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Going to be around Hood on July 10th? Then you might as well check out Bonfire’s Pipe to Pipe comp at Windells. It’s a jam style competition open to Ams and Pros with a mix of creative features and hopefully sunshine, could be a good time.

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Last week when I was up in Portland I swung through a Japanese Garden. It happened to be “kids day” or something like that there, and one of the activities was to make an origami hat out of newspaper. I had to get in on it. A friend happened to document the entire process so now I am sharing it with you.

Whoever can successfully make one of these newspaper hats and send me a picture of you wearing it to, laura@laustindesign.com. I will make a post using your pictures, and send you a surprise in the mail.

Check out the steps after the jump.

Take one piece of newspaper… fold it into a triangle and fold in that extra flap to make a perfect triangle

Fold the corners up to make a square.

Fold the corners to the opposite tip to create two triangles.

Fold down the tips of your triangles to create “ears”

Fold the top flap of your lower triangle, midway up the triangle with the ears.

Fold up the excess to create a brim.

Fold the remaining lower flap inside the hat.

Voilà.. an origami hat. Get folding.

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Personally, I think costumes can make any situation more interesting…. even halfpipe competitions where most of the riders can barely get above the lip. And on Saturday in Mammoth at the Roxy Chicken Jam, that is exactly what went down. For the past three years, as part of the Chicken Jam, Roxy has had this open competition where anyone, and I mean anyone can compete for a first place prize of $3k. It was entertaining to say the least. Since a lot of the riders were barely even airing out of the pipe I decided to take a different approach to how I shot it. Without boring you with too much detail,  I shot most of them so the snow is very over exposed, creating almost a completely white background for the costume wearing creatures to stand out against.  I wanted to do a series of shots that all looked pretty similar just showing the riders costumes… and then there are also some action shots at the end. Tons more photos after the jump… and many more posts from my weekend in Mammoth to come.

Quiksilver team rider Sage Kotsenburg

Kentucky fried Todd

When I said they let anyone in, I meant anyone… this guy was wearing a bike helmet backwards and did a falling leaf down the whole run. Amazing.

Speaking of falling leaves. Pretty sure this guy was supposed to be a tree.

This guy was supposed to be a Golden Buddha?

The mascot for Boarding for Breast Cancer, but also the future of Pamela Anderson, her boobs are going to morph into one big saggy boob.

Todd did an entire run, mic in hand, announcing each trick as he did it. Self centered? Maybe. Hilarious? Definitely.

Silly rabbit… tricks are for kids.

A critter spotted riding outside of it’s natural habitat.

Todd and DC’s Sean Lake announcing the competiton.

For now you can check out more of my posts from the Chicken Jam/Cluck off on Quiksilver’s Blog.

By the way… for a while the comment section of my column wasn’t working. It is up and running now, and comments are always appreciated.

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Last week I made my way back to Vermont for the 28th Burton US Open. Temperatures reaching the 60s, good friends, and great riding made for an incredible week. It wasn’t all fun and games for me though, I spent a majority of my time there hiking through the wet snow shooting photos… which I definitely can’t complain about. I picked out some of my favorite shots for this post, plus there are links to full galleries where my photos were posted after the jump.

Young ripper Sean Ryan.

East Coast local John Murphy

Kim Rune Hansen

Joanna Dzierzawski

Marko Grilc

Jack Mitrani poaching the pipe

Scotty Lago

Kazu Kokubo

I won’t even try to explain…

Blotto and Craig Wetherby. Powerhouses.

For more of my photos from the Open check out these other posts/galleries.

ESPN- Slope Qualifiers

BNQT/USA Today- Thursday Gallery

BNQT/USA Today- Slope Finals

BNQT/ USA Today- Pipe Finals

TTR Press- 1 … 2

And I didn’t shoot these photos but friends Bill Lockwood and Greg Comollo did- Amp After Party

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Poster I designed for Quiksilver’s Cluck Off comp going on the same weekend as the Roxy Chicken Jam (March 25-28) at Mammoth in Califonia. Should be a good time, see you there I hope.

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Poster I designed for Quiksilver’s King of the Park competition. The photo is mine as well. If you happen to be in Ontario any of those dates go check it out.

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