Keep On Rolling With Sibling Skateboards
Can you make a career out of skateboarding? Why, yes you can! Meet Fuad and Munir, the guys behind local deck makers Sibling Skateboards. Yes, KL has it’s own skateboard brand, founded and run by real skateboarders. Less you think they’re all talk, co-founder Fuad has represented Malaysia in the Asian X Games and is [...]
Modern skate park by Bang Architects
While many cities in the United States are choosing to cut funding to after-school activities and public recreation centers, more progressive and civilized countries such as France are hiring cutting-edge firms such as Bang Architects to designstate-of-the-art and beautiful skate parks for their kids. There are more photos! Look HERE.
“Wheel Love” Skateshop in Malaysia, Interview with founder
Wheel Love has grown to become on of the Kuala Lumpur’s most famous skate shops. Wheel Love Skateshop stocks blades, boards, bikes and random goodness at: 28 Jln SS15/4, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia and can be reached at www.WL33.com. Check out their online shop is atwww.SHOP.WL33.com KLUE Malaysia sat down with Wheel Love’s founder Chee [...]
Dads Are The Original Hipsters
What’s up haters! According to popular belief, history repeats itself. DADS ARE THE ORIGINAL HIPSTERS just basically rubs it in our faces that everything has been done before, originality is dead, and ultimately, as much as we try to deny it, we do take after our folks. This is a blog (and I have an [...]
“Ride on With Grafa” Interview with founder Irman Hilmi of KL
Irman Hilmi is a familiar name in the cooler side of things in Kuala Lumpur. Besides being known as a talented art director at both Freeform and advertising agency Dentsu, he has also been active in the music scene from being a part of Space Bar, Damage Digital, KLHPQ and recently started his own regular [...]
Hire A Professional Dumper To End Your Relationship
Marketing executive Jonathan Kiekbush has a pretty interesting night job: he breaks up people’s relationships. That’s right, for a small set fee (£5 plus expenses), he’s a professional dumper. Trivial fact: most of his clients are men. Not surprisingly, as our friends at Oddity Central have noted, he’s single himself. Check out the SOURCE!
Capsula Mundi: an eco-friendly way to be buried
If you have romantically fantasized about being buried under a tree (people fantasize about that too, right?), italian project Capsula Mundi will push it up a notch. Picture it: an egg shaped container in which your dead body is put in a fetal position. Capsula Mundi is planted like a seed in the soil, and a [...]
Zboard Electric Skateboard
Seventeen miles an hour on a skateboard is fast. Enough to induce snapped bones and exploded front teeth but as long as you’re not trying to get too rad, the Z-Board Pro is an awesome, pain-free vehicle for moving through the city streets. Be careful, drink no more than a few beers & on a [...]
Thrasher: King of the Road Episode 13 featuring Lakai (End of the Line)
With the Thrasher: King of the Road tour wrapping up in Los Angeles, episode 13 sees Lakai take home the trophy over the Vans, Nike SB and Dekline teams. This latest video sees everything from the skating of the Scientology Center to the high jump competition and remnants of the pee bottle challenge. Check out the [...]
Titanzinho Surf
Titanzinho is a small favela located in Fortaleza, northe Brazil. It’s one of these places left out of this huge country, far from the economy dream of the whole nation.Over there, you find the forgotten people of Brazil, the ones that no one wants to see. They are in the periphery, out of sight. They [...]
NEIGHBORHOOD Ashes Ashtray
NEIGHBORHOOD’s impressive accessories program has yielded some intricate releases over the seasons. Whether it be incense holders to rings and the like, an ashtray joins the mix with a highly detailed approach involving a three dimensional skull in the base. The ashtray is available now at select retailers including End Clothing. Check out the SOURCE!
Kilian Martin: A Skate Illustration Video by Brett Novak
Video maker Brett Novak joins forces with Kilian Martin again. The result is a magnificent video that will inspire even the most sedentary people. This is how you transform a sport into art. Check out the SOURCE.
Self-hate Messages On Cleaning Product Bottles
Neil Wax is one self-aware human being. No pun intended, but here’s, literally, your BOTTLED-UP EMOTIONS: for those days you want to curl up in misery, but ALAS, your apartment is in dire need of cleaning. We betcha, they aren’t gentle on hands either, for added effect. ***Tears not included but guaranteed.*** Painful right? God [...]
The Endless Roads 2 – The Island
·Roadtrip in Spain with the Longboard Girls Crew· In this second episode, the girls take the ferry and head to Mallorca, where they will be spending the next days travelling and skating the rocky island. New friends and local riders join the girls for this stage and some crazy downhill. [7 female riders, 1 van, [...]
The Tree Shirt House
The Tree Shirt House is specialized in the creation of wildlife storytelling T-shirts made of 100% organic cotton. We decided to create our own label as we believe in wearing our personalities. We believe in meaning. Knowing how special each one of us wishes to be, we have limited our editions to 500 tee-shirts per [...]
Radio Spiritworld: A Broadcast From The Afterlife
Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz have created a radio program broadcast from the afterlife to the living world. It’s spot on, I imagine. Creepy, strange and very, very funny. Pun intended that this is classified under NEW TREND. Enjoy!
PUMA CHALK TABLE
When did sports become so serious? When did being an athlete require you to sacrifice your life? Shouldn’t playing a sport actually involve playing? Let’s bring back the social aspects of sports. Capturing joyful, active moments of life, for a different kind of athlete: The After Hours Athlete. Introducing the CHALK ping-pong table, designed by aruliden for PUMA. [...]
Muff and Why You Should Go Hard or Go Home
Muff. A guy who had enough of fucked up hair and traded physics for his first mohawk on XXX. Got addicted. and now shares his mad love for the cut and swore to convert as many humans as he can. Since then, muff no longer puts the fate of his hair in the hands of [...]
Disney Princesses As Cover Models
Here in Dope, we are committed to give you not only the dopest stuff out there, but also the weirdest. It is also important to note that after Mulan, Disney stopped being cool. So we stop with Mulan. Scroll down for more of Disney Princess covers and make sure to pay attention to the cover [...]
It’s Nice That Issue #7
It’s Nice That have released issue 7 of their magazine and, if it’s anything like the others, it’s pretty, pretty good. This issue has profiles on Martin Parr, Taryn Simon, i-D founder Terry Jones and Nieves editor-in-chief Benjamin Sommerhalder. It also features some amazing mammaries on the front cover. To see more of It’s Nice [...]
Port Issue #4
Now on issue 4, it looks like Port Magazine has carved out a nice out for itself in the mens market. The new issue features an interview with Lebron James, Alain de Botton prophesizing on porn and a feature on the set with Michael Fassbender. Magculturesays it’s taken over Esquire’s mantle. Bold talk, but it’s hard to [...]
Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden
Within ~7 days , you’ll see little mushroom pinheads coming out…after that, it’s off to the races as they double in size every day and you can harvest them before you know it! Find out more about this handy mushroom kit by clicking HERE.
THEM.SG Presents: THEM JAM 2011 – A Multi-disciplinary Festival
THEM.SG Presents: THEM JAM 2011 – A Multi-disciplinary Festival RSVP for the event HERE. Input the Code: “DOPE” to get on THEM JAM 2011′s Guestlist! THEM.SG is back with a ground-breaking exhibition where we celebrate the burgeoning Singapore talents in the field of art, design, fashion and dance. The first festival to gather more than 100 [...]
