Be-Mag, One, and other craziness..

So I have been relatively quiet lately on my blog.  It  has been absolutely hectic the last few weeks, but I have had news to post up here.  If you haven't caught it, I had two photos placed up on Be-mag's online photo pages.  One of Rainer over in Pic of the week and one of Anthony Gallegos over in Global Connections...

In the same day, I found out my photos of Kevin Yee had appeared in his Xsjado In-depth Interview..

 

The photos are on my Flickr under the SF Tour and Kevin Yee's set. 

Now, what else is up?  I was at LA All Day the other day and took a ton of photos (a good 170+), which I'll get to work on this week or so.  Not so much skating, but the feel of the event.  I always go to these sorts of things for the atmosphere you get having that many people share your passion.  It definitely fills the air with a vibrant feeling.   Sure the tricks are amazing, but getting to meet new people is just awesome.  I got to meet a pal of mine, Ben Karris from AZ, who writes for One and talked to Justin Eisinger, editorial direction of One.  Very chill guys!  Fret not, there are a few skate photos, Anthony 'Peanut' was killing it with true spin top souls and acids on the rainbow rail and some crazy nutter had backside backslide to topsoul on that thing.  I caught a few clips, so I'll try to post those up later tonight if I can figure out Final Cut Pro.  Or if I'm lazy, I'll just render them with Handbrake. lol.

Also found out at the comp. that one of my photos will be appearing in the next issue of One! My jaw dropped and I wasn't sure what to say afterwards other than thanks and "uhhh...uhh..uhh".  It'll be my first printed work, so I'm absolutely stoked.  Keep an eye out for it! 

Oh and I built a hackintosh a week or two ago, so edits and photo editing should be coming up.  I've been testing the stability and so far so good.  A few quirks like usb  freezing if you wake it up through a keyboard (just unplug and replug) or an odd pop if the audio hasn't been 'used' in a while.  It was this or buy a 2k mac pro vs the 600 I spent. Not too shabby!

So that is what is going on with me.  I'm looking to shoot more LA rollerbladers, so if anyone's interested, hit me up!

Tour photos and updates..

So the Get Out of Town Tour was a complete success.  For those of you who did not know, I was up in San Francisco with some of the Long Beach crew - Anthony Gallegos, Gregory Preston, Danger Dan and Warry.  It were packing a tight car.  Tighter still with Kevin Yee giving us the grand tour.  All I have to say is I had an absolutely amazing time! Took a ton of photos but I'll have to hold up on posting them up since Shock is giving us the space to post up our tour photos on their site! How flipping cool is that?!  So it means I'll be working hard this week to edit a ton of photos.  No sleep for me.  Then again, when do I sleep?  Anywho, to sum up the tour, San Francisco architecture was stunning, their city planners are on top of things, there's a sense of community (albeit a little militant), things are open late, the streets are sketchy, we skated some well known spots (hubba's hide out for one), I can't remember saturday night (oh my), and did I  mention I got to skate with Kevin Yee?  Such a good skater.  But the pictures will speak for themselves... In the meantime, you'll just have to make due with some camera phone photos.

At beginning of the drive, Dan show's off his stunner shades.

 Somewhere in the grapevine.

Obligatory smoke break.

We managed to park under a ton of bees.  No one wanted shotgun at that pit stop. haha.

After a stop at Jack in the Box, we're off again.

Anthony smiling as usual.  I think were were just glad to be out of town.

Anthony has a t-rex on his mirror which I thought was uber cool.

All I have is a wooden cat head on my car.

Greg watching Fantastic Puncher.  Wonder what he's thinking about..

The mystery that is Greg's mind?

The GPS lost signal for 15-20 minutes midway through the drive.

A blurry photo of Greg balancing two folks on two toothpicks.

Also, a subliminal Valo ad.