Don't forget to enter our monthly give-away on IndependentTrucks.com! This month we're giving away a set of Koston Stage 9 Lows, a Propaganda tee, and a Thrasher Skate Rock CD/DVD.

The 1st Active Am invite contest went down yesterday. David Loy won the thing. He just won Damn Am too so watch out for some serious youth marketing action featuring his classic Cali, almost Spicoli like mug in upcoming issues of everything with features on Fuel TV, EXPN, etc., etc. Nick Dompierre got second, and Tony Cervantes third. Marquis Preston won the best trick contest.

Yup, StrangeNotes.com has moved into the modern world and posted it's plethora of video material on iTunes poscasting. Click the image to open iTunes to the StrangeNotes Podcast directory.

The new StrangeNotes DVD NY to Shanghai is now shipping to a skate shop near you. This issue is pretty f#@%ing sick... Checkin' In with Independent's Chris Haslam while he travels all over Europe and Scandinavia, go On The Road with Krux in Shanghai and Ricta / Mob in New York, Movin' Up with Tommy Fynn, Adrian Mallory, Taylor Bingaman, and Robin Baker... I mean there's even Kareem Campbell footage... oh yeah, and Meyhem has Lucas Puig, Ricardo Fonseca, Flo Marfang... man, more too!

yeah, it's pink... I don't know the freakin' code to make the damn rollover... hey, it's how we do things at StrangeNotes... Sometimes shit's pink?!

Active is hosting their first ever invite only amateur contest this Sabbath, November 19th at The Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter. The contest includes 26 of the world's top amateur skateboarders competing for a winner takes all $5000 cash prize. There will also be a best trick contest for $2500 which pretty much makes this a pro contest... but with amateurs. Click below for more info>

Independent Team Riders invited include Keegan Sauder, Angel Ramirez, Ryan Bobier, Chris Troy, and Marius Syvanen.

Since I haven't posted anything in a while and don't really have any skateboard related news, I thought I'd share my stoke on The Damned with this video of their performance of Neat Neat Neat in 1977 on UK pop show Supersonic.

Enjoy!

If you're an adult that lives in California, please help support skateboarding by signing this petition to Repeal California SB 994 - Skatepark Helmet and Pad Law.

So here's the slideshow from our So Psyching van tour to Damn Am Costa Mesa. Jordan from Santa Cruz Skateshop was our official trip photog since my camera was broken. Some s#it is out of order and there's not really a conclusion but what the hell... Check back soon for the Strange Notes "@" Damn Am video article or if you want official coverage of the event go to DamnAm.com where you'll find results, heat sheets, photos & sequences, and video coverage of the event and night life by SPoT Productions.

We took off from Santa Cruz on Wednesday afternoon for Santa Barbara. In the SC Skateshop van we had myself, Jordan, Matty Contreres, David Gravette, Taylor Bingaman, Josh Mattson, Brandon Morris, and Daniel Rivera who was comin' in hot by landing a switch front flip 5-0 at the Hubba Hideout a few days before. We hit SB kinda late and as all the kids (and Matty) grabbed blankets and pillows to sleep on Carlos from Church of Skatan's floor we headed out to have a couple of drinks with Brandon, Tony, and Krishna. The slideshow basically starts from there... when we got home to Carlos'.

It ends with something like this>
click the image above to view the gallery.

Enjoy!

Independent Truck Company and VitalSkate.com have teamed up to bring you a little video contest for the week. So get out your video cameras, phones, or whatever you have that captures video and upload it to your VitalSkate page. Not a member yet? Don't know what the hell VitalSkate is? Sign up here.



You've got until Sunday(11-12-06) to have it uploaded.

Get creative, get tech, have fun with it. Here's what you need to do to get started...

1-LOGIN to your account. If you don't have one, JOIN NOW (It's free and takes about 5 seconds).

2-UPLOAD a video of yourself killing a ledge spot. This can be done from the VIDEO HOMEPAGE. You may upload as many tricks as you want, but we're gonna make the single best one the winner. Now get crackin!

...now what you gonna do?! Greg Lutzka interview & photos at VitalSkate.com by Shad Lambert.

If you're in the LA area this weekend you should go check out RIDE THIS, Choppers & Art by Yanis Evan, Jason Jessee, and Steve Olson. Click on the flyer to enlarge>



Nice silver dildo Olson... The show is 9 pm to Midnight on Saturday, November 11th at Powerplant Motocycles, 7416 Melrose Ave., LA 90046.

With talks of charging for MySpace, infiltration of porn, and many mixed views on the joys and displeasures of the viral site that boomed out of nowhere a few years ago, it's only inevitable that people are going to start boycotting the site within skateboarding.

The first is Hubba Wheels, the SF based wheel company who fully embraced MySpace by promoting their URL on their ads and in all their marketing materials, was kicked off for their somewhat controversial ads and images on their profile. Gee, who woulda thunk?!