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This weekend represents three years since we yet again learned the dangers of mixing ‘the party’ with ‘the vehicle’. Three years since the passing of the beloved Shane Cross. In honour of this epic human we hold annual “Shred For Shanes” around Australia. The Melbourne jam is in about 15 hours at the legendary Fitzroy Bowl, not too far from where Shane left us back in 2007.

The flyer was whipped up today by Ben McLachlan, we lagged a bit because we couldn’t find out who shot the pic. But I’m pretty sure it was Andrew Mapstone and if it wasn’t it was Remy, (they were both at that session in NYC) and either way we thought it would be OK to use it, as it is for a Shred for Shane right? Below the flyer is a part of the piece from the first ‘Shred for Shane’ painted by the aerosol master known as Dash88.

Shred for Shane wherever you are this weekend.

Life can be a very fleeting thing. Embrace it like Shane did.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Fitted Hawaii (Rene Matthyssen) and APB Skate Shop (Chad Hiyakumoto), worked together with the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry and created a “Support Local Skateboarding” pack (hat, a t-shirt and two different-sized decks), all for our brother, Kenny Brimer, who is fighting leukemia.

CLICK BELOW FOR DONOR INFORMATION IN YOUR AREA.

You can also check-out the Shota Kubo (yes, Shota, son of Shogo) video, filmed by Kenny, when you click on the image below and scroll to bottom of the page.

So Bowl-a-rama weekend went down last week in Bondi beach, and we managed to pull Flat-a-rama off on the Friday night without a hitch. I still can’t believe we got money to put on a game of SKATE with our friends, even though some of Australia’s best current street skaters were involved too. The sponsors were great and the free alcohol was even better. What an awesome weekend. Thanks Chad Ford. Lets make it bigger next year… Oh, and Grosso and Cab absolutely ripped the bowl on Saturday too. amazing!

Okay, I’m a bit late on this one. But, it’s still really worth watching if you haven’t already (and, then you can get sucked into the other commentaries that are featured).

Anyways, point your mouse here to spend some time with Slap, Strubs and Dan Peterka.

There is a HUGE benefit art show happening tonight in LA.  So many of my favorite artists have contributed treasures to benefit a great organization Para Los Niños.  Para Los Niños is a nonprofit family service
organization designed to bring children from some of Los Angeles’ most challenging communities out
of poverty and onto brighter, more successful futures.   Check out the fresh stART site HERE for more info.  Hope you all are having a bright sunny Saturday.  So nice in Portland today!

Ben Gore at the Sutro Baths.

Been a busy new year so far. I posted a bunch of photos from the past six weeks over on SLAP and a video of a couple local skaters.

Devon Blood is a tattoo artist from the Bay Area that suffered a gun shot to his head in an attempted robbery. He lost the ability to draw with his right hand but has retaught himself to draw with his left hand. A book is due out about his life after the shooting and learning the art of drawing and tattooing all over again. For more: Devon Blood

You probably don’t know this but as well as being the founding editor of Club Mumble I also do a hyperlocal web site that focuses on the city I love, Vancouver BC Canada. The site is called Vancouver Is Awesome and essentially we talk about all things that makes the place, well, you know. Awesome.

Generally there’s no crossover between Mumble and Vancouver Is Awesome but today I feel like I have to tell you about this interview that I did with Michael J. Fox, who is one of our finest exports, because over the years I have heard SO many people say that they started skateboarding because of the Back To The Future movies. We talked about Joey Shithead from D.O.A., his favourite things about this city and those much-talked-about Nikes that he wore in Back To The Future 2. Have a READ.

Just a quick note to let you know I’m donating 100% of the proceeds from all sales of Faesthetic to the American Red Cross from now until the end of the month. I’ve also extended the holiday sale, so you can get more bang for your charity buck. No strings attached. I just want to help.

Click on image to see interview.  http://x-equals.com/blog/?p=4128