JUICE NEWS - AUGUST 15-31, 2003

The seventh leg of the World Championship Tour has made its way down to Lower Trestles, CA for the 2003 Boost Mobile Pro of surf, presented by Quiksilver. On September 4, 2003, the World's top 48 surfers will be converging to compete for over $250,000 in prize money at one of the most contestable waves in world- Lowers. Last year's event was absolutely insane! Luke Egan surfed like a seasoned veteran to take home first place and Kelly Slater unloaded in the Expression Session. With the rivalry building between Kelly and Andy, and the rest of the WCT competitors surfing so well, 2003 Boost Mobile Pro is shaping up to be another incredible event. - Autograph Session - Come down to the Quiksilver Boardriders Club, Irvine Spectrum, Tuesday, September 9th @ 4PM to meet a few of the world's best surfers competing at the 2003 Boost Mobile Pro, including Jake Patterson, Danny Wills, the Irons bros and Sunny Garcia. Check out Boost Mobile Pro.com for daily results, heats scores, video highlights and more.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL - AN EXHIBITION TO BENEFIT THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE - SEPT 6-20 @ SIXSPACE - LA, CA. For more info www.sixspace.com

GLOBE AND GALLAZ ANNOUNCE AL PARTANEN AS NEW SKATE MARKETING MANAGER. For more info - www.globeshoes.com and www.gallaz.com.

PRESS RELEASE - Nokia Core Tour on September 6-7 at Huntington Beach Pier, Huntington Beach, CA - 10am-6pm.

SKATELAB NEWS - SIMI VALLEY, CA - Our new PHASE 4 project is complete and open. We kicked it all off this weekend with the OSIRIS shootout. Congratulations to Jereme Rogers and Andre Genovesi, both riders skating for the first skateboard shop on the planet, VAL SURF and they split the $1000 first prize. A big shout out to Chris Wood who rode for SKATELAB and made it to the finals. Click this to find out more about PHASE 4. http://www.skatelab.com/news/index.php

PRESS RELEASE - ASR is just over a week away – September 5-7th in San Diego. At ASR, Creativity Rules as Labels Bring Production to the Floor, See Paul Frank in action, Rusty building customs, and creative innovation thrive at ASR... Thinking outside of the box puts the founders of two action sports/youth culture labels inside the box during the annual ASR show in San Diego this September. Paul Frank and Rusty will go beyond showing their hottest styles and latest shapes at ASR. Paul Frank himself will create original designs on his first sewing machine. The originals made at the show will be auctioned later in the day to ASR attendees. World famous surfboard shaper Rusty Priesendorfer, founder of Rusty, will be building custom boards for retailers. The lucky retailers will be able to receive a surfboard built to their exact specifications. Moving beyond a traditional product set up, Sole Technology brings the Sole Technology Institute’s (STI) biomechanics research to ASR’s floor. Check out the results of skateboarding specific studies that will promote the longevity, performance and reduced risk of injury in skateboarding through a new approach to skate shoe design. In other shoe news, DC and Rob Dyrdek will announce a ‘solution’ to increase participation numbers in skateboarding. After a year of product and brand develpoment, skate brand Tum Yeto is launching Dekline International, a new shoe and apparel brand geared towards people who prefer an alternative lifestyle. Dozens of new brands are bringing fresh looks and ideas to ASR in San Diego. Monument, J Lo by Jennifer Lopez, Dahlia, David & Goliath, Seven2, Analog from Burton and Gorilla Union from FUBU are just a few of the companies using ASR to launch these hot new labels into the action sports world. International flavor from new to ASR brands like Megami Boogie in Japan, creating stylish looks with a slight 80’s flair and Oxbow, whose surf inspired designs from Europe will help bring the global action industry to light. Labels like Pacific Motion had a solid experience at the debut of ASR Europe and are now participating in the San Diego show to expand U.S. sales. While skate classics like Alien Workshop and Zoo York along with fashion mavens Von Dutch, return to ASR bringing new models and designs to the floor. In addition to the upcoming September 5-7th show in San Diego, ASR is now hosting a fall show in Huntington Beach for the ‘Back to School’ season and ASR Europe in Anglet, France. Be sure to catch ASR in San Diego, now twice a year with new dates for January, the 17-19th. www.asrbiz.com

A fundraising benefit for Neil Heddings... Sept 6, 2003 - Burnside

Mt. Trashmore in Virginia Beach, VA has been rebuilt... There's no vert ramp but there is a 6' deep wooden bowl with a hip packed together with two layers of Skate-lite.

Dreamland just completed a park in Klanath Fallls where Red and his crew each got to design their own bowl - all with cement coping - interconnected for the best flow.

Chris Mearkle (East Coast Ramps) is building another skatepark in Martha's Vineyard. Plans are underway to include some bowl action with concrete sculpting wizardry by the one and only Sloppy Sam. Stay tuned for more.

The 2nd Annual Mountain Dew Free Flow Tour kicked off on May 24, 2003, at one of the east coast’s premier skateparks – New Hampshire’s Rye Airfield. The tour has since landed at skateparks in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas and California, with guest appearances at a handful of parks by top skaters from the Vans and World Industries teams including Carlos De Andrade and Jimmy Astleford. In the coming months, the Mountain Dew Free Flow Tour will hit skateparks throughout the west coast and mid-west before wrapping up on October 4, 2003, in Massachusetts. Mountain Dew team riders Rune Glifberg and Pat Channita, as well as additional Vans and World Industries pros, will make special appearances at select stops during the second half of this summer’s Free Flow Tour. The Free Flow Tour contests run in a jam-style format that mimics a typical day at the skatepark, allowing groups of competitors to skate the street course at once. Participants are divided into age brackets including: Males 11 & under, 12-15, 16-18, 19 & up and Females all ages. Only male and female skaters 12-18 years of age are eligible to become official Mountain Dew Free Flow Skateboard Team members. At each Free Flow Tour stop, a judging panel selects three overall winners to join the Mountain Dew Free Flow Skateboard Team, and winners receive prize packages including a $250 Mountain Dew ‘Skate Scholarship’, cool gear and apparel from Mountain Dew and tour partners, and free Dew for a year. Plus, winners are featured as Mountain Dew Free Flow Skateboard Team members on www.MountainDew.com. Remaining 2003 Mountain Dew Free Flow Tour stops include: 8/23 - Orange, CA - Vans Skatepark, 8/30 - Milpitas, CA - Vans Skatepark, 9/06 - Lakewood, CO - ESPN X Games Skatepark, 9/13 - Davenport, IA - Rampage Skatepark, 9/20 - Detroit, MI - Vans Skatepark, 9/27 - Cleveland, OH - CHENgA World II, 10/4 - Taunton, MA - Skater's Edge, Schedule subject to change

2003 Mountain Dew Free Flow Skateboard Team to date:
5/24 - Rye, NH: Alex Gourdouros (14), Art Noel (17) & Dave Bachinsky (17)
5/31 - Johnson City, NY: Mike Marks (12), Dave Gruver (15) & John Barbieri (17)
6/07 - Moorestown, NJ: Mark Del Negro (14)*, Shaun Williams (15)* & Andrew Cannon (17)*
6/14 - Elizabeth, NJ: Sam Rosenberg (13), Jefferson McGrath (14)* & Willy Akers (16)*
6/21 - Woodbridge, VA: Derek Gertz (14), Elliot Coss (15)* & Danny Gotimer (17)
6/28 - Orlando, FL: Mike Laskey (13), Brad Cromer (15) & Abdias Rivera (16)
7/12 - Buford, GA: Jordan Lucas (12), Ryan Pugh (16) & Mike Lesiak (18)
7/19 - Bentonville, AR: Andrew Leduc (12), Johnny Undiano (16) & Josh Nelson (17)
7/26 - Houston, TX: Chaz Piheda (13), Ryan Holloway (13) & Zach West (16)
8/02 - Phoenix, AZ: Adam Romero (15), Matt Almy (15) & Josh Hawkins (16)
8/09 - Ontario, CA: Chris Mendes (14), Sam Rowe (16) & Grant Hatfield (16)
* indicates repeat winner's from 2002 Mountain Dew Free Flow Tour
Check out www.MountainDew.com for additional Mountain Dew Free Flow Tour information.

Danny Rowland frontside over Tim Mott in the Handicap Bowl, Denver CO - Photo by Don Cudney.

Conspiracy theories and vert ramp skatejams are in the works courtesy of Conspiracy Skateboards rumored to be hosted in Trinidad at the end of September. Attendees should include Colorado, Texas and New Mexico's finest ripping the new 40' wide vert ramp. www.conspiracyboards.com

Photos and final results from the X Games IX - Los Angeles, CA

FUEL TV - SKATE, SNOW, SURF, BMX, MOTO AND WAKE - 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK - To order FUEL – Call your local cable operator, DirecTV customer service or (877) 4 FUEL TV. FUEL is the first and only 24-hour US cable network dedicated to the world of action sports. As a driving force in youth culture, action sports have captured the imagination, energy and excitement of a generation. FUEL covers both competitive and non-competitive action in the arenas of skateboarding, surfing, BMX, freestyle motocross, snowboarding and wakeboarding. Programming includes top-level international sports events and competitions, featuring elite extreme sports athletes. Launched on July 1, 2003, FUEL is a division of Fox Cable Networks. www.fuel.tv

John O'Shei - BLR#1

Photos from the WLAC Slalom Races -LA, CA Sunday - Aug 17, 2003

PRESS RELEASE - The new book from Jim Phillps is here! "Surf, Skate & Rock Art of Jim Phillips". This collection of graphic art covers 40 years of Jim Phillips' free-lance and fine art, and contains hundreds of samples of posters, ads, logos, labels, cartoons, and other art forms that have entertained many and provided cultural identity to some. The story weaves history and insight into Jim's images, revealing the life and works of this California artist. Enjoyable to read, instructive to aspiring artists, informative of the background that made these icons part of our landscape. Jim Phillips is a graphic artist known for his rock posters, surf and skateboard art. Jim has created more than 100 rock posters since 1967 begining with Lothar and the Handpeople, at the Crosstown Bus in Boston. His second poster was for the first east coast appearance of The Doors. Born in San Jose, Ca., Oct 24, 1944, Phillips has lived mostly in Santa Cruz,Ca. His first published work was in the spring issue of Surfer Quarterly, 1962, his "Woody" a winner of a surf car cartoon contest. His surf art has appeared in many surfing publications since. In 1965 and 66 he attended California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland. Between 1975 and '90 , Phillips was art director for Santa Cruz Skateboards where he created hundreds of skateboard deck, T-shirt, sticker, and ad art designs, with a record 8 million stickers sold within a two year period. The book is 208 pages in full color, 9" X 12. www.jimphillips.com

Jay Adams is now sponsored by Cadillac. He picked out a white Escalade and they are delivering it to Jay this week.

PRESS RELEASE - Conspiracy Skateboards has put out the final version of their stinger deck for the vert and poolheads out there. The Conspiracy Team is set to tour the OR/Wash/UT/ID roads as they are meeting in Seattle for the FLATSTOCK POSTER SHOW during the Rock Convention on Aug 30-Oct 01. The show features all the underground artists so come out and support them and meet Lindsey Kuhn, TAZ, Derek Hess, Jermaine, Frank Kozik. It will be featured at a venue with the local skatepark right across the way and large crowds expected for the festival. The Heat is kicking in Texas (and elsewhere) but the 23rd of August has the Big Midland Contest happnening. Call Tim @ Core Skateshop for info. Thanks and SKATEVERYTHING, SKATEVERYWHERE!!!

Conspiracy FS Air by "UDO - Son of UD" at the Denver Vans Park - that is now closed.

Chris Nieratko [Big Brother, Jackass] is now plotting world domination from his new skate shop [NJ Skateshop] in Sayreville, NJ. He and Troy Jankowski and Steve Lenardo have opened up the new skate clubhouse and are now intent on getting concrete structures built by Wally Hollyday in the new Sayreville city skatepark. "It's going to be the greatest skate park in all of New Jersey, and that's probably downplaying it," Nieratko says. The NJ Skateshop team includes Fred Gall, Tim Oconnor, Brian Wenning and Quim Cardona. In the meantime, Nieratko took time to write a movie with his Fresh Kills Entertainment production company partner and ex-professional skater, Ryan Monihan. The two are about to sign a $5 million deal with Gravity Entertainment to produce the movie. Shooting on the film, set to include Knoxville, Hawk, Johnny Rotten and Rory Culkin, is scheduled for mid-September in St. John's, Canada. For more info check www.njskateshop.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - CONTACT: Justin Gold Promotional Manager Sessions Apparel - Email- justing@sessions.com - SESSIONS, The Tim Brauch Memorial Fund and friends and family are proud to host the Fifth Annual Tim Brauch Memorial Skateboard Contest. We will continue to host the event in Tim's back yard at the Vans Skate Park in Milpitas, Ca. on Saturday, Oct. 11th 2003. Continuing with the format of previous years, we will once again kick off the event with an Amateur Street Contest followed by a jam-style Bowl Contest, allowing sponsored, un-sponsored, and professional contestants to compete together. As in previous years, Tim’s closest friends will be judging the entire event. In addition to the contest there will be raffles, DJ’s, and games for the spectators. In the previous years, this event has united hundreds of professionals and industry types, friends and family, along with complete strangers to watch, participate, and remember a friend who brought so much to our lives. In an effort to give as much back to skateboarding as Tim did, The Tim Brauch Memorial Skate Park Fund, a non-profit fund set up to raise money for the construction of skate parks, was formed. And thanks to hundreds of Tim’s friends, it is gaining more and more momentum every year. The first skatepark to be built from this fund will be a 20,000 sq. ft. concrete wonderland featuring a street course and bowl, located in Scotts Valley, CA. We’re $50k away from breaking ground, with the total cost of the park being $550k. Thanks to all of you who have donated your time and money, we’re almost there! We (Sessions and organizers of the contest) are looking for donations of product, services, and/or monetary to be used for prizes, raffles and donations. All sponsors must be secured prior to July 28th. Thank You, GOLD - SESSIONS Promotions (831) 461-5080 ext. 621

Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing - San Jose Museum of Art - August 16-November 2, 2003 - For many, the very notion of an “art history of surfing” suggests an oxymoron - how could such a popular past-time have anything to do with serious art? Yet this exhibition sets out to prove otherwise. As New York Times art critic Chris Dixon notes, “The exhibit is ambitious, covering the history of surfing - in paintings, posters, photographs, film and artifacts - from ancient Peru and Polynesia to the 21st century. It features artists who surf and surfers who make art, pop icons like Gidget and serious works that struggle with the meaning of American colonialism.” Surf Culture offers an overview of the technology, fine art and kitsch, myth-making and social commentary, personal expression and mass marketing and concludes with the exploration of the corporate side of surf culture. All of the artists presented in this exhibition have achieved prominence in the art world, or popular culture, or both. Among those who will be represented in the exhibition are Ashley Bickerton, Sandow Birk, Jeff Divine, Craig Kauffman, Rick Griffin, Kevin Ancell, Rex Brandt and Billy Al Bengston. Although there have been exhibitions in the past that made the connection between contemporary art and surfing, none of them have been comprehensive, with many historical works and numerous artists--nor have they included the memorabilia associated with surfing. Organized by the Laguna Art Museum, Surf Culture includes 100 works. San Jose will be the only Northern California venue for this exhibition, which also traveled to The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The connection between art and surfing reaches back 3,000 years to Peru, where some of the world’s first historians carved bas-reliefs of surfers. Works in the exhibition refer to several centuries of art. Sandow Sandow Birk’s paintings are recreations of nineteenth century artworks, such as Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze, however, the figures in Birk's works have been transformed from soldiers into surfers painted in vibrant hues. Kevin Ancell’s hula girls recall the kitschy tiki dolls of the 50s, but they now wield M-16 assault rifles and grenades, symbols of American imperialism. Some artists illustrate the more physical impact of surf-related inventions by using materials like fiberglass - a synthetic that revolutionized the construction of utility boards. Other works suggest a more subtle correlation, such as the meditative tone of Robert Irwin’s discs that mirror the transcendence surfers often feel while immersed in the ocean. The last forty years have witnessed the explosion of surf culture as a lifestyle or commodity. Surfer Magazine, Gidget, and the Beach Boys defined a healthy chunk of pre-hippie culture, and psychedelic posters of the late 60s were heavily influenced by surf-style designer John Vax Hammersveld and Surfer Magazine/Zap Comix veteran Rick Griffin. The following decades saw the surfer image plastered on billboards and glossy ads, so that a kid from Kansas who had never seen the beach could cop a surfer style with some Quicksilver shorts and Oakley shades. The exhibition is accompanied by a 240-page full color book designed by David Carson, co-published and distributed internationally by Gingko Press, with essays by pop writer Deanne Stillman, anthropologist Ben Finney, guest curators Tyler Stallings and Craig Stecyk, and Laguna Art Musuem director Bolton Colburn (a former U.S. amateur surfing champion.) Tom Wolfe’s memorable essay, “The Pump House Gang,” (1968) is also reprinted. Tickets: Free. Museum Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm. Closed Monday. Info Phone: 408-271-6840 - San Jose Museum of Art 110 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113