Tiny Type

If you can convince yourself the only reason you read Playboy is “for the articles,” then it seems perfectly acceptable that you’d only pick up TransWorld SNOWboarding for Tiny Type. I mean, who cares about all the in-your-face action photography and pretty scenery when you have all this vastly interesting, very small print to wade through? So take your time, and feel free to rip out these pages and throw the rest of the mag away. We won’t be offended.

Photographer Stan Evans found himself on lockdown in the pokey this fall after a minor disagreement with his ex-girlfriend. Stan enjoyed the company of insane people and second-rate criminals during the 72-hour stay, plus a bonus weekend courtesy of the S.L.C. police department. A regular contributor to Tiny Type, Stan had only this to say about the incident: “Don’t put that shit in Tiny Type.”

After his release, Stan joined TWS’ Annie Fast and filmer Rich Goodwin on a trip up to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the premiere of Water To Wine, a Bluebird Wax movie. As mentioned before in Tiny Type, the premiere coincided with the twenty-first birthday celebration of J-Hole’s own Travis Rice. Travis partied at a barbeque thrown by Willie McMillon, then at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar with Hana Beaman. The festivities continued at the movie premiere and then back at Willie’s, before Rice passed out in an Astro van parked in the yard. Other revelers in attendance were The Guch, Kurt Wastell, Nic Drago, Lance Pitman, and Shane Charlebois. New-homeowner Rob Kingwill couldn’t make it to the party because he was busy huffing paint fumes at his new house on the other side of Teton Pass.

While we’re talking about Jackson, we should mention that the area has seen a boom in the pro shred scene recently. Last season vans full of Grenerds passed through, as well as jets packed with Burton riders like Trevor Andrew and Keir Dillon. The local couches of Iguchi and Rice were tapped hard. Could this be the second coming of Jackson Hole? Stay tuned to find out.

A new snowboard company has been born–welcome Sapient snowboards. Rumors of a pro team consisting of Dionne Delesalle, Kurt Wastell, and Chris Coulter are bouncing around. And as one brand comes into being, another bites the dust–Mervin Manufacturing pulled the plug on Supernatural, so Matt Hammer, John Jackson, Jon Roth, and the rest of the Supernatural posse are on the sponsor hunt. Wildcat Gaetan Chanut has yet to find an appropriate board sponsor but did link up with Demon accessories. Jeez, somebody pay the man already!

Marc Frank Montoya is now representing Section outerwear, as is East Coaster Lindsey Jacobellis. The lowdown on Section runs somethin’ like this: the Bush brothers founded and ran Twist outerwear from ’90 to ’96, and it was the bomb. At some point, the Twist name changed hands and the brothers went to Analog for a few. Now the guys are back with Section, and it’ll be the dope shit.

Speaking of Marco, he and friends have acquired a second South Lake Tahoe hotel to go along with The Block–what up now? Also, has MFM started some top-secret skateard/snowboard manufacturing facility overseas? Uh, nope, not officially–but then again, you never do know.

Attention all shredders, Scott E. Wittlake has quit snowboarding professionally–he’s still going to ride, just not for money. “I’m gonna shred the hell outta that great white wave,” Wittlake was overheard saying, “But now I’m doing it when I want and where I want.” Amen to that.

Now, you know that Andy Forgash can cut it up on a snowboard, but what you might not know is that he’s quite the picture maker as well. Forgash’s latest photo venture involved doing some work for Island Records. Check out the new Auto Pilot Off CD–Andy took all the photos on the sleeve insert. Whitey is reportedly at work filming the new music video for Flogging Molly–time to plug in all that experience he gained on the Back In Black skits. And last but not least, Corey Smith had an art show in New York City and reportedly sold all but one painting. Yeah, Corey.

While we’re talking art projects, we should mention that the king of self-timer snowboard photography, Mike Basich, has a new Web site. Check it out at mikebasich.com. Also, remember Russell Winfield from jibbing’s glory days? Ah, how could you forget? Well, he’s now attending the Art Institute Of Seattle earning a fashion-design degree. Watch out, world.

Snowboard cinematography saw a huge shakeup recently when seminal filmer Brad Kremer left Kingpin Productions to work for Mack Dawg. Reportedly, Back In Black is Kingpin’s final movie as Whitey moves on to pursue work in the “real film” world. This leaves a ton of shreds out of a film crew–will rumored projects from Video Gang’s Sean Johnson and Holden’s Mikey LeBlanc pick up the slack?

In another big shakeup, big-mountain straight-liner and O.G. Scanner Johan Olofsson has parted ways with Burton and is now actively seeking sponsorship. Andrew Crawford just signed with Nitro and bought a new compound back home in Montana. In an effort to leave the past behind, Crawford is reportedly retiring his Camaro and searching for a new hot rod. Priscilla Levac is the newest addition to the Nikita pro team. Speaking of which, here’s a big question we don’t have the answer for–is boyfriend Eddie Wall buying Priscilla implants in the near future?

Justin “Destroyer” Hebbel recently became a homeowner in Salt Lake City. And Ol’ Dirty Twos, who’s been big pimpin’ in Los Angeles over the fall, came up 2,000 dollars while in Las Vegas talking to Uvex about his new pro-model goggle. J2 then proceeded to get pulled over on the ride home from Vegas for what the cop called “too many things to even list.”

In other random news, did you catch Tina Basich promoting her autobiography, Pretty Good For A Girl, on The Sharon Osbourne Show? Speaking of which, a new network called FUEL is launching GKA, the new Tina Basich-hosted half-hour series dedicated to promoting and showcasing female participation in shred-boarding and other “action sports.” FUEL is also in negotiations with Standard Films for the creation of an original snowboarding series, so keep an eye out.

The Sims Fader board series (you know, the ones with graphics featuring nearly naked porn stars that you read about in our December issue) has been featured in both Playboy and Hustler. Word on the street–autographed boards are going for 800 bucks on eBay. On the nudity tip: just after Burton ran an advertisement pledging to never use sex to sell snowboards, the company announced it was putting out a limited-edition Playboy 50th Anniversary Custom 158–complete with the bunny logo. Huh?

The Sims Fader board series (you know, the ones with graphics featuring nearly naked porn stars that you read about in our December issue) has been featured in both Playboy and Hustler. Word on the street–autographed boards are going for 800 bucks on eBay. On the nudity tip: just after Burton ran an advertisement pledging to never use sex to sell snowboards, the company announced it was putting out a limited-edition Playboy 50th Anniversary Custom 158–complete with the bunny logo. Huh?

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