Best Movie Review…Ever!

I think I just found my newest, favorite movie review.  It’s for a movie called, Up Yours-A Rockin’ Comedy.

My previous favorite review was for a One Second Movie.

Check My Flow

In a previous post I wrote about Tetrance.  The act of playing Tetris in a zen-like state.  I just found out that it has an actual definition–Flow.  The term was coined by a guy with a name crazier than mine–Mihály Csíkszentmihályi.  It’s basically talking about how everything outside of your “zone” are ignored: food, friends, time.  But the most interesting thing it talks about is how in order to be in the “flow,” you have to have a skill level that matches the activity itself.  I guess that’s why I don’t get in the flow whenever I try to skateboard anymore.  I’ve lost all my skill.

But now my hunt is on to find something new to “flow” on…any ideas on some hobbies?  I can still sometimes get there when I make beats, but that’s on the outs as well.

twisted trees pt. 3

If you missed the driftwood carving class last week in Louisville, Kentucky…then go to this website by the people who put the workshop on.

David Is The New Goliath

Skate culture isn’t what it used to be.  Seeing skaters with their own TV shows, musicians with their own skate shoes and everything else, it’s weird coming from the days when we were cussed at in parking lots by everbody from rednecks to grandmothers.

Now there’s the debate about big corporations getting in on this action.

But what about when skate companies go major?  Vans shoes are in every footwear retailer, and kids is lovin’ they DC’s.  But I want to target a company that many skaters still feel attracted to.  VOLCOM.

Now, I don’t dislike them, I think they’re fine.  But how many skaters read BusinessWeek to know that Volcom did $160 MILLION in sales last year, making it “the No. 11 spot on BusinessWeek’s 2006 Hot Growth list of small companies”?

Even the people over at The Motely Fool are pimpin’ VLCM’s mad $tockholder$ Meetingz $killz.  (Although I give some props for their use of “guerilla marketing, ‘zine-style” Annual Report)

I’m interested in what other skaters/$kate indu$try people think about how a company that starts with good roots, and grows to huge levels like this.