amsterDAMN! - May 2004
...and there are cycles everywhere. big ones small ones, red ones, black ones, psychedelic ones, ones with trailers, and ones with buckets for the wee tots in front. there are ones with kiddie seats in front, and also in the back. some have baskets, some have racks, most are proper upright cruisers with big wheels and minimal gears, and fenders and happy dutchpeople pedalling along serene. they are everywhere, these bicycles. propped against buildings, stacked in bike racks, sort of locked up but not necessarily TO anything. they hang from bridges. they have parking garages for them. we are delighted.
and there are special paths for them everywhere.
and yes... we found them to be the optimal-mode-of-transport. they aided fabulously in allowing us to nap in every park in the city!
{89 Photos - shot May 2004}
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| New Hampshire Snowboard Trip - February 2004
little known facts from me:
1) never underestimate the importance of a proper showerhead.
2) always bring a sewing kit on snowboarding trip.
3) snowboard boots EAT leg hair!
4) live free or die
5) east coast snow is OK... but UTAH OH-FIVE Baby!
little known fact from the saginator:
senior rizzio is an obsessive planner. some would say a maniac. a plan-i-ac. there was frenzy for weeks before the trip. over gear. and garb. and maps. (oh my god the maps!) every night of the week before the trip was designated for packing... and yet nothing got packed until the night before. oh the irony. (irony is fodder for poking fun, however. so it all works out.)
{55 Photos - shot February 2004}
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NYC with the Saginator - Jan/Feb 2004
train - | - michael moore - | - trenton - | - pennstation - | - subway - | - 10$ metro card - | - atlantic avenue - | - union street - | - dead phone - | - burrito - | - salty bagel cafe latte - | - ms pacman - | - chelsea galleries - | - excited - | - relaxed - | - hungry - | - diner food - | - turkey - | - mashed potatoes - | - "right over here gorgeous" - | - now over there gorgeous - | - Plum Blossoms Gallery - | - Hong Zhu An - | - 5th avenue - | - odd midtown irish bar - | - implements of martial arts - | - RODD-ENEY DOY-ELLE - | - the STEVE of the LINK - | - down to the village for a mountain of nachos - | - brooklyn - | - canoli in hand for next morning - | - tasty Biscuit - | - grits are grood - | - more art - | - our hostess' painterly man - | - me likey - | - brownstones - | - long shadows - | - gatherate baggage - | - to the R - | - then 2 - | - then nj transit - | - septa - | - unwinding back in west philly
{52 Photos - shot late January into February 2004}
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waterlily Par-tee - December 2003
Alrighty, here are some pics from the Saginator's holiday bash! (which was a smashing success i might add... all puns fully intended!) This was a bash where couches were broken. keys were lost. knitting was doused with beer. guests got peed on by wriggling puppies sailing through the air. there were adult s'mores and chocolate espresso beans and all the guests in their winter wraps brought sweets and treats and rosy cheeks. it was a BLAST! if you were a poopy-head and didn't make it out?... well, it's the kiss-off! thas right... Eat-A-D$&%-Up!
{51 Photos - shot December 2003}
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Xtreme Dog Petting & Pesto - December 2003
Just some snaps of some high-action, Xtreme dog petting during an E-A-G-L-E-S game with the boyz. There are also some shots of a recent outing to Ristorante Pesto on Broad Street. (hmmmmm, absolutely Dee-licious!)
{32 Photos - shot December 2003}
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Title 10 - September 2003
new park getting built! here are a couple snaps of the fellas trying out the new 10 bowl with all pool coping. there's also going to be a massive street course / x-games type area as well as a really nice mini! the park is down right off of delaware ave right on the river! look for title 10 to open up for the public real soon!
{24 Photos - shot September 2003}
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Pay your FDR skate bill! - August 2003
Here are 30 pictures of the on-going construction happening at FDR. The brick escalator had to be jack-hammered to make an entrance for a new pocket/bowl/pool. (depending on what shape gets made, and how much sweat can be generated) Get down there and pay your FDR SKATE BILL! If you want a clean line when the 'crete hardens... then pick up a shovel, a pick or the jack-hammer and START PAYIN' NOW!
{30 Photos - shot August 2003}
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Thursday nite vert at the burg! - June 2003
Alright... here are nearly a hundred pics from a road trip to the burg! The boyz came to ride Carlos' vert ramp and the little roll-in channel. Pics are of Carlos, Buddy, Faas, Trout, Freddy and a couple other dudes. Thursday nites are becoming a fairly regular session... Voodoo's park makes for good (yet sweaty) sesh.
{93 Photos - shot June 2003}
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Hillbilly or Gangsta? - May 2003
Here are some pics of me and Freddy shooting our new Daisy POWERLINE® 93s. What do you think? Are we Hillbilly or Gangsta?And what is the best game to play with new BB-guns you ask? Why, First-one-to-cut-the-PBR-can-in-half-WINS! Of course!
{22 Photos - shot May 2003}
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Kyle's Par-tay! - May 2003
Kyle is getting married!! And what do we do? Binge drinking? Strippers? Hits of E with strippers? Nope, we bum-rush the West Chester skate park and have some good old fashion 1989 skate fun! (with a little al-key-hol and wrasslin!) And there may even be a picture or two of a Red-Rover scrotum in there!
ps. Congrats Kyle! Best of luck Bro!
{67 Photos - shot May 2003}
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fdr and the old man of the rope - March 2003
Here lies the old man of the rope... slow and feeble... teeth dulled from countless attacks of the bowling ball variety... oozing noxious fumes... barely worthy of a glance. A truly pitiful beast. Oh yeah, and there's some pics of skateboarding too!
{34 Photos - shot March 2003}
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Blurry party pics - March 2003
Having a digital cam with a fisheye can be fun at a party. These are pics at Chones/Gregs/Jays par-tay! It was also to celebrate Chone's group opening at a local gallery. Sorry for the blurriness... low-light situations often trick auto-focus... even Nikon. (but i think they look cool too!)
{31 Photos - shot March 2003}
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Carlos Visit - December 2002
Here's a quick little update with my new digital camera. (Nikon CoolPix4500) It's of a mini road trip out to Harrisburg PA to visit our buddy Carlos and check out the new indoor park called Voodoo. (phone: 1.717.774.6322) We also helped assemble some of Carlos' 13 foot high, 36 foot wide vert ramp!
SPECIAL NOTE: I've included a couple Quicktime videos. None of them are very long, and they are all around 170-250k. You'll need Quicktime working on your system to view 'em!
{14 Photos & 4 Quicktime videos - shot December 2002}
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Midnight Madness @ Warehouse - August 2002
At the end of July certified letters were mailed to the key holders of the warehouse who were named on the lease. The letter was basically an eviction notice on account of some VERY flimsy grounds. But amazingly the crew are leaving peacefully?! BUT... even though it's August and typically 100 degrees, they decided to still make final use of our old friend, warehouse #13. These sessions were all taken on Saturday nights in August. The sessions are titled Midnight Madness because, in an effort to beat the August heat, they didn't start riding until midnight... and usually continued until there was "scattered sunlight."
postscript:
Click HERE to see a panoramic of the warehouse. (It's over 300k, so it'll take a while to view from a 56k modem.)
{146 Photos - shot August 2002}
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Various Warehouse and FDR - March thru May 2002
These are some pics I snapped in the warehouse and down at FDR. They contain the usual warehouse crew: Freddy, Andrew, JoeyP and Nick. There are also a few scenic-type shots just for fun.
I also included a couple of some Black Label dudes that came down to FDR and were pushing it pretty hard on Memorial day! Sorry, I don't know their names. Oh well, if you know them... please feel free to email me with they're names.
Editor's note: "The black lable dude in the white tanktop is Jim Gagne." - thanks Scott.
{32 Photos - shot between March and May 2002}
{21 Photos ADDED 08.26.02 - shot thru July 2002}
{53 Total Photos}
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Kaines dirty-dancing ! UPDATED ! (05-30-02)
I don't know what to say about this gallery without getting an NC-17 rating? Well, he IS a dog? And it IS just a couch cushion?. . . So it's sort of enriching like the Discovery or "Squirrel" Channel? Right? (Well, I mean documenting him is enriching, not his actual actions.) :-)
In all honesty, Kaine is one of the coolest dogs out there. And he is just so darn-ugly-he's-cute! So how can I resist shooting tons of pics of him? He's the most photogenic cranky-old-man I've ever seen!. . . next to the Original cranky old man. (I'm speaking of Flobodobo of course!)
Special Note: There are 9 photos that were not taken by me. They were shot by the very talented Sebastian Nichols, and are noted as "seabass-pic" in the filenames.
{was 19 Photos, now it's 40 Photos - shot during or around 07-01 thru 05-02}
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FinalBoarding Wyoming Snowboard Trip - March 2002
Here you will find pics from my trip to the Jackson Hole and Grand Targee Mountain resorts in Wyoming. I went on the trip with about 13 other maniacs on the pursuit of powder... and the snow gods blessed us by the 3rd day! Jammin on the ONE!
I realize there aren't many pics here... but I was busy RIDING! Hopefully I'll be getting some more from the other folks on the trip... it seemed that digital cameras were quite popular this year!?
**Please note: I started to recieve some photos from other folks. The first 17 pics were taken by me, and all the others after 17 were taken by whoever is credited at the bottom left corner or in the filename.
Thanks for the contributions!
{34 Photos and growing - shot around March 2002 - last updated 04-11-02}
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the warehouse - December 2001
Here are 24 pics from the warehouse around Christmas '01 and New Years '02. The sessions feature Andrew, Freddy, Joey P, Justin and others. I got a couple cool angles on Justin's frontside Rock 'n Roll, and Freddy's transfer air over the doorway gap... and was using a medium flash with blue and yellow filtering. enjoy.
{24 Photos - shot around December 2001}
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the warehouse - November 2001
This gallery only has 18 pics in it, but I was experimenting with flash strength & color as well as exposure length. . . so, I think some of the results came out pretty stylee? And separate the subject from the background pretty nicely.
Things to note are Justin's slashing of the tight vert-pocket (see preview thumbnail to the right) and vert extension. Also, Fernando gets a couple fashion photos on said vert-extension, and is caught christening the burned-out Honda Civic that was left in front of the warehouse for dead.
{18 Photos - shot during or around November 2001}
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the warehouse - October 2001
The usual band of malcontents destroying all hopes for civilized society. (Andrew, Clive, Freddy, Gabe, JoeyP, Nick, Steve and Tex.) This was actually the last session I shot with Tex before he took off across the country to build skateparks with ???'s crew.
This gallery has a little over 40 pics, almost all in the warehouse. (6 at FDR) Noteworthy things in this gallery are Andrew's fancy lip-work on the vert extension, Joey's grippity-grabs over the "media-deck" pocket corner. . . and as always, Tex's technical balls-out maneuvers. Additionally, there's a purdie shot of Wasatch, a double-exposure of Nick & Tex, and a shot of the Civic carcass.
{43 Photos - shot during or around October 2001}
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Italy 2001!
As much as I dislike websites that clog the internet with content like: www.pictures-of-my-cat.com, this proves that I too can be terribly self-indulgent! So this is a page that gives you access to photo galleries of my trip to Italy with my family in the summer of 2001. Now, you can laugh and say, "who cares about your summer vacation?" or you could browse through and see a bit of Rome, Florence, Sienna and the surrounding area that I caught with my camera. (I did my best to name all the photos accurately and somewhat informative.)
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the warehouse - May 2001
This is simply a half dozen pictures of Andrew (the Lurker) being a crazy goof at the warehouse. He's riding in various honky-tonk costumes, and blazes some vert on the banana board! Look out! He's a crazy man!
There's also a snap of Sebastian and Gretchen on there last visit before they packed up their lives and moved to Hawaii for sun, sand and surfing everyday! They said they were "tired of letting work rule their lives". . . I hope work has a less substantial grip on their existence in Hawaii. :-)
{6 Photos - shot during or around May 2001}
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Freddy's FDR article - May 2001
This is a reproduction of an article that Fernando wrote for TRANSWORLDskateboarding magazine's May 2001 issue. The article was about the park, and it has a ton of pictures of our local crew riding FDR... and lots of good quotes from the guys. Also, please notice the various picture blow-ups, and Tex's spine-transfer sequence pop-up!
postscript:
Dear Transworld, if you see this... please don't sue me.
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the warehouse - March 2001
This gallery contains close to 50 pictures snapped in the warehouse, around February of 2001. The session consists of the usual suspects tearing it up. (Tex, Clive, Freddy, Andrew, Matt and Ricky-O) There's also a little of Mike (Arms-Mahoney) raping-and-pillaging some pool coping during his break from Pep-Boys. And a couple shots of Steve (F-ass) playing the role of Superman in the rafters above the vert extension.
In the miscellaneous Clive-Silliness category, there are some shots of Clive's ability to vent frustrations on a seemingly innocent plastic chair, and his technique for skating the warehouse in almost complete darkness. (Use the force Luke!) Also, you get to witness Clive try and teach a mannequin the rules to ripping the warehouse!
{46 Photos - shot during or around March 2001}
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Snowboarding in Utah
These are about a dozen or so pictures I snapped while in Utah in 1997. I was visiting my friends Fernando and Clive; who picked up and moved to Utah for the snowboarding season! Needless to say, it was difficult to stop riding and snap pictures... they showed me plenty of powder and backhill terrain to distract me from my shutterbug tendencies.
My first couple of days were spent acclimating my legs to riding in 60cm of fresh powder on Brighton Mountain! But most of these shots are of a day of backhilling on a peak called the gulch in little Cottonwood Canyon. We also hiked a peak that was simply named 10,420. (I believe it had no official name, and that number represents it's sea-level elevation)
The pictures are a bit far from the subjects, this is mainly due to the inexperience I had with my then-brand-new 20mm wide-angle lens... I never seemed to be able to get close enough to the action with that super-wide lens! But it proved very useful in capturing the majestic views of the Wasatch Mountains.
{16 Photos - shot during or around February 1997}
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Fine Art Photography
This photography gallery consists of general Fine-Art photography that I've shot with either a 35mm or 2¼ cameras. Generally I've shot most of the 35mm with my old Nikon FE2, but some of the more recent 35mm pictures have been shot with my new Nikon N80 and Nikon AFS 17-35mm Super-Wide angle zoom lens. The 2¼ was shot with a Hasselblad from my days with Inductotherm. (circa 1995-1999) |
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Early FDR, mostly 4th of July Jams
This is a varied mix of FDR stuff. It ranges from early construction shots, vert ramp pics, a couple shots of Fernando riding the over-vert with long hair, and shots from the good pool soon after completion. There is also a panoramic of the park during pool construction, and some au-naturalé shots of Dave Maxwell (a.k.a. science-fair) playing for the media, on the 13 foot steel vert ramp. (Warning: NC-17 rating, full-frontal almost-stiffy grab)
{34 Photos - who knows? more or less 1998-1999?}
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Early CheapSkates
This gallery holds close to a dozen black-and-white stills, shot at CheapSkates in Conshohocken PA around 1996. The participants are: Buddy Baum, Clive, Freddy, Justin, Moyer (Johnny Tight-Calves) and a color pic of the Woodsman pulling a solid invert on vert. There's also a couple pics of an unknown rider blazing the vert ramp pretty hard.
{11 Photos - shot in 1996?}
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Method Demo
This gallery contains 8 pics from a skate-demo Method Skate Shop held in the Valley Forge convention center in 1996. The demo showcased the 101 team, with Kareem Camball, Rodney Mullen, Natas Kaupas and Matt Reason. It was cool to see all these pros ride in person, but if I remember correctly, the sketchy slick floors made sure-footed landings pretty necessary.
This was pretty early-on in my experience of taking pictures of X-treme sports. . . I think I only had my 35mm camera for about six months before shooting this. And to make things even more challenging, I borrowed an unfamiliar flash from my work and didn't own a wide-angle lens yet. So, needless to say, from the dozen or so rolls of film I shot, I probably only got 16-20 decent pics. Oh well, you gotta start somewhere, right? (Might as well do it on Method's dime!)
{8 Photos - shot in 1996?}
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Early miscellaneous skateparks and backyard ramps
This is another hodge-podge of scenes: a couple shots at Maximus in Boston (Sebastian, Brian Patch and CrazyHorse) a couple of Clive riding Carlos' backyard mini-ramp in Harrisburg, some DustBowl pics, a couple shots at Jimmy's mini-ramp (some of my earliest skate photography) a couple at Magic in Reading (Freddy, DailyDave and Justin) some various street-ish shots of Clive and Gabe (University of Penn, Chesterbrook and some school near Chester) Freddy scrapping across the vert coping at Shimmerville and some blood-shots of Carlos' last vert jam. (44 months seems like a pretty damn long time.)
{35 Photos - shot from roughly 1995-1997}
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Early warehouse
This is yet another mish-mosh of early warehouse stuff. It ranges from vintage pics of Clive and Freddy riding the warehouse back when it was just two little launch ramps and called "this-dude-Dan's-warehouse". (see preview thumbnail to the right) And then continues up until early 1999, pretty soon before Dan had to go. It also has a panoramic of the warehouse from 1999 and a shot of Ben (with he and Lizzy's little doggie) on the cover of BigBrother Skateboard Magazine, as well as a funny picture of Bud's wide-eyed ride coming outta' the corner. (There's also a good shot of a couple old men stretching before their rigorous game of lawn-darts.)
{29 Photos - shot in 1995-1996?}
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