skate the state

I just got back from riding my skateboard across Nebraska. Here's some photos from the trip!

who's excited?

headed to the dirty kanza 200 this weekend. i've been to every running of the event except one. looking forward to the journey thru the flint hills. it is a sublimely beautiful place to suffer. photos are from me during the first running of the event.

Next Winter

Next Winter when it's raining, snowing, gray and depressing, ya'll should get on a jet plane and make your way to Patagonia, Chile, and ride some bicycles:

Trans Andes Challenge from Team Jamis on Vimeo.

perfect car / perfect chair

car from: Fantasy Cars
chair from: Advanced Interior Designs

Weekly Link Round-Up

Kurt Anderson's Words We Don't Say.

How to age new t-shirts. Via: Man Made.

Photo nerds in The Battle of F-Stop Ridge. Via: Coudal.

A meal beautifully destroyed in Breakfast Interrupted.

An animation and excerpt from Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine.

Ian Mackaye on Fugazi's amazing archive of live show recordings.

perfect car / perfect chair

car from: Leitch Motor Sports
chair from: Lumber Jocks

Weekly Link Round-Up

Treasure Wheels is kind of a genius idea. Via: Selekkt.

Instagram filters as Photoshop actions. Via: Brendan.

Dan Ariely on delaying gratification.

A motion graphic explanation of Fracking.

Watch Reality 86'd a Black Flag tour doc in full.

Jell-O falling in super slow motion.

perfect car / perfect chair

Car from: myrideisme.com
Chair from: furntime.com

in new york city this week

I won't be there but go buy a print and help get the red hook crit to other cities around the world.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Images from the Pop Cameos art exhibit.

Put This On talks tradition in episode five.

Fishing for bikes in Copenhagen. Via: Coudal.

Dogs at war.

Birth of a Spraycan. Via: Ignored Prayers.

Mac OS X hidden features, tips, and tricks. Via: Chris Glass.

Making the cover of The Sunday New York Times Magazine.

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries.

lost soles

I'm having a show tomorrow. It will be photos of shoes that I've come across while out on my bike or skateboard. Come check it out if you're downtown.

perfect car / perfect chair

and i gots neither
car from: netcarshow.com
chair from: bonluxat

Weekly Link Round-Up

A teacher's worth around the world. Via: What Consumes Me.

Good Magazine has a Tumblr.

Common characteristics of a media event.

Technicolor released a new color profile for Canon HDDSLRS.

Stolen Camera Finder. Via: Chris Glass.

Obama's funny Trump takedown.

America's Next Top Model announces an all star season.

And So It Goes

There's a biography coming out about KV. The author's got a blog with some pretty cool insights and stories from the man. Worth a look.

transiowa version 7

a flag in lieu of a race number.

we had to announce our last names at each check point.

it was tough.

the night takes away your mind.

T.O.D.R. 2 ---> April 30th, Havelock Park 9 a.m.

Back Again

Beastie Boys have been dropping all kinds of fun nuggets leading up to their new release, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, but today is the best gift of them all. In their always rad fashion they have chosen to stream the entire new album for all to enjoy, more than a week before it's drop date. I just folded my laundry while listening and so far this is the best Monday ever :) So here you go - Thanks Adam, Adam, and Mike!

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two by Beastie Boys

Weekly Link Round-Up

Geoff McFetridge's 42 pieces turned into 24 shoes for MOCA.

The Fox is Black goes to Art In The Streets with an extra whole post just for Swoon.

The Physics of the Bike.

OKCupid's ten charts about sex.

NYC gets a new spot at Thomas Greene Park.

The Future according to Google search results.

iPhone 4 about to be Flickr's number one camera. Via: What Consumes Me.

Meal time

.mw.

Awesome!

A friend of mine just put this photo up on facebook. It's her and her crew when they were in highschool. I think it's pretty awesome!

New path

Its curvy and its poured and its at my kids elementary school
.mw.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Edward Burtynsky shoots Spain From Above.

NY Times Magazine on Radiolab, one of the best radio shows out there.

Radio reporting with the iphone.

Catch the first two episodes of AMC's The Killing online.

I'm going to Portland, OR next week any suggestions???

mike and mary

I met Mike and Mary down in Chile earlier this year. First class folks. damn fast, too!

Not sure who did the filming here, but it makes me want to take a nice rolling ride along the ocean with my lady...who wouldn't?

house fire at 17th and A street

Progress

At the new park at Prescott school...yeah!
.mw.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Vimeo's iphone App looks awesome, lets you edit video. Via: Chris Glass.

Tom Ford's five easy lessons in how to be a modern gentleman. Via: TFIB.

Bonnier gives away its new iPad magazine builder.

Camera Bag's new episode focuses on Tim Barber.

random photos i've taken in the past month

It appears

Someone is moving their art collection
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Weekly Link Round-Up

18 Tiger Portraits. Via: Olson Stuff.

Flotsam and Jetsam has a bunch of sick camera images.

Photographer talks about covering the Arab Revolutions. Via Coudal.

Neutra on how to survive and earthquake.

A look at Steve Lambert's Everything You Want Right Now.

a newly unearthed 1981 Joel Meyerowitz documentary.

The Backpacker Magazine archive is on Google Books.

Using a DSLR for an 8mm transfer.

new art

there's new art in the lobby once more
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winter in santa cruz

Wilder Ranch state park, between rainstorms:

Our homeless/nomad population has its priorities:

Weekly Link Round-Up

Recent Noma Bar book covers.

Longform Storytelling in a Short-Attention-Span World. Listening now.

NYT on how to beat the salad bar.

Die Antwoord's short film. I'm still not sure how to feel about these guys.

What defunding NPR means to your district (.pdf) Via: Slate's Twitter.

santa cruz to austin 2011

My new bike is sweeeet. thanks to todd at Black Cat.

Weekly Link Round-Up

To Run or Not To Run from Abstract City.

A great conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely.

Japan before and after Via: Slate's Twitter.

Timelapse of hiking the Appalachian Trail. Via: Coudal.

Tax Breaks V. Budget Cuts infographic.

Forbes lists the five richest rappers. Via: Vulture.

Ira Glass hosts an entertaining talk on Net Neutrality. Featuring John Hodgman.

Ikea's art of cooking videos.

New York Magazine on Toast.

10 speeding is cool, man!

New paved magazine is here. I'm really proud of my work in this magazine. I shot a story about the Basque country, and cyclocross. I've also got some images in the gallery section called "proof."
Take a look:

paved Magazine: Issue 2 from (((vernor))) on Vimeo.

Tooting my horn, sorry, but I am psyched on the way these guys are running this mag.

Weekly Link Round-Up

Smithsonian Wild collects camera trap photos from all over the world.
NPR has a first listen with the new Dodos album.

Mondo Blogo shoots modern furniture at Sotheby's.

Know the difference between a blazer and sport coat. Via: Coudal.

Allister Lee's 500 Black Marker poster. Only $35.

Short Doc Day

Sometimes simplicity of format can reveal the essence of being human. The following three short-form documentaries (all parts of individual series of their own) seem to be derived from or influenced by one another. They all stick to a simple structure of selecting people and displaying them in front of a lens while applying basic conditions. The effect is human honesty in some of it's purest and most touching forms.


"People in Order: Age"
By Lenka Clayton and James Price
Run Time 03:06


"Fifty People One Question: Brooklyn"
By Kenneth Chu, Benjamin Reece, Nathan Heleine, and Tung Bach Ly
Run Time 05:48


"Gadajace Glowy: Part 1"
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Run Time 4:42
(NOTE: Brent Meier of The Meier Family found this film and told me about it. Brent is rare in the fact that he is both a rational man and a wildly creative individual. He is also one of my best friends and I miss him.)

Full, Empty, And Otherwise

Sitting in our living room. Miles is sick. Cian's watching Indiana Jones. Cheryl's doing school work. Hubble's trying to pet himself by nudging my feet with his head. The place is a total mess and it's all great.

I was out in SoCali for about a week and there was a ton going on—appointments, meetings, driving, we had a secret party for the YBAm, I got to witness some Bones Brigade doc interviews, scoped out a bunch of good examples and bad examples for phase two of the Donuthill, made business + pleasure visits to Skate One and Stacks, plus all the daily attention that my actual job needs from the road. I was still pretty crippled from my knee injury, too ... still am, actually. There were times when it seemed like more than a lot, but it was warm, it was sunny, there are a couple good coffee places right by Pat's house, and each and every single day was full with hand shakes, hugs, and high fives from family and good friends. Can't really ask for anything better.

And I'm back.

I wouldn't ever consider myself an optimist, but there sure is a lot of stuff out there that I enjoy. I like getting out of town, for example, but I also like coming home. I love goofing around but I also love my job. I'm lucky most of the time and I know that can't happen without being unlucky sometimes, too. The glass is rarely half full or half empty. Most of the time it alternates between spilling over the top and being completely bone dry. It's maddening, it's exhilarating, and it's just part of the game.

Good game, though. Right?

Autographed blanks.


















Skate One's Michael Furukawa.

















Staged destruction.

valparaiso polc 2011 gopro HD

Frozen

Drip
Drip
Drip

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Black Cat in Santa Cruz