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nathan Que Sera mini ramp

2011-07-17T22:52:00.002-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S5JZzkx_bQ

nate kankle break skracher

2011-07-17T22:52:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2FfOoqC-M

noseblunt transfer vid link

2011-07-17T22:51:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRfYBVA1vJk

2011-04-07T23:41:00.000-07:00

flipkik blunts r e z

2011-03-15T23:35:00.000-07:00

kick flicking into blunts are WAY less scary than flip kicking outdunno why wouldn't get'em when filmed before, here's a quick redeemer

more skate jammin

2011-03-11T22:23:00.000-08:00

more of me skating..
this is surprisingly bad quality. metube accepts 20X larger file size so post higher res there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3OZOQ4etg

"duke of hazzard" Blockhead, bluntflips

2011-03-07T22:08:00.000-08:00

finally got a good bluntflip filmed! tossed in a little slowmo at the end
pat got his first blunt fakie, then cab out of one today!
filmed that for the blunt learners clip am planning, FIVE people have gotten it here. :)
after that he was stoked for a bit so grabbed the camera and here are my clips. got multiple other bluntflips, my first flip into blunt but wasn't filmed but is way easier than flipping out.
mike was shredding always learning new stuff that i'm stocking clips of.
i also added old masonite on the decks squaring it up better with the coping making it easier to get out of tricks so greg stepped up his blunt from the micro to 3' and i got mine switch.
it's a strange satisfaction battling fear of pain and failure with creativity, effort and persevering until accomplishing something you've never done.

2011-03-01T07:55:00.000-08:00

has been three weeks without recreating the bluntflip magic! painstakingly figured out the mechanics and was feelin it coming together so went in and grabbed the camera, turned it on and got the 1st clip.
lotsa just blunt testers with nollie and fakie bump lockins, switch too.
blunt day! prover not pukera boring vid but was proud of efforts paying off hah

blunt flip fakie 1st ever WOOP

2011-01-14T16:37:00.000-08:00

new move
put a lot of effort into this.
have blunts and flipkickers pretty good so started dabbling with the flip out. went crazy tryin to get this one for an hour and a half or so straight until threw up... and took a break..
until greg, mike and pat mobbed out.

i spent a LOT of time during construction thinking, trying to figure the perfect offset for the micro insert so that people could learn blunt fakies on there like i did and still have it fit in for everything else it can be used for. once built it'd be an ordeal to try to change more than build higher on what's already there.
it's been sweet seeing it work out! once they'd tried and figured them out, then by really digging in and WANTING it enough for a big commitment effort of going for it a lot while being willing to fall for glory more people keep gettin em.
greg was the first to learn them here, then nate did and now john has too just yesterday! all of them blast their pop out and have landed multiple perfectly clean. (bluntlearner montage in the works, more people still pushin it to get theirs)

after only about a week of blunt fakies greg was already testing flip outs, the day i'd barfflip failed!
we'd been shredding a while so got into battle royal over 1st to get blunt frontside. that he learned on the spot taking me out, even though i'd done them on the micro before. so moved on to flip fakies.
we started getting really close taking our falls committing and putting it down so mike grabbed the camera and i got this battle royal as soon as he had it focused.
and the days war with blunt flip fakies with a couple more to back it up.

rebuilder transition

2010-12-29T13:21:00.000-08:00

wanted to show the transition from outside to new indoor setup but would like to eventually go back and make something with shots from every setup i've done since moving here. :)the ramp was fun while it lasted but barely skateable by the end. this is footage from the last day it was intact before we tore the masonite off, removed the middle flat, and with six of us barely hefted the pieces into the shed. behind the rubble i set up the micro ramp and skated it under cover for a couple months before really digging in on the huge 8'S Ramp project i'm now skating. don't think this is all i've got on it! just a midnight solo warmup flow to kinda show what it's like.

gorillaz crystalised (xx cover)

2010-12-14T19:49:00.000-08:00

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2010-12-05T22:14:00.000-08:00

2010-12-05T21:44:00.000-08:00

brakes

2010-05-23T10:28:00.002-07:00

so we did fix the brakes, and replaced an annihilated rotor, new oil, and filter and i've been back rollin. oh yeah.
other than that in pointless news, i ruined my phone with morning dew, so traded two days work for an iphone! it's actually a frickin POS because of apples proprietary nonsense but hey, kinda fancy.
ender's ruling as usual. i woke up to squashy cuddles and face kisses, not a bad way to greet the morning.
he just did a new trick! was sitting here typing this and had him go grab my shoes from the other side of the room and bring them over, then his collar too! now we're geared up.
oh yeah

John Wayne

2010-05-23T10:28:00.001-07:00

'Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway'

break brakes broke

2010-05-07T11:27:00.000-07:00

i got "lucky" today when i was running errands and stopped by davey's to drop off his ipod he'd left at my house. the brakes on my truck have been grinding for two weeks, but i haven't made the time to do something about it. as i was pulling into the driveway something CLICKED loudly and the right front tire seized up. CRAP! i couldn't see anything from the outside, but when i gently tried a little reversing something sheared OFF and fell out!
so now i'm at davey's with no brakes and probably not enough money to fix them.

could easily have been MUCH worse lol

rental house

2010-05-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

i just resigned the lease for the house here in ferndale! have been here TWO years, going for a THIRD and can hardly believe it!
the owner wants to sell, so i may try to work out a lease option with a down payment/deposit at the end of this next year. we'll see ;)

shed micro skating

2010-05-04T10:18:00.001-07:00

hadn't posted for a couple weeks so went out to the shed on a rainy day to film something but it ended up being too long and boring to post for another couple weeks.. was too big to fit on blog, so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epfbDfu6NXo

just another day..

switch hardflip

2010-04-03T13:16:00.000-07:00

this is a brand new move for melanded a perfect one right before but wasn't filmed. was over it, going to leave and got this on the way out.

2010-04-02T01:31:00.000-07:00

"What you feel only matters to you. It's what you DO to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts."

R I P Murphy Roscoe Jenkins

2010-03-29T23:57:00.000-07:00

my 12" Oscar fish MR J, Murphy Roscoe Jenkins, suddenly DIED today!!..
:(
AH!!!!
when i woke up this morning the first thing i noticed as i came down the stairs was an absence of the usual "CLACK"ing of MR J's tank heater against the glass, stirred up by his wriggling tail in excited anticipation for BREAKFAST PELLETS! even before going outside for frisbee with ender, fish feeding has been part of the daily routine around here. but this morning Murphy was really sick, his stomach was grotesquely BLOATED and he was hovering at the top of the tank looking BLACK around his face and back. was barely interested instead of his usual hype, absolutely, utterly miserable. if you've ever spent a day in the bathroom with food poisoning, or endured a heavy, major ailment you might be able to sympathize with the awful agony his body was obviously imposing.
3 days ago i went to petsmart and hooked him up with some feeder fish as i've done a bunch of times when his moral seems lagging and i just so happen to be near there. they swim all around and for a while he got to feel tuff hunting and ate them all as usual. but apparently this time was sadly his last.
freaked me out to see Murphy's stomach all swollen up when i saw it so called the fish place and they told me he probably got constipated or just gulped some air, give it a couple days, watch him..
but when i got home tonight he was floating on the top, unresponsive to knocking on the tank or the magnetic-cleaner brushing past nearby. no demeanor... and Nester Judkins (a feeder fish Murphy has kept around as a buddy, that's grown from a tiny half inch to 4") was darting all around frantically.
was difficult dredging my homie's heavy carcass out of the space i made for him and taking it outside..

Murphy enjoyed pellets, listening to our jams on the organ, feeder fish, judging epic PINGO battles from his tank, and general lurking.. we'll miss him :(

...

it's just a fish
but

RIP MRJ

Ender loves

2010-03-27T20:53:00.000-07:00

fribee!!
in order to avoid any confusion between tug-of-war or frisbee, every morning we go out in the yard, find two and trade off. ender LOVES this arrangement, as he never has to give the frib up unless he's getting another one he'd now prefer (or i make him for manners training). i try to throw out where he can get them, he bolts for a 1hop, scoop or catch with some incredible leaps or crashes here and there! ender counts on this routine, a great frisbee sesh in the morning and he's much more relaxed and happy for the rest of the day. thought it might be interesting to make a clip by combining different angles into one, these were all catches. with only a vague idea to start, this is the result. or for a better view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkUXWJo7BY
ended like that because i wanted to continue, show the trade off and a second loop.. 8

telepopmusic "genetic world"

nollie nose manny 3 shuvs

2010-03-22T20:34:00.000-07:00

nollie nose manual 360 shuvit out, at church of mannyended up havin a full day of skating today! went to "church of manny" for warmups, were going to leave but john filmed this first. later one of john's neighbors came charging down the alley on his board, stuck in some gravel and body slammed on his way to invite us to check out their little 1/4 pipe they were setting up. having practiced on the ramps at home made that fun and easy :p johns roommate Ean doesn't have our experience, but pieced together a board and is pickin it up which rocks! we took the grind box to the streets and destroyed it (with our moves). dropped that off and went on a WWU skatethru run. it's straight up some steep hills on a 1way st (hiking the steeps on foot), then up across campus cruising on bricks which is super fun. shred all over what the campus has to offer on our way to some ledges where we post up and work on stuff. finally high speed charge back! gaping, swooping, then risking powerslides down the road home.
my body's feelin it already!

broken board ender mobbing!

2010-03-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

ender LOVES skating! YIEY!! working on varial heelflips, and undramatically broke my board getting front-shuvit pop going for them :(

2010-03-13T13:31:00.000-08:00

just found out Phil Verd died.
we became great friends while in baker oregon during the most volitile times i've lived. literally didn't think i'd make it through, but found an out with you in laughter and antics and a friendship. can remember the silly fun of going on 40 energy-drink runs across sheets of ice, the legendary freestyle walking mayhem, laughing our asses off enduring the taser, reviving hacky sack and creating sweatbands while rocking jams, smoking out the hallway with the fire extinguisher to stir things up, the hilarious ridiculous art, on and on like it was last month not four years ago. you helped me find joy again in my days when i'd convinced myself i'd lost that. thank you, i'll always remember. i bailed after i went to visit and your mentality was still cycling down, didn't know what to do with it. it's a jolt to think you still had a foot in that life of hurt and never made it out. when i randomly went to look you up again you are gone.
i'm so sorry Phil, hope you've found peace at last man.

comments

2010-03-09T14:35:00.000-08:00

thank you Liss, Mom, Tiff, Brandon and Shyrey for checkin this out and leaving comments. it means a lot hearin your thoughts.

fdale gap redux origional

2010-03-08T13:38:00.000-08:00

had originally edited to this song, Radiohead "i might be wrong," but suddenly changed to Radiohead "there there" because it was longer and still seemed to fit. i think this version is better

skating ferndale yesterday

2010-03-05T17:57:00.000-08:00

solo skating day around ferndale. finally did the loading ledge gap! at the ferndale ledge spot we'd always eye the gap but the bank up is mellow and the flat is far. yesterday i decided to go for it. wasn't sure if i could even get my body to clear it at first. was running full speed before dropping my board and PUSHING as fast as possible, getting my self and board over. then really focused in, and made it! good thing too because on the one where everything came together a guy in a truck was driving up to investigate what i was doing. i didn't even see him until i was already starting to ollie, already had the speed and balance right and knew i could make it. if i'd kicked out things would have gone differently. would have hit the truck, or gotten my board run over and i'm sure he'd have wanted me to leave. instead of seeing me mach-ing right at him, launching the whole thing and landing triumphantly in control darting past. WOOP!
also a couple little tired switch hardflips and some 5050 and front board action. the round rail is actually harder than a skinnier one because there's nowhere for wheels to hook on and get good purchase to balance. floaty.

Kira Cheerin

2010-02-19T07:25:00.000-08:00

last week i got a call from Davey, who asked a "favor." Kira was doing a cheer to jonas brothers "burning up" at the high school basketball game halftime and he was wondering if i could come along, bring the camera and make a little vid with music for her like i've been doing with skating. OF COURSE!so i showed up recording away and we had a blast. i tried to be a conscientious filmer, think i got some cool shots. :)
it took a few hours for the first edit, had all the clips perfectly set up, went to produce and FAIL!! the program crashed! NOOOO! the first time thru it's fresh and fun, 3 hrs of Jonas brothers later trying to start all over wasn't working out. SAVE YOUR PROGRESS PEOPLE! im sure you already knew. came home and listened to J-Bro's for another 5 hours or so because i knew Kira was excited and wanted to have this for her. in the end it seemed like i listened to this one song for 10hrs in one day. LOL
did some creative editing to get clips to fall into place with lyrics and the song just right. couldn't resist the OOOOH BAABAY! outro.
and i have to apologize for the super low video quality here, on my computer it looks terrible. will post a better resolution version on youtube.
Jonas Brothers "burning up"

switch hardflip!

2010-02-13T17:44:00.000-08:00

it took me six months to work out hardflips. started on carpet and in a tiny space, worked up to moving and then took it to a little drop. i think too much and know all about what i'm doing with my tricks to get them to form, so was thinking (haha) about making some "trick tips" that are actually useful for some i feel qualified on. probably not a fair comparison but using the same feel from Regular, i've gotten my Switch Hardflips going in a couples weeks! if i can teach my self both ways it seems more valid. here are switch and regular with a spider i found lurking under the rampsadly this spider was too scary to live where ramp moving fingers might get bitten. i really do wish i'd had the courage to understand and move her somewhere better for both of us. :(
another funny techo masterpiece usurped for my own devices
gorillaz "stylo" (to be released in about a month)

i'm filming john skating ferndale we're getting kicked out ender is too

2010-01-28T14:16:00.000-08:00

so yeah what's new? kicked out again.. have been back since. :pand have to say here that as usual, Ender is the MAN. he knows about and LOVES going skating, gets ultra hyped and runs along with us for cruises, usually listens even though he'd REALLY like to meet nice people, very importantly "WATCH OUT" is completely understood and he even knows the flow as you can see when he dodges between. sometimes a little too amped maybe, like when he went full speed over the curb and tumbling head over heels just like the guys do LOL!
Built to Spill "mess with time"

me and john skating, ender digging while i?

2010-01-24T00:24:00.000-08:00

shyrey came to visit! john and i were too hyped for skating to sit at the house though.. i inconspicuously set the camera on my sweatshirt so no one had to film but could still have some footage of a regular day to play around with
Kings of Leon "taper jean girl"

hardflip

2010-01-23T10:04:00.000-08:00

GOT ITfilmed horribly, but i got my vindication. from studying the last tries and talking with john i could tell i had to pop harder on the tail and GO for it. was pleased to land on one within a min this time! first attempt broke the nose but still yelled YAAH for commitment! hah
Royksopp "Vision one"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgktUe6q2s

removed external hard drive

2010-01-22T08:47:00.000-08:00

my external hard drive failed with all my music, videos, footage and who knows what else on it a while ago.
after failing every software fix i could find, i decided to pull it from its case and hook up directly to the motherboard
turns out it's an older IDE style drive that can slave onto the CD/DVD-drive ribbon using some spare parts taken from an old crap computerthe dvd drive is unaffected. the 500g hard drive powers and spins up but i'm STILL unable to detect it in the BIOS.. :( maybe there's a setting i haven't found yet, maybe it's toast.

hardflip drop this time it will be different

2010-01-19T13:58:00.000-08:00

attempting hardflips but getting nonethe music is fittingly funny i thought. first time ever trying these off a drop. gave it a big effort but didn't land ANY. learning a lot by seeing my self, it's practice seeing what's good and bad without actually doing it..
Bloc Party "one more chance"

2010-01-05T22:34:00.000-08:00

had NO idea this plays on the radio or i'd have gone with some other silly dubstep song.. ah well.

john shred

2010-01-05T17:36:00.000-08:00

here's a sweet clip of john to
deadmaus

yard snowboarding 07 bellingham

2009-12-28T23:48:00.000-08:00

Christmas 09 Shed Skate.. with bonus'

2009-12-26T02:37:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-25T19:54:00.000-08:00

camera back

2009-12-22T13:19:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-20T20:01:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-19T12:15:00.000-08:00

brisco's first snow

2009-12-14T10:57:00.000-08:00

ferndale 1st snow

2009-12-13T12:19:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-09T15:09:00.000-08:00

long time no post

2009-11-14T11:16:00.001-08:00

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

2009-10-01T11:48:00.000-07:00

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

*
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.
*

or something..

Landmark Property Management Resolution Letter

2009-10-01T11:11:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-25T16:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-13T21:24:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-13T19:20:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-12T14:13:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-12T14:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-11T22:34:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-09-11T21:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-11T00:29:00.000-07:00

practice minute 1 -- bs 360 ramp bank

2009-09-10T15:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-09T12:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-09-01T03:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-29T21:39:00.000-07:00

rail 2.o

2009-08-26T15:07:00.000-07:00

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

rail

2009-08-20T22:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-18T22:24:00.000-07:00

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!!

2009-07-31T07:41:00.001-07:00

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

2009-07-30T22:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-29T22:48:00.000-07:00

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"

2009-07-20T15:23:00.000-07:00

"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

2009-07-19T12:46:00.001-07:00

88

88

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

88

88

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

2009-07-13T18:58:00.000-07:00

"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.

2009-06-03T15:56:00.000-07:00

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."

john helping tons for another day on the micro ramp wave we've made etc. and flowing around. davey helpin us get last bit of wood 2 finish building!?

2009-05-28T01:59:00.000-07:00

and alley-oop scoochin.

and a couple of me landing fronside 180,

and showing the crutch cuts he made for the micro.

john throwin' down some nice feebles on the mids

ender's like that red-hatted travel gnome, always there. with his frible.

davey went out of his way to get us the extra wood we needed to "finish" and bring it over.

davey and john checking out the status.

next day

2009-05-28T01:43:00.000-07:00

ender takes his fribbee in for a break after another long day.

but with thinner wood, twice.

formulatin' the plan. how'd it go in 3rd grade? hamburger instead of hot dog.

we spent a while to draw and cut a couple of wave forms, 2x4'd across for a solid frame and set our wave into the mini ramp flat. but it's too harsh for the wood! ender gives it the "mm mmm."

we moved the micro to fit in with the mini, but with it spread out so far, we thought a "wave" in the middle might be good to flow some extra speed. we also noticed there are now holes in the side of the micro ramps where 2x4's need to connect.

the poor micro ramp is the worse for wear. here, john and i are discussing what we can do with what we have.

but you didn't think we were done did you?

skatepaint AND THAT'S THE MINI RAMP

2009-05-27T14:11:00.001-07:00

you can already see as it's drying too much got globbed on there in the first coat and we've got drips etc. i'd highly recommend patience and multi-coating! then again, it did get rained on the next day which invariably seeps through my patchwork tarp arrangement but wasn't able to soak in finally! sort of like a wax treatment for you car.

smoothed things out a bit.

hah! yes, it's very important that i flex throughout the entire photo shoot.

colleen and i hand rollered the whole thing, then got the pole.

beautiful sticky 8's

but with polyurethane in it

this stuff is like honey

SKATEPAINT!

5th day of ramp work, colleen helping now

2009-05-27T13:56:00.001-07:00

the ant mindlessly working his way across the surface had an eerie familiarity.

not all screws would sink or craks were filled. paint?

were still some cracks left, was going to see what skatepaint would do with them.

at that point i was over the stupid ramp. she patiently kept doing what i'd let her, getting it done. so i had to too!

colleen was an invaluable help!

woodglue the seams

the masonite surface was another puzzle, but with enders help we cut a piece a little bit and made the whole thing go together better than ever.

my knee xray as a blind with the view out the kitchen window work well together. on a sunny morning, you can see amazing detail of the density in my knee. and where i'll break myself next in the distance.

day 4!

2009-05-27T13:47:00.001-07:00

wait! were we working on a ramp this whole time?!

the plywood was a puzzle. it was pre-bent and cut to fit wherever it'd come from. colleen showed up and was very helpful.

i had to laugh at how torn up the yard was! yeah, it's a rental.

it was a challenge to keep things smooth overall instead of rigidly leveling out a section to itself. no bumps allowed!

this was an unrewarding day of LEVELING and shimming and reinforcing, that becomes worthwhile in retrospect.

day 3

2009-05-27T13:36:00.000-07:00

this final pic of the day shows the shambles the yard and ramps were in. and how i felt about the whole thing. at this point it wasn't even really about skating anymore. it had become a construction project under a weather deadline.

this was our only chance to prevent soft spots, cracks, level and all the tedious less rewarding work that will make the ramp solid this time. before it's actually screwed into something and then skate painted over.

one of the biggest motivations for moving the ramp was to get it level. ALL seams had to have support or wood cracks and bends there.

ender went straight to work when i let him out the next morning

day 2

2009-05-27T13:25:00.001-07:00

but they were moved.

my hands were swollen and cut up and the ramps were both in shambles.

shyrey showed up that evening and helped me move the micro over in a fraction of the time.

then spent another, even more exhausting hour and a half dragging the next big piece over alone.

did the middle

while waiting i decided to do everything i could by myself, to be prepared for help with the huge stuff. got the micro taken apart. extra wood out of the way. then went ahead and drug the micro out of the way completely by my self. still nothing and i was facing a huge job. blegh... so started in on dragging. i spent an exhausting, frustrating hour and a half moving the first big piece barely an inch at a time. it took all my force to even budge it at all. right at the end, yanking on the corner 2x4, i ripped it out! looking at the board i was holding i went sailing backwards right into the only puddle in the yard! a mud puddle. rad. if you look you can see the missing vertical support laid on the ground pointing towards the puddle i fell in . and my mud soaked pants.

these first pictures tell a thousand words. in the morning no one showed up! or answered. it was a complete ditch out for various reasons. i think we all had a guess about how much work it would be! the forcast was sketchy with rain only a few days out, which also added some unneeded pressure to get it done and sealed up with weatherproofing paint.

i decided to post the ramp build in days, and let the pictures sort of tell the general story. start at the bottom of each. here's day 1

2009-05-27T03:48:00.000-07:00

at the end of a long day, it was clear that the ramp would not work where it was. oh man. it was also clear that it was a wise move to be making the changes or the thing would have been ruined! we called a few people to help and agreed to meet the next morning to get the little one out of the way, and drag the big one into its place where it would be easier to level out and then rebuild properly.

inside the barn out back

ender trenching too, always helping

shyrey and lou showed up and helped with trying to dig out trenches for the ribs to level. skating a warbly uneven ramp is dangerous by the way.

so took it all off, sliced the plastic to drain

all the way down to standing pools of water! that won't mess anything up tho..right!

and began finding moisture in the warping

concerned about rain damage and how poorly the ramp was put back together here, i started unscrewing it a bit to have a look.

getting goin blog pics

2009-05-26T14:16:00.000-07:00

Ender loves helping!

ramp building

2009-05-26T13:28:00.000-07:00

this winter, i got a free little ramp from bellingham craigslist that we put under an RV tent. we skated that thing until it fell apart. had more good times than i can count out there while snow or rain was pattering on the roof, and we actually had somewhere dry and fun and lit and just chill to skate. this spring on craigslist i got a steal on a much bigger ramp. it took 6 of us to lift each of the three pieces onto a flatbed trailer and unload here at home. unfortunately the little ramp was in the way, forcing the big one to be set on uneven ground. where it was hurridly pieced back together by all of us at once. by sending screws into old holes the new alignment caused them not to bite. we were dying to try out our new toy! but were left with a not well bolted together ramp on uneven ground that within a week was showing signs of warping as it settled and took rain. oh no! this is what i did about it:

big project!

why not?

2009-05-26T13:23:00.000-07:00

Elissa's blog is such a perfect way to share what's going on in their lives i've decided to try my own. it seems there's always SO much happening. hopefully i can post a bunch of interesting pics to share, and thanks for your comments!