The hacking

camera man Jarred

my foot hurt

I have a very painful planters wart on my foot, I haven't really had time to go see a doctor about it so I finally just cut it off, I figured I may aswell have Jarred film it too.

I started cutting in with the knife and it doesn't hurt at first, but once I got close to the center of the wart it was like hitting a nerve, pain shot up my foot and through my whole leg, it was pretty painful.

Once I reached a certain depth blood just started spurting out, I didn't realize I was bleeding so much until I lifted one hand off my foot and blood went all over the floor and my pants. Later on I bandaged it with some toilet paper and a shoe lace.

I finally go the wart off and my foot felt way better, it actually hurts more to step on something wrong with the wart on my foot than it hurts to hack the wart off and bleed allover.

shameless fest 2008

mini mosh pit

So this spring I had a concert, well I hosted a concert, because I don't have a band. I was supposed to do a senior project that was for the better of the community so I held this concert and called it Shameless Fest, it was a rock/punk/rap show, we had it all. Admission was a can of food and we donated it all to homeless people.

The first band to go up was local, just a couple friends of mine who knew how to play songs and sing. I was surprised at how well they had their shit together actually.

Second band up was from Pullman, Squarezero. I knew they're guitar player from a school I went to a few years before, they were awesome. They had a few songs of their own and played a couple cover songs like "fortunate son" and "hey joe". I was super stoked.

Third band was a group of kids from cheweelah, Shooting Blanks. I had known their drummer and his brother for quite a few years and we were pretty good friends. They were amazing, probably one of the best shows of the night, they played for well over and hour and still had songs to go. They did a lot of blink-182 covers, but also had a lot of songs of their own.

Up next was the most hardcore band of the night, Hypochrist was a canadian punk/thrash band that I had seen a couple times. I knew the members through my ex-girlfriend and from random run ins at the skatepark. They definately ripped, they played harder, faster and in true punk style, drunker than anyone that night.

Finally was the group most everyone came to see, 2Twisted, these local small town rappers knew how to rhym, and with a whole knew album of songs to spit at the crowd they definately kept everyone entertained.

As the night grew on though it began to rain, I thought people would start heading home, but they just kept packing in and the rain made for a better show because pepole packed right up to the stage. in the end it was a good show for a good cause and ended up making a decent photo story too.

The last Sesh

I was driving down Northwest Boulevard when I saw a sweet bank, not like a deposit withdrawl bank, like an inclined section of asphault. So I looked at it for like 2 weeks and then finally decided to skate it one day when Jarred and I both had a day off from work.

We got there and Jarred tried to ollie to fakie on the bank, this is where, for thsoe of you who don't know, you ollie and then come back straight down, so you're riding backwards. Then I guess he got bored of that or something because he started trying to tail drop off this ledge, I think the place we were at used to be a church or something, but it looked like there used to be steps up to this ledge or soemthing because there was a door and no logical reason to not have steps.

Then I let Jarred run the camera for a bit. I got the ollie to fakie down first try because it's just an ollie. It took a few more trys for me to get the frontside ollie down. This is just a frontside 180, but I sucked at 180s that day or something so it took a while.

Anyways it was the last session we had be for this piss poor weather came along. Now I'm stuck indoors with no excuse not to do myt photomedia homework and I'm going to end up blogging all night.

hmm

I got a job finally, at the parkade downtown. It's super boring but I guess it could be worse, or could it? Because really being bored is the worst, if I'm working hard and even if I'm in pain at least I'm not bored, but I just sit there all day and take tickets.

The Mill

Last time I went home and visited a friend (Aleks) and I went and skated at our old favorite skate spot. This place used to be an old saw mill, but when it shut down they tore down all the buildings revealing smooth concrete adn gaps everywhere. I call it the mill, but it's realy a perfect example of American wasteland, teenage wasteland.

The great thing about the mill is that it really is more than one spot though, it's a pile of spots all in the same general area. If you want to just chill and skate flat land you can do that, if you want to do some drops that option is open, if you wanna toss yourself over some gaps go for it. About the ony thing the mill doesn't have is stairs, but it makes up for it by having so many other options.

this particular time we found an old table top that was very smooth and slick, we set it up on an old door so it would be higher and then Aleks proceeded to throw down a 50/50 and 5-0. They were great shots.

We ended up going a bit too late in teh afternoon and before we knew it darkness was creeping in, so we buckled down and tried a few more tricks before calling it a night and heading home. It was great, brought back some good memories of home.

hallows Eve mahaha

I'm big into holidays. My mom did it to me, ever since I was little holidays were a big deal, we decorated and did whatever you do on each holiday. So this year even though I moved out and I'm in the big world by myself now I went out and bought halloween decor. I felt that I had to.

All my room mates thought I went a little nuts because I covered every window with those plastic halloween sticky decorations, but more importantly I went out and bought a pumpkin to carve. I think they thought it was childish, but I didn't care. I went all the way out to green bluff just to pick it out.

So there I am in the middle of the kitchen by myself carving away at and then I look up and Danny and Jarred are there. All the sudden they got the same excited glint in their eyes that I had. Bam! Danny started giving me tips and Jarred just kind of payed with the guts, but anyways they got as pumped as I was. Danny got in there and did half the carving even.

The theme of the pumpkin ended up being "smoking kills"we thought it was funny, but its probably not. We carved out what kind of looks like a cigarette and then just ended up putting a corn cob pipe in his mouth, but it was fun. I was glad I inspired them to get into the holiday spirit somehow, strange seeing as I claim to be atheist....

happy halloween

also I stuck a knife in the pumpkin so he looked murdered....

skating downtown

Lately I've been heading downtown a lot for skating, there's a lot more cool spots and the people always just seem way more chill. It's just a better scene over all.
This weekend Jordan, Jarred and I headed down there and found a few spots to skate and just burned a few hours we had nothing else to do with. Jarred kept trying to hippie gap this bench outside the courthouse, that was the first spot we went. The court house down town has the most perfect little skate plaza I have ever seen, the ledges are low and so are the benches, nothing has skate stoppers and its all just really smooth.
Anyways, Jarred kept trying to hippie gap the bench so then Jordan started trying it too and pretty soon they got obsessed with it and were determined, the weird thing is that I think Jordan has been on a skateboard maybe six times in his life and he came closer than Jarred to landing it.
Next we headed to this spot up by the Knitting Factory or what used to be the Big Eazy, I don't know why they changed the name, kind of pisses me off. Anyways it was this little plaza thing across the street from it and they got straight to doing the same things, hippie gapping these banches, so thats about all we did all day, I tried to boneless axle stall on a bench and I think I pulled something in my ankle because it hurts bad.

week 4 quotes

This weeks quotes are both from Paul Strand

“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you,” he said. “If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness.”

This just means that someone who is alive and wants to be a photographer will be able to photograph anything and there will be meaning to it. It makes me think of that old saying "only boring people get bored", it's sort of the same principle but applied to photography.


“Your photography is a record of your living--for anyone who really sees,” Strand said. “You may see and be affected by other people’s ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have to eventually free yourself from them.”

You eventually have to find your own way, you can't always just be influenced by what you see in other people.

third week quote responses

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind;
to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.

Tryon Edwards

You have to add new things to your mind, that is education, not just working with the same old mind.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

If you are looking for happiness in the distance then you will never have happiness. You have to know how to just be happy with what you have or create your own happiness.

response to the second week quote

“I visualize a story as a beaded necklace – a pearl necklace- coiled up in the muck at the bottom of the sludge collected at the bottom of your subconscious. When you start yanking on the string, an old string that’s been rotting in the muck for years, the string breaks. But you’ve got one gorgeous pearl left in your hands, and you’re motivated to roll up your sleeves and stick your hand down into the muck to find the rest of the pearls you just barely glimpsed. And one by one you fetch them up. But without their string (the plot; the because-sequence is the string) they come up in a random order. In fact, some of the pearls may not even belong to this necklace.

Eventually, when you’ve got them all, you can sit down and make the “outline” of the story. You look at the pearls and your sense of ART tells you which ones go with which – by color and shape and texture and size –and you arrange a set of pearls so the big one is in the middle and the small ones on the end (or however your Art says to do it). At that point, you know which pearls don’t belong on this necklace and set them aside.

C.J. Cherryh

This is basically just saying how every time you have ideas for a story or part of a story you just have to be able to bring them all together and then make it make sense.



“The method I use now is to present ideas through impressions. Readers immersed in the gradually unfolding impressions will form their own ideas, which might or might not be in agreement with the author’s; that is fine either way. Ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”

A dialogue with MuXin

This is like the same basic idea except for it's saying that other people can understand the story differently and it still works, just in their head they used a different sring.

garage skating

The Garage

Last night it was rainging, but I still wanted to go skating. I was gettin really angry at mother nature, but then I remembered that Jarred's house has a garage. I called Jarred and asked if he wanted to skate in the garage, maybe smoke some cigars and just chill out, he was down for that.

we started skating and there wasn't much roon, but we tried to get by with what we had to work with. We ended up starting a game of skate, I think Jarred lost, but we never really finished. Jarred kept busting out the primo flip though.

Then we decided to bust out the cigars. They were Swisher Cherrys, the best kind. Jarred had to be a show off and put one up his nose.

Eventually we kind of go bored skating. for some reason we decided to start throwing knives at logs tryin to stick them. It was fun, everyone loves sharp projectiles wizzing through a small room.

skate sesh at the stairs

Tyler, Jarred and I went and skated this little stair set thing we found towards the back of the campus. We skated it before, but had never taken pictures or anything. We never really landed anything intense, but we got some good looking shots.

It took TK a while to warm up, but once he did he had this whole little line dialed in. He would jsut drop the first 2 stairs, ollie the next 3 and then fire cracker the last 2.

Jarred looks like he was going to push mongo, but he didn't, otherwise I woudl have called him a MAB. (I don't think he ever made it past the 3 stair in the middle)

There were leaves all over the stairs, it made it sort of weird to skate, but it made for really cool shots. I liked the look of the whole thing.

We had a good little session though until security kicked us out. I never even got to skate, but it was cool because my ankle felt like it was broken anyways.