Archive for the 'Skateboarding' Category
Untitled Skateboards
The past several Thrasher magazines I’ve picked up all contained an interesting advertisement for Untitled Skateboards, a Christian skateboarding company. What faith has to do with skateboarding is beyond me, and I’m very disappointed in Thrasher for running advertising for such a lame-ass company (it looks especially out of place when the average ad that [...]
Read More..>>More Bad Ideas from the “Extreme Sport” Camp
Saw an ad for this monstrosity on some random skate site.
Features:
• Combines the worst aspects of skateboarding and scooters into one…thing!
• Look as dumb as a snakeboarder AND a scooter rider…COMBINED!
• You can do THIS!
• Comes in a variety of styles! Yellow deck with black wheels or black wheels with yellow deck, you decide!
• Tired [...]
More Skate Pics
With skate photos, seems that if I capture “the moment”, the composition is all wrong, and if I get the composition, I miss “the moment”. I have a bunch of brilliantly framed photos of people flying through the air 10 feet away from their board, and some horrible photos of the best tricks. If I [...]
Read More..>>New Lens! (And other Stuff)
(9:43:56 PM) Mom: check will be in the mail tomorrow, be sure to spend it on something frivolous
What, you mean like a Nikkor 10.5mm Fisheye?!
This is it. This lens is pretty much THE lens for skateboard photography. This is Nikon’s latest and greatest, sharpest and fastest fisheye, and is pretty much the lens that’s being [...]
Coolest Car Ad Ever
Looks like: Kickflip construction site, wallride over garbage truck, ollie up parking structure, heelflip roof gap.
Reminds me of the ultra high-speed slow-mo stuff in the opening of Girl Skateboards’ “Yeah Right!”.
Skateboarding Sucks
I’m still trying to figure out where July went, yet here we are in the first few brisk days of October. In Wyoming, that means that the snow is on its way to ruin any and all outdoor fun for the next 6 solid months. I finally decided that this year I would get over [...]
Read More..>>Go Skateboarding Day
The solstice has always been a depressing day for me because sure, it’s officially the first day of summer, but I also know we start losing daylight after today. FORTUNATELY this has been made up for by the International Association of Skateboard Companies, as they decided last year that June 21st was also the official [...]
Read More..>>Nice Timing, Spring
In the land of wind and dirt, good weather is a rarity that I normally embrace. Generally from about September to March, there is a good 6 feet of snow on the ground and the temperature is literally painfully cold. Spring doesn’t normally hit my hometown, unless you count the day that it transitions from [...]
Read More..>>“New” Skate Pics
Hey, haven’t posted pictures for a while. I actually took these nearly a month ago, but never got around to fixing them up in Photoshop. Here’s four decent ones from that day. Here I wanted to have one action pic, one “emotion” pic per skater. Making both “emotion” pics black and white was purely subconcious, [...]
Read More..>>Redeeming Myself
So even though the high ollie contest completely killed my spirit, I only took one day off of skateboarding (mostly because it was physically impossible to), and yesterday I headed up to the skatepark with Shawn, and pulled off my first triple kickflip in front of many of the same kids that saw me fail [...]
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