Holiday blowin it

  So yeah it's been the holidays and I've been blowing it on the blog. I have been working on some things though that should hopefully come to life soon. I have been exercising my Australian connections though and I have a couple of sites I think you will like. The first is Jack Pam's site. He is a photographer for Staple mag down under and is worth a peak or two. And the second is a photographer by the name of Steve Gourlay. The site is really nice and has plenty of photos of your all your fav's and maybe a few you've yet to favor. The new year is almost upon us and that means New Years eve celebrations. Don't do anything I would have done a year ago. I'll see you in 2010!!!

From the bottom of my heart!!!!!!!!!

Stump the chief

I hope someone asks a bible question when the boys from Metro skate shop try to Stump the chief over on the DLX site.

Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight!

So it seems like the whole world is getting snow at the same time. Including Washington, DC. Snow is somewhat foreign there and some people organized a huge snowball fight online. It was all kinds of fun until some off-duty cop got his ego bruised when his Hummer was hit with a snowball. The next logical thing to do as a man of the law would of course be to pull his gun on unarmed civilians. Wow. Flabbergasted. His fellow officers of the law seemed a bit more understanding but the gun slinger still used his buddies in blue as confidence for him to get tough with some snowballers. Mental. I'm not condoning blasting snowballs at vehicle's, but a gun?

Let a few mummers in bah!

It's Xmas time, let a few mummers in.

Who's trashy now?

That was an example of a terrible way to portray skateboarders to the world through mass media while below is an example of a few the best. Before a pair of Pushead's would fetch you a fortune on ebay, this was Nike's first attempt to relate to us. And it worked. "Hold ya horses there McEnroe!"

Shoe cents

Oddly enough, my next search on youtube was "Skateboard shoes" and this was the 4th item to pop up.

Skateboard Rap

If you youtube search "Skateboard rap" this is the first thing to pop up. I was expecting JR but got Jay Muthafuckin' Mayne. It's an old track, I'll be honest, and Jermaine I mean it with love, its not fire but I do have to say that the song is about 3 years old and Jay Mayne has only been getting better. I'm pumped to hear the new mixtape, where the fuck is it?

Evil Christmas

I Googled  "evil christmas" and "pentagram tree topper" thinking I would be overwhelmed with awesome X-mas decorations. Turns out there is not a lot out there. I really need a Pentragram for the top of my tree. If anyone can help please let me know. I guess I could just settle for this:

Do it for Jesus!

Roll in.

If Jesus can walk on water, what's with the surfboard?

Awesome

Watch who you score with.

Mutten Hawk

Nobody thinks about skateboarding more than Rodney Mullen. Nobody.

Dissent TV: Tony Hawk with Rodney Mullen from DissentTV

Theeve trucks

Are they really though?

Are you eating your words a little?

Got a team do ya?

Ok, as ashamed as I am to admit this, back around 2002 I bought a set of Tensor trucks. I was fooled by the gimmicks. I was 17 in 2002 also so I can't really be blamed. I am a youngster, don't hold it against me. Anyways I have been skeptical of any new truck developments since. But I will hear Theeve out and see if they can hold their own, but I swear if another truck company plays me for a fool.............

New chandelier

Thinking of a new chandelier. Which one are you backing?

Dudes!

    My boy Greg got a nod from  the tap in the daily randoms for the MJ graphic he whipped up. Nice work Greg. What AVENUE shall you take next? Heh? Heh? Props dude.

Fuck Dump.

    Fuck dump. What's a fuck dump you say? Well you know sometimes in skating how you just fucking eat it? Like all of it? Basically you got seconds on your plate and ya ate that too. Well that's a fuck dump. Sometimes you escape the fuck dump for months, even years but the fuck dump doesn't forget about you. You are never too old, too young, too good or too bad for a proper fuck dump. Here, demonstrating the fuck dump for you is my pal Nick Wilton. Nick stopped in to skate the Haven park in North Haven, CT. They have a full pipe. Now I've never really skated a full pipe, but they look primed and ready to fuck dump anyone in it's path. FUCK DUMP! Respect.

 "I think I bruised a rib." -Nick Wilton

I'm guessing this was pre-Fuck Dump.

Fucking Stoked brah!!!!

Report: Most College Males Admit To Regularly Getting Stoked

Casey Rigney

This is definitely worth a look. Been a while since I've seen some new footage of Casey Rigney but this shit is on point.

16 year old McGraw

I was lurking the Studio Skateboards site and was stoked to find this footage of Andrew McGraw from back in his Boston days at the age of 16. I've played Andrew maybe 1000 times in s.k.a.t.e and I won once, and I'm pretty sure he was wearing dress shoes so I'm not even going to really claim that I have ever fairly beat him. I have come close a lot though, and the one trick that I could always run on him was the switch hardflip. He would always say he used to be able to do them "back in the day". I guess he wasn't frontin' because he does it down like a 10 stair at the end of this video.



Also note the clip at about :30 where he backside 5-0s a ledge but then must take his shirt off  and hold it to nose grind it? I know you were 16 so we'll let it slide. haha

Also check this and this.

City of new lights

The full length video is now posted up online over at the City of new lights site. With a full part from east coaster Josh Clark and a pair of cameos from Halifax's Nate Oliver and Kyle MacDonald, you can't go wrong.

Christmas gift ideas

With Christmas right around the corner, you are all probably wondering what to get that special someone. My guess is that this will suit most people on your list this year. Buy Now!

Never learn.

 I don't know why I bother watching skate videos anymore. All it does is get me all hot and bothered and then ultimately disappointed. It has been freezing in Halifax the last few days, wind chill out the ass, yet for some reason I still got my hopes up last night while watching a few new videos. You see I put them on just to pass the time and then end up getting stoked to skate. While in my warm apartment looking at my TV it's easy to trick yourself sometimes. I was watching and thinking, "I'm going to check the weather network after this." Naively thinking that Mother Nature would give me a sunny, above zero, windless day to skate one more time. Well no, instead Mother Nature gave me the usual "Fuck right off!" that you usually get in almost mid December. So instead of working on my flip tricks, I'm writing this junk. Far less satisfying. I am thankful for the mini ramp sessions I have been invited to since the cold hit, but it's just not the same as a nice strip of flatground and a box.

When I was a kid it was not unlikely to just put on 3 sweaters and skate the salt infested streets of St.John's. Something tells me that this would grow old really quickly nowadays. Shinners below zero are enough to make a grown man cry. I guess if you were really committed you could do like these folks below.


Not sure how much these Blinx LED lights helped but maybe they give off enough heat to melt all the snow in your path?






Well I guess it's just safe to say that it will be a few months before we can really enjoy ourselves skateboarding again. Until then maybe we can snow skate? Gonna be a long winter.

Paul Liliani

This is Paul's video from the Supra Dist. site. It's very neat. Cameo by my boy Bruce with the security guard. Paul rips.

Ballistic profile on the Supra site.

The weather has taken a bit of a turn here like it does most December's, so the amount of skating done has now dwindled to a few sparse mini ramp sessions. So surfing the interweb of skateboarding has become my fix. Today I stumbled upon this profile of Ballistic skate and snow on the Supra Distribution  site. Ballistic was my first real skate shop and has been doing it for the Newfies for some years now. I would go in there as a little shit and just be amazed. I then moved to Halifax and went from being amazed of my first skate shop (Ballistic) to terrified of my new shop (Proskates). Anyways, they talk to Kurk Brown, longtime St. John's ripper and all around gambling addict. KMoney!!

SOTY Pop

This video part, along with contest wins and general ripping are why Chris Cole gets Thrasher skater of the year for a second time.

Megan Fox and Ryan Decenzo

Jereme Rogers, Chris Gentry and Jesus wish you a Happy Holidays.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Bye Jereme

nar⋅cis⋅sism
/ˈnɑrsəˌsɪzɛm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nahr-suh-siz-em] 
–noun
1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2. Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.






  Well now that we are clear on what narcissism is, it's safe to say that Jereme Rogers is narcissistic, delusional and overall completely out of his mind. If you were able to make it through the over six minutes of drivel in "Jereme's Goodbye to skateboarding", hell if you made it through the first 30 seconds of the thing you know that he's actually fuckin' nuts now, to the point that if you were a family member or friend of Jereme's you would have to, by definition of what a friend is, step the fuck in and say "Duuuuuddddeeee".

   I mean really, lets take it a step further here and just say that it's not even Jereme's fault. Someone has to be fueling him. The sad truth of it is that Jereme does have a lot of money and can probably find enough people to surround himself with that will tell him to "Fuck the haters" and "Do your thing". That old adage that we can all be whatever we want when we grow up....it's bullshit. No really, within reason, we can do a lot of things. If I was really dedicated to being a paramedic and trained hard, studied enough, I could probably get there. But rapping is a whole different story. Jereme, YOU ARE NOT A RAPPER. If you want to do this for fun, then fine, so be it. But to say that you are done with skateboarding to get your "Second crown" in rapping, is straight up delusional.

  And why do you think "God" has your back so much? If there was such a thing as a "God" why would he be so down for Jereme that he gives him the great gift of skateboarding, and then says, "You know, that Jereme Rogers kid really needs another gift, I now anoint you a Rap Star!!!!" Everything about that song is terrible, the rapping, the words, the beat, the video, so obviously "God" did not hook you up this time.

  I mean look at Terry Kennedy, he's a good skater (maybe he's not your favorite) and he's not terrible at rapping. He uses beats that you at least want to hear. Actually here, listen to this.......




Guaranteed after listening to those songs back to back, you would be bumping Terry over JROG. I'm not even going to lie, I do enjoy that Super Star joint, it went well with his part in Baker 3. My point is Terry needs to come to him and be like "My dude, this is not for you."  Even when Terry got into rapping he didn't abandon skateboarding, he used it as a launching pad, skate kids love that Terry rap because they see him "Skate" to it. His profile on the Baker site lists rapping in his hobbies, now maybe he would argue that it's more than a hobby but my point is that as far as skateboard rappers, I'm taking Terry over Jereme, any day, all day. Even if Terry's latest ad in the January Thrasher looks more like an ad for an action figure than a skate brand.

GMTA Skateboards

Here is another board company out of Perth, Australia called GMTA skateboard. Any board company that incorporates the Wu-Tang symbol into one of their logo's is alright with me.

Here's a few clips of da by's.

GMTA Skateboards - Quayde Baker from GMTA Skateboards on Vimeo.



GMTA Skateboards - Rowan Williamson from GMTA Skateboards on Vimeo.



GMTA Skateboards - Quayde Baker from GMTA Skateboards on Vimeo.

Kenny Reed

Here's a slept on video part that is a favorite of mine from New Deal's Seven year glitch. New Deal folded shortly after the release of this 2002 video. If you haven't seen it you should check it out. Here's Kenny Reed's part. Enjoy.

WESC East Coastin'

Here is some bonus footage of the WESC Canada team when they came through Halifax and New Brunswick a month or two back. Featuring some cameos by some Hali locals----Kyle MacDonald and Neil Blackwood (Technically Neil's a Newf). Also featuring some footage of the poachee in my last post, Andrew McGraw.

East Coast "B" - for Bonus from Brian Shannon on Vimeo.

How would you like your photos? Poached please!!!

I did a bit of photo poaching last year on my blackberry (man do I miss my iphone).
I am particularly stoked on this little gem of Andrew McGraw that I poached from Owen Woytowich. Pretty good for a blackberry I think. I really have an eye for these things, a jack of all trades if you will. Sometimes when I do something awesome I am genuinely surprised because I had assumed that I had already done all the awesome things in the world. Turns out I found one more awesome thing about myself...I rule at cell phone skate photo poaching!!!!!!!!!!!!

 MC G Raw-BS Noseblunt-Toronto-Nacho Photo

The 4 Skateboard Company

Skateboarding is fucking awesome. Plain and simple. It brings people together, its almost cliche to say but you can go almost anywhere in the world with your skateboard and meet up with new homies. Two years ago I went to New York and met up with Ben McLachlan at Tompkins square park, played a few games of skate and hit up Flushing meadows the next day. Ben's an Aussie (Perth) who was doing some world travelling. We ended up exchanging a few emails and he actually sent me a dvd of his video. (The name of which has slipped my mind at this moment.)
 Anyway since I'm all about the blogging these days I figured I would shoot Ben an email to see if he had any content I could leach from him. Turns out him and some homies have started a board brand called The 4 skateboard company. They definitely have some talent on their team, and as it would seem some sort of affiliation with Nike SB as 5 of 7 riders skate for them and the other two guys rep Vans. You may recognize Morgan Campbell from his days on Premium. Here are  some clips of the riders.

Harry Clark

Harry Clark from Phokus Productions on Vimeo.

Alex Campbell

Alex Campbell from Phokus Productions on Vimeo.

Yuta Tanaka

Yuta Tanaka from Phokus Productions on Vimeo.

Morgan Campbell

Morgan Campbell from Phokus Productions on Vimeo.

Warco Skateboards

Do you remember that lil shit Knox Godoy from the old Baker videos?
Do you remember the dreamy dreadlocked Tosh Townend?
Well this is where they are now, Warco skateboards. Here is their promo.

ATTACK PLAN - WARCO Skateboards 2009 Promo Video from WARCO skateboards on Vimeo.

Awkward handshakes with Jake

Thrasher Skateboard Magazine

New methods of worship

I dropped my fucking iphone yesterday. It seems to have broken the lcd, its not cracked, it just displays a white screen with gray lines that shout "Fuck you asshole, try to take me out while crossing the street again!".

Anyways, it forced me to switch over to my old Blackberry for the time being. On that blackberry I found some pics I took a while back, including this one. It seems the church up the street from me has incorporated new methods to attract parishioners, particularly ravers. They now give out glow bracelets and use only black lights. People dance in an unsavoury manner and tell you how much they love you.

Skate Style now in stock!!!!!!!!

New expose #21

  I always seem to get everything late but I do think this is the latest issue of Expose mag. In case you are not familiar, this mag is almost entirely in gibberish. I could only find 2 articles written in english. The rest looks as though someone at the Expose office sat on the fucking keyboard. I mean seriously what is this? Bastien Salabanzi even does a full on interview in this gobbledegook. Does he speak ass keyboard too? Fuck me.

   Anyway, I did find an ENGLISH interview with Labrona in here. He is a Montreal based graffiti artist who has been working with Nova Scotia's own board builders, Homegrown Skateboards. Skateboard art!! You might as well get your mother a Homegrown board  for xmas to hang in her kitchen because those old poker playing dogs are tired, they have been waiting to play the same damn hand of cards since you were 7. There is also a DMODW article in here that is also in ENGLISH, but like I said the rest is all drivel.

Uptown Hipster Biking to nowhere

Oh sometimes I like to bike.....sometimes I like to bike...to nowhere. I first started biking to nowhere after the time I biked really, really far and was too tired to come home. I camped out behind a K.O.D ( a King of Donair pizza shop for all my non-Nova Scotians....I must be reaching the masses now.) and survived on donair shavings and pizza crust. Anyways, after that I now only bike to nowhere.

This is just the start of my journey to nowhere, so I'm not going nowhere fast yet.

Things are heating up here. Nowhere is just the best place to go EVER!!!!!

At this point I am FUCKING FLYING to nowhere!!!!!!!

The best part about biking to nowhere at Proskates Uptown is that since you go literally nowhere, you are very close to the fridge. No camping behind the K.O.D for me....there are plenty of donair scraps and pizza crust in the Uptown fridge to survive on.

Photos courtesy of SwineJ and his iphone.

Mike V gets sticky.

So when I first posted this video on Friday it was merely because it was funny, and the announcer called the guy a BMX'er. Then I learn that that "BMX'er" is actually pro skateboarder Mike Vallely! haha oh my. Hockey fights, I should have known. Apparently he had some sort of sponsorship deal with the Ducks that is no more after his poor decision to drop the gloves in the stands. I will give him a break here as I understand he was defending his daughter. But maybe next time you can just politely take the stick back?



In this second video you can clearly see Mike V.

Skate Germany

The skate Germany episodes and the other Europe skate scenes are worth a check out in this series from VBS. Its been out for months but I seemed to skip over it because my attention span is short and 23 minute internet videos don't always fit my busy schedule of eating, sleeping and skating. Here's part 1 of  3 of the Skate Germany series.

Vince Martinez

Apparently a product of scissoring. Here's Vince Martinez. For some reason Thrasher videos only embed half of the video(as in it plays the whole video but you only see half of the screen, if anyone knows why let me know.)

Chris Cole is the champ!

You might have saw the P-rod vs Cole game coming, but who was going to take it was anybody's guess. I did have Cole to win but got a little nervous there for a minute. Cool to see P-Rod donated his 2nd place winnings of 5 G's to Nick Mullin's. I'm sure it didn't bother his bank account. And when you have praying hands tatted on you, you need to do lots of good deeds to make sure the man upstairs lets you through his gates. Or maybe he was just trying to make Cole look like a dick for not giving up his 10 G's? Maybe Cole will be donating his winnings to 2 skate shops to pay for their Berrics unified ad space? Who knows.

Check out the guy on the top left in this photo. The guy with the X-Games shirt on, yeah. He's got a fucking cell phone clipped to his sleeve. I shit you not.

Either that or he's doubling as a flash stand.....for this guy.....

Douche.

Building a Ramp with Billy

Winter is coming. Find a spot to build a ramp, watch this video, build it then give me a call.

Ellington

When I was a lad, around 14 or so, I would watch this part over and over. Maybe I watched it over and over because it's only 1:27 and I needed my fix. I would watch this and then proceed to find every reasonable grass bank, stair case or drop I could ollie down. Zero videos always made me kinda want to go hurt myself. I'm glad, for the sake of my health ,that the next video I got really into was Mouse.

Not backing these

Just for the record.

Homomusicality

I posted this up on facebook already but if you didn't see it yet its new to you right?





I come to you today with a confession of sorts, something I need to get off my chest. I have come to terms with this issue myself but have yet to share it with all the world. I need to tell you, I think my ears are gay. Not me as a whole, I love the broads but my ears may be as gay as a male cheerleader.


You see, over the past couple of years I have really seen some lax ruling on who makes it onto my Ipod's guestlist. It is now one of those Ipod's you will put on at a party but will not leave unattended because of the fear of something totally embarrassing coming on. Once every one is drunk it usually all goes to hell anyway and I'm the guy who got the party started but in the light of the day I am once again back in hiding. Hide no more I say.

I realized after reading Scotford Van CooCooCaaCaaa's note about Owen W being a huge Avril Lavigne fan, that I am actually the huge pussy. Owen parades around in his Avril t-shirts, with his car stocked with Avril cd's, basically living the dream, while I don't even own one Britney Spears t-shirt. One thing where we differ though is that I can't say I am a big Avril fan but I can vouch for Britney, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry.

One place where I would like to think we are the same though is that throughout this infatuation with seemingly gay music, I have not totally sold myself out. I still keep enough Wu-Tang, bootcamp clik and Slayer on there to more than balance it out. But this also brings upon another fear of mine. Picture this. I am walking down the street in sayyyyy.... New York, just banging the new Brit joint when BANG! I run into Ghost Deini himself, Tony Starks, the Ghostface Killah! He strikes up a conversation with me (obviously) about what I've been listening to. I'm all "Ugh, ahh, umm, ergh......" BANG again! I'm busted. Ghostface just caught me listening to Britney fucking Spears. All I can do is stutter and fluster some sentences together about how she means nothing to me and I have Ironman and Bulletproof wallets coming up next, but its too late, Ghost is off in his wally's, laughing a lil, but mostly just dissapointed in me.

There it is folks. I feel naked and dirty but its out there. If you remove me from your contacts I guess I will understand but just know that I am not the only one out there. Many of us will come forward in the coming years, I feel it. You will be shocked at who will step out of the musical closet, but just remember Nacho was the first, He stood up with pride and shouted it with glee! I'm Gay! (musically) That's my word.

Fuckin' BMX'ers

At least skateboarders don't steal hockey sticks from little girls and start fights in the stands in hockey games, well maybe they do but this one is all on the BMX'ers.

Pump up the jam

Here are a few pics from this past summers bowl jam. Back around that time I told myself I would start this blog up. Turns out I blew it. So here they are, 4 months late.

This is Greg and his face tats. Ok so they aren't actually tatted on his face but Clancy and Regimbal follow him around daily with their smelly poo fingers all up in his face, so essentially they are his face tats, minus the pain and committment. One says Kill cops. I wonder if in this post, if I say Kill cops a few times, will this blog pop up in google when you search Kill Cops? I know you google kill cops at least once per day. I don't though, In case any cops are reading this. These aren't my tattoos, they are Greg's.

Clancy doesn't just tattoo any old thing on his man canvas.

This tattoo is particularly meaningful to Clancy. He once fought in the great battle of the Ales. A lot of ugly things happened in those days and he would rather not get into the nitty gritty. Let's just say he saw a lot of good beers go to waste in the prime of their lives. Just live by his words and let no beer go to waste. Think always of Clancy's sacrifice and leave NO BEER BEHIND!!!!

HD WIENERS-OUT 2010

Some people tried to skate. I had a megaphone for a big chunk of that day so I'm sure it was distracting/annoying to anyone trying to shred, on the other hand if you weren't skating and just listening to me heckle and rant, then you were having the time of your life. Neil Blackwood-Blunt KF

Soled out sneakers is the shit.

Pat and Alex over at Soled out sneakers do it right. If you are looking for some non skate kicks to just style in then this is your spot. Downtown Halifax, Dresden Row, across from Pete's.

Underground skater and his secrets...revealed!

I'm not going to get into much about this because youwillsoon   is already up on it. But if you haven't yet seen the secrets of skateboarding, then you are blowing it. Order now.

Bonne Fete Peace Park!!

Well it seems as though Peace park is turning 15 years old today. Most Canuck skateboarders have graced the ledges of this Montreal hotspot and have a few yarns to tell about it as well. It's even got an entry up on Wiki. It really shows how skateboarding can breathe life into an area. Bonne Fete Peace Park!!!

Ron Burgundy approved.

My man Gboots put me on this video. It's called Rich Mahogany. It's out of New York. If you get a chance to check it, do so. Now I've been accused of having a biased towards New York, but thats just because they do it proper. And like I said, Ron Burgundy is down.

Rob Welsh is the man!

One of my favorite video parts of all time. From the song to the skating, this part just gets me hyped. Actually this whole video in general is dope.

Everything is greasier in America, even Cancer fundraisers.

I just happened to have the Seattle news on and I saw a heartwarming story about a little girl named Ashley who is involved in raising money for children with cancer. I thought that sounded like a fine idea. Then the story ends with the news that an attempt to break the world record for eating bacon is how they intend to raise money. I`m no doctor but haven`t many studies shown that red meat is linked to cancer?  So lets try to eat the most pig strips in the world, ever, in an attempt to raise money and bring awareness to cancer? Here is a link to Erik "The Red" Denmark`s blogger. He is a competitive eater, a gastroathelete or in this case a "Bacathelete". This poster says it all. Call me a pussy but isn`t this just a bit fucked up?  C`mon no, its really fucked up. Here`s one of probably 100`s of articles found linking cancer to red meat. How about we all tape 5 cellphones to our heads, chain smoke cigarettes and eat plastic and pledge a dollar for every day we stay alive to cancer research. We might look a tad retarded but hey, its for cancer right? We don`t even have to spread the word that American`s are dumb, they do such a fine job of it themselves.

Sometimes you just have to take a moment for yourself.

Neil Blackwood is from the same island I'm from, Newfoundland. It's a tropical island off the coast of China. We don't stress too much there. That's why when Neil doesn't get his trick, he doesn't focus his board. He sits back with a copy of Hustler and a PR.

Satan loves us all equally.

The number of the beast seems to be popping up all over my life these days. Here are a few workplace examples.
Once here in a tip from a patron.

And then again here in my sales for the day. Its good to know the real Prince of Darkness is in your corner.

Welcome!

I've had a few attempts at keeping up a blog in the past. The keeping up is the part where I have ran into problems. Either way, here we go again with my latest attempt, Nacho's blog. (Clever I know.) This blog will likely focus on, but not limited to, skateboarding. It's what I know and love. The above image is an attempt to make it look like I have large nipples by leaving just a circular amount of hair around the nipple. I only did it to one nipple. It's not like I want or aspire to have large nipples I just wanted to see what it might look like. Hairy nipples are gross. Don't do this.


That's me.