think about JUST how fucking dope this is for a minute…
im moving up!! the illustration i did for the cover of issue 53 of the skateboard MAG appears on Platinum Seagulls today!!! go take a look at what you already looking at above this text, while you are there… snoop the fuck around, im sure you will see more than a few things that tickle your fancy! ;)
a hand full of years back on this date (my little brothers birthday), at THIS exact time skateboarding as i knew it changed forever…
long story short, j’boi (not really) Leonard Samolinko spent his early evening drinking himself nearly into a coma, but before he could slip into that alcohol coma, he managed to get into his van and blow through a stop sign at 40+ MPH and into a tree, unfortunately he lived, not sure how he lucked out like that as his van was trashed and the tree was destroyed, but whatever, here is where it gets good…
somehow i managed to be riding my bike directly in front of the tree that old Leonard blasted into. talk about right place at the wrongest of wrong times…
not only did i break a fuck load of bones (most notable: femur) but Leonard had the balls to climb out of his totaled van and proceed to beat the shit out of me as i lay on the ground bloody and broken. i was yelling for help, nobody did a damn thing. out of nowhere Buddy Best and Andy Kormos (of RISE skate shop) happened to be driving by and saw something going on, not knowing it was me getting my ass whooped they pulled over to try help, as Buddy was trying to pull Leonard off me the cops showed up and pulled Buddy off Leonard and started bitching Buddy out leaving Leonard to keep letting me have it…
anyhow, things only got worse and WORSE from there. im gonna leave it at this… FUCK Santa Cruz CA cops and FUCK the Santa Cruz ER. the cops left me at the scene and the ER turned me away.
today i live. thank God. but skateboarding? it aint happening, i still do it on the regs, but its straight up painful to walk let alone try skate the way i want to. it could always be worse and for a lot of people it is, im just thankful today that i can still roll!!
i took this photo of my eye ball 23 minutes after the the ice on Sawmill Bay broke causing my mother and i to curse very loudly and run near light speed so as not to drown… turns out it was a really REALLY bad short cut, not to mention it was -14 degree air temp. sorry mom!!!
Xavier Renegade Angel.
this is episode 1… i suggest you sit down and watch every episode tonight if you want to build the perfect foundation for 2010.
starting this new year off RIGHT
took a midnight moon light walk in the woods with my mother…
as you can see, its cold here.
j’boi Devon Green just updated THE LOG RIDES ON FIRE with images of 11 paintings you should really see.
just for your FYI information, all the paintings are FOR SALE.
call or email Devon if you wanna talk dimensions and prices, or even to just shoot the shhhhhhhhhhh-it.
goatmilkxxx@yahoo.com 831 332 4045
got an iPhone? if not maybe its time you got one if for no other reason than to lace it with one of these cases…
the good people at Uncommon hit me up to do some art for these things and from what i can tell its a pretty slick opperation. you can pick the art you want ( dosnt have to be MY art, there is a grip of good stuff on their site ), rotate it, scale it, make it fit your case the way YOU want it to. i believe i have 9 graphics on there you can pick from. go have a look around and if you are in the zone, swoop a new case for your iPhone…
To know Billy Kahn is to absolutely love him. I can honestly say i am who i am today because of Billy and i know for a fact that im one of MANY people that can proudly say that! A while back Billy moved up to Portland OR to dive face first ( the only way he knows how ) into his dream of starting his own wood shop. Its no big shocker that he got it all rolling pretty damn quick, when Billy has his mind set on something you damn well better believe hes gonna make it happen and then some!
Have a look at Billys HOLDFAST WOODSHOP website and why not get him to build you something!? The way is see it, anything Billy does is pure skateboarding… all the passion he has for everything he creates stems from his love for skateboarding, if you have ever met Billy you know this to be true, what could be better?!
