BCSA ART SHOW 2010

Burnside Halloween 2010.

Here is a video that my friend shot and I edited, short and sweet, enjoy.
Burnside Oregon Halloween 2010. 20th Anniversary.

The 999 pool or the scum bucket

This was not the best pool in the world but its better then the skatepark in town. My friend told me about this pool and I went and emptied it. Lots of nasty water and some frogs got removed out of the bottom. No dead animals in this one.. kinda strange. well there are no pictures of us skating it, so this is it, the most radical maneuver that went down was marlins drop in on the corner and thats about it. I snagged the pool rules sign after they filled it in, its a cool sign with hand painted letters. next time I am home I will take a picture of it. It hangs above our empty and non skate-able hot tub. Dont get me wrong I love Oregon, moving up here was the best thing that ever happened to me. But, I miss the sun and my family, my dog henry, the beach, old friends. I can not wait to move back home, I will always love Oregon, always, its is so green and everyone up here for the most part are really really nice people. Californians are assholes X 10 and + 1, but i like some of those assholes and some of those assholes are my good friends and family, Oregonians really hate on the people south of them but after living here for 5 years the only difference between the two is that Californians use umbrellas and Oregonians dont. Well this turned out a little off topic, but i dont give a fucking shit, this is my little space in the internet and I can say whatever the fuck I want, I can even take a picture of my penis and post it on here. I might just do that, except he is camera shy. I like California and I plan on moving back once I finish school. although, I am afraid of all the traffic, sweet jesus go I hate traffic. Oh, and for some reason people really like the dirty beer can picture, I have made about 150$ from that photo, most money I have ever made from a photograph. Done.

emptied, repaired and skated.

top: Buck Shelton

bottom: Chris James, Buck and Marlin

Kevin sneaks in a grind on the repaired coping that BMXer kids blasted out.

I am planning on putting up more and more pictures on this blog, I am afraid that my computer might crash, get stolen, or burn in a fire. So, I am putting my images online so they are "safe" and ideally can not be destroyed. This was a very fun pool "the666pool" I wish it was still skate-able. People put some serious $$ into fixing this place up and it is once again a swimming pool. I am sure their fun wont last and it will be skated in the near future. Where is it? Shit if I know. I skated this pool because of Buck Shelton, who is pictured on the brick wall in Rio Del Mar Beach. Buck is going through some hard times, I wish I was home to help him out, I miss you Buck, I hope you can get help and get back to your self.

The Ditch, Rio Del Mar, Ca 2005

Happy 20th Birthday Burnside

Burnside is the oldest Do It Yourself (D.I.Y) skate park in the United States and possibly the world. This Halloween I was lucky enough to partake and enjoy the 20 year celebration of the park. This skate park began its form during one Halloween night 20 years ago. Almost every following Halloween there has been some kind of gathering and skating at the park to celebrate its creation and existence. And this year was no exception, there was live music, interesting costumes (gay hitler to a giant sperm), beer, skating, a ball of fire, can toss, fireworks, a mummified creature, scantly dressed women , beer, oh, and some radical skateboard maneuvers were performed also. I was a little too caught up in the moment to actually take some decent pictures, but you win some and you lose some. I would estimate that by the time I left around 7:45 p.m. there were around 100-200 people enjoying the festivities.

People form all over the world know of Burnside, not for the bridge but for what is underneath it. And underneath this bridge is known to be one of the best skate parks in the world. This park was founded by Mark Scott, Bret Taylor, Sage Bolyard, and Osage Buffulo and countless others that voluntered their blood, sweat, time and money into this ongoing project. It is very impressive that a group of individuals took it upon themselves to create and maintain a skate park that was not sanctioned by the city until recent years. Burnside has sparked many other similar projects large and small such as FDR in Philadelphia, Washington Street in California and countless other spots. But, none of these spots will ever have the reputation as Burnside does. Burnside is privately funded and relies on donations to keep maintained and growing. If you would like to donate to Burnside please hit the donate button below.