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. -





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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.