine "King Shit", one of our favorite clothing lines is FUCKING AWESOME. Their Spring 2009 catalogue is online right now and it's... well, awesome.

Man, I wish I lived in California sometimes. Enjoi is having an art show with some of our favorite dudes : Jerry Hsu, Winston Tseng, Matt Eversole and Todd Bratrud. It kicks off at HVWW8 Art and Design Gallery (661 N Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles) on March 8th and runs until April 1st.

We mentioned it before, but we'll mention it again. Our boys at Adidas Skateboarding revamped their site, so go visit it. Don't be a douche. Also, if you'd like to see what a day in the life of Mark Appleyard is like go to ESPN.... actually, no. Fuck that. Sorry, we're not linking to fucking ESPN for a skateboarding story.

Our good pal Jody Rogac (an incredibly talented Vancouver based photographer) just updated the internet with a slew of new works. Go witness the power of her fully operational website.

If Creature comfort is what you're looking for, here's a little fix to get you by until their new video drops.

You ever see The Program zine? Me neither, but you really should correct that problem right now. Good shit.

Real Skateboards just delivered its Manifest - an online magazine that features interviews and photos (by Gabe Morford) with Real team riders... first up are Ramondetta, Torgerson, Romano and Cavedoni - look for more interviews in the coming weeks.

Dennis Durrant has joined teammate Ryan Smith on the Mystery team page with a new video of his own. Riki the Dude (also known as Riki Bedenbaugh) is the mastermind behind the new Element Shoes video, and he's got a sort of production diary Keep on Pushin'.

Looks like the Element shoes team is hard at work on a new video called Sole. Head on over to Element TV for 60 seconds worth of proof. Should be a gooder.

If you haven't checked out the C1RCA Combat contest with all around funny guy Frank Gerwer, then you really should do it now. It's cool, we'll wait.

If you're feeling like a little nostalgic trip down memory lane (and if you were alive in 1982) check out the Thrasher site, they've put up all their back issues from '82 for you to get misty-eyed over.

Alex Klein sent us a bunch of links to some of his latest work, thought we'd share them. First is the new trailer for God Went Surfing with The Devil, the second is a video for the band Princeton, and lastly, a video for the new musical darlings of the skateboarding world, No Age.

In other news, Zoo York is having a grimy photo contest that looks disgustingly awesome. Mr. Swank and the boys at Foundation just revamped their website. Also, tonight's the closing show for The Black and White Affair at the Sleeping Giant gallery in Toronto.

Springtime is here, and our pals over at Alena just revamped their site and posted a little bit of Mike Fyfe footage to get you ready for summer.

Do you like the movie Airplane? Chris Nieratko sure does in his latest blog over at VICE. It's also Chris's birthday today - so you're pretty much obligated to go read his blog and look at his doodles.

If you're in Vancouver, you should head over to Livestock tonight for the official release party for Vancouver designer Jeff Hamada's contribution to the Converse 1HUND(RED) collection. It'll be a good time.

Man, just a deluge of good shit today. First, go check out Alien Workshop filmer Fat Bill's website. Some great pics on there, can't wait for the video section to be up.

In other news to help you kill time today, Organika just gave us the entire Concrete Jungle video to post on our site. Check it out.

If you haven't seen Stevie Williams' blog, Steelo Hero it's rad- go check out the first of a four part documentary on Darren Harper over there.

And if by some stroke of luck you're in San Francisco tomorrow, Jeremy Fish has a new show opening at Fecal Face Dot Gallery.

In an odd coincidence, the day we were putting together our latest Spy Cam photo feature, is also the day someone sent us the link to the World Press Photo winners.

If you've never heard of it, it's an award series for various types of photojournalism and it's consistently amazing, year after year. Plus, most of the winning photographs are ones that you've never seen, either because they're gnarly war images or they're from foreign news agencies.

Anyways, go check'em out. Just do it after you've checked ours out though - if you do it the other way around... well it's not a good idea.

If you're a Vancouverite, we're starting your Monday off with a total bummer - The Sweatshop is closing its doors as of today. The art gallery/skate park/ everything space got taken down by the man.

In better news, our pal Todd Bratrud's wheel company, Teenage Runaway, has made a glorious return - insofar as we didn't know they were actually gone. Plus, Chris Nieratko sent us this link to his new blog over at Vice. You get see his retarded uncle Lonnie naked. If you're into that sorta thing.

And what I can only image was a move inspired by King Shit's bold move towards horizontal web scrolling, Adidas Skateboarding just launched their new site, and it scrolls... SIDEWAYS!

First off, a link to what might be the funniest travel story I've ever heard, thanks to our friend Scotty Macdonald who's currently on location in Thailand filming something special for us, a little segment called "Dudes with Tits".

In other news, if you've got a question for Mark Appleyard, click here. Slap's got a great interview with Greg Hunt about the filming of Mindfield. And out of nowhere, a new Premium promo video?

And if you love all things Enjoi like we do, you'll love this gigantic new catalog.

Tomorrow our good friend Gabriel Ekoe in Montreal is putting on a skate art night called Create or Die! featuring Alex Slim, Cedric Nault and Nicolas Leboux. It all goes down at Le Bisou restaurant at the corner of St. Laurent and Rachel.

And in what might be the best themed premiere party ever, Homegrown Skateboards is hosting a co-ed diaper party/ping-pong tourney to premiere their new video Knock on Wood. It's going to be held at and I quote "Cervejaria, the Portuguese bar on the NW side of College and Ossington. (Next to Phil's BBQ) Street: 842 College ST. West"

Could've just put the address, but it's the attention to detail I admire about the Maritimers.

Volcom just launched Stoneyour.TV, a new site which seems to have every video they've put out in recent years. It's pretty tits.

If you liked Anti Hero's epic Tent City video, then you'll shit bricks at Deathbowl to Downtown, a film about the history of skateboarding in New York. Made by Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski (the same filmmakers as Tent City) the documentary looks to be pretty much the best skate doc since Dogtown.

Slave Skateboards just got a site overhaul and posted a teaser for what I assume will be their first video. SIte is pretty rad, check it out.

We tried not to give Shepard Fairey a ton of coverage on the site, simply because since the whole Obama/Hope poster thing, he's gotten plenty of attention, and we generally like to report on other shit.

But now that the election shine has worn off, it's funny to see how Shep's gone from a criminal artist, to creating a cultural icon, to being interviewed on Charlie Rose and now he's been arrested in Boston for graffiti, and the Associated Press is potentially suing him for his use of their copyrighted photo of Obama for the Hope poster.

While it sucks to see his current woes, it's kinda warms our hearts a bit to see that even when you help get the president elected, you can still be treated like a goddamn criminal for making subversive art.

One of my favorite photographers of all time, hands down, is Boogie. If you head on over to the Altamont site, you'll can watch a two part video interview with the Serbian-born photographer. Keep an eye peeled for the Boogie/Altamont collaboration line....

In Toronto, there's an art event going down tomorrow called Design Hope Toronto, an art auction and raffle with all proceeds going to benefit the homeless. If you're around Parkdale and can brave the cold, c'mon out and support a good cause.

There's no skate news worth posting up here today, except there's two videos worth watching - Grant Brittain's Honorary Pro Skateboarding Diploma award from Mumble, and Roger's Roger of the Month. If you need to know why these are worth watching... you're not worth watching.

In what has to be the most ironic thing to happen today, Scotty MacDonald sent over this link to a pretty rad art installation by Superflex. They built a fake McDonald's restaurant, down to the very last detail (albeit it was smaller than a whole restaurant). Then they flooded the fucking thing. It's strangely awesome. Go check it out.

So some asshole stole the bullhorns off of C1RCA's shortbus at the Crossroads tradeshow. On the off chance the culprit reads this, you've upset Frank Gerwer. Those horns had sentimental value. If you return them, no questions asked, you'll be rewarded. Send them to: 1211 Puerta Del Sol, #170, San Clemente, CA, 92673.

In totally unrelated cowboy/lifestock news, there's a new gallery opening up in Toronto called Sleeping Giant, and their first show is this Friday. it's called "A Black and White Affair" and features a slew of local artists, including our faves Wes Loates and Emma Kirk.

Don't be an asshole, go to the show. And give the horns back.

Seems like everyone but me posted up that new Studio ad of Darrell Smith (rightly so, it's nuts!). To make up for it, I'm linking to the teaser for the new Studio Skateboards video, Moodlighting, and it just so happens it's on the same webpage as the ad I was talking about. So there.

In other news, Salman Agah has a shitload of pics on his blog of Jason Adams Stencils Aren't Art art show at Matt Hensley's Flying Elephant Pub & Grill in California. Looks like it was a good time.

A few tidbits related to Nike SB popped up over the weekend. First, Matt Beach and Theotis Beasley are now officially on the SB team. Check out their sweet welcome video, and it's pretty obvious why that happened.

Also, there's a new video coming out of Europe (oddly enough, also sponsored by Nike SB and WESC) called The Scrum Tilly Lush, and it looks awesome. Featuring some familiar names from across the pond, it's filmed in Super 8 and covers 11 scenes you probably know fuck all about. Looks pretty tits.

Check out the great little blog with artwork and news from the production - it's also where you can buy a copy (hint hint).

All sorts of new video goodness on the "internets" today. First up, Kayo Corp has posted up a new video called KEHO Canada, chronicling the life and times of 10 days on the road with Expedition, DGK and Organika riders as they toured across our little backwoods country.

Rune Glifburg had just signed up with the growing team over at Converse, and here's a welcome video you're sure to enjoy.

And Andrew Pommier, one of the nicest fellows you're likely to run across, had a little blog over at HypeBeast that you might enjoy.

One of Toronto's finest artists, Niall McClelland recently printed off a newspaper project through Koyama Press and is giving as many away copies as he can. If you'd like one, head on over to his studio (#3, 1424 Dundas St. West @ Gladstone) this Saturday. There'll be cheap drinks and some sort of barter system going on. Should be good times.

In completely unrelated news, head over here to see Peter Ramondetta's "rejects" from the new Real video. If this shit was rejected, his part is going to be mental.

Our brother in hatred and skate photographer to the stars, Ryan Allan just updated his website with tons of new work. Some great shots of some skateboarders you might recognize, plus some more artsy, less fartsy work.

Speaking of artsy, Lori D has a new exhibition up at University High School in San Francisco (3065 Jackson St) until Feb. 27th.

Oh, and here's a funny little "retahded" video from New England.

Here's the new Real catalog. They just bought an ad on here which helps keep us clothed and fed, so the least you can do is go enjoy the last new entry in the Spring '09 lineup. It's unreal.

If you're in Portland, Bryce Kanights is celebrating 25 years shooting skate boarding with a photo retrospective called Renegades and Role Models at the Dept. Of Skateboarding.

Oh, and the Rip the Ripper art show that's up at ASR? Amazing. We'll have pics of it on monday hopefully.

Holy crap. Take a peek at this Jerry Hsu photo gallery up on the Tiny Vices site. So good.

In other news, have you seen the Rip the Ripper art show yet? Probably not, as it kicks off at this year's ASR show in San Diego on Thursday. It features the likes of Don Pendelton, Shepard Fairey and Todd Bratrud (among a TON of other skate artists) displaying their take on the classic Powell-Peralta Ripper logo.

If you're unable to jet-set to San Diego, the art will be up for grabs on the Skateone site on Jan. 25 at noon eastern time.

If you're in Vancouver on Wednesday, check out the next installation of The Nixon Art Mosh at Trunk Gallery. It's a rotating art installation open for one evening of fun featuring artwork from Nixon team, friends and local area artists. Two of our favorite photographers named Jody have stuff in the show - Jody Morris and Jody Rogac.

Deluxe just posted the Krooked and Thunder catalogs online. Don't miss the Mike Anderson interview and video - it's a sweet little bonus.

Here's some randoms to keep you occupied over the weekend. Feeling nostalgic? Poweredge magazine recently posted a shitload of their old content on their site, and have started up a mini zine you can subscribe to.

If you're a budding filmmaker (or just some asshole with a camera and a Scorsese complex), The Skateboarding Film Festival is looking for submissions in a bunch of pretty accessible categories. Could be fun winning a totally non-prestigious award. Like winning a "Posty", the award I just made up for best news post on a site run by me.

Finally, Jason Adams is having an art show at Matt Hensley's Flying Elephant Pub & Grill in Carlsbad, CA on Jan 30th. How's that for random?

If you're in Vancouver tonight, head on over to the Bourbon (50 West Cordova St) for the premiere of Organika's new video, Zach and Walker's Concrete Jungle, featuring Zach Lyons, Walker Ryan, Karl Watson, Quim Cardona, Adelmo Jr and Rodrigo Peterson.

Also being screened is what I'm told is a great little independent Canadian video, Film Fatties, featuring a slew of up and coming kids.

Fatties starts at 11pm, and the main event kicks off at midnight.

First it was the Anti Hero catalog, and now DLX has released the Spring 2009 Spitfire online catalog, bogged down with hidden goodness. It's kind of like art. Internet art. A bold new medium. Anyways.

The first part of our epic two part Randy Laybourne interview will be up later today. Oh, and don't forget tomorrow night is the launch party for the Hrs. 2009 at the Nile Bar (424 College St) in Toronto. Go support Loates and Otvos.

Well, here's the first in a string of announcements meant to titilate you into bookmarking our little site and explain why we've been giggling like fucking schoolgirls for the last couple of days.

Dave Carnie is now a regular contributor and editor of King Shit. He'll have stuff up twice a week. As you can tell by his first post, it's going to be pretty goddamn fun having him onboard.

Now, it doesn't mean we love Chris Nieratko any less. You're still our favorite doodler Chris. King Shit has more than enough love to go around for the both of you. Chris's doodles return on Friday.

There's a sweet little contest that Volcom is putting on right now, called "Everyone is a Photographer" that'll get your picture on a T-Shirt.

As well as having their photos on shirts in Volcom's Women's line, the three chosen winners will receive a years worth of Volcom Featured artists tees from the 2010 season, and their artwork will be included as a Volcom Featured Artist in stores December 1, 2009. Plus, the winning entries and well as the runner ups will be showcased at a Volcom store gallery in California next January as part of their Featured Art Collection.

This contest will run thru February 28th, 2009. So get on it already. Enter at the bottom of this page.

There's a great little Todd Francis interview up at the Stereo Skateboards site, where Todd talks about, well, his art.

Two of Toronto's finest, Paul Otvos and Wes Loates are having a release party for the 09 collection of their clothing label Hrs. next week. Art, clothes, booze and... Caribbean cuisine?

Don't forget, there's two amazing shows going down in Toronto tonight, Ben Tour's Electric Orphans and LE Gallery's street art group show, Word Up?. Don't miss either of 'em.

Ok, so this is not exactly the most timely of news, but if you haven't already headed over to Club Mumble, take some time out of your busy day and get over there.

Bob K's revamped the Mumble Magazine idea, and he's now got over 100 bloggers from the skate/art/creative world (including King Shit's own Ryan Stutt) putting rad shit up there everyday.

It's a great way to find out about what's new and awesome. Speaking of awesome - SK8 or Dice!

Element Skateboards and Steven Harrington of National Forest Design just released a series of decks commemorating Our Mountain, a traveling international art show with fellow NFD member Justin Krietemeyer that made stops in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Check out the line right here.

Have you made the Food on Drunk lately? You should. Dave Carnie has been on an epic five part journey to the mythical French Laundry restaurant in San Francisco and it's entertaining as hell.

If you haven't heard about it already and aren't quietly sobbing in a corner waiting for it to kick off, Ben Tour is having a show at the Meta Gallery in Toronto, called Electric Orphans. It starts this Friday and runs until Feb. 15th.

Ben's probably one of the most talented artists in the country, so if at all possible, you need to make it to this show. If it's any incentive, Mr. Tour will be there in person.

Now we'll all just have to figure out why two awesome shows are scheduled on the same night, in opposite ends of town.

Toronto's LE Gallery and Simon Cole (of the currently renovating) Show & Tell Gallery are pleased to present Word Up? a celebration of the wide and varied methods of street based artists.

The show features world renown graffiti artists Ghost (NYC), Papermonster (NYC), Dixon (Spain), Omen (MTL), Scam (TO), and Case (TO). The show is going to be insane, don't be a weirdo and miss it.

The opening reception is on Friday January 9th at LE Gallery (1183 Dundas St. West) between 7pm and 10 pm. Word Up? will be on display from Jan. 9th to Feb. 1st.

Tomorrow is the start of a major retro- spective of Glen E. Friedman's work at the Subliminal Projects Gallery in Los Angeles.

The show is called Idealist Propaganda and aside from showing a large selection of his known work, it also features 25 never before seen photos from his early days shooting the early years of the punk, hip-hop and skateboarding movements, as well as some of his work of the natural world.

This is the first time Friedman's done such a comprehensive look back at his photography, which is so influential it's staggering. If you can get to LA, the show runs from Dec. 13th to Jan. 9th.

Here's some random stuff worth checking out: Plan B just put up the second issue of their B Zine on their website, with a little Vancouver section.

Ed Templeton is having a slideshow of work from his book Deformer (check the review / interview here) at the Family Bookstore in Los Angeles this Sunday. There'll be a Q&A with Ed as well. It all kicks off at 7:30 pm.

Also in LA tonight (if you're the jetsetting type) is the opening of Vans and Estevan Oriol ICONoclast photo exhibit in LA.

There is literally a crapload of things going on this weekend in Toronto. On Friday there's Etnies and Color's A Rolling Perspective, which runs in three different locations: Stussy, Adrift and the Baitshop. Starts at 8 in the Stussy store, and the party changes locations every two hours. Yeah, I didn't understand it either. Let's hope the weather's good.

Also on Friday is the Gifted group show at Show & Tell Gallery, featuring 11 up and coming artists from around Toronto. All the artwork will be up for sale on the S&T site next week.

Then Saturday it's Erin Hogue's photo show, Earning a Voice, at the Baitshop.

Hope you've got your party hats on people, it's gonna be a long weekend.

Element and the Baitshop are presenting a photo auction for local photographer Erin Hogue called Earning a Voice, a series of photographs taken during Rob Dyer's 5 month skateboard marathon across Canada.

All proceeds from the silent auction will be donated to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. If you're free on Saturday Dec. 6th, make your way out to the Baitshop, things kick off at 7pm and run til 11pm.

If you're somewhere near Portland, Oregon, this Thursday, Dec. 4th head on over to the Hecklewood Gallery for the Wood Pushers show. There's a ridiculously stacked roster of artists in the show, curated by Monsieur T, including:

Jeremyville, Andrew Pommier, Bwana Spoons, Lance Mountain, Martin Ontiveros, APAK, Adam Haynes, Le Merde, Jon Humphries, Ruben Sanchez, Fred Mortagne, Huskmitnavn, Andrew Groves, I Love Dust, Arbito, Shawn Wolfe, Ryan Berkley, Scrappers Betsy Walton, Jay Howell, Klutch, Mark Warren Jacques, Lee Zeman, Jeff Proctor, Tom Webb, Brett Superstar and Steve Matthews.

It's sponsored by both Nike SB and Pabst Blue Ribbon, so you know it's gonna be good.

Normally, we aren't really fans of hocking merch on here (unless it's from our online store), but DC Snowboarding's staff photographer and all around good guy, Colin Adair, has decided to have a little print sale of some of his more "arty" photos and we promised we'd help put the word out.

You can check out the photos he's putting up for grabs right here. Then, once you've been properly aroused, you can e-mail Colin for pricing and info right here.