wrongboarding........

my friend to the north, Ali hooked me up with this link.  A website dedicated to the pearels of longboarding.

wrongboarding

and in a unexplainable turn of conincedence, friend of the tortilla, mr. matt french appeared on my youtube page in a longboarding video.  strange things are a foot.



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adam mcnatt.

when i was in high school this was one of my favorite video parts.  Just remembered it and found it on the ol' tube.  Still super rad to watch and sick for 15 years ago.  what ever happened to this dude?



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o to be young(er) again......

against my will, danny, my new roomate, but long time friend drug me to the skatepark tonight.  I really didn't want to go and on our way it was drizzling and i told him that if we get rained out he has to fruntside flip the big corner at the park.  Well, we didn't get rained out but the young little bugger went buck anyways.  thanks for making me go dude.  Nice to be livin with a fellow skate rat again.




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digging through the old hardrive........

i came across these photos i took a little over a year ago.  I got so much of this kinda stuff.  might as well start throwin it up here on the regz.

 

pay to play 

 

danny lindsay.  kickflip 

                                                       josh wilgress.  aloha braddah!  ollie.

you know you like the tortilla........

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nerd photo......

i have been shooting photos for a long time.  That and skateboarding are my two of the things that keep me movin along with oxygen and coconut water.  It's funny to think about the days when i first started really taking photography seriously.  Always had my notepad.  Always jotting down frame #, exposure and aperture, while constantly experimenting to try and gain a grasp on the shutter/aperture relation, only to wait sumtimes a week to four till you could get your negs back and then cross reference what you had done and try to learn.  I purchased many a photog bood from anywhere i could find them and read, read, read, the shit out of them.  Aperture/shutter relation, aperture/shutter relation.  No matter how hard i tried, once i was in the field, it was always a battle.  me, looking down at the apt. ring and shutter dial trying to remember what i had studied so tediously over and over.  Well like so many things go, one day it clicked and the fact that f 5.6 @ 1/60th would give you the same exposure as f 1.8 @1/400th was finally sumptim i didn't have to ponder.  Those two guys relation is something of beauty and unfortunately something most people holding cameras these days in da digi age (hopefully not) may never comprehend.  Anyways.....blah, blah, blah.    Opening it up is the best.

terra........

stencil sunday........

Tal Roberts.......

i met tal fresh of a week long river float on the salmon river in Idaho two summers ago at the skatepark in ketchum idaho.  A fellow skateboarder and photo nerd.  have a look at his werk .

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i usually don't.........

like to post stuff from major productions, ect but damn.  I just watched this and its mind blowing.  Heath is a fucking beast.  thats all.



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public domaine.........

there is quite an amazing art show going in in Paris right now at the 5 floor Gaite Lyrique Gallery.  From the looks of it, theres an insane amount of different medias as well as artists in the works.  Just look at this list of contributers;

Bryce Kanights, Mofo, Kevin Thatcher, Luke Ogden, Rhino, Michael Burnett, Patrick O’Dell, Ed Templeton, Jerry Hsu, David Broach, Gabe Morford, Cédric Viollet, Brian Gaberman,Taro Hirano, Sem Rubio, Dan Boulton, Benjamin Deberdt, Deeli, Eric Antoine, Travis Dove, Rich Gilligan, Bertrand Trichet, Buzzy Sullivan, Sergej Vutuc, Fred Mortagne, Gus Duarte, Giovanni Reda, Davy Van Laere, Atiba Jefferson, Sam Ashley, Neck Face, Yogi Proctor, Adam Wallacavage, Donny Miller, Deanna Templeton, Cleon Peterson, Mike O’Meally, The Art Dump  (Eric Anthony, Hershel Baltrotsky, Jeremy Carnahan, Michael Coleman, Andy Jenkins, Christian Morin, Andy Mueller, Evan Hecox & Chris Waycott), ILL Studio, Natas Kaupas, Mike Manzoori, DVNO, Rémi Brun, Sade Coy, Cédric Viollet and Edouard Le Scouarnec, Matthias Fennetaux, William Strobeck, Ludovic Azémar, Ty Evans, Don Brown and Claude Jutra, Alyasha Moore, Andy Jenkins, Ben Horton, Ed Templeton, Eli Morgan Gesner, Fos, Marc McKee, Mike Hill, Moish Brenman, Sean Cliver, Michael Sieben, Todd Francis, Winston Tseng, Johnny “Mojo” Munnerlyn, Colin Price and Donny Miller, Pierre-Andre Senizergues, Mark Gonzales, Lance Mountain, and Benjamin Chesselon.

Wish i could make it across the pond for this one.

Link stolen from skateboarder magazine.  All photos by jonathan mehring.

-agentasian

this gets me pumped........

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sausage trip photos........

  About a month ago when Todd contacted me with the idea of bringin the sausage crew to bellingham to skate, but to be honest,  i kinda figured the idea would fizzle away as peoples plans to come up north so often do.  Throughout the last few weeks i kept receiving emails and realized the the plan may actually come to fruition.   Well it did and here is a batch of photos from the sausage crewz trip to bellingham on monday.  Unfortunately i didn't shoot any actual skate pics as i was wielding my vid-cam most of the time, but hey, gives them a reason to come back up and visit, not to mention we only hit about a third of the to-do spots on the spot list for the day.  that being said enjoy a glimpse at our day. 

we started off the day warming up at my house skating my box in the front yard.  the crew was in almost immediate shred mode.  Rare when yer in your later 20's early 30's and your straight outta a car after a long drive.  the box always gets peepz hyped and this seemed to be no exception.



After that, we went to the bellingham park.  when we showed up the park was teeming with young mothers who seemed to have asssembled not only their own children, but all their walking partners young one's as well.  No shortage of blades or skoots.  Pretty much a bag.  We skated for a bit.  Steve battled a trick for a few while Jessee, Andy, Seamus and I sat in Blue Xanadu with A/C blasting.  complete comfort.  Better than watchin a skate vid at home in a recliner for sure.  I tell you, that van i luxury on wheels.  After that, we checked a few other spots and eventually ended up at the foundation slab.  Have you ever been to a foundation spot that wasn't fun???  Me neither.  Everyone seemed to have a rad time here and a session ensued on the ledge and flat gap. 



By this point, everyone was gettin a little zorched.  the humidity was gnarly the first half of the day and when that let up the sun was out and blazing in full effect.  We stuck it out though, waiting for the business folks of the downtown district to finish work so we could pick up where they had left off.







hard jugglin fatherhood, a bearing company and big trips outta the city for this guy.  ol dirt mcgirt.



while everyone maxed in the shade, Zack was still at it.  switch tre.



the whole day, steve was makin these bird chirping noises.  Sounded like the alert for the blind folks to cross the crosswalk but steve said it was sum kinda meadow lark or sum shit from when he was stationed or lurkin sumwheres.  i can't remember but it was crackin me up all day.  O yeah.  He got that trick at the park but not with out leavin a little skin on the crete.



seamus as well.



boards got broke.








the crew.........



All in all a radicool day.  Thanks to todd, jessee, dirty dan, zack, steve. g, zeke and andy kelly for makin the trip and seamus for taggin along and ripping the spots up as usual.  Always rad havin friends from outta town come to skate our little city.  Makes the spots we have fun to skate again.  Get your friends together, grab your boards and come visit me.  I got spots and plenty of floor space........

-agentasian

sausage skateboards...........

the homies from sausage skateboard co. came up to visit me in bellingham yesterday. It was rad showin them around to our spotz and havin dudes who are pumped on skatin the shit we are usually over. Funny how havin the outta townerz getz the locals pumped again on the spots. Anyways, heres a teaser line of none other than Dirty Dan himself. It only took him ten years of me harrasing him to come up here to finally make it.



support this company!

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not really.........

sure what this X-games, real street contest is all about, but i'm diggin eli reed's footage fur sure.



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hackage......

the the berrics got hacked and whoever is responsible for it has a witty sense of humor. really funny stuff that is pretty much right on point with where the berrics stands in the industry. go check it out before it gets fixed and in the meantime heres sume screengrabs for yer pleasure. Don't blame me if your computer blowz up from lookin at this stuff either......










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the supreme..........

bowl in L.A. has always been intriguing two me not for its skateability but the artistry involved with the the design and construction.





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seamus does ten tricks booter style!!!!

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neener..........

weener........

sams brutha from da same mutha.......
i-sack foo.



ka-snap;

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sam cole.......

uses instagram.



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new slide.......

in town.......



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so it's been.........

awile since iv'e captured one of the homies on bootz. Maybe 3 years or so since captian booyah. Well the time has come once again and this time it's the gingerturd gettin airborn at the new oak harbor park. Gingy rips whatever's under his tootsies.



-agentasian

check out this............

interview with hillary thompson, a trans-gendered skater.



click the link to the right of the video once your directed to that page, for the print interview and bunch of sequences.

-agentasian

my weekend.......

(mon, tues, wed) was a great one indeed. rode my skateboard all three dayz. manage to stack sum clipz with brick jordan and had a all around good time in the sun. heres sum photos from day 3 of my time away from werk.



dom and this crazy pcp'ed out cuban dude whos been lurkin around town. "show me da money, show me da money"!



iv'e watched dom sprout up from the littlest of little to a full blown later teen casual destroyer. he was always good. no he's just filling out porportionally in a lot of different ways. rad to see.



of course he was around



always nice to have these two around



i scored this e.t. hat 24 years ago at a white elephant gift exchange. still rockin it.



the photo trenches



i just met this dude yesterday. his name is dale and he just moved here from pendleton oregon. guess he lives in the woods. the first impression i got off him was quickly demolished, when he finally hoped on board in went in to full on shred mode. Squirrel master Dale!!



if you have spent any time at bellingham park, you know joe. nuff said.



dom again, with a sunset backside snap.

video soon.

-agentasian

being the gnarly..........

people we are, we have a granted tendency to be rough on our clothing. It's just our lifestylez and whether its the skateboarding we do or the way we make a living (4 me waiting tables and carpentry) were hard on our garments. Socks our no exception and for me its one of the most important articles of clothing to not have holes. Jeans, whatever, undies, i can live. But socks? a good hole gets pretty annoying. That being said, i was stoked when i came up on a few free pairs of these bad boys not to mention i've been wanting a pair since i saw them. Stance socks is a sock specific skateboard company and i'll say, there damn comfy. Not at all bulky, they breath well and were not soaked after a day of skating and heck, they come in a whole array of cool colorways and art colabs. I haven't had em long enough to test durability, but by the looks of the craftsmanship, they should hold up as a good sock is suppose to. Check a pair out if you got the fundz you'll be hyped.



p.s. i'm still backin gold toe brand fer life, but ya gotta give the shout out to the free goodies.

-agentasian

b.j. would be the first.......

to admit this, so i don't mind saying it. But everytime he comes to visit and supposedly skate?, he get's to hammered the night before and can't do anything past picking up the bong. Well he came to town again yesterday and skated campus like the young veteran he is. He stacked a good amount of tricks in a mere hour. Thanks for keeping it together Brick. you re-installed my faith in you.



edit soon. i'd post one now but were headed out again in a few so hopefully sum more stackage.

p.s. notice the longboarder in full charge stance heading towards the 4 block in the upper left?. he he.

-agentasian

ughhhhhhhhhh.

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cam was in town.........

a day at the park.....



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rad thing about summer.........

people start feeling like making the trip to bellingham is werth while. Early this morning is was greeted by a car full of radness. Jihad, b.j., alex and kyle showed up. We made our way to the park and sessioned for a few hours waiting for a few more carloads to appear, all on their way to skate the kendall pool. What?? more homies! next thing you know michah, s-dog, brice and sum peeps from santa cruz rolled up, not to mention ryan and danny were lurkin around as usual. Gotta say. Bellingham park is super stale and today, although nothing outta da ordinary happened, it was refreshing being there. i mean shit, a bunch of rad friends from outta town, the first really nice day and our skateboards. Plus i like skating with all these folks. Well actually i like skating with everyone. wait, check.. there is one person that always brings down my skate experience. anyways, i hadda go to werk. i'm sure those guys had a rad session and that's another story for them to tell you another time. I'll post a few clips from the park today soon.



did i mention Micah came up?



ryan was out. he just has it like this.



and a little puppy time tossed in from last night.



-agentasian