A full-scale, 753.5-square foot prototype for a house Francois Perrin is currently designing in Malibu, CA for Pierre-Andre Senizergues (Etnies founder).

The prototype, fully equipped with sofa, bed, furniture from the Skate Study House collection and even kitchen appliances, was just recently part of the exhibition Public Domaine / Skating Culture at la Gaite Lyrique, a new museum in Paris.

The complete residence, where everything in the house is skateable, will measure 2,200-square feet and will to be located in a site overlooking the Pacific at the top of Malibu.

The concept of the house is a ribbon that creates a continuous surface to be skated from the Outside to the Inside. The house is divided into three separate spaces. The first one includes the living room, dining area and kitchen, the second one includes a bedroom and bathroom and the third one a skating practice area.

Each space is skateable as the ground becomes the wall then the ceiling in a continuous surface forming a tube of a 10ft diameter. The furniture is also skateable [...]

• Full Article & more Pictures on Archinect.com (via).
• Etnies PAS House, Video on Vimeo.com.

More Architecture | When Skating meets Art.

Photo: Kevin Yee – x-grind (San Francisco) by Matt Rice.

Skaters have a unique aesthetic perspective on their own activity and on public space — a perspective we shouldn’t ignore.

Skaters are either pests or eXtreme dare devils (or eXtreme dare devil pests). Either they’re scuffing up a beautiful public planter box or handrail, or they’re engaged in some death-defying, oooh-aaahhh-inspiring spectacle on ESPN.

Either way, they’re insufferable, crass, misanthropic, self-endangering underlings (even if they’re undeniably pretty cool). Either way, it would be strange to think that skating requires a high level of skill in aesthetic perception, judgment, and action. [...]

Check the full article on Creativitypost.com (via).

A lot of skaters noticed that Louis Zamora wasn’t skating K2s in the latest “9TO5 Weekend with Louie Zamora & Brian Aragon” video (he was skating Valos) ; Here are more informations on the subject.

What’s up dudes

There was no “falling out” between K2 and I. The simple fact of the matter is they aren’t ready to invest in our sport. I was the only one doing everything for the Varsity skate, and my input would be taken and used sometimes, and sometimes it wouldn’t.

I would never know until I got the sample, which was very unpredictable at best. A long time ago, I told K2 that I would like to spend my career with them and improve their products along the way. My passion is obviously on wheels, but it also lies in the design and function of the products we use everyday as bladers.

I was told that we have no budget for a team, no budget for travel, and no money to help me stay as productive as possible. I was fine with that, believing we could really start something great by just blading and staying positive, and hopefully all of those things would fall inline eventually.

The main reason I had to leave was because a person told me that I would not get design credit for aything, and that an option for a “pro skate” wasn’t an option.

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The longest Ramp Jump on Rollerblades (30m, 98 ft 5.1) by Chris Haffey which took place at the Fise Air Marseille (2011) was validated by the Guiness World Records.

How to be unpopular (Mushroom Blading) spoke about it on one of their latest podcast: Episode 65.

• Previously: Chris Haffey, Do you have to land it for it to count?
• Air Fise Marseille 2011: More Media.

HEROIN UNLTD / PALLE SKOVHEDE

Music: Spleen United – Heroin Unltd
From the album: “God Speed Into The Mainstream”

WEIRD FISHES / CHRISTIAN BERG

Music: Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
From the album: “In Rainbows”

NIGHT

Amon Tobin – Theme From Battery
From the album: “Chaos Theory”

The Chemical Brothers – Saturate
From the album: “We Are The Night”

Spleen United – My Tribe Part II
From the album: “Neanterthal”

TRASHING SETH NICOLAS

The Notwist – Trashing Days
From the album: “All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone”

KIDS

Blockhead – Triptych Pt.1
From the album: “Music By Cavelight”

KARE LINDBERG

Explosions In The Sky – Catastrophe And The Cure (Four Tet Mix)
From the album: “All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone”

DON’TS / KARE LINDBERG

Four Tet – Don’ts [David Shrigley]
From the album: “LateNightTales”

GOLD RING / ANDERS RISHOJ

Spleen United – Gold Ring
From the album: “Godspeed Into The Mainstream”

CREDIT

Ladytron – CMYK
From the album: “Witching Hour”

• Flygt: Full Video Online.

April 11, 1983 – December 24, 2011 (via SUAS).

Photo: Taxi 3 (french movie) with Bruno Loewe, Wilfried Rossignol, Marc Dubied, Cedric Duch, Akta IntheSky, Avella Anthony & Freddy Lavaury. More Infos & Rollerblading scenes. Thanks Stephane Alfano.

Jon Julio: Blading the Game is an IOS app running on Iphone, Ipad & Ipods (maybe an Android version will be released).

Work in Progress: Testing a possible menu direction

Larger Picture.

Jon Julio: Blading the Game, More Media.

Jon Julio: Blading the Game will be an IOS Game (running on Iphone and iPod Touch). Check this picture.

Jon Julio: Blading the Game, More Media.

How to be Unpopular is an audio podcast by Joey Mcgarry & Todd Mcinerney, running since march 2011 (63 episodes for the moment).

You can check it on Itunes or download the mp3 at this url. Thanks Anon.

Jon Julio posted more pictures of Jon Julio: Blading the Game.

Fishbrains at night Larger Picture.
Featuring a low polygon skater, who strangely looks like Jon Julio.

More EMB (?) (left) Larger picture.
+ EMB elements. Launch to grind the Gonz gap? (right) Larger picture.

• Visit Bladingthegame.com.
• Blading & Videogames: more articles.

SSM First bloods oli short and gabriel hyden adventure in and the uk meeting up with second blood leon humphries and some local shredders.

Vimeo Link.

Jon Julio released few infos about Blading the Game ; we have an empty website at Bladingthegame.com for the moment.

I’m sure you are all excited to have a new blading game. What do you think this game could be?

An Iphone app seems to be the easiest and lucrative way to produce an independent game those days. I would love to see a PC/Mac moddable game, with the ability to customize skaters with their own skin.

Update: Jon Julio posted a screenshot of the level building process. The work is done under Autodesk Maya.

Featured Skaters? What would be your top 10 skaters to be featured in the game?

Blading & Videogames: more articles.