happy new year!

hey everyone, just wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy one! be safe, have fun and treat yourself to some champagne this evening!

more random pics

so i am getting real anxious to go ride and even more anxious to go shoot some pics of riding. it has been snowing in cleveburg and the local hill, alpine valley (see photos in the nov 4th post) is now open. still just shooting stuff around town, check 'em out below.

the fatherland

can't say i have spent a lot of time there but apparently pittsburgh sucks

nikita chickita

the 2008 nikita chickita is going down in mammoth feb 9th. should be a good time, if you are not a dude and you enjoy snowboard trickery, you should think about signing up as well as just checking out. if you are a dude, you should just come check it out...

happy december...

have not posted in a bit, sorry about that. been kinda busy and not taking photos. but today i could not help myself, ice storm makes for a shitty morning commute but also makes for some interesting pics...
by the way, go see no country for old men, it is amazing. honestly amazing.

a few random pics

here are a few random pics from the other day, maybe you like them, maybe you don't, that's kinda the way it goes with these things sometimes...

cleveland field trips

went to the west side market on saturday to take some pictures and make a meal. with my culinary knowledge being a little on the soft side, ashley took over for me there and left me up to snapping some shots of a cleveland landmark. if you are ever in cleveland or you live there and have never been... go to the west side market. it is exactly what you want a huge city market to be like, people haggling over price, fresh fruits and vegis, obscure cuts of meat, and of course in northeast ohio, pierogies. don't know what a pierogie is? go to poland or come to cleveland. depending on where you are it will more then likely be a bit cheaper to come to cleveland. have fun and enjoy...

north east south west... again

so i was wrong about sean kearns he was a filmer not director of the movie, but i am into anything boozy the clown works on... i watched it today in my car on my ipod when it was raining and i could not work outside... it was rad, different then the regular snowboard movie. besides the riders segments they have four different trips the team went on together, to the north, east, south and west... thus the name i guess... at any rate it is a fun way to see a season.
ps i want to ride like pat moore, and i am not just saying that because of my ties to wv, pat or deb... he is just that good and always a pleasure to watch... check the film out, check pat out, check the whole foursquare team out...

north, south, east, west

check out the new film from foursquare, north south east west... i have downloaded it but believe it or not i have not had time to watch it yet. it is directed by sean kearns though who has a bit of experience making snowboard movies, so that is why i am willing to say check it out before actually checking it out myself... that movie is available from iTunes, so for a $1.99 you really can't go that wrong... watch the the teaser below...

wallpaper

thanks to some crafty graphic designing by the man kbell, you can pick up wallpapers for your computer screen with some of my photos from wv... click here to see all of them

new editorial

new editorial stuff in issue 11 of n*east... the skate story from last month and the winter gear review... give it a look as it is on stands now.

midwestern mountains...

spent some time walking around cleveland this weekend. took some pics of stuff i saw. i was really surprised because lets face it cleveland is a small city, not exactly new york or anything... nevertheless there were still plenty of parts right downtown that i had never laid eyes on. go out where ever you are and find some things you have never seen, it is fun and not nearly as hard as you might think.

so here is where it all started for me, this is the reason i have been doing what i do for the past however many years. hard to believe. still just as stoked to go out and ride now as i was every friday with the ski club in grade school.

a new addition since i last rode there... the dirt work for northeast ohio's largest half pipe

some ohio photos

went and saw the darjeeling limited the other night. if you are at all into wes anderson movies (rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, life aquatic, bottle rocket) you are going to love the darjeeling limited. never a dull shot in the movie always wide with plenty of things going on in every direction and the characters are amazing. great flick check it out...

red bull soap box derby was this past weekend in providence, ri. took pics and worked ops, one of the longest, hardest, but most fun events i have ever worked. thanks to everyone on the msi crew for making all nighters enjoyable! just like in the movies... the nerds won.

went and got artsy today... shooting the gear review for n*east... here are a few shots that will not be in the mag... thanks to all those involved and thanks for the meals jim... special thanks to leah for smiling...

finished the trip out in america's vacationland maine... thanks to leah we had some skaters from ride207 come meet up and show me around portland a bit. big thanks to jordan and garrett for coming out... enjoy the pics and the pumpkinhead