Recent Color Photography.

The HB pier is our hotspot as of late.
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Finally got some negs scanned...
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"Lemme read your palm, it says that you should lose your virginity soon."
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"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough." -Larry David
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One of my early photos was of this guy preaching downtown. Fast forward 20+ years, he's still here.
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I need to get my grandma one of these hi-tech walkers.
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Austin and Josh!
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You don't normally see a passed out guy on the pier...
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"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -Gloria Steinem
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"Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." -John Lennon
Posted February 8th, 2012 by The singer who is terrible at singing, please.
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Some people and times caught on film.

Times from the year 2005.
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Sydney, Australia. (using the Olympus XA)
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Sydney, OZ, asleep at the wheel.
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Ian Mackaye during The Evens show in LA.
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The church my brother Matt was married in. Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin. Look at this asshole.
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Ian Mackaye and Amy Farina, San Diego.
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The Evens play in San Diego.
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Thomas Campbell at my house making some last minute painting changes for the Beautiful Losers show.
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Cheryl Dunn holds someone's child at the Beautiful Losers opening in Orange County.
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Barry McGee working on his installation at the Beautiful Losers, Orange County.
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Deanna Templeton with fellow photographer Ari Marcopolous.
Posted February 6th, 2012 by Why can't I walk down a street?
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A few shots from the Eswic mini-tour.

On the drive back from Vegas...
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Riveting coverage of my shoes. (last night at the skatepark I tweaked both knees, and then a few minutes later fell headlong into the vertical barred fence, raking my dome across 3 or 4 rungs. Golf ball lump. I drove home to ice my old crusty body.)
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Elvis all the way home.
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"You bros want some more Elvis or what?"
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Jimmy fast and loose.
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Leo and Jimmy joining forces during Real American.
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There were at least 3 dudes in the car ready to dock... Burnett was not one of them.
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"Oh shit, is that Ed's Leica?"
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Immediate stop, can't make it one more block. Take that Covina.
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Rock Star/SOTY style is how Leo rolls.
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The story will be better told by Thrasher...
Posted February 3rd, 2012 by Look to Burnout or Thrasher Mag for the goods.
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Make Up Sex

My friend O's new band.
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Here is their Facebook.
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The singer, O, is a legendary skate photographer, and he shot my first cover for TWS.
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Hey it's Jinx walking through the set! (He's the one on the left in this photo.)
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The Bassist Ana Y. sat down for a few songs.
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O was rocking it mad-dog style.
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Remy Stratton and Jinx in the background.
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O is the kid to the left of Rollin's elbow in this famous photo.
Posted January 31st, 2012 by Tepid steps into the sticky black goo.
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Bonus Catalina post for the weekend.

I found these old photos from Catalina a few years back.
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Deanna deflates as we approach Avalon.
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Ashley and Jim try to snorkel old school style.
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Leopard shark shot with a disposable underwater cam.
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Another crusty Leopard shark photo.
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Can you see the small shovel-nose guitarfish? I had to dive down deep to get this shot.
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The Holly Hill House.
Posted January 29th, 2012 by lost then found under a pile of papers...
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Photographs from Orange County and LA

A mixture of images composed in the southern California diaspora and behind the Orange Curtain.
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Welcome to now.
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Speeding down PCH...
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A young tike launches from the swing set.
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Taken from the "Asahi Building" at Wilshire and La Brea in LA.
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Lindsay lords over La Brea.
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The avoidance or dulling of reality is a popular way to spend your time and worth fighting for.
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"Which one is the bad word?"
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Posted January 27th, 2012 by Driving and looking and seeing and taking.
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Thurston knows who I am? Whoa!

Posted January 26th, 2012 by Talking about music in skate vids...
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Out Takes from a Fashion Shoot

Shooting around Huntington Beach with Rob, Jackie, Grant, and Ashley.
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Grashley reading bed, totally how they always act.
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Saliva pass around.
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Grant measures Ashley's hair.
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"Beauty and folly are old companions." -Benjamin Franklin
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Rob and Jackie checked out of So-Cal and checked into Nor-Cal.
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Hey Jac-kay!
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"Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away." -Fay Weldon
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." -Confucius
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This was shot for Color Magazine from Canada. It was called "California Winter."
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Hidden Valley
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Lets go.
Posted January 25th, 2012 by Google has been tracking my every move.
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Life in a putty knife factory.

Some color shots from all over the place with no theme.
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A Londoners Lament.
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This place smelled like piss.
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I think this girl was trying to take street photos of a street photographer, I busted her by taking her photo back.
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A window display.
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Gent, Belgium, a marketplace.
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Each minute is a day.
Posted January 24th, 2012 by Something to do for a few seconds.
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My very last shots from the HB park

Just discovered a roll of film shot on the day we cut the flat bar off. I shot lots of digital photos to blog about the HB park, but this was the last roll of film, and the last shots I ever got of the park before it was bulldozed.
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Cut with sweat and blood.
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The HB park, crucified unjustly.
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The Griff-Dog.
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The sun can never set on the HB flat-bar, because I have it in safe keeping.
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The curvaceous bank can no longer be caressed by my loving wheels like the hips were.
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A view with Geoff Rowley's graffiti, and me doing one of my last ever ollies over the hip. Shot by Griffin with my camera.
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Shred a tear for me.
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The kinker bar broke my ribs at least once, and bruised them a few times too, and has split plenty of blood from my shins.
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HB has been very inept at getting this new park going. Money wasted!
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Relentless teenager usage was finally getting the best of concrete and steel.
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This is the cop that kicked us out, and what spurned us into the realization that this was our last session ever. We went immediately to the hardware store and bought hacksaws.
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The tortured ledge which was once nice and sharp was blunted by the myriad of abuses it endured.
Posted January 22nd, 2012 by Oh the good ole days.
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