One of my favorite people on the planet, Paul Zitzer, is featured in today’s mini Top 5 over at the Crailtap site.  FUNNY CUZ TRU.

From the looks of this new trailer for the upcoming Void Skateshop video, they’ve taken things to a whole different level.  See you at the premiere?  Only if you ain’t no sucka. 

Jay Masonek has been a homey of mine for a few years now and he just wrote to let me know that he’s finally finished with the video he’s been working on for 5 or so years.  With a visual aesthetic that comes from Jay’s mind-bending approach to life, Shred the Gnar is a great cross between the artful direction of the Habitat/Alien videos and the lo-fi, low budget experience of a Krooked production.  Plus, Mike Rusczyk and Tony Manfre have footage in it…what more could you ask for?  Support independent filmmakers and underground skateboarding and buy a copy.  That way, you can sleep a little easier next time you intersteal the new Transworld video. 

West Virginia-based skateboarder Blair Burns does a blog where he documents the skateboarding scene in his state.  According to this video, he and his friends recently headed to more Midwesterly landscapes and took an impromptu roadtrip to some outdoor skatepark in the Bluegrass State.  Sleeping in the Dry Ridge bowl?  Just crazy enough to be inspirational.

If yesterday’s sequence of Reid Small wasn’t enough for you, Ballard’s put together a short clip of a couple more tricks from yesterday too.  Reid can skate a mini-ramp.

Former interviewee Dane Warner and his boy Danny Morton came together in Philly and got rad enough to earn Thrasher’s Stoke of the Day at some point.  Good on ya fellas!

It’s a sad day when another DIY project gets the axe from the city in which it resides.  The most recent renegade park to go down is the famed “Al Town” in Memphis, Tennessee.  There’s a good story about it here.  The bright side is that when one DIY dies, another DIY can be born.

Dave Ackels is back on the Absorb train again.  He just released number 16 of the series entitled “What Bad Is Gonna Happen?”  Another gem of a video from Southwestern Ohio.

The Void Skateshop in Lexington, KY will be wrapping up filming for their upcoming video “2010: A Void Odyssey” in the coming months.  Meanwhile, they’ve released a short but chilling teaser for the project.  See you at the premiere on September 2.

Home Skateshop and theProgram’s first-ever interviewee Chaney Given have an entry in the Green Label Art design contest that needs your vote.  Chaney combined a lot of the best Home Skateshop logos into a really sick conceptual idea that I think best fits the spirit of the contest.  Go vote now so that we can all be drinking Mountain Dew from Home Skateshop cans!