SHRED OR DEAD

Grant, way the fuck over-vert.
Shot large format (4×5), Bonsor Skatepark. So for those that don’t understand the mechanics of skateboarding (or I guess, gravity in general); it’s really hard to get that high, and in fact seems impossible to carve that far over-vertical, as generally you should fall. Basically my New Zealand friend is a straight up ripper. So stoked I met this guy. And because he called today, instead of doing a ton of chores around the house after being REALLY exhausted today, I went and skated. Stoked shred time is always needed.

Speaking of being exhausted. I was exhausted because I have done a shitload of cycling in the past two-three days. Sunday I woke up (hungover) and biked to MEC to work a full day. Then Camilo and I went for a staff barbeque, then bailed to the beer store, and then biked to Tower beach in UBC. We drank all the booze we had (between the two of us, eight beers and a bottle of sake), and then raced (full on hammering against each other the entire way home) back to where we started at Trout lake. INTENSE. Monday I woke up (hungover again) and worked a full day as a bike courier (apparently like 40k), and met Camilo for some free food at the Sikh temple. When Camilo asked me if I wanted to go on a bike ride. I said sure, why not and ended up doing this. Click on the map, really, do it. You’ll see that apparently we biked 40 miles, or 64K. And then this morning (now Tuesday morning) I woke up and biked courier again! Then I went skateboarding! I’M REALLY TIRED.

Anyways. It was really fun. I’m glad that my extracurriculars are pretty much all really active. I’m fairly certain I don’t have any body fat left.

Also, I really need to figure out a way to start getting some income in through selling prints. Photography is really expensive, and I’d like to start doing a lot more of it. So if you know anyone famous, or soon to be famous, that can pay me to take portraits of them, let me know. I’d like to make some more equipment (well, I’d like to make a LOT) purchases over the next two-three years, and I’d also like to figure out a way to acquire a new iPod, since mine was stolen from my workplace (by non-permanent cleaning staff, the rest of the staff at MEC are exceptionally nice). I’m really going to miss that thing, considering how much printing I have to do from the summer, and the amount of work I’ll be putting into some projects which will really get off the ground in September. Anyways. Thoughts? Moneys?

Got a little tripod that wraps around my handlebars. More to come at the end of the week I’m guessing.

Thanks Jeff for the heads up on this one. Also ATTN: TORONTO PALS: Jeff needs a place to crash maybe?.

Hey so remember those videos I posted like ten days ago? Fuck those videos man. Look at that shit!

Basically I had a really stoked session because my pal Jason Edwards is back in town. That guy gets me stoked, and I skate more stoked when pals are around anyways. Plus pals Jesse James Taylor (who took the photos in this post (Jason also took some photos, but mostly film, so that will have to wait)) and Aaron Snyder were around, and I just like having pals around when I skate. So I was totally pushing myself higher that I usually do I guess.

Jason took some videos for me on my digital camera (pretty much only used for videos now, and soon will be used on bikes, it will be fun). So there is a video of me skating a line around the bowl that is probably about as good as I can skate, and at the bottom of the post is another video of me trying to get really high on the Tombstone so Jesse can take a photo, and below that is the photo. Get stoked!

Anyways, I need to finish this up and get moving, I’m pretty much really late for work because I slept through my alarm.

Oh and Jesse got this frontside edger in the nine foot corner photo as well.

You can see the flash in the video that did this photo!

So stoked! Going to develop some of my film tonight, and hopefully print some later this week, but it will probably be printed next week, or even more realistically when school starts!

NOTE TO SELF: BE ON TIME FOR WORK TOMORROW