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Monday, May 31, 2010

Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. -RiskyBusiness

These photos were taken about a year and a half ago or so of Dontae Benjamin (one of the best skateboarders I know) and Matt Grube. At the time I had been working on completing my senior year along with my AP photo portfolio. My focus was a look at skateboarding beyond the tricks. 
Chillin... tired from trying a trick for a while

Chillin...
Matt dropped in on this verticle pole 
A bunch Matts... Woh

Blueprint Premiere


Don't forget to go to the premiere at Zen West tonight...


Definitely Joining...

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Hoy fue aventureros...

Today I woke up around 1 p.m., took a while to get out of bed after watching about an hour and a half worth of skate videos new and old, loathed around some more and finally made my way downstairs to make a few hot dogs. After that, sat around some more, got the moped out, checked the oil, had it out front and ready to go. Instead of leaving then, I picked up the book I've been reading and sat around for a little more. I hurt my back yesterday and just didn't really feel like doing anything. 
I read for 30 minutes or so and made the stab at finally leaving. I hopped on the moped and headed around the gas station for a quick fill-up. From there I headed into Towson and arrived at kelly's bridal's to find about 40 skateboarders. Luckily I did not bring my board (hint of sarcasm). Still I hung out, watched everyone and made conversation. Hugh asked if he could engage the moped in some 1 on 1 and knowing this was of course a bad idea I said "yeah sure," right away. If you knew Hugh, you would know what I mean. I told him that he still had to go by street signs just as if he was in a car. He goes, "Dude. I know." He took off, swerving all over the place and headed right up the do not enter part of the alley while I exclaimed, "Idiot..." to myself. After trying to stay calm, he whizzed back around the corner in about 3-4 minutes, still swerving and curving. Everything seemed to be in the clear when he was trying to park against the wall and somehow had mistaken the brake for the accelerator and wheelied into it. Everything was fine, but Hugh lost his privileges. I skated his board for a bit and decided it was time to keep truckin'. 
I picked up an Arizona green tea and headed towards Loch Raven Blvd. Only two stop lights and your in the clear with only open roads, the smell of honey suckle, the sunny patches and the cool shaded areas which you seem to be even more sensitive to when moving at a clip of 40-50 miles per hour. I first stopped at Valley view farms and took a few photos. Left there and headed towards the reservoir. I pulled over at the first dam, parked and got the camera out. I took a few photos and then realized I might be there for more than a minute and moved the moped to a safer, more visible area. I proceded to take more photos and talked with a nice Mexican family that was fishing and was able to practice some spanish. The little girl, followed me around and asked me questions and taught me a few new words and drew a picture of me (shown below). As you can and cannot see by the photo of the kind of fish they were catching were small and sickly looking and I could only hope that the small grocery store bag full of them were not their dinner. 
After departing, I continued on my route eventually circling the entire reservoir, took more photos and headed home. On the ride home I could not help but pull over at least 6 times to take more pictures. The sun was setting and the riding breeze was much coooler; still addicting. All in all, an unexpectedly interesting day.



























Thought this was a good idea?


For some reason one day last summer I thought that trying this rail was a good idea. It makes me laugh everytime I look at it. Nothing bad happened, didn't land it, knew I didn't even really have the desire to try and land it, I just tried it anyways. Who knows why I did that...

"I wish you woulda put yourself in my suitcase" - Coconut Records

A random color assignment from like 10th or 11th grade
Somewhat uneventful flower shots...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Philly and Pops Park

Yesterday, Willy, Mike, Jason and I ventured up to Philadelphia and met up with Zach Sheats (www.crosstownbeef.com) who took us to Pops park, which is built by skateboarders. All I can say is that the park was pretty awesome; lots of options. It was a fun, hot, long day, ended with some steak subs and pizza. The first real trip of the summer. 








Pretty Rad...

Kitintale from Yann Gross on Vimeo.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

IF YOU KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR YOU...

Check out the whole NEW SHUT WEBSITE!  ALSO... Go to the family section and check out Jason Spivey's am page... its ZICK!

www. shutnyc.com 

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Bandit.

One of my two huskies. 

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Today...

...I rode the moped, which I finally have some pictures of below, up into Towson, met up with Jason and Wyatt, followed by Justin,  and skated kelly's bridals for a while. As usual we played a few games of skate, not gonna say who won them, hung out, talked, and moved onto the next spot. This spot is new to Towson, pretty sick, somewhat generic, ledge over a grate. I broke out the camera today and shot Jason doing a backside smith grind for fun and tried teaching him how to use it while I did some backside tailslides. After skating the ledge we rode around on the moped for a while, which I bought last sunday. Pretty solid and successful day. - On a side note, the scooter explains the lack of posts lately; all that I've been doing is riding it and skating. 









Noches De Verano

Last night, drove my moped over to a bonfire to hang out with a bunch of people from high school. Lots of fun. The night ride through wooded roads was the best.