We are Sale-ing

Our huge sale starts tonight online and tomorrow in-store, and we've got bargains galore for everyone. Want £120 off an Idiom 2.5L jacket? How about some Where the Wild Things Are MJ-3s for £34.95? Dive in and get some while they're hot..

Oh, and all this weekend we have 15% off all skate hardware in both our stores.

Mangina

Oh dear....

Cliche Premier!!!

Jakes Alley 6' 10 Wide Game Of S.K.A.T.E

Entertaining stuff over at Slam City Skates with their all star game of S.K.A.T.E with Lev adding some comedy value to the proceedings.

Check it out here.

Twitter....rific

Added another arm to our technology portfolio.

Check us out at http://twitter.com/focus_scotland for some twitter action.

Today's Luncheon!

Yaaaaaaaaaaas

Gingervitis

There's an interesting article up on the Guardian website about gingerism (discrimination against gingers) being the last acceptable prejudice. I've certainly witnessed some discrimination against gingers over the years, so thought I'd ask our resident Ginger Mr. Tait how many of the derogatory names in the article he'd been subject to. Here are the results:

Ginge
Ginger Nut
Ginger Minger
Carrot Top
Duracell
Period Head
Ginger Bollocks
Ginger Pubes
You Lanky String Of Ginger Piss

Graham gets a whopping score of 6! He has refused to comment on whether or not he'd been called my personal favourite, 'copper sacks'.

Anyhoo, enough of this nonsense, here's the article:

Does gingerism remain the last acceptable prejudice? (Guardian)

Team Pain

I saw a link to the Team Pain website on Crailtap, and it turns out they're a skate park construction company (and the team behind this year's Tampa Am course) who also specialise in some pretty snazzy stand alone skate obstacles too. Check these bad boys out:





Hopefully Glasgow City Council can get them on the case for a plaza outside of St Enoch Centre.... My arse!

Team Pain

1,474 Megapixels

Seems like we're blogging more about the recent US elections than anything at the moment, but this is suitably ridiculous to warrant posting. Comprising of over 220 images from a Canon G10, this link on Gigapan uses Flash technology to give an ultra detailed look at a scene from Tuesday's presidential inauguration.

Via Gizmodo

More Shepard Fairey...

Incoming.......

Stay tuned for more details.

Shepard Fairey on The Colbert Report

Volcom presents "everyone is a photographer"

Just had word about this.....



Get snapping folks and enter your pictures at www.volcomeurope.com/photocontest

Simpel Session 09

Live and direct from Estonia comes Simpel Session 09, a skate and BMX event now eight years in the running. Features skaters from around the globe, including our very own Neil Smith, World Record holder Danny Wainwright, Johnny Layton and a host of European rippers. Have a look at www.simple.ee for more details.

Yes We Did!

To celebrate the historic victory of Barrack Obama being elected as the 44th President of the United States, Obey Clothing have produced this Limited Edition t-shirt which is now available instore and online.

The first 10 people to buy online will also receive a copy of the DJ Z-Trip, Obama Mix and some Obey stickers.


Buy the Obey "Yes We Did" T-shirt here.

Tenori-On

This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

Read all about it here and view it in action below....

Aviemore needs a skatepark.

Anyone who is anyone will know of Aviemore's rich skateboarding heritage and the word Chevvy's will bring a smile or look of fear to a lot of peoples faces. Sadly though Aviemore has been skateless since the destruction of this legendary spot and it just hasn't been the same since.

But fear not, some good people have organised themselves to campaign for a proper facility in Aviemore and you can help out by clicking the link below and adding your name to the petition.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aviemore-skatepark/

Who said man couldn't fly?

wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Happy New Year!

All the best for 2009.