A lot of us want to be cool. and now that we’re getting older (some of us) and more sophisticated, buying hip and cool furniture helps aid us adults in the quest for coolness. Check out this new furniture from Vapor Studio, If you have one of these skate tables by your front door, you will no doubt 23% cooler than you were before.

Skurniture is a skateboard + furniture brand that has been around for a
few years now. It is the product of Vapor Studio, a full-service creative
firm representing industrial design, interiors, branding and new concepts.
Vapor is headed by Ricardo Camargo, a longtime action sports veteran and
creator of many a successful brand. Their premise is simple: the art of
skateboarding; meets furniture. The legs are reminiscent of the hairpin
legs created by famed designer George Nelson in the 1950’s. You can buy
Skurniture legs (and add your own deck to it) at UNIV shops and online at
Robust Flavor (www.robustflavor.com).

One of my favorite things about Trestles has always been the shit-talk surf-graffiti written in wax on the road down to Lowers. The first time I went to Trestles I was 13 and it felt like I was going on a big time surf trip. I love Trestles. The whole experience of walking down to the beach from the parking lot is like a meditation of sorts. Sometimes it literally takes me an hour to walk down to the road, simply because I have the need to stop and read every piece of radical surf graffiti (the comments that are spelled wrong are the best). So please, all you wax-taggers, keep writing these amazing social commentaries in surf wax, and please Save Trestles!

Happy Earth Day! Bob Burnquist is a bro. He invited a bunch of people to come check out his massive ramp playground (most of the ramps at his house will kill you if you touch them) and gave them free food and drinks—I told you he’s a bro. The massive vert ramp has a six foot mini ramp you can drop into and ease your way into the 12-foot real vert section, and the clamshell thing, so that’s cool and totally rippable for normal dudes like me. The metal full pipe is tight, fast, and kind of mind-bending, but shred-worthy all day. Those two massive objects might not kill you, but the corkscrew loop will, and if it doesn’t, the super-death-ski-jump-hell-ramp will turn you to a pile of Jello and make you shit your pants. I climbed to the top and was shaking, the thought of dropping in to this thing and launching off the ramp is one of the scariest things I’ve ever even thought of. In this photo, you can see tents next to the ramp,

they look like tents for ants! It honestly feels like you’re a 1000 feet in the air. on the edge of a cliff. Trust me, you wouldn’t jump this thing, you might as well go pick up trash to help Bob make the world a better place. One of the best things about going to Bob’s house was the ice cold Sambazon drinks that flowed all day, love that Acai. Also thanks to Tim at UNIV and iPath for inviting me, and for lacing me up with the new Fred Gall kicks, good ass skate shoes.

I came across this silly ass (literally) pencil sharpener on gizmodo.com (I think) and my immediate reaction was a giggle. At first I thought I really wanted one of these doggy-style-in-the-butt-pencil-sharpeners, but after that moment of retardation I realized I don’t even use pencils that much, and if I did, I would get a cool electric sharpener because I’m lazy and I like techy bullshit. Anyway, I forgot where I found this thing so I put “butthole pencil sharpener” in the google search widget thing and it directed me to a feminist website that pointed out how much of an asshole male I was.

The website said, “ … a stark reminder of how the world sees women? It seems the perfect woman is almost always dismembered and frequently being penetrated.”

So according to this feminist blog I was directed to, I want to put pencils up girls butt’s and chop their heads off, just because I thought this thing was funny? I hope my subconcious mind doesn’t have any weird thoughts like that, that would be really fucked up. i just think it’s a funny pencil sharpener. Great, now I’ve over analyzing it and i won’t even be able to sleep tonight—thanks a lot doggy style pencil sharpener.

It’s not as easy as it used to be to rule a party. I’ve tried nudity, I’ve tried being the drunkest guy there, I’ve tried to be the most sober and condescending, and I’ve even tried the whole sobbing in the corner deal. Sure, I’ve been the toast of the kegger a few times in my day, and yeah, I’ve been “that guy” on the beach more than a few times, but now that I’m getting older, puking, dancing naked, wearing an ealskin watch, and making out with a dude aren’t in my party arsenal anymore.

That’s why I think I need to invest in the best new form of transportation I’ve ever seen. The 14 M.P.H Cooler is a three-wheeled rideable party ruler that will take you from just another dipshit drunk to the coolest (yep, that is a pun) cat at the party. Can you imagine blasting down the beach on this thing waving to everybody, tossing ice-cold beers around like you were on a float in the Madres Gras parade? I can.

The positives are endless with this product (there’s even a cup holder on the front between where your knees go!). The only negatives are as follows: you can only carry 24 beers (that will last about an hour at my local beach), it only goes 15 miles, and it only supports up to 300 pounds (your chick or dude better be light if you want to ride doubles).

All in all, I think this product could change the world, and probably will. You can get it at www.hammacher.com for $500 bucks, so go get it and lets race!

As Editor In Chief of Transworld SURF magazine, I often allow myself the privilege of gallivanting across the globe on missions of content gathering, goodwill, and basic schmoozing with pro-bros in order to further advance the supremacy of Transworld SURF.

See, if you don’t get out there and put yourself in the mix, the bros and pros will forget about you and it will be harder to get them in the magazine and on transworldsurf.com. Either way, whenever I go on a surf trip or “schmooze” trip, I always bring my skateboard, cause you never know what fun park or random obstacle will be waiting for you wherever you go. Always bring your skateboard. Here’s some footage I shot at the new skate park that’s right across the street from a surf spot on the North Shore of Oahu called Rockpiles.

The park is concrete, has perfect transition, is smooth as butter, and has more fun lines than a night in Hollywood with Lindsay Lohan.

Here’s a video I shot holding my little Elph camera. This is what you’d see if you were a mediocre skater rolling around the new park on the North Shore.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this park an 8. If you ever go to the North Shore, I’d make a valiant effort to check this spot out, it rains a lot, so it’s tricky to time it right. Oh yeah, if it’s wet, you’ll slide out and bust your ass so don’t try to be a hero, you are not Marc Johnson.