Rollerblading isn’t exactly the cool thing to be doing anymore. Eclipsed by skateboarding’s risings stars and mainstream success; eventually it was removed from the X-Games in the US. I don’t know how many people knew it at the time but that would mean death for rolling as an industry and a cool thing to do. But many soldiered on, companies stayed afloat and there seems to be a renewed focus on the faces of skaters around the world. The NY skate scene is going through a boom and competitions like LMS are a testament to that fact. This is the best video of the comp I could find but there are plenty of others on irollny.com, BeMag and the like.

Remember how you first found out about DC Shoes? You found them in your CCS and they were the coolest sneakers in the entire catalog. That small sneaker company, among a litany of other achievements, just became holder of the title, “10th most viewed viral video.”

France gets a two-night, two-day nomadic city of “invaders” (filmmakers who get to set up their own unique screening spaces) that show 500 short films – fiction, documentary, animated, clips, screen tests, series or “unidentified filming objects.” The screening areas only have to meet two requirements: they have to be able to be moved and have capacity for at least one person. What constitutes a screen is just as flexible, so if you’re an attendee, be prepared to possibly huddle around someone’s cell phone.

Off/short 2010 is set to invade the town of Aisne in the north of France from August 27th to 29th. The festival will be as cinematic as the creations it shows, with ghost boats, spontaneous pyrotechnics and image mazes. Get a glimpse of last year and set up camp waiting for scenes from this one.

n+1 has announced it’s working on “What Was the Hipster?“, a book on “the rise and fall of the hipster.” It’ll cover what happened to sneaker shop Alfie Rivington and weigh in on that age-old debate, Hasids versus hipsters.

American Apparel lothario, um, CEO Dov Charney maybe got his hands on an advance copy. “Hipsters are from a certain time period,” he told the Village Voice. “The stereotype of a hipster is not something people aspire to anymore. Do you want to be a hipster? Nobody wants to be a hipster.”

And The New York Times is declaring even the word itself over. “In any case, hipster’s second life as hip slang seems to have lost its freshness,” Philip B. Corbett writes. “It may still be useful occasionally, but let’s look for alternatives and try to give it some rest.”

Looks like that hipster remover may be working.

“Production company Another Company commissioned street artist KAWS for this video teaser for Cerveza Dos Equis. The video documents the artist creating the brand identity for the new Dos Equis packaging featuring the iconic KAWS double X. The pairing between artist and brand is almost a perfect match as the double X is a shared element in both the existing brandmark, and well as a key element in most of the artist’s works to date.” via Hypebeast