yard snowboarding 07 bellingham

Christmas 09 Shed Skate.. with bonus'

practicing some basics in the shed for christmas. this is truly a waste of a great song but hey it's cold, i'm achy, and alone and it's Christmas. fun times!
i posted a basic edit earlier, this one has more cuts and some xtra oldies clips. hopefully that means it's more interesting.

this is boring right now

camera back

so i haven't been able to take any video because the camera wouldn't power up. one day it would, the next day it was dead but trying, then for the past month or so nothing. sunday, using a voltmeter i found the charging cord wasn't registering power.
best buy confirmed and with a SUPER lucky find of an old multi-charger type adapter thingy it's BACK!
i'm relieved because it's shyrey's camera i'm borrowing. and it's SWEET because i can once again make vids!

flatland practice

it didn't seem that dark, until i looked at the footage.
the shed is tiny, was turning in order to not run into stuff not (necessarily) because my landings were sketchy. trapping the board on the ground isn't so good. you've got to CATCH it in the air if you want to be able to go off anything. so that's what i'm working on now that i'm getting some of these.

moves list:
darkness - pre brightness filters
hardflip
frontside flip
360 flip
varial heel
nollie flip
hardflip
kickflip
nollie backside flip
nollie back 180
hardflip X 4
darkness - pre brightness filters
camera blaster! it was fine
song: in the fade Queens of the Stoneage

brisco's first snow

ferndale 1st snow

not sure how i'll be taking this apart now... :(

long time no post

holy crap!
it's been like a month and a half since i've been on here..
i posted some woes, wallowed for a bit even though i didn't mean to, through my birthday and halloween and shyrey's 21st...
have been treading along not making many extra moves but.

there are so many sweet things to DO.

going to quit being so lazy, complacent, and get GOING again.

bellingham rainy days

AH Bellingham rainy days.. now we finally begin the winter season. my poor ramp though is getting ruined!

haven't posted in a while, there've just been a lot of life struggles going on.

feel free to spare yourself this description of woes:

found out the extra cutco job was crap before ever beginning. FINALLY got the landmark thing sorted out using half of this months phone minutes. got pulled over for expired tabs, and had let insurance lapse too (again!). talked the cop into a warning ticket. got insurance and registration the same day ($150 instead of $800). the clutch and brake pedals in the truck have been progressively breaking and flopping around since i bought it a few years ago, finally making it undrivable last week. paid a hundred bucks for the pedal-assembly, put it in with davey's help. but behind the pedal assembly between the brake master cylinder is an also broken brake-booster tied in to the vacuum system that we did not discover until put back together. REDO. just got back from shop for $310 that i had to use from this months rent money. GREAT. my vacuum broke today too.
my 500G external hard drive has crashed taking all of my footage, music (except for what's on my ipod), multi hundred gig movie collection and most sadly all those things i don't even know i've lost with it. it's a physical failure, can hear the drive spin erratically so the only real option is to (of course) buy a new one of greater size, and attempt a data recovery transfer project. BLEGH!!


got a second job at domino's to help cover this all, and try to stay up. far better than being mired in sadness. will start next wed "rush" if my truck keeps working.

since i can finally skate again, that has once more become my release for the stress and frustration. even though i'm an achy old man nowdays.
have been working my BUTT of learning proper flip tricks that POP, AND doing them all switch too. will make a quick vid of my progress soon! a little silly to be skating inside on the linoleum in a tiny space because it's raining, but still can practice proper technique.

so yeah... been a little overwhelming in ways with one thing after another and the steady overall feeling of always WANTING to MOVE forward with some bigger projects already. lots of sweet options waiting for someone to DO them. lol

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the personal mental challenge encountered when engaged in open technical learning while overcoming the realities of fear, pain and failure, coupled with the unique physical state reached during extremely demanding focused effort and involved with blending all into "flow," have the power of complete removal from the usually understood "world," instead providing us insertion into a sort of impulsive all-or-none timeless "NOW moment" whose experience as a departure from "regular" daily life powerfully affects the psyche.
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or something..

Landmark Property Management Resolution Letter

so here it is. the 2310 Sunset house Landmark Resolution Letter I demanded this time in order to have proof.



this whole incident still has an incredibly slimy feel to it. i'd rather not wallow in the numerous scandalous tactics they attempted by listing them now that it's all done.
will just say PHEW!

$2,000 Ashley Landmark LIE SCAM

as mentioned in previous posts, Landmark Property Management attempted to scam us for over $2,000 in unreasonable charges and repairs over a year after we moved out. ridiculous charges including $1,000 for completely replacing carpet that was NOT our responsibility and over $600 more in repainting the house!
OVER A YEAR AFTER WE MOVED OUT.
despite marking us cleared on the move-out checklist walk-through done together.
they would not respond for weeks post move out to our numerous calls and voice-mails in which we left our new contact information in order to sort out the return of our deposit we expected as the house was in better condition when leaving than upon move in.

BUT Ashley Henkins from Landmark appeared to acquiesce when i contacted her by phone. she "looked into it," then explicitly assured me it was a computer mistake from a "system changeover" that we would not be liable for because it had been "zeroed out" somehow.
i thanked her for her understanding and promised to spread word about how the situation was handled justly and professionally. as i began to do.

NOW THE $2,000 HAS BEEN SENT TO COLLECTIONS! and landmark suggests we work it out with the collections agency!! WHAT????!!!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
THIS HAS TO BE ILLEGAL.

i'm absolutely floored at the BOLD FACED EXTREMELY PROFICIENT LYING that left me complacent. i failed to demand paperwork proving her reasonable ascertains. i was convinced that they had no basis backing the charges or the defunct timing and she convinced me that she agreed and had taken steps while i was on hold to remedy the situation.

so now unfortunately i believe one roommate, nate has already begun contacting lawyers and arbitrators to get a feel for our legal recourse. we're rounding up paperwork and video evidence. there is NO CHANCE we'll take this lying down quietly. if you consider the amount spent on advertising, this is going to be a costly $2,000 scam if indeed that's what is now happening.
i can only hope these are further "computer errors" caused by the "computer error" that generated outrageous charges now further wasting my time, energy and money.

thank you so much Landmark, and Bridget (the original "nice-cool seeming" "property manager") and Ashley the current "nice-cool seeming" "property manager."

Practice Min 2

the big part of the ramp has been taunting me about this move for 6 months. for some reason today it just clicked, finally!
blunt fakie(s)

Practice minutes... woops

so you might notice i wasn't able to contain my self to 1 min.. woops. what a joke! song was jammin so i even tossed in the last "bs 3 youtube cut" clips..



i've done this before, and removed it before anyone noticed. but decided to leave it, whatever already there, and then post a better "Practice Min 2" effort when i've chopped it down.

$2,000 move out bill dropped (relief) RAVE

landmark (not) scammers RAVE (bellingham)

Date: 2009-09-11, 12:19PM PDT
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about a week ago i posted a rant about the $2,000 move-out bill we'd received from landmark over a year after we'd moved out, explaining the situation and arguing that they had no legal or even moral right to do this.
to my AMAZEMENT, upon calling this morning braced for a battle i was instead met with listening, understanding, some research and the charges were dropped!
WELL. my rant has become a rave of RELIEF.
thank you A*****(i don't want to give out personal info). you seemed to realize that landmark will most likely make more money by spreading a good reputation across whatcom than they ever could through shady tactics of charging good renters.
wanted to share this positive conclusion. and tell the people who sent support emails thank you as well! might not have felt like i had a legitimate argument without the reinforcement.
another quick note for would be renters out there - we did our walkthrus on video. i think this is an easy, powerful way to protect ourselves. consider the camera $2,000 could afford! not like i had it anyways

$2,000 move out bill RANT

bellingham craigslist > personals > rants & raves

Landmark Scammers! (bellingham)
Date: 2009-09-04, 7:46PM PDT


Holy crap! I just got a letter today, postmarked this week, from Landmark Property Management regarding a tenancy we moved out of over a year ago claiming that we owe $2,000 dollars in move out costs! demanding payment within a week or threatening referral to collections.
This is outrageous for countless reasons! AHH!
To start, the house was filthy when we moved in and cleaned up when we left. We did our walk-through on video showing the sorry (standard yearly-rented beat down bellingham college house) state because we were taking over a broken lease from some losers who couldn't keep up on rent. I have this video. Then were told it looked good on move out, when asked specifically were told that we weren't responsible for normal wear and tear beyond the non-refundable $100 or so portion of the deposit. I'd even gotten a new Pet-Hair vacuum right before moving out which got all the carpets really clean, though of course not brand new again.
Someone has been living there for the past year.
NOW they are trying to charge me $1,000 over a YEAR later for replacing the old carpet that is completely their responsibility.
And fault realistically if they're saying it needs to be replaced because Landmark had neglected to repair a continually worsening hole in the roof over the living room, which ruined one of our xbox360s the first time it leaked through into the house and was noticed. Our loss i guess, we're chill people and called it an unfortunate accident that just sucks. We repeatedly called requesting the hole be repaired, water was getting into the insulation, walls and floor. This went on for over a month in rainy Bellingham until finally we called furiously telling them was a garbage bucket set in our living room that was filling with water and would get pictures. When they finally did "fix" it, they just left all the moldy rot inside, and slapped a new roof on top (i assume using the owners money) with a sunlight where the hole used to be. Super. For the next renters, owners, us, but especially for their profit.
NOW they're trying to take advantage of ME and screw me over for completely NEW carpet? The list goes on.. damn, i can't type it all.
I attempted to contact Landmark over a dozen times the first few weeks after we turned in keys and did our walk-thru in order to collect some of our deposit that i hoped might remain as we left the place in good shape. Was repeatedly calling, leaving phone numbers for myself and the two other roommates as well as new addresses we were all moving away to (which is the way they are NOW contacting me) asking for information. I could never get past leaving messages.
Life is busy, and i'd heard that there was a 90 (or 14) day policy requiring them to return the deposit. We all moved on and figured time had run out, whatever.
Now in hopes i've lost the paperwork (think i have it, not sure where though) and that they can completely screw over some college kids for $2,000 they're trying to do THIS?
THIS IS A SCAM and i resent it! Isn't there some sort of protection from this treachery for the normal guys?
I'm so furious with this, that house was the last thing on my mind or that i should be dealing with right now. It's been really hard to make it financially lately anyway. Landmark Property Management needs to lose more than they gain for these scams somehow.
Any useful suggestions?

splitting the difference

by posting these few vids i'm learning a lot. so i've decided to keep posting the "practice" type fun learning stuff on the blog with jams and whatnot, probably doin the practice min thing. then will be putting "better" stuff on youtube with slightly higher resolution and probably no jams (as WMG and youtube went RETARDED once they realized there was something good going on without their profiteering). "better" meaning only the few seconds of sweet moves that might have been happened to be filmed. not the whole drawn out daily story or any context really.
i think the story is more fun.
but for the "world" of youtube, prolly want to put better foot forward as there are plenty of loser retards out there.
HAH

computer crashed!

Yeah, so my computer crashed today....
CRAP.
it would boot, but the fan was maxing out and would start loadi-CRASH! so opened and blew it out with my wet-dry vac on reverse, then put a box fan blasting on it with the cover open. tried lots of things, kept booting and maxing out.. a reboot screen eventually came up warning that the CPU was overheating causing shut-down. went into task manager right after startup and got into a shutting-them-down battle with anything loading trying to keep the strain dow-CRASH!
GREAT.
turns out my computer has a weird 4pin P4 CPU fan. not to be found at Badbuy, or two small shops i went by after that wasted trip (couldn't reach anyone by phone).
CRAP.
turns out my computer has become half of my life! oh man. weird how things creep up on us like that. it's relevant to imagine if we weren't able to plug in to electricity, how utterly shell-shocked millions of people would suddenly be. massive effects. think there's a shouthpark about there being no internet LOL.
was referred to seattle or the internet, and told to buy some thermal glue if i find one that fits.
GREAT.
it was after 6pm friday evening when i grabbed the "action pages" and started desperately calling random computer places.
i'm typing this now.
because someone actually called me back! one of the local computer shop owners (Renaissance Computer Services) lived nearby and had a computer that's CPU had toasted in a power surge with the same fitting fan, and EVEN fancy for me RAM that fits mine!
DOUBLE GREAT.
i've now doubled up to 1G (with more RAM that even runs at a higher speed) and have a fan (with some thermal glue yep) that works. the old one was always "loud," turns out it wasn't securely connected so was going crazy to keep up. new one is sort of chirpy, but SO quiet compared to my old one.
and the RAM boost is SOOOO noticeable. one of my pet peeves with my computer was waiting for the volume control to come up. if a vid was super loud or quiet i'd be waiting, messing around and frustrated until i could adjust it while blasting my speakers out or straining to hear. and inevitably restart the video over. i'd gotten used to waiting a LONG time for stuff to work after double clicking while i was multi-tasking to make vids or whatever. a trial of patience (less than 30seconds haha).
back up and running now. better than ever.
oh YEAH.

back 3

practice minute 1 -- bs 360 ramp bank

so i decided to make "practice minute" clips for a while, less than two minutes counts! in order to keep learning editing stuff and practicing moves or whatnot without pressures of it supposed to being super awesome all the time.
the main goal is to 2 B interesting then.
at least for that min or so.
thought this would be funny 1st(3rdish) "practice minute" music using the "PINGO" jam "mashup" of two songs crammed into one, "jealous lovers/gossip." when i heard it kick in with vocals as i fell, then say "you can't stop crying!" after i'd suddenly rocked myself hard enough to get a headache was busting up. and then stuck with it. don't want to waste all the best songs for practicing that i might want to use later. ;) what do you guys think of all these crazy tracks? i carefully put music to accentuate flow!

each of the video clips are of multiple different attempts, except for the final lander with slow then repeated. i do lots of efforts skating, know i'm not actually very good. will be completely pouring sweat until exhausted.. then go back for more. kind of a die hard like that, have been as long as i can remember. all by yourself. pushing through a physical state of being, using mentality not found in "normal" life has a special appeal. skating adds the OCD technical part needed to keep at it. but it all comes down to HOW IT FEELS. to be alive. right now.
after doing practice minute clips maybe there will be enough for a "good parts of practice mins montage."
who knows, maybe one day even something good?

360

made a bank, tried a 3

fail

we made this sweet bank ramp to gain speed in order to clear the gap between the two ramps. started landing some 360s off the side, until the camera came out...

ChurchOfManualMayday

this one'll need an explainer... i have such high expectations for my self all the time. one thing to notice is that left foot forward skating for me is the same as left handed things for you. i have lot's of stuff i know i can do so is "easy." everything's new at some point, so decided to really push my switch nose manual. worked at a fakie flip, bigspin, fullcab, frontshovit, or SOMETHING new out of the switch nose manual i can already do. but fail for hours, wearing my jangly old body down.
wanted to make a clip of the day vid (COD) that shows the passionate efforts put into skating. there WILL be lands to come.
but being out there getting lost in a multi-layered challenge (artistic, physical, mental, time/spacial etc) is one of the most engaging things in life. like a puzzle for your whole being.
the manual up and back while ender walks up, 180 out - move camera - nose manual around moseying ender, might be the best tricks i've ever done lol. while going around him i was balancing trying to decide if i should go for the 180 out, but REALLY wanted a MAKE more than another stupid tricky fall for the archives. Ender's an awesome skater, one of the best i know! even though he rarely steps hoof on board.. that doesn't matter.
check Johns fancy filming on the rolling shots! and overall music to vid flow as usual.

john21whatcomfallsjump rubadub

rail 2.o

went back for some more.
never scratched on that 50's manny flip fall, by the way! hope these aren't too boring..

rail

i got a free broken skate rail that still had usable legs a while ago from, where else? craigslist! like almost everything else i own. yesterday i got creative and broke 4 or 5 drillbits drilling holes all the way through the broken (white) rail and into this amazing 10' stainless steel rail i've had for a few years. with 4 skate hardware bolts i'd wobbily attached legs to steel and wood and could skate it! obviously nothing spectacular here, was just trying to get out and have some fun.
HUGE thank you and props! to Shyrey for bringing his cam and taking the time and efforts to nicely film the stuff i'm in on these missions! and John too. there'd be no footage without that.
look for the vids i make to carefully flow with the music.

johns 21st birthday whatcom falls jump

on john's 21ST Birthday, we stepped up from the northfork bridge height and went to whatcom falls with the camera to do something fun and memorable!
i'm scared of heights, really trying to challenge myself to get used to it. this one is enough that the inexperienced (myself) think twice, and have to finally just pull the trigger and DO it if you're going to jump. i'd been to the whatcom falls "big one" once before and only jumped once. thing is, when we're in a group people tend to push each other.
a couple min video of this, our latest mission is in the works to be posted on youtube as well. until then, because it was full vid then slowmo tricks last time, i thought it would be fun to post slowmo first this time then round out with the movie to create a symmetry that only i would find noticeable.. mm?



john IS the 21 year old flying squirrel! regs then slow. FULL extension with perfectly formed landing.
Merry 21st Bday man!


colleen eyed it for a min gauging then WENT as soon as i got up there!! we were all tremendously impressed!
my height tester 180


shyrey hucked and spun his first jump, crazy from so far up! it's worth noting that his glasses are sitting on the rock while he does this.
so i had to do it too.


shyrey spidermonkey
regular speed motion with the full cliff framed illustrates hang time


this is my favorite move again, with a little less spinning traded for more stylish tweaking. CORK the 5(40), gather while rotating out (180).
really felt extended on this one!

Merry Birthday John!!

couldn't sleep..
checkin out the footy.

while in the air you can feel the height and adjustments that normal speed video doesn't show. - ULTRA SLOW MO then
to view aerial awareness


1st flip went out and away from the rocks that i did NOT want to hit, but twisted a bit so was back flipping while moving sideways. took some correctors to straighten back around for the landing.



this is my favorite one to do
corked 900
starts with off axis 540 then control rotation through another 360


straight over back flip with speed control


sweet!

bridge jump

today turned out to be muggy and sweltering, too hot for my customers which made sense to me!
since we were the only ones available all of the sudden it was up to me and shyrey to make the most of it. so we decided to take advantage and get back to the river with the camera while there was enough water.

this is the bridge jump vid we made!

song- gorillaz 68 state from D-sides

it is hard to see what's going on with the small screen size, here's the moves list:

intro lookers
s tester jump
n s 180's
s 900
n backflip 1
n 900
s 540
n backflip 2
n corked 900
s 720
n backflip 3
outro 8th speed nflip


i also posted this for my first vid on youtube with higher quality.
08ender80 shyrey nathan bridgejump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxrHyLJx0s

first ramp vids

we realized a while ago that river tubing might be the greatest thing ever during the times of excruciating heat. so we geared up to DO it. not only were we right, but it turns out ender is part river otter! he WANTED to swim meeting everyone on the way. gunning it into and negotiating down the quicker currents where we all were floating, all about his crew.
we parked half way down at a bridge, and how does that old cliche go? "if your friends jump off of a bridge, well would you do it too then?" it was some girl we didn't know though.. seriously.
we intend to return to the river soon to repeat our sweet moves, hopefully the water isn't too shallow for bridge jump footage! (we heard later a girl "missed the sweet spot and broke her back 3 days ago off there!")

so we decided (to use the camera we forgot to take to the river and sketchy bridge jump) to get a couple of tired out skate moves on the ramp.
unfortunately our first ever video of it. -





ender

a first person view of a 4' 540 (or technically a janky pivot 180 3 out) off the back of my ramp holding the camera.
ender


here i'm trying to learn frontside flips.. maybe one day when i least expect it, i'll finally get them.

kickflip and a five 0 pivot fakie

the ramp is actually steeper, swoopier, faster and more dangerous than it seems on video (to us anyways).

"let's do this"

team doubles. shyrey filming from the 8' ladder on top of the deck, while john and i perform our first ever successful doubles maneuver.


a slow run (slowmo slapon)

for worn out finish shredder

"meticulously extrapolated thought physically manifested"

"in thought" freehand/finger-painting airbrush on canvas

is meant to be a kind of painting of thinking (not a picture). symbolically done in black and white, as a portrayal of coalescing positive and negative aspects found involved in strands of multi-faceted ideas, swirling in vortical flux. in thought? white and black line represent consideration in balance, space the unconscious though with weighted tones. on the periphery i finger painted a vague, illuminated-aura head shape straining towards bright "light-bulb" ideas being brewed up and held in the mind. in the interplay of light and dark, where only contrast may lend substance, spiraling fields render form..
what is thought really?

keeping with my copy liss theme, i'm posting a random pics blog too! only i have all day off and nothing much else to do :p

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an optical illusion where you change "levels/scales/orders/modes.." of thinking to find layered meaning

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luxuriating with his fribbie

on his personal throne

it's a rough life

"color-switch falls"

spray paint on poster board
gray water with colored mountains falls into colored water as mountains gray

thought my ramp was prepared for the first snowstorm..until morning.

with expert tracking i was able to follow the rv tent's trail across the yard.

first snow ender run in, yiey!


planetairial vortexed waterspout

spray paint on poster board

ender mobin


"atomic forest" airbrush painting on posterboard

*pending explainer?*
a philosophical physics piece meant as a perspective window.

my tats

"i"maginary numbers "is" "square root -1"
i am therefore i am "is"
feels more balanced with both sides now


i'm terrible at getting pictures!


1st night done took a pic of flexing square root in the mirror.


dropped "square root of -1"


practice drew square root left handed on right


was practicing the letter-box for "i"maginary numbers


"i"maginary numbers symbol on left wrist


nathan the crow tats pic


so.. Tiffanie had asked about my tats and i told her i would put something up after the ramp project. here it is over a month later! guess i never really told anyone?
the next post hopefully will be an explainer. i'm finding it harder than i'd thought to describe concisely how it's a meant to be a: thought manifested as a perspective portal.

no longer doing daily build pushes, no longer need day by day ramp posts.

ender has some questions about the transfer offset, and sadly the so called "pump bump" too. or as he prefers to call it, "the catchin' a speed lump."





it is now a "pump bump."

the more done the "wave" is, the harsher it seems.



surfaced the mircro, and "wave."