Shoot Yourself With Dustin Dollin

There have been multiple sightings of our favorite pile, Dustin Dollin, on the streets on West Coast and the East Coast. He's been all over LA and was spotted on the boardwalk in Venice Beach, on Melrose down the block from Brooklyn Projects, and around the corner from Hollywood High. Up north, Dustin was spotted by the Berkeley Park, down the block from Huf, and, not suprisingly, in the Mission. Then we started getting calls from New York, where Dustin was seen laid out up the block from Supreme, lounging by the TF, and barely able to crawl into The Fish. We just got a call from Amy at KC/DC that Dustin's passed out by the train station in Williamsburg. We're really psyched to have Dustin in the US, but we need some evidence that he was here this summer! If you're game, track down Dustin, shoot a photo of you and Dustin and send it into shootyourselfwithdustin@gmail.com and save your full name as the file name of your photo. Each Monday in July the photo's will go into the Shoot Yourself...with Dollin Gallery. At the end of the month, the most hilarious photo will win a year supply of Dustin's new shoe, the No Skool Tre, a digital camera, and Dustin's I-Pod. The 2nd Runner Up will win 2 pairs of the No Skool Tre, a disposable camera, and a walkman. The 3rd runner up will win a pair of the No Skool Tre, a sketchbook, and some airplane headphones.
Good Luck and get snappin'!

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CHIMA'S A FRICKIN WINNER

They're aint nothing sloppy about the way Chima Ferguson goes about business, that's for sheezy. The 20-year-old dusted over 30 of his talented mates to win the first ever Billabong City Squared captured by Handycam in Sydney.



Sony and Billabong teamed up to build a sweaty looking stair set with a kink rail, bang in the middle of World Square, inner city Sydney. The invites were dished out to the best of the best and they all showed, throwing down some massive hammers for the 5000 or so humans that passed through the packed shopping precinct.


The final was 20-minutes of goodness starting with an effortlessly nailed varial heel delivered by eventual winner Mr. Ferguson. It only got better from there with Shane Azar putting his hand up with a gap to reverse nose grind, Blake Harris holding his own with a gap to frontside feeble followed by a gap to backside over crooks and Sam Giles weighing in with a kickflip frontside 5-0.


Only problem was, Chima was just warming the wheels with his first trick and cemented his rep as one of the most talented street skaters in Oz by rolling out a monster backside 3 down the set, a nollie 3 shouvit and wrapping a tasty frontside big spin boardslide on the kinked rail to finish up. The win was his, no doubt about it.


When the young Blake Harris tweaked his ankle mid way through the final it was kinda down to Giles to put the challenge to Chima and that he did, stomping the trick of the contest on his last run. After trying it four times straight, the kid from the Gong nailed a giant kickflip front lip and just about bought the square down, people were throwing cans off the roof they were so hyped.

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Go Skateboarding Day 2009 Recap Vans Skateparks

It was here and slipped away from us so fast. Good thing we can all hop on our boards any day of the year & celebrate our own Go Skateboarding Day when we want. Both skateparks in Orange, CA and Orlando, FL threw down on Go Skateboarding Day June 21st. With free skating, product tosses all day, a $200 Vans gift card High Ollie contest, and even a Van Doren BBQ at The Block...everyone had a great day. Winner's of the high ollie contest were Josh Knight in Orlando with a 30 inch ollie, and Dominique Sanders at The Block with a 33 inch ollie. Check the pictures.

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CCS Grand Opening In Santa Monica, CA

Join AVE and Rowley tomorrow on 3rd street in Santa Monica for the CCS Grand Opening. We'll be bbq'n and givin away tons of free stuff so make it out if ya can!

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Black Label "God Save the Label" Premiere @ Vans Skateparks

Don't miss it! Both Vans Skateparks in Orange, CA and Orlando, FL will be holding a world premiere of the new Black Label Video "God Save The Label" on Saturday, June 27th at 7pm (local time). The premieres will be free and open to everyone. Giveaways from Black Label & Vans after the premiere while supplies last. Check out www.blacklabelskates.com for more info on the vid.

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Vans Skateparks Bucky Camp Recap

Over the last two weeks both Vans Skateparks in Orange, CA and Orlando, FL offered a special two-day skatecamp with Bucky Lasek and some of his friends. At The Block Bucky, Lincoln Ueda, Neal Hendrix, Darin "Cookiehead" Jenkins, Josh Borden and Sean Mazza taught kids the ins and outs of the combi bowl. Over in Orlando, Bucky picked up Florida local Mike Frazier to help out with instruction. The skaters that got lucky enough to get their spot in camp had a great time and walked home with a bunch of free gear from Vans, Pro-Tec, Billabong, Element and some useful tips from the pros. Watch out for next year's camp registration announcement because spots fill up fast.

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Flip Tour Video Premiere is tonight!

If you're around tonight come to a little bar full of big tricks.

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Patrick Ryan

Check out Patrick Ryan's Channel Street footage over on the element site.

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Jon Goemann Interview On Slap!

Vans team rider Jon Goemann has Interview over at Slap Magazine! Make sure to listen to the audio interviews with Ernie Torres, Slash, Dylan Reider, Jamie Thomas and filmer Matt Winterberg as they tell some great stories about Jon. Jon will also be featured in Slave's soon to be released video "Radio-Television".

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AVE Wins Best Video Part

CONRATULATIONS to AVE and all the dudes at Alien Workshop on a clean sweep at the Transworld Awards. Check Transworld for photos and videos from the event, but more importantly, watch Mindfield!

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Pickles Dollin?

Congrats to Dustin on the newest member of the Dollin clan, Pickles.

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