posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 29
The Dekline team just got a little bit gnarlier with the addition of Adam Dyet.
Archive for February, 2008
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 29
Bummer, Polaroid is quitting the instant film business. Can you say Digital? Stock up soon boys and girls. I am. Here goes a piece of photo history.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
“He was coming at me like a drunk ass bear” “He stabbed me one time” Just two of the choice quotes from the latest Epicly Later’d where John Cardiel talks about Mic-E Reyes and Andy Roy.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
got sun burnt like crazy and walked a few miles to this MASSIVE graveyard on the edge of the water. it also rained a lot.
Beckie and Devon.
black sunday.
the best crib along the beach.
notes.
Devon ran out to save this dudes board from getting mashed up in the rocks. a true hero.
if you were to step on this you would be dead within 5 minutes, or maybe nothing would happen at all, i never asked anyone about it.
ran into Naomi Watts, she didnt care for the King Kong thing at the zoo, but i had to ask so it was good we bumped into her.
ballers.
???
my cave.
hiked a ways to this giant grave yard, spent way too long there.
someone knocked this one over, so Devon fixed it…
and interviewed it.
…why would he want to run through a grave yard?
a must have.
the begining of the long walk home…
as nice as the people are here, they arnt willing to pick up a couple of psycho killers from the USA.
i dunno what this was/is. but its gross.
and then it rained…
dont act like yopu havent or havent wanted to interview the rain.
finished the night off with a little arts and crafts time.
got my likeness drawn.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
“Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.”
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Matix has just released the feature presentation of the Lord of the Lines contest. Peep the carnage!
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Computer monitors keep getting bigger while most website are the same size they have always been. Photographer, Ryan Flynn, has the answer. Peep the Big Ass Photo
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Scene websites are a dime a dozen, but they are less common on the west coast, Check The Skate Spot for a dose of the San Diego Scene.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Syndrome Distribution just got a new Training Facility. Take a tour with the builders, Jeff King and Brent Kronmueller, and keep an eye out for lots of other footage from the park in the near future.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
One thing thats awsome about having a sweet skateboarding blog is you get a bunch of your friends bitching at you when you don’t update for more than 24 hours. My good friend Tony has been whining so much lately I decided to give him his own blog post. Heres to you Tony, you complained yourself all the way to internet superstardom!
A still of a nollie bigspin… really?
Wallride Nollie, Shortly before Crushing an sb800. The bandana is for all the dust in this garage, not because Tony is street or anything.
Heres is that flash smashing I spoke of in the last caption.
I suppose you could call this a boardslide to noseblunt or a boardslide nollie pop over or something like that. You might recognize Antonio from the Skateboard Mag subscribe page fame he gained by slamming on this exact trick. Yeah Tony, now quit complaining!
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Sydney Australia… this is the first stop on whats to be about 3 months on the road (“on the road”? I guess we are on the road once we get to all the places we are going, but for the most part we are flying) doing little “art” shows in support of some stuff I designed for volcom. Later in some post I will show some of the art or whatever, but for now im gonna get right to the guts of this Australia trip and start posting a bunch of photos of all the things we have been up to… sooooo, its myself, Devon Green and Beckie on this leg of the trips, I don’t know what else to say at this point, here are some photos.
i tore open the new pillow Beckie got covering everyone and everything in whatever it is those things are filled with. felt pretty cool.
Devon opened the bag he brought with for the trip to find a sticker to patch the pillow, so we got a rad little tour of what he packed for the trip. board shorts? nope. towel? nope. extra clothes? nope. Ray Charles 8 track tape? YES! Polar Bear mask? YES! green wood blocks? YES!
some lady saw the mess i made and how we were trying to fix it and she let us borrow/use a needle and thread, and as im SURE everyone knows im a regular Betsy Ross when it comes to sewing, so…
i couldnt use my furby on the flight.
that whole “other side of the road” deal.
Swift was there CRUSHING it as per usual.
homeboy got his ass beat.
pigeons.
party.
pigeon fight.
for 170.00 you can climb this bridge, i dont have the money and i would fall off anyhow.
sydney opera house
took the ferry to the Taranga zoo…
gondola ride to the zoo.
more gondola.
this may turn out to be the best thing to happen on this trip, thats not saying i think this trip is lame, i just think baby batman taking a photo of a peacock is pretty rad.
the Dingo is a mellow animal after feeding time, they eat babies, this one is basking in the sun on a full stomach.
the monkeys did NOT dissapoint.
the Taranga zoo has one of the few loch ness monsters that are in captivity today. i guess they dont breed in captivity very well.
leave it to Beckie to try to cuddle up and take a nap with a blood thirsty seal.
awwwwwww
steezie.
King Kong? i wonder what Naomi Watts would think about this, if i run into her i will ask her i guess.
cute! 
hippo!
Beckie got a police escort to see the lions.
then end for now.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 28
Well, since my application to shoot photos for playboy was denied because they felt the girls wouldn’t be able to focus on modeling having such an attractive photographer, I guess i’m stuck in the snowy midwest not shooting any skate photos so you’ll just have to excuse the absence of skating and the high amounts of, well, not skating and an over abundance of, well, kind of pointless stuff.
Visited this town I used to live in and figured heck, might as well go by the first (and last) handrail I ever grinded, bs 50-50, there wasn’t any snow when I did it, just an awkward looking kid with the most jacked set up skating the dumbest rail in town.
Never seen someone stand in front of so many speakers but when you sound as good as J, guess you can’t blame him.
Visited Lincoln, NE and this is how EVERYONE rolls, stretch limo’s for days.
Was hyped on this, instead of using stairs they use the entrance “under the stairs”, thought how rad it would be to just have the stairs like open up to this secret entrance, I waited around, turned a few knobs I thought could have been portal triggers, said open sesame and, well, nothing happened so…
My parents have this huge bin of stuff from mine and my bro’s childhood and there were some dope gems, like my brothers letter here to John Stockton.
And the paper for when SLC got the olympics–they say you remember in vivid detail when dramatic events happen in your life and it’s true–at the time I was 10, eating an atomic fireball in a sleeping bag on my living room floor just about to go jump on my trampoline.
Then spent new years in Chicago,
This LOT(squared)D, was on Fausers fridge, dudes got their priorities hella straight.
They turned McCormick Place into this giant skatepark, it was like a big sports festival where just about every sport had this sort of area that people could come play it. Did you know there was a certain style of hacky sack where people play it on a court with a badminton net and they kick the ball over the net and do jesters and stuff to get points and it’s like tennis with a hacky sack? No? Good.
Peeped the new iPhone at the Apple store and figured, hey, might as well see how Lennie Kirk’s part in Timecode looks–and of course, amazing.
Then I rode across country with Zed and Todd. Somewhere in Kansas Todd got this toy with this illest logo, Captain Butt Trumpet.
Zed’s truck is rigged to run off vegetable oil–I forget what he’s doing here but it’s super rad just trust me.
Mother Load!
Todd’s next hemoglobic artistic venture, cum blood.
pheck you.
Albuquerque.
Rocky filming Zed, had such a fun time in Albie (hip new nickname for Albuquerque).
NICE!!!
Bratrud himself reppin for the O.C.!
Zed and Todd share an organically picturesque Santa Cruz moment.
Whaley kills it, switch front crooks!
Ron Ollie
Seth Ollie
Crustside front rock
Ron not afraid to get dirty and light up some blunts.
Mikey rigged some tile for his ramp, actually works really good too.
This is something you would only see in California, and for some reason I want to say Texas too but yeah, a Tiara on a car?
Chris Anderson Bluntslide to Manual. Now I know you might be thinking “yeah right he was trying to clear it,” but no, just look a little closer theres a little crack at the end where the sidewalk ends, he was trying to manual that, some next level shit.
Mikey’s secret to filming err’y day? Board yay, aka nose candy, get it? Nose of your board…never mind.
Benny feeling the Flare.
Only really posting this because this chick freaked out when she saw my friend Chris taking her picture and was losing her mind yelling at us not to put it online–so, now it’s online.
Ladies and Gentleman, the many moods of Chris Anderson.
Mikey blowing it.
Got home and headed to the barn ramp–not sure if you remember the little write up about this barn that has ramps
in it (hence the clever name “the barn ramps”) but this is the entrance to the ramp, you have to climb those sketchy stairs on the right, it’s pretty rad.
Portland photog Kyle Bunker was back home visiting—so we shot a photo. Then tried a doubles photo with him and Donny.
and it didn’t work out too well so we left.
After forever being broken up Hot Water Music played two epic shows in Chicago.
SO—ok, it gets good now (kind of), i’m laying on my couch last week and these two detectives knock on our door and I answer and they let me know that one of our neighbors got murdered early that morning and they were still looking for the suspect. So we were trippin at our house and I woke up and one of my room mates barricaded the door.
So the next day we find out that this kid on his 21st birthday came to town to party and got so shit-faced that he ended up stumbling into this apartment, and the details are still sketchy but basically he stumbled into this 75 year old man’s house and beat him to death, not just like one punch but numerous ones enough to kill him–then the kid takes his pants off, leaves his cell phone and wallet at this dudes house, steals one of the old man’s coats and leaves. Still no one knows why he was there, pretty craze.
Then back in Minneapolis my good friend Luke, aka London Luke, purchased his new home and started doing some home improvements on it, well, he ended up having to install a new toilet that was just a bit too big and had to cut this rad notch in his door so he could close it. Those brits, always so charming.
I almost ran out of gas and filled er all the way up, started it up and my console said this–true party tank with the 420 mile capacity.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 26
Seth McCallum’s Checkin’ In segment is featured over at Strange Notes.
posted by Cody Roedl on Feb 26
Any guesses as to who the new Hubba Wheels rider is? Find out on Friday.
