Krans is on the move — homeless, jobless, Jack Kerouac-ing it across the country; in a way, he is a portrait of America (perhaps the world). Although we expect he’s not as up-to-his-eyeballs in debt as most of the sorry sons o’ bitches out there that helped get us into this whole thing anyway, hence the confidence to just transplant as he plans to do. But that’s all besides the point, because this week there was some legitimately cool stuff going around the blade-net, and Krans distills it for you here like a batch of near-lethal jailhouse toilet wine. We don’t know how he found the time to do it, but he did. — ONE

Create Originals

When the guys at Create Originals — the company that makes the create-your-own-graphics frames — released their fashion catalog this week I was immediately confused.

Considering the whole point of the frames are to customize your graphics as you see fit, I thought they were going to send me a white T-shirt and a sharpie or maybe a T-shirt with a plastic sleeve on front so I could slip in random pages of porn.

Really, it’s all I wanted. One day it’s some random big-boobed blonde and the next it’s a chick going up on a giraffe. All fun stuff.

Alas, CO went against the curve they created and created their own shirts. Damn it.

Sign me up for one of those OG shirts.

I’ll Take Mine with ‘Mayo

I always thought Franco Cammayo skated like a beast, but this photo posted on Be-Mag only proves it even more.

His eyes burning up the pavement and his man-mane flying behind him as he gaps from the back farv to the street reminds me of some killer shit Blanka from Street Fighter would pull.

Kill ‘em all, Franco. Kill ‘em all.

The guys at SHOCK picked his brain for a while this week, too.

Is This Heaven…

For the last five years, Iowa was my home until a few hours ago. For a lot of skaters across the Midwest, despite their geographic bounds, www.iowa-connection.com is their virtual blading home.

The site — founded by ONE contributing photographer and copy editor Adam Morris keeps skaters in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and further up-to-date on comps, sessions, skaters traveling through and everything else.

The latest state-wide video project was a web-only exclusive called “Dusted Faces” — which is the literal definition of the state’s name.

If Iowa is known for anything, it’s about being busy, especially on the interweb.

Whether it’s cranking out support edits for Nimh or documenting their bladecations, everyone who rides in Iowa is always doing something.

Hell, even bladers on house arrest in Illinois get some love. Check it out:

I’m moving to California because -29 degree temperatures in the winter fucking sucks.

Ubiquitous Item of the Week

Revolution’s edit of Jeremy Spira was everywhere.

It’s a new series of 90-second edits, chock-full-‘o high quality production and skating. Jon Jenkins cut and shot the edit with multiple angles, some crane/dolly action and a crapload of trick vocabulary.

Pay no attention to the Vimeo clock, only the one in the corner of the edit. They don’t cut into the 90-second theme with the intro or credits. That’s all free.

Revolution’s first 90-second edit came out about three months back starring Mr. Joey Chase griding over a moat of murk and shit.

Comment of the Week

John Haynes kills it with a camera, but in this exchange with Jeph Howard on FaceBook, he kills it with the words: “did you read the new brazillionaire interview? it should get you pumped to sand paper your nipples off”

And Now, There’s This Guy

Dirk Auer holds the world speed record on blades at 190 mph when skitching a Porsche. To top it, he rolled a rollercoaster called The Mammoth in Stuttgart, Germany. His top speed was 56 mph.

For style points, he’s even grabbing his feet… technically.

— Brian Krans