some rebel shit

Christmas day, John with his camera. First photo

Trucker hats

Solid skate day

I've spent the last few hours trying to figure out dslr workflow in Final Cut, so it could be a while before anyone can see today's footage.

Christmas

3 hours at Marin, 3 guys, 2 boxes, and 1 Bruce Springsteen Song. Really though I'd like to thank Augie, Rom, and everyone else I have ever filmed for putting in so much work so I can make all of these videos, it's been a sick year.

Best

Unbroken

They have an awesome John Cardiel interview up. GOOD READ YO

Albina

Got the shred on between rain storms this past tuesday. Starring Jame Jordan with a few tricks from Anton and a bonus Will sighting.

In other news, my camera has indeed arrived, but I am waiting until tomorrow to use it for the sake of the unwrapping ceremony. I suppose I'll upload some cat footage after the day's feasts and various other festivities, and some sort of holiday themed video might be in the works... Don't hold me to it though

I HAVE NOTHING ORIGINAL TO SAY SO I WILL LINK SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEAS/THOUGHTS

Boil The Ocean, the greatest skateboard blog in existence, has dedicated a post to the controversy that is Forest Edwards. READ

(Click the gif to see episode 10)

OIAM in the eastbay

Istanbul

More

My epic comeback to filming was last weekend with Augie, Rom, James, and Morgan. Not all of the tricks are throwaway in this one, and a few will be in the full length project I've been working on since around July. The music, by Tom Waits, is downloadable a few posts back

(No Kyrons were actually harmed in the making of this clip)

what I just threw most of my life savings out for

Just got around to ordering a Canon 550D for filming purposes, STOKEd. Keeping the HV30/Opteka for all fisheye and and the DSLR as exclusively long lens for the time being. Here's some sample footage of cats. (you'd be surprised at how many of these you can find on vimeo)

Thursday Befo Break

Probably the last day of sun until we are in a post christmas state of being.

Features an all star ensemble cast of:

Moby, Rom, Gabe, Randall, Jethro, Luigi, August, Mitchell, and Andrew.

Music by the Fine Young Canibals

I didn't bother to get the audio of the song and the skating to mix well and I compressed it at low quality so it would upload faster. Sorry ya'll, I have something better for next time.

Uploading some footage tomorrow, for real this time.

If yall into shoes

Janoski Nike SB January, 2011

Dunk Low/Eastbound and Down Nike SB January, 2011

V-Rod-Nike SB January, 2011

Also interesting:

P-Rod 5 Nike SB release date unknown(to me)

TNT 5 sample

2nd Consecutive OIAM Post

"Rueben and that other kid Mango. They're all like grabbing each others ass, I'm all like what the fuck"

One In A Million

VS.

Or maybe even...

Episode 6, probably my favorite so far

Satday

First time filming in around a month yielded a few clips for Augie and Morgan. Below are some screen-caps of clips you might one day be able to actually watch.

Drop in grind (maybe not landed, but still rad)

Morgan mid nose bonk in a line

Intense rollaway

Starting a line

Not the best filming, sorry guy

More Nothing

Just made a new edit I'll probably have up later tonight, but for now here's some good stuff you should probably watch:

Analog in Germany

Krook3d montage

Catch that low fi to high fi contrast.

None

Posting other people's pictures because I have no original content

TGI boyfriend

Cool interview with one of my favorite skate filmmakers, Greg Hunt:

Holy shit that was awesome, editing OIAM like it's a reality TV show is the best idea ever. Forrest isn't here to make friends.

"I got another board, his name is... What's his name?"

"His name's Daryl"

Watch episode 1 here

If you like old people skating, I recommend you check out Gonz/Cards/Stranger, a rad site that features only pictures of the Gonz, John Cardiel, and Julian Stranger.

Best skate photo.

Going Out West by Tom Waits (no that's not the cover)

download here

TGIBF

While you were probably out getting your new Visio flatscreen with a 30% price cut (diss), The Stoke was celebrating the national holiday with a trip to the city of San Frachesca. Mission objective was a skate journey of epic proportions with Rom, Gabe, Ari, Luigi, Tyler, Will, and myself. Good times were achieved, dreams were broken, and much much more in our 4.3 mile loop de doo we took through da yay area capital.

egg salad Augie

Christmas time began as we arrived

Library session

Rom's third new board in something like three years of skating

Stumbled upon this cool little stair spot

Ended the day at Pier 7

The downside of wooden ledges

Candid crew pic

All the filming is done by me/Jabe with Gabe's Iphone 4

Skaters featured (in order) include: Rom, Peter, Gabe, and Augie with a Will sighting around a minute in.

Recrastibation

The fake criterion edition of Inception got me looking around the interwebz for more unauthentic criterion covers. I felt the need to share:

You should probably also watch those three movies.

A lot more can be found in this forum

TGIT

My last three posts all featured pictures of cats, my bad, that's pretty weird. Anyways, tomorrow I'll post some pictures and video clips from a little SF trip some dudes and I took last friday, but for now I just have some random stuff I want to get out there.

First off, I re-edited some Shane O'Neill footage. Not sure why, but it was pretty fun. The song, Sweet Disposition by Temper Trap, can be downloaded here. You can also peep the raw footage I used for this here. Thanks a lot for uploading it Shane guy.

The second order of business is wishing loyal reader August a successful surgery and speedy recovery

Here we see an also handicapped Mitchell staring at Augie's cast in disgust, while in the backround Randall is eating.

Lastly, I'd like to give a shout out to my boy Chris Nolan for his latest film, Inception. Just saw this for the first time since July today, and hot damn it goes straight back to one of my favorites.

Time by Hans Zimmer (Inception soundtrack)

download it here

repping november

Happy birthday Mobes

Happy late birthday Randall

Happy really late birthday me

Now that November is over shit just got real.

December 1st you can expect a big fat post complete with video, pictures, and those wacky captions you all live for. (all three of you)

Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving to my 3 loyal readers

like eggs

And you thought Photobooth was reserved for your x-ray vision myspace profile picture...

Disorder by Joy Division

download it here

S.O.T.Y. 2010

"Skater Of The Year; the only award that matters." That quote is, in many ways, true. Nobody gives a fuck who Transworld names off at their academy awards of skateboarding, all we care about is what some forty-something year old SF crackhead says about who ripped it the hardest this year. Your votes don't matter, it's not really about skating, and it really just says who got the most Thrasher approved coverage over the year. Even after realizing this, everybody, including myself, still takes SOTY as the law, the truth, and the most legitimate award in skating. This year I had a few dudes I was rooting for, so I'll run through those real quick before I talk about the winner.

Dylan Reider:

Between his controversial pretty boy swag and being featured in one of the most ridiculous Epicly Later'd episodes of all time, this guy could probably win most talked about skater this year by a landslide. But on August 11, 2010, Dylan shifted all the attention on him from his pretty dress shoe pro model to arguably the best video part of the year.

Overall coverage (that I can think of):

-Skateboarder cover (April)

-Skateboarder cover (November)

-The Skateboard Mag cover

Footage of all of these covers and all the ads I forgot are in Dylan.

No Thrasher covers and no appearances in any big skate productions made me not really consider Dylan to be a realistic SOTY choice. Maybe next time...

Andrew Reynolds:

After Chris Cole got his second SOTY last year, I felt like Andrew had a good chance at this one. Stay Gold was the best video of the year and yur boi Andrew Reynolds put out a part that proves 20 years of hard impact doesn't change much. His part in Stay Gold was the tear jerker, the ender ender, and the gender bender. The music, the big skating, and the no filler editing that Jon Miner took to it created one of my favorite video parts of all time.

Overall coverage (that I can think of):

-Skateboard Mag cover

-Thrasher cover

-Baker ad

Footage of all of these tricks can be found in Stay Gold, the latest Emerica video (sorry, no link)

With two amazing covers in the part year, a top notch video part, and a history of being down with the mag, I saw Reynolds as having a pretty good chance of taking SOTY 2010. But alas...

Leo Romero:

"That guy who grinds up rails". Leo had two great parts this year and a style of skating not to be fucked with. His covers stand out because of innovation and the near death skating situations he puts himself in. At the bottom of it all I suppose that's the main thing we look for in the best skater, "shit that makes you go, woah". His mix of thrill seeking and talent make him a Thrasher favorite, and with two solid full video parts (Stay Gold and Brainwash), Leo was obviously a SOTY contender.

Overall coverage (that I can think of):

-Skateboarder cover

-Thrasher cover

-Plenty of ads I'm not going to search out (Emerica ad where he hits his face comes to mind)

The footage of the Skateboarder cover is in Stay Gold and the Thrasher cover is in Brainwash

(a Toy Machine production)

It helps that Leo is buds with the Phelper and has a dirty mustache, but he also skates rails like no other and kills everything else as well (see back nose grind nollie bigspin heel in Stay Gold).

As many people expected, Leo Romero took Skater Of The Year 2010 like a champ. For any award like this I can always think of people I would rather have seen won, but Leo without a doubt deserves his SOTY, so congratulations to him.

procraturbation

One of my all time favorites. Download it here

if you like skating, check heath's tribute at the emerica site

Between this and Breaking Bad, AMC is running shit right now

That is all

Maybe expect some skate stuff soon