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.

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.

Don’t let all the media hype and corpo-garbage fool you, every day is Go Skateboarding Day.  So, in honor of that very fact, here’s an abbreviated list of some of the things that make me want to go skate every time I see them.

 Mike Carroll - Modus Operandi

 John Cardiel - Sight Unseen

Anthony Pappalardo - Mosaic

Ricky Oyola - Eastern Exposure 3

Dennis Busenitz - Diagonal

Peter Hewitt - Cash Money Vagrant

 Dan Drehobl - Damage

Mark Gonzales:

Sam Ashley’s photos:

Brian Gaberman photos:

Matt Ballard just updated his Times We Try blog with a pretty badass little edit featuring Cole Wilson at the Roland Skatepark in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  This is the closest thing we have to offering you a video update at the moment.

It’s been a good week for Louisville popping up in footage.  Chet Childress has a Last Call interview with some bonus footage that’s got a lot of park ripping in it.  Kris Markovich was probably one of the last dudes to get footage at the Breslin ramp.