The Master Blog — August 2008 Archive

WIN A NEW WARDROBE OF FREE TEE SHIRTS!

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Yes, this contest is easy. Send in via post or email the oldest printed occurance you can find of this symbol (above), for the use of crediting a photographer.

All entries should include the Magazine or book in which they were pulled from, issue number, year and page number. The earliest submission will win a box of 10 tee shirts from brands supporting and/or advertising in Color Magazine.

This Contest runs until September 30th, at which time we will announce the winner and they will be sent their new wordrobe of tee shirts.

SEND TO: contest (at) colormagazine.ca

or

CONTEST c/o Color Magazine

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Vancouver, BC V6A 1A4

And leave your comments for discussion of this mysterious contraption of brackets and 'o's.

I am jacking Jennifer's column! Which staff member is responsible for this quote?

"This fucker's way more fun than Dylan."

Email me the correct answer and win some cool prize courtesy of Habitat skateboards. Dylan, if your out there you are invited to participate as well.

Yesterday we announced that the Vancouver team is going to be made up of filmer French Fred Mortagne, skaters Rick McCrank, Keegan Sauder, Bradley Sheppard and photographer Dylan Doubt.

Here's a look at your Surrey team. Filmer Ben Stoddard, skaters Magnus Hanson, Ryan Decenzo, Paul Machnau and photographer Brian Caissie.

DC Shoes has a newly redesigned website! There is alot of new stuff going on there so it's just best if you check it out yourself!

In Montreal at South Parc, Jean-Sébastien Lapierre of Notre Dame QC showed the rest how it's done and took the $8000. The largest prize money ever handed out at a Canadian amateur skate contest. To make the finals in Montreal, skaters had to go through a rigorous qualifying process at one of seven Regional Qualifiers across Canada.

“This contest series showed a refreshing look at how diverse Canadian skateboarders really are.” says Trevn Sharp, DC Canada Skate Team Manager.

DC Nationals is Canada’s only nationwide skateboarding contest. It also boasts the largest contest cash purse for Canadian amateur skateboarders at $20,000.Start training for next year!

Here is a sweet photo of the winner ripping a smith grind. Photo courtesy of Eric Tremblay

Look at the size of that cheque! And I don't mean the physical size! Photo: Eric Tremblay

underworld shop vancouver

presented by DVS and MATIX is having a party tonight for the ladies, yay. just in time for gossip girl on monday.

drinks, snacks, date raffle of like 30 dudes, music and gifts gallore.

8:30-10:30ish

860 granville street 604 899 8949

Happy Belated birthday to Exposé Magazine out in Montreal. We're the same age so obviously we're friends...

Underworld has always been doing an amazing job supporting and pushing skateboarding across Canada. Bring It To The Streets 2008 is no exception. Check the video for proof.

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Underworld consistently does and amazing job supporting and pushing skateboarding across Canada. This years Bring It To the Streets was no exeption. Packing 30 skaters into bus and hitting the streets, you know good stuff was bound to go down. Check the video for proof.

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here is a story that he shot with me this month.