Ezekiel Northwest Tour, Slashed

Found a random film scan on my computer from our Ezekiel Northwest Tour we did last year. One of best times ever.

I think this was from one of our last days in Seattle, WA. Lou wanted to get home after this and drove 18 hours straight back to Yreaka. I do remember, this was shot on my Yashica T4, one of my sharpest camera's ever.


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Red Bull Manny Mania Slashed

Going through some old photos for a project I am working on with Red Bull, I discovered I had lots of random portraits and shots that were taken during Manny Mania 2009 and Manny Mania Amateur Los Angeles, that I never thought to layout.

Manny Mania NYC Winner Eli Reed

Stevie and Ronson Lambert

Jeff Pang and Dave from DQM


Manny Mania Los Angeles (long beach, actually) Joey Brezinski working hard

Del the Funky Homosapien

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!


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Clydizzle.

Couch Slashed

Saw this couch. Wonderful. Other Slashed.

Day with Lens Baby Slashed

So I bought this lens baby a bit ago. First time I saw it was on this C1rca Catalog shoot, Broach was using it. Photos turned out awesome. So one day, I just opted to try it out. This lens baby isnt the first thing I would think of to pull out of my bag, so it rarely gets used, but on a mess around day, its always fun. On the same day of this, Paul and homies came on down to skate a bit in HB while I popped a couple shots.



PS: Even tho the shot is in the middle, he slid it all the way to the end.. Really awesome.

Homies Slashed

Same as before.. Skating a fun spot, having a blast. In order of appearance: Marshall Carter, "Red" Bryan Whalen, Vince Duran and the infamous Mark Stewart.

NEW TECH WIZ! If you click on the enlarged picture it goes to the next one automatically, gangster!

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!

Triple Decker Derek Fukuhara Slashed

On the same day from the day I shot this, I tried to see what it would be like to get things super close. What ended up happening is I shot this frontside nose in 3 parts. Click on each to view separate.

Rodrigo Lima Slashed

Date: Am Getting Paid Weekend
Location: Montreal, Canada
Skater: Rodrigo Lima
Trick: Fs Tail Extra's


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Derek and Vince Slashed

Skating in LA a while back with Vince Duran and Derek Fukuhara, we stumbled upon this super cool curved ledge. Hope you like.





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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!

Ryan Reyes Slashed

Skating with a couple homies one day in LA, Bart Jones from the Skateboard Mag set up his awesome flash kit. Anxious to try it out, I asked Ryan Reyes to just huck an ollie real quick, sync'd my crap to his pocket wizards, and snapped one go. Wow, the comparison is apparently noticeable. I need a new flash kit! Maybe I could win a set in Vegas.. Come on blackjack!

Thanks Reyes for the quick ollie and the crappy after remarks, and Bart for the insanely hilarious comments.

Zach Wagner slashed.

Zach Wagner and I were skating a bunch for a short stint. He'd pop his head down to my area and we'd go shred around, lerk around South Bay spots (which is always nice). Here is a hurricane he ripped into then back to straight. Just a little quick skate pic for the day, enjoy.

Another Day in T-Town Slashed

For those of you who have to drive 40 mins to the nearest skatepark, or local ledge spot, I am right there with you. As you know LA, is probably the hugest damn city on the planet, and it takes forever to drive anywhere.

But isnt it great if you could just walk out your door, drive down the street a bit and just start shredding. Well, whenever the homie's come to Torrance to shred, thats what happens, I get to just roll out of bed, office or couch, hop into my crap mobile and within about 10 mins, I'm doing curb stalls watching rippers who are actually trying hard tricks. Today was a serious session and we went all out!

Crew patrons were AmirGT and friends, Issey Yumbia and Vince (Martinez) Duran (crooks, below), plus this new dude Cheeto (fsnose, above)! How awesome is this kids name. Check out the rail sesh photos!

Another day in Compton Slashed

Just another day in the hood, I suppose. It's always good to just go out on a average weekend and just shred around. Enjoy the summer and the kickflips.
Thanks Derek!

The Graduate

Sitting here updating this never updated blog, watching one of the most acclaimed movies of all times.. In which I have never watched. I must say the first 15 mins is probably one of the best 15 mins ever, but maybe because its 3am.

Today was a delightfully pleasant day, of lerking throughout the hills of the old Los Angeles. John Lupfer joined with Anthony WIlliams and the normal crew of Derek and Vince started off at Stereo then moved on to the spot you see to your left.. Very rarely is it a day where the times passes, everyone is wonderfully cordial and doesn't care about our skating. I mean, when does that happen?

"Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that."

I do believe the best part of everyone's landed trick is always the wonderful coaster of a ride afterwards. Personally I cant make it down half way without jumping off, but hey.. there is a reason I am not in the pictures and I am shooting them.

"Mrs Robinson, I do believe your trying to seduce me."

Another Decenzo Day.

Another skate day with Ryan Decenzo. Joining us is Antoine and Nick "Promqueen" (fsboard pictured left) as they call him. As I might have mentioned before, Ryan is a super awesome dude as the other two, so we shredded in the local area, which is easy on the gas. What also makes skating with them easy, is they are rather keen on skating anything, so its not a ton of driving!

The trick that Ryan is doing above, he told me is called a Joe Dirt. "Brad Sheppard made it up." he announces as we walks back up the stairs after landing one. Apparently what this trick is "It's where you boardslide and you droop it soo far down to your trucks so the metal is grinding."
A little bit about Antoine: Dude is a french canadian, and contrary to your inital thoughts, he is quite the radical dude. Still talks very french, but super funny and laughs when I say some random gay joke, which make him the best dude to hang with (anyone who laughs at my shitty jokes is a pal in my book.)

BAILS AND KICKOUTS

Jumping over a hydrant is already a skill enough, but add a bump and a fair amount of distance, and the curve goes up.

A couple days ago, we skated this spot, bump over hydrant with not a small gap either. With the likes of Devin Appelo, Jon Dixon and Randy Ploesser the spot was skated thoroughly, but not without some kickouts - which make for some pretty awesome photos. I mean, imagine if your everyday Joe spectator saw these photos.. they'd probably assume the worst and broken bones.

As we both know, this is everyday grind.

Meet Austin Namba

This is the infamous Austin Namba. For those who know him; your blessed and you already know that. For those who don't: please meet the Utah/LA resident, who can pretty much skate better then anyone you or I know. Spacer then Armstrong, but is just ripping all around. All hail Namba!