The California trip was some of the best times I have had so far. There are so many things to remember it's easy to forget awesome little moments like the "SPHINX" board being sold by some guy named "gingerbread" for a bike, which was going to be sold for some money obviously headed in a sketchy direction..... So much stuff.
Max, Davis, Sean, Josh, Ted, JJ, Chaz, thank you guys for always being awesome to be around. Even if all I can hear at 1 am is JJ's laugh in the next room. Sean, I can't thank you enough for driving all that way, not to mention chasing people through L.A. traffic between every spot. Charging!
And it begins...
Max and Davis
My "Beats By Dre" headphones. Kind of...
Huh?
Imagine if you were a fish and this is what you looked up and saw one day.
Best morning face ever.
What?
Josh
Of course.
Random rest stop in the mountains.
This place was so awesome.
Uhhh....
Eyy!
Slipper pose
Ice, totally skateable.
And then I nerded out and took some ice photos...
See the face in the middle?
....Aaannnd that's enough of that.
Up above the river was the visitors center which had the most insane spot for where and what this place is.
Crook transfer in to the sign anyone?
Psyched
Pretty damn cool. Line potential.
Then an up-ledge. I remember it being way cooler than how it looks in this photo. The bank is definitely steeper, and I don't think the slits on the ledge would mess with you. Either way, cool spot.
Oh yeah.
Sorry Davis, but you probably would have taken a photo of me if I passed out like that.
Middle of nowhere Utah.
Finally got to our hotel in St. George. Went to get some pizza, checked out some cool spots, and passed the hell out.
....After watching some skateboard related videos in randomly matching clothes that is.
The next morning we went to the skatepark in St. George, cleverly named "Skate George".
There was some fun stuff to skate, and some weird stuff to stay away from. Davis and I played a
really fun game of flatty skate. Then, Josh rolled his ankle pretty bad on a bank to curb that
looked safe until you actually skate it. Such bullshit.
Luckily, he had a bunch of good stuff to rub on it, arnica and more.
So Sick
This photo is so weird. Makes it look like we're going insanely fast though.
But of course.
Danzig rules.
Linkin Park, no wait, Lincoln Park....
Brandon killed this thing, back tail.
Jamie Walsh, this was the first time I had met him, he rules, thanks Jamie! And he kills it when he skates just about everything.
Here's a huricane fakie.
Went to this bump and found a desk to skate. Someone had to be holding it at all times though.
Sean booster
This front 180 was so amazing. Six feet high or something
Max, and Brandon.
Jamie, Lipslide.
Another zoom in face.
Massive.
Seriously, .....crazy.
JJ and Joseph Scott.
This spot! So fun.
Wait for the zoom in................
Haha
Got kicked out of here by a lifeguard in about 2 minutes.
This spot was crazy. What's the point of this. You don't need to cover a metal drain.
Josh and Davis.
A hike back up every time
Later, I took one of the hardest slams in a while. Flew in to a curb with my shoulder and wrist while going pretty damn fast. Couldn't really skate afterwards, but better on the last night than the first. We tried to light up this spot, but the generator didn't want to work so headlights had to do. Josh got a clip, and so did Jamie.
JJ
We stayed at the travelodge for the rest of the trip. We had a balcony though. Perfect.
I really didn't end up taking as many photos as I thought I would. These really only cover 20% of the trip or something around there. But in place, we have a ass load of footage.
And the drive back home begins.
Found some awesome postcards at the gas station in Fruita.
We were all feeling pretty weird about getting back
You all rule! I Thanks You Much!
Cleverly put together photo blog. I've tried working in similar formats, most of which are stuck on Snapfish where the narrative is mostly, like this, in the form of captions. Another way to do it, however, is to have more words than pictures. Here are a couple of examples where I only used a tiny % of the photos I took. Both are about road trips:
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An interesting experiment in this format would be a fictional road trip but with seemingly candid (but actually a bit staged) photos of the characters in the actual places, etc. It would be like a graphic novel but with photos instead of cartoons, etc.
Think The Blair Witch Project meets photo blog---Blah, Blah, Blah Witch Project? Like a lot of new social media---people mostly are not even scratching the surface of it's incredible potential. What's exciting here is that someone is actually taking their photography seriously, whereas most of what you see on facebook is the most lame and random photography of all time. You could take exactly this format right here---and thank you for the black background---I don't know why the internet, especially FB is filled with eye-straining white backgrounds----and make a fictionalized or authentic sort of graphic novel of a skateboarding road trip. Done just right it could go viral. You could also shift the format and have video clips and audio samples interspersed. You're no longer in the Canon D 60 era so a good time to press the blog pedal to the metal. I'd be glad to contribute some text editing.
ReplyDeleteThe rear view mirror shot and the Viking helmet sunset are my two favorites because there is an edge of mystery, a sense of untold story. Also, to my taste at least, the candid looking photos seem to tell the story better. The photos where it is obvious that the subject was aware of the camera is too facebook (at least for me). I try to keep the camera in front of my face long enough that people start to forget about it. Once again, I recommend the book (which I could lend you) The Tao of Photography---the author's own photographs are nothing special, but the approach to photography is very close to the one I have followed for some time and recommend for others.
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