a one block radius.

plus a session at beacon.  Video tommorow.

gotta log and edit.  back on the pennisula for now.

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best seat in the house........

watchin the bowl in the pipe.  dusted.

cam barrett.  ferdale, WA. 2005.

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mind melt........

winter time...........

mind melt.............

winter time............

mind melt.........winter time at Rowleys.......



mind melted.....

pennisula edit werking......

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diy skateboards......

in istanbul.  good for barefoot.  gotta skate.

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5 panel..........

dang, we here at the tortilla center department of radical have produced one, one of kind, hand crafted 5 panel meattortilla hat, cause gosh darn them 5 panels are so fricken hot hot hot.  Here it is modeled by the one and only beautiful Darla Denton.  Ima come up with a contest of sorts in the next couple dayz and it could be yers.  So be on the look.  One hat, one love, one chance to come up.  the gullz will protect you though thick and thin.

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this saturday........

support for marginal way is going down at the 2 bit in ballard with a bunch of bands playing comprised of skateboarders.  should be rowdy.  gaurenteed.

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canvas........

our buddy, all around talented creature of habit, Mr. Matt French has the canvas in the newest issue of Thrasher Magazine.  They used a picture i shot of Matt in the spread.  Its small, but hey, it's kinda neat i suppose and at least it didn't end up in the basstard photograffiti hoard.  And i need to come up with sum sorta clever name for future photo credz.  Instead of "smith' something like "wankadanka".  yeah i like that.  Anyways,  congratulations Matt on the coverage buddy!  Yer an amazing arteezt.  Go find yerself a copy and peep the spread.

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olympic pennisula.....

is where i have been callin home.  a few of the homies came out for the weekend to see if it really is sunnier in sequim.  good times.  return of the pink gullz.

hey honkey.......

the couple daze.

 gullz in sequim

got awefully burnt.

finished off yesterday at this skate dot.



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new lowcard.....

i have a photo in the new issue of lowcard for a BlackMarket Skateshop ad.....  Well supposedly.  jihad at marginal way.  the spot everyone looks at, but never skates.... well until i made ol jimmy jump the bar that day.

if anyone gets their grubby hands on a copy of this, please grab me one.  it would make ma smile.  well maybe not the illustration.

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unbelievable......

50 years old?  i'm 34 and feel like a dried up dog turd.  truly amazing and uncomprehendable to this body.



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skate wiches!

i first saw the original skate witches video from the 80's ten or so years ago.  Looks like the skate witch contengence still reigns throughout.

thee original



and the current brooklyn chapter



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the vics market crew...

makes any spot look fun.  everytime



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original content this year!!!!!

another night at camp ramp........thanks for the indoor enjoyment Mr. Carlson.

happy new years eve.  hope 2012 was rippen.  here's to 2013.

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from the tap....

ben colen has a bunch of photos from 2012 up on crailtap.  i thought the one of raven was photoshoped.  guess not.  both are crazy.

another boring poach.  original content next year.
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the rain that........

never hits the ground.  these boys are rippin.



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for real?...............

yes!!!



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pure lazyness......

still full of prime rib and cloud cake.  thanks mom.



a bunch of legends.



dang.



another gem from riley!!

happy holidaze yo.

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just listen.....

when you take photos you naturally see things in yer head.  composition, lighting, colors and such pop into yer brain and you know what will make a pleasant photograph.  Most of the time, the skater your trying to shoot does not see things in the same light or generally doesn't care.  The hard part is, talking them into going with your idea.  Sum guys have grown to understand yer vision usually werks out and they listen but most of the time its a little but of a ho hem.  Anyways, this was one of those days.  i had seen this spot walking mr. P on numerous occasion, seen the pallets laying around and this photo had popped into my thinker.  that night we had hit a few spots and i dropped the idea of going here and making this pallet hip and like i said the fellas weren't quite feeling it or seeing what i saw.  Once we got there, started pushing crappy wood around and skating however, everyone got stoked and i got the photos i had envisioned.  The photos you want do not generally come easy.

zack harbold.  fruntside flip.

 
zac garza.  lipslide.

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times are tough.....

the enconomy's hurtin, it's the holidays and we are all broke.  So when new years eve comes in a couple weeks and yer lookin to bring in the new year a little extra JAZZED do not, i repeat, do not take this route to make yer plans a reality.

yes i posted this in 2006.  was browsing back thru the archives and felt it needed a repost.  Try that sumtime.  theres sum funny stuff.  hard to believe i have been doing this blog for over 6 years now.  Thanks to all who check and have been checking it out over the years.  heres to you compadres!

jeremy miller, circa 2005.

p.s.  cocaine is complete garbage.

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just found a rapper.......

coloring book online.  if you were wundering what to get the guy who brings you all the sweetness that is meattortilla for xmas, look no further.  thanks in advance.

rap coloring book

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seeing as it's nasty out........

here is a couple more poachies from the good ol net to occupy yer inside time.

Adidas just put out this feature of the whole team ripping around NYC.  Super good.  Rap kinda got to me, but the cinematography is top notch and the i'm feeling the high contrast post.  Mark Suciu is on the team now and finishes the clip with sum crazyness.  Peep the fakie flip into the famous ledge to bank!!



I also stumbled across this video yesterday.  Its a bit longer.  45 minutes but werth all your time in my opinion as its more of a story than a skate video.  Filmed and edited by one of the best, French Fred, its a story of a bunch of fellas touring across New Zealand on bikes with skateboards in tow.  A really good watch.



and lastly, DIY seems to be the norm these days.  thank god for that.  guess this rad little creation is already ripped out.  thats the way it goes.  build it and skate it as long as you can. 



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i have now made it .........

through the new gurl/chocolate "pretty sweet" video 1.5 times.  In all honestly that's probably gonna do it for me.  I have all the respect in the werld for the boys skateboarding and Ty, Aaron, Roger, and Fedz are holding down the frunt lines in the cinematography world of skateboarding and action sports for that matter.  The video though is well,,, boring.  I cannot relate to it and it does nothing to help me get out the door and go get a rip.  So when Thrasher and Enjoi put out a new flick today, "Tweak the Beef" i was hyped.  The enjoi camp always entertains and always will undoubtedly show you the fun in skating minus the overplayed intros and dramatic slow mo's.  So have a peep.  "Tweak the Beef" will make you wanna go skate and certainly bring a smile to yer face.

louie bartletta!
ben raemers!
caswell dingle!

just to name a few..................

louie does a fruntside invert on the sacramento bank wall just to spoil a little bit of yer experience.



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pizza party!

so last saturday the pizza party/skatejam in the un occupied warehouse was super fun.  a lot of homies showed up, there was free pizza and sum good d.j.ing and sum bad d.j.ing.  Anyways, i shot sum photos and video as i always do to bring you the stoke on the tortilla.  Lets hope for more of these to come.

johnny matarazzo.  flip fakie.

flash didn't fire, but johnny with a kickflip late shuvit.

julian secora.   cool kid.  kickflip

the fella responsible for bringing you these events and pushing towards a permanent facility in this town, Chach Law.  outta focus frontside flip.  thanks buddy for all yer hard werk.

julian again.  hardflips.  different points of view.

alex gardner. fakie halfcab heel.

Mr. Okra.  no-comply.


and sum moving pictures as well:



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i poached this photo....

of jaime weller rippin this pool of the USURPER SKATEBOARDS blogsite.  jaime just sent me a board and sum shurtz.  good looks homie.  keep rippin!

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indoors.......

portland lurker, elias parise made this film documeting the indoor skateboard scene as of late in the great city of portland oregon.  short and sweet.  give it a whirl if you please.



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last weekend there was a skatejam/pizza party....

in a warehouse.  a bunch familiar as well as unfamiliar faces came out.  i will have a little media spot of the night in a couple hourz,  just gotta log and edit the footage.  photos are all done.  stay tuned.  gonna be a good one.    i hope.

one of those unfamilar face.  his name was Julian and he killed it all  night, here with a hardflip.  super  nice kid to boot.
check back soon for a grip of photos and video.  if i remember correctly, i got quite a few clips.

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seattle footy outtakes......

heres a little visual turd to accompany the post from a couple weeks ago.  thanks to moondoggy for filming while is was shooting photos.  I'll be back soon.

dudes in order of appearence:
chris cope
richie mon
brick strait

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this saturday!!!!!!

so the new indoor warehouse is still kicking and this saturday, tommorow, there is another skate jam, pizza party type event.  Go and check it out.  guaranteed to be a good time.

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clipoftheday..... chach law and seamus o connor.

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buy a skateboard from a skateboarder..

makes sense right?....



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