Posted in Culture on Apr 30th, 2007
It’s pretty lame how excited I am for this documentary.
A few years ago Cynthia Liu and her crew showed up at Nationals and Worlds armed with cameras, tape and a good idea. No one really knew what they were doing, or who they were. I guess in the yo-yo community there are always people with […]
Posted in New Releases on Apr 30th, 2007
I played with one of Eric Koloski’s Kos prototypes at MAR last year and I was pretty impressed. I really like the feel of the Dark Magic, and the Kos shares a lot of design elements with it.
More pictures here and here.
Posted in Culture on Apr 27th, 2007
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2007
Here’s a yoyoer that was cooler than Steve can ever hope to be. OK, so he wasn’t terribly well-known as a yo-yoer, but apparently he owned one. Frank Sinatra’s yo-yo is on ebay, along with a pipe of his. It’s a Gorham silver yo-yo, which aren’t terribly rare, but it’s Frank Sinatra’s yo-yo! It even […]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2007
It was kind of hard getting the dialog started about the word to replace “Imperial”, but we agreed on “Classic” and we are making the change. Greg, over at Infinite Illusions, went the route of calling shapes Convex and Concave. I’m not really fond of those terms because I can’t keep the damn things straight… […]
Posted in Culture on Apr 25th, 2007
Kiya over at Anti-Yo, and one of the organized for Bay Area Classic, has just announced the The Pro Invitational Meltdown!
You might be asking, why? Here’s what Kiya had to say…
There are a few reasons why i wanted to do the PIM just in case anybody is wondering….
I feel like as though every […]
Posted in New Releases on Apr 25th, 2007
Over at Yo-Yo Guy.com They’ve just finished their 2nd all over print in the Art is Play series.
This time its a limited edition (38) Black Cross Bones. The Black anodizing is type 3, which is much more durable and slick then ‘Hard coat’, which is more commonly used.
This ink treatment is epoxy based, and […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
This video of the 2006 World Yo-yo Champion Hiroyuki Suzuki has made it’s way around youtube so much that it’s starting to look a little haggard. It has been submitted to the social news bookmarking site Digg.com a couple of times, but it finally has hit the front page. One of my favorite things about […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
The 2nd installment of Anti-Yo Anti-Deck series.
Steve Brown x Anti-Yo. Exclusively available soon at Yo-Yo Nation
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
Bride is still working on the supporting all browsers, if you have problems viewing the count downs or the video, email his @ 2006@popartmogul.com
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