My buddy James Chang lives out in NYC and is an amazing photographer. I just stumbled upon his tumblr and it knocked my dick in the dirt! A lot of the shots are from a cross country trip he did with some friends last summer—we had some good times when they got to SD. Yeah, James! Keep killing it!

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Cool little interview with my homie Van Styles and his always improving/inspiring photography with his multiple collab decks with Sk8mafia. It’s rad to see homies that I connected years back continuing to do cool work together. Thanks guys! Makes me feel stoked to know all these talented people in the world I’ve met through skateboarding!

This is my third year making one of these. Always fun to look back and see the good times you had with real friends. Thanks everyone! 2013 is gonna rip!

For the third year in a row, my friends have been taking a motorcycle ride down to Puerto Nuevo (little beach town in Baja, famous for lobster) the day after Thanksgiving. I joined them this year, and like all trips down the coast into Baja, it was rad. Adrian Lopez has a post up on the Loser Machine site. He sums it up perfectly: “Its funny, I have to go south of the American border these days to feel a bit more free.”

My man Lexo The Great, always innovating in music, just dropped his new single, Roll Em Up. Produced by Digiwobble, it also features cuts from DJ Doc Swift.

My homies in San Diego that keep the torch lit, skating downtown every night just dropped an amazing new video. Filmed on the heralded Sony VX1000 by mastermind Ryan Alvarado, these dudes have incredible downtown footage at night laid over some of the dopest early 90s hip hop. Watch it and get sparked to skate tonight!

I started a tumblr mainly because I didn’t want to put anymore of my photos on Facebook–don’t trust that shit.

So I’ll be posting film shots from trips, photos that ran in TransWorld or other publications, and photos that never ran anywhere. I’ll try to update it daily, although I know I won’t.

Enjoy.

This dude nailed it. Here’s a good look at the city I grew up in and still live in. This time lapse shows so many good parts of SD: The Hillcrest Farmers Market, Kate Sessions Park, Critical Mass at Balboa Park and much more. Enjoy.

Last week, North Brooklyn Collective skate/bike shop in New York City, we threw a unique photo show for a good cause. Myself, along with photographers  Allen Ying, Chris Martin, Ben Kilpatrick, and Darnell Scott had prints on display. The prints were priced at only 20 dollars to allow anyone with a few bucks to cop one and all the money raised was going to Uptown Skate School. Drinks were generously provided by Oakley and the turnout was insanely bigger than we expected. Hundreds of people packed the show and flooded the sidewalk and street for hours. Thanks to the NYC skate community and everyone involved, this event couldn’t have worked out any better.

See the full gallery at TWS.

My homies here in SD have done it again. Another feel-good edit of skating with your friends. I somehow snuck a couple tricks in there too.