emerica April 18, 2005 4 comments
Still doing some work on it - but we launched emericawildinthestreets.com for this years Philadelphia event. Used this css based navigation technique that seems to be the way to go (for sites w/only a few nav items at least). Randy designed it. Working on a spot where kids can enter in their own Wild on the Streets events.
Lengthy but sweet essay on social bookmarking and the dissection of tagging.
Yahoos’ 360 will send myspace the way of friendster. Hit me up if you want an invite. While these sites suck, yahoo has got some proper shit going on.
Still working March 28, 2005 2 comments
State-of-the-art interactivity?
devilsdetails.com (I hate flash)
There was a little controversy recently, regarding the use of the Love park sign on http://skate.etnies.com/, which - coincidentally enough, was removed a couple of weeks ago…
Traffic skateboards was hating on the Love park recognition (read the blog entries on their site, can’t link directly to it based on use of iframes). I can see the pride at stake, but the idea was to raise recognition of Love, or so it seems, regardless of who etnies does & doesn’t sponsor. You’d think people would be excited to see it exposed to as many people as possible. Philly could use all the help it can get especially at a time like now . Had they dug deeper on the site, they would have found links to the various non-profit organizations in place to raise money & awareness for a public ‘plaza’ (skatepark) in Philly. I think those too, have been removed. Note the philly style garbage can still pictured in the banner.
Some skateboard oriented content has May 8, 2002
Some skateboard oriented content has been added under features… at the end of the, for lack of a better word - article, you’ll find a link that leads to an already created topic on the message boards in an attempt to spur some activity. we’ll see what happens. Is it just me, or are these iframes buggy?
A recent shrine to Philadelphias most beloved skate spot 1 comment
A recent shrine to Philadelphias most beloved skate spot yields zero reaction…
You’ve read all about it before, on the cover of the Philadelphia inquirer, in the Washington post, the daily news, and the city paper… I can go on listing links, but they’re all well documented on skatenerd.com. All this at a time when actual skateboarders are questioning it’s legitamcy (Is corporate America using skateboarding, or is skateboarding using corporate America?)
As skateboards pop up on everything from cereal boxes to McDonalds happy meals the problem still exists - it’s becoming more difficult to ride a skateboard. I’ll leave most of the op-ed for actual journalists and continue with my goodbye to the original reason I came to Philadelphia - Love Park. Armed with an old skateboard (just so happens it was a locals pro model - Tim O’conner) a marker, a small length of wire, duct tape and a handful of plastic fasteners we fashioned the pop-less deck into a “sign here to say goodbye” soapbox.
It looked like this:
A closeup of the inscription:
Randy, a ghettocooler Admin has a whip so we climbed in and headed towards the chain link fences now surrounding what the city refers to as JFK Plaza:
The board rests quitely, having no idea of it’s soon to be transplant from under the couch to the warm summer air of center city:
Although I don’t belive this would be considered illegal, my youth inspired reckless behavior expired around 1996 and my heart was pounding as I erected the shrine:
Note the low quality of the board, it was cracked too, so I wasn’t especially worried about some young buck ganking it. Not to mention those plastic ties are a bitch:
To the anticipation of the nearby SEPTA stop, erection is complete.
To my knowledge, no one at all even had a chance to sign it. Most likely the very next morning mayor streets’ destruction crews showed up, broke out some wire snips and quitely snipped the ties to my last skateboard ever associated with love park:
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