i bought my bike from my giant lovable twin.

yeah, i wasn't cool at all when i was in high school.

It's a sick bike though, im just gonna get some drop handle bars,a front brake,new pedal's and im gonna re-paint it and it's gonna be a freaken awesome bike.
Ill have before and after picture's up soon.

After wanting a new bike this past two weeks ive been watching all the council of doom video's and bike messenger video's all over vimeo on youtube and they just make me even more excited i shelled out 200 dollar's for a bike im gonna completely strip down and build again.

ITS GONNA BE SIICK!!!!

Council of Doom from RVCA on Vimeo.

Doom Presents: full-length teaser trailer from wolfgang on Vimeo.

council of doom - another 48 hours from wolfgang on Vimeo.

doom presents: wolfgang & kevedge - afternoon out from wolfgang on Vimeo.

council of doom: official full-length trailer from wolfgang on Vimeo.

And the RVCAxCinelli bike looks so beautiful, i hope to get a Cinelli frame someday.

Cinelli x RVCA Presents: Pressure from RVCA on Vimeo.

I love my job. from Edward LAforte on Vimeo.

(this is exactly what i want to do when i get it re-built.GO FAST,dart in between traffic AND HAVE FUN!)
Im not really into bunny hopping stairs and doing bar spins but i wouldn't mind learning this though.

720 Keo spin from meadowandrain on Vimeo.

YAC - Bike Messenger from Gaëtan Godard on Vimeo.

This guy is my hero!

Sweetpea Bicycles | 1% For the Planet Film from 1% for the Planet on Vimeo.

This girl is amazing.

Puppy Tales: The Puppy O'Shaughnessy Story from Joe Lumbroso on Vimeo.

and i guess puppy got eaten by a shark in the Willamette River.LOLZ.

IM fkcin happy though!!!
just need about a week till ill ride it all over town.
Now i need to find a job.

Since i didn't get to snowboard all of last year...

Ill make it my duty to go up every weekend until i move once the season starts. I miss the sport that im best at.
sigh.

High Cascade Video Workshop Project from Will Mayer on Vimeo.

Thanks Obama

hmmmm,i dont know how i feel about this.

Thanks to www.brooklynprojects.com

I got a sneak peak at my favorite skate companies new products..... SHOES!?
why?
i Heard this rumor a while ago but did'nt really believe it at first but i guess its confirmed.

Im really torn on this cause i used to love Habitat until ironically it was bought by the one snowboard company i hate....BURTON

But then again, i wear Nike sb's so im being a huge hypocrite when it comes to corporate companies in the business.

I still love Habitat but i haven't gotten one in over a year, im just trying out some other companies i guess.

The first look sick though, but thats cause there just the Janoski's with a habitat logo, which i must say, i do like. i guess ill see them when they come out but until then im still buying Tributes and Roger skateboards. Id get a Reliance or Siren board but i can't find them anywhere around portland,so if someone see's Siren Or Reliance deck, let me know.

Hmmm, well ive been having this weird epiphany of sort, and now im going to NYC for my schooling and im actually quite happy with it.

It snows there,not everyones an actor unlike LA, there are seasons, theres a big irish community?,theres pizza,spiderman,mass-transit,small semi-cheap apartments and numerous other reasons why i like it over LA.

Whats funny is i have never even been to the east coast and i am most likely gonna be eaten up, but it'll make me a stronger person so i need this.

It is sad though, i wont get to hang out with my friends in la, but i guess they can always come to NYC.
sorry mooby.

I dont even know people in NY besides like 2 kids i went to high school with.
I want a new experience though and i wanna be on my own,away from my family and experience another side of the country. ive lived all over the west, so its time i try and live in the east. Plus i dont hate every sports team in NY unlike La,but thats really not saying much, They just have more teams that i dont care about.

It will be fun though and im very excited,so lets all hope i get a job at whole foods,work,then go to school and get on with ma life.
:)

Oh yeah, my best friend since the first day of High-school moved back to Denver this past weekend

:(

He needed a change though, Vancouver sucks so i dont blame him.

Ima fly out sometime this year to see the blazers beat the nuggets at the nuggets arena and its gonna be SIIIIIIICK.
Ill also skate the Denver park if its not snowing.

My lifes gonna get alot better soon,but until then i just gotta wait.
sigh....

i may have a tear or two before,during, and after this comes out.

But it will be because my favorite book as a child has become a movie that will actually have given the source material justice.
Ive never been so excited for a movie, since i heard it was being filmed back in late 2006 and im very happy its coming out soon.

SO if people see this with me, don't make fun of me, if i do get a tear... its just my mind blowing up from happiness and since it's blowing up, liquid in my brain has no where to go except out my eyes.


Even the trailer gives me a tear everytime i see it....

oh well,im happy its coming out, and everyone will like it and if i say i like it too ill be an unoriginal person...oh wait, thats just certain peoples opinions.

Im gonna love this movie and it probably will be my favorite movie and im fine with that.

Anyways, D-9 comes out in a few weeks

and i know it will be good,but for all those halo fans out there who thought that Niell Blomkamp would direct the halo movie after, he isnt.
Its sad to hear but i think D-9 will still be an awesome movie.

Oh yeah!!!!! I went to the park yesterday, i saw sam,gabe and tyler, we started talking and then some lady was yelling at the bikers and we were like sweeeeet, a fight?
We went towards the bowl and for some-reason i dropped in just to carve around and id just go around and pop out again, well after i pumped the wave into the 10 foot my back truck did something weird and i pretty much got fkced up in less that a second. My left hand is swollen, my right leg/bum is bruised and sore and now i can barely walk.
I had been at the park for a total of 4 minutes before ending up going back home.
Bad day i guess.

Oh well, its hot out anyways. Maybe it was a horrible blessing in disguise, i guess ill see.

Nick also leaves on monday for Denver forever...so i gotta get outta bed sometime in the next day so we can do something.

Ill at-least fly out sometime this year and see a blazers game in Denver and watch them murder the Nuggets.WOOOOP.

Oh yeah, Im moving to NYC at the end of the year....DOPE!

About freaken time

(hmmmmm 2:38 looks really familiar.....)

COMPTONS' ON BROOOOOOKLYN PROJECTS!!!

DAAYYYYYUUUUUUUMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNN SON!



(so fkcin sick)

Hes technically on the same team as Lizard King now.

Check out there shop if your ever in LA. Its tight.

www.Brooklynprojects.com

SO like,are you still on cal's too, compton?

dayz in tha lyfe of local p+rtlandersss

gosh damn its hot out,so ive been watching youtube until i go out to the vans store and get that job.

since i haven't done anything productive but get fat and sweaty,ive been watching skate videos all day.



Lately ive been sucking at skating,because A. I dont skate enough B. im scared of breakin another hip.and C. i do just get lazy sometimes. But i should stop being a wuss or just buy a camera and be the "filmer" who doesnt skate.

but even filmers skate.


(best video ever)

they can even do sick kickflip nosemanny nollie heel's out.

BWALL kickflip nosemanny's from BWALL on Vimeo.

BRANDON WALL IS SIIIICK.

Another reason i dont skate good is because of all the injuries i get each day i do skate and it gets annoying buuuuut i should just cheer up and enjoy my youth.

Imagine going to Wallenberg 09 and almost switch bs flipping it and then a few days later, only to break your ankle trying the same thing.

(elliot is at :39)

sad but probably fun besides the ankle part.

Its hot out, i gotta shower and go to the mall. Ima go skate and get better and stop bein a pussy. maybe nollie heel back smith the hubba in my dreams,and drink a smoothie.

Also if your in Portland tonight you should go see ARCHEOLOGY for free at Mississippi Pizza in Portland.
www.myspace.com/archeology

yeee,i need to update this thing more with not as much skate stuff.oh wells.

RIP CITY!

Thanks to my friend william from the beavertron area i saw this preview of A skate documentary fuel did back in march and i wish i had fuel tv to watch it but im sure some day ill see it.its probably online but i'm to lazy to look for it right of at this moment. it looks tight though and this is just another reason why portland is amazing.

Rip City Trailer from Milan Spasic on Vimeo.

Rip City | Webisode No.1 from Milan Spasic on Vimeo.

Rip City | Webisode No.2 from Milan Spasic on Vimeo.

HOLY GOSH ITS BEEN A WHILE

way to long in fact
im back
no one reads this really my number one fan KATIE and im sure james did when i posted stuff
but im sure other kids do when i post it in a bulletin or something
but first thing i gotta say is
im almost 20
my birthday is next week
im still stuck in this fucking horrible city called vancouver,wa after i moved in with my parents again
i have all these dreams and goals in my life and i cant go get on with them because i dont start school till' june
i pray i get a cosigner so i can actually go.
i love my friends here but this is ridiculous.
im not gonna spend my life working a job i hate and not have a degree in anything and spend my free time at the local skatepark.
everyones way to negative
everyone complains about things
no ones ever happy
im sure im completely contradicting myself by bitching about this but im sick of saying something or posting something or showing something that i like and getting stupid replies and answers back
it sounds gay
but shit if you have nothing nice to say
dont say it
its not hard to do
say it to someone else.im way to happy of a person to hear about what your problems and complaints are about something.
if you like something i say,then say it. if you dont,do whatever.
we all have opinions
we all have likes and dislikes,but no one is better,cooler,greater then anyone else
were all human
we all have problems in the world but try,try,TRY and be happy.
dont be negative towards every little thing
im a hipocrite yes, but i dont go around every single minute of everyday bitching about stuff.
except people bitching and my life here.
blogging is so dumb too,all it is,is your opinions on things.i dont understand why people like to read this shit.
who cares.
i dont know what im honestly saying because im just going on a rant.
i just have this feeling im gonna have a great life and in ten years alot of people that i know will be doing the same thing and it makes me sad.
thats if the world doesnt end in 2012...but
thats all i have to say.
goodnight
and if you heard about tayler appelo,help out with the fundraising thats gonna go down.
its fucked up what happened and i pray he gets better soon. I dont know him. ive met his brother a few times when i used to go to lennys,i dont hang out with those group of skateboarders but i feel sad because it could happen to anyone of the skateboarders or people in the city. Portland is getting bigger and more dangerous and its just surreal cause i used to life 3 stops from that stop on the max and it honestly could of happened to me at any time.
it sucks.
i hope he gets better
im gonna try and help out in any way i can,even in this horrible economy where i cant get any money because i cant get a job but i want to try and help prevent shit like this because this was senseless and im fed up with senseless acts of violence.
too many people are getting hurt or killed in parts of the world for no reason and we need to stop acting like this and BE loving and care about eachother.

a day in the city

where i used to live
:(


so today i woke up at 9 and hopped right in the shower so then i was naked and wet.
and your probably thinking,weiiiiirddd. The night before at about 10pm i got on xboxlive and told james and nick we were going skatin in portland tommorow and it would be so fun.
so we did.
nick had a broken board and pondered at what he could do

We called cals pharmacy and no one picked up
so we went over to industrial ride shop in the mall.
for the 2nd time in a row i got a stupid guy trying to sell me stuff i dont need.
the first time was this kid with glasses who was trying to sell me an 8.25 toymachine and said
"yeah dude, all my friends can tre-flip perfectly on it" and nick lund said in a smirky dick way
"your friends brah? your friends can tre flip" and it was awkward cause we saw him later in the week at our park and he was trying to do impossible up the step-up
the 2nd guy(today) walked into work after we had nicks board set up and me and james started talking about A HAPPY MEDIUM and how it was the best video in that shop
the guy with a dgk shirt,giant dc's and dc hat and a stud belt then replies too us
"oh have you seen fully flared yet"?
wtf kind of answer is that
yes.i have
cause im a human
geeeze
james chuckled and the manager kind of laughed
a second later i said, well have you seen a happy medium and he looked confused and said yes?
and then all of a sudden was like "have you seen almost round 3 yet? and i said YES like 4 years ago.shiiiit.james then bought a taildevil,which he made look awesome.but
i then lost all respect for the only shop that looked decent in the mall
we walked out and then started on our way to portland

we got on the max, james 360flipped with his taildevil,sparks a-flew and we kept skating.
we stopped for a bridge shot and got probably the fakest picture ive ever taken


we then went to nw 23rd and i got hustled for a dollar by a little kid and nick and james said i was too nice and i wasnt man about things
it sucked i came to a realization that i was a pussy in a way and then we went to get pizza at escape from new york and there was the sign from god.
ERIK IS A BIG PUSSY!

so of course we got a photo
we went skating through the day and went to a ledge by the suuuuppper secret nike park

NICK DID AN OLLIE AND THEN A BACK-NOSEGRIND!


he was so psyched on his skateboard maneuver he performed on his official GIRL (RED) skateboard that he posed for the campain

GOOD FOR YOU NICK!
and then we kept skating
but then stopped to get a photo outside that super secret nike park

im sure john motta's been here
but then
we ran into compton who didnt even say hi....(jerk)

compton kickflip backside noseblunt from eriKeating on Vimeo.
i filmed this too.
a nice high five would have been nice
but oh wells.
but anyways
earlier that day somehow the joke of the day was
IN THIS ECONOMY!
examples of the joke.....

HOW can you give away money!?
in this economy

i stubbed my toe.
IN THIS ECONOMY!?

pretty much anything, tack on IN THIS ECONOMY?!
and you have a joke only the three of us can understand.

we started going home and eventually got to the max stop at ikea and went to skate a bank to wall
unfortunately there was hella rocks and dirt from the snow storm and this happened to james

we laughed when he hit his head
we eventually went home and now im writing this useless blog that no one will read
SHIIT GUYS TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
ima be famous someday
but in this economy!?
yeah you dont understand
gooodnight

fkcin crackhead pt 2 i guess

so i read a comment from james alby that said
"hey duuuude im gay lolz"
no he didnt say that
im just tired
and rude
but he wanted to know the full story about that crackhead who took my money
this is the insanely retarted story

*cough cough*

so sunday i was moving out of my holocaust sized apartment in downtown portand and was packing and cleaning for a majority of the day.
i got two tea's and even starbucks! from my mum
but i dont drink coffee,just the smoothie shake mcjinglemcbob's
and so i drank till my hearts content

as the day drew on, the rain was falling and i was a little sad about me leaving
Mia stopped by to say goodbye before she headed off to work
we looked at my yearbook as i was packing it away and noticed alllll the chicks i could have had in highschool but i am too much of an idiot to have done anything.

stupid teen love infatuation

well she then left and i kept on drankin ma tea's.
a few hours later i kept hearing the buzzer at the front of the main door being buzzed and i was like fuuuuuuck ill see who it was and this crazy looking black guy with no teeth and air jordans from 96' was at the door. i should had known it was a bad idea, but im stupid so i invited him in. He said he was looking for a kid in room 109 and i said he was gone,because im in 101 and i smell the weed that kid smokes from down the hall and i hadnt smelled it for a while.

he then said

Well im with the art institute and we give out free money for college students to play these stupid ass games
i saw money so i was like ohhh sweeet dude, yeah come into my nice fkcin apartment cause im retarted mind you
.He had a binder of paper with fake signatures or signatures of students from psu and ghetto ads of a new verizon phone. he asked if i wanted a phone and i said nah brah i got a blackberry so the money he talked about was what i was foccused on.

we played some games like me drinking water in 30 seconds and i won 5 dollars and i was like fuck dude, really this is easy.
i should have quit. i made like 7 dollars and then the sketchy guy said hey i have a few other students hanging out at the governor hotel the next block down. lets play this game and you will win 300 dollars. As things wore on all i could see was money and i thought everything was legit because im gullable and nice and i thought the school was actually paying this man to do this.

Before we left we played this game with 3 caps and a piece of paper where i had to watch the paper and see what cap it was under. Before the first game he took out a bottle of cologne and used the cap from that bottle as a 3rd cap and left the bottle on the floor. we played the game and i won each time and so he said well make your bet and if you are right then you win 300

somehow, i dont know how, i ended up going to the hotel and withdrawing 120 dollars to make a bet that i was right, which i was. We agreed on which cap was the right one and i gave him the money. which shouldnt have been something to do in any situation. but i was fucking right and i was gonna win my money so i said ok here take my life savings pretty much and he took it. He flipped the cap and i said okay sweet i won, now can i have my money and before i could finish he was like ok now watch and started doing the cap thing really fast switching caps and making the paper go under each cap, you know like that retarted cup game. this is how ghetto this shit was and i bought into it. so im too nice of a person and i dont get angry and when i suddenly lost cause this fucker tricked me he said oh man you must be high or something and said he forgot his cologne in my room and that he would be back in 10 minutes.
he said i gotta go and walked out the door.

IT happened so fast that i was like wtf just happened. i went back to my room and looked at the cologne and said "wow, he is not coming back." and i yelled and punched my wall. i went back to the hotel and one of the people said they rarely see him and he told one of the guys that his name was patrick and the guy i was now talking to was named patrick.
the funny thing was, that the crackhead said his name was erik and when we met i said oh sweet so is mine.

pretty much i fucked up,felt bad for someone, got hustled and now i dont trust people.

it then started snowing as i was moving and i was like well maybe god has blessed with some snow so i can feel somewhat happy and then at fkcin 2 am in the hills of vancouver where i was hangin out at jamo's, it started to rain and melt.
THE DAY SUCKED!

Karma will catch up to him and he will get hit by a max and get raped by a crackhead.

if i see him i will get my money back somehow and prevent this from happening to other college students.

when you throw money in front of college students there going to react stupidly in sketchy situations because we are poor and need it
so thanks dude for preying on kids who go to school to get a career make a real living.

someday ill see you and kick you in the nuts