San Francisco Downtown Throwdown
Just took a road trip down to San Francisco to shoot another urban snowboard rail jam for Yobeat. It’s halloween weekend, and there’s no distinguishing between those who are dressed up, and those who...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Anthony Napolitan, 2004
This was the first time I met Anthony Napolitan, who I’ve shot an awful lot since then. At the time, Anthony was a flow rider for the distributor System Cycle, and lived right down the road from the...
View ArticleK-Rob Turns 40
I’m back on the east coast for Kevin Robinson’s surprise 40th birthday party his wife Robin put together for him in Rhode Island. Somehow it stayed a secret, and Kevin had no idea that a heap of BMX...
View ArticleThe Streets Opening Video for Yobeat
The past couple weeks have been chaotic as we’re building out our new office space here in Portland (which I’ll post about separately), in the middle of which I took off to PA to shoot some...
View ArticleNew Studio Soon
If you follow me on Twitter you might have caught wind that we’re moving into a new building. Between traveling, we’ve started building out the new spot in deep SE Portland. It’s closer to my house,...
View ArticleThe New Studio
It’s been a couple months in the making, but the new studio I mentioned in the last post (two months ago) is mostly done, save for some outside work, and some details around the place. A couple months...
View ArticleGoods Jam at Tigard
Stopped by the Tigard skatepark today for the Goods BMX 7th Anniversary Jam. Goods also had a photo show last night with a bunch of my photos from the 90s through present day. I think the photos...
View ArticleMartin Aparijo: Still Smiling
Back in 1986, East Coast freestyle promoter Ron Stebenne brought Martin Aparijo from California to a contest he was putting on in Natick, Massachusetts. At the time, Martin was one of the biggest...
View Article4th Annual Old School BMX Reunion
For the fourth year in a row I’m down at Woodward West in Central California for (the fourth annual) Old School BMX Reunion. Once again a grip of legends made the trip out including Brian Blyther, Mat...
View ArticleShad Johnson’s Vintage BMX Collection
I made this video for ESPN a couple weeks ago. Shad runs the BMX shop, Goods, here in Portland, and has a ton of cool old stuff around the shop that I end up poking through every time I’m in there....
View ArticleMatt St. G in the Studio
Old Boston flatland friend / fellow AIB alumni / now Wieden Kennedy advertising design wizard Matt St. Gelais came by the office earlier for a rainy day mini ramp session. After some micro-mini...
View Article25th Anniversary King of Flatland
It’s hard to believe 1987 was 25 years ago. My father drove me up to Manchester, NH for the first “King of Flatland” contest that year, and from there I made it to most of the series until it ended in...
View ArticleClearing the Fog
It’s not that I’ve been too busy to post stuff here, and it’s not that I’ve been slacking on it. Somewhere in between. Either way, it’s been too long. Allegedly blogging is dead anyway. Instagram,...
View ArticleJ. Mascis. Snow. People. Bikes. Skate…
This is a compilation of some misc. photo work from the last few months. A smattering of everything from the shot above of guitarist/singer J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Witch) to bikes in a studio, to...
View ArticleEugene Amazon Micro-skatepark
The Amazon park is tiny. It’s a mini-snake run in the middle of a public park in Eugene, Oregon, which has a DIY quarterpipe at the end (which has a bit of a corner to it, and some ratty transitions)....
View ArticlePolaroidical
When I got interested in design and photography in the late 80s and early 90s things were still very hands on. My first magazine job in the mid-90s still utilized Stat cameras, paste-up boards, wax,...
View ArticleWisdom to Youth / Wicked Ride
I flew out to Providence this weekend for Kevin Robinson’s Wisdom to Youth contest, an 80s style freestyle contest, as well as the premiere of A Wicked Ride, a new documentary about BMX in New England...
View ArticleI’m Part Mexican Now
I’ve been self-employed for 12 years now. Since retiring becoming self-employed 12 years ago, I’ve been carrying health insurance, and throughout half that time I carried dental insurance. I moved to...
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