Following the footsteps of the Nike 6.0 Motel Notell in San Clemente this summer, etnies has gone in on a telly of their own. Although only a room as opposed to an entire motel, the etnies room at the Casa Del Camino Hotel in Laguna Beach, California, is everything you’d expect out of the brilliant minds of Pierre Andre Senizergues and Don Brown. Opening this weekend, the room features a sink shaped like the Orange County skate spot Chicken’s Pool, a shoe scrap headboard with a 6’ x 11’ mosaic of scraps materials from etnies kicks, a reversed shadow box wheel mirror, a skate free mini bar with 4 completes that guests can use to shred Laguna on, “Graffiti Malibu” art piece by Parvez Taj and a piece by Mike Manzoori’s titled “It’s Not Where You’re Going, It’s How You Get There.” And of course, all the furniture is from Skate Study House. The room is available for rent starting tonight. Call 888-367-5232 for reservations. More pics after the jump.

We brought you the first look at the Quiksilver boardshort vending machine project at the Standard Hotels in Miami, LA and NY. They’ve finally launched them with a series of parties capped off by the opening of the Standard rooftop in NYC during the NY Surf Film Festival. Word, now you can officially leave your shorts at home.

Next up at the Nike Motel NoTell in San Clemente comes The Rock and Roll, Soul Surfin’, Hot Rod, Horror Art Show with action sports design vet Roy Gonzalez. A retrospective of thirty years of his off the hook work and a performance by Johnny Monster and the Nightmares is set to pop off this Saturday, September 5. Considering the last few jumpoffs at the Motel, expect this one to fuck shit up as well. Full info after the jump.

Nah, not the fat old dudes who swim in the freezing ocean, the other Polar Bear Club stopped through Nike’s Motel NoTell last week to make a bunch of iD shoes and print some custom tees on the Motel’s sublimation machine. The upstate NY punk band is touring in support of their latest album, Chasing Hamburg. Could a 6.0 collabo be in the works?

If you’ve been paying attention, you know DC went huge for the X Games this year with the sickest roll out of their Gold Standard program yet. Every night something was popping and the Standard Downtown was packed to the back with DC athletes and a million ways for them to be entertained from gifting suites to spa treatments. On top of that, DC athletes held it down at X with Danny Way taking gold in the Big Air Rail Jam, Chad Kagy and Dave Mirra holding down silver and bronze respectively in BMX Big Air, Ricky Carmichael and Ronnie Renner tying for gold in the Moto X Step Up, Kagy coming in again for the bronze in BMX Vert, Nate Adams taking bronze in Moto X, and Travis Pastrana knocking out a silver in Rally Car Racing. Not bad for one brand, eh? Check out a bunch of pics from the Gold Standard/DC X Games experience after the jump and don’t forget that you can peep DC week on Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit every night at 9pm EST from August 17th through the 21st.

It’s an action sports party bonanza this week. Across the country DC is holding court at the Standard LA and kicked things off for their Gold Standard 2009 last night. While Peanut Butter Wolf rocked, heads like Nick Dompierre, Chad Cagy, Jolene Van Vugt, Ikka Backstrom, Kimmy Fasani, Aaron Bittner, and Corey Bohan partied with Hollywood types and other industry hangers on. The Gold Standard 2009 is sponsored by Monster Energy, Codemasters’ DiRt 2, New Era, FUEL TV and TransWorld Media. Check out the pics after the jump.

This is some inside of the box thinking right here. Quiksilver has installed board short vending machines by the pool at The Standard Hotels in LA, Miami, NY, and Hollywood. Now even if you spaced on packing them you’re still all good to get wet. Each city has a specific colorway and the shorts are meant to emulate a retro design which means they are a bit tight – what else would you expect at The Standard though? In some more good thinking, there is a women’s bikini available in each machine as well so a quick game of “who can get naked and into a suit first” should be more than manageable. Check out the trunks after the jump.

You know this is gonna be some shit! Nike 6.0 is throwing down beaucoup festivities at the Motel No Tell over the next couple of weeks but this one may just take the cake. This Sunday, July 19th, invited guests will get a chance to see and participate in Point Break Live: Adrenaline Edition. What the hell is Point Break Live you ask? Why it’s a live action version of the Xtreme cinema classic where audience members are pulled in to re-enact pivotal scenes. This could finally be your chance to channel Johnny Utah in public!

With the X Games coming up fast, DC has announced that it will again be taking over the Standard Hotel in downtown LA for the DC Gold Standard 2009. The entire hotel will be turned into a playground for the action sports elite and will feature endless parties, music, athletes, and more from July 30 until August 2nd. You’re gonna have to get yourself an invite to get in there but take a look at the announcement after the jump.

We showed you the ill Madsteez x Stink Nike 6.0 Stinkween Braata last week, now check out how this creation came to life in this video featuring both Mark Madsteez and Evan “Stink” Rossel and their collabed character creation “StinkWeen” which is itself “a fusion of Madsteez’s scrappy cartoon self-portrait “Weeneze” and a mischievous alter-ego doodle by Stink.” After you peep the vid, head over to Stinkween.com and enter your own Stinkween-inspired character to win a hand-painted portrait of yourself done by Madsteez himself. In a complete takeover, Madsteez will also be down in Huntington Beach, California this week painting three murals at Jack’s Surfboards just in time for both the US Open of Surfing and the shoe release on July 24 at both Jacks and the Motel NoTell.