Just in case. If we ever say something stupid, please note that said stupidity is ours, and ours alone. Our stupidity! You can’t have it!
//Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:40 AM
Our Deepest Condolences...
The crew at The Big Balls Daily would like to express our deepest condelences to the family and friends of Ms Lo, who had been an unfortunate casualty of the Mumbai terror attacks.
Check this boy out, hes only 17 but he is pretty good. Probably, an african american version of Ryan Sheckler. Jacob skates for Team Ice Cream, yes, Pharrell's skate crew, but rumour has it that he left the team recently. Hes probably too good to be there anyway. ..
.. and check his shoes out, they are way more colourful than my granny's undies. posted by John T at
3:57 AM
//Friday, November 28, 2008 12:09 AM
Skateboard P dropping it like it's hot...
Pharrell Williams a.k.a Skateboard P, the frontman of N*E*R*D was filmed skating in a local skatepark recently. Although, Skateboard P did not display his array of technical tricks i.e. 360 flip to crooks, nollie 360 flip out, the local kids were probably impressed enough that the hip hop star was actually taking the time off to relive his childhood and not making sick beats in his multi-million dollar studio.
As many of you should have known, the 2 luxury streetwear brands Billionaire Boys Club (BBC) and Ice Cream are the creation of Skateboard P and Nigo of Bathing Ape. But i bet very few actually knew that Skatboard P has his own skate team. Thus, without further ado, heres Pharrell and his crew...
After a phenomenal time with Thursday a few years ago in London, I didn't believe any band could do better. I hoped, of course, that Finch would put up a good show. In a way, they did. There was lots of screaming, lots of rolling around on the floor, lots of random spitting on the floor. In the crowd, people were surfing, fighting, humping, and generally going crazy. I was right in front and I loved it. But unlike the Thursday gig, Finch didn't really make me feel like crying.
The best thing that came from this Finch gig was the opening act. I've followed Shadows Chasing Ghosts for a while now (on Last.fm), and they proved that they could deliver on the stage. They were loud, they were all over the fucking place, and they had so much presence it was incredible. There was no doubt, for me at least, that SCG was the best band on the night. Check out the pics.
The calm before the storm.
Ever wonder what an all-access pass looks like? Here's the lowdown.
SCG - Told you I was in the front row. I could taste his sweat and spit.
This is the first of many articles I intend to do about my shoes. I love shoes, and I love buying shoes. My mom calls me Imelda Marcos. This week, I'm showing my iPath Grasshopper, made in the USA from the best hemp there is. These cost me about 300SGD, and are superbly made and terribly sexy. I would rank these as one my best buys. Rating: 8/10
Growing at the speed of an Angsana tree and with the agility of an aging fox, this blog has reached it's 140th post. While the slow persistent growth is intentional the stupidity is not. This blog was initially created to discuss and critique (if you will) the local skate scene, but throughout its pus-filled life you may have noticed posts with no relation to skateboarding.
Overall, I am glad at the turn out at this stage, we have strived hard from the beginning not to succumb to stereotypical "Daily Life" blogs. And have been marginally successful in maintaining that order except for the time i got too excited before my Hong Kong trip. The growing visitor counter too, is growing like an infested wound teeming with maggots and pus attesting to our brand of stupidity for which we would like to thank all our visitors and re-visitors for contributing to.
So from the team at "The Big Balls Daily" we thank all our readers from the bottom of our vile tumorous hearts for your contributions and comments. Take solace in the fact that we will continue to be stupid because that's all we really know. We're just as God made us, missed a step in evolution and not the brightest bulb on the tanning bed and as interesting as a wooden clothes pin.
Yes you guys must have seen these, those cutesy pages on the www pretending to be interesting and struggling to connect at an intellectual level. "Daily Life" blogs, the types that go:
"Today i had trouble sleeping so i called baby at 3am hahahaha,
Talked for an hour then i felt sleepy already, thank you baby!!"
or those that go
"Accompanied xxx to orchard today, so sian,
so many nice things but no money to buy.
Then we went to eat at KFC,
the crispy chicken so nice lah i absolutely love, love, love =).
I can eat KFC for 1 week straight man hahahaha,
xxx said my dress was cute, but i dont think so leh
next we went to xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Honestly, nobody gives a shit what you did today, you may have invented a new drug to cure cancer or discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter but nobody stays awake to finish reading your posts. Maybe that's why these posts are usually not more than 4 paragraphs long.
It would be understandable if the blogger was below the age of 15 but once over and beyond, I'm sorry you've hit rock bottom on the intellectual scale and still digging. For bloggers below the age of 15, more power to you, but you should be outside skateboarding and wreaking havoc on the world before you lose your "Minors" status.
The reason for this vengeful post is because i recently came across this 7 year old blogger who has a blog dedicated to the American Elections Campaign. What . The . Fuck?! The dude is 7 years old and already knows more about politics than me and john combined. He openly showed his support for Obama while i was rooting for P Rod during the X Games.
Isn't it odd that when you start reminiscing about the past, you slowly develop a strong urge to revert to that phase of your life?
It's like everything was better back then, when things didn't seem as complicated as they pretended and good times meant spending less, when injuries entitles bragging rights and everything was about who could pull off the sickest tricks.
I've had the time recently to go through my old stack of skate videos after my exams. And it felt like i was missing a huge part of myself. Skating was the best form of expression i had for a long time and it felt like the only thing i was really good at.
Recently, i met up with a few old time skate buddies and the more we talked about the scene the more i was determined to start skating again. Even though a part of me knew that it would not be as good as the past an invincible urge to dust off my deck has already sufficed.
Tony Hawk is a skateboarder. He is cool. He sells vitamins. I want to buy Tony Hawk's brand of vitamins because they make me cool and they make Tony Hawk cool and Tony Hawk has our best interests at heart. Tony Hawk tells me I need vitamin B12 and Niacin to skate like him. I love Tony Hawk. He is concerned about my health and is concerned about any vitamin deficiencies I might have. Tony Hawk is my friend and I love Tony Hawk and I love Tony Hawk's gummy vitamins. They are cool and they are good for health.
Since we're in the topic of cars and such these few posts, i'd like to dedicate one to all drivers out there.
There is no more courteous drivers, they are all dead and extinct much like Celine Dion's singing career. The roads in Singapore now is a cacophony of vulgarities and incessant honking. Taxi drivers are out to kill everyone else that shares their road and bus drivers have to resort to bullying to force their way into your lane.
I have noticed that every trip i make these days entitles me to 3 honks, 5 if i'm particularly stoned. I do not picture myself as a particularly bad driver, i don't floss my teeth at red lights and i dun swerve into the lanes of others. But it just seems that the slightest mistake you make will get you honked at.
This afternoon, i drove out for lunch and the most irritating thing happened. I was the first car at the red light and a taxi pulled up behind me. Taxi drivers, as you guys already know, are the most unforgiving bastards on the road now they make their living on the road and everyone else on the road is competition. This means when you agree to pick your mom up at her place, you already have a death warrant on your head, and every taxi you meet on the road is out for blood. But they do so subtly by swerving into your lane making you run into that big tree at the side of the road or they stop suddenly in front of you making you swerve into that same tree.
So anyway, i was minding my own business at the red light waiting for it to change before driving off, when one nano-second after the lights turned green i got honked at!!!
What the Fuck! The lights barely just turned green, i didn't even have the time to react before getting honked at. This guy must have been on the roads so much that he has developed a telepathic link with the traffic lights, cos that's the only way he could have honked so quick.
What's the point of honking anyways? Will the 1 second delay in moving off greatly impact their lives? This is not even the first time this has happened, i have already made a mental note to start moving off once the perpendicular lights turn red if i see a taxi pulling up behind me. I don't even care if that triggers the red light camera cos the cops would probably understand the circumstances.
Play nice guys, treat others like how you would like to be treated. Let's not behave like we're driving a taxi.
A company has just launched a skateboard called the "Port-A-Board". According to the company, this Port-A-Board can be assembled and disassembled in seconds, without the use of tools. Good or bad? We don’t know. But, as usual, we have lots of pictures for you. Check out the kid below with his flowing locks.
Check out videos and other random stuff at www.portableskateboards.com.
This time, it's Mitsubishi. This terror from the deep has 8 wheels on each corner of the vehicle, which makes 32 in total. The omnidirectional design means sharp corners and parallel parking will never be a problem again. Hands up if you think this is better than the Evo.
I was just alerted to news that a new skatepark will be opened at the East Coast Park as early as the first quarter of 2009. This news may have been delayed as most of us has been out of touch with the skate scene for some time now. But this new park will mean that Kurt and Me will have a park in our backyard (Like 3km away haha).
The actual location is within the neighborhood of the East Coast Hawker Centre and Bedok Jetty. It will be a concrete park with an estimated cost of $6 million and is slated for opening early 2009.
An excerpt from the National Parks Website says:
"The new Skatepark will feature a Plaza Section[1], a Park Section[2], and a Bowl area[3], and the three sections will merge seamlessly to form a larger course that would enable our extreme skateboarders, inline skaters and BMX bikers to hone their skills and practise their routines for recreation and competition.The course is about 3,000m2 in area, the size of 2? Olympic-sized swimming pools, and both beginners and professionals will be able to enjoy the Skatepark and find features that suit their skill levels"
"To create a top class facility that will draw both local enthusiasts and international professional athletes, CONVIC Design, a professional skatepark design firm, has been chosen. The Australian firm specialises in designing concrete skateparks, and their portfolio includes Australia?s three largest parks and the world?s largest skatepark in Shanghai, completed in 2005."
"Mr Eddie Goh, owner of Go Sports and local extreme sports guru is pleased with the development: ?Finally, we are going to have a Skatepark that has been designed extensively with the input and interests of the extreme sports community in mind.I hope this will help to take the sport to a new level in Singapore.?"
An official media release from the MCYS is availablehere.
Here's another whopper for our keen readers. Probably even sexier than the Honda, this is the Mazda Kaan, a car that renders testosterone a relic from the distant past.
In our opinion, the madly desirable Kaan deserves induction into the Balls Of Fame.
We found this sexy prototype from Honda and couldn't resist putting some pictures up.
We think this beats the batsmobile hands-down. The Dark Knight would have fared better with this beast at his disposal. We also think this Honda beats Megatron, but maybe not Optimus Prime, and definitely not Starscream.
Paul Rodriguez won the street segment at the Action Sports Championship.
He outclassed seven other skaters in a 10-minute jam session that was contested on, and around a 12-step staircase with a six-foot drop.
Rodriguez scored a 95.75 in the finals. Greg Lutzka finished second (89.25) and Rodolfo Ramos (89.00) finished third.
Earlier this year, P-Rod took first at the Maloof Money Cup and grabbed a silver at the X Games.
IN THE VERT EVENT:
Pierre-Luc Gagnon has taken yet another vert title - this time at the Action Sports Championship. He beat Danny Mayer and Sandro Dias with a 94.50 on his final drop onto the ramp.
That's another $30,000 in his bank account.
Gagnon has already won the Maloof Money Cup, the richest event in skateboarding, the X Games gold medal and the Dew Tour championship.
Our home was invaded by a bunch of random trick-or-treaters the night before last. I share a house with about 12 other people, and some idiot from the house accidentally buzzed in a gang of rowdy costumed tarts who then proceeded to destroy everything in the stairwell and corridors. I'm just glad they didn't manage to get into my room. Damn this liberal climate!
posted by Kurt Kinky at
4:46 AM
