coming home is always bitter-sweet.

The Vita Cafe has an epic all vegan dessert case.

We went with the 'Chocolate Mocha Ganache Cake,' (Yeah I thought Stacy and Lindsay would be down with that...)

A bookstore in Olympia, Washington.

Kevin is bummed on me for leaving the tour after the Seattle demo...

Saw this thing. It is one of the grossest things I have ever seen.

Grif tries to copy my lame face from the end of L. Kincade 12.

I am now at the plush Westin hotel in downtown Seattle, Grif told me to 'be sure to wear the robe.' The room doesn't have a robe, but we shot this photo of me in bed awaiting carnal delights...

...And our weird shower head.
See my shit-eating grin at the end of my Fox 40 (Sacto) apperance in the L. Kincade number 12...

Billy trying on some new pants...

Laughing about everything.

Sweet spelling.

Hippies in the summer of love, 2008.

Billy on the trampoline.

Tony Trujillo with girl, Tampa, Florida, 2002 maybe?

And a young Andrew Reynolds, messing around with light experiments, mid-western USA, 1999, 98? I forget exactly.
Deformer is coming soon!

It's called 'Scape of Humanity' and it speaks to the relationships between good and evil in our society.
Medium: Pixels on Internet Screen. Price: $28,000, edition of 2500, selling out fast!
Shot by Juergen LeRisky, pal of Logan Kincade.

The Oddity Odyssey took us to San Luis Obispo, where there is a famous alleyway filled with people's chewed gum...

So I got a shot of everyone...

Except Billy somehow, he must have been texting in a corner somewhere.

Jordan Taylor, one of the Flow-Bots


Award winning Videographer, Kevin Barnett.



Rob Straser, Flowbot #2

And Logan Kincade...

When I come back from tour, I am so going to Catalina...

Oddity Odyssey Summer Tour

We went to the RVCA warehouse to stock up on clothes for tour. (we being Austin, Josh and myself, But Austin eluded my camera...) Here Josh thinks about what to get for a tasty snack.

Then puts in his cash.

And pushes the button, Fascinating!

Then we raped the warehouse. Anthony tallies up the gear...

Jimmy shows us some photos of his children. (or was he checking out photos of me in my boxers?)

Then, later that night, I interviewed Josh for SLAP magazine.
On Thursday, we leave on Toy Machine Summer Tour. We will see you all there.

Full length "watch yourself crud" mirror in the bathroom at the ArcLight Theatre in LA...

So I trudged myself out to LA for the TWS Awards, which are always exciting. My ears are still ringing, my throat is sorta scratchy from all the second hand smoke from both weed and grits, and I luckily escaped getting beer thrown all over me. (Throwing full cans of beer at the stage was pretty much standard for the entire evening) This is Nick before the action started, as usual, comfortably numb, toting a cute hippie-chick on one arm and a Pabst on the other.

When I walked up to this event on Hollywood and Vine in the heart of LA I saw a swarm of skate-rats pushing into the door like a ants' nest. Fuel TV was there trying to snatch people's souls into their airwaves on a red carpet style set-up. Then there were bikini-clad women roaming the crowd. I thought of my humble beginnings as a skater, learning how to ollie, or boardsliding a bench for the first time, then my brain just fast forwarded to this. What the hell is going on.

I ran into Erik Ellington. Long time homie who I have not seen for a while. It was nice to say hi, although in too hectic a situation.

Then after I barged through the rif-raf to get in with my posse in tow, I was stoked to see Ray Barbee and the Matson twins shredding it up live.

Who is the asshole smoking inside?

Is that Deanna with her cleavage showing?

Grant Hatfield was sitting in front of me, wait, that's not Grant. And Josh too.

Here is a better photo of Josh Harmony. He had this footage of his son Harrison that he showed us. So Sweet.

I tried to shot some trolls, er, girls sitting in the aisles causing a fire-hazard.

Then I remembered a flash works better.

I was lucky to have old friend Miki Vuckovich sitting next to me. He has been skating since before you were born.

MUSKA! What up dog? "I've been living in New York and making art with my buddy Dash Snow."

Former Toy rider Nate Broussard was there...

He was hella drunk and hugging everyone. Then I saw Matt B...

And went over to get a photo with him. Yeah Matt B.

This is Nick after the video premiere (which he destroyed). "I said congrats on the part Nick!" But I don't think he even heard me or could focus on me. Just like before the premiere, comfortably numb.

The inventor of most of what we all do everyday, Mark G.

US Tour is coming very soon for me.
But I have a very big show coming up this November in LA.

You are always in a car, and people are much different in tone and action.
Check out the Alec Soth website...

These are some left over photos from my trip to europe that didn't make it onto the b(ig)log

I shot this for Kevin, because he loves Batman.

A re-created room from the 60's.

A wide open mouth from a poster in Denmark.

A leftover exhibition shot.

The marks that were made when i sprayed the word bubbles black was probably the best art I made in Denmark, so sad.

I love the ingredient: Stab.

NEWS: The exhibition currently up at Nils Staerk Gallery, The book coming out by Damiani Editore (September), another exhibition coming up at Roberts and Tilton Gallery (November), and Deanna and I have photos in the latest issue of Hamburger Eyes, get yourself a subscription, what are you waiting for?

Blogs are such exercises in narcissism, no?

I think I am going to quit doing this. I am un-inviting the general public from my life.
From here on out this blog will be different.

Our last day in Bologna. We finished up our work at Damiani.

Then went on a tourist mission. Scoping out churches, and walking around taking pictures.

This statue was pretty creepy.

We took a sleeper train to Paris.

Then after a change at the Gare du Nord in Paris, we took the train under the English Channel, affectionately called 'the chunnel' or Channel Tunnel. I read magazines.






And so did Deanna.

Then we got to London. (where Deanna got her first Tasty Beverage in over a month and was ecstatic)

There was a giant piece by my friends OsGemeos on the outside of the Tate Modern. Yep, its a wiener.

Inside some artists' work was out of order. Bummer.

We ate at one of our favorite places, Eat and 2 Veg. In the UK they are not afraid of the word 'vegan.'

We had a vegan mocha shake (spiked with a tad of Kahlua) and Deanna decreed it the 'tastiest beverage ever'

We spent the rest of the night lurking the streets with our cameras. It was cold and rainy and we were shooting leggy girls in micro mini-skirts in the car lights going from club to club. And we did some skee-ball in some crazy arcade-mall. Watched some gay people fight. Have to say it was a long two days.

We are still in Bologna, Italy. Deformer will be out in stores this SEPTEMBER worldwide.

It was funny to see a trashcan filled with messed up pages from the book.

There were palettes of sheets everywhere. Each sheet gets folded in a certain way, then the edges get cut off, and each one of these is called a 'signature'. If you look closely at a book, you can see that it is made up of these 'mini-magazines' stitched and glued together.

One of the sheets on the table for quality inspection. They look for color shifts, and use a super magnifying glass to make sure the registration is perfect. I was blown away by how much goes into making a book.

Then we hit the town and had lunch, passing the squirting boobie fountain on the way...

We found a store and went directly to the ice-cream section to see if they had these Soy ice-cream cones we had heard about. They did!

We pigged out and ate 2 each. They are totally soy based, and 'Vegetale' is the Italian word for 'Vegan'.

Then I went back to Damiani so I could sign the 200 special edition prints that will accompany the special slip-cased edition of the book.

We got up and out early by taxi to Damiani...

Where they had a book dummy. (a Deformer cover put on a blank book the same size and shape as my book.) It was very exciting to see.

Gianni showed me the ropes, and we got to making small adjustments.

He is the RULER!

We were able to view sheets of the book as they were being printed to check the color and density.

Deanna was excited as well.

This is the machine popping out pages of the book.

A guy pulls a sheet out every once in a while to give it a quality check.

This is the Magenta part of the printer. printing is all done in only 4 colors, Cyan (blue) Magenta (red) Yellow, and Black (K). I saw a guy pour yellow ink into the yellow part of the machine. It was pretty great to check out.

We took a lunch break in the rain.

When we got back to Damiani, there were palettes of my book sitting there!

It was pretty cool. They are fast!

The best part was viewing the sheets. I had been working in B&W the whole time, so it was cool to see it in color for the first time.

To clean the heads and get the ink flowing, they print a bunch of mistake sheets...

Deanna using her Olympus XA.

Later that evening, we got out into the city center. These banners were hanging and drew us to them with their beauty.

They were high up there. Look how small Deanna is!

This street reminded me of home. Happy B-Day Grif!

We ate some serious veggie food at the 'Nature Center' a caffeteria type place that ripped pretty hard.

More food. Stacy, you would love this place!

A very enchanting day for sure.