ASA Entertainment (ASA) is excited to announce that the ASA Action Sports World Tour, one of the industry’s oldest and most elite action sports competition circuits, will return to Chicago for the first time in over a decade. On May 1st the ASA Action Sports World Tour will visit the Sears Centre Arena with a one-day competition featuring the world’s top X Games pros in Skateboard, BMX and Freestyle Motocross (FMX). As the third stop on the 2009 Tour… More info
It may seem like No Age’s Dean Spunt and Randy Randall spend all of their time in sweaty basements and lofts banging out their dream-punk jams, but the pair also share an extra-musical passion: skateboarding. And these dudes aren’t kidding around– they have a half-pipe in their backyard. And they’ve even been skating with Ryan Adams in Australia this week.
Recently, Spunt and Randall formed a partnership with the California skate clothing company Altamont Apparel. Like No Age, Altamont is a punk-informed DIY enterprise. Altamont found that the No Age dudes shared their aesthetics and values, so they have brought Spunt and Randall on as “team managers” for the music side of the company…Â More info
For years, the act of filming a surf movie has existed as a formulaic enterprise: record professional surfers in the world’s most coveted surfing lineups, add up-tempo soundtrack, maybe splice in some lifestyle b-roll, throw a ubiquitous and unnecessary release party, roll credits.
With little exception, the surf film as an artistic property has stood idly by while the genre has been co-opted by those with the belief that a surf film should serve more as an inducement to go surfing than a work of art.
The recent release of an independently produced Australian surf film, “Musica Surfica,†however, attempts to remedy that principle.
The film follows the collaboration of legendary surfer, writer and thinker Derek Hynd with world-renowned Australian classical musician Richard Tognetti, who is the artistic director …Â More info
Money is an emotional issue, especially during economic hard times. Social scientists have always warned that once a person’s basic needs are met money doesn’t buy happiness. But if you’re wondering, or maybe even arguing over, what to do with any precious discretionary income these days, a new study suggests how to get the biggest emotional bang for your buck.
Ryan Howell, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, found that buying experiences — such as vacations, going to the theater or renting a sailboat — gave people more happiness than buying material things. The study, of 154 people ages 19 to 50, showed that experiences increase happiness …Â More info
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