Thursday, October 16, 2008
MORE SSKATEBOARDING!
of skate videos and videos of that sort... here are some of my favorite parts of all time. in no particular order... but i might put jerry hsu's double length part in Back of Suck as number 1, the guy's bag of tricks is endless... not one sketched out trick... all top notch and impeccable style. smooth as butter, damn asians are good at everything. 2 great song choices as well.
Enjoi Bag of Suck: Jerry Hsu
again from bag of suck... just a really fun section to watch. love the song... and when the team starts trains of tricks or doing tricks with perfect symmetry together.
one of my fav surf vids.... SPROUT
this video covers the globe with riders of all shapes ... longboarders, tow surfers, fish and retro boarders, bodyboarders, bodysurfers, everything. beautiful film
okay it is always fun to see a friend making it
mikey taylor
and his part in DVS skate more... his brother matty and friend blake davis each have tricks in it which is pretty sick.. plus there is some tricks done at places in newbury like sequoia..
ooookkkay sorry but steve berra's part and daewon songs are unreal too.. just too good to pass up.
i think that is all.. haha..
Enjoi Bag of Suck: Jerry Hsu
again from bag of suck... just a really fun section to watch. love the song... and when the team starts trains of tricks or doing tricks with perfect symmetry together.
one of my fav surf vids.... SPROUT
this video covers the globe with riders of all shapes ... longboarders, tow surfers, fish and retro boarders, bodyboarders, bodysurfers, everything. beautiful film
okay it is always fun to see a friend making it
mikey taylor
and his part in DVS skate more... his brother matty and friend blake davis each have tricks in it which is pretty sick.. plus there is some tricks done at places in newbury like sequoia..
ooookkkay sorry but steve berra's part and daewon songs are unreal too.. just too good to pass up.
i think that is all.. haha..
skate and create
this is one of the most impressive things i have seen come from skateboarding in a long time.
basically 4 teams get to do whatever they want to a wherehouse and shoot... well i guess a promo or some commercials? anyways... the teams were globe, dvs, osiris, and emerica.
osiris sucked.
globe was okay.
emerica does some pretty cool stuff with mirrors ...
but dvs definitely takes the cake.
when it comes to cinematography, lighting, soundtrack choice, innovation in set design, as in ramp and rail setups as well as trick innovation, the others cannot compete... i also think dvs takes the cake when it comes to talent from any team and i am proud to know some of those people... check out torrey pudwill from simi 2:55 in the video below... just blows my mind i dont even know what to call that trick.... the only thing that i have seen that compares to this series is Lakai's intro to their latest video Fully Flared... anyways check it out.
i love skateboarding and had forgotten how much i love it. i really want to get back into it. especially skate vids, and surf, snowboard, bodyboarding videos. nothing gets me more amped on life... well there is a million things but these are some of my favorites. . enjoy.
DVS Skate and Create
Behind the scenes: DVS
Emerica Skate and Create
aaannnnnddd... get ready for your mind to be blown... also grrreat choice of song in this..
Lakai: Fully Flared (intro)
edit: french connection part at 3:38 = mindblowing.
basically 4 teams get to do whatever they want to a wherehouse and shoot... well i guess a promo or some commercials? anyways... the teams were globe, dvs, osiris, and emerica.
osiris sucked.
globe was okay.
emerica does some pretty cool stuff with mirrors ...
but dvs definitely takes the cake.
when it comes to cinematography, lighting, soundtrack choice, innovation in set design, as in ramp and rail setups as well as trick innovation, the others cannot compete... i also think dvs takes the cake when it comes to talent from any team and i am proud to know some of those people... check out torrey pudwill from simi 2:55 in the video below... just blows my mind i dont even know what to call that trick.... the only thing that i have seen that compares to this series is Lakai's intro to their latest video Fully Flared... anyways check it out.
i love skateboarding and had forgotten how much i love it. i really want to get back into it. especially skate vids, and surf, snowboard, bodyboarding videos. nothing gets me more amped on life... well there is a million things but these are some of my favorites. . enjoy.
DVS Skate and Create
Behind the scenes: DVS
Emerica Skate and Create
aaannnnnddd... get ready for your mind to be blown... also grrreat choice of song in this..
Lakai: Fully Flared (intro)
edit: french connection part at 3:38 = mindblowing.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
2shitty photos of shitty things one good one of not a thing
it is really fun working on this
this wall no longer looks like this.... it is in downtown la... we rode by and it is now white.
sculpture, finished.
this wall no longer looks like this.... it is in downtown la... we rode by and it is now white.
sculpture, finished.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
another oh yah.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
oh yah
check this guy out.... some excellent work. excellent. he also did the work for the new sigur ros album RYAN MCGINLEY
THIS TIME TOMORROW
wow. my last day here.
i just finished my italian final. it went very well :-)
i need to pack.
i need to pack.
dang i need to pack.
questo tempo domani, saro' in California. penso che vada bene.
see everyone at home soon!
ciao firenze!
hello los angeles!
i just finished my italian final. it went very well :-)
i need to pack.
i need to pack.
dang i need to pack.
questo tempo domani, saro' in California. penso che vada bene.
see everyone at home soon!
ciao firenze!
hello los angeles! 
Sunday, July 13, 2008
i wasnt going to write anything here about my sister. but she is doing great. and i am so happy. i cannot thank God enough. He has blessed our family greatly and i cannot thank Him enough.
on a different note.
haha. this morning out of no where there was a torrential storm. the most rain i have witnessed and hail. it was all great until i realized all my clothes are outside being hung to dry. and well they were dry but i didnt bring them in yesterday. and now. they areSOAKED and covered in leaves. dang. oh well. i leave in 4 days. i finished my paper and have finals coming up. wow 4 days. wow.
:-)
on a different note.
haha. this morning out of no where there was a torrential storm. the most rain i have witnessed and hail. it was all great until i realized all my clothes are outside being hung to dry. and well they were dry but i didnt bring them in yesterday. and now. they areSOAKED and covered in leaves. dang. oh well. i leave in 4 days. i finished my paper and have finals coming up. wow 4 days. wow.
:-)
Saturday, July 12, 2008
sigur ros
ok
well
i want to say..... sigur ros was better............. they were different. so different. and both so incredible. but because i am just as happy as i was after radiohead. and it is fresh in my mind, and i was able to see them walking distance here in florence, i will say as of today, right this second.
sigur ros was better.
they were just well amazing.
absolutely amazing.
from the beginning...
2 nights ago our school took us out to the opera.... the Barber of Seville. it was sooo incredible. it was great to see something we are all familiar with live for once.. i didnt even realize that i was familiar with it until just before.. figaro figaro figarroooooooooo... babaduhdum... babaduhdum....babaduhdumbabaduhdumbabaduhdumbabaduhdum.. yea that one. lol... but yes that was great... slow and very long at times.. but great non the less. that evening i just came back and went to sleep because we were waking up very early to go to Ravenna with my Dante class.
7am. train station. so tired. dante class. ugh.
ravenna was very very nice.
and i mean very nice.
it is on the coast and much more relaxed than florence.
much quieter, cleaner, and peacefull. i was very relaxed and could see why Dante chose to spend his last years in exile there.
churches churches churches. as usual.
the highlight of the trip was going into il Centro Dantesca ... this was the place.. where scholars all over the world come to study Dante.
a Franciscan monk from the attached monastery showed us in and absolutely floored us when he pulled from the shelf original handwritten copies of the Divina Commedia from the 14th century dated just shortly after Dante's death. he also showed us a first edition printed copy as well as a volume illustrated by Botticelli. i wanted to leave early. to make the concert, but that would mean buying my own ticket back... and disappointing Dr. Contino who is always so ridiculously enthusiastic about Dante. He assured me we would be back at 8:01
nope.
train is delayed.... train gets stopped... train breaks..... hour behind schedule i am getting stressed... i CANNOT MISS THIS SHOW!
pull in at around 9 and book it to Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Gardens) about 20 minutes away...
...i am walking very fast.. and as i approach i hear music... oh no!
i take off my hat and begin to sprint. i start freaking out too...
i have my tickets right?
i did this all right ... right??
everyone at will call has a printed out sheet....
dammit! i dont have that oh no... im totally freaking out. i do NOT want to get denied and walk back home. my turn. ID . credit card... she looks at her list .. i pray...
ah. De La Rosa. qui! .. hands me my tickets. i am ecstatic. SO HAPPY
i run to my seat and to my overwhelming joy find that the music was an opening act and he has just finished! perfect. perfect timing. i was the only american it felt like which was surprising because the night before at the opera(same venue) there were many. it didn't matter and i actually enjoyed that fact. in my broken italian i tried to express my excitement to the strangers sitting around me.
the crowd was interesting... 20somethings like me. younger teenagers, mid 30s, older people. OLD people. couples. friends. families... even one couple sitting in the grass area with their toddler. GREAT PARENTS.
a giant difference between this and radiohead was that i had a seat. a very good one actually. and more the first half everyone sat. in awe. as if witnessing a miracle of music. i am ashamed to say i do not know the band members name... i could have looked them up now but instead i will be honest and well i dont feel like looking them up..
the band consisted of well the lead singer. basist, string quartet, drummer, horn section, and 2 others on either keyboards, pianos, xylophones, and organs. the singer.. ok ....... his name iss............Jonsi Birgisson. Ok Jonsi, played most his guitar most of the night with a bow. i knew he did but witnessing it was insane... the sounds.. icannot describe. so beautiful... somewhere between a humpback whales song, a cello, and well of course a distorted guitar. literally pulling the sound out of the machine. i have never heard a voice like that either.. hitting ridiculous notes and holding them for near 10 seconds at a time.. at times it didnt even sound like a voice but another instrument.. in a way it was.. figuring that no one... not just me but no one understood their language. which was a nice thing to think about.. it was just beautiful noises. my favorite songs would have to be Gobbledigook.. and of course... Hoppipolla.. and Saeglopur. hearing the opening notes of the second two.. my God. the most intense chills engulfed my body. so much emotion ran through me. hearing these songs around me... witnessing it with the orbs of light behind them and the silent crowd.. brought me back home and well Lord... heaven for a second? anyways.... i could go on forever.... the second half of the show everyone finally decided to stand up as they encouraged us to dance and clap with them.... here are pictures i have........ yes my camera died in Ravenna i was PISSED but oh well...........
.... pictures i have found from last night on Flickr and my cell..... video from the opera... and other cell pics of Radiohead. oh and youtubes of last night as well...
....
cell now:
random florence
more radiohead
what a great way to end this trip
well
i want to say..... sigur ros was better............. they were different. so different. and both so incredible. but because i am just as happy as i was after radiohead. and it is fresh in my mind, and i was able to see them walking distance here in florence, i will say as of today, right this second.
sigur ros was better.
they were just well amazing.
absolutely amazing.
from the beginning...
2 nights ago our school took us out to the opera.... the Barber of Seville. it was sooo incredible. it was great to see something we are all familiar with live for once.. i didnt even realize that i was familiar with it until just before.. figaro figaro figarroooooooooo... babaduhdum... babaduhdum....babaduhdumbabaduhdumbabaduhdumbabaduhdum.. yea that one. lol... but yes that was great... slow and very long at times.. but great non the less. that evening i just came back and went to sleep because we were waking up very early to go to Ravenna with my Dante class.
7am. train station. so tired. dante class. ugh.
ravenna was very very nice.
and i mean very nice.
it is on the coast and much more relaxed than florence.
much quieter, cleaner, and peacefull. i was very relaxed and could see why Dante chose to spend his last years in exile there.
churches churches churches. as usual.
the highlight of the trip was going into il Centro Dantesca ... this was the place.. where scholars all over the world come to study Dante.
a Franciscan monk from the attached monastery showed us in and absolutely floored us when he pulled from the shelf original handwritten copies of the Divina Commedia from the 14th century dated just shortly after Dante's death. he also showed us a first edition printed copy as well as a volume illustrated by Botticelli. i wanted to leave early. to make the concert, but that would mean buying my own ticket back... and disappointing Dr. Contino who is always so ridiculously enthusiastic about Dante. He assured me we would be back at 8:01
nope.
train is delayed.... train gets stopped... train breaks..... hour behind schedule i am getting stressed... i CANNOT MISS THIS SHOW!
pull in at around 9 and book it to Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Gardens) about 20 minutes away...
...i am walking very fast.. and as i approach i hear music... oh no!
i take off my hat and begin to sprint. i start freaking out too...
i have my tickets right?
i did this all right ... right??
everyone at will call has a printed out sheet....
dammit! i dont have that oh no... im totally freaking out. i do NOT want to get denied and walk back home. my turn. ID . credit card... she looks at her list .. i pray...
ah. De La Rosa. qui! .. hands me my tickets. i am ecstatic. SO HAPPY
i run to my seat and to my overwhelming joy find that the music was an opening act and he has just finished! perfect. perfect timing. i was the only american it felt like which was surprising because the night before at the opera(same venue) there were many. it didn't matter and i actually enjoyed that fact. in my broken italian i tried to express my excitement to the strangers sitting around me.
the crowd was interesting... 20somethings like me. younger teenagers, mid 30s, older people. OLD people. couples. friends. families... even one couple sitting in the grass area with their toddler. GREAT PARENTS.
a giant difference between this and radiohead was that i had a seat. a very good one actually. and more the first half everyone sat. in awe. as if witnessing a miracle of music. i am ashamed to say i do not know the band members name... i could have looked them up now but instead i will be honest and well i dont feel like looking them up..
the band consisted of well the lead singer. basist, string quartet, drummer, horn section, and 2 others on either keyboards, pianos, xylophones, and organs. the singer.. ok ....... his name iss............Jonsi Birgisson. Ok Jonsi, played most his guitar most of the night with a bow. i knew he did but witnessing it was insane... the sounds.. icannot describe. so beautiful... somewhere between a humpback whales song, a cello, and well of course a distorted guitar. literally pulling the sound out of the machine. i have never heard a voice like that either.. hitting ridiculous notes and holding them for near 10 seconds at a time.. at times it didnt even sound like a voice but another instrument.. in a way it was.. figuring that no one... not just me but no one understood their language. which was a nice thing to think about.. it was just beautiful noises. my favorite songs would have to be Gobbledigook.. and of course... Hoppipolla.. and Saeglopur. hearing the opening notes of the second two.. my God. the most intense chills engulfed my body. so much emotion ran through me. hearing these songs around me... witnessing it with the orbs of light behind them and the silent crowd.. brought me back home and well Lord... heaven for a second? anyways.... i could go on forever.... the second half of the show everyone finally decided to stand up as they encouraged us to dance and clap with them.... here are pictures i have........ yes my camera died in Ravenna i was PISSED but oh well...........
.... pictures i have found from last night on Flickr and my cell..... video from the opera... and other cell pics of Radiohead. oh and youtubes of last night as well...
....
cell now:
random florence
more radiohead
what a great way to end this trip
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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