..sorta. Just a coincidence that Nora and I were shooting at the Combi Pool when J. Grant Brittain, noted director of photography at The Skateboard Mag rolled in to shoot with Chris Miller. I was cowering a bit — not because … Continue reading

..sorta. Just a coincidence that Nora and I were shooting at the Combi Pool when J. Grant Brittain, noted director of photography at The Skateboard Mag rolled in to shoot with Chris Miller. I was cowering a bit — not because … Continue reading
Yesterday was the Girls Combi Pool Classic competition. It was *super competitive — really sporty. Hellzafun. There’s lots to share. Some I’ll save — but I couldn’t resist this one of Justyce Tabor coming around frontside. I found the other one … Continue reading
Well this weekend’ll be the 2011 Women’s Protect at the Vans Combi. I stopped by the other day to see who was there practicing for the big day and here was Allysha and Lizzie and Nora. It was a year … Continue reading
I had a morning of basically waiting to get on a plane, so I rang up Lizzie on a whim. We hadn’t shot together in, like..forever and keep promising to, so..who knows? Lizzie’s game. And Noah Montes had to hop … Continue reading
Hunter Long, heating up a bit of coping around the deep end at Cholo’s along Oahu’s North Shore near Banzai. This was a golden day for shooting. A gang of rippers, the epic and storied Cholo’s, spot-on weather and new … Continue reading
After the first of what was original *two days of the Oregon *Bi-fecta and after the second day got cancelled making the event more of a *fecta than anything else — the organizers arranged a little fun session at Tobin’s … Continue reading
From the Tim Brauch Memorial Contest, 2011 edition — this is one of my favorite shots, even though I almost got my eyeball killed (not really..) and shows one of the hazards (I suppose) of using a fisheye *and my … Continue reading
I had mentioned that Jenna Selby took a couple of hours to meet up and talk about the Hello, Skater Girl project. She’s put up the interview on Cooler Mag. Although I was heading to London to do my own … Continue reading
Well, I went to London. There was lots to do there — meetings, fun meet-ups, lots of wine, as it turns out, &c. While I wasn’t there for the “Hello, Skater Girl” photo book project, I did take advantage of the … Continue reading
http://vimeo.com/m/28932407 I don’t know why I started making this video. We’re Maybe a little challenge in a world of mostly moving images to turn something that was a still image of something that is highly dynamic and motion-based into something … Continue reading
WARNING: This is *not* typical of what I might expect from a precious printed book. I’m sharing this mostly for myself to capture the evolution of the project, which includes things not going as hoped or expected. WARNING What happened … Continue reading
So, I flew into Denver on the way to Breckenridge and rang up Carleigh Samson to see if she wanted to meet up to shoot and this is what we ended up doing after the two-for-one happy hour special at … Continue reading
Well, I dunno but I think Nora totally ripped way beyond at the Oregon *fecta this year. I can’t judge cause I’m only a novice at watching skate and I’ve never actually, you know..skated..but I should say that it’d be … Continue reading
Lizzie Armanto took first place at the Oregon *fecta..the first time I went a year ago it was a Trifecta — three different parks over three days. This year, a Bifecta was proposed — two park and two days. At the … Continue reading
An evening at Bible Bowl down south on a mid-July evening. It was a mostly girls session. I boogied down there to catch up with Lizzie, AmeeJay, Jordan, Julz and others. I had hoped ot meet up with them at … Continue reading
It’s been a long fun week skating..but skating every day. It shows on Nora’s face here as she suits-up to skate at Tony Hawk’s "Birdhouse" in the heart of Vertlandia, Southern California. There were plans to meet Mimi Knoop down … Continue reading
Well, we finally met up! Not for lack of trying — this time coordinated with last minute text messsages and the urgency of realizing we were both going to be out of town and not-crossing-paths for the next month! Far too … Continue reading
Nora’s in town with Eamon! Yay! Anyway..I picked them up at the airport and we headed down to Huntington Beach for Coastal Carnage on Saturday and we got…skunked, big time. No skating, whaat? Plus its a crazy human cattle stampede … Continue reading
So, I’ve found myself editing video and animating still photographs. It’s a weird thing seeing as this is a photography project and the project *is still a photography book. But — I seem to relish any opportunity to challenge my creativity … Continue reading
So, we’ve been debating giving people the opportunity to support the project and get some stocking stuffers for themselves by doing a Kickstarter, um..kicker. It went back and forth for a couple of months. But, our external executive editor said, … Continue reading
So — I settled on Adobe InDesign to do the book design and layout. It wasn’t so much a “settling” as vague, barely competent experience with it. I used it *once before to do a little essay/booklet that was never … Continue reading
I’ve been lucky enough to become friends with Mimi Knoop who’s not only an awesome pro skateboarder but a wonderful artist as well. I saw her piece here at an exhibit at Tony Alva’s shop over there on Fairfax and … Continue reading
I’ve been waiting for these things. The radios there. The bigger one is a Pocket Wizard FlexTT5 Transceiver. The little one only transmits and it’s the PocketWizard MiniTT1 Radio Transmitter. After suffering the rueful wrath of somewhat-reasonable, but definitely-curmudgeonly friends … Continue reading