Step 1: Stop by Homebase and pick up Chris’s new pro model, The Chris Cole S.

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Step 2: Skate them, film a few tricks and then do your own review of the Chris Cole S.  Be honest, be creative, be funny, skate the plaza, land some bangers then make  the clip however long or short as you want.  Then post it to YouTube as:

Homebase & DC Shoes “Chris Cole S” Wear Test: ______your_name_here______.

LAST STEP: Just for making your own wear test video, Homebase will give a FREE SET OF SHOP WHEELS. Straight up.

Now, just sit back and wait, DC and Chris will personally pick their favorite to win a whole Chris Cole Prize Pack: Zero Deck, Thunder Trucks, Spitfire Wheels, Omit Apparel, Stance Socks and his brand new Chris Cole S Lite shoe at the end of the month of February. DEADLINE TO SUBMIT A CHRIS COLE WEAR TEST CLIP: FEB. 29th.

This contest is only for people who buy the Chris Cole S at Homebase- not the entire country!!! There might be 15 entries or their might only be 5 so your chances of winning are HUGE. 

REDISCOVER DC and GET HOOKED UP.

5Boro Skateboards and Homebase’s 5Boro pro, Dan Pensyl proudly presents their newest full length skate video, “Join or Die.” The NYC World Premiere is on February 16th at Santo’s Party House so get your ride to the Big Apple ready now.  The local 610 premiere will be at Homebase on February 24th for those who can’t get to the city.

Congrats to 5Boro’s newest pro’s: Took & Akers. Their debut pro models will be available at Homebase this month.

Who else but Homebase would be doing a local premiere?

If you’re out of town and looking for something now- give us a call for shipping info: 610-866-0540

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Words by Bobby Hundreds off the BLACKED OUT www.TheHundreds.com

“Blackout.

Today, a string of major websites are banding together to protest SOPA, a bill trying to work its way through Congress that is intended to stop online piracy.  SOPA doesn’t sound so horrible, right?  Online piracy is (fun but) bad! (No, I know I know, it’s awesome, but come on guys, it’s bad). The movie studios and media guys are super stoked on it because they’re tired of freeloaders burning and ripping off all their hard work.  They’ve BEEN tired: In fact, here in the States, they already have a law to keep people from doing that (it’s called the DMCA), so now they want to fight the assholes doing it overseas.  Vile crooks like Pirate Bay and bloodsucking bit torrent leeches that Americans like you (and, well, me (shh don’t tell anyone)) visit to download all our (I mean, YOUR) illegal movies and music.  The bill states that to defeat international bootleggers, we must keep all of our search engines and Youtubes and websites from showing them any love.

There’s a slight problem with SOPA, however.  The way it’s written – which is not very well – makes it so that the people creating original content (the studios, etc.) have far-reaching, unbridled, free reign to take out anyone who they have a “good faith belief” is stealing their stuff.  That’s all they need. A good faith belief.  And you’re dunzo! It’d be like if I had a “good faith belief” that you stole my Adam Bomb snap-back so I got to stab you in the ribcage and neck and upper-chest area (and then went home and realized it was in my closet the whole time).

I’m making it sound a lot simpler than it is, but the moral of the story is this.  SOPA, although paved with good intentions, is the road to hell.  The Internet, for all its benefits and burdens, is built upon freedom – free information, free thought, free expression – and by blocking content under something as vague as “good faith beliefs,” SOPA falls nothing short of censorship.  What’s worse, SOPA makes it difficult, if not impossible, for small web-based companies and brands like ours to exist and survive.  So much of The Hundreds’ reality is based on taking advantage of the web’s open frontier.  Imagine if I posted a video with an unlicensed song playing in the background and got shut down for it. And then consider that I’ve already done this, whether knowingly or unknowingly, countless times in the past year.  Imagine how I could’ve written this entire essay without “stealing” everything I learned off of other websites and blogs.  Imagine. Imagine there’s no pizza.

The fact of the matter is that Ben and I should support SOPA.  After all, that’s what we do – create original content. Just like the movie studios and record labels who want to hump SOPA and have like 10,000 of its babies.  We agree – it totally sucks when people rip us off or bootleg our product, ideas, and intellectual property without our permission.  But for one, we believe in the DMCA, which is already doing a pretty good job of blocking pirated content.  For two, we think the SOPA should be re-worked, clarified, and not rushed with reckless abandon when even the White House is bummed on it.  And for C, we kinda like how the Internet is. For the most part, this is the new world disorder and it’s time that the SOPAtriarchs got used to it, got creative, and got over it.  How many times do we have to go over this?  STOP TRYING TO FIGHT THE INTERNET.”

If you have done the adequate research on SOPA and disagree with what is proposed, please contact your representative and make your voice heard!

Skating, traveling and becoming life-long friends with guys like Eric Potts, Andy Mack, Steve Hencheck, James Gleason, Dave Hill, Josh Novak, Matt Kayes, Ray Gurz, Blake Wohrmann, Mike Emery, Jay Sigafoos and so many others is what inspired me to open up Homebase so the 610 could have a shop that cared about the culture of skateboarding- not just the sales.  If you were there 10 years ago at the Icehouse then you know how different skateboarding was here and how it felt like the winds of change were blowing through Bethlehem.  Those short months in between the premiere of City Without Spots and the day we opened our door were some of the most exciting and trying times of my life but in retrospect 10 years later, I could not imagine and would not want my life to be any different.

There were 3 generations of LV skaters in the room last night and in the end there was $415 in our donation jar- minus the small bills we put in for change- we will be donating $375 to the Bethlehem Skateplaza.  Thank you to Andy V for making Equivalents #2, the LVAC for printing the benefit Tee’s, Just Born for donating the projector and again, everyone who came out to show their support.”

Thank you for all your support & love,

- Andrew Po

Equivalents #2: The ‘Za Benefit Issue.  Now available at Homebase for a $5 donation the the Bethlehem Skateplaza.

Earlybirds.

Allentown OG’s.

Cody just rode a longboard across the country.  Read about it on the Schlooped Facebook.

Watching Mark Suciu “Cross Continents.”

Carnage & Oogie.

Amazing work V.

#WeOutHere.

Please turn of your cellphones.

Reintroducing a 10 year old video to a new generation.

Eric Potts’ part still kills it.

Good people.

Thanks for driving on all those trips Steve.

Thumbs up from Bill.

OG HTM610 CREW.  Lots of faces missing from this though.

Take 2 with Eric. . . who just got off work.

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See the rest of the photos . . .

V’s been working on the second issue of his ‘zine, “Equivalents” featuring drawings based on the Bethlehem Skateplaza.  The ‘zine will be given out on Friday night at the 10th Anniversary premiere of “City Without Spots,” the first local skate video ever made in the 610.

For an AFFORDABLE $5 admission charge you get into the premiere, you get the Andy’s ‘zine and you’re making a DONATION to the skateplaza.  All the money raised will go to buy more benefit bricks in honor of “City Without Spots.”

In addition to the ‘zine, we’ll be giving away the Annual Homebase Holiday T-Shirt designed by Andy V to anyone who makes a $10 or more donation WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

That’s a win-win-win-win.

For those who are on a tighter budget (ahem . . . .cheap), then you may enter, get no ‘zine but still make a donation to the skateplaza for $2.

Thanks to Andy V for making all this happen

.  Thanks also to Rich Saffron and Just Born for donating the video projector and candy you’ll all be eating.   Thanks to Reject from the LVAC for printing the benefit shirts too.

The premiere is also BYOB for those over 21 so bring your coozies.

Since Liberty High School courtyard sessions, since trips up to West End Skatepark, since homemade Hometeam610 t-shirts, since filming for City Without Spots, since weekend trips to Boston posting up on Erich Hornungs stoop watching Steve to Lu-Kang kicks, since Styles West slanging Timberland Boots and Coogies, since trips to Las Vegas, Arizona and Texas, since Kill the Filmer, since my 21st birthday . . .

Til the opening day at Homebase, til the paGREY premier at the Sterlng Hotel, til having to witness you go through your worst ankle injury, til the first Backed in Black Artshow, til No Place Like Home premiere and shop’s 5th anniversary at Banana Joe’s, til one of the best days in Homebase’s history when you came on board as the manager, til fighting for the skateplaza together, til the groundbreaking, til No Place Like Home and until the grand opening of the Bethlehem Skateplaza . . .

Until Phase 2, 3 & 4 or whatever it takes, until Homebase’s next expansion, until you marry your soul mate, until your family becomes a bigger part of the Homebase Family, until we set-up your kid’s first skateboard . . .

You have been, you are and you always will be one of my closest friends, my mentor, my biggest supporter and brother me and to all of the Hometeam/Homebase/610 Skateboard Family.  Here’s to over 10 years of friendships on and off our boards and here’s many, many more.

Happy Birthday Josh Novak aka CIME aka NoWax aka NOVY aka JAGUAR NONO

See Josh’s very 1st part in the very 1st local skateboard video made in the 610, City Without Spots for the 1st time in 10 years on the big screen at Homebase this Friday night at 8pm.

Haroshi has a beautiful process that has taken him years to develop.  Get familiar with the art side of the collaboration and then when you see the clothing, footwear and accessories HUF and Deluxe Distirbution it will all make sense. . .

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The collection will be available at Homebase and on www.Homebase610.com for all our out of town customers mid-January.

Tonight is the opening ceremony for the project so if you happen to be in Downtown L.A. for some reason. . . . let’s me up!