I miss Johnny...
January 31, 2009
Saw this signed Johnny Romano deck at Starr Skates in AZ today...
I went to the Mindfield premiere and all I got was...
January 31, 2009
... this lame clip of a chick being totally zany at a skateboarding event.
Things I'm learning from messageboards: Vol. 2
January 30, 2009
And then there were three...
Bobby Puleo and Anthony Pappalardo are the best. Everyone else is shit. (Except when Jake Johnson gets added to the list after the world sees Mind Field.)
Freddy hits the TF!
January 28, 2009
Freddy is my friend Dustin's dog. He's little and rips the etnies TF daily.
Things I'm learning from messageboards: Vol. 1
January 28, 2009
"It's like knowing the day you're going to die or something."
Any use of high-def or slow mo means you are obviously ripping off Ty Evans and Fully Flared. Any sort of biographical video means you are obviously ripping off Patrick O'Dell/Epicly Later'd. They did it all first and there's no room for anything else. You suck and should be ashamed of yourself. You should swiftly quit filming and making movies forever.
Dueling guitars...
January 28, 2009
I swear I was there, dude! Ask Leeper.
A strange number of people have inquired why I didn't do some sort of blog on the Crossroads thing and have assume I'm some sort of ASR cheerleader because of it. Scary, odd and very untrue, but I'm glad people are at least paying attention. I'll say I'm definitely a Grind for Life/Aaron Fotheringham cheerleader though, and ASR was a vehicle for me to be a part of that, so I'm appreciative in some ways.
I mean, of course I went to Crossroads. It was really rad. Great energy and it's sincerely exciting to have something new and skate-only happening. Long overdue. It felt like home and I was around all the great people that make skateboarding amazing and not the ones that make it whack.
Vai vs. Maccio... kinda like ASR vs. Crossroads.
I really respect the way Jamie Thomas does shit sometimes. But honestly, I had a hurt back from totally shredding the etnies TF so hard last week... well, trying to anyway. And, quite frankly. I wasn't in the mood to be the "blogger guy" all day.
Sometimes it's nice to see things with your own eyes and just experience them for yourself, not through the eyes of a two-inch LCD screen or viewfinder all the time. Not to mention, it's easy to know when all the other sites are going to do coverage of an event and it's going to be a blitz of similar content. Why add to that if I don't have something unique to offer? I mean, what don't you know already? Sheffey was there. Cole ripped, like always. Antwuan was probably wasted and the Hubba girl was smokin' hot. ABD.
That said all my friends at The Skateboard Mag, Thrasher, DLX, TransWorld, SPoT, Know Skateboarding and Skateboarder and so on all have lovely post-Crossroads delights for y'all to enjoy. Support them all.
Congrats!
January 27, 2009
Check out 1:04. Clyde's forever the man for that trick alone in my book.
So, after a looong hiatus, Clyde is back. I like Clyde and I like reading his stuff. One thing he said recently struck me as awesome:
I generally don't care about politics or world affairs, so I really have no place to comment on it. But I was glad to see Clyde was happy about the new black president. Then I thought about how I would be so totally happy if...
Me don't dreenk no steenking tequila!
January 26, 2009
This might've been funny if I wrote it. But even then, probably not. It's pretty rad that people pretend to be me on comments and messageboards and social networking sites. It must mean I've "made it." For the record, I don't like tequila or marketing bros and ASR is far from awesome.
I'd be stoked if one day one of these unnamed people actually came up to me and was like, "Yeah man, I wrote that. I don't like you for this or that reason."
And I'd be like "Cool! I understand. Thanks for being a man letting me know. Let's go skate."
The best things I saw at ASR...
January 25, 2009
... Were all during the Grind for Life Jump Ramp Jam. That's right: tits, a wheelchair backflip, an axe murderer by Kris Markovich and the most cutting edge photojournalism ever witnessed by man (ie: using a MacBook Air/PhotoBooth** program to shoot photos of skateboarding.)
**Please note that this takes extreme skill, precision and timing, as PhotoBooth has a three-second delay from when you push the trackpad button and the built in iSight camera above the LCD actually takes the photo. But this three-second window allows this fledgling photographer just enough time to spin the laptop around in his hands, aim it blindly at the skater who is about 30 feet away and then steady things up before the shot fires. For all you PC users, also know that there is no zoom or focus and the "flash" is nothing more than the MacBook LCD going all white for a brief second in time.
And for the record, seeing Aaron "Wheels" Fotheringham attempt the backflip was better than the tits, or any of the aforementioned, for that matter.