There's a problem with this "Feel the bubbles" spot by JWT London for candy bar Aero, and it has nothing to do with the controversy AgencySpy is reporting—that hard-core skaters are angry that the idea was lifted from some skateboarding film. No, as usual, the IQ-challenged, scabby-kneed kids (the...

No matter how many perfect Ollies or Fakie Frontside Flips you execute with this iPhone board, I wish you good luck with the ladies. You will need it. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]...

Just use double sticky tape instead of the head-strap and off you go to scare your grandmother and video-tape her while she freaks out. Smaller than a golf ball, this ultralight spherical video camera attaches to a headband, providing a third eye while biking, hiking, or during other activities. The...

Following up on our previous coverage of skateboarding in China, we now point you to a China Youthology interview of Jeff Han, the founder of FLY skateboard shop in Shanghai.  Jeff has been a huge force in the China skateboard scene, starting FLY, Gift Skateboards, Cart Wheels and Skatehere.com, an...

This is Danfoss Universe, which actually feels like a building from another planet but is really a science museum in Nordborg, Denmark. Actually, its interior kind of looks like a spaceship's bridge:......

(Photograph by Martin Schoeller) When it comes to brand endorsements, celebrity endorsements can be one of the most complex. Not only can it be hard for the brand to overcome what Rohit Bhargava calls the “paid to play� perception, but there is always a risk that a celebrities actions might stra...

Today I visited Antoine Predock’s Mesa Library in Los Alamos, New Mexico.  Before I ever entered the building I decided it has one of my favorite young adult spaces I’ve seen yet.  Why?  Because there is a skatepark attached to the front of the building.  Rather than defending the pu...

Compared to snowboarding and wakeboarding (where you're strapped in) and surfing (where most falls are absorbed by the sea), fact is skateboarding is hard. But, if you're looking for that extra push to help you nail that elusive trick - from your first ollie, kick flip or back-lip - the Wheelbone co...

Really looking forward to an upcoming gathering at the historic Athenaeum on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm. A few of the opportunity seizers at Indy Metro Church are hosting a night of worship for Indianapolis! Our lofty hope for the gathering is to create an atmosphere of worship, uniting the loca...

I used to teach in LA. One of my favorite kids was a skateboard junkie who told me that he and the other (black, cuz it was an all black school) skaters would be in constant fights with the gang-bangers. Every day after school, he said, it was on and if a skater was walking home alone...well, he'd b...