Courting death, so ill at ease

He's got a pair of khakis and a penectan

No clue what a penectan is...

1 day til I'm too preoccupied to skate.

Don'tcha just love super far away fisheye shots??

Will shreds so casually.

Double trouble

I took a shit ton of pix Feb 21st 2010. Here's two

No more menudo

Worst style evr!

            

Gone gone gone

dangly dangly dangly dangly dangly

Randoms

This blog has gotten mighty dusty with my lack of posts, so I've decided to start a "pick of the day" sorta thaang with random pics that never fit anywhere else.

 Helix sess from 09

moar negz

 This is a roll I shot for a class assignment using 3200 speed film. The first and last shots were taken randomly downtown as I wandered around before class, trying to kill off the roll. All the rest were taken in the old and moldy USO space at Spreckels. Went in to scan these at school but every single scanner was being dangly. Oh well, more DIY.

More songs about buildings and food.

The more advanced the photo classes I'm taking, the less my professors wanna see pictures of skateboarding and snapshots of my dumb friends. This leaves me with a dilemma cuz I'm not too interested in landscapes, fashion, or still lifes and I'm no good at  fine art abstract-y shit. I am interested in architecture, however. I'm always lurking buildings for things to schralp and working downtown makes access super easy. I'm drawn to the honesty of urban desolation in the back streets more than swanky hotels and glitz of the Gaslamp quarter. I'm hoping to capture buildings, interspersed with shots of food/people eating to create a portfolio inspired loosely around the Talking Heads 2nd album. These are my first attempts at a cohesive photographic series.

Budget cuts

Budget cuts left skool pretty fucked. The campus has had to cut back the TA's hours from 72 to 3, leaving long checkout lines and severely cut access to equipment. Those saucy scanners I used last semester are locked away so I'm left having to get very DIY with my negatives.

Here's part of a roll I shot a couple weeks back. These are pics from my digi of the color negs shot under a light and white backdrop. I inverted the colors and cropped em down in post and Shazam! Hopefully I'll be able to scan again soon...

Updating without much to post.

My timing stinks lately, I've been shooting everything a second too late. Blew a shot of Daygo Dom blasting a fatty heelflip, blew a shot of Will tweaking a backside ollie(twice), prolly blew some more shots on the rolls I haven't developed yet. At least my exposures have been accurate!

I only blew the lander. These are what Alexis would call valiant attempts.

Also, RIP Snatch. It was a good run.

Alexis rules

remixes

Flash back to Summer of 08 where Video#2 is mostly filmed, edited and ready to go. "Mostly" being the operative term. I could have easily taken an extra month or two to finish things up proper but a deadline loomed: Murrie Barnett was about to ship off for a second term of war. He'd missed out on video#1's premier: Fuck A Film, a year prior because of war and I wasn't down for it to happen again. Night of the premier I told everyone to simply blame the hasty production on Murrie, drink another beer and enjoy. Nasty Nate Lerma took the "another beer" line to heart and was eventually administered The Hook by Vantor, but that's another story completely. Anyways, premier night was a rager and Murrie is home so I figure it's finally time to tie up the loose ends of my second video.

Drewl must of been in a major hippie phase when he chose the original song for his part. I enjoy a bit of Free Design here and there but it did make for an odd skate edit. It was entertaining seeing him get ragged for it too, but I wasn't stoked that he wasn't stoked in the long run. This edit is more concise and features a more fitting tune by a more fitting band.


Erik not being from Oakland is the main reason for this re-edit. Erik didn't have any songs he was set on and he's a tough dude to pick for. Essentially, City Of Dope by Too Short just fit really well without much tweaking and considering my time frame, I just rolled with it. It's bugged me for a couple years now so I've replaced it with the coolest Ventures song of all time.

Putting in work

Snatch park DIY. The only good thing in the San Diego River.