Find Colin

The 2012 late summer issue of SBC is out and my boy Colin Findlater has a feature interview in  there. Colin did tricks, Sam Fidlin shot the photos and I asked him questions. Besides that, Adam Hopkins and Dan Redmond also have some pretty epic features in there. Check it!

Colin, crooked grind. This didn't make the cut

because Colin one-upped himself for the issue.

Patching Things Up

With mother nature becoming less and less of the harsh mistress she used to be a few familiar faces and myself have been dodging work hours to get out and do some skating. Nothing overly exciting here but have a look below for some fun.

I really need to watch what I say. A week or so

before I shot this I was talking an incredible

amount of shit on grass/dirt gaps. Ah well...

Scott, frontside heelflip.

Headed to Guelph to meet up with Byron and

Colin. This was the first spot of the day.

Spot checking....

Sam snacking out. Brought two cans of

spaghetti and a can opener to get things crackin'.

Who doesn't like a fresh strip of bondo?

Tyler waxing his wheel wells.

...and that is how you absorb impact my friends.

This is an actual frame from the land too.

Archives

I figure it's pretty safe to go digging through the files on my computer and try and find something cool to post.

For the first archive post I'm going to take you back to this past July when I was in Vancouver. Dane Collison was driving the crew of us guys around and took us to this school yard where Colin spotted this wall rail. He's got a weird fetish with wall rails; he can skate them damn good.

Inspection and wax.

Fisheye...

and longlens. It's always nice when the skater

is taking a bit longer than normal so you can

play with angles.

Skart.

Overall, the spot kind of sucked but Colin battled it out and got his trick, as seen above. In hindsight, this was pretty much a warm up spot for what we were about to roll up to next....

That griptape....

Spent the last couple days with some of the London crew and checked out the new Emerica video "Stay Gold" with them on Wednesday. Check out some photos below for the antics.

Colin, switch boardslide.

He said the shop ran out of regular griptape,

I'm calling bullshit. Either way that grip is

unnecessary....

....shake junt for life I guess.

Concrete Photo Annual

Here are two photos of mine that ran in the Concrete Photo Annual issue.

Colton, front smith. I originally saw a video

of him eating absolute shit on this thing but

knew that if he went back I had to shoot it.

Sure enough...

Colin, front crook in the rain. The man has

'em like that.

Do yourself a favour and check out that issue. It's

got a lot of good stuff from photographers like

Rich Odam, Jeff Comber, Owen Woytowich and

Geoff Clifford.

Meandering

Just a few photos over the past week and a bit for you to take a look at.

Tried to skate some Kitchener spots and got

kicked out of every one we went to.

Colin, back 50.

Went to Guelph to try our luck.

This young is starting to skate

with us a bit. Alex, ollie.

Colin, nollie.

Look close...serious style points.

Forgot to throw this one in the last post. We

did it and regretted every moment of it.

Anyone willing to get wet and possibly a bit

banged up? SBC photo annual is coming up...

Justin on point with the focus game.

*no caption necessary*

"...think there's a big market for camo slip-ons?"

Heading to Whitby for a few days. Bound to get

some goods there.

Broken bodies, finished tapes and exposed rolls.

Home from the Vancouver trip and let me tell you, almost three weeks of skating from spot to spot, fighting for floor space at night and skating every day really wears down on the body. Check some throw away photos and the video below for a fun time.

Colin, nollie varial heelflip at some blown out

three block in the 'burbs.

A pleasant walk in the park.

Colin has a weird fettish for wall rails. 5050.

Byron and Tim hurt themselves early on in

the trip so they came to spots for moral support.

Colin, 5-0 for warm ups. Pardon the finger/ghetto

sun shade.

Mandatory beach sunset shot.

Breakdown breakdance.

Colin, bs bigspin boardslide for shits n' gigs.

Went to Victoria for the weekend, some nice

scenery and new friends out there.

These were our hosts, Fran and Pat. They

fucking ruled.

Jordan made a montage of throw

away clips from the trip. He'll be

pissed if you don't watch it below.

"You on the west coast you on the best coast!" - Tupac

A bunch of us have been out in Vancouver for the past week and will be here for one more. We've been slacking on spots a bit so I haven't got much skate-photo content for you guys but the least you can do is check out our lives via cell phone photos.

Not stoked.

Jordan on the other hand, was.

A mighty trek.

Colin warming up.

Kids in a candy store(Supra dist.)

Got my first board crack to the dome. It left

a nice hole...thanks Colin!

Kids in a literal candy store(well, just outside).

T-Bobs, warm up ollie.

Josh has these sick tre flips.

Focal check.

No-Go's

Here are a bunch of photos that for whatever reasons didn't make it into print. Some are old, some are more recent. Take a peek.

My second trip to Southern California. This

is Michigan transplant Shaun Hover doing

a proper ass back smith.

Another Michigan transplant in the same

session. Justin, bs 180 nosegrind revert.

Mitch, switch tre flip.

The second angle of Mitch's switch tre. Sometimes

filmers just do not want to cooperate and you

have to ask the skater to huck a few more after

he's battled with it.

Dave, full cab.

Drew, ollie over bs lipslide.

Colin, front crook onto the worst landing ever.

Isaac, nosegrind.