Shoulda Woulda Coulda...Ezekiel Ad

John Lupfer and I shot this photo on a nice weekend day trek in San Diego with the homies Derek and Vince joining also. Always good times with Lupfer.


Recently, I got hit up about Johns new ad and kinda got heckled about the Ezekiel campaign of a reversal mirror imagery being added to Johns photo. Yeah, yeah I get it.. "Was it switch, was it regular?" Due to contrary and wishful belief, I don't do everything at Ezekiel (like layout the ads), and much like the rest of the industry, not every company is staffed entirely with die-hard skateboarders.


So agreed, if I were to choose, the layout below (which I created after the fact) would have been chosen. But, hey those are the advertising deadline ups and downs.

Speaking to John about the ad, his response was "I don't care, people who skate know, so it doesn't really matter. It makes em get a second glance." Hmmm.. Thats a good take on it.

Thanks to John and Ezekiel!

Sean Conover Slashed

One of those spots where a member in the van spots it, someone screams "Pullover!!" and everyone jumps out, with the excitement that they struck gold and found something that no one else has discovered.

Sean Conover Backside Flips a spot we find while driving through Texas on our Ezekiel Southern HOTSPOTatility Tour. Conover, we miss you, lets go skate, dooood!


More Slashed here.

SOTY SF Weekend Blurrr

Went to SF for Thrasher's SOTY, here are a couple posts from the trip.

Red Bull for SOTY (day 1)


Ezekiel (sorta day 2 / 3)

Trip me, in SF. Secret Photos Uncovered

Finished the final post on Ezekiel with some photos from our Trip Me, in SF trip. It was like beating a dead horse, but hey, gotta get every ounce sometimes.

Nothing special, but here they are in more of a higher rez. Vince's Backside tail, was already slashed here. Check out the post at: Trip Me, in SF - Secret Photos Uncovered.

The Derek Fukuhara Interview

We did an Ezekiel Interview with Derek Fukuhara for the website, not to long ago. Then one random boring day, I laid it out in one of those magazine pdf styles thinggy. I dunno why, I think I just was bored, but either-way here they are.


The words are the same in both, but click the top for the Ezekiel link, and the image below to download the PDF. (right click = download linked file)


Or view in each window here:

Vince Duran Slashed

We went on a trip to SF a couple week ago, and had a blasted great time. Here are a couple photos of Vince at a spot that he randomly saw and cried out while driving around San Francisco. Looks like it had been skated before.. Or had it?


Thanks Vince, always a pleasure. Trip on down to the video of it here!

Caught on tape! TRIP ME in SAN FRANCISCO

Remember our Tripped again, in SF?



Filmed and Edited by Amir GT

It's the AZ in BLAZE - Post 3

We added the 3rd installment of the Blaze in Az trip with Ezekiel from my digital camera. Have a lookie, then throw yourself in a oven, cause it was that hot.

See post 1 and post 2 here.

It's the AZ in BLAZE - Post 2

Part 2, ready for viewing, click pic below. To catch up on Part 1, Click here

It's the AZ in BLAZE - Post 1

When your finished doing what your... errr doing.
So we went to Arizona this weekend. Read our first post from the trip.



Click here for Part 2

TRIPPED AGAIN, IN SF (DAY2)

Part 2 of the Ezekiel Trip is posted -


"We packed all our things into one bag, and almost forget it all in SF. Plus due to contrary belief, it's not THAT hard surviving for a weekend on only 2 bottles of water and a Red Bull. I guess most people are just weaklings in comparison."

Check out part 1 of our tour while your at it.

Ezekiel Welcomes Lee Yankou to the Team

I just put the finishing touches on the new Ezekiel "Welcome to the Team" video with Lee Yankou. Congrats Lee, we are stoked to have you!! You the man!


Plus if you got time, read, Ezekiel's post on "Catching up with Lee Yankou" here.

Thanks to Jon Sherman at Sus Monts for working with us on the footage. If you haven't yet, go out and buy a copy of SUS MONTS, or just click the link here to paypal a copy. Don't sleep or they might sell out!

The Lee Yankou Interview

Lee Yankou (our sole Canadian Ezekiel Team Rider) and I did this quicky interview for the Ezekielusa.com site - Just breaking it down about Tigers, Interviews and Life. Check it out.

Mark Frolich in Skateboarder

On the last international trip I went on to Portual with Louie and Derek, we also had our Ezekiel International team with us, starting with Jart Pro Mark Frolich. Whoa, this dude rips!
So we head to this chest high out bar, which if you flip over to one side, you obviously crash into the stairs, so Mark hauls ass and rips a backside 180 nosegrind probably in like 10 tries. Soo cool! It was a super bright day so we pretty much had our flashes on top of him. Thinking back.. that was a good trip. Thanks to Mark, Oli and Skateboarder!

Randy Ploesser graces the pages of Thrasher

We shot on the Ezekiel Northwest Tour the day after our nicely relaxing camping trip. Everyone shredding this bank to non-belief. It was crazy, and of course Randy had devised a trick that was not only inventive, but equally amazing.

Great shit Randy! Its been a pleasure... thanks.

Ezekiel Northwest Tour on Skateboardermag.com

Now that you have seen the entire skate trip from Ezekiel Northwest Tour and that fancy cover we received, we also have posted tons of fun photos on Skateboardermag.com, I guess its the photos that we shot when we weren't skateboarding. Everything from our stay at Super 8, to camping in the forest. Read the article, visit the webpage, and then go get looped out!

Dungonmaster and the Warlocks

As you seen the posts a couple months back, Ezekiel went on a Northwest Tour and skated everything and all of it.
Well, Skateboarder was soo kind as to give us the cover of the Febuary Issue of the Louie photo I shot! It's my first cover for a major magazine other then the ones I shot for FTK.
Plus a wonderful 10 page article with our entire trip. Randy wrote the story and I shot the photos. One of the best trips I've been on! Thanks soo much to Skateboarder and the Ezekiel Skateteam! Plus: Theresa, Matt Miller, Chris Ray, Jesse from Adidas, Alex Cazanas and everyone else who helped us on our trip.

Derek Fukuhara behind the lens

Derek was filming his buddy and Ezekiel flow rider Vince Martinez. This is what he came up with! Hahah!

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 15 / End

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 14

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EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 10

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 9

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 8

Slacking on the updates, but here is the next couple days from the Ezekiel Northwest Tour.

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 6

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 5

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 4

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 3

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 2

DAY TWO IS UP.

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 1

ASR / PRE TOUR SYNDROME

Read and view pictures about my first day, BEFORE the tour!

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR

TOUR TIME!!! So the Ezekiel Team and I are heading out on tour up the great Northwest to Portland and Seattle. Check out the site and come and visit with us! Yeah.. Plus team updates often!

MANNY MANIA PHOTO EXTRA'S

RANDY PLOESSER'S NEW EZEKIEL AD

People commented to me about this ad, some were confused saying, "Just a wallie?", others really liked how it was split into two pictures because it really showed the entire trick, which I really liked too. It was cool how Randy just laid this thing out and was able to do it mulitple times for us to keep shooting different angles. Randy Ploesser / Wallie over to 5050 in Brooklyn.

Speaking of tricks, did you guys ever see Randy's contents in Skateboarder? That was bananas!

Evan Smith in Color Magazine

Wow, Evan Smith is blowing up isn't he? Well congrats to the little dunny, he deserves it of course. This bs5.0 fsrevert in was supposed to be in his 411VM Am issue part, shame that doesn't ever get to be viewed. I remember this night in TX from our Ezekiel US tour, we were just cranking out tricks and this one was the easy go for him for how tight the ramp is. Thanks to Color Magazine for throwing in little dunny in this issue.