come on down

i am planning on being at this... never been to kent before, kinda excited about that. the movies should be great, really excited about that.

glowbordz

didn't we learn our lesson from all those individuals who had neon ground effectX on their cars in high school? putting glowing lights on or under anything that is not a christmas tree and putting an X at the end of a word where there should be an S... yeah like i said, i thought we learned our lesson in high school. at any rate, should you be into said style, check glowboardz for all your glowing snowboard base needs.

c'est bon

just got back from montreal. montreal is a cool place, with a very euro feel from the architecture to the food to the people. montreal is definetly doing it's own thing. was up there for work other then photos, so just did some pointing and shooting in my free time.

take a trip, enjoy the poutine
after the poutune, enjoy the full contact lap dances... like i said montreal, doing it's own thing

mini ramp ban

we all know you can get in trouble for skating around the city. now, salt lake city has made it possible to actually get in trouble for skating at your home... get this...

"4.5.21. Sporting Ramps. No person shall build or use nor shall any person cause, allow, or permit anyone to build or allow anyone to use any skateboard, roller blade, bicycle, or snowboard ramp or half-pipe or similar configuration within 800 feet of a dwelling, except within facilities that have been designated for such use by government entity."

wow...

now thats some creative shit

i wish i could skate well, i wish i could skate this well. the whole world would suddenly be open to so many new possibilities of fun things to skate.

new stuff

well it is that time a year again and the snowboard magazines are starting to publish their goods once again. got my first one in the mail today, it was the new snowboard magazine buyer's guide. thumbing through it i was stoked to find a full page nikita ad with one of my shots. didn't know it was going to be there, so it was a nice little surprise at the end of a long day. check it out if you get a chance...

my moleskine

i am a big fan of my moleskine notebook. i am a bit forgetful of the majority of my life so i need to write things down, not everything, but most things. strangely enough it does not matter where i write things down, simply that i write them somewhere seems to be enough to help commit the task or object to memory. the moleskine becomes so useful because it is small enough to almost always be close, i call it the traveler size, i have no idea what they call it. at any rate my "traveler" is just about finished and that inspires a bit of reflection.
there is stuff from the days of terrain parks, with set ups and ideas.there are story notes from trips i have taken.
there are file breakdowns of photos that i liked and needed to use.and finally the journey is nicely wrapped up in totally anti-climatic mannor by the technical data from my current job.
i guess the moral of the story is that if you have a hard time remembering things, get a moleskine or any notebook for that matter. besides remembering all those really important things, you will have a fun day of reminiscing when the book is all filled... oh well off to the store to get a fresh book to fill with random tidbits and coffee stains.

midwest fall

the fall has always been my favorite season in cleveland. it is all about great colors, crisp days and the absence of the oppressive humidity that lurks during the summer. we had a taste of it this past weekend, complete with some great storms coming off the lake. reason enough to get the camera out and dust off the cobwebs...

a guide to your pants... and their placement

for all you jokers out there wearing your pants too low... i guess detroit aka "the d", aka worst place in america, is cracking down and defining decent and indecent pant placement. check out the handy guide from the detroit free press about the different levels of acceptable "sag". with this out there i would like to also institute the tightness guidelines which would assign decent and indecent levels of tightness. if we are fining the butt crack, i want to also fine the moose knuckle both male and female.

enlightened

here are a few pics from the enlightened show in toronto. stopped by on the way back from canada to check out the show. it was really amazing, tons of rad photos all displayed in a really unique way. the photos were printed on a plastic material and then put in light boxes to give the effect of glowing, really cool. i think the show ended last week but it was up for a month. it is pretty cool that all so many people got to see some of what we(action sports photogs) do, and since it was also a brewery, they got to drink some pretty good beer while checking out what we do, so everyone is happy. thanks to the folks at enlightened for picking one of my photos to show , thanks to vera for doing a sick slash when it was cold out, and finally thanks to ashley for bringing a camera to the show and taking a few shots...