one big photo dump............

poo poo

smells like it..........

by the way...... This is the meattortillas offical congratulatory post to Mr. Ryan Williams and his wifey who are having a baby BOY!  boo yah.  kids gonna be doin airs like this in ten years topz.  watch out.

my ol' trusty suby, the burgundy turtle.   miss ya ol gal.

 
camuel barrett.

classic sean mansfield.  he was always hammin it up.  Rest in peace my brutha.  think of you every single day.

look at my face.  while trying to give the Mr. a piece of salami, he jumped up and landed all his weight on my jewels.  a cruel manuever to pull when your papa's tryin to give you cured italian meats.

two of my favorite people.  leon fire.  matt edgars.

this is a seriously gnarly crew.........  good thing there my palz and on my side.

the first picture of the poo........ leon ate it on his birthday.

larson.

rad, rad, and rad.

this guy is one of the best boarder dudes in whatcom county.  never see him skate anymore.
 

war stories.

cam barrett.

matt edgars has a great lien air.  On another occation in the exact same spot he set down his wheelz instead of his tail on the pool block sending him all the way to the bottom.  e.r.

this ramp was in the middle of a field in town.  super random and a total piece of crud.  its gone now.  Mike Fleemon goes crailblock of a now non-existent wooden turd.

thanks for the memories friends.  keep em coming.  the gangs all here.

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skateboarding has been painful at times.......

no wonder im feelin a little slow at 33.  these were all within a years time period.  i think when i was still trying but getting worse...........

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bob

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josh mohs

always rad running into old friends.  Got to catch up with mr. mohs on the curb for a minute at all city this year.  dudes kindness never seems to fade.

a true washington legend



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in the blink of an eye...........

a video clip is done and a new one has no doubt followed.  i, like everyone else loves watching skateboarding films but a still photo although silent, speaks a thousand more werds of the whole situation at hand.  i don't feel i need to go into detail about what i mean and no doubt, i'm sure most people disagree with me on which one tells more of any given moment.  maybe its cause i take pictures?  o wait, i hold the other kind of camera to.  Anyways, Steve Forstner from austria came out with a new part and it's radical.  after i watched i once last night and seeing as my camera was already on my desk, i began shooting stills of steve's part while i gave it a second gander.  Most are probably gonna hate this post but i don't care.  just seeing the stills i took only backs my feelings even more about a still versus a mover.

video proof of the photos.  all makes here buddy.



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little ray?

ill be honest.  i was never really a fan of ben raybourne.  sure the kid is insane but sumptin about him........  Well kid just keeps gettin better and better and his style.......  it's comin together faster than ever.  He's comin in of his tricks to tail/rail as quick as you can do it.  Dude just pulled a slot on slave and this part got me hyped for sure.



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a bad crop.........

while googling "harvest gnarfest" looking for other takes on the event i stumbled upon this ad.   I'm not sure whats werse.  Having absolutely no idea or information a photograph of yours was used for a ad or having to see that the photos composition was completely butchered in before mentioned ad.  thats a hard one.  Im gonna go with the composition butchering.  ain't nothin werse.  one of those things you wish you never would have googled upon. 

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last weekend was........

the harvest gnarfest and just like last year our small crew of corndawgs went up and made the most of the setup inside the pigbarn at the northwest washington fairgrounds.  edit coming soon.

the judges circle.

Sandro Grison from color magazine, Sammy Luebke, and Matt French.

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i'm not sure whether or not..........

you have delved into the current situation regarding the "occupy movement".  i myself have'nt dove to deeply but i do understand what these protesters are concerned about and why they in fact are.  Regardless of the state of the country and collusion of big-business within or economic systems, skaterboarders are gonna continue to do their thing.



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more awesum from alex......

from the creator of B.S in p.a. comes a couple more videos of complete truth.  Bettet than true blood and lost combined. 

nothing has changed in the werld of jihad.



and a hodgepodge of radical from shington and oregon.



keep em comin alex..

sum times the best represtentations of the northwest come from those not from here.  maybe they appreciate it more since it hasnt always been spoon fed.

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looking.........

for a canidate to film a day in the 'whatever' with.  hit me up while the weather is good.  doit doit doit.

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tommorow........

virgin trip to Delridge.  sea-towns newest......

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the importance of family.......

today was a special day. my dads been quite sick. he was finally able to make it outta bed and up to b-ham where i suprised him with a tour of the skies of whatcom county. warmed the dickenz outta me blood pumper. a big thanks to kyle martin for takin the time to make this special moment happen for me and my pops.

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email of the good.........

my friend bryce pointed me in the direction of a clip of him rippin.......



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Harvest Gnarfest..........

its that time of year again and teamtortilla will be in attendence.  see you there.

the edit i made from last years action:



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hip hip hooray!

sam cole is now the new world record holder of the world record holders!  way to go buddy!



just plain amazing!


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b.s in p.a.

tortilla homie, alex sent me this rad video he made of he and bricks adventures out in bricks homelands of port angeles.  pretty much sums up life out there.  how do i know?  thats where i grew up to puto.



b.s. in p.a.

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thats right you ghouls and ghoulettes.........

it's almost that time of year again......



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the nose, frankly speaking.........

skateboarder magazine has a rad little write up and a grip of video clips from the years past of one of skateboardings finest comical dirtbags.  None other the one and only Frank Gerwer!     check it out bro!

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samcam............

one of the best things on de net.

new



older



self filmin with a point and shoot was never this fun.

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friday mornin..........

sippin coffee, watchin youtube.

the switch drop in is nutz.



greece always seems like a nice place to visit.



and s.f. will always be my favorite big city.



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ollie and brooks.............

a pleasent afternoon in the backyard.

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have fun on yer board.......

just like al.

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rad!

takin from olsonstuff.

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i just died............

in yer arms tonight.................  crazy russian disco-tek stee-lo.  boom!  hot pants. no amount of vodka seems like it's gonna make this homiez day better.



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weirdo creeps........

so i have a sitemeter on my blog.  every so often i'll take a peek at it to see where people are visiting from.  It goes into quite sum depth, showing refering links, search words, operating systems of the visitor, ect, ect.  Well when i saw sumone was checking the tortilla from New Zealand i clicked on them to gain a little more insight of their visit.  Just look at what they were searching for........ Now my question is, why my blog came up as a search result under the google search engine for that.  Either way.  What a sicko, creepy mcgee.  Stay away from the tortilla if you read this again you weirdo.

in a much less disturbing note.  here is a picture of Danny Lindsay skating bellinghams closing thing to S.F., a few years ago.

And yes you weirdo.  A animal could very well die from being sexed up by a human.  but hopfully something more deserving will happen like you getting kicked or bitten in your junk.

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fall is approaching..............

so it's time to get it while its here.  Heading out to go fish, then down to la conner to skate, finishing up the day with a bbq and horeshoes at the house.  Sounds about right.

i shot this photo of ryan in 09'.  i found this slab laying like this on a dog walk.  These finds are always the best.

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one day with brick strait........

you may remember that i had a poll on this here blog asking who should have the next 'a day at the park' with.  well the readers spoke and the answer was 'a visiting dirtbag' out of the options.  Well here it finally is.  and the bonus?  it's not at the park, with the exception of a couple lines.  So here is bricks 'a day with'.  brick rips.  whiskey and women.



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BOYISH full length..........

this video is radical.  the first song just kills me.  so funny.



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o no. sumone went and did.......

sumthing silly again.  since when wouldn't you want to push?  regardless of the size board you ride.  best trick there is.



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these dudes are the gnarliest.......

dudes ever.  not sure how you would survive a bail. 





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total party pooper......

this guy was no good.  we went to the new La Conner skatepark today.  there happens to be a nice ten stair in the adjacent parking lot.  As you can see he wasn't to excited about a 25 year old tossing his carcass down the set.  Anyways after that schpiel he let jihad go but as i packed up my cameras he approched me with pen a pad in hand and proceeded to hassell me and take my information, stating "i  need to know how to contact you since you took my picture"  blah, blah, blah.  After name, adress, ect, he still felt the need to give me shit about my last name being 'Smith', as if i was giving him sum sort of allaby.  After all this happened he parked his car and sat and stared us down at the park for maybe another hour and a half.  boooooooooooooooooooo!

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Tokyo

photo: BenthereDonethat.

p.s.  all city showdown was a blast yesterday.  great time with the crew.  saw a grip of old skate friends and made sum new ones.  huntz and brice went hammer bruthers at the 2 bit post all-city.  i feel old.


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there is a ridiculous amount.......

of money involved in skateboarding these dayz. just look at this shit.  it's crazy to me how at events like the x-games, street league ect, they will build a few hundred thousand dollar park for a 3 day contest only to demolish it as soon as it's over.  redbull, monster, mountain dew, gatorade.  redbull, monster, mountain dew, gatorade.

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DELATORRE!

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