Shiner is NHS' exclusive distributor in the UK. These dudes got it goin' on. Sr. Sales Mgr. Holly Anderson got a chance to go thru there during her UK tour. Chris Allen, is the owner/director of the company. Shiner's been around since 1936 when they started distributing building supplies in the UK. 40 years later, in 1976, Chris' dad, Michael, soon became the first major distributor to import skateboards into the UK. They still occupy the same building, but recently built a large warehouse facility. Today, Shiner is one of the major skateboard distributors in the world.
The man himself

Marc - General Manager

Shiner's Original Building Trucks from 1936

They even have a Shop Dog - Buster

Check out their insane deck selection

Here's Chris with his Father, Michael.

Shiner is so bad-ass that they have their own colab Creature Deck

Thanks to Chris and all the Gents for their hard work over the years. Cheers!
To see the rest of Holly's Photosclick here!

Instead of our normal trust exercises we do on "team building fridays" we had a bird feeder making competition..

Marty "left his at home" but quickly pieced together this beauty dubbed the "Bird Plaza"

He's totally the Dyrdeck of bird feeders..

I got nautical and was on a boat!


Jer Bear chose function and fashioned this lovely harley davidson co-branded feeder.


Judge Joel made a canoe and then disqualified himself like a true professional..


Judge Joel took the duties very seriously and weighed each feeder with precise precision!


.. and the winner is

Jer Bear!!

eat up loser!

Just kidding! Still friends!!

Get your hands on the LOST STASH of Independent Hogan's Pool ashtrays. Yup, that's right! We dug 600 of these puppies out of cyberspace and they've surfaced again.

Tweeted by REBEL8!


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Meet Justyce Tabor , a ripping up and comer in the Northwest scene. She is on Santa Cruz Rep Flow and is only 13 years old.


Keep killing it Justyce!

Whaaaa! Creature and Santa Cruz together as one!! get your click on and check out the tour site!

My good homie B-rad over in sales sent this over to me.
check it


Santa Cruz Skateboards Demo. from bradley oates on Vimeo.

Hey Brad I have some lift tickets left over for Northstar if you want to go this weekend.
holler!

Volcom stoners that is!



goodtimes guys!

Go pick it up this weekend..

Son get down from there!
On tonight at Skate @ 8.
till then here's a trick of Eman

Yup, that crazy mother f'er William Spencer from my homeland is at it again!

Friday, 4/10/2009

Strange Notes: Son, Get Down from There! - 8:00pm ET/PT in Skate @ 8

“Son, Get Down From There! Is” features professional and amateur skateboarders Nilton Neves, Al Partenen, Taylor Smith, Peabody, Silas Baxter-Neil, Euro Enduro II with the Santa Cruz team, and the Bust or Bail contest with Ryan Sheckler and Andrew Reynolds. Also appearing are Danny Way, Mark Appleyard, Lizard King, Louie Lopez, Emmanuel Guzman, Devin Appelo and many, many more! Shot on location around the world in places like Europe, Australia, and the USA. Son! Get down from there! Or, on second thought, ollie off of there!

if your in the Milwaukee area you should go to this!

Marty and I had an impromptu animated gif race yesterday.. While Lee was making power moves some photos were shot of our new couch. Marty and I then raced to make animations out of the pics. Marty won the "getting it done the fastest" award..


While I cleaned up in the "seizure inducing miami vice-esqe colorway" category..


Maybe there will be another animated gif competition next friday if Marty survives the eating contest he's in this afternoon.

Check out this guy... He is not only a Sales Slayer in the Pacific Northwest (PNW for you locs). Brice also operates a skateboard quite well. Especially when he is poolside. Check the steez
Epic Lien to Tail

Sick Stale

And a Frontside Rock that will blow your balls off...


Brice rips and loves to skate. If you're in the Tacoma area hit him up. He'll skate any day of the ever...

My buddy Tosh just got done with some new deck graphics.
Help me out by picking some of your favorites.
Check back on april 1st to see if your a winner...
Yes, its that easy!

I don't blame em...
Thanks Luke!

Here's a couple of slide shows from Widmann's art show to peep. The second has a few image's from another show too with art by Venjamin & Dan Moses.

Click Daily Updates? for larger versions.

Friday 3/6/09 8:00pm ET/5:00pm PT
Friday 3/6/09 11:00pm ET /8:00pm PT
Saturday 3/7/09 8:00am ET /5:00am PT
Tuesday 3/17/09 10:00pm ET /7:00pm PT
Friday 3/20/09 1:30am ET /10:30am PT

You should watch it over and over again!

Ladies and gentlemen, i bring you ROLLERMAN!



Wait, french daredevil??? Lee... is that you? and what's a skater boy?
i think they mean soldier boi.

So I was cruising Skatedailys sight when I ran into this crap.

Just got these puppies in!


New lightbrite series is off the chain.
The 8.0" will be my weapon of choice.

Gotta love those cops out there!
Cruise down to your local shop and get one today.
Be careful you don't get a ticket on the way!
Man, its been awhile since I've thrown a contest.
You know what?

Be the first person to send me their wackiest story of how they got a skate ticket and I'll send you anyone of these boards!
That's right, anyone.
not all of em, just one...
The juicier the better!
Good luck!


click my name in the bottom right hand corner to email me...

If your in the SB area, Santa Barbara go check out my homie's new video.
Its this Wednesday the 28th.
Starts at 10:15 pm so you'll have a lot of time to get there.
Its at the Metro 4 theater
1317 state street
Santa Barbara, ca

Havent seen it yet.
should be pretty good...
HAHA just kidden Hatch!
If you don't know who Erik is he made Shorty's fulfill the dream vid back in the day so you know its going to have some good stuff in there.

Oh, and lets not forget he is the master editor for Strangenotes...


Full parts from Pablo Favela and more.

Looks like he threw in the Santa Cruz's 35 year anniversary party last ASR and NHS's Go Skateboarding day road trip.

I know there's footy of Whaley and O-dog in that one...
Be sure to check it if your in the area.


Oh woops..... How'd that get in there......

All the head honchos and our all star cast of sales representatives went down to ASR
They left us behind to maintain the ship I guess.
Kinda bummed....
I had an appointment to hook up with the TM with these guys....

Next year I guess....
While your down there be on the look out for this guy....

Well that year flew by in a hurry..
Man, seems like everything happened so fast..
Here's some awesome shots of 2008 that I've compiled.
hope you enjoy em.
strubing - phatty to flatty Wilson wins this one obviously.
"Your good to go essay!"
Baby Lamb
Star Bar night cap
Screaming hAnderson
Olson Sighting
Trouble
Go skate day
Wilson's friends over at E..
the ricta/mob/SC/creature/oj/krux dude Imler before blast off....
Krux commercial
lou's new dew
nerd...
Gravette and Tommy Fynn
Jason Jessee stealing all the attention..
So psyching!
ron
Whaley
RIP
power house
Raven
PIE FIGHT
Jealous?
Omar
Tom n Eric
uh, hey cab. will you sign my Santa Cruz poster?
Novak and Jim Phillips

Happy new year guys and girls!
Be safe out there this year and go buy one of these this weekend

or these

possibly this?

Better yet go get these.