the digital drawer #1

just stumbled across these pics.  They are from a trip ryan williams, peter gunn, zakima and i took to bainbridge island back in 2007.  If you have skated with peter then you know.

backside at bainbridge island.

ryan williams

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3 sessions one cup!

heres a CLIP OF THE DAY with dale the 'squirrel master' as well as sum bonar footage from three different sessions over the last week.  the pool, that one ramp, and the bellingham park, where we took my slappy curb re-upping the hype of the park session back to 4.



thanks again to the homies for lettin me point my cameras at em.  Didn't really film much at the pool, but i did shoot a handful of pics which i'll post soon even though i said i'd post em like a week ago.

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walter the inch worm........

todays visitor to the garden.

workin on a edit as we speak.
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ice cream..........

kingston ferry boat line............

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Matt French........

woulda bonless-oned this bad beast.  it's hard to take this seriously...... is it for real?



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tonight..........

in the big city.  Joe Brook (of thrasher and slap) photo show at Goods!!!!

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pizza in the city.......

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its summertime..........

well kinda..........  More reason to hit the road.  Spots lie everywhere you least expect.

(photos:  patrick o'dell. epiclylaterd)

go find them.

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cam barrett........

the tortillas favorite son.



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india.......

has always been such an intriuging place to me.  Not sure why put i get a weird chill down my spine viewing the place and it's culture just on film.  Probably need to get there.  Feelin this edit.



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new post tommorow.......

gee whiz kid.  where could this be?  been there.  it was nice..........and thats where the post takes place.

more exciting newz, but that will have to wait as well.  by the way.  heard Cam B. is in Seattle with Jaime W.  go find them.  go skate with them.  good night.

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film is the best.........

its why i love photography.  Don't get me wrong.  Digital is a great tool, has it's place and has helped me learn a lot.  but unfortunately the werld is now oversaturated with digital photographers and thats where it gets it's bad rap from the purists.  Regardless of your stance,  film is why i love shooting and why i fell in love with taking photographs in the first place.  Here is a small sampling of completely random film and print scans i picked of my hardrive.  Photos taken with my Canon AE-1, Bronica SQ-A, Mamiya RB-67 and a canonette Ql-111 rangefinder.  more to come soon.
 

Winthrop, Wa. 2010.

West Linn, Or. 2006

aboard the Klickitat ferry in route to Port Townsend, Wa.  Ryan Williams and Leon Fire.  2006

Bellingham, Wa. 2010

Bellingham, Wa.  Dirt jumps.  Cam Barrett, 2005.

Self portrait.  2004.

Squalicum bay, Wa. 2010.

Oregon coast.  2010.

Port Townsend, Wa.  Adrian and The Heavy Metal Warrior.  2005.

Bellingham, Wa.  Scotty Sorenson. 2009.

more soon......

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jonathan livingston........

i know gopros have there uses.  Personally, however i generally don't like the footage i see from them.  Maybe it's because everyone is using them and in general, not to there full creative abilities they can bestow.  I'd love to get my hands on one as I have all sorts of ideas of what one could do but until then......  This gopro video on the otherhand is a refreshing clip in a oversaturated sea of media coming from these little cameras.  Maybe the fact that a human wasn't wielding the device has to do with it.



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more from the digital dust drawer..........

a year and a half ago or so at marginal way.

i think i posted a link to this photo.  anyways it took a little cohearsing, but i got ol jihad to hop the bar across from the park.  TheSkateboardMag posted this on their website.  Always rad gettin the crew sum coverage from our little neck.

more photos soon.  i got ten rollz of film to go pick up tommorow.  So after hours of scanning, i'll have a offering.  Not only is film the best, but the excitement of whats to come.........i can't even remember whats on the rolls.  christmas every time.

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rode my bike.......

around solo last night after attending a bbq at a friends.  weathers been perfect.  late night beach lurk.

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easy catchin.........

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a afternoon in Bellingham with SAUSAGESKATEBOARDS.....

sausage skateboards blog

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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........

so go ahead and 'LIKE' us on facebook.  Then you will always know when the blog had been updated.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Meattortillas/130449673676824

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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 .

-agentasian

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.



-agentasian

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........

-agentasian

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!

-agentasian

not really.........

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



-agentasian.