Theories of Atlantis

Sorry for the delay in posts. The drought will end tomorrow with a Jack Sabback interview.
In the meantime, take care and heads up for the Crack Fox The Mothman Prophecies psp .

This has been up for a coupla’ months now, but I figured I’d post it for those of you who missed it.

There’s nothing more cliche than the phrase “keep an eye out” when reading some dumb “checkout” of an am in any random skate mag. But I just spent an excruciating 40 hours at Tampa am and I’m going to tell you who to “keep an eye out” for in 2008. The 3 skaters who ended up in 1st-3rd definitely deserved those placings. But here’s my personal top three from Tampa Am ‘08:

#3: Shane O’neil-watched this kid skate the box for an hour while everybody else was going for glory points flying around the park like coked up wildebeasts. Solid style, switch flip skills for days and super humble.

#2: Vincent Alvarez-Nicest dude of the weekend. Who else does a switch 180 to regular nosegrind down a handrail and a switch back disaster on a 9 foot quarter-pipe in the same run? Serious Mariano style.

#1: Ed Driscoll-I knew nothing about Ed before this weekend. But now I’m his biggest fan. If this New hampshire-ite skates the streets with as much flavor as he does a skatepark, the northeast is in trouble.

Yeah, yeah….I’m sure you’ve all seen this clip already. But I’m tired and sick and I don’t have time to squeeze any brilliant ideas out of my genius cranium right now.
So quench your thirst on this

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Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bong! Bong! Bong!
Dangada! Dangada! Dang!

In 1929 historians stumbled across an ancient map, circa 1513, that had been compiled by a Turkish admiral named Piri Reis. “So?”, says you….”big deal, an ancient map. Great!”.
Ah, but this was no normal map….although it was strangely accurate for it’s time period, one might discard it as just another compilation of the best known maps of it’s time. That is, until researchers noticed that this map included a land mas for Antarctica, over 300 years before it was discovered. Very strange indeed. All historians who viewed and tested the map agreed on it’s date of creation, there was no refuting that. “But”, you say, “maybe there’s a chance that Piri or the Turks had connections to a map made by someone who’d actually discovered Antarctica earlier than we thought it had been first discovered”?
“Good point” , I would say…..but here’s the “HOLY SHIT!” part of it all……the depiction of Antarctica was taken lightly at first because the mass it depicted wasn’t very similar to the existing ice-covered continent that lies there now. But soon after the map’s discovery, sonar technology was developed by the US Army and when sonar mapping was used to map the land mass BENEATH the banket of ice of Antarctica, guess what they found? Yep, the Piri Reis map was an exact match. Are you saying “Holy shit!” yet? Good. Because this is inSANE!

What this means is that someone had to have mapped Antarctica BEFORE it was covered with a mile-thick sheet of ice. Which the last time this was possible was 4000 BC, a good 1,000 years before civilization is supposed to have began, according to accepted history. But even so, not only would civilization have to had existed, but whoever made the original map must have had an incredible grasp of math, navigation and science.
Piri Reis made this map by compiling the features of many other ancient maps he had found through his research. Possibly including a map from the ancient lost library of Alexandria . But the land mass he depicted for Antarctia, it has now been agreed, was originally mapped by someone with very advanced cartographic (map-making) skills, someone who not only understood that the earth was round, but who knew the circumference, within +/- 50 miles.

Not only would history have to be rewritten, but this suggests that a major advanced civilization would have to existed before far before the Sumerian’s of Mesopotamia who we currently give credit to as “the first civlization of the world”.
So, who’s original map did Piri Reis gather this knowledge, and from what lost civilization did it come?
You might only need to look at the title of this website to find your answer.

Just to squash any and all assumptions flying around right now, Danny Renaud has survived his terrible 9 story fall. The latest word is that he is out of surgery and expected to eventually make a FULL recovery, which is an unbelievable miracle. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. Let’s send Danny all of our strongest and most positive thoughts possible.

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So, we’ve gotten atleast 20 e-mail requests from people trying to figure out a song title for the song used in the montage starting off with Quim Cardona in Static III. The song was a remix that was offered on a website for free with no credits attached for the DJ responsible. But it’s pretty close to the original sample taken from James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” just looped over and over. Here’s the
remix version as we originally found on them crazy internets. We edited it a bit from this version for Static.

Driving home for the holidays.
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