Penny Boards

                                         Penny Boards 

Personally i think that penny boards are really awesome. A lot of skaters these day think that they are retarded because the way they look or how small they are, well what they probably don't know is that they are a remake of boards that people used to ride all the time in the 70's before modern skate boards were created. basically a penny board is a skateboard that looks like a long board and has long board wheels but is only 22" long and 6" wide.

The History of skateboarding

Skate boarding was originally created in the 1940 by some surfers that still wanted to shred even when the waves were flat. It wasn't called skateboarding until the 1960's when the popularity of skateboarding spawned a national magazine called Skateboarder Magazine. The first manufactured skateboards were ordered by a skate shop in los Angeles , CA. In the 1970 's Frank Nasworthy made a wheel out of  polyurethane witch is the same material we use today. Also in the 70's the Z-Boys invented vert skating.

We Are Legion - The Story of the Hacktivists

                  We Are Legion - The Story of the Hacktivists

This is an insanely good documentary all about how the hacker group anonymous  was created and how much of a difference they made in protest and all around the world. This talks all bout the cause that they were hacking for and a bit of how they did it. There first real target was a Neo-Nazi with a radio talk show. They were so disgusted of him they destroyed his media life by taking down his radio show and his websites. when hacking into his personal e-mail they found out he was reporting to the government. In recent news one of anonymous' old workers was kidnapped by the Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel. when anonymous herd about this they scanned though 25,000 e-mails stolen from the Mexican government and threatened to release 75 names of Zeta accomplices if they did not release the kidnapped man. The names were never released though because the Zetas said they would kill 10 civilians for each name exposed. I really recommend watching this if you are into protesting and the freedom of speech.

Original

                              Longboards by Original 

Original is a company that makes longboards but im not going to be focusing on that very much. what i am going to be focusing on is the videos they put on youtube. personally i think these video that they are putting up are insanely awesome so i would like to share a couple with you 

i hope you enjoy these as much as i do.

Building a long board

                           Building a long board 

I am going to be building a long board fallowing some simple instructions I found online. I have been wanting a long board for a long time now but they are usually really expansive. So since we already have all the necessary tools just laying around in the garage i thought this would be cheaper. And it looks like it will be around $100 cheaper. After i start i will do probably 2 more post about it and how far i have gotten with it but it should only take a week at most. You can find the instructions that i will be using HERE.