Off the beaten path of the NYC skate and streetwear scene in the Lower East Side there is a tiny little shop off Canal street on the west side called Rival. They are hands down the best skate shop in the city. They are the skateboarders skate shop. They are the BMX riders bike store. They are the real deal Holyfield, never perpetrating the fraud Nike SB dealer.
They are my peoples.
TODAY!
16 of the world’s best snowboarders will compete for their piece of the massive $100,000 prize purse at Red Bull Snowscrapers. Athletes will compete against the majestic backdrop of the New York City skyline in the East River Park from 6-9 pm.
Athletes include iconic Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, freestyle / backcountry legend Travis Rice and ultra-progressive phenomenon Pat Moore. World renowned Burton riders for the ground-breaking event include Kevin Pearce, Mikkel Bang, Danny Davis, Kohei Kubo, Kazuhiro Kakubo, and snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen. Other confirmed riders include Nitro’s Andreas Wiig, DC’s Torstein Horgmo, Forum’s Jake Blauvelt and Greg Bretz, along with Rome rider Bjorn Leines and Ride’s JJ Thomas.
3:00pm – Gates open to the public
3:30pm – Riders open practice – All 16 riders
5:05pm – Valient Thorr Performance
5:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers contest starts – 60 minute jam session
7:10pm – Black Gold Performance
7:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers Finals – Jam session – Top 8 riders
8:50pm – Awards
8:55pm – Anthrax Performance
Red Bull Snowscrapers will utilize a jam session format for both the preliminaries and finals. In this format, a rider is neither dismissed nor defined by a single run or fall—rather, the athlete who consistently lands difficult and creative tricks with skill and style throughout the entire jam session is deemed the overall winner.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art First Saturday will be so crunktastical this weekend. Being Black should be this great 365 days a year.
DJ Spinna & DJ Rich Medina will join forces to bring their WTF?!? soundsystem to the museum’s grand ballroom.
JAMES BROWN x FELA KUTI
No matter the weather this weekend, Brooklyn will be extremely lifted.
*The Rub @ Southpaw jumps off afterwards*
And FaceBook is dead.
Seriously, why aren’t you on Twitter?
Rappers are walking around with guitars without bothering to learn how to play them just like you see kids walking around with skateboards and the wheels are clean and unscuffed.
Posing has reached an all time high.
And who can blame the posers anyhoo? Ponzi schemes are the only reliable economic sector now. Actors tell us who to vote for and why community service is so damn important and then they jet off to Hawaii.
Does anyone make real shit anymore?
JOAQUIN PHOENIX is going to be a rapper? The faux leading the fake.
I fux with 808s & Heartbreak. I will not be fuxing with any of KanYe West acid wash schmatte, or Andre 3000’s dandy vines, or anyone else who sings, raps, chants, spits or otherwise burps into a microphone for a living. I am buying clothes from the people that have spent their life doing that shit for no other glory than the feel of virgin wool knit into a precise loop.
If some rapper actually knit a sweater with their own hands then I would consider buying that because of the commitment required to complete the item, but no one who raps would do that. Ol’ Dirty Bastard might have done that, but he was special. Ever since Puff released SeanJohn everything else has been str8 clownshoes.
Fast forward to 2009 and some of these dudes are on the verge of giving clowns a classy sartorial image.
Smarten up Taz.
