Hype List 2

Album: The Blueprint 3, Jay-Z


Song: Photograph by Def Leppard


Random cooking utensil seen on TV: Perfect Brownie Pan. It's the greatest thing I've seen in a while


Activity: Spot Hunting. Driving around, ducking down alleyways, jamming out to the radio. Good times

TV: Sons of Anarchy



I'll have some new photos this week and a story about the U

Some photos and stories from Go Skateboarding Day

I'm only 3 months late, get off me. They're still good, and semi-relevant cause one of the guys made a move to a different team!

So first thing, I had to take Alex Carolino and Marquise Henry to Fairmont. They were following a couple of guys who didn't know how to get to the park from Blindside. How you get lost on a 3 block trip is beyond me, but never the less they managed to lead an up and coming dude and a Brazilian pro away from the park. I found them, led them over and had a nice little chat with them both. Then we got to the park, and they got to business.


Alex, backside nosegrind


Alex, kickflip over the rail


Marquise, switch frontside nosegrind

The handrail wasn't the only thing that was skated, but it was the only thing I had good angles on. The euro gap got a beating, but the lack of a proper wide angle prevented any good shots and the picnic table thing got a work out too, but I couldn't get a good angle for fear of being killed by either a) everyone skating around it or b) the official DC filmer who didn't seem like the kind of guy who wouldn't have appreciated me shooting next to him. Anyway, let's talk about Tommy.


Tommy Finn, front smith

Tommy was a nice guy. He's on DC flow and Santa Cruz flow, and he was the only one willing to talk to me during both the signing and the session. He's a nice kid and he rips. He hit everything, from the euro gap to the handrail even the bowl saw some action. I really hope he gets big time, cause he deserves it.

In addition to the DC guys there were some locals out there. Nobody I really knew, but locals nonetheless. One of them was this kid Brody. He was a one man wrecking crew on the handrail: back smith, front smith, kickflip back smith, kickflip front board. The kid killed it.



He also won himself some scratch in the best trick contest, including taking $50 off of Marquise by doing a nollie heel crooks on the the ledge in the middle of the park. Now while Brody was taking out the ledges one by one, there was a guy doing something in a different vein: He was frontside flipping from bank to bank. He didn't get it during the contest, but he did get it that day.



The best trick contest, and the obligatory product toss, rounded out the day. It was a hell of a day

Hype list #1

Shit that's been getting me hyped/inspired lately.

Album: Weezer, The Blue Album


Single: New Perspective, Panic! At The Disco


TV: Criminal Minds


Movie: don't watch movies fool

Skater: Justin Brock

I've got 5 prints for sale

If you came to the Supremacy Racing Anniversary meet back in April then you've seen all of these. What you didn't see was any indication that the photos were for sale. That one was on me. But now you've got a chance to own one of 5 limited edition ass prints that were actually hanging at that meet! Here's what I've got:


Sign Silhouette

16x20, $40

Truck

16x24, $45

Drifter

16x20, $40

Draper Fire

16x24, $45

Valve Cover

16x20, $40

There they are. You know you want one. Let me know which one and we'll make a deal.

I need to visit these things

I watch a lot of TV and spend way too much time on the internet and thumb through more than my fair share of magazines, and in all of these media I see things (conventions, festivals, large gatherings, what have you) that I desperately want to go to. So in an obvious hint dropping gesture, here are the things I want to go to:

#1 Comic Con



Why do I want to go? Well first and foremost I'm a nerd. I love all the things exhibited there: new comic books, upcoming films, panels of writers, creators and stars of tv shows and movies. Oh, and scantily clad women!



And where else can I find all of these things except at Comic Con? Plus it's held at the San Diego Convention Center. Let's review: Geek heaven, scantily clad women, sunny San Diego. Sounds like a hell of a way to spend 4 days of my summer.


#2 Taste of Chicago



How have I not been to this? It starts the Friday before the 4th of July, runs for ten days, some of the best restaurants come out to set up booths and offer food for a hell of a lot cheaper than what you'd pay in the restaurant, and there's music. Oh, and it's free to enter. Damnit I need to go!


#3 SEMA



I've gone twice before and it's been awesome. First time I met some of the coolest people I've ever met, and the second time I got paid to wander around and take pictures. It fills the Las Vegas Convention Center with cars, trucks, more free product than any one man has any right to get and plenty of models. It's got something for everybody, and hell if you take your girlfriend down who doesn't like cars then she can run around Vegas and shop, eat, or spend hours in a spa.


#4 the Sundance Film Festival

*no logo*

It's in my backyard, but I've never gone. I just want to try to get some free stuff, hit on some Hollywood starlet, and maybe fight some pompous film producer. That's it, nothing more.


That's it. There are other things I want to go to (Eibach meet, Waterfest, many many auto shows across the world) but these are my top 4 that I've been dying to go to for years

The last Wide Open Wednesday of the year!...maybe

Yesterday was the last Wide Open Wednesdays of the year out at Miller Motorsports Park in lovely and scenic Erda, Utah; in addition to being the last day there will be a single day month and year until January 1 2101, the release of Beatles Rock Band and a remastered Beatles collection.

And, as with everything good that is coming to a close, the hordes came out en mass just to say they got in on it. It was a blessing in that this event was insanely popular so it'll most likely continue next summer; however, it was a curse because there was a shit ton of people and a good amount of people with cars that shouldn't be on the road (let alone a track) and/or couldn't drive worth a damn! Brody ran down a Shelby Mustang, and what looked like a bone stock DC5 ran down a '76 Corvette Stingray. There was a rusted out pile of an original Mustang and some guy in a Ford Ranchero. Cool yes, track worthy? Hell no.

But with the bad and incompetent there was plenty of awesome. A pair of E92 M3 sedans, Brody and his STI, Lance and his dumped as shit bug eye, some guy in a Corolla XRS, and the first Evo X I've seen out there (along with some others) brought the awesome. Anyway, here's some shots of the madness for you to enjoy:



I got there early and got to watch a little bit of the Grand Am cars practicing, it was pretty cool


Scratch that, it was fucking awesome! When are you gonna see race prepped Vipers, Corvettes and RX-8's going door to door for free?


Driver's meeting


This is Phil's Forester, the car that gives hope to my monster truckin shit box.


Speaking of monster trucks, Jordan brought out his WRX Wagon.


Bobbo brought out his truck, which was so very awesome on many levels


One of the levels was him taking me out on the parade lap in the truck. I have now been on the track in an Integra Type-R and an S-10 eXtreme


Keep it pimpin' pimpin'




This car get's me excited...sexually

All the awesome from the day can't be contained in this blog, so head to the flickr page and check out the other forty-nine photos.

Build a bunker cause the end is nigh!

We're facing a horde of socialist/communist/zimbalist/fascist Children of the Corn thanks to President Obama's indoctrination speech today. This was an unprecedented act horror! If you love America you'd be wise to shoot the next 5 pre-kindergarten to 6th grade kids you see who were brain washed this morning.

You'd also be wise to take the following steps in preserving our republic/democracy/beacon of capitalism:

1. Build and stock a shelter so you can ride out the up coming apocalypse. It's a coming, believe you me!

2. Force out people in your neighborhood who drive Hybrids. Don't try to save them, they're too far gone down the evil road of Liberalism

3. While you're at it, force out the uninsured. Their lack of responsibility in obtaining health insurance is a beacon for the 4 Horsemen and you don't need that on top of the waves of brainwashed kids trying to kill you and your old people. Plus the free market wants them dead and nobody, but nobody, fucks with what the free market wants

4. Don't "hope" things will get better, and don't try to "change" things either. Hope and change got us into this mess, and they damn sure won't get us out!


Follow these steps and you will truly become a patriot because you will have defended this great nation of ours!

more fun at Guthrie

Went to Guthrie and I actually managed to get the camera out!


Clint Godfrey, backside 180 over the barrel. Every time he skates this damn thing he always lands whatever trick he's trying and leaves before I can get my camera out.


Your favorite snowboarder and mine, Cale Zima


This kid kept getting in my way while I was going for a different angle of Clint skating over the barrel. He's cool though


Nick Sueoka, a flat ledge and a back tail. If I could shoot sequences you could see him doing shit out of his back tails. But I can't, so you don't.