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 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.