Disposable Skateboard Bible

Ever so slowly compiling photos for the new book… after meeting with @zacharybaldus this morning I now need to hook up with @brianromero and @esao to fill in the cracks of this interesting @bakerskateboards and @deathwishskateboards story!

I have copies of the first book for sale at @designercon booth 2413 this weekend. Leftovers will be sold online. DM if interested to reserve a copy.

Book swapping with @dennis_mcgrath ! Now if he would just DM me his mailing address...

Special thanks to @johnhyland1 and @oberlife for an afternoon’s worth of chat and letting me sift and sweat through the board archives at @primitiveskate today.

Much like my love of the Rapidograph and ignorant disdain for technological illustration progresses, so is my need to illegibly scrawl before finally keyboarding my way to completion. #WIP for the forthcoming #disposableskateboardbook .

Everything came together on this one @santamonicaairlines @oscarputdowntheknife model from 1986: the rider, the shape, the graphic, the screening, and the era. Voltron never had it so good. #nataskaupas #sma #santamonicaairlines #vintageskateboard #disposable

Today I made another artist drag out his boards so I could strip the shrink wrap off them and get picky with pics. I almost felt bad, because at 4-lbs a pop the workout is real. Thanks for flexing, @toddfrancisart ! #toddfrancis #antihero #vintageskateboard #disposable

I’m always a little uncomfortable when people (those people) call me an expert, because the truth is I only have an intimate knowledge of like 1.65-percent of what has ever been slapped on a board. Like take this one from the very early ‘90s. A Suburban, I think, and I want to say the company was maybe out of the Seattle area? Or not? See, I’m so not an expert that I’m not even feigning an attempt at sounding like a modern day Google expert, where the guise of intelligence is just one search away (or not, because there’s plenty of mistruths and fallacies littering the worldwide land of waste). #suburbanskateboards #vintageskateboard #disposable #skateboardart

Some days you get sun while shooting, other days you get clouds and have to color correct your way to victory. Just a life lesson learned way back when while shooting boards like this Shorty’s @themuska for my first book with a li’l Sony Cybershot 4.1. #professionalism #shortysskateboards #chadmuska #vintageskateboard #disposable #skateboardart

And we all shined on in a yellow submarine just before the dam broke in 1991. #shineskateboards #kevinstaab #vintageskateboard #disposable #skateboardart

I have an unfounded theory that the less I post the more followers I gain, but I have another theory that goes the more obscure boards I post the less followers I will attract. There is no point to any of this. Looks suspiciously like a Sims Phillips, though, doesn’t it? #pooltools #vintageskateboard #disposable #skateboardart

I may in fact be sadomasochistic… no, strike that, just masochistic. Thanks for letting me dirty my hands in the @almostskateboards @blindskate and @worldindustries archives, @eric_wollam !