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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

I think I have my posts wired now



You can notice my Mom, Wife, and oldest daughter with here cousin on the right side.



More Dad Photos.  The Edmond park was still new...

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Paint it today or it might go away

Painting by Me (Darrin)..blury photos by me
painting is (high school) 92 and photo is (college) 93

This painting is another classic example of skate art.  You draw/paint something out of the magazines that you read everyday.  I took the photo in 94 as a quick one-off of archiving something that may or may not survive.  My painting is monochrome pastels and is on a rather large canvas. The photo it comes from is of Kris Markovich and I forget which California high school stair case it was of...it was very popular.  KM lives according to google at : Given Skateboards.

Meet me at the gap at noon...we will party tell we drop.

Gap Ollie _ me (Darrin)
Photo by: Dale Hill
Norman, Ok Gap.  I think we called this one the Kung-fu Gap...dont confuse this with the Kung-fu Gap in Edmond, Ok.  My dad took these photos of Tim and I one Sunday.  I am a little more tweaked then Tim and I think when I landed I only rolled for a bit before I slid out on the slick asphalt.


Gap Ollie _ Tim Way
Photo by: Dale Hill


As you can tell Tim was a little more spot-on or bolts as skateboarders have said for a while now.
I think this was around '97 or '98.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

There are politics when it comes to fly-outs.  Should I fly-out of this ramp or not?  Either way it is a fun thing to do, but unfortunately skateboarding is a fickle thing and will quickly shutdown fly-out showboats.
Photo-ME

















 Another view of  a 360 mute fly-out of the mini ramp at Mitch Park in Edmond. I might post a sequence of this that turned out alright.
Photo-ME
Rock-n-rolls no matter how simple they "seem" to be are always stylish, fun and cool.
Skater Brad
Photo-ME

Monday, January 16, 2012

Pool skating

It's an amazing thing when you find friends that help destroy the preconceived notions authority figures tried to bestow on you as a youth. My dad says skateboarding is an addiction...there can be good and bad addictions! When you spend lots of money to build a pool in your backyard knowing that a lot of time will be spent in said pool with no water in it you might have a "problem.". A good problem to have...
Above photo shot by my buddy Brad over at sharklahoma

Videos that may or may not be on here. I will post more.

Above video is of me and my buddy Tim draining a pool in Tulsa, Ok.

This video is of me and my buddy brad over at sharklahoma on a trip to southwest Oklahoma where we skated a weird park in Elk City, Ok, a great DIY park in Altus, Ok and a ditch in Lawton, OK.
This is a really old video. I think I shot this on my bachelor party night.  It is funny that my bachelor party consisted of me skating with my friends...or is it that funny?  Skating is mostly in Norman, Ok but some of it is in Chickasha, OK where I had moved to finish school.