et in paradise… again!

eric opens the new paradise wheel montage with a bunch of gnarly footage! hell yah eric!

et throwback

eric's part from the kolor video is now online! 5 years old and still insane.

cz day 2013

carl zirbes day is next wednesday! come out for a day of homies, shredding, and food! see you there!

deej in the rad one

Andy Wissmen just came out with the newest issue of The Rad One zine and Andy got the cover with a blunt slide from a trip to St Louis earlier this year. Check out the rest of the zine below!

et for destructo

andy skating some baby rail

just months after we premiered bummer, we took a trip to st louis and andy skated this 18 flat. terry hamilton was there to snap a photo, and it just ran in the new typical culture mag!

check out the whole article here

arahn in mokena

short change premiere!

chief's new video is coming out soon! make sure you mark your calendar and i'll see you there!

bummer at the beach edit

in january this year, andy patterson, sam & eric karafiat, and i took a trip out to southern california for a little vacation/skate trip. great spots, bunch of hot tubbin, and awesome people. homie footy of taylor caruso, alec ozawa, glen hammerle, and bern iseli.

erik vs the wall

on february 18th this year, erik lundquist painted a mural on the graffiti wall at homewood skate park. using white house paint and a six cans of black spray paint, he finished the whole thing in about five hours. unfortunately, it was covered pretty quickly, surviving as a backdrop to the mini ramp for only a couple days.

i shot a bit of 16mm film of the process, and edited it down into a short film for erik's website. i took a couple photos too; check them out below.

erik lundquist art

if you have some spare cash, click on the shop and pick up some of his work.
 
 

chity

do yourself a favor and watch this video! made by adam mills, tucker phillips, and andrew smith. this is a really great one; only chicago footage, awesome skating, killer soundtrack, and backed bunch of great humans. check out their blog in the links section.

thomas got the plague

watch thomas in the new plague hardware promo!

bummer at the beach

alec ozawa just came out with his 6th issue of Depressed Midwest, and inside is an article that highlights our winter trip to california. check it out! pages 98-108. thanks alec!

st. louis and peoria trips

some photos from march trips to st. louis and peoria.

day one in st louis was wet and cold, undercover spots all day.

chad wallrides.

et pivot fakies.

et switch frontside fuck it in the snow.

kb and chad about to go to war.

kb, et, chad, and alex. day 2 drive way warm ups.

first spot, manny into the steeps.

kb boardslides through the gap.

paul machnau.

mandatory footy check photo.

et and kb both racked.

day 3, chad and alex.

til next time, thanks to alex and gabe kehoe for the place to stay and awesome spots to skate!

first spot in peoria, the flumes. you have to walk 30 minutes through sewers to get here. everyone got clips, one of the coolest spots in illinois.

kb ollie warm ups.

et bout to get weird.

day 2, first spot, seattle bs 180 bar to gap.

more ditch adventures.

trip got sketchy when et destroyed his ankle here, one of the gnarliest dudes i know, get well soon!

day 3, nick crooks a tall one right before we get the boot.

kb boardslides.

mangerson with some bridge pumps.

thanks justin and alex for having us, you guys rule!

thomas made it

 
thomas got a rip clip! watch it here! they may have spelled his name wrong.. but hey, hawver is really hard to spell....

more krush

fun times at krush in the month of january.


featuring_____
tommy hay
brandon peterson
anthony rahn
andy patterson
nick matthews
mike ramos
james ruiz
kevin braun
seattle harris
brian mangerson
pete clodfelter
chad matthews

music_____
new order
bizarre love triangle

lights out at krush

as the lights were repaired, we kept skating.



featuring_____
sam karafiat
andy patterson
brad bedolla
eric lawler
chad matthews

music_____
wild thing
the troggs

karen doing what he does best

i took this photo on a fall 2011 trip to st louis on my dad's old petrie 35mm camera, bought in vietnam during the war. anthony rahn fs boards as the homies watch, wishing they were doing the same.

et in paradise

et's got some new clips in this paradise wheels winter flow montage!

bummer goes south

on dec 27th, we all crammed into a car and took trip out to raleigh, north carolina to visit john keiper and escape the illinois winter. got to skate a bunch of awesome spots, eat a lot of really good food, drink some beers, make some friends, and it couldn't have went any better! thanks to mike, john and james for letting us crash at their house and showing us around your city!! can't wait to come back!


photos from the journey:
see all of em on our facebook page

the route. 13 hours of 5 grown men in a tiny car.

 

eric's favorite road trip spot. big boy!

our home for the trip. i miss that place already!

gotta stay loose!

before-hawk and after-hawk.

glorious pivot fakie by chief. such a fun dyi spot!

apparently there are goats at schools in north carolina...

val and john. you guys are the best!

new years eve family portraits.

john and pete chillin hard.

facetime ruled our trip. pretty sure we were sitting next to each other.

it's hard out here for a player.

bojangles! why can't there be these in chicago?!

family dinner.

big money big cars!

nick downloaded that light app for his iphone. aka superglue.

couldn't be more thankful for the southern hospitality. i miss you guys already!