Tattoos by Bram Adey

Web presence...

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If I could make a living just doing work like this, I would.

Evan's friend ship.

A drum for Ian.

My sister Marcie came to town and i got to do this one on her. Thanks sis! Worst photo award...

Evan's pirhana.

Ritson's reaper.

Arianne's side.

Thanks for stoppin by the wreck.

"They're totin you around like Weekend at Bernies"

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- Radon - Rehab Barbie

Here is almost a full roll for you all. This roll is from Haloween time, two thousand and eleven.

A chain for Kinnerit.

Some hearts for Andrea. My camera has been double exposing stuff alot. Unpredictable, and beautiful.

I went and skated this spot with Tyler and Cole, Bump over Stump. Rosie was there too!

Cole Middleton - Kickflip

On Haloween, I went to Luke Marvin's house party. Here are some photos of that.

Olivia, Cain and Jared. Jared wins costume props for his Bernie costume, as seen in the foreground of this photo.

Jimbo.

Jimbo and Muke.

Lauren and Matt.

Have you seen this video that Matt made of me? Check it out!

Mitch, Bill and Sam.

Some folks who asked to have their photo taken.

Patty.

Geoff.

Russel.

Nic and crew.

I bought a car recently, but am proud to say I still manage to ride one of these most every day. This is Shally's bike, fun to ride.

Thanks for checkin out my blog!

Bram

Pizza, pizza daddy - O!

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Gnarly is the norm.

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I always really like trying new stuff with wheat. This one I'm really happy with.

The original artwork for this tattoo was drawn by Michael Seiben. He does Roger Skateboards, that's the real deal.

Last god-talk at the Edge Skatepark on Pacific. I was glad to be there, at least not everyone in the room had been indoctrinated.

Barnacles and cattails.

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I just got back a bunch of photos, so keep checkin' in.

I really enjoyed putting these barnacles on Kelsey. Species, I'm into it.

Typha latifolia, also known as a cattail, on Joanna. Simple tattoos really satisfy.

Thanks for checking out the blog.

Bram

"Cry out loud

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we'll be comforted by the sound."

-Jo Snyder

I've been workin hard at putting on tattoos for almost two years now, and I'm takin' my first week off! Thanks to all the wonderful people who I've had the opportunity to work with/on.

Aaah yeah!

A pine cone for Cam.

Thanks for checkin' in.

Bram

Yikes, a title.

2011-09-20T22:27:00.008-05:00

It's been a while since my last post, hopefully the coming winter will lead to more frequent and high quality blog posts. I better start journaling some good post titles.

Here's a new tattoo, an old one and some really neat stuff my brother's been up to.

Some unholy markings for Brett.

This is one of my first tattoos, thanks Kevin.

Workin' on tattoo machines with Iko.

My brother Steven has been building some amazing pneumatic motors out of lego. This is a three stroke engine, attached to a transmission, it's either a four or five speed. He builds these with a reverse gear as well.

A cool single stroke engine with a fly-wheel. This one goes fast.

Thanks for checkin' out the blog!

New Hours

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I'm holding down new hours at the shop these days, Tuesday to Saturday, noon till six, I'm at the shop. Call before you come, walk-ins welcome.

Rebel Waltz Tattoo
873 Notre Dame ave.
Winnipeg, MB

(204) 832 7633

Thanks,

Bram

Special weekend.

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I have to say; my blogs aren't as frequent as I wish they were, but I'm proud to have one for you now. Holdin' it down with the film for a long time now. Stoked (but gotta get a flash...)!

Ave-dog.

Finished up my first larger piece started at the new shop.

Now I'm not one to write words in my blog or anything... but I just thought I would catch people up to speed with me electronically. January was really slow at work, and my psoriasis has been affecting my hands, which put me out for a couple days. But, thankfully I've been getting some good help for my hands.

The doctor I have been seeing really emphasized the importance of not leading a stressfull life for people with my condition. It has been really humbling to try to de-stress myself. Just to learn to relax when I find myself getting upset is difficult sometimes. It is hard to look at the bad habits that I have adopted and admit that I can change back just as easily as not.

I just wanted to say that, thanks for reading it.

Otherwise, I'm tattooing Tuesday to Saturday at Rebel Waltz Tattoo. Come by the shop between noon and seven to book an appointment, 873 A Notre Dame - 201 832 6733.

Thanks for checking out my blog.

Bram

Also come by to pick up some of my new cards!

Sexy ender.

0,1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.

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Just getting settled in at the new shop. Please stop by, monday to friday, 11 - 7.

Some oats.

Some fish

Christmas!

More christmas!

Shalynn guest blog:

New Year's resolution: clean my lens.

End of Shalynn guest blog.

More holiday cheer!

The studio.

The Den.

A stable monster.

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The kitchen.

The bedroom.

The shop

"It may all end tomorow,

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or it could go on forever."

Shot by Avery.

In total disaster we trust. In progress. One of my faves recently. Seems fitting that the film get fogged on those photos on this roll.

The Santa Claus parade, seen from Corner tattoo. People were packed tight as sardines, but that didn't last long 'cause they all got burned up to bits by a dragon.

Homo sapiens.

In their natural habitat.

Some tattoos:

The den.

The cub.

Sweetheart alert.

Thanks, Bram

Rebel Waltz Tattoo
873 Notre Dame
204 832 6733

If you wanna be wild,

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you've got alot to unlearn.

So, I'm at my new shop, here are a couple visual samples of what your eyes will behold if you come see me. Just a couple promo shots, I'll have lots more coming of the new work I'm up to and my new space soon.

My work hours are 11 - 7 Monday to Friday. If you come by before noon, please call first, because we aren't quite open yet.

873 Notre Dame ave.

204 - 832 - 6733

Thanks, Bram.

The song was an old rebel one.

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Marcie!

Mr. Messi

All day!

Iko and I skated to comicon.

Iko tattooing.

Work.

My bulletin board at Corner Tats.

Text blog moment:

I'm excited to say that After a great year at Corner Tattoo, I've been given an opportunity to fill a spot at Rebel Waltz Tattoo. It's surprising to me to be leaving Corner Tattoo so soon, but opportunity knocks, and I'm obliged to answer. The shop is owned by Don Ritson, who has been putting some nice tattoos on people. He also has another artist named Sypras working, in a smooth, realistic comic style. I will be fully moved over by the new year, and for now looks like Thursday, Friday and Saturday I'll be at Rebel Waltz, likewise next week.

873 Notre Dame Ave

204 832 6733

WPG, MB
CANADA

http://www.rebelwaltztattoo.com/

Thanks for checkin out my blog,

Bram

Avery, cuteness enders.

Dancing,

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on red carpets.

Avery shot this one.

Tyler Geurts, Tailslide to Regs.

The two headed cardinal,

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will reveal your true soul.

Here are a couple new rolls of film. Come check out Corner Tattoos at the C4 comic convention this weekend.

Some new tattoos.

Take Back the Night.

I love this new photo of Avery.

Iko.

Shal.

Night skating with the Wreck crew.

Eep!

Shop altar, oil pastel by Nic Adamson.

Thanks!

Ink, ohhhhh wrecked!

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Stoked to publish a blog, it's been a little while, but keep checkin' in, cause I have a bunch of rolls ready to be published, they'll be up here soon.

Tyler Geurts.

Tyler shot this photo of me gettin this pole jam downtown.

Then Tyler took us to this cool strip mall in some neighborhood. It was really fun to skate.

Tyler, gap to grind.

Jake's blog http://jacobkuzyk.blogspot.com/ is most excelent. Ill life style.

Evan, suffering.

I've been working really hard at the shop lately, taking key opportunities to shred, so I'm really proud to have these skating photos on the blog. Tattooing is going great, please come down to check out my portfolio. I also got all my drawings from the Black Sheep Diner back and have it up at the shop, please come down and check that out as well.

Corner Tattoo
563 Portage avenue.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 2G2

204 775 6582

Thanks, Bram.

Babylon ease off.

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These images are from This Week in Photos at salon dot com.

Just wanted to post those, 'cause I'm always hella-pissed about all this nonsense.

Well... shoot, how 'bout some fun photos?

This one is from a Jackson Beardy painting, "Loon and Fish".

I was really stoked to get back at this one.

At home, I'm dealing with the poltergeists... Fall is the worst for poltergeists.

Shalynn and I can haldle 'em though.

Haha, I am an awesome photographer, givin' the people what they need.

Skateboarding.

Evan Sinclair, wrequidiom.

Thanks for lookin'.

Bram

Sometimes these hands get so clumsy

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That I drop things and people laugh
Sometimes these hands seem so graceful
I can see them signing autographs

From "Either or Both" written by Phoebe Snow

I'm listening to Sizzla, Ghettoyouth-ology right now. Stressing at the shop, wondering if i'm gonna make it or get my cover blown 'cause i'm fakin it.

Here are some photos from lately, the first few are of my work at the Black Sheep Diner at 540 Ellice Ave. I think it's only up for a little while longer. please go eat some wholesome grub with your eyes and your minds.

My fully commodified art life.

East

West

I was stoked to make programs of almost all the work to have for sale and browsing. They're ten bucks, get 'em while they're hot!

Worst Photo in this Blog Award

Then back to the shop.

I get asked all the time "So, what's up with your apprenticeship? When you gonna get to tattoo someone?". I never quite know what to answer to that. Bram Adey - Tattooing the willing.

I was REALLY stoked to do this one. The lettering was embellishied by a homie when he tattooed this same image on me, thanks Christian.

IKO GUEST BLOG

I love thse two photos of me tattooing a friend of mine.

END OF IKO GUEST BLOG

Aaah yeah! Maybe one more roll?

Iko, metal.

"The People, My People"
-buju banton

Lunchy, she's even shinin' in the dark.

My real life,

my real Wife.

This old friend of mine from high school is:

a) Trying to kill me
b) Trying to teach me a lot about tattooing.
c) Both a and b.
d) Absolutely ripped.

Thanks homie.

Okay, now the good stuff. Avery had the anniversary of the completion of a full rotation around the Sun while being directly able to face it's burning light. I strategically struck some emulsion with it. Experts did the rest.

All i want to say about the pgotos is that I love them all a lot, especially the one of Mark and Cara (Skateboarding.).

Well, thanks for synaptically snapshootting my blog, Bram(Emo.).

"I know alot of fancy dancers,

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people who can glide you on a floor.
They move so smooth but have no answers."

- Cat Stevens, Hard Headed Woman

A couple rolls of black and white film came back from the shop. One roll was accidentally shot twice. The first exposures were taken around the tattoo shop, riding bikes in the park, of still lives around the house etc... The second layer of exposures, I was really trying hard to shoot good photos of Brothers playing at The Rocker. I'm stoked on what came out.

Shop reunion.

Dexter's first day riding without training wheels!

Brothers setting up.

Jimbo and Elliot.

Jimbo and D'Man, full-shred.

Definitely some of my favourite people. Drex looks Stee in this one.

This is the kind of image i would normally hold onto forever and only show my own prints, because it is SO art. The landscape is a photo of a sleve that Iko is working on, the lamp is like a sun sitting on a ghostly world, the crescent of a rising moon drifting there. The couple sitting in the middle.... man... art...

One mind.

The cover of Jimbo's biography.

They played heavy, their control over a space like an adaptive thing. Brothers, you guys are killing it, really doing something great.

Me tattooing shot by Iko. This is like hella-lo-fi meets digi-smoothness. The client has a D9 tripoded taking time lapse video while we've got a beat to hell FM3 with 3200 and a fifty on guessed settings.

Stoked on this one.

"Iko Drawing" is like the new "Oatmeal" photo on Wreck Blog.

Avery, almost walking.

Frame one.

The grinch, tattooed by me.

Stepped out, in the pouring rain.

Ulmus americana.

Poppies.

I don't wan't to live in no jailhouse.

2010-07-13T01:40:00.001-05:00

*ART ADVERTISEMENT

* I finished my show at the Black Sheep! The work will be up until late-August (breakfast and lunch hours) at 540 Ellice avenue. Please stop by for some healthy grubbin' and scope my art, tell your wealthy friends.

The work includes:

- 15(ish) new illustrations, pen and ink on paper, small to medium sized stuff
- 2 bigger pieces, ink on paper and graphite on paper
- Show catalogs, xerox edition of 25, sewn at the spine.

The catalogs are ten dollars a piece, and the work varies in price from fifty to three hundred dollars.

Got back a couple rolls from the wedding, and around the shop.

Shalynn in the evening.

Saturday morning coffee with Mom and Steve... it's the best.

Bill Acheson, helping set up the altar that Shal and I were married upon a couple weeks ago!

The bonfire at the wedding was one of the amazing parts.

Yeah!

*Then, back to the shop!

*TATTOO ADVERTISEMENT

CORNER TATTOO
563 Portage ave.

775 - 6582

Monday: Drop-in consultations and touch-ups by Bram and Iko; piercings by Lunchbox.

Tuesday - Saturday: Tattoos by Bram and Iko; piercings by Lunchbox.

This is Corner Tattoo, where I spend my days.

Lunchbox, she LOVES to pierce people. She is nice, and would enjoy piercing you.

Iko paintin'.

*Me drawin'.

*Photo by Iko.

Shalynn made this pretty little pizza.

Brothers at The Rocker.

one week from today, eeeeep!

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I'm working on an art show right now. Black on white drawings to decorate the walls of the black sheep diner. it's alot of work, but I'm really excited for everyone to see what i've been thinkin about for the last ten months.

The opening for the show will be on Monday, July 5th from 7 till 9pm. I'm gonna read a story at 7:30 maybe one shorter story and one longer. The art will be hangin' till late August.

DISCLAIMER:

I don't have photoshop or anything, so i know the photos will be huge looking, sorry, i'm bloggn'em anyways...

Here is a roll of film i got back recently:

At the shop.

Some art from my last show at the Green Apple skateboard shop.

Back to the future.

This was when Avery could first use a little ramp to get on the couch and crawl up and down the length of it.

Nest

Some Elm bark.

Manitoba Maple samaras sprouting.

Wreckless whims manifesting.

Little bird soaring.

What i'm listening to right now"

- Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
- K'naan - Troubador
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Charlie Parr
- Gorilla biscuits - Start today
- Bloodbath

Thanks for checkin' it out.

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I came home this day to a wonderfull naked baby, absolutely awesome.

Someone came in with a valentine that was given to him in 1951, in Halifax. The moment he walked through the door, i started devising a plan to get a photo... my plan worked.

My super-fun tattoo of the week.

"fuck the cops"
"love the cops"
"the cops is the enemy"

My first rose tattoo.

I love shooting photos of Iko workin'.

Iko 's work.

Corner Tattoo
653 portage
775-6582

Shalynn, my beautiful wife to-be! We are getting married in three days!

This cat will be there. Cuteness...

...to the maximum.

Stoked, gotta give some thanks.

Yoga cakes

Catch up.

2010-05-29T05:35:00.003-05:00

May 29th 2010

I haven't actively blogged since becoming a parent / tattooist, I'm really excited to share the beauty of this new life with you all. This post is a twenty seven photo catch-up on some highlights of the last year and a half of my life.

Steven riding a cart down a hill.

Dan Neufeld took me out hiking last summer, i found it very challenging and uplifting.

Hands by candle light, far from the city's sight, dim reflections shine vividly bright.

Frame one, montana two thousand and nine.

I found this roll of black and white film from my trip to Montana and it was so nice to see it. I love these photos of justin, we woke up next to a little creek and were having a very nice time.

Mark Berndt living casually, cautiously crushing.

The mornings were like unthawing and living a new life each day in a new place.

Alright, skateboarding.

I have often in the past, and still currently hold photos of tricks like jewels and never let the light shine through them, but i'm gonna stop doing that so much.

Bill Acheson, Fakie Back Tail
Air Canada, Portage ave
Winnipeg, 2009

On June twelveth, I am getting married to this beautifull woman.

After the camping, skating, and engaging, We had a baby named Avery Bramwell Adey Van Solkema.

We made him, and he makes snot bubbles.

It's a beast!

Kristen, Cliff and Dexter picnicing in our kitchen in the winter.

In December, I met Iko, and now we are great friends. Iko owns and tattoos at Corner Tattoo on Portage avenue. When we met, he told me that if I wanted to come and try to tattoo, that I had a place to do it. With his guidance I have been learning the humbling craft of tattooing. We Skate and Create.

This is one of my favorite pieces i've done lately, red pine in black and grey.

Absolutely shameless promotion.

Watching Brothers jam and play recently has been amazing. At their last show they played incredibly, the music was fast and surprising, precise. Bury This Wound held the room liken an auditory algarythm.

BATHTIME!!!

Devo is having a solo show soon at the Edge gallery on main. Keep posted for more info.

The photos of devo were shot at John Starr's show at War On Music. The photos he was showing were rad, diverse and interesting.

Will Belford, I shot this photo of his real life.

I don't mean to be sad or anything, but I just want to say something about the oil spill that is occuring in the gulf of Mexico right now. We need to take power away from companies as soon as possible. We need dialogue much deeper than who is to blame. This thing hasn't occured, it is occuring. How weak are our governments that they cannot demand better, what if the strength is never found?

Spirit Park, Young st.
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Thanks for checking out my blog. Look how hype life's lookin'!

testing, testing

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May 29th 2010

I haven't actively blogged since becoming a parent / tattooist, i'm really excited to share the beauty of this new life i have with you. This post is a twenty-eight photo catch-up on some highlights of the last year and a half of my life.

Steven riding a cart down a hill is in my top four favorite things.

it's done...

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i finished working on the show. after working on a show for a while i get super sick of all of it. so this is the last you're gonna hear about any of this stuff for a while.

compassionateblackdevotion@gmail.com

i'm stoked i got to show these shoes.

this one has a nice big crow feather.

platonic solids

HUGGY BUDDY!!!

shalynn is a fierce cook,

with a ferocious foot

more art

at the last minute i decided to make a book...

and clean up all my old junk

the show

close ups of the shirts

the shelves were the main part of the show.

i'm stoked mitch lavoie is the proud owner of this fine pentagram illustration.

fashion

i got to paint this mural. it's still up at the shop so you could stop by there and check it out if you want.

the show was hype. thank you so much to everyone who came out.

this is a good photo

the thing i was the most nervous about was reading my story, but i did it.

jake kuzyk blogged it for me.

cuteness enders

stay tuned...

SATURDAY!!!

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I'm working hard on my show at Green Apple on Saturday. Please come, please bring your friends.

The Spirit's Call Choir at the church on Westminster and Maryland.

spot check.

remember this?
he leaps!

Pan paniscus, "bonobo"
'mo breakfast
every day son!
the log driver's waltz

compassionateblackdevotion

2009-11-05T23:26:00.005-06:00

okay, today this blog is about hyping up this zine i'm working on.

so that's some of what i've been up to for the last while. if you want updates about when the show will be or to find out how to get the zine email compassionateblackdevotion@gmail.com.

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i'm home for the winter, working on a new zine/show that will be happening at green apple in november.

shalynn and ave

ave plays in this tent/fort in the mornings when we hang

Cribs, the living room

?

the studio

i've been making photos lately. the show i'm working on will have a bunch of prints.

art show teaser

the shred! tyspace evan and me went and skated this sick iceberg sculpture.

the evan

t'space, toeside flurrycane

cuteness enders

my family got a blogger!

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so who knows, maybe i'm blogging again.

i'm working on a new zine right now, a brand new zine (as in not-wreck). and i'm gonna release it on halloween, so keep your eyes peeled. i'm sure i'll have some hype-up photos on here soon.

ave is a treat, and now that i'm a parent, you're just gonna have to put up with wreck blog being full of photos of my kid.

from here on this blog is only interesting to skaters.

how about that chris phanner cover/interview in skateboarder last month? did anyone see that photo in the interview of him doing the front three and the backside flip. the backside flip photo in that interview is perfect.

also, has anyone seen the ad int he new thrasher of a guy doing a flip back tail flip out on the inside of a planter? the sequence is in an ad and it's unbelieveable.

viva la shred

wreck sicks

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the new wreck video "it's worth it" will be on the internet soon. i'm really proud of it and can't wait for you to see it if you haven't already.

if you want to own a copy of your own, you can get one at two zero four in selkirk and at sk8 skates in winnipeg . the price is five to ten dollars, depending on what you can afford.

i've been listening to this podcast a bunch recently, if you have an hour, check it out. to download the podcast, go to the itunes store, search big ideas and look for the episode with umberto eco.

New n' improved,

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with even less to lose!

wreck blog's back, let's party with our brains.

Yella Blog!

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the key note speaker for YELLA! was Hot Dog, who is a refugee from sudan who is now a legit musician, his adress was inspiring.

then we made these blogs for some pretty interesting people, check 'em out if you've got a minute.

Cassandra - http://www.abalo-cassandra.blogspot.com/

Abdul - http://www.abdul-jemei.blogspot.com/

Emmanuel - http://www.emmanuel-german.blogspot.com/

thanks cassandra, abdul, emmanuel and lesley, for the great afternon.

YELLA! workshop post

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this blog is a little assortment of different favourites from my last couple years of blogging. i'm posting it as a visual aid for a blogging/writing workshop i'm helping facilitate.

tyler, melon

James, lien disaster

drex, only these movements remain

turtles on the beach in ecuador

bill helped me make a new portfolio last week, it was pretty awesome to take a minute to appreciate what i've done in the last year or two. if you've got a couple minutes, click here to check it out.

here are a couple sketches i did today

here are a couple different styles of blogs by friends of mine,

Daily Failure drawing/art stuff by andrew serduletz

Check Du Monde journal/writing stuff by laura beeston

click this link to make your own blog account

"if you really wanna see what really matters most to me,

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just take a real short drive." -okkerville river

i've been working on lots of drawings.

i know it's already come and went, but the fall sure was hype this year

parthenocissus quinquefolia

acer negundo

gnar gnar rail seshun

jake

all lit up

more jake

new 'zine in the works?

windsor park students speak:

'zine?

shred?

hurricanes anyone?

double stacks anyone?

did i blow it yet? i finally finished the new zine! wreck issue #13 is now available at the following locations:

-mcnally robinson grant park
-colours art and framing on pembina (at old sk8skates location)
-sk8 skates at the forks

*jimbo's dink alert

more business news, wreck five will be premiering at the park theatre on wednesday december 19th. holla atcha boy!

i still eat breakfast almost every day.

acer saccharinum

feelin these

see ya next time i see ya

blog outtake, jake looking not-insane.

we live free, we never bleed

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i built a new bike

this bike used to be a really nice candy apple red, but when i got it it looked like candyapple barf

i made a headbadge out of copper, which was one of the funner parts of building this bike.

the acid vat

all etched up

the finished product

victoria beach demo

jimbo double barrelin'

this shit is FUN

rosie!

jumping off things into water is tight

mortal kombat moment

later on this night the guy riding this windsurfing board was heard to exclaim "this is fucking bullshit, i just wanna go KITEBOARDING#!!?!"

gauthier, can't remember, gap feeble maybe?

uh-oh

these ladies sang the logdrivers waltz

my favourite photos i've ever shot

bodies everywhere

good luck rinsing the stink off...

gurngler ordered "pancakes with a bunch of scrambled eggs on them"

pre-teens say no to man-g

had another weekend of tramping around on my bike

so my mom isn't gonna let some novelty sized key ring stop her from stealing the washroom key from wherever.

the selkirk contest

holler at rosie for puttin it on.

d-lang got his nollie noseblunt on pretty quick and won himself a nice little garment

i was all psyched to get some water from this well, but then the water had spiders in it

blown out swallow

the 'space loves to get blogged/wrecked

rode bikes out to clearwater for YAR

my new favourite spot

we went camping

pressing tofu

my grandpa

another quick bike project

evanville

wreck minneapolis trip!

brett wasted, you're psyched

vegedy

i love mexican food more than most stuff

this spot's incredible

tyspace is in there somewhere

the library downtown is a neat building

molestation

let me just state for the record, that this was a poor decision.

but i got tyspace the steak i owed him.

fall is here everyone!!!! holla!

Wanderlust,

2007-08-27T12:59:00.000-05:00

relentlessly craving

not quite a spot

gang-bang

bang's fake i.d.

devon getting hammer-time

double d's

bringing sexy back.

so if you see this bike around... lemme know.

the scrap bike

this is one of my favourite downtown spots.

heavy duty breakfast

strangler sabotaged my paniers for james and i's trip to the whiteshell

trajedy

bumped into j'fridge and her madgesty, free campspot, holla!

madge guest blog starting here:

thanks meg. scope meg's blog at www.queensofmachupicchu.blogspot.com

one match, no paper!

prowler moment

back home again.

barf guest blog starts here:

thanks barf.
look, a wound!

coming soon, new bike blog!

all around the truck bed

i had to bid farewell to this little guy.

tyspace, the athlete

tyspace, the greasy fifties loan shark

jimbo and megadeth guest blog:

thanks folks

papusas at the dragon are on point.

atop the martha street studio. i dropped my glasses off this ledge i was sitting on and i had to scale this sheer wall to get them.

this was my only handhold

friday morning breakfast with SCM

my bike got stolen

2007-07-08T15:25:00.000-05:00

my bike got stolen last night sometime. some one tore down a tree in order to take it.

i dont have a newer photo of it, but it's a brakeless fixie and has:

black frame
black formula/iro hubs
black alexDA22 rims
red rubino vittorio tires
aluminum/silver straight forks
sylvan track pedals with christophe cages
bullhorns
brand new crankset
a krypto mini u lock dangling from the frame.

it looks like this but with a new seat, aluminum fork and bullhorns

if you see it locked up somewhere please re-lock it with yours and i'll make it worth your while.

if you see anyone riding it, please note when and where and such. i've been working hard/sinking money into that bike and really just had it feeling perfect and it would mean the world to get it back.

bram 801-0438

Please find a place for us

2007-07-05T16:05:00.000-05:00

I'm gonna have an installation of drawings/sculpture/photography at the graffiti gallery two weeks from today.

WHAT GOES AROUND
the graffiti gallery's nine year anniversary show featuring a bunch of folks.

thursday july 19th
8pm - 12am
109 higgins ave.

please bring a non-perishable food donation

shred central

bummer

"fuck shoes"

i got a bad feeling about this one.

wreck posse went on a trip to kenora. so this is the point in the blog where all real life ends and strictly shred happens, so if you dont care about skateboarding you'll just wanna skip this part.

wreck setup: blue sk8 board, indy's, china reds and 53's

tyspace's brutal cat

our custom ipod mount

i passed out and got made fun of

so i bear clawed tyspaces board

my first trick of the weekend, no comply disaster slide up.

two dads, back smith

two dads, flip back lip

schenider and the neuf were in effect

two dads, dummy

colin lambro, back lip

lambro, backlip fakie

tyler gaucher, backside grind

gaucher, back sal fakie

E-Dawg got a kill clip

tyspace felt like stepin up to get his rep up

this is why this trick is so gnarly

he earned himself a sponsorship deal with cooper

gauch-bro

uhhhh.... sure.

he's leaning like that because it's kinked AND curved.

da neuf

so after all that, we finally got to eat. if you're in kenora, Hap's is a safe bet.

double kinkers'll do that.

the serduletz brothers

day two started out something like this

some team photos

normal

funny

red dragons

i was right

"i'm so psyched i got a clip in my ketchup and mustard combo."

this block-to-drop was pretty big, a little over a gurngler high.

russel gnawing on double d's leftovers

so some people aren't that crazy about having us skate a funeral home.

lady: THERE ARE PEOPLE DYING IN THERE!!!

gurngler: aren't they already dead?

either way, lambro walked away looking like the living dead.

here are some fresh facebook flicks for you e-dawg

gurngler

theres a dope taqueria in k-town now. they set drex and i up with some ill vegan shit.

sorry there are so many ollie photos on here, i'm just tryin to not spoil the tricks for WRECK V

some wounds
gurngler's knee

my gangrenous limb.

i'm not one to say something is too skinny to ride along before a pretty big gap, but this IS.

the barfy one

Dwrecks set up this board over the course of four spots i think. it probably took a grand total of about two hours to grip and set up this deck.

for lil' stee

jailbait getting WRECK/wrecked

a gurngler and a half

over the block. Colin's ollies are like a well written sentence, with a capital up front and a period at the end.

gurngler wasn't looking any better this day.

jailbait's busted paw

jimbo, flip in

pull out

jailbait, cork three

we had to rig this spot up with a shoelace

lambro: the way of the road bubs.

russel: you should have him taking his last poop!

never one to shy away from danger, "Masters Division Serdulets" reeled in a last minute MVP award.

these people know how to party

Rusty

two dads

not vegan

vegan

adios kenora

i know how to party

i can't believe i got so far with a head so empty

2007-06-27T16:15:00.000-05:00

Sports

lou-dawg

i saw this shit go down.

lil' stee wasnt too into the childrens festival, but he was pretty psyched to show us the eraosion damage down by the VIA station.

"that's your problem right there"

jimbro

lambro

margarine and molases on toast is incredible.

the ever astounding barf

the new gallery at the mondragon is really nice.

dash has a blog these days, it's tight.

i dont know who shot these two, jimbo maybe

i'm also assuming that jimbo shot this tyspace cribs

barf pile number one

barf pile number two

tyler only likes three things: skateboarding,

naked women, and george clooney

but mostly just skateboarding

good guest blog jimbo

we went to the flea market but i totally fucked up and didnt blog anything except locking our bikes up.

that new joint Fresh is pretty tight if you're a millionaire

two dads got all partied out so we played drunk jenga on him.

weekend at bernies status

some civil servants are blowing it for the rest of us,. this dude is sleeping in the truck, door open, middle of the day.

shredboarding

tyspace got loco

hoping the fence out tyspace seriously concussed himself

"why aren't you blogging me right now?" he was heard to query.

i really do understand, bye-bye

2007-06-11T21:07:00.000-05:00

le teegs and my kubota f3060

"this isn't the bleedin' splish-splash show!"

this is our possee

craig "what do you expect? i'm high!" dueck

trife

may 25th it snowed.

ramondetta

the frozen one

nightmare

just like in every other country in the world.

two dads has been workin on landin this one for a while.

jimbo's been making this one look like a thousand bucks for eons. to fakie, no pusher to the gap. "front on us this year consider yourself blown outta here!"

blew my sheer pin

martin came down and hooked it up.

dinosaur jr. thats two old man shows in a row. the times, they are a changin...

lazo and i got together and he made some awesome happen. thanks bro.

love these little bros

dandelion central

best thing about the skatepark, it's proximity to taste of sri lanka

friday morning breakfast with SCM

Woo's in south osborne is pretty ghetto. you get your $2.49's worth...

all partied out.

jimbo guest blog

barf guest blog.

good ones guys

uh oh!

wreck spot!

i wonder if they know where any good pools are?

barrelin' down the highway.

some ducks.

so i got invited to some stupid thing...

this dude was tight.

this lady, not so much... i'm not into irrelevant, monarchic bullshit to be perfectly honest...

some enders:

professor shitcunt

the phantom.

NO ELVIS BEATLES OR THE ROLLING STONES

2007-05-22T19:53:00.000-05:00

ladies and gentlemen, ryan nick!

who wants to go opening night? text me.

party time, excelent.

lil' stee

not positive.

how much does it suck when this happens?

sweet, sweet relief.

i think i made up this term and someone now sticker bombs it.

the strangler

jailbate

phantom of the opera two: lost in new york

this was actually "fixed" by a professional mechanic.

art

gurngler's time in The Europe broke down his fashion sense considerably...

a moment in the life of...

i hit the road with the strangler brothers, vrooman and philips to see morrissey.

welcome to middle america

"isn't that an indian name?"

"why yes, it's algonquin for "the good land"

the states are missing the mark on a lot of things, but i'll tell ya what, we gotta get some more mexican folks up in canada.

since the trip was mostly spent driving, we got in quite a bit of time skating taqueria parking lots.

"veggie burrito van halen style" (vegan)

jimbo guest blog:

UNTITLED (study in motion, nineteen sixty two)
digital photograph
11x14 c prints $250

UNTITLED (study in motion, nineteen sixty one)
digital photograph
11x14 c prints $250

UNTITLED (characteristics of form, nineteen schfifty five)
digital photograph
11x14 c prints $250

"prophet still, if bird or devil" -e. a. Poe

the fallen demo

this bro was there for one reason and it wasn't watching a demo.

straight edge circa 2007

punchline? anyone?

yeah power tools! thanks pat

not my fault

guest blog, mental house

a stare like yours is hard to find. it's ultraviolet.

2007-05-05T15:16:00.000-05:00

the coldest hour

icy hot stunta

rich doin his thing

meg cut my hairs off. she's been keeping the mansion boys looking sharp for a while now.

here's a little (big) guest blog by none other than meg herself.. it starts here.

the marlin

i dont normally put photos of myself in here but...

posse

gettin this one back up and runnin.

how edward gorey is this?

and thats the end of the megan kroeker guest blog.

after quite a bit of trial and error, she's almost where i want her.

out shredding jimbo made me barf out my nose from laughing too hard.

sarah morriss, this one's all for you.

tofu and gravy can't be beat.

summer enough for ya?

well, tyspace is home, the plot thickens.

like i said, he's home.

there you have it folks.

meanwhile at Mass

derry's gone far far away.

over the fence lovin'

prince and jimbo's dad

james is buildin a new bike.

fashion

wreck 5

taco sandwiches

Tell me what you want to be...GOOD!
Tell me what you want to stay...CLEAN!
Tell me what you want to have...FUN!

p-dog

freeze, welcome home buddy

neighbro

this isn't a photo of the strangler, though he is in it.

last day of work.

richard and his loader.

he moved in next door and still uses our shower/toothpaste.

two-dads underwear report

this spot's new to me and its way gnarlier than i thought it would be.

back to school fashions 1996

talk about your practical jokers

so somewhere along the line this happened.

gurngler looks like a wizard in this thing.

the duke.

blog or die

slightly faded

a fond farewell to a friend.

2007-04-21T22:04:00.000-05:00

so it's about time i take down the friend ship (aka, the bartlet ramp). were gonna have a backyard with a BBQ and a firepit and a bunch of sentimental firewood.

one of my favourite features of the bartlet ramp is the escalator. it was fun to build, and so surprizing that the coping turned out so good considering we just cut and notched in it where we had to then hit it with a hammer for a while.

my place of employment

more ramp deconstruction

the Cream

powned!

some characters from my life

lunch with mom

skateboarding is the best physical activity of all times. better than sex.

duke knocked over a hydrant at work this night.

guilty

this is my job being performed by james while i did his job.

"i only wear dragon shirts now"

spoken for

alley livin'

biking is the third best physical activity of all times.

this rules

evan's switch shoe. i dont even know what to say, no ollie hole, no kickflip toe, all switch heel.

evan, heelfip

teens

dragonson performed the dopest trick today...

i just finished this... minor fitzgerald

doctor fatso is back in full effect.

freedom's not givin, so i'm takin.

2007-04-15T16:05:00.000-05:00

went to selkirk and hung out with the fam'. the flood is in efect.

flooding is a spectator event, so all the trash cans were full of canadiana.

i seen a hawk

steve and his bro chase

for toad

bang bang

bike repair party with art school jeanette

wine and cheese...

...and hockey

meg's birthday masquerade. the mansion boys were looking good

muke larvin had a good Liberace vigilante costume on.

strangler's was by far the best mask in attendance, i especially like that the mask just laces onto his glasses to hold it on.

jac and budyk

double d's showed up too

the birthday girl

Llada

jason evaristo in his canadian tuxedo.

thanks

marky b's coped trucks

i only shot one frame of skateboarding at the park, i think i chose the right one. vandal crushing.

velodrome

Gregor

"Hold me"

2007-04-09T23:24:00.000-05:00

"hey Marky, look as awkward as possible."

Brent

Barf came over to pick up a shirt for his trip. the satanic black devotion goes well with the travelling charm his mom gave him. saint christopher is probaly psyched.

early to rise, orientation

cyrus is bummed

i blogged these last year too, they're great.

a couple faves

down to Vrooman's to get our guitar hero shred on, what a great game.

Sebastian is great too

he was making out with my beer

cuz's

this is art
untitled #12 (study of form, 1967)

dude alert

jimbo's decal collection

for SCM

i dunno who shot this, but it's totally awesome.

derry's dance party, wu-tang clan cover band

the cops showed up to pick someone up 'cause they had to give a statement about an unrelated incident then just took off. it was rad.

speaking of showing up, some heavies were on the scene

i don't know this guy, but i love these photos of him i took.

K-Strang

bodies everywhere

Derry

rad

Budyk

i love these kids

sk8skates moving party

that's not Jimbo

The Words

remember this drawing? Mess took the plunge.

it takes a lot to make me think this outfit doesn't suck.

Russel

Posse

scope the hug happening on the right.

another good morning

down at the park

The Wieve!

regs

switch

Wieve's got a pretty mean impossible

some people like getting totally gnarly at the park. heeler

WRECK 5: suicide yourself with fire

my mom used to always make this great noodle and cabbage thing, and i finally got around to making it myself. its so delicious.

were screaming at the tops of our lungs...

2007-04-03T15:44:00.000-05:00

...sitting in empty rooms

What a better way to start things off than with a couple good bros, Jimbo and The Freeze

pretty happy with how this thing's comin' along.

her days are numbered

hers, not so much. James, Andy and I went shredding

top ten people who i know who have biked all the way to mexico. Andy Blum!!

everyone was shredding

i almost ordered monday madness but then i realised that people might be dissapointed if on my first day back on the blog i didn't cook myself some tacos.

a little lime goes a long way

Twin Peaks time

Lil Stee brought by THUG 2

Budyk

The Strangler

back at the park

Barf and The Messiest Teen

Jimbo and technology. you can never have too many death lenses

mysterious L

lil Stee came over again cause i blew it and missed the bus

the wet sucks, but at least it's hopefull

found my missing bolo tie this morning

Drex hooked me up with this ill piece.

theres something satisfying as a skateboarder to flip your pants inside out and hava bunch of blood stains in the insides oof your shins.

made some tailor-moves thanks to Laura

tweaking teens, southward bound

to cousins for some drinks

Mikey B

Jimbo

Strangler

Luke Marin

this is where my life starts getting awesome. P-Dog came into town and hooked me up with a ride to Kenora to finish my shirts.

P-Dog in town means one thing for certain, Red Lobster.

P-Ddog was super choked cause his fillet was so obviously half the size of Jimbo's

my fillet was a freedom fry

"it's funny cause he's looking at the camera" Jimbo asures me.

P-Dog bought some rope legitimately

then he bought some rope from a hustler "hey man, any of you guys climb??? i could hook you up!"

psyched

look at that bear

this axe is the best tool for robbing a Mac's "give me all the fucking loto tickets and a carton of DuMaurier regs!"

for Brett Wasted

"Hey Bram, hurry it up"

ummm.... i'm in a vision streetwear ad, can't wait to see the cheque from that job.

the mall's fucked

air hockey is awesome

off to Kenora in P-Dog's hummer

Drex

the contents of Drex's pockets

Drex's bourgeois-ass bread

we got straight down to business printing my tees

Drex Cribs,
the healthy obsession

the BSADE

the view

the studio

the kenora park is kickass. scope this webcam of the park. i wish we had one of those at the forks.

these are great

i think i "get it"

we started embroidering the shirts

Drex is pretty excited about his sailor moon drawing skills...

we were pretty much ready to roost by then, went to Haps to dance

Wesley bro!

Carmin bro!

did i mention that Drex, Satu and I all looked sweet as hell in our new wreck tees.?

Drex is on some next-level breakfast shit

he vectored some of my drawings for zine covers and did the colour separations for me.

T.Q. set up some incredible pot pie

P-Dog shredding

Chapeski

this is what every kid in Kenora's room looks like.

Haggar seemed like a rad dude

Drex certainly digs him

this game is pretty scary

fully finished the shirts

and got right to work on the covers for wreck zine issues thirteen and fourteen.

drex's incidental art

i've been hearing alot about this Michael Jackson game for Sega and i finally got to play it

Chapeski and I put in a concerted effort to beat the third level but we eventually gave up. then the bazooka came out.

"hold it like a gangsta"

if you're in Kenora and need some shirts made, give T.Q. a call.

Jimbo, this one's for you

did these on Drex a few weeks ago

my sketchbook

Drex's

and that's it for my Kenoran vacation, back on the bus

bus toilets are scary

this is sitting on our stairs right now.

trajedy

pretzel privates

toast

so check it out, this is where i get all businessman on you. now i've got all these shirts kickin around that i wanna sell. they're black ink on white american appareil tees. i have a few larges, lots of medium and small and a couple ladies smalls for extra petite ladies or small infants. they cost 20 bucks and you can get 'em from me personally. i'm always home. or if you live outta province i can mail one to you, but it'll cost $5 extra for postage and my trouble, y'know?. contact me at bram_adey@hotmail.com or 204-801-0438. i think i can even accept paypal payments if you hook me up with your email adress.

i designed the shirts keeping in mind what I would personally want to wear. no bullshit, just good solid imagery. there's a little inverted cross embroidered really small on the left bottom of the shirt, if you're bummed on embroidery cause it chafes, don't worry, it's tiny and you'll never notice it.

front

back

embroidery

satanic black devotion

2007-03-11T17:14:00.000-05:00

in selkirk the other day my mom lent me her blogger to shoot this blue jay that had frozen to death. click on them for the full sized versions. they feather patterns look really nice in the full sizer's.

so if you haven't noticed yet, i skipped town. i'm holdin' it down in kenora for a week or so. drex and T.Q. are hooking me up big time with some professional screen printing technology and a great bed to sleep in. the shirts i'm printing are gonna say "satanic black devotion" and have a goats head and maybe a little embroidered bit if i'm lucky. if for some reason you want a large then you'll have to let me know today sometime 'cause i'm just not gonna print any larges otherwise. if any ladies want one let me know sizing too cause i dont know stuff about ladies sizes. email me at bram_adey@hotmail.com for more info. i wont be answering my phone for the week.

also, big ups the folks that shoveled the kenora park downrail. yesterday we had a killer session on the little three stair rail. it was the best skating i've had in the whole time i've been home.

parents have all pee'd their pants more than their kids.

2007-02-18T09:14:00.000-06:00

train club!

they've come a long way in the scenery department since the last time i was here.

the layout is in the selkirk journal building and has some rad journal/printshopy kinda stuff kickin around.

i did this drawing for kristen, the messy one.

i also finished this portrait of two dads.

sushi and lego with Lil' Stee

the coldest hour

lego with breakfast again

edward fox, the sly one.

drawing ref's

so steve does this thing where whenever he has to take a shower, go to school, get dressed, clean up, take a pill, put on socks, or anything else at all really, he just drops to the ground and grabs my feet and makes me drag him around the house. he absolutely refuses to let go. this ineviteably always ends up with me accidentally kicking him in the teeth and making his mouth bleed.

there's a pissdrunx logo etched on my moms door. thats notable.

guess what day it is!

you betcha, valentines!

so that means more lego!

using real lime and not lime juice from a bottle means the difference between good guac and great guac.

got a fresh chain on my whip

Lil' Stee and i painted his room today.

infectious linguistics,
sorry i dont understand about video being landscape only...

it's a gun

my dream girl phoned again! shalynn maybe?

'cause his room is all painty, steve's campin out in a fort in the living room tonight.

"bram, bram ingrahn riding the tram"

2007-02-12T16:13:00.000-06:00

barf fixed jamie's camera for him, so i stole it to blog my life with steve.

getting barf and steven together is clutch

budick moved in, adios luke marvin

the airplane

heaven

my mom had this table sitting in pieces in our garage for years and always said she was gonna refinish it. i always though she was nuts because it was so haggard and painted trife yellow. she was obviously right.

i often dont get to fully appreciate how hype winter is caue im too busy freezzing my bag off. but when youre zipping around in a heated automobile, its pretty damned beautifull.

two zero four skateshop rented the edge and let me in. gang-bang was there demo'ing the spine as usual. tailbone up an over

frontside to fakie

kids fashion is usually pretty tweaking, but lately its been getting alot better, there was alot of plad in the area.

art shit

rosie is a very, very good skateboarder.

budick cribs!

a crustaceous poo

the jimbler

lurkers

the wieve showed up!! got himself a copy of wreck 4!

someone left me a cool-ass message. wife material? i think so

bro's

up before the sun

you know those handrails that are like... DOUBLE handrails.

trajedy

this is me being sneaky

two zero four is printing wreck tees! they will be plain black on white, with the bird on the front and the text on the back.

here are a couple new drawings.

cremo the magnificent

a majestic falcon

dangerzone

i've got some stuff in this show comin up in a week and a half. click the photo for the full-sized poster.

a message for Peter Bjorn and John

2007-02-10T22:47:00.000-06:00

that song is catchy and everything, but theres something you must know, style can't be young or old, it is timeless.

knife knife

2007-02-05T00:22:00.000-06:00

Copies of Wreck Four are almost done.

This is Steven with a large knife taped onto a larger knife.

We built this slotcar track. It's a bit bigger now.

"Le petit garçon que j'était

2007-02-01T09:12:00.000-06:00

n'aime pas du tout ce qu'il a devenu."

I "got up" at the edge last week, here are some flicks Cliff sent me of the finished product. Thanks Cliff for lettin' me do it and Lazo for hookin up the projector.

So now I'm chillin with this bro for a few weeks while my mom's in vietnam. She's been raising chillun's for thirty years (seriously), so she's due for a vacation by now.

The best thing that happened on the first day of watching him was riding bikes to the movie store to rent a video game last night. He fell into a snow bank, stuck his tongue to his handlebars then ripped it off. I didn't notice the tongue thing 'till we got there and he didn't say anything. Then when we got there he told me, and i laughed. When I looked at him his mouth was all covered in blood. It looked like he had been mawing on a raw steak. I had to do the parental lick-a-hanky-and-rub-it-on-his-face thing. It was awesome!

So now its nine in the morning, I've already eaten breakfast, read my book, played video games, showered, drank a pot of tea and made a blog, and i'm fully awake. This rules. I'm sure the novelty'll wear off some time. But for now I'm super-psyched.

If you wanna call me, call 1-204-482-7473. If long distance is a problem i can call you in the evenings if you drop me a message.

2007-01-22T13:40:00.000-06:00

sad kids

2007-01-15T17:24:00.000-06:00

my life is a big lump of turd, and my phone is later'd so call me on the land line (204)482-7473 if you wanna talk. i guess you can still send me texties on my phone (204)801-0438 if you want.

bottoms:
employment insurance (or my lack thereof)
my phone
my phone bill
being fat
my outstanding rent/bill paments
my creative inepsy
the cold
my debts to people i love
my debts to institutions
my lack of music
my busted computer
breaking every piece of electronics ive ever owned

tops:
tacos
skateboarding
i used to have a pretty cool moustache

this is an image i took of a bullfight in quito, ecuador.
click it for the bigger version
"tortura, no es arte ni cultura"

this is a drawing

if someone wants to give me an art show, i wouldnt mind having something to look foreward to in my life. ive got a buttload of images im sittin on.

"whiskey river take my mind,

2006-12-24T23:19:00.000-06:00

dont let her memory torture me."
-willie

tops:
willie nelson
my new fixie
late night rides, half in the bag, bustin hella skids
brisk walk broments
michael seiben
WRECK 4: the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
being "over it"
DERRY
the post

bottoms:
nope, not today

if you wanna go for a bike ride, i know a guy who's got NOTHING goin on. you know the number.

"why don't we all go for a soda.

2006-12-20T22:31:00.000-06:00

its better than slander, its better than lies"

back home, and missin my camera. if anyone wants to lend me a digital camera for a few months, i'd be psyched. but for now, i've got some images to share that are non digi-photo-based.

a couple images from down south i'm into:

anti-bullfighting protest poster

i found these seprately in iquitos, peru.

tops:
-marcie comin' home!
-jimbo
-sushi being a part of my life again
-gettin' a fixie on ol' blackie
-wooden ramps
-slash's to fakie on said ramps
-developin film in a halfway prompt manner
-the neuf!
-cyndi (lauper that is)
-public enemy
-this zine i got this mornin. it rules when people send 'zines instead of letters that say "heres a dollar, gimme a zine". pink crack was the hypest part of my day. its pretty much paintings, drawings and SHREDDING. thats my kinda 'zine

here are some 'roids from the night i left, a quarter of a year ago.

the strangler

shalynn

the neuf

bottoms:
-consequential livin'
-razor burn
-when you crack open an avacado and it tastes like the colour brown
-the grapevine
-dealin' with brakes in the winter

here are a few drawings i did on my trip that im psyched on

wreck 4 premiers on december 28th!
7pm at the park theater, five bucks

to anyone who i might've touched in a manner that made them feel uncomfortable on saturday night. i'm sorry, i'm a toucher, its just who i am.

wreck wreck wreck wreck

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so the other day jamie and i got robbed. i actually had 85 cents in my pocket at the time so all i lost was my blogger. which sucks ballsacks 'cause now i walk around goint"ah bro, i wish i could blog that..." then james takes the photo and all the blog glory. whatever, either way, thats the reason i dont have any photos in this blog. but i do have two sweet parties to invite you to

"then it happened

2006-12-04T15:12:00.000-06:00

she cut her hair and i stopped lovin` `er"

back in the beautifull city of quito

i do truly love the city, laden in angst. i`m comforted by its hectic pace. the walls all tell stories

and the markets are beautifull. well, the fruits are anyways

so... i think that if were gonna pretend that democracy works, when someone`s blowing it THIS hard, we gotta factor in the global polls

went and visited carolina, ate some chocho`s

on sundays parque la carolina is GOING OFF. so you gotta watch out in the snake run so you dont decapitate a child

i just took a couple laps cause i was alone, and no ones wants to skate big trannies alone for too long. but i found a sweet popsicle with black dolphin candy in it on the way out.

"okupa las calles y destruye"

i`ve ben claimin all over this one...

art`ish

shred`ish

someone`s christmas present

art

did i mention that andy and i met back up? we made tacos

and he taught me to play rummy

it`s great to be back in the city so i can have oatmeal again.

went for a walk to carolina with andy for a bite to eat, no shred though on account of the squal`s comin in and all

andy`s last meal in south america

he taught me this awesome game where you fold a paper, draw a head, they draw the body, then you draw the legs, without getting to see what the other drew, so you end up with incredible results.

i`ve been drawing like crazy, and i ran out of paper, so i had to find more paper. i found this hype paper supplier. im pretty picky about my tracing paper, so when they didnt have pads of anything i wanted, the dude took me into the stacks and found some stock i was into. then he cut it down for me. the whole experience left me feeling warm inside.

art

james was s`pozda show up any minute, so i went to carolina and cleaned it up proper, including cleaning and wiping up five poops.

and he did show up, so we went out for hot dogs and burgers

then made fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches...

went to the old town to buy jeans

great printing press and offset printer in some random shop at the clothing market

typewriter repair shop

jamie absolutely HATES most every vegetarian set lunch ever. but i love `em

this one was alright... even though it had yogurt or somethin on it

they have normal stores here too

we`ve settled on a strictly indian food for dinner diet

new tattoo?

shredding

i lied about the indian food thing, we got taco`s one night

inspiration

"we`re traffic too" or something to that effect

worst vegetarian set lunch yet

indian never dissapoints though

this dog`s voice was like the gates of hell opening up and letting loose its sinister chorus

steven, you`d love the play grounds here, there are graders, excavators, full size airplanes, tanks, everything!

we went bowling! we met up with this canadian dude and an australian dude and had the most juvenile afternoon we could possibly conceive

i`ve always admired jamies bowling style

their shoes were actually really comfortable

and their animations were way sweeter than back home. there was a sweet heavy metal dragon.

they all had bogus names like "andrew" or "kevin", so even though i came in last both games i didnt feel so bad cause at least i had a killer name.

jamie and i have bowled our fair share of games together, but he`s never beaten me, untill today, where he beat me both games

we got some beersss

theres much to be said about a country where you can buy three cans of beer at the supermarket, drink them in the park and the cops just roll by, doubling on a durtbike, and there`s no problem.

we tried to go ice skating but it was no dice

three up

there are a ton of reasons that this photo is art

keeping it strictly low-brow

with a little liquid courage in him, jamie finally busted over the line frontside. i got sorta high, but mostly just fell and smashed up my wrist and hand.

seeing as we were a bit loaded, picking up slides seemed like a gnarly idea

somehow, we ended up staying there for four hours shooting the breeze with the owner and drinking vodka. we were like "yeah we should go now" and he`s all "nah, stick around, you want a drink?"

said godbye to these old friends, one more week at the parque la carolina and they were gonna be later`d so i got new hsu-jeans

goodbye secret money pocket...

stuffed peppers at india

art

we busted out to the beach

more disastrously beautifull cloud forest...

subordinate`d

before the beach, we stopped at santo domingo cause we heard there was a park. we didnt get there till late. so after eating the worst food ever and using the worst interweb ever, and generally hating it, we decided to go watch some tv at the hostal. on the way we say a street fight

we watched zoolander and went to bed

we went on a death march to try to find the park on foot, but abandoned ship after a while for jamie`s more clever "lets get a cab" trick. jamie`s trick worked pretty good considering the park was clear across town in the opposite direction we were walking.

we film blogged a cool little circus

we found the park, but it ws raining

click this for a the full sized version

all those seams you see in the photos are huge, at least an inch wide. they didnt end up feeling that bad though.

i went and got food while we waited for it to dry out a bit.

the fruit was great, the bread was poison

we kicked water around for an hour or so and it was finally shreddable. it was gnarly, so we didnt have much to shoot, but roll-ins are always kickaxe. scope jamies blog for the cross reference.

remember when baiker was baiker boohtleg?

then we were really off to the beach

boat-shred

when we got to canoa, it was some kinda big deal down there, cause shit was fully going off. the party train was in effect

i missed the blog opportunity cause my battery was dead. but there was an insane parade this morning, hella, hella teens were in effect.. it was wild.

we were taking it way too easy, goin to bed at like nine thirty, so i woke up at like five a.m. and couldnt sleep so i went for a walk.

this bird was following me

there wasn`t much at the end of the beach, just some rocks that looked like brains

with the exception of two meals in five days, we ate at one restaurant exclusively. they have a dog that looked like that bro from the never ending story.

he had fleas

drinkin and snackin on the beach

i put the final touches on my drawing `zine that`ll be out sooner than later. here`s a sneak preview.

this bike was pretty critical. fuck pedals

we messed up and the restaurant we like was closed. so we had to find a different restaurant. i had "arroz de vegetales" which i guess translates to "dill pickle flavoured fried rice"

james always refuses to double knot his laces, which is totally stupid when you wear classics. i finally talked him into it after having to stop every hundred yards for him to tie `em. but he doesn`t quite "get it" yet so he sometimes has to deal with the knots

v is for victory

back to the city with us

skateboards, bikes, boats, busses, blowfishes, blowouts

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recently, maybe two or three months before leaving home, i developed an insane fear of pissing the bed. i started having recurring nightmares about stating to piss then not being able to stop. then i`d wake up and think i had pissed the bed. like when youre a little kid, you know. now i have to piss every night before bed, then i wake up at like 4 or 5 and have to piss, then i wake up at 8 or 9 and have to piss again. it sucks.

i never do this kinda shit, but i wanna give a big ol shout out to chris at two zero four skate/snowboard shop in selkirk. he`s always supported me as much as a dude possibly could. if your ever in the `kirk, stop by and say hey to him, and buy some hoodies with my designs on `em `cause i`m poor.

for toad

this stuff tasted exactly like pork to the point that i felt bad for eating it. but it wasn`t.

so joan set it up so i could skate the inaugural demo at this new bowl in guayaquil. he took me to bro with this dude named cochis, who designed the park. he showed me photos of him skating back in the day. this is him grinding parque la carolina the year it was built, `79.

del mar `81

posse up

hostal grubbin`

this man would cut you

fish are great

but fruit is better

for ains

im pretty psyched on breakfast with the iguanas, but i`ll let you in on a little secret. watch yo` self around iguanas. when they piss, its not like a stream of piss comes out of a peehole, they have some kinda piss trap door and they just drop a huge load of piss all at once. i saw a little girl get dumped on , it was radical. but i always took the roundabout way through the park after that, cause honestly, that shit`ll ruin your day.

if my art career doesnt take off, im startin a set lunch vegan joint. that shits gotta be a goldmine.

or maybe ill just go hare krishna and buy a sweet truck. either way is good with me really.

this is awesome

in the afternoon when their blood warms up, the iguanas fully go off

i went to the park to draw and bumped into this hype art dude named blaus, he showed me some of his work, i showed him some of mine...

...he bought me juice. aparently it`ll make your weiner like a rock.

then he started explaining to me how hes a raw foods vegan and im all "bro! you`re killing it!" he`s been vegan for 26 years or somethin, raw for 6. he`s pretty worried about amoeba`s in food.. he was a bit hefty for a vegan.

met up with joan to go to the inauguration

rad

did i mention how much of a babe joan`s lady is??? joan and carolina.

so the park is in the rich ass part of town. its basically at a country club designed for rich people to drop their kids off and have cocktails in the clubhouse. its like the opening at the forks, but every day. i guess i look like a huge scumbag by now, cause i`ve been wearing the same shirt for two months, and joan was like "bro, youre gonna need a nicer shirt, theyre gonna make you wear one." then when we went and talked to cochis he was like "yeah bro, well set up up with a new shirt for the demo." and they hadn`t actually communocated that to one another, they both just new. sure enough they made me wear a different shirt. and when i got to joan`s place he`s like "bro, you cant wear those shorts" so i had to go change.

its got everything your kid wants, an eight foot ramp

and an eight foot bowl

well, have fun hauling little kids off in stretchers. it took about half an hour for a kid to fully speedbumb his arm. busted.

it was actually pretty rad to see a bunch of surfers skate a pool. cause the way they approached shit was so different, but still awesome looking. they would always grab their frontside edge on backside carves, like when you get barreled on a surfboard or whatever. and when they try frontside ollies, they always go 270, cause in surfing they do that then slither around again. it was pretty hype.

we had to stop skating for a while, cause we were s`pozda have helmets on, so i got all jocko weyland on that shit. it was pretty sweet light.

at first it was a bit sketchy feelin , but it ended up being pretty sweet that they hadn`tput the tiles in yet. There was this rough strip at the lip and when you did slash grinds your wheel made a sweet maching gun noise. you gotta let `em know you`re in town!

i got bored of not skating, so i took a walk around. this dude is some kinda big deal i guess.

they had free whiskey, but i wasn`t really feelin` it, so i left it at one.

aparently the soccer demo bro`s got payed to be there, all i got was a lousy t-shirt.

my photo bro was psyched to borrow james`s fish.

the bald dude is bro, he runs a company called g`quill and the other bro is a photographer too

there were some bros there from chile who ripped hard. i didnt shoot any real skate flicks though.

i seriously doubt the structural integrity of that vert ramp.

soccer demo scene

this kid was there.

afterwards we hit this bar that i wasnt really feeling cause im a social misfit.

but then they played NORTHWEST so i was psyched. ben krahn is fucking insane.

i found bread that isn`t cake.

i got some mystery food

it ended up tasting exactly like mashed yams with brown sugar.

i figured out whats up with cheap peanut butter. so im gonna come home fat as hell.

went to another museum. blaus works here.

great quill work

and beautiful floors

this dudes hands and feet were on point. really similar to samflores.

when we went to prison, we got shown the cell where this dude was held, then the balcony that he was thrown off of and killed. he ws then dragged around town by horses or somethin.

not nearly as awesome as james`s recent photos of dead people

beautiful night

this was great, i wish i had my film camera for this

it was my last night in tow, so joan and carolina took me up the hill to scope the view

this guy`s friends are dicks

a couple of great things

the aforementioned tearjerker

bye-bye fenix

this dude dressed like a columbian clown was getting hella arrested

guayaquil is a pretty gnarly place. theres a pretty crazy dynamic where the parks are all heavily guarded so theyre beautifull, and the market was super clean and comfortable. but the streets were absolutely disgusting. every day at 6am the streets were perfectly clean, and by 8pm they would be filthy disgusting. i every day at 6am the streets were perfectly clean, and by 8pm they were filthy disgusting. i saw so many sights that were so insane that i couldnt even shoot photographs, so many super down and out people and people with insane medical afflictions everywhere. but there were so many beautiful people too, it was a great experience to spend that time there.

emo skateboarding broment. for jimbo

so i biked from santa elena to montañita

"it`s in the hammock district"

for tristin

makin` due

so im cooking dinner, and the other dude staying at the hostal is listening to some insane noise. i was pretty much convinced it was probably called "the worlds worst music ever recorded" for a while. then i decided that it was probably some next level adam sandler type shit i`d never heard before. every song sounded like when jimbo picks up a guitar and makes fun of all stupid cliche`d bullshit. then i went to the t.v and it was lou reed. is lou reed for real or is it a super funny joke??? i couldnt quite figure it out.

manglaralto

its hype how i used to think that that japanese style of drawing rocks was some crazy stylisation, then when you actually see rocks in the ocean they just look like that.

hermit crabs are killing it

art school self portrait

"every day is like sunday"

"dreamcatchers totally work..." just like guayaquil, my perception of montañita was drastically altered this time around. i busted out with no delay.

it was wet out, but i didn`t wanna wait for the sun to come out, so i saddled up anyways.

pretty much the whole ride was climbing and bombing hills. it was worth it to see the hype costal forests.

so i came to an insane washout, the whole road was mud, and pothole central, but i didnt wana walk it, so i just bombed through it. i got crank deep in mud at a few spots.

it sucked that you coudn`t bomb hills full bore cause all of a sudden the road could go dresden and fuck up your tires. so you had to ride the brake and keep er below 40k. lesson learneed.

after a couple hours in the saddle this is heaven

this dude was sellin` whale bones

cruised through some nice little fishing town

i wasn`t the only one havin trouble kepin air in my tires.

this view comin into puerto lopez was rad.

james has been waitin for this one. "team discovery channel!!!" "leap forth my burly protector and SAAAAVE me!"

i trimmed the bag down even more in lima. lovin` it.

they had a pretty roots fresh air market

got some goods to grind on

i used to be really psyched on white bread as a little guilty pleasure, but lately im pretty over it.

these cats were making out 24/7

another one for you tristin!!! the coast is where tristin and i spent a lot of our trip here in 2004. so i saw lots of familiar faces and sights. i thought of you non stop on the coast T.

made veggies with a fruity peanut sauce

back in the saddle, i was all psyched up to go to this beach, but it seriously cost twelve bucks, so i kept rollin`

i scoped this hype beach and decided it was a good alternative to los frailles

caught a pedal in the ol` archilles tendon while shootin` the beach

it was dope black sand

i dont ever actually go in the ocean, cause im a`scared of it, i only ever get this far

for meera singh

caught one of these in the foot

i though this was a pretty sweet bench till the tide came in and almost drenched me completely.

all the climbing in crazy gears i guess twisted the chain up and busted it.

momento`s

the whole coast is just climb a hill, scope these amazing beaches, then bomb the hill, its fucking awesome.

this town was mega-little

i though i was a fish out of water in the jungle shootig oxen. but in this town honestly, it was twenty times worse. the only way i could`ve been more of a spectacle would be if the kids had poked at me with sticks. i was sittin there, with all my gear and bike and shit, in shorts and no shirt and school let out and honestly twenty five kids just mobbed me, in complete silence, they surrounded me completely as i was making sandwiches and watched. no one was saying anything, then some kid would wisper to another, and they`d stiffle laughter. it sucked, then when i finished lunch, i bro`d with them a bit and it was less awkward. they were psyched on my skateboard.

when they figured out what was up with my camera they all went absolutely apeshit, look at the kids dashing up in the background to get in on the photo sesh.

it`s hype how half the kid`s bunny ears were peace signs and half were horns

the kid in the front was trying desperately to haymaker his bro in the face. it ruled

for such a tiny town, they sure had a hype park. almost shreddable

so after scoping prices at hostals, i decided ten buchs was out of my price range. and i decided to sleep on the beach. i found a busted hammock and rigged it up with my length of rope (lesson: always travel with a sturdy length of rope.). after i set up camp i found the outhouse

this is me totally blowing film photos by blogging them first. i couldn`t hold these.

the beach was pretty beautifull

stuff im psyched i didn`t step on

stuff im bummed i did step on

the town was totally ghost. they have a surf competition every year so the beach has tons of cabanas and bars and shit, but they were all deserted, so i just st up camp at one of `em.

this ruled

the virgin mary, charlie chaplin, a skull....

i drew the turtles. i actually did something i hardly ever do anymore, that is draw from life. i almost always draw from photos, lately off of a tiny screen. it felt pretty legit of me to sit down with the subject right in front of me.

and ate the hypest fries

so i blew a slick bombing a hill. the road went dresden, i hit the brake and skid a bit, fuck, all well... so my bike adventures only took me 520 kilmoeters, i guess thats an alright run. i would`ve liked to make it twice that, but them`s the breaks, another lesson learned.

i got pretty ravaged by sand flies

these bugs were bonin` in some insane fashion

for steven

gotta love bus food

anytime the road turns inland, its amazing greeneery everywhere. and tons of banana trees

great logo

our lives defenitely have way too few mules...

...and hammocks

settled down in canoa for a few days. they had a good veggie burger

and a hype lap cat

a new fav`

another one for ains

i hung out on the beach, which i never do, i was contemplating surfing...

...then this went down

if you look hard in the background you can see a dude shredding a wave

i stepped right into the middle of a gunfight! i appreciated that they actually had caps in their guns.

amazing burritos

when i woke up i was twenty four years old

for shalynn

ive been trying to catch this particular moment of light in most of the places i go. you only get about seven minutes to get the right balance, this day i was slippin and had to shoot it through the bathroom window as i pee`d

back to the big city.

got to ride a boat for a bit

for cain, i`m workin on it buddy, she`s a toughie one though

for nick

for the schled

so i went to the market before catching a long ass bus ride. got food, made sandwiches in my fifteen minutes before the bus. i was all psyched up that i wasnt gonna stavrve for the whole ride. then as im gettin on theiy`re all "no food on executive class" fuckin bourgeois ass buss, i had to check all my bags and i got frisked heavy duty. bogus. old avacado sandwiches suck.

on the bus they only ever play "city of god" or some brutal action film. true to form, we watched city of god, then bad boys two. but then all of a sudden they threw in ricky-o. scott mclaren`s been telin me to watch it forever. i think its maybe even better to see it for the first time in not-english just so i could apreciate the insanity of itall. honestly a dude slits his stomach open just so he can try to strangle hricky-o to death with his intestines. and he FAILS! if that`s not cinema i don`t know what is.

the busride through the cloud forest is insanely beautifull

rad election art

so im back in quito, i did a big ass lap of ecuador and peru, now im here again. and im glad to be in familiar surroundings. james and i should be reunited in a few days. shred will ensue.

make like brothers

2006-11-13T15:34:00.000-06:00

in lima, at that sketchy book stand, i was just poking around, looking at old dictionaries and algebra textbooks when the guy asked if i wanted english novels. i said yes, and he started pulling out old dime store paperbacks, and i thought "i might as well tell him not to bother." but then out of the stack, he pulled a copy of the outsiders. i used to really dig it, but havent read it in years. well, i guess being alone will make you FEEL alot. and as i read it, even realising how basic and at times juvenile the ideas were, it got to me. i cried at least five times. i dont know why im tellin everyone this, except that i think it attests to my current mental state.

a couple good passages

"if we needed them tomorow, they`d show."

""it`s okay." i said, wishing i was dead and buried somewhere."

"i could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and wished for something better."

i`m not actually gonna do a full-on blog here, i really wanted to, but the internet`s being a total fucker, so im just posting a couple thoughts.

i already miss the fenix. jamie and andy, if you stop in guayaquil for a second, go to this place, its on quito ave. maybe three blocks up from avenida 9 de octubre. go during the day for the set lunch.

this is the view of guayaquil from joan`s apartment. its funny how drastically your view of things can change from one day to the next. how the company you`re in can alter your perception. this isn`t that deep a thought really, its nice to be reminded though.

i did this drawing the other day. it`s for andy larkin. its called "make like brothers"

honestly, ive never seen anything like this internet, im OUTTY!

everyone loves lists right?

2006-11-08T14:10:00.000-06:00

LOWEST LOWS

-being lost when youre alone is alot less fun than when you`ve got bros
-being unable to find candy
-isolation: what a bogus concept
-peru, sorry buddy, get some toilet paper or a legit alternative then we`ll talk
-fake ass money
-money with the corner cut off...

HIGHEST HIGHS

-Joan and Washington
-SKATEBOARDING
-candy
-martin chambi
-wafer cookies
-ridin` dirty and jon bon on the free computer at casa suiza
-that chocolate i ate in cuzco
-veganness
-bicicletting
-art??? turns out im pretty into it.
-drawring
-intentional misspellings
-the prospect of great food
-the realisation of great food
-the fenix

TOP THREES

backside:
-smith
-tail
-biggie

frontside:
-slash
-ollie
-blunt

THINGS TO WORK ON

-patience (always)
-moodyness
-discression in matters of the heart
-flip tricks

TRAVEL ESSENTIALS, in order

-bros
-no expectations
-two eating spots
-shred
-bed without mold
-camera

so this only covers a couple days, but ive been snap-happy so theres some meat to it.

last time i was in guayaquil i was convinced it was the worst place on earth. this time its KILLING IT! as a bonus, days are costing less than ten bucks, including hostal.

so i went to joans house to meet up and skate and he`s all "yeah, i have a company..." so im like "cool bro, what do you make?" and he`s all "this is my shape!"

so it turns out he built himself a press... LEGIT!

and he`s a badass screen printer

also, i hot glue`d my shoe, whens the last time you had to do that????

he had a old slap (1995ish) with a south america article that had photos of mic-e and phelps skating in it

and a good photo of Senn

for drex and p-dong

after skating some ledges that some people probably would think were awesome, we went and scoped the cemetery. you weren`t allowed to shoot photos but i snuck a

couple

it started to smell like corpses so we busted out to the fenix

when we stepped out of the fenix, some guy on a bus drops a little holler at joan and throws a big fat gram onto the street. cool.

next spot was this kickass place where you can get juice, fruit salad or grilled cheeze, and that`s IT. it was the most amazing idea. thats all they sell but there were like

twenty people working and a line out the door. solid business plan

remember james hardy?

so i had seen photos of this ledge down an eight stair and joan said he`d was taking me there and i was like "dude, is there anything else to skate there" and hes all "no,

not reallly..." so im getting prepared to have to skate a ledge down eight stairs when this happens, perfect four stair hubba.

the landing was actually a crater, but a manageable one.

tyspace would`ve been bummed if i didnt, so i ground it even though i didn`t want to cause and it was dark

you know that credit card trick in the movies? it works out here!

bought a couple books

so my plan yesterday was to eat sushi since my life was sucking so hard before i got here. but it was closed. so today i decided to go since my life was ruling so hard.

there was no vegetarian section so i had to be extra insistant that i get only cucumber and only avacado. then they served me this and im like "damn, no fuckin RICE???

thats a bit extreme!"

oh wait, there it is!

they roll each piece individually, instead of rolling and slicing.. the tradiditional way is better...

i got lost on the way to joan`s and found a castle

sandra

we went shredding and visited a photographer friend of joan`s

he had an even more ghetto version of my vivitar

his cat was making out with my shoe

"just taking my gun for a walk..."

parque rojo again...

oat drink grows on you

back to the fenix

for andy

we went back to the blue ramp, i asked joan to shoot acouple photos for proof. ollie from low to high

and i promise that this is WAY scarrier than it looks. that lip is begging to get a hold of your truck...

the lot that the ramp is in looks like a scene from road warrior.

ummm.... i dropped my glasses in the toilet today

there was a strike goin down

ate some corn and hot sauce

and some fruits

found another vegetarian place, had a litre of soy milk, this, a popsicle and water for three dollars

the popsicle had candy in the handle

got my knife sharpened at the market!

muy guapo

banana leaves

top reason to do blogs in notepad instead of blogger or myspace, when the interweb fucks up like it just did for me just now, you dont lose anything at all. i rule!

breakfast with the iguanas again

then i went to the art gallery

You know my hips don't lie

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And I am starting to feel you boy
Come on lets go, real slow
Don't you see baby asi es perfecto

yeah shakira!

at the halfway point of the 30 k ride i get the fruit salad, at the halfway point of the 40 k ride i get the bro chillin in

the tire.

shooting this kind of stuff is precisely the kind of shit that gets you laughed at in this country

this was the first one of these i encountered.

seriously, one dollar

sick of this one yet?

found the illest mexican joint with the worst hours of all times. i went there six times and only got to eat twice.

but i guess i dont really have anything better to do thatn to ride to and fro the mexican place

there was some badass jenga hapnin´

breakfast shred

perfection?

drawing was goin good so i extended breakfast right on into lunch

so round two going into trujillo to take care of business. first time sucked cause it turned out to be sunday, so i go back

on tuesday, good job bonehead its the day of the dead! trujillo still sucks, we actually drove down that dresden street from

the last blog in this fine vehicle.

i´ve kind of been loafing on not blogging people just randomly driving around on mini bikes like its no big deal for a while

now. and im glad i did cause todayt was hapening on one of them

this car got totally t'boned

by this bro

there were two perfect dome'prints in the windshield, bummer

this is awesome

peru sucks and everything but they sure know how to put on a parade!

they dressed up a tiny child and made her stand on this thing for a while

i didnt see the end, but i think that these dudes....

...probably end up stabbing these dudes to death. bummer.

more bike ride scenery

more bureet´s

another heavy drawing sesh

con palta

i actually finished reading a book today. check that out.

dude people talk about this book like its gonna make you suicide your face off afterwords, but i thought it was pretty funny

and a bit comforting, not that im some literary cricket or anything.

so heres where my trip started getting pretty bogus pretty quick. i caught this bus out of town to go to the border. the bus

totally sucked and broke down, so i had to wait by the side of the road and try to get another. and the bus dude still

charged me a dollar. hes "like yeah heres your money back, minus a dollar, cause we drove you twenty minutes out of the

city." yeah thanks a ton bro, now im standing on the side of the road freezing my bag off in the midle of fucking nowhere,

and if i cant get a bus im gonna hafta get a hostal for the night in this shit town thats never seen a white kid before.

this sucks. so i decide fuck it, im catchin a hostal anyways. cause, see, i forgot to mention i was hella bummed cause i

bought my bus ticket a day early. then had a few drinks before bed, including a bunch of gin, i think i got like a triple

cause out here tonic water is more prescious than gin or some such bullshit. so i got pretty blitzhammered, woke up at 4am

barfing my out my mouth and bum. i think that was unrelated to the drinking i think i actually was sick, cause i was sick for

like two days afterwards, i think maybe from the ice in the gin and tonic. so i didnt wanna get on the bus in the first

place, now i was spending a full extra day...

but the morning seemed optimistic. i didnt even notice the cyclist in thsis photo till just now. thats pretty awesome!

but then i had almost no money and i had to change over my american money james had given me, but theyre totally anal about

money thats been breathed on wrong in peru, so all but ten dollars of a hundred and fifty got thrown back at me. so i only

have acces to ten bucks, the hundred dollar bill i have is legitimately false and i hafta get on another fucking bus...

i still felt balls, so i stayed in chiclayo for the day. which was alright but i wasnt feelin it too much. i read in the

guide book about these saddlebags you could buy here. but i didnt end up findin em. this happened while i tryed to order

chinese food though

good rainman moment

you can never have too many bird reference photos. mostly the birds were sissies.

but there were some bad ass ones kickin in there.

james´ is bafing out his butt right now about all these market photos.

this dude had hella cool junk

i got a great room for the day. in a hostal that lonely planet describes as a total hellhole. but it was amazing, i got a

great room with a view and a desk.

yeah so i decided i wasn´t really "feeling it" and settled down in my room for some r n´ r

i finished inking this tryptic ive been workin on. click the images for the big versions.

they{re actually sitting in the wrong order here, they´re supposed to go: the sewing hand; then the bird; then the held out

hand. and the side panels are called wreck less and hope less.

wreck less

hope less

i took this photo just to show how sweet tiny bananas are but i think its actually a kickass photo.

as the aussie playing jenga earlier pointed out, i draw lots of hands, and i draw lots of birds, but i never draw the bird

hand thing. so i took some drawing ref´s.

bus stations are the same everywhere, from chiclayo to chicago

i was pretty much dying for something to eat, and it was NOT happening all morning....

and the bus got pretty fulla bodies

but then i got thrown a life preserver! some o.j.

and watermelon!

so i finally got to guayaquil, took a shower, started out to find an actual meal cause i hadnt actually eaten a proper meal

in two and a half days, that fruit in that photo was the extent of it. and on my way, i met some dude skating and hes all

"im gonna go destroy the streets!!!" so im like "bro, lets do this shit!!!" and we were off. after watching some of the

element video, we went and shredded!

my first time in guayaquil i saw this from the taxi but didnt have time to stop, this time it was the first place we went.

this is washington by the way, he was fucking rad and showed me around and killed it.

gnar lip

i know what youre thinkin and yes, i did ollie over the tire to grind down it, backside.

so then some dudes said we could go skate the still-under-construction-park. we just had to throw the security bro a buck or

two and we pretty much had free reign.

the usual blunders...

then we were out

washington had a sick DIY SK8 setup.

everyone was going apeshit about soccer tonight

so since i hadn´t actually eaten in three full days at this point, i just picked up my books and skated straight to the

fanciest restaurant i could find looking like a gigantic scumbag

even the bathrooms were posh, so i tried to capitalise, but to no avail. i just peed sitting down, and blew my nose

then to add to my being the most haggard dude to ever eat at that fine establishment, i started bleeding

i guess its sunday again so people are going off about jesus or whatever

and check that out, im still alive and kickin!

yeah bram´s unibrow!

ummm... machu pichu and stuff...

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been drinkin tons of this stuff

after watching that young man demo this dune in eight minutes james decided we´d better giver a shot

"find your soulmate homer"

if you think winnipeg sucks...

from here on out, every time i was about to blog james he made sure to ask "is the leica in there???"

yeah bro, its in there

ill dins

i´m post-laces

so we caught the super executive bus with insane leather seats and a stuart and movies in english and BINGO!

we went to cuzco to scope machu pichu. i guess its some kinda big deal or somethin. they had such a hype vegetarian restaurant we just ate every meal there.

peoples houses were just made of mud bricks, pretty much well cut soil was their walls. it was rad. all the roofs were sweet jungle mud tiles too.

the train ride to machu pichu is like a hundred bucks which, out here, is totally insane. but luckily they made up for it with some ill grindage.

great banner

some kinda art

for steve!

so machu pichu is a total zoo. and you have to deal with a berzerker gauntlet to get there...

dont forget your student card

this is the super dooper postcard section of the blog. this photo is basically responsable for a million dollars a year worth of tourist posters.

seems like a good place to hunker down

yeah bro, its in there

it was pretty much our last day or touristing together so jamie decided to completely kick ass all day. he was ruling machu pichu. he was mostly there to scope their next level weather station.

the path that the inkas used to get here was ridiculous

see those trees, theyre growing where the path used to be.... sketchy

so basically machu pichu is a bunch of stupid gringos and a bunch of stupid rich people (rich people are totally stupid both in north america and elsewhere..)

there were a bunch of rocks everywhere

some of ´em were cut pretty good

some of em were hung pretty good

this lady was aligning her root shakra in the shadow of the oil pipeline... damn your white priviledge

these ones were piled hella good

this room was some kinda tripy echo chamber

just like science, math, turding and pretty much everything else, the inkas invented the big four.

this is probably where they sliced out virgins kidneys or whatever.

this is a wierd rabbit-like thing

the vroomster everyone!

this is the sketchy road we had to ride up to get there...

the ol´big 29, i think kanten´s got it!

so we saw tons of piled up rocks and we busted outta there

i was all psyched up cause we found a restaurant with a hype vegetarian selection

but it turns out sometimes vegetarian really means with bacon

i got stew and jamie got pizza, and for some reason she brought out mayo and ketchup

these teens were blogging my stupid gringo ass so i blogged them

so i fell asleep on the train and when i woke up this was happening... fuck that. cultural experiences be damned, im NOT into being woken up by some kind of fucked up samurai running up and down the aisles like a madman. they made up for it by giving an in-transit fashion show though.

"they sure love dressing up crosses in little vests out here!" -james

beans for breakfast!

three flat four

we went to this hype photo show

insane mural of death

they were lovign the election today

ninja training grounds

"if cuzco knew about pavement it´d be pretty shredding" -james

ledge spot

the tar hubba

i busted these kids gettin up. they were even repping their school colours

while james was blowing it leica´ing this boring tourist crap, i was blogging these kids playing pogs.

two up three down

every day is pride day

kids were learning some kinda spear dace

speaking of spears! this can only mean one thing!

this was the vegetarian place we ate every meal at in cuzco

caught a plane back to lima, caught a cab from this dude

mailed some stuff home today. aparently this flies as mail. sorry it isnt more exciting jimbo, dont bother opening it if you dont want.

so jamie and i gave each other tattoos and im pretty proud to say that its the most illegibly bad tatto i currently have. this is the wreck lottery: the first person to email me the correct answer to "what the fuck is that thing" wins a prize. bram_adey@hotmail.com

i asked for a private room, and i got four beds and a bathroom. pretty good for 5 bucks a night.

i started what i wanted to be a long ass bike ride today, this was my first meal on the road

right about here i started having doubts about my bike trip

right about here i started thinking that i couldnt walk my bike up every dune for the whole coast

right about here i decided to ride down this long ass dune i just walked up and then throw my thumb to the wind.

the dune was gnarly enough to demo this car too

i got some fruits that look and smell like limes but when you peel ´em they are like limes but instead of being full of lime juice theyre full of water....

my wish didn´t come true come true

covering billboards with election posters is legit

the dude in front of me was a fucking world champion recliner... he seriously would NOT give up.. and the kid behind me was like a more insane, really touchy, 6 year old version of tyler geurts. he would just talk and talk and talk and he never really gave a shit that no one was responding to him. he kept reaching his greasy little mits over the seat and touching my hair... i HATE children.

i got to chill on a less insanely bad bus for a while.

so heres plan B since my bike trip is totally bungled

hang out here

eat this

ride this
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and maybe if i feel good in a week or two head to ecuador and bike up that coast. which i think is less hilly and desolate than this one. what with there being less of a desert all over the place.

the first good hunk of bread i´ve had in a while

romance

took the bus to trujillo to see if there was a park around. no dice. that city is pretty bung...

for tyspace

went for a bike ride

there was a sweet castle

i dont even wanna live in a country where you cant eat this for breakfast for less than a dollar

so i actualy got a couple requests for a photo of my mug

but i think mostly they were just about my beard progress

so right beside my hostal you can get a veggie burger, fries and a coke for about a buck sixty

and these bros are there

and the smiths were on t.v.

back on the bike i think i found the coq fighting arena

which i guess might be a bit cooler than my original goal of finding the flower stand

i did this drawing today

and james off leaving waffle print footsteps all over this fine continent

i already miss you buddy!

the shubba

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got stuck in iquitos, peru for another day, i defenitely didn´t mind.

sundays in peru are fully going off

skitched around for a good hour this night, people were everywhere, and loving it.

at the plaza de armas there was a big mob of people so i thought i was gonna get to see a coq fight or a breakdancer or something sweet.

nope, just urban planning. "do these guys know how to party or what???"

back to the hostal, which was a pretty bogus hostal by the way...

the next morning i skated from about 8am till noon, grinded this ledge. not to toot my own horn too much, but rail, plus post, plus unwaxed ledge equals, WRECK SPOT!

ever since quito i had it in my head to ollie a street gap, but we couldnt find one there, so ive been keepin my eyes open, and this morning i got to ollie two of em before noon!

busted out to lima by airplane

the catacombs weren´t as hype as they looked in the book. "who cares about some moldy old bones? bones schmones!" but i guess there were pretty much a trillion skulls down there and thats pretty sweet even though we couldn´t shoot photos or hang out with them for too long. plus there was a sweet tank outside the monastery holdin it down.

the architecture in lima is completely insane, basically its the most opulent place ive ever seen. well, the hood we were staying in anyways, every building was like a sweet ship strapped onto an insane castle with a church stitched to its back...

i payed like seven bucks for a plate of ramen. it was excelent.

you know what sells underwear to me??? pasty men´s upper-inner thighs.

so i decided to bust out and try to find a bike . for a solo mission up the coast, and after a quick look in the phonebook i found this ´hood where you could buy thirty five thousand really bad mountain bikes and absolutely no road bikes, so i went to the tourist office to get some help. it became horribly obvious that i was gonna need some kind of translator if i was gonna have any chance of getting a bike i was psyched on.

so i got to the tourist office and the lady workin was down to help me and found me a legit shop and even offered to take me down there the next day. when i told her the ´hood i went to looking for a bike she said people from lima dont even go there ´cauuse its so sketchy, somehow i made it out unscathed. "i think maybe it´s because you dont dress like a tourist, you know with the beige pants" rad.

yeah topy top

the plaza de armas is completely surrounded with insane buildings

i think the czar lives in this one

james has a gluten allergy, so he got a little ´tussin to rub on it.

we speak gringo spanish and aparently lima speaks actual spanish, so getting meals was a hell of a time. andy was goin for continental breakfast and got steak, onions, peppers and a piece of bread shaped like a butt.

this is the part of the buildings that look like ships

we managed to find this great breakfast spot.

with amazing soy milk!

and picturesque clientele

so i actually needed a new shoelace and happened to stumble upon this bro!

the freemasons were in effect

"it´s this hubba, we call it the shit hubba, the SHUBBA"

fuck yeah lima! lets put satan back in skatin´

so mayra found some cyclists to further help on my search for a fresh whip.

this is whats up with bikes in lima. total flea market situation. hella hectic. the search didnt go perfectly, if i had not been so intimidated i could´ve gotten a used bike with better components for cheaper, but given my nonexistant spanish skills i think i got a pretty decent whip. it´ll certainly get me up this coast anyways.

this is mayra who translated for me and basically made the whole thing possible. thanks so much!

james figures, to run this country you need one of two things, a giraffe or a kickass dirtbike.

so while walking around by myself i saw a little leica soft case in a stationary store window. i decided to check it out even though i wasnt down to spend a coule hundred dollars on a camera right now. so i go in and ask to see it, its a pretty much perfect leica IIIc with the serials scratched off (i didnt notice that ´till later) and they´re asking s/40 which is roughly twelve dollars american. so i obviously bought it. brady, youre shitting your pants right now. i didn´t actially want it, thats not quite what my art is about at this point, so i sold it to james for a cool hundred bucks american profit.

best glass in the biz

they buzzed the serials from the body but not the lens...

mayra showed me a couple more vegetarian joints in lima

badass tag

"blog this insane bianchi!" -james

meanwhile at the grau museum, the things that knew him

said goodbye to andy today. him and james are gonna go to bolivia and things of that sort.

m/f berzerker I

fries, fake beef, onions and rice... aparently its kind of a big deal down here...

strawberry juice out here is killling it.

one of these things is not like the other...

so we scoped a park in lima before leaving, even though it didnt look too great. i didnt blog it fully, ´cause i got caught up talking to a local kid. but i did manage to talk james into blogging me busting the danny way super juker out of the bowl. there was a rad little miniramp that had that had probably five and a half foot trannys with a couple kinks that was pretty fun for a second, and a great ledge. i hadnt done any grinders the whole trip, so it felt good to rifle off a few old fav´s - front k grinds and back tails will always be the raddest.

jamie got an owie

and decided to pack it in

jesus of navareth was there

have i mentioned how much peru is over toilet paper??

we broke south with no delay

and scoped some hella exotic wildlife... like pelicans

and penguins

and sea lions

when you tell the story about shit like this its like " yeah dude, we saw all this rad shit! and there were crabs everywhere and frigin´ penguins it was sick!!!!" but really at the time it´s more like "dude, its freezing, all these seals are doin the same shit... NOTHING. they´re just sitting around... why dont they start riping apart some penguins or humping, SOMETHING!"

after that place we went to the desert. i got a little sick , so i couldnt fully apreciate it. and i know i live in winnipeg, and its freezing cold half the year, and thats insane, but seriously, living in the desert is totally ridiculous.

jamie was particularily charmed with this town though.

jimbo, landscape architect.

ummm... this happened

fashion board, matching shirt, flame job, KILLING IT!

gnarly

i went to buy doritos and a coke and jamie was getting totally baraged by this insane man

when i showed up he just asked for some doritos and when i gave them to his he stopped being insane and left. he didnt ask for money or anything, i think he just wanted to spit some game for a bit, eat some chips and be out.

these kids were chillin at the hostel learning english by talking to tourists. they started talkin to us and eventually the conversation came down to when we lost our virginity, and what kind of chicks we were into, this dude lost his virginity to a prostitute and isn´t that stoked on it... but he claimed he could climb this dune in under ten minutes so jamie bet him cab fare he couldn´t but he did, it was insane. the next dayy it took james and i a good twenty at least...

check out jamies swim gear, he´s kicking ass.

the one with the glasses lost it when he was 17 and the tall one is a virgin.

eight minutes

jamie found actual coffee

and crepes, so he´s psyched

sunday fully going off again

you know how much kids love walking and wearing uniforms...

so im still not used to this toilet paper thing, so i occasionally find myself in the situation where i have to wipe my butt with stuff like this damp old shirt...

rad

whild sitting on the rim of course

cats that aren´t living where i live RULE especially when they´re hella tiny and do NOT wanna be picked up.

well, here´s a great place to end this installment of the wreck. rocky´s in Ika. right across the street from the other rocky´s in Ika. (they´re on some starbucks-of-the-fried-chicken-world type shit i guess...)

we only got to skate it for ten minutes, but it was obviously kick-axe

also, if you frequent this blog, you should drop me a message or an email right about now cause i´d love to hear about home. ciao for now homies.