T3i

I bought a Canon T3i a today ago. I walked right on down to Samy's, purchased this bad boy, walked back, and shot my first photo with it. This photo was processed in camera with some new feature this camera has.

Unidentifiable bro.

<3

Hot damn!

The wrist was broken all along. I'd like to take this time to thank the dumb fuck doctor up north for her totally wrong diagnosis. The month I spent with my wrist misaligned was PAINFULLY fun.

Got it reset and casted today.

I can't wait to skait. 

One Day Without Shoes

The fines folks over at BANGARANG brought us all this really cool gem of a skate piece and you need to check it out NOW or suffer the consequences:





This video was made (and inspired) for Tom's "One Day Without Shoes" which encourages people to go just one, single day, without shoes to see what a lot of people around the world do on a daily basis. The day was April 5th by the way. Yeah I'm late...so what. I saw the video the day Micah posted it, but for some reason forgot to post it up on here. Well better late than never.


As most of us know, Tom's gives a pair of shoes to people who can't afford them for every pair of shoes bought. I have a pair and it feels good to know that because of that pair someone else got to put some protection on their feet. I've finally pulling selects for a top secret project that Micah and myself filmed on mine and Clint's last outing to Arizona. Stay tuned for detailz?


BUY SOME TOMS, AND SOME BANGARANG!

A Sunday in the IE.

The Inland Empire is an area that is chalk full of good times. I know that that area is frowned upon for some reason...it may be the excessive heat? It may be the BRO factor? It may be the desert wastelandesque setting? I don't know what it is...but I like it out there. I for sure wouldn't choose to live out there. But it's a cool place to go out to for skateboarding reasons! I have a lot of friends out there, and I always seem to be with Sean Peterson when I venture out there. Anywhere you go with SP you are guaranteed to have a great time. I'm not trying to jock him too hard but he's a character and a half! SP...I love you dog!


As you can guess, SP was part of this IE mission. The crew this day was Sean Peterson, Eduardo Craig, Brad Burt, Daniel Knapp, and Paul Flores. We were all over the place that day and left nothing behind us but laughs and little things that pop when you throw them at the ground. Paul had a field day with an ice cream man and bought everything he had that exploded or created smoke. At one point we ended up at a crazy spot with an equally crazy background...snowcapped mountains.

We'll start off the photo documentation with none other than the king of the IE himself...Sean Peterson.

When no tricks ended up going down we ended up nabbing up an extra basketball from a family that was at the school. Eduardo Craigt with the lay away (Paul Flores with the much needed assist)!!!

Mr. Handsome himself, Brad Burt, laughing at how hard he was getting schooled on the b-ball court.

Paul was all over the place the whole day...obviously.

Brad shot this photo of yours truly at the same spot...he shoots film :0

The day continued on after we left that spot. We paraded around the area and just messed around and had fun. Eduardo got some clips, Brad got some photos, and SP also got some stuff. After the skating was over we hung out in a parking lot for a while and just put out the vibes. You all know about putting out the vibes!

Somehow Paul got access to the roof of this Subway. Eduardo HAIL MARY'D it the football that for some reason has been in my car for 2 years (I hate football).

DEAD ON!

We all admired the wintery looking mountains all day :)

Paul straight lined his icy beverage for maximum thirst quenching power. Why fight the urges?

We held down the parking lot like no others could have.

There's something about the end of a "meet up and skate" sesh that is always a little bit of a bummer. At least if it was a good day! When the cars with the separate people part ways is when the session is really over. I love being able to just hang out with your friends once you finish skating and just chat it up. When you're out skating you're usually just going straight to business but the times where you're just in a parking lot or at a spot just wrapping is when you get to bond more and really see how things are going in peoples lives. Well, since we live in California and everything is so "spread out" like everyone says the time spent driving to spots you also have that time to connect as well...but whatever alright I'm trying to get sentimental about how I like to spend time with friends before, during, and after skating! All you out there should know what I'm talking about. Come on!

Since the day these photos were taken was a little while ago now that I am revisiting I can't help but laugh at the two photos of Paul on the Subway roof. I was laughing so hard when I saw those again for the first time because I kept thinking (while we were there) if the workers inside were aware someone was on the roof, hahaha! Could they hear his foot steps, could they see Eduardo throwing the ball towards them, or were they just in their own culinary world? We will never know. All I do know, is that seeing Eduardo throwing the ball to some little figure on a roof with his arms up in the air makes me laugh so damn hard. So what if I find humor in the most minuscule things in life that most people don't think twice about. It's the little things that count...

Phone Pixz

Earlier tonight Moose sent me a photo of him looking all gnarly with one of the iPhone effects. It made me laugh so I figured why not blog it? He's in AZ with Ryan Reyes right now (I so wish I could be there!) and so he sent me a photo of Ryan as well and then I got to thinking "why not just do a blog post with phone pics!?" So I'm doing just that...silly pics from phones! It's got "win" written all over it. I went through my phone and also through picture text's I've received from friends and will now share these intimate phone pics and picture text messages with the world.

This pic of Moose really gets me!

This picture of Ryan Reyes actually looks believable? There may be a person out there that looks just like this!

I went to a party with some friends while I was up North last month...Robbie was straight TKO'd in the privacy of someones bedroom floor.

Abel was a bit more ruthless about where he passed out at the party!

Beto looking hyphy at Abel's place next to the most irie jacket ever?! Get up, stand up.

Hometown homies <3

Brad Burt and myself went and saw Royksopp play last week...it was a night full of drunken debauchery to say the least!

My rowdiness definitely bummed people out at the show that night :/

Mitch MacMurray dropping some knowledge via iChat?

This one comes via Dylan Witkin. We saw this authority figure and chatted with him for a bit. LEGIT! 

Another one from Dylan of Clint Walker one night at my place...if ONLY you knew what was just going on right before Dylan took this!

Another Dylan Witkin gem here. This ones from the Tampa Airport and I don't think I even need to tell you what's so damn funny about this one...

All the homies out there...keep the picture text messages coming. I need to comb through the inbox of my phone more often!