COAL PAD WEEKEND

so in case you havent heard, the coal pad DIY skatespot is officially a go.  With that came a impromptu desconstruct-struct weekend.  Jeremy was in town to orchestrate, brice came up from seattle, sage was in town manning the giant machine with his skatepark building expertise and i, i was there to help with whatever i could.  We got a lot done.  Get hyped.  shits legal!!!!

the first night begins

sage knows whats up

 

i was twenty feet in the air in the bucket of the excavator here above rubbled concrete.  sage, watch the controls buddy.

brice sweeping up the mess, while spanky rips

20 ft. up

new back ameoba

brice just quit his long time job repping for NHS.  he wanted me to get a pick and show them what hes doing now!

puttin in a drain

hobo camp

theres a coal pad benefit skate contest at the bellingham park this saturday the 22nd with after party at the Redlight bar.  be there.

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this makes me so happy........

25 minutes from Bellingham.  Population maybe 5,000.  Small towns always produce the best gems.  Way to to guys.  This crete looks amazingly promising.

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being in transition.......

and without a home has been real good.  It has been forcing me to get out and constantly smell them roses instead of confining myself to the comforts of my home.  Been enjoying sunsets, hanging downtown at the skateshops, spending more time at the park.  Anyways, it's been real.  Heres a couple snaps from yesterday before it went real south.

never gets old.  Bellingham is a beautiful place.  Lummi and Orcas islands.

Josh Wilgress taking the road rarely traveled.

fish

watch where yer going buster.

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the fellows from USURPER........

SKATEBOARDS came up to bellingham yesterday.  It was a super fun time and everyone who wasn't hurt was rippin.  The Crew in attendence included; jaime weller, ian, chris, peter, POD, binger, zorro, cam, jihad, and brick, with tortillas seamus, al, the human weed leaf, and the ginger bringing the local heat.  The Usurpians brought a bunch of dogs for the grill and handed out sum shurtz to the minions.  Super fun day and a skate company doin it right.  All up in the mix mash with the durts.  As far as Bellingham goes, you can buy a USURPER deck down at the unknown kids.  Skip a Creature or Baker deck next time and remember who put that free weiner in yer mouth at the park last saturday.

Here are sum photos i snapped from the day.  I'll get around to a video edit soon, but right i'm now homeless, so the edit box is in storage.

dudes

Jaime Weller, leader of the usurper army

Jaime would backside tailslide the JB every time.

Original corndog and Usurpian, Cam Barrett!

Ian Mcmartin was hurt.  It was my first time meeting him.  Radicool human.

Peter Peter
 

Chris Cope must have done 50 of these sad plants.  He was apparently trying to do the re-entry tail bash thing and wasn't satisfied with these outcomes.  Hmmmm.  Must be nice having that one on redial.

Another angle of a messup.

thanks for comin up and hanging fellas.

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bobby comes to bellingham

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$200,000 K for a skate contest?.....

apparently Nyjah Huston won that street league championship contest over the weekend earning him a mellow $200,000 big ones.  Hard to believe an amount like that is handed out for kickflop back noseblunting a fabricated ledge these days.  Good for him.  I don't care and more money in skateboarding means more parks and more babes thinking a washed up 34 year old skate rat is rad.  Anyways along with all that money comes the unevitable unfortunate truth that large corporations which have nothing to do with skateboarding and are not skaters themselves are involved, and that...... well that is the part that sucks.

just look at this trophy Nyjah won in the contest?  you would think with that much money involved they would hire sumone who knew how to set up a board properly.  check yer trucks morons.

in more radical local news.  check out a recent photo from Sedro Wollz.

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moving sucks.......

yep.  thats what i'm dealing with right now.  who wants to store my two fun boxes and two launch ramps for a bit?  heres a couple media rips that don't suck on this sucky moving monday.

 

whoa buddy.  surfin U.S.A.

jedi manueverings

phil shao was one badass mutha.

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skateboarders........

are pretty good about making things happen whatever the case may be.  It's no coincidence.  We are motivated, tough as nails humans that take things intro our own hands because sitting around waiting for it to happen or being directed or told how it should be done, just doesn't feel right.  Well  USURPER SKATEBOARDS is the churned out creation that spewed out Jamie Wellers mind and heart one day.  It's a grassroots company outta the rose city that has put together a rad little crew of boys and friends that is building rock solid skateboards for you to rip.  Did i mention two of the team riders have meattortilla tattoos?  Well a couple days ago i got a email from Jaime saying he may be coming up to Bellingham to do a little demo/bbq.  Now normally i would have been quite skepticle, as I hear this quite often from my skate buddies about making that BIG OL HUMONGOUS O SO LONG NEVERENDING journey up north but Jamie has that before mentioned drive.  Sure enough i just received a email confirming the mission for next weekend, along with the video below of the usurper team ripping the Windells park at Mt. Hood.  Get ready to see some rad skating, see our best buddies Cam Barrett, jimmy jihad and brick straight (usurper team turdz) and just have a overall fun weekend as the summer winds down itself.   Meattortillas backs Jaime and his endeavor and so should you.  You can pick up there boards at the Unknown Boardshop in Bellingham so do it.

 -sidenote (jaime is the head skate coach at Windells skate/snow camp at Hood and one of a couple doods responsible for creating the masterpiece of a skatescape up there.  I have heard out of the mouths of a lot of well traveled skate rats, that it is the best thing they have ever ridden.  Try and get there.  Also, keep an eye out for the enigma that is pete gunn it he makes it to bellingham.



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cam cam cam!

usurper ad in the new lowcard mag.  yessir!

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sedro wooley is getting concrete!

the small town of sedro wolley, 25 minutes from bellingham and the gateway to the north cascades highway is getting a fuggin park!  Same crew that built La Conner (members of grindline) are building it and from the looks of it it's coming along rather quickly.  Lets cross our fingers on the beurocrats not getting to nit picky when it comes to actually opening the thing and maybe it will be rideable in a few weeks.  So stoked to have another rip so close to home, plus it gets the homies from down south up for a visit.  YES!

that's a lot of room for a lot of stuff!

looking good boys.

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photo battle.

i'm up against sum fella in a little photo battle over on yobeat.com.  Please head over and vote for me.  Danka.

vote here

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paint the park

throughout the years ive been to a lot of different skateparks and seen a lot of diverse things painted on them (well not so diverse).  Usually it's yer standard bong/weed leaf, "biker fags!", "ICP", "suck cock for coke", the standard dick and nutz, ect, ect, ect.  For the most part it is all real bad and always the same.  Bellingham is no exception to the before mentioned, minus the colorful cityscape from ten years ago that lasted a week (who remembers that?).  There was recently a organized park cleanup day.  It involved painting over all the poor unsightly existing graff/tags while matt french re-added right back to the mess.   Anyways, right now the park is a clean canvas ready for sum new life.  It's time for sumptin creative, clean, colorful, thought out, and un-offensive.  This is basically a call out/shout-out.  Bring it.

look what sumone did at the Dent in Kent recently.  This is what I wanna see kiddos.  I been lurkin there since day one, so make me happy and give it fresh face.  Heck, do it for Mr. P.

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never been to copenhagen...

this is a amzing photograph

uhh ohh

charred.

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and now.....A Ian Ruther interview.

truly inspiring guy.   " Yea, people think I hate digital and I don’t. It’s more like I had a vision in my mind, how I see the world, and there wasn’t the tools and pieces for me to make those images, so I dreamt up this whole thing to produce what was in my mind and in my heart."

  full interview here

one of photography's finest.

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wet plate photography with ian ruther!

wow, another amazing video showcasing some of ian ruthers work with wet plate photography and his giant truck camera.  Probably the most inspiring thing for me i have seen.......ever.


Silver & Light: A Day In Los Angeles With Ian Ruhter from Laura Austin on Vimeo.


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