It's Not About Pretty

Photos: Cindy Whitehead / originally published in Concrete Wave Magazine Sometimes all it takes to make a perfect Sunday morning is skating through the deserted streets of downtown Los Angeles & shooting iphone shots of one of your best friends. Laura Thornhill making LA her own. Much love + respect for this girl. We are both headed to the Smithsonian Museum and Innoskate tomorrow and all I can say is watch out DC, because here we come!  

 Photos courtesy of Longboarding for Peace People talk about making a difference but it’s the rare person who actually does something about it. Michael Brooke, publisher of the skateboarding magazine, Concrete Wave   headed off to Israel to do something I find pretty damn  cool. He hooked up with Surfing 4 Peace and the Peres Center for Peace to bring 30 longboards into a war torn country, do skate demos, and encourage Arab and Israel kids to skate together. One rad way to go about promoting World Peace if you ask me. And btw – it looks like girls all over the world dig skateboarding – I’m loving these shots of the girls riding for the first time!   To find out more about Longboarding for Peace click Here