indoorz......

so the setup from last weekends skate jam is still standing strong.  The tueday night jam, usually held at another location was moved to the new and pending warehouse.  When we showed up the usual cast of characters was criss-crossing lines down the seemingless endless corridor full of obstacles.  With knee still in mends (will it ever get better) i set up and took a few snaps of the boys shredding the new spot.  If its still going next tuesday i suggest being there and the werd is, there will be another jam their this saturday with best trick, ect ect. so check the flyer from the below post for directions or hit up the Unknown Boardshop for info.  get it while it lasts, cause in this town...........  Also, help by contacting Chach @ The State Of Grind to help donate, see how you can help or whatever so we can have a permanent much deserved indoor in this town.

photos:

the gingerturd busts out a little dance on top the pyramid.

seamus, frunt nose

 Chach Law, nollie backside big

eli hare.  backsmith

al sandlin. fruntsmith

johhny matarazzo.  backbluntslide

the ginger.  switch crooks.

johhny matarazzo.  kenny reed kungfu tre flip.

see you guyz next week.

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just a boat......

headed back out to the olympic pennisula last weekend to spend time with my family.  in case you were wondering the reason for the constant trips, my papa bear ain't doin so hot.  Although we were never close i feel the time is now to get it before it's gone.  As ive gotten older the realization of just how much my folks have done for me is unimaginable.  We don't unfortunately all come from similar backrounds, but wheter it was yer ma or pa or both that helped make you whom you are today, slip em sum skin, help dial in their yard, or treat them to sumptin nice like dinner.  you won't regret it till it's gone.

o yeah,  boring pictures of boats,

this would be one sketchy dropin.  immediate slideage to avaoid being washing away into the straits.  sumones got it and prolly already has.

 

mellow run out.  you got this.

Im leaving bellingham tonight or tommorow morning to head back out.  Maybe gonna stop in seatlle for a day if the homies are avaiable (hit me up).  If you have any interest in spending a few days out on the beatiful Olympic Pennisula you should head out and come join me.  Mountains, surf, forestz, concrete a plenty.  come make a trip.  I will show you our sacred tree house.......and other bits of local knowledge.

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TONIGHT!!!

this kinda thing never happens in our small town.  is it a sign of new things to come??  i sure hope so.  This evening there is a skate jam in a new warehouse whose occupants havn't moved in yet.  It turns out the landlords son has let a group of people assemble a small army of obstacles in the space for the night (and hopefully longer...)  I'm outta town so go get sum for me and have fun with all the budz.  The place is seriously huge and the ground is o so buttery.  gonna be a real good time.  I stopped by last night to check out the progress and strapped on my tool bags for a bit and helped out on a little construction.  be there!

 not sure about the flyer title.......matt frenchs' brain at it's finest.

as you can see, plenty of stuff to skate so far.  this as last night and supposedely they were gonna build more all day.  hey down southerz.  might be werth making the trip up north for this one.

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just got this email from the one and only......

seems between completely annihilating 15 foot drops and el toro ryan found a little r and r time with sum ladies and his fresh ink.  thanx for reppin and the email bro.  see you soon.

GWAR!!!!!!

have you ever been to a gwar show??  hands down the most entertaining, rock n rolla, sweat, blood, semen, puz, vaginal emission ridden show you will ever see.  I remember seeing them at the showbox maybe 8 years ago.  I spent the night in seattle after the show for obvious reasons.  The next morning i headed to bellingham and went straight to the skatepark to try and roll and clear my head a whole lot before i had to be at werk in a hour or two.  I had my werk clothes with me (bartending at the time) so i changed at the park and went straight to werk, only to arrive to the strangest, most perplexed looks.  Once eventually hitting the john and glancing in mirror, i realized, i had sweat out of pores and hair all the previously listed emmisions gwar had saturated me with the night before, during my skate session.  i looked a lot like the kid in picture number three, only with a button up shurt on.  Don't miss a gwar show.

all photos by Sam McGuire.

all photos taken from a gwar show.

all photos to rad to not poach and post.

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jimmy jihad.....

todays photo goes to all around good guy and personal good friend of mine james denton aka jihad.  dude rips, is almost always down for giving my photo nerd suggestions a whirl and has always had my back no matter what.  hears to you buddy.  you told me you were a little bummed when brick got the killer pink seagull ad so here ya go.  no pink gullz, but there is a red azz healer.  yeh buddy.

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and sorry. still using a flip phone....

so we havn't reached instagram status but we are rolling strong on the facebook front.  if your too lazu head over to the site and wast to just know when sumptin new is up, like the page.  pretty easy foo.

our facebook brosef

the gingerturd hasn't.......

graced the pages of the torillas as one of my photos for a bit so today he gets it.  a proper pointer while the neighborhood rat looks on.  They really are little shits in the area of town.

along those lines i may as well post another, yes another Cam Barrett part outta portland.,  Man seeing these edits really makes me realize i need to upload cams part from my video which still isn't finished.  i mean my footage is old but none of these edits are doing much to make me feel as though my old crusty clips are getting outdated.  maybe cams not getting any better. (yeah right) (pretty sweet) (fully flared).   anyways, always rad to see new cambot stuffz.



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todays photo........

is of father and teacher extrordanair, ryan williams.  This was our first time to the new Oak Harbor park 2 years ago, which lies on military housing.  The park is so so good.  For any of you that havn't made it up, put it on yer list of "to skates".  The old park, right down the road is great to.  can't really lose.  It's just off the path to your way to Orcas, so put it on this summers skate map.

Dowdy from typical culture just sent me a link to a video he and hes budz are werking on.  Looks like a good one.  hitten the road with yer friends, no real agenda.  always turns out the best.  be on the lookout for this one soon.

THE HYPE TRAIN

seattle trippin.......

heres a photo recap of my time in seattle a couple weekends ago.  The weekend was rad and very productive photo and video wise.  I will have some video up in the next few days.  Brick and Chris killed it.  Thanks fellas.  Unfortunately there isn't much action in this post as the photos i got are to rad to post just yet.  hopefully make sumptin happen with one of them in particular.  Time will tell.  Anyways hoping to make seattle my home soon.  I'm looking for werk down there, so if anyone reads this and has any line ups get at me.  much appreciated.  have a killer day.

its pretty nice having yer home anywhere you are.

chris cope and brick strait.

new construction under the bridge.

chris got a rad trick here.

 so did brick

i really like this whole series of photos from this spot.  highly illegal mission.  highly consequential  spot.  brought the adrenalin and fun back to shooting skateboarding.  i like fotos that conjure up a story of the photo in the viewers eyes.  thats the point in my opinion.

hustle.

its a long ways down. 

 
spot prep.  what went down?

board went over.  thankfully not a human.

and this spot.  not easy.

happy thanksgiving everyone.  hope you all are enjoying some tasty food and good beverage with good company.

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meet the stans.........

the new girl/chocolate video has premiered  and i believe it releases to the masses early next week.  If you here anyone asking about if they have seen it or how it is, you will inevitably hear the o so uncleaver and o so played out answer of, "pretty sweet".  God.  i think i personally have heard that a handful of ten times.  kapow................. brains on the linoleum.   This is not to say im not excited to see the film, because of course i am.  some of my favorite legends and newgromers, the dude who put cinematatic skateboard filming on the map and a budget that could leave you and I and all our buddies sipping mojitos in indonesia for the next 5 years......It's gonna be all it's hyped up to be that it fur certain.  I will always be a bigger fan of the little guy however.  I stumbled across this video today and its amazing.  A group of friends pioneering relatively uncharted skate territory and not the safest of lands to be traveling to say the least.  Meet The Stans is werth every 30 minutes of yer time.  it doesn't have Guy Mariano halfcab nosegrinding a ledge to nollielazer flip late flip out but it does have a group of guys, sum train rides, sum machine guns, a dirt to wall ride and the STANS.  Check this one out.

Visualtraveling - Meet The Stans from Patrik Wallner on Vimeo.

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as the buzz of.........

ski area across washington state hummz through the air, some are stranded without the money or means to lap the luxury of moving chairs up and down the peaks of the cascades.  Cam takes matters into his own bootz and binderz and gets urban along the tracks while shakas and high fives abound 4000 ft above.  booya-ka-sha!

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photo time.......

heres one i shot maybe 5 years ago now.  when i was in seattle last weekend i metioned this spot and really wanted to hit it up again.  super fun.  hard to skate.  bank to jersey.  Cam Barret frunt rocks the fed ex warehouse for fun.

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gilbert......

is one of my favorites for sure.  one hell of a cell phone part.



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my mom shredding......

her hula group............  ya ma.

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seattle cruisen........

CEO footage.......Seattle rollin.........good good stuff.



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staight outta the Sorcery camp.....

comes more fun skateboarding......



get well soon josh.

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you probably didn't wonder.....

but van life has been treating my well.

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