Eduardo Craig at The Berrics

The Berrics, if you havn't already been to this site, go there, read and watch up.

nature?

today we did a little site seeing and went over to the chicago nature museum. they have a butterfly exhibit containing over 2000 butterflies of 75 different species. the museum also had a reptilian display with about a dozen snakes and a few turtles. i captured a few images. another cool thing going on at this time was the photography of Robert Creamer. his prints were extraordinarily detailed scans of flowers arranged in various forms and shapes. it's actually quite interesting how he does it you should check out his site and watch the video he has up. i think i may try it out when i get back to san jose. the museum is free on thursdays so the photo exhibit was a definite plus. after that we took a little drive around town and had some the art of pizza to finish the day off.

Rio Bravo

"My Rifle, My Pony and Me" - Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson

Merry Christmas

so chicago is pretty chilly but nothing too bad. today i went with my brother-in-law to lincoln park and snapped a few photos. i'm just posting this one because i have nothing to edit with, and excuse the size and it appears that i need to clean my sensor. this photo is of the north side of lincoln park facing north, and thats lake michigan over on the right. the rocks on the side of this pier were covered with snow which made them look like giant snow balls as you can see. just compare them with that person on the left side of the frame.
anyways....merry christmas everyone. enjoy your breaks.

Chicago

i'm off to chicago today until the second, so i'll try and post some things up while i'm there. but, until further notice enjoy this photo of sean and jeffrey.

XBOX

i didn't post the last two days because; 1) i wanted everyone to see nicks check out, and 2) i have been re-designing my website and updating it with recent exposures. i have been rather busy trying to do that but i finished it today so everyone go check it out! Jayosh Photo

as it gets closer to christmas and everyone in the house is heading home we seem to have a night ritual (if you will) of playing Call of Duty 4. i think we ruined peters life, he comes over almost every night to feed this call of duty addiction. just see for yourself.......headset and all. he doesn't mess around, thats for sure.

Nick Owen

i kinda did this "check out" thing with an Oklahoman named Nick Owen. just click the link below and read up and check out the photographs, hes a good dude.

Nick Owen - "Check Out"



also, if you have not heard the new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" i highly suggest you get it and listen to it.

Wash & Dry

today was pretty boring, we tried skating but the weather was a complete downer. i ended up doing some laundry with one of my room-mates Sierra (spelled with two r's.) made a photograph of a little kid playing an arcade game while i was there.

Goldschlager...

...found a bank to barrier spot and almost did a rock and roll on it....but I assure you we will be going back. this spot is brand new, so hopefully there will be more things to come. Erik was skating it like a spine and did a blunt transfer on it and was almost doing feeble transfers. Also, Jonathan learned to wallie over barriers. like I said though, hopefully we will get some more things done there. Also like I stated in a previous entry, anyone that wants to buy me a faster camera can do that or give me some donations towards a new camera.

This is Brandon

doing a back 50 at the Golden Gate Park fountain ledges up in San Francisco.

Vatos Locos

We went to a local San Jose skatepark today over on King and Mckee at Plata Arroyo Park. The park is really good, but you have to go before school gets out because it will be over-run with kids if you wait. This park seems to have something for everyone, beginners and the elders. We shot a bunch of sequences, Erik took pretty much all of them except the ones of himself....I shot those. Enjoy, and everyone compliment Erik on his photo skills. He'll love that.


Erik - wallie manual kickflip

Erik - blunt shove blunt fakie

Erik - wallie nose wheelie shove

Erik - manual



Brandon - back tail revert


Jonathan - backside crail


And as a little BONUS I am going to put some tricks I did up on this thing. Woooo. Yay.


Me - blunt pivot fakie

Me - front disaster 360

Me - back disaster revert

Me - crook

Me - melon (still)


Also we were cruising around Guadalupe today and Goldschlager did a power slide going down this hill and slipped out and his board was going for the water so I jumped off my board to save his, soon realizing that my board was now heading for the water, but I was not so lucky. Jonathan wanted me to put that he took these photos, so there you go Jonathan.

Contests.......really?

Erik wanted to go to that contest today, so Goldschlager, Brandon, Erik and I all went to San Ramon which is just north of Dublin. The contest was kinda cool, Bobby showed up and was killin it as well as some other dudes we met on our last trip to the Dublin area. But yeah we left the contest early and headed over to this guy Bruces house to shred his ramp. I met Bruce a few weeks ago and have seen him a couple times after that, I think he is the TM for Circle A. He not only rips on his skateboard but is a super chill cool dude. If you ever run into his dog you should probably run for your life, he has the gnarest dog I have ever seen. HUGE! The ramp was pretty chill, I got one photo of Erik doing a back tail on the extension which is kinda crazy because just over that wall that the mini backs up to is the highway. Pretty sketchy if you ask me, but it worked out.

5 fps sucks

Jonathan got this last night at this little curb cut to gap down the street from the house, pretty dope. I shot some stuff of Erik today as well which will be up later on, we are headin out to Sunnyvale II right now.


switch heel


Erik and I went around Downtown today got a couple of sequences. Anyone that wants to buy me a Canon EOS-1d Mark IIn so that I can have 9 frames a second can go ahead and do that for me. That would be great.

San Francisco day of joy

Yesterday I was busy from wake up to wake down so I did not get a chance to post, but todays post will contain 2 days worth.



So yesterday Maurice, Brandon, Jonathan, and I went to San Francisco to push wood. It's kinda funny cause the very first spot we went to was this little bubble hump thing coming out of the ground which happens to be right next to San Francisco Bay. But yeah Maurice somehow flung his board right into the Bay, I felt bad but it was quite funny. We all got a good laugh out of it. Maurice got his board out, dried it off a bit, and we kept on moving. Next we hit up 3rd and Army for a little warm up since the first spot was a complete disaster. Turns out the quarter on the west side of the pier has been torn out and the quarter facing south right when you roll up was torn out and completely redone into a wonderful little quarter with a reverse channel type thing in the middle.


Maurice - tailslide (sequence)


Jonathan - 5-0 (sequence)

We head out from that spot to meet up with this dude Bobby I met at this spot in Sunnyvale. Bobby is a super chill cool dude, and really good on his skateboard as well. He showed us to this really amazing ledge spot.


Bobby - bluntslide


Bobby - kickflip crook


Brandon - noseblunt


Maurice - back 5-0 front 180 (sequence)


Maurice - back lip



I shot everything from the same angle because it was more of a session than a photo shoot. Jonathan ended up trying a tailslide or lipslide and slipped out right onto the side of his face and his glasses blew up. Luckily he was okay, shaken a bit, but alright. He taped up his glasses so he could see for the remainder of the day, but he was done skating. Now Bobby took a really mean slam as well, he was doing a bluntslide as you see in the photo, he landed two fo them but I guess wanted to do it better. But he went for it one try and slipped out and somehow managed to land on his arm and ended up with a broken pinky. He peaced out and went to the hospital, and the session continued. Everyone definitely killed that ledge though, for sure. After that spot we searched the area for any other good spots, found a few, but didn't skate any of them. We were all pretty worn out. We ended up just chilling in the city the rest of the night. We went to Coit Tower, but didn't go to the top because it cost money but the first picture is from Coit Towers bottom. After that we walked around the city and ended up at the City Lights Bookstore which has some famous beat generation background to it. I am not to familiar with it but Maurice told me a bit and let me borrow a book by Jack Kerouac called "On the Road." Hopefully I will soon know a little bit about the beat generation. We also checked out The Beat Museum which is free on Mondays it turns out. We then had some pizza at a local pizza place to end the day and headed home. The day was awesome.

Dublin, CA?

Ahoy everyone. Today we all went to Dublin, CA to meet up with some folk to ride skateboards. Overall the day was good, and although the only spots we went to were some gnarly big stair sets and hand rails, the skateparks we went to made up for it. We did get to see some kid backside heelflip this big four in Benicia and one of the new parks we skated was the new Benicia park. The park has some fun wallrides and the bowl section is pretty fun along with some dinky little ledges, the park was pretty good. The other park we went to was in Walnut Creek just north of Dublin and is a very fun park and there are some really good people there. The park has a bunch of weird obstacles but some how they are all really fun. You just have to go there and see for yourself. Out of everything we did today I came back with these two photos I snapped on the way out there. Sweet huh? Oh yeah, thats Erik in the first one and Goldschlager in the second one.






I am going to throw in a bonus photo of Goldschlager's new dog Jeffrey. You will be seeing a lot of him in the future.

Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an Artificial island that was built in 1939 between San Francisco and Oakland. The island was created from fill removed from the bay and was planned to be used as an airport for Pan Americans Airline service of flying boats. Then during World War II Treasure Island became a naval base and was mainly an electronics and radio communications school. In 1996 the Army Base was decommissioned and the Island was open to the public, but still owned by the Navy.

The island has a total of one gas station on it which is currently unused and it only has a single mini bus route. The Island today is fairly run-down, most of the buildings are deserted with the exception of a job training center and it also houses some low-income San Franciscans. All of this put together means some good skateboarding is to be had, and although the island is not even one square mile big it has 4 or 5 quite amazing spots.

Thanksgiving

i am starting things out here with a thanksgiving day feast. i would like to thank amanda and yumi for having us over to eat and chill, and yumi for cooking the wonderful food. this is my first thanksgiving away from home and it was just the way to start it out. we had a huge 22 pound stuffed turkey, two kinds of bread, stuffing, macaroni and cheese, salad, salmon, mashed potatoes, and veggies. quite the meal if you ask me. i had a sapporo to wash it all down. everyone else had some tecate or root beer.