Music to your ears

This is a band I have been listening to for a little while now. They are called "Blind Pilot". Amazing sound, and great work! I strongly suggest if you are into indie, folk, alternative music, you should really look into these guys. I purchased their album off of the iTunes Store a little while ago. Their album is called "3 Rounds and a Sound". Go Buy it.

Here is their music video for their single "Go On, Say It". Truly a great song.


Now go skate

Dem nightmares!

If this was to happen to me, I wouldn't know what to do. This guy took it quite well. Watch it to the end, apparently there is something funny. I never watched the whole thing, since I saw the scariest thing in my life.

Turtles, yo!

Yeah, it has been a slow week. Not much has been happening. The only thing I could really update you on is how bad my memory is. Trevor, Andrew, and myself went to The Rail skatepark. Which was super fun. I skated the double set for 4 hours straight, and am still sore. It has been 4 days since we have been there. Anyways, me being the total idiot that I am, I left my board there. I had to buy a new complete the other day. Which is okay since my old board was chipped to shit, the trucks both had broken base plates, and my bearings were shit from a previous session when they got soaked in water and mud.

Some good news is that I have purchased a new phone for myself with a neat little 2.2MP camera on it. Once I figure out how to upload the images to my computer. I'll be able to do more daily posts with images that show how boring my life really is.

Close calls

I have had many close calls in my life. From almost being struck by lightning...TWICE...to skateboards flying towards me and/or my lens. I've had close calls with police officers planning on giving me skate tickets, but somehow talking them out of it. Hell, the other day I had a close call with almost getting into a car accident since some goof-ball didn't check his blind spot when he went to change lanes. Either way, these things happen.

Here is a close call from about a month ago when I was photographing my friends Matt Bujok, and Bradley Hesson. On this one, Matt decided to launch a little to far over the rail, and in turn almost landing right on top of my camera. It may look a fair distance away, but it was very close. My lens was also soaked from the spray of his landing and launch.



If I ever come across any close calls again and capture it on camera, I'll be sure to post it on here. It will make for some very interesting pictures.

100%

It makes me happy to say that my camera gear is finally 100% complete. I have all the gear I need, AND wanted! I haven't been this excited in a long time. I'm just stoked that everything is ready to go, and the nice weather is finally starting to come around. All of the snow has practically melted in Niagara Falls, and my home in London. Thanks to Terry Worona (www.woronaphoto.com) for switching me to Nikon from Canon. Also, thanks to Shane Hutton for allowing me to buy basically his arsenal of flashes.

Hopefully this upcoming season will be full of progression that I will shoot for everyone.

Forbidden Fruit

This shot was submitted for SBC, but I wasn't sure if it was accepted or declined. Anyways, it has since been used on a couple other sources, so since it is now on the internet, I feel I am now allowed to show the public. Considering it's my shot. This photo was actually shot too early. Brad literally grinded past the "Hornets'" part of the wall.

Anyways, this is the shot.

Pre-Summer Jitters

Well, we are having this lovely short burst of warm weather, which certainly calls for skating. So far, each time I have gone out, the layers of rust are slowly falling off, and I am getting my tricks back, as well as learning new ones. Trevor and I were able to skate the Falls skatepark while I was down for a few days from London. That session lasted a few solid hours of non-stop manny pad skating. That was no doubt, the best day on a manny pad I have ever had. After the session, we went and chilled at the shop, then skated this guys barn sorta thing. Very simple with a box, flat bad, and a small drop, or transformable manny pad. Skated that till about 2:30 in the morning. Trevor and I were training our flatland by doing 10 tricks in a row of the same trick. We did this for a bunch of tricks. It was a super super fun session, but today, my legs are really sore.

The jitters part is that my right knee (the one I destroyed at the end of my part) has been acting up again, and really giving me a hard time by locking up, or just really hurting when doing simple movements. I have scheduled a doctor's appointment, and am hoping that my knee won't have any issues. I'll let you know how the tests go when I go for the appointment.

Are you MOCing me?

Yeah, it has been too long for this update. No excuses, I was simply drinking and skating with good friends.

Ok, now to the point...About a week ago, my friend Trev and I filmed and help shoot a local online talk show. It's called MOC Talk. It is a show that interviews local, and/or up and coming artists. Either in art, music, or anything like that. They are curently working on episode 3, but you can check out episodes 1 and 2 by CLICKING HERE.

They also have a Facebook group which you should check out and join. Check out the group by CLICKING HERE.

I wish I could talk about episode 3, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. These photos will have to tied you over until it is released.

Another day

Well, I am back in the falls till Wednesday I would say. I am doing nothing but working on pictures from recent work, and also preparing my knees for snowboarding on Tuesday. If you must know, I have started working out, trying to become a bit more fit, only because it's winter, I'm eating horribly, and not skating that much. So doing my standard crunches and sit-ups. I have also started using this weird machine in my basement that my parents got from my grandparents. Hopefully I can become a lot healthier for the summer.

Here is another picture from the snowboarding competition. This is Matt Bujok doing a Front Blunt on the handrail. He may have done a 270 out of it, but it's a single shot, so we will just call it a bluntslide!

Premiers!

My good friend, Dave Hnatiuk finally premiered his european tour video called "The Very Brilliant European Skateboard Adventure". The whole video was amazing! Props to Dave with a trick I have never even seen done before with a Fakie Half-Cab Double Heelflip Manny at Parrallel. That one made the crowd go bonkers! The video had a fun vibe with all-round amazing skating. Even some funnies of 30 Champagne bottles being corked, one after the other added some humour into the mix.

The night was great, see a skate video, and then afterwards some friends and I went to Crabby Joes to watch UFC 94. St. Pierre dominated. The dinner was hella good too! And no Erika, you can't have my hoodie!

Anyways, go buy this video from Dave....definitely worth the money!