The pic is from a ride up independence pass a few weeks ago. A Painful 4200' of climbing over 20 miles. Then a blistering descent filled with suicide animals trying to kill you and themselves.

I really thought that this whole DDBG thing would be a little bigger than this... I was hoping it would be the new Macarena. I figured everyone wanted to be part of something bigger than themselves that didn't involve joining the military or a christian fundamentalist kickball league. Maybe we are all getting too old for gang activity or maybe since this is turning into a photography blog everyone thinks we are lame or something. I only ride my bike to get around these days and when I get home from work all I want is to drink a glass of wine and chill out with my woman. And, worst of all, I think I'm going to keep it that way. It feels great. It's not like I'm going to pick up hang-gliding or some stupid mid-life-crisis sport like that, and surfing really isn't that fun (at Ocean Beach). so what's a man to do?

Maybe I'll get a motorcycle or start playing D&D with the comic book crowd.


-I kicked the rut and went on an adventure with my holga to take 35mm lo-fi pics of nothing, I need to get over to Willy's to use the scanner so i can get all of the pics up. Might as well stretch my legs out in the hipster-toy camera revolution, right? This town is great for faking artistic ability...



-Powell Street and the Trolley cars at night, using 35mm Fuji 200 film with no flash and the shutter held open for a second or so. Made the foreground really sharp and blurred the background. cool...



-Trumpet player on Union Square. Same setup as before.



-Couple on a bench in the Jewish Contemporary Museum garden. Same setup as before...



-This is what I might look like if I was a black man.

Hope everyone has a killer week.

I turned 30 on July 15th. Alex took me up north for a wonderful bike ride and hike. It was a blast. Here's a few pics from the phone

There's been lots of great surf, but paddling out with a camera Velcro'd around your waist hasn't really been appropriate at a lot of these spots. Here's a few from a mellow afternoon at San Onofre beach a few weeks ago.

Both Willy and Alex had birthdays this last weekend - Willy his 30th - so tons of old friends from Fort Collins flew out to SF and we had a big surprise party. I caught a ride up from LA with Nate.















We got right to buisness







Ol' Blue Ear




























We got pulled over because Someone was drinking their beer as a cop drove by. Driver was sober of course, so it was no big, just a few words from the cop. "I don't know how it is in Colorado, but here in California there's no drinking in cars.."















I managed to get a shot of everyone, except the two people we all came to see..

Happy birthday Willy and Alex!

After the bars, George, Cody and I went out and bombed some hills









And suddenly it was already time to leave.. Thank you so much to Teresa for taking care of all of us piles, you are the worlds most wonderful hostess

theres some fort collins in this roll. kids are killing it

so life's been crazy awesome lately. I'm gonna try and play catch up and post a ton of stuff over the next few days... but who knows. so lets get started

Well The Urban Assault race is coming around. Schuyler and I will either win or go out in such a fashion that no one will be dissappointed either way.

http://www.urbanassaultride.com/ftcollins

Need I remind you all of this:

Its either arms raised or.... well both or maybe neither. But atleast vomit.

Miss you guys.

couldn't of said it better myself. (netflix 180 south now)

This is the final leg of the trip, from SF down to LA.



Stopped for a day in Santa Cruz, where the waves were good but everyone's a douche.





The coastline around Big Sur.

Lots of gangster spots. Unfortunately this one is on military land.











Huntington Beach.

The Market Skate Shop was invited by Mountain Dew to design a can. Eric, fellow dead deer, hooked up the art. If they get the most votes the shop gets 5 grand as does eric. Oh and I might get a pair of shoes..... so

go vote for eric's can! Vote Here!

you can vote 7 times a day.... so try and make it a routine.... so far i haven't gotten any spam or anything for registering. Help a dead deer out!

i've been on the road for 15 day's it was awesome. I'll post pics of that in probably 6 months or so. jk just took the film to walgreens and hopefully i'll scan it in within a week or so. anyways here's some old stuff. i'm trying to catch up on all the film i've had laying around before i left

this is from the yashica i think... and is about 3 months old

So far southern California's been blowing my mind. The water is super warm, I arrived on the same day as a solid south swell, and all the people in the water have been surprisingly friendly, even at a spot like this. Or maybe they just figure that anyone showing up in a 5/4/3mm hooded suit when everyone else has on 3/2mm quarter-lenths could use getting waved in a few waves..