auburn

this is mischa at auburn skatepark back in 2002 or so. it's hard to believe this was so long ago when i was living in sacramento with pat. we would always be drinking and driving. i don't think i can match how much pat and i used to drink, not even the mission records days, though they come pretty close. anywhere we went, it didn't matter how close or far, we would always hit the liquor store first. we always had a six pack in the car when we went to skate. it was pretty awesome, though reckless.

mischa came to nyc to visit a couple weeks ago. i haven't seen him probably since 2004 or maybe 2003. he's such a rad dude. i must have met him when he was 16 or so, right around when this picture was taken. now he does tattoos in the grass valley area. he works a lot in the tattoo americana with a good dose of humor. sounds about right knowing him. check out his work here.

frontside bail 2002

The best things about living in Berkeley were going to the skatepark every day after class, going to the movies whenever I wanted, and shoplifting from the Barnes and Noble pretty much every day. I shot these photos of this guy (anyone know who this is?) blasting these frontside airs over the hip at the Berkeley pool. It's crazy how far he has this pushed out before reeling it back in. He had on this yellow Addidas track jacket that reminded me of Bruce Lee in Game of Death. It's too bad I have to run them so small in this format. One day I'd like to print these super big, like 26x32.

I knew I had this film in the bag 'o film somewhere and I finally found it this past weekend. Who knows what else is in there...