O.D.G.

Got to admit, I know next to nothing about this cat except that he was affiliated with the Bones Brigade back in the day. Regardless this ad is pretty bad ass. ..and I knew that this Hawk board looked familiar .. Good interview by Christian Hosoi  here ... On a side note, after skating for more than 20 years, this is the first Flip Skateboard I've ever ridden. So far, so good..this P2 thing might have something to it..

Just a little Brian Lotti before the weekend.. I have to admit that I never really "got" Planet Earth back in the day, but was always a fan of Lotti. The transition to Blind seemed a little odd but that rabbit board was ultimate. Like many others, I had high hopes for Telegraph, but glad to see he found a home over on Stacks Have a good one..

Too good not to re-post. A look into the darker side of the skate industry; http://site.48blocks.com/anthony-pappalardo Thank you to 48 blocks for getting the answers out to many peoples' questions. If I could support Pops through a skate product purchase I would be on it like white on rice. However from the sound of the interview I'm pretty adamant that I'll boycott Converse for life. Sorry Kenny..

Fast and loose style with a nice frontside 360...Danny Sargent. Oh how I miss the New Deal bright yellow ads..what a great company. Hope you have a great Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever holiday you may celebrate. Glad the world didn't end.. See you in the new year..

While perusing the FTC site recently, I came across some great Pier 7 videos added by Brad Johnson on Vimeo.  Although there seems to be a Tsunami of great stuff going down in skateboarding right now, these videos are too good not to mention. Lots of legends in here...Lavar McBride, John Igei, Enrique Lorenzo, Josh Kalis, Drake Jones, Brandon Biebel, among many less well known but equally talented dudes. Check it out.. (may have a short load time, give it a second). RIP..

   . Better late then never.. had this one partially done then some technical difficulties put a spanner in the works.... ..hopefullly the inclusion of some Robert Williams art and covers should make up for it. This guy is bonkers.  The blog got 15,000 hits as of today. Thanks to everyone who has clicked on here and/or commented. This is just something I do for myself but it's good to know that other people are looking at it and hopefully enjoying it as well. -O.D.G.

In the eager anticipation of the Pretty Sweet video that comes out next week I've been racking my brain trying to imagine who will have a part and what tricks are going to go down. After weeks of torturous brain racking I went the other direction and came up with a few highly unlikely (but hopefully amusing) hypothetical situations that may come from the most anticipated skate video of 2012... Guy Mariano's part is so good that in early screenings viewers' faces were literally melting off...the video is recalled and he is asked to tone it down a notch. Devine Calloway's picture perfect smile is noticed by higher up corporate execs at Colgate and he becomes the first pro skater to get a toothpaste sponsor. Garvey steals the show in Chris Roberts ' part and ends up getting on the team, Chris gets the boot. After exhausting every scarf/hair color combo imaginable, Mike Carroll reverts (pun intended) back to the 80's flop over haircut and hot pink com...