User:Kilwag/draft skate and annoy

This is DRAFT - very early sketch just getting the information down

Skate and Annoy started as a skateboarding zIne based in Illinois in 1986. In 1996 the domain name skateandannoy.com was registered and a web site went online. The site was originally comprised of unused material that was being compiled for a future print issue. After 1999, the headquarters and focus of the zine moved to the Pacific Northwest and Portland, Oregon, home of a thriving skateboard scene. At that point the web site began to be updated on an increasingly regular basis. Print issues came out sporadically, less than one a year.

Focus

The content of skate and annoy has always included traditional skateboard images and stories with a concentration on skateboarding as it is portrayed in the mainstream media and skateboarding history.

Mentions in other media.

Skate and Annoy was mentioned in several issues of Thrasher Magazine in the 80's (need to look these up) A print issue of Skate and Annoy was reviewed in Thrasher's "Zine Thing" section in the _____ 2003 issue. The cover of the same issue was shown in the book Thrasher Skate and Destroy: The First 25 Years of Thrasher Magazine published by High Speed Productions.

The web site was profiled in 2008 on the TV show "Attack of the Show" on the G4 network. (confirm date)

Older issues of Skate and Annoy appeared in ________ __________ (look up name) traveling art exhibit "There's Xerox Inside My Eyelids." The exhibit presented a historical selection of early skateboard zines. There is a book being compiled under the same name. (get publisher)

In 2009 the term "Skate and Annoy" was used in an advertising campaign for Black Label skateboards.

Skate and Annoy provided videos of skateboarding in TV commercials that was used In the 2009 the documentary film Deathbowl to Downtown (Coan Nichols & Rick Charnoski)

in 2010 the web site was mentioned in Sean Cliver's book The Disposable Bible in connection with a feature on the site called "eBay Watch" that highlights interesting auctions of vintage skateboards and related paraphernalia.