Occupy Portland

 
Today was the first day of the Occupy Portland movement/demonstrations. You can really tell people are pissed off when they're smiling, and throwing peace signs. I have even heard rumors of people hugging cops. I would've loved to get a photo of that. Quite a difference from the anti-war, and anti-inaugural protests of the early 00's when the police seemed more like stormtroopers, than the polite escorts they were today. Especially since I don't believe there was a permit attained for the march. So that was cool. Also recently my buddy Ripped Laces recently linked up my blog on his site. So, I figured I should return the favor. There's great in depth reviews of all different kinds of skate shoes on there. Check it out.

Listening to: Descendents - Kabuki Girl

Over the river and through the woods

So out past Estacata, up in Mt. Hood National Forest, are some pretty sweet waterfalls. Dive out to this one pull off spot along the river, pack up you shit, walk across the river, find the trail that goes to the pipeline, follow the pipline up into the woods. Watch out if you have a fear of heights, those trees you have to walk across are above a 50, or 60 foot drop, and they get a little wobbly. The view is definitely worth it. Unfortunately that day we were with dogs, and one of the dogs wouldn't cross the logs, can't wait to go back and get deeper into the woods. There's more tunnels, more tails, and probably more awesome shit.

Listening to: Clutchy Hopkins - 3:02

Repeat Offenders

These past few weeks have been pretty productive. Good to end the dog days of summer with a little momentum. Say goodbye to the sun, grab a cup of coffee, and get back outside. In other news, a few of us drove out to the woods and, were able to ford a river without losing any of our oxen. Up into the woods we went along an old pipeline, where we found some real nice waterfalls. Pictures of that another time. These are peoples. 

Listening to: Dianna Ross & The Supremes - Love is Like an Itching In My Heart

Did he just say "get high on blood"?

 It's always fun when you get to play with a new toy. In this case it's a cell phone cam that takes really nice sweep shot panoramas. You can get some really neat effects by spinning the camera around when you're shooting, to get really distorted images, and what look like double exposures. I'll post some of the weird ones another time. These are just some standards. I like how it almost looks like they were taken with a fisheye. Anyways, this post was really just to kill time, so I can avoid cleaning my room a little longer. I really should get on that.

Listening to: Wu-Tang - Meteor Hammer

up and over

Shortly after I got that new camera to replace my broken one, I broke it. It's fixed now thanks to the lovely people at Blue Moon. About a month ago I sprained my ankle really bad, so I've been stuck inside for most of August. Going a little stir crazy I scanned a bunch of old and random stuff. So you may be seeing some non-photo stuff, like that first picture up there. Or maybe not. We'll see. I have a little project I'm working on with my cell phone cam(which i admit is kind of lame), but I need to take way more pictures before that gets posted up. Till next time..

Listening to:The Fugees - Cowboy

Should have stayed on the couch.

On Monday I went to the zumies couch tour because Toy Machine was doing a demo, and I really wanted the chance to meet Ed Templeton. Unfortunately for me, he wasn't there, and I got to the demo after pretty much the whole team had stopped skating aside from J.Lay going for the switch tre. Now I've never been to a warped tour, and I generally stray away from mall related events, so this whole deal of mall pop, and skating seemed pretty weird. Anyways, this is that, and those are these. I've got a working camera again, and I'm no longer working two jobs, so hopefully that'll mean more time for posts.

Listening to: Earl Sweatshirt - Brand New