Looped Frame'd

Our Ezekiel Northwest Rep, Alex needed a item to raffle off in which the proceeds go to a new Oregon Skatepark via Tactics Skateshop - I present you Louie Looped! Hope they like it.

Jason Wakuzawa / Remembering the Turf Video

Jason Wakuzawa! YES!! I have been waiting for this part to go online! Thanks Turf.

This video brings back memories of our huge 10 country trip to Europe for 7 weeks with Ezekiel. It was called the Deported Tour with Derek Fukuhara, Jason Wakuzawa, Mark Stewart, plus met up with Oli Telisch, Jeremy Reinhard, Marty Murawski for 2 days and Louie Barletta and Gaston Francisco, who came for the last two weeks. One of the best times of my life.

Thanks to all who helped us on that trip. Ezekiel Clothing, Our mighty leader: Oli Telish, Esa from Control, our Russian Distributors: Denis and Natalia, Aldo from Amsterdam, Dave and Jack from London and Love from Sweden.

Damn that was some good times! Le Sigh.

Derek Fukuhara Slashed

Lurking through the files and found a crooks photo of Derek Fukuhara when we were on our Portugal trip earlier this year. It was obviously the same session as this photo, and Derek was just slashing around. That was a great trip, and we just enjoy'd life. Skatetrip was what it was.. but, it was quite the vacation! Thanks Oli, Louie, Derek and the Ezekiel Euro team!

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!

Louie Barletta in a Ezekiel Giveaway

Louie Barletta has a Ezekiel Giveaway on SkateboarderMag.com! If you can think up a funny name, submit to win! We shot these fashion shots during the short trip to San Jose with Red Bull. Louie's modeling skills are just that good!

Louie Barletta in a Bliss Ezekiel Ad

We had to create a quick Blisss Magazine ad for Ezekiel last month, and this is what we came up with, pretty rad. Unfortunately it was an older shot from our Ezekiel Northwest Tour but still excellent! The lifestyle shots are from the trip I took to SJ with a couple Red Bull riders so it was conveniently easy to shoot some random lifestyle stuff! Thanks Lou for your hospitality, and thanks for Ezek for running this ad!

Louie Barletta graces The Photo Issue of Skateboarder

I don't remember if I blogged this (blogging seems to be my pathetic way of scheduling my life) but Louie Barletta, Derek Fukuhara and I went to Portugal a month or so back. It was a rad 10 day trip, with not very much drinking, or partying, just more skating, chilling and hanging out with friends.. It was rather nice change. We were taken to this awesome huge metal sculpture which was the town center for this little port for sailors or something. Had a beautiful view of the refinery with millions and millions of boats floating on the water.

How this photo came around, was we were shown the spot on night before, where it was too dark to skate, but I was able to shoot some cool sunset photos of the spot. Then the next day, we just came back about an hour earlier, about dusk, and the guys just messed around a bit, and we shot some cool silhouette/sunset photos. This photo I really enjoyed shooting, maybe it's even... artsy? Haha.

Hendrik shot one from the other side of the structure, that ended up to become a cover for a German Magazine called Monster.

Thanks Louie and Skateboarder for the hookup! I will end this post on his quote that is in the magazine:

"This spot was in Portugal and the run was was right in front of this really old blue collar bar. After every attempt, I would have the entire bar heckling me. I tried to explain that their jeers were falling on deaf ears because I couldn't understand Portuguese. Well as luck would have it, I landed my trick and one of the guys from the bar, with concrete all over his well-worn overalls, came over to me and said in perfect English, "That was nice but I'd much rather have seen a hardflip." - Louie Barletta, No Comply.

Here was the original file which was much more saturated and digitally well.. digital.

Ezekiel Northwest Tour in Bliss Magazine

Yes, we bled the shit out of this Ezekiel Northwest Tour. I'm sorry, but if we can only go on 1 or 2 major trips a year, I wanna make sure everyone gets alot out of it.

This is the Bliss Article, that was ran a month or so back, with Louie Barletta, Randy Ploesser, Zach Wagner, Dave Abair, Evan Smith and Derek Fukuhara - which it was also written by Derek, which was super nice and sweet of him.

Thanks to Bliss Magazine for using my photos and running this, thanks to Derek for writing it, and thanks for Ezekiel Clothing for sending us! We had a blast, really.

Louie Barletta Ezekiel Ad 09

This is Louie Barletta's new Ezekiel Clothing ad for the 2009 campaign. Dave Chami shot this invert or.. he actually called it some other name, but regardless, we were glad to get the photo, thanks Dave!

Also I was able to use some of the lifestyle photos I shot from the Ezekiel Northwest Tour of sweet Lou. So they scatterd those pups around and gave it some life. Thanks Ezekiel for the love, and Louie for being soo damn entertaining.

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.

Dave Abair in Focus Magazine

In the fine words of Louie Barletta on our Ezekiel Northwest Tour

"How much did you get paid to make Dave look like an idiot."

Well its very unfortunate to both, but the reality is; 1. I didn't get paid. 2. Skateboarding has falls, and it's the falls that makes the lands soo much more sweeter. If you never fell, then skateboarding wouldn't be so hard, now would it?

EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 15 / End

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EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 8

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

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EZEKIEL NORTHWEST TOUR day 2

DAY TWO IS UP.

ASR / PRE TOUR SYNDROME

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