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Draw with light - submissions!

A little update on the 2nd open art project going on over at Booooooom! Got quite a few submissions from people who busted out the flashlights and did some light drawings! Keep those submissions coming!

San Diego Chicken VS The Fireworks

Frank went and watched Vancouver beat Yakima at Nat Bailey Stadium on Monday, QBit and I went and watched them get beat on Tuesday but I think we all kooked it and went to the fireworks instead of going to the game last night to meet the world famous San Diego Chicken who made a special appearance!

tubin

In this city we are so close to nature it blows my mind! This trip turned out pretty crappy cause the river was too low but its a blast when its high!

Sir Stanley’s Park

I hadn’t been to the train \ petting zoo section of Stanley park for probably about twenty odd years. So when my girlfriend’s cousins were in town and wanted to go check it out I jumped at the chance. Unfortunately I was pretty tight on time so I didn’t actually get to ride the train or pet any animals but I did however get some delicious organic popcorn at the Capers market sponsored organic popcorn stand. The popcorn stand is built out of reused materials and what looks like mud and grass…. pretty awesome. Now I don’t recall this being there when I was little, but then again I also don’t recall signs warning of raccoons infected with “la rage”.

Celebration of Light ‘08

Its time for the fireworks event of the summer. 4 nights of explosions in the sky.  

The schedule this year begins with Canada, tomorrow, July 23rd

USA on Sat. the 26th - China on Wed. July 30th - Finale on Sat. Aug 2nd. 

Each fireworks celebration begins at 10pm. Rain or shine. English Bay.

Post up your photos as the nights go on… 

Canadians: 6 - Yakima Bears: 0

Admittedly, I’m a big hockey fan—one of the reasons I cut off the cable in the summer is because baseball’s on major rotation. I find it incredibly boring on television, but watching a live game is sort of relaxing. A definite budget-friendly way to experience it in ‘Couver is by hitting the good ‘ol Nat Bailey Stadium on 30^th and Ontario to take in a Vancouver Canadians game. MLB’s Oakland Athletics have 6 minor league affiliates, and the Northwest League’s Canadians are one of them (they’re second last on Oakland’s ladder). So it’s classic bush league ball, and tickets are like $7.99 at Safeway. Bucking up for a lukewarm baseball dog and beer(s) is a must. Also, if you enjoy being exposed to multiple foul balls, maximum sunshine, and solid bush league heckling, sit up in the third base stands and take it all in.

Art Show!

Summer Skating

I had some time on my hands recently while staying at my Mom’s place. Boredom set in quick as she was sound asleep at 9:30 PM, so I did what I have been doing since 1983 - ran down the stairs, stuck my hand out and grabbed the nose of my board which was resting up against the book shelf and bounced out the front door. A quick manual across three sections of parking lot at the medical centre and I’m on my way to the Ladner Skatepark.

I had a lot to do with getting the skatepark built and it blows me away to think its been there for over ten years! Now I rarely see any familiar faces, but there was a time when on any given summer night you could see the local crews as well as veterans from all over North America.

To me there is nothing like skating at dusk on a summer night. I regress back to when I was 12 in many ways - just hitting everything and going for grinds and not worrying about anything too crazy. If I bail I just laugh to myself. While I was skating around the park, my wife snapped this pic. The thing I think is cool is the image on the left was made in 1985, the image on the right 2008, basically same ramp and same grab…. I guess what I’m saying is, skating in the summer is the best… I bet you know what I mean! 

oh yeah, I’m making room on my site for my new Fall line of photos and illustrations. Check out what I currently have on my Crooked Walker site. All images are available in two sizes 8 x 8 and 16 x 16. Limited quantities still available. Contact me with any questions and/or for prices.

www.crookedwalker.com

THANKS!!! 

blast from the past

came across this old real add somewhere online ( think i found it here,Ok i stole this from Max Schaff’s blog,http://4qconditioning.blogspot.com/, which has got to be a hit with the main st crew) and wanted to share … Seylynn stand up !

Anybody go to “wakeup and smell the pavement” in Seattle ( god , maybe 88 or so ) and see the Sluggo vs. Stranger debacle!

freshfish

mandatory edumacation time ! if your from Vancity you should know how important pd and the hotshop are to sk8 culture and if you don’t this is a great event to start your thesis…. and dam Mortimer ! thats the cat we had to grovel too to sk8 the ranch …among many other big things in the sk8 world … heard a rumor he got his big break in the sk8 industry by wrighting back to tony hawk fan letters …. maybe this book will enlighten us. See ya there!

Canada’s oldest skateboard brand - Skull Skates - along with Canada’s oldest skateboard shop - P.D.’s Hot Shop - present a book release bash for STALEFISH; Skateboard Culture From The Rejects Who Made It with author Sean Mortimer in attendance.
Saturday July 26th, 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at P.D.’s Hot Shop 2868 W. 4th Ave. Vancouver, BC.

TRANSWORLD skateboarding magazine: “Skateboarding’s formative years and milestones eroded before they were documented. Stalefish captures those stories in a way skateboarders old and new can relate to. A necessary book.”

E.T. in the park

E.T. Fresh air cinema, originally uploaded by nep.

This outdoor cinema thing should go down every week in the summer! It was awesome… blankets and lawn chairs and coolers strewn about David Lam park at Pacific and Drake in Yaletown, hundreds of people came out to watch this classic on the big screen… for free! Aside from some people who haven’t been on an airplane since 1972 and still think it’s cool to smoke cigarettes amongst crowded crowds filled with children (and right next to my pregnant wife), it was pretty much perfect.

Here’s the company that puts these on.

A different kind of museum

If you’ve walked around Gastown lately you may have noticed these chalk outline ads for the Police Museum on the sidewalk. Sure the ads are clever but have you ever actually thought of visiting the museum? Probably not, right? But you should. The place is worth a visit at least once in your lifetime if you’re a resident of the city. It’s got displays telling crazy stories about murders, mysteries, drugs, and it’s even got an old forensics/autopsy lab with all kinds of strange organ samples in jars. Like “this is what a heart looks like when it has a bullet lodged in it” and “this is the axe that some dude used to kill his entire family with back in the 1920’s” kinda stuff. Some of it can be a bit grim but it’s all interesting stuff. Here’s their latest newsletter.