THIS IS MY LIFE

ok cats out of the bag. i made a new zine. picking up from the...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:35:43 -0400

ok cats out of the bag. i made a new zine. picking up from the printers tomorrow…if you want a copy i would really suggest you come to newark this weekend for jersey drews 30th birthday party

i may or may not be working on a top secret new zine out soon

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:15:08 -0400

i may or may not be working on a top secret new zine out soon

luke, vinmo, and cus bucketing dirt at shorty’s. from the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:00 -0400

luke, vinmo, and cus bucketing dirt at shorty’s. from the poster / back cover of sundays zine 12, out now

got a stack of sundays issue 12 with this back cover poster...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:31:50 -0400

got a stack of sundays issue 12 with this back cover poster thing i shot and stuff

TBW / COMMON THREAD / ARTICLE

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:28:19 -0400

TBW / COMMON THREAD / ARTICLE:

rad article about paul schiek and what he’s doin with tbw - can’t wait to see what the limited edition brodie book looks like

out for a stroll

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:19:10 -0400

out for a stroll

sundayszine: Issue 12 out now!! Poster by...

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:08:16 -0400

sundayszine:

Issue 12 out now!! Poster by @philjacksonphoto

stoked to collabo with sundaze for the new issue’s back cover. stay tuned…

remember when you were a kid and you played sports but once you...

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:15:59 -0400

remember when you were a kid and you played sports but once you found skateboarding you were like fuck those jocks? i hate you coach and i will never play sports again? then you got older and you realized that hey, sometimes you’re in west virginia on a skate trip and its just fun to play some touch football every now and again and watch the sun set. is that so wrong?

mr brad westcott and mr willy akers enjoying some skatepark cake

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:59:55 -0400

mr brad westcott and mr willy akers enjoying some skatepark cake

breadphotos: bloodoftheyoung: New in the shop!Never Heard of...

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:51:46 -0400

breadphotos:

bloodoftheyoung:

New in the shop!

Never Heard of It
36 pages of markal monikers and train travels by Brad Westcott

Check out the new zine I just put out with my good friends at Blood of the Young…chronicling my travels by rail and the monikers documented over the past several years!

when your friends make cool stuff ya gotta spend that scrilla ya dig

a little bird told me that lorenzo’s in philly just...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:29:05 -0400

a little bird told me that lorenzo’s in philly just re-opened, almost a year after the fire charred the inside of their south street storefront…in honor of their reopening here’s a page from borderline retarded issue #8:

I spent several years of my adult life as a diehard lorenzo’s patron, making the pilgrimage 3 and 4 (sometimes 5) nights a week to guzzle cheese grease and brush my teeth with coca-cola. this diet while pleasureable was the type of nutrition only a student can endure. part of the appeal was certainly the long lines and people watching. like a spy behind enemy lines I observed the south street crowds, the codes, dress and behavior of a species I had removed myself from a long time ago.

good to have you back lorenzo’s. see you soon i hope. looking forward to clogging my arteries with your cheese grease and staring at the normies again soon

i’ve spent the last year or so helping out on this film in...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:48:52 -0400

i’ve spent the last year or so helping out on this film in a couple different capacities and it is FINALLY PREMIERING NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fdrskateparkbook: this month’s thrrrrrrrasher

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:02:00 -0400

fdrskateparkbook:

this month’s thrrrrrrrasher

fdrskateparkbook: “Local legends and bigwigs collide, tricks...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:59:41 -0400

fdrskateparkbook:

“Local legends and bigwigs collide, tricks get pulled, beers get polished off, and bits of life off and on the skateboard are exposed…As for the book itself? Beautifully done.”

FDR book reviewed in Thrasher! thanks wez…

jenny graf sheppard making noise at the silent barn last week. i...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:03:00 -0400

jenny graf sheppard making noise at the silent barn last week. i never really been to a noise rock show… kinda opened up my mind

seeingthingsgallery: Our friend Phil Jackson sent us over his...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:20:13 -0400

seeingthingsgallery:

Our friend Phil Jackson sent us over his new zine! to see some of his amazing photography check out his website!

www.philjacksonphoto.com

glad they made it to ya safe and sound jai

from my new zine, NEW ZINE. i’ve got a couple of copies...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:20:44 -0400

from my new zine, NEW ZINE. i’ve got a couple of copies left, available here

Seattle Ryan, fs boneless through the corner at the Philly...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:43:30 -0400

Seattle Ryan, fs boneless through the corner at the Philly warehouse. also from my interview in Skate Jawn issue #16 out nowwwww

Andrew Wilson, FSO in the Bronx. from my interview in Skate Jawn...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 21:37:00 -0400

Andrew Wilson, FSO in the Bronx. from my interview in Skate Jawn issue #16, out now. You can read more about my dumb life below:

How long did you live in Philly?
From 2004-2012, so 8 years total.

Why did you decide to move to NY?
My girlfriend is going to grad school here, and I had always wanted to live in NY at some point in my life —- I just knew that from visiting.

What differences have you noticed between Philly and NYC?
There are so many things that I really love about New York and so many things that I really miss about Philly. I love the energy and motivation of people, everyone hustling, really trying to get somewhere and people are motivated to make it happen up here. Things I dislike are the whole culture of wealth and the attitude of people that think they’re cool just because they live in New York City, and just the ego of that. And, I find that people are more selfish around here - people being really self centered sometimes cause they’re so focused on where they’re going. And then for sure not having FDR and the Warehouse to just meet up with people. It’s just a lot more divided up here. It’s just easier to get by in Philly, you don’t have to work so crazy, things are more affordable, there’s less bureaucracy, less undercover cops watching you, you can find abandoned shit…

How did the FDR book happen?
My friend Nick Orso approached me and my other friend Scott Kmiec about trying to do the project, he had a publisher lined up. So I reached out to everyone I knew, every photographer who had photos of the park, and said to them “Hey, we don’t have any money, but were making this project, would you be down to contribute?” and I got an insane amount of things from all kinds of people, from all over. And then we basically just whittled it down over the course of three years laying it out. It was a lot of work. I don’t think I realized how much I was getting my self into at first.

Any good FDR stories?
Alright, two stories that I like both take place right by the miniramp, they’re not even mine but I’ll tell em. A friend went to take a piss in the woods right by the miniramp and they almost didn’t notice, but they saw at the last minute that someone had dug like an 8-10 foot deep hole in the woods and lightly covered it with leaves. It was basically like a pit, 3 foot in diameter, 10 feet deep and if you had fallen into the pit, you wouldn’t have been able to climb out. It was like a trap or something. So random. No idea who did that or why. And the other is, once my friends were skating the mini ramp and they saw these two bums getting into a fight screaming at each other, hitting each other then they disappeared off into the woods. They like didn’t really think much of it, then like 20 minutes later one of the bums came out the woods like covered in blood. They were like, whoa that’s gnarly I wonder what happened? And then the next day cops were down at the park and they said they pulled a body out of the woods. They’d somehow figured out that one dude had killed someone else in the woods, homeless dudes.

Fav FDR locs?
Of all time? I’ll give props to Steve Faas, Delaware Josh, Delaware Adam, Smiling Ryan, Acid Mike, everybody with good nicknames, all the 50 year olds still ripping, Andrew Clark holding it down. Willy Akers, to name just a few. There’s lots more.

How long did you live in AZ?
Right after I graduated college I moved out there for six months. I lived with one of my best friends Davis. That was like a high point in my life in terms of having fun everyday, not having responsibilities, skating, meeting new people, and shooting photos, but I made so little money. It was when the economy really tanked so I was looking for work as a photographer’s assistant and I tried so hard to find work, couldn’t find anything. I pretty much dumpster dove all my food. I sold my plasma, like your blood you know, for 35 bucks a pop, twice a week and we ate out of the trash. I dug ditches a couple days. I would do odd jobs on Craigslist and stuff. That’s pretty much how I survived, but it was sick. It was a good experience.

When did you go to Skatopia?
Skatopia was the first roadtrip I ever went on. The first time I went was 2004 with my friend Delaware Josh. He showed me the ropes of traveling and took me on my first trips, took me across country. So I went there in 2004, then again the next summer, 3-4 times while I was in college, but I didn’t go back for a long time cause I was kinda like fuck that place, those dudes suck, it’s just a weird scene. But I went back recently last spring with Akers, and Dillon Constantine, Jersey Drew, a big crew of people, and it was really sick. So I take it all back. That place is still rad.

What’s it like, what was your issue with it?
I mean back in the day it was just way gnarlier, just dudes doing all kinds of cocaine, running cars straight through where everybody was sleeping, shooting fireworks straight at people. It was just raw, I think it’s calmed down a little bit now especially since Brewce Martin (the guy that runs the place) had a pretty major accident. It was a lot of egos, just people thinking they were cool, and vibing people out if they didn’t like the look of em or whatever, same thing like we were talking about in NY. But yeah I’d say Skatopia is awesome, everybody should see it at one point, you can do whatever you want.

How many photos you take a day?
I shoot most of my stuff when I’m on trips —- I feel more inspired to shoot things when I’m traveling, so when I’m traveling I try to shoot like a roll a film a day, it’s not that much but if I go away for two weeks I want to come back with 15 rolls of film. I know it sounds crazy, driving six thousand miles or whatever, but if I come home with one photo that I really like, that I really think is good, then it was a good trip for me.

Have you ever been arrested?
The last time I got a ticket for skating was when I was 13 years old, I saw some cops pull a gun on a kid for skating Love, and I ran away with my friend. I wasn’t even skating, I had broken my board, and got a ticket even though I had a broken board and we were blocks away. I fought it with my mom, I was like a 13 year old kid. It was a crazy experience. One thing I wish I knew when I was little is don’t run, don’t act guilty, don’t give them a reason to think you knew you were doing something wrong. Like the other month me and Andrew Wilson and some of his roommates were pouring some cement up to this Jersey barrier in Bushwick. We’re just mixing, troweling it, trying to do it pretty quick but we’re not really being sketchy about it, and this cop rolls up and I had my back to the street, and they’re like “Hey, what’re you doing?” I just totally played calm and was like “Oh hey, what’s up, I’m just building something to skate”, and they just looked at me so crazy like “You’re building something to skate?” “Yea, you know, we’ve been skating this barrier so I figured we’d just put a little cement up to it make it a little easier.” The one cop was so bummed. I could tell he wanted to write us tickets, he’s like “Are you serious? You’re just gonna build some stuff on someone else’s property?” and the other cop that was in the drivers seat was just like,“Alright, carry on, see you guys later” and he hit the gas and they bailed. But I know if I had hesitated or not been confident they would have fucked us over, but if you just pretend you’re not doing anything illegal, nobody will mess with you.

Anybody you want to say thanks to?
I want to say thanks to my wonderful girlfriend The Zig, my family, ma dukes, Mr. Davis Campbell, Jersey Drew, Akers, the Wilson brothers and their whole house, and anybody that’s ever let me take a photo of them.

my new zine, NEW ZINE, out now Presenting a visual mashup of...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:57:28 -0400

my new zine, NEW ZINE, out now

Presenting a visual mashup of sorts. Photos, postcards, and ephemera from my personal collection, including: some rubber worms, a Mexican velvet painting, a passport photo of my Dad, and some things I found on the internet and on my computer’s desktop. Photos by Phil Jackson, Diane Arbus, Mat Yula, and Drew McCaskey.