All film! All day! I SAY ASA!

Broke my pace and ran out of time Sometimes I'm so full of shit that it should be a crime

Man I have been busy so far this summer. I was supposed to move to Hollywood with two of my best friends.Well that fell through, kinda lame cause had I known it wasn't going to work out i could have moved out in May. Either way its for the better, I am now moving to Downtown and paying really cheap rent with a nice size room.

My photo gigs are slow and steady, some weeks I shoot 4 clubs some I zero. Its works out tho, i am making it on a few gigs a week. I am going to continue doing so and try to snag a part or full time when I set up shop in DTLA.

On some cool shit, I got to meet Atiba Jefferson, an amazing photographer for skateboarding and now he shoots for the Lakers. It was a book release and signing, I chopped it up with him for a bit. The show was ending and he was pulling his work of the wall, I was joking and asked for a print and he pulled it down signed it and just gave it to me. I felt like a little kid, the bigest kool aid smile walking down Sunset with a 30x30 portrait of P-Ron when he was on City Stars, shot by some Atib's. Fuckin rad!!!

There was also a fight, that is the flick on top, then one with Atiba,Ako and their sister with his neff little Reed.

..If God takes life,

He's an Indian giver.

I dunno if I am jealous or jaded. I just seem to like no one except my immediate friends. Everyone is wrong, nothing is fun (except drinking) and pissing people off. Is it sick that I live to make people uncomfortable in their own skin? I have been working as a club photographer to fuel my desire for booze.

Its funny watching the masses drink themselves shameless. Its sad, these folks are future parents by default. Check this girl out..her boyfriend really respects her, and I think she would make a killer mom.

Do Over!

One of my favorite summer get aways.

We are the ever-living ghost of what once was.

The term "Stay gold" is for fools.We really can not, not grow up.We all face certain reality's as we grow old. I feel like with my photos or any kind of work that i do that i am in fact documenting a feeling or freezing time for my own mental archives.Its weird cause i do not own a skateboard or have even stepped on one for sometime, but i still feel really good about where its at in the world right now.
The skateboard sub-culture shaped who i am today, not my physical shape of course. hahaha. As far as music, film and literature i have always been in the know of the up and coming artist, and i have skateboarding to thank.
Anyways this movie is coming out, and watching the preview gives me butterfly's in my gut, like the kind you get riding the chairlift when snowboarding. check it out.



I have also been lurking this site for hours.My friend Matt Flores turned me onto it.
http://tinyvices.com/

Stay gold or go fuck yourselfs!

Dennis McGrathxBob Flowersx HUF..maybe someday.

I grew up in the Skateboard and tag banging era. either you were rockin argyle socks and cut off or a hanging belt and a Chelsea cut writing all over shit.
I kinda bounced back and forth.During this time Steve Rocco pretty much ran Skateboarding.He had a real edgy mag called BIG BROTHER, awsome shit when you're 14.The mag was def not for moms to see and even more so when Rocco sold to none other than Smut peddler Larry Flynt.
Skateboarding was about to take a wild and commercial twist now with Flynt publications a major player in the industry.The most recognizable outcome was JACKASS.
Either way i saw this video and was stoked to hear some old industry names, and see the outcome of a photographer who almost gave it all up.

Dennis McGrath for HUF

Oh what??

You all know my taste is usually for the black and beautiful, but i got a soft spot for ol' girl right here. She looks like a handful, but they all are in the end.