Semesters Haps

Yeah I made a mega cookie, what?!

Yea man, smash the state!

Ben: the forefront of 2010 skate fashion.

Tried to take an arty skate photo with Dom.

The idea was to capture an ollie with the reflection in the puddle.

We found the angle, but the sun was going down...

Oh man, difficult choice on the caption for this shot.
Definitely "Darkness on the Edge of Town" era...
Gonna go with- "Baby if you want to be wild
you got a lot to learn."

Went to see Do Make Say Think!

Peep the horn section in the balcony.
Awesome!!! The opening bands were all
members of the band playing solo/side project stuff.
The Happiness Project was the show stopper
band- music made to mimic the vocal harmonies
of people talking. The whole show was definitely sick!

So, in Urban History the Professor mentioned that
there is a cupola at the top of pioneer courthouse
here in Portland and that as students we could
ask the guards to let us up to check it out.
I was probably the only dork who actually did that.

Yup, this is a courthouse.

The cupola wasn't really that amazing.
It would be a sick room to rent? Still,
it was cool to explore another little nook
of the city.

On a good day there would be a sick view of Hood from
the cupola. It was actually pretty good the day I was up there,
the camera fully zoomed in doesn't do it justice.

This shot is from a different day- when the sun comes
out in February in OR it is an event.

Another warehouse. Dom has got a key and been
shredding as a key holder should. Not in on this, although
there is room to donate some rampage... hmmm?

Making a hip into the wall on the right would be sick.
Needs some bowl action, but the ramp is super fun!

This alley cat that lurks on the side of my house has the
soul of a true bad ass. "We got a problem here?"

This week the cherry trees bloomed. So sick!
Yeah, anyone complaining about winter in
Portland doesn't know whats up.

Surfin Dude!

January 1st 2010, Decided to start the year off
proper and woke up for some dawn patrol on
the coast with Hoagie, Emily, and Mike.
This was my first surfing mission.

So.. yeah... surfing, that didn't end up going down.
We got about an hour and forty five minutes out of
Portland and funny smelling smoke began pouring
out of the engine of Hoagie's house car.
Luckily, we had a professional grease monkey on the
team. It looked like we were stranded in Albany, OR.

We stumbled across a reason to come back if we ever got
back on the road (It was also wet.)

Mike rules! He went into a car parts store speaking the
language and got a tip on how to rig the car by taking
a screw out or something and we were back on the road.
Actually, we drove across the street to the mall and
gave the car a break while we took photo booth pictures,
saw an Orange Julius, harassed the Zumiez staff, etc...
You don't want to see that. Pretty lame.

Tested the house car by rolling through the espresso spot.
Mike didn't think we should push it so we had to find a
way to salvage our mission.

Step one to saving the day: we were in Oregon, of course
there is a sick skatepark somewhere in town.

Our hopes of it drying off (so we could share the one
board we had with us) got shut down when
it started raining again. Mike didn't care.

Rain picking up. Going for it of course.

Pouring rain, on some Cardiel shit.
(zoom in on the photo and peep the rain drops)

Back in the car house on some back roads, taking it slow.
Hoagie played us some Phil Ochs 60's protest songs
and we watched the hills roll by.

Car cabin fever set in.
We needed to get RADICAL!

The other Oregon sure thing- NATURE.
These trees were swaying in the wind like grass.

Everyone was so stoked.
We hiked (read- walked on a path) to a gigantic
waterfall that was indescribably powerful due
to it being rain season in a rain forest.

Happy couple. Somebody get a frame!

Looking off the edge.
Crazy mist.

Organic sustainable board, brah.

Behind the falls the sound was insane and the spraying
water felt like getting caught in a downpour.

Amateur caving.

So sick.

Nature Boy...

Due to the enginge troubles the defogger was out.
Hoagie was so excited for the drive back!

He got us home Ace Ventura style. Thanks dude!
We went back to home base, made good food and watched
Last of the Mohicans to honor our waterfall.
Not to bad for a virgin surfing mission on new years day.

Fall Haps

Been slacking on the blogage, school and living come first.
Here is a taste of the awesome stuff of the last couple months.

First off, lets observe mike demonstrating how to wild
out on Halloween.

First you shred Burnside in a thong and wig.

Then you kick it at a epic backyard party.

Peeps will probably be getting stoney.

If you find a hot tub and you are awesome...
you get in.

If you are mike you also dance.

Once you have blown up the party you book it
to the next spot to see a Ramones cover band.

Rock Rock Rockaway Beach!

So... that was Halloween. Of course it started raining a
bunch too, so we have found ourselves
skating indoors at dept.

Crew- James, Craig, Dom and Ben.

I get hyped after Halloween when all the
jack-o-lanterns start to get all deformed.
Looks super cool.

Oh man! This is like torture to walk through
on the way to school. Its not even done yet
and they have got a security guy just standing
in the middle of the plaza. What a waste.

Saw Built To Spill and they were rad. The new album is good.
Doug Marsh was wearing a home made George Clooney T.

Been doing a bunch of this too, but I am totally over it.

Thanksgiving! Spent the day with Mike Emily and crew cooking
and listening to david Cross. This is what a real tofurky looks like.

Lots of good food.

Good peeps too.

The other day went to the best skatepark
in Portland with Dom and James.
Somebody's been putting effort into it...

Toast is a lay back rocker.