Monday, July 30, 2012

Makin' Movement.

Aaaaaaaaand I'm back with more skateboarding, art, and music. Now that it's almost August, I figured I'd better squeeze in one more post before this month ends so I don't beat myself up for only having one entry for the entire month of July. I'm always tellin myself I gotta update this thing more frequently. I'm my own worst hater haha. Its truuuuue! It's good for me though. Kinda. Oh well. Anyways, This week I think I'll start out with some art that I've made, then move on to some skateboarding news and videos, then I'll end with what the latest symphony in my head sounds like. Allllllrightythen here we go....

July has been a hell of a month. My brother Jonas turned 25, yikes, and MY SISTERS HAVING A BABY IN NEW YORK!!! I'm so excited for her. She's having a girl any day now and is naming her Cici. So please, if your reading this right now, close your eyes right quick and send some positive vibes to my sister ABI STAR STEWART in NEWYORK CITY for her new journey into motherhood. Thank you kindly.

Sooooo another thing that happened in July was that I got back into Instagram. I downloaded it months ago, took 4 photos, and was over it. I felt like I didn't need another thing to update. I was busy enough as it is. Hanyways I just recently opened up the app to see I had 121 followers. HOLY SHIT!!! I was quite surprised. And hyped. So now I'm goin hard in the instapaint. My Insta-name is "Stillaquarterfull" if you wanna peek inside of my life.

Hokay, so, my co-worker Antheny, yes Antheny with an e, was talkin' to me about a tattoo he wanted me to draw up for him. He said he wanted to mix the space-needle with a tree and surround it with lightning bolts. He's been hookin it up with Taco Del Mar recently so I said aight. We brought up some google images and I drew up a sketch. Then he asked if I could dot the design on his board's griptape. I like a challenge, so again, I said aight.

This is how the sketch and the board came out. Took me so much longer than I thought. I kept taking it home to work on it, then bringing it back to work so he could skate it since he was volunteering at the skatecamp that I'm teaching at in Mukilteo. So the last time I  took it home with me to finish it, I went street skating to stack some clips for my homies video that he's makin. I snapped my board within an hour, then saw Antheny's board in my trunk. I thought to myself, "Aww, Antheny wont mind" so I started skating it. Next thing I know, we break in to an abandoned cement silo thingy, and I'm skating a pole-jam that I made off of a loading dock trying to blast ollie norths off the top of it when I land right on the tail of the board. Aw snap. You guessed right. I broke his shit into a million pieces. Ok maybe not a million. Just two. But still. The board a'int mine!!! Oh well. I hooked him up with an old deck of mine and he was happy. Got a preeeetttyyy steezy pole-jam tucknee out of the adventure so everything kinda worked out  :)



Speakin' of sketches, here's an idea that I had a while ago of a hermit crab in a shotgun shell. Ooooosh you could even make up some post-modernist meaning subjective to your life experiences and surrounding reality for some extra entertainment if ya wanted too haha.

Any Poli-Sci students wanna give it a shot?

What if I put a US flag on the shell and gave him dogtags? Oooo now were gettin somewhere...




Anyways, I thought it'd be cool to make this a 3 board piece that I could dot up, so I started. Here's the middle of the triptych.  











Here's me 360 flippin over a rail on it at the Jefferson skatpark grand opening. Super fun. I won some shoes that day. And saw a backflip preformed by Andy Hopgood over the spine. It was sick. 


I started working on the 2nd deck, and will probably be finished with the whole piece by my next blog post. Kinda see what I'm after? Tilt your head 45 degrees to the left that might help. 

Last and certainly not least, I have my current board. This is what I'm currently lookin down at. 
I made this on the way to RedBull Rivals in battleground Wa last Saturday on a new deck Steve G gave me that I desperately needed. Thought that dottin a bull would be the most appropriate. The contest was SOOOOO SICK. It was Washington vs. Oregon to raise some doah for Marginal or Burnside. Washington won so Marginal Way got the money. I can't wait to see the edit. I ate shit a few times real real hard and I wanna see if they were bad enough slams to make the edit. 
More photos that this ^ bald dood 
took coming soon...
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SO THE VERY NEXT DAY....
SUBWAY GAMES AT THE MUKILTEO SKATEPARK (my work)
 I made this flyer...Just so ya know haha.
The dude doin the benihanna is Blake Bartelli and actually ended up winning his division!!! 
Well deserved. He's a Muk Local and Killllllls it. A lot of people showed up and had a wonderful time. There was free hotdogs and corn on the cob thanks to psycho mike. I was there just to help out and judge the contest, but I ended up skatin around for a bit too. It was a really great time! One of the skatedads named Zach shot some amazing photos check em out!!! 








Even though the redbull rivals comp had me beat up, sore, and sunburn, I mustered enough energy to throw a front tailside on this quarterpipe for Zach to snap a flick. If you look closely at my board you can see the bull I dotted the day before. Zack if you ever read this thanks again for shootin so well. You definitely know whatchurdoin. uberdope. 
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ALSO in the skateboarding realm, I finally put together a little edit with some clips my buddy paul shot in an abandoned bank last fall. SO FUN. 
Yes this was in an actual bank. Yes it has pool coping. Yes it was one of the most fun ramps evereverever. 
Took me forever to edit. I did it to Prefuse 73 so it was beggin for glitches. Now that was a learning experience. 
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Last and certainly not least, I made a new jam. This last one was hella hard to finish cause I needed it to be just as good or better than the last one I put out. Soooo it took some time but here it is:

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Weeeeelp, that's about it for now. There's much more on the horizon that I can't wait to share, but untill then, thanks for tuning in, and have a wonderful day!!!!

-J


Saturday, July 7, 2012

Creative Expression

Oh yeah that riiiiiiighhttt, I have a blooooogg! Forgot about it there for a sec. I mean a week. I mean a month. Haaaaahaa wellll shoooot I guess ill start off this one with a laugh. Watch me eat shit:



Ow. As stupid as this trick is, I did end up landing it like 56th try an hour later. Welcome to my life.


Soooooo lets see here. I got a lot to share this time around, especially because it's been a month since I've updated this blog with my recent accomplishments. First off, a few months ago I went out skating with a few friends including an awesome filmer named Wil Douglas and an awesome photographer named Sawyer Purman. I just recently received the footage from part of this mission on a natural quarterpipe in bellevue, so I got this idea in my head to make something called a "photo pheature". Turned out pretty cool!



Also in the skateboarding realm, there was a contest at the Bellevue Skatepark that I blew it in two weekends ago. For some reason I was taking way more slams than usual. In one of the many bails that I took, I fell into the back of someones knees causing them to fall on top of me, as another dude slipped out and shot his board into my teeth causing a world of hurt and a huge split in my lip. It was brrrrruuuuutaaall I was bleeding 'erwher. I got a few clips in the beginning of this one check it:



The dude that won the indoor portion of this contest was Cory McCowin, the same dude who won the zumiez best foot forward contest that I blogged about in my last entry. This dude killed it. The guy who won the outdoor part was Chris Jameson, who skated for skatebarn with me back in the day when it was open. In this clip fellow nomadic rider by the name of Jordan Dunlap stuck a smithflip. That was soooo dope! Besides how wrecked I got, It was a pretty fun event. Everybody got Chipotle burritos!


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That's pretty much all the Skateboarding news this time around. On the artistic side of things, I've completed a few more "boards i dot" that I've skated and created and destroyed. They look like this.


"Overlookingaweprovoction"
I've never really done a sunburst in this fashion before so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm selling this for 40 bucks here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/103768318/overlookingaweprovocation

 "DuuuuuuhDum"
This one was actually a commission piece I did for a really cool skatemom. 

 "Golden"
This ones also a commission piece for a auction that UPS is running. More info coming soon :)

"Starry Night"
Birthday board for my buddy Jeremy that I promised him hella long ago.


On the more technical tip, I put in a few more hours on the Muk model. Check it out!
I'm still trying to coordinate a time that I can get the film crew from Altrac Productions to come to the Muk to film a whole bunch of interviews that we can chop up for a promo video to help fund a roof over this wonderful skatepark. We're probably going to be filming at the subway games here at the Muk on the 28th of this month, so come on out and enjoy some awesome skating and hot dogs, its only 20 minutes away from downtown Seattle! :)
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Last and most certainly not least, TUNES. 
Here's the latest one that I've made. It's way better than all the other ones I've ever made ever. 

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Aightchall, thats pretty much it. Thanks for tuning in and have a wonderful day!!!!


-J