wrastlin'

My friend Scott bought a bar a few months ago in Fishers. Friday they had a wresting event to benefit the state fair accident victims. Some of the wrestlers were WWE stars like Billy Gunn, Eugene, Kevin Thorn, and Ariel. I was able to get behind the barricade and take photos.

oh well...

the search is over unless you live in buffalo. the excitement was fun while it lasted...

rad indy kids getting rad

Welcome To Napside from Ben Ettinger on Vimeo.

back to the spot

played tour guide for friends from louisville yesterday. it's been a while since i did that.

ballard and cole
brooks shuping. ollie to wave ride.
*the first time i met matt ballard was years ago in cincnnatti. i was shooting photos with bobby rodriguez AKA bob gnar of Natural Koncept fame and ballard was with him to film. bobby was trying to inward-heel the big 4 stack on campus. cops showed up a few minutes into it. while they were checking our IDs bobby took off running, leaving matt and i with the cops. we had no idea why he ran, but it's never cool to leave your homies in a situation like that. they never caught bobby and finally let us go after a long stressful 45 minutes. reguardless, ballard keeps it real on the midwest filming front. check out his vimeo page. matt ballard

dash in action

"you're not even into choppers"

found a good one today. david mann poster shellacked to a piece of wood and with a clock.

HB QP

DIY spots don't usually last long. five years ago tim and i built a concrete quarterpipe in an empty parking lot. somehow it's still there. we had a celebratory sesh yesterday. here's to another 5...

a young devlin the day we poured it. october 13th 2006.
jeff frontblunt.
wes hurricane.
tofuman crusier front rock.
jorr.

wouldn't be a sesh without some bike tinkering.
leaf slide wes.
freshly painted bank spot downtown.
ran into this guy.
grant kickflip into bank.

+gonz+

been digging deep this week. this is a photo that tobin yelland shot of gonz. gonz faxed it to jason jessee and jason gave to me.

andy roy interview

taken from don't ask me #3 which came out in 1992. ironically, i would shoot one of same photos years later.

a million+ hits

here's some stokage. my friends corey and megan have two great kids andre and blake. andre made this stick bomb video and it went viral in a matter of days. currently it's at 1.4 million hits and growing. it's been picked up by multiple blogs and news shows. there's even a chance that the whole family is going to flown out to NYC for a live appearance!

don't ask me #8

circa 1994.

the mastodon/R.E.M. connection

am i tripping or did mastodon MAYBE rip-off R.E.M.? listen to the first riff in both songs.

monroe county

AZ-1962

ramdumb

slacking on the blog posts