international pancake day

February 18th, 2010

Weather:
It seems like spring may be starting to think about making an appearance.

First things first, the next round of zines are available at Parking Block Publishing. Quality stuff from Ricky and Alex.

Tomorrow night is the opening for Chris Smith’s show at Antenna.

Here is some skateboarding from many, many, years ago. Lately I’ve been using YouTube for video hosting so it’s viewable on spacephones. I think it looks pretty good.

This was a board I did for a show at Lou’s gallery a few years back. Grant got it framed and now it looks legit.

Dairy Queen Parking Block - Tim Pigott

Throwback.
Throwback Mountain Dew
Weiner and Still Champ.
WASC Cheeseburger and Fries

Frytastic.
Frytastical

The Party Downers record release.

Party Downers

Serious Shredding.
Party Downers shredding

Emo Ninja. Logan graffiti.

Emo Ninja
Steak and Al Pastor. Lunch with dudes.
Steak and Al Pastor
I spent a ton of time making calendars of the past few months and I’m happy to say that they are all gone!
Calendars

More tacos. Big Star.

Big Star Tacos

Skated Krush a few weeks back. Steve doing his best Eazy-E impression.

Davs FS Krush
Diwali. Chicken Shwarma.
Diwali Chicken Shwarma
This pumpkin has been in front of my apartment since halloween. It melted slowly.

Sad-O-Lantern

Mista Pizza. Cracker crust.

Mista Pizza

Amazing Chicago Winter Sun.

Got up early one morning and headed out of town.

Jeff Park

Westward Bound. Mountains and sun.

On a plane to Arizona

First stop.

Del Taco

Crinklefries and tacos.

del taco frys
Arizona sunset.
Arizona Sunset

Dinner at the Chuckbox
Chuckbox
Burgers cooked up by the Big Juan
Juan at the Chuckbox
Not too shabby.
Chuckbox burger and frys
Nate opted for some falafel.
Falafel review.
Their demands are simply.
demands
Sweet Crew
Tim - AZ 2010
Are you guys a team?
Nate - AZ 2010
No.
Charlie - AZ 2010
Oh just a bunch of friends who skate together?
Suhail - AZ 201
Doing it.
Charlie - AZ 2010
On vacation.
Tourist shot AZ
This was my favorite park of the trip. Suhail kicks out the jams.
Suhail - NoComply El Mirage
Charlie with a boneless one over the hip.
Charlie - Boneless El Mirage

Nate over the bench one way.

Nate - Front Tail El Mirage

And the other way.
Nate Front Tail El Mirage
Palm trees.
Palm trees in Arizona
I’ve been trying to eat healthier. The guy making this sandwich hooked us all up with his discount. I think he also wanted us to go skate some stairs.
Veggie Sandwich
Off brand Chuck Norris calendar.
Off Brand Chuck Norris Merch
Arizona’s largest trophy shop.
Gigantic trophyy
We did some ditch searching.
Ditch mission - AZ
A few were completely washed out. Others needed work.
AZ ditches
There was a pretty good szechuan developing at this one.
Ditch spot
Bic pen punk.
Bic Pen Punk
They still haven’t fixed this. (go back and look at last years AZ post for reference if need be)
Del Taco - broken table

We also headed to the mall.

On the road to the mall.

If I wasn’t trying to eat healthy I would have been all over this. I also didn’t have a pretzel.
Mall food.
This Spencer’s gift had lingerie. The one I remember had whoopi cushions. Times change.
Spencers
AuqaMassages after a day of skating? Why not we’re on vacation.
AquaMassages
This airbrush stand had a bunch of weird alcohic stuff for babies. It’s an odd niche.
Drunk babys?
I think we ended most of our nights here.
Charlie - frontside ollie - el mirag
One night there was somebody with a broken leg.
Charlie - frontside ollie - el mirage
One night there was a girl dressed like Lady Gaga.
Charlie - frontside ollie - el mirag
One night some kids boxed for some reason.
Charlie - frontside ollie - el mirage
It’s how plaza’s should be built.
Charlie - frontside ollie - el mirage
Lot’s of weird obstacles.
Nate - Backside bench ollie - el mirag
Lot’s of fun banks.
Nate - frontside ollie - el mirage
Del Taco.
Del Taco
Chandler.
Nate 5-0 Chandler
The twinkie.
Suhail - twinkie booster

Deliciousness.

Veggie Sandwich

WWWWWWHHHHAAAAAATTTTTTTT.
Suhail is shocked
OOOOOKKKKKKKKAAAAYYYYYY.
Suhail is stoked

One morning we went to the wedge. It’s monsterous.

The Wedge.

They were a few thugs getting blunted and waxing things up.
wedge wax
ScootThugz!
Scoothugz
We found out there was a scootering contest.
Tim - Front 5 at the wedge.
So we got to work.
Tim - frontside at the wedge
And split before it got any weirder.
Nate - Noseblunt at the Wedge
Botox on the cheap.
Botox for cheap.
One morning this was on TV. It was mesmerizing.
rastaskilsken

Pecos is always fun.

Charlie - Pecos Smith

Rail challenge champion.
Suhail - BS Flip - Pecos
Last morning of the trip.
Charlie - front smith - Pecos
Doubles.
Doubles at Pecos

Tim Ward.

Tim Ward

Signature manuever.

Tim Ward 5 fakie

That was the Arizona trip. I’m already looking forward to the next one.
AZ 2010
Back in Chicago, Marie’s Pizza with green peppers.
Marie's with GPs
This is one of the best burgers I’ve had in a while. Pretzel Roll. Nicely prepared. I’ll be back soon.Flub-a-burger
This is where I found it. I like the mascot.
Flub-a-dub-chubs

Arluck Time.

Arluck Time

I’ll be putting up the link for the cd and the other merch next time. Buy some stuff. It’s the right thing. This was a humbling celebration of a life well lived.

Arluck Time

I headed back to the zoo a few weeks ago.
LPZ

Mostly to find out more about this.

LPZ - where is the one armed man?

But then I saw this.

Moldarama at the Lincoln Park Zoo

And lost my mind.

Moldarama at the LPZ

Aladdins. There was a curry wrap there that was top notch.

.Aladins.

Checked out the Metal vs. Wood show at 360see.
Metal vs Wood - 360see
Metal Nikes.
Metal vs Wood - 360see
Paper plane.
Metal vs Wood - 360see
Closer.
Metal vs Wood - 360see
Singh.
Metal vs Wood - 360see

This should keep you busy for a bit.

Next time there will be photos from the Cat Circus and a new Dude life Graphic.

the persistent moon and the red morning sun

January 14th, 2010

Weather:

Today it feels warm enough to skate. To bad there’s still a bunch of snow and where there’s not snow its all scum water.

There was a holiday hiatus but now it’s back to business.

There’s some new info over on ParkingBlockPublishing. Have a look and buy some zines.

Our friend Gabe Levinson has been pretty busy. He has a story about a significant object over here and book review fiction available here. He’s getting things done.

That’s all I can think of right now. My brains a bit mushy. These are things that happened.

january

This is my cat Chorizo looking like an old time movie star or some sort of a creepy ghost monster.

Alex - Birthday portrait

Alex had a birthday in Novemeber. This is the how the annual portrait turned out.

januarStephen - FS Ollie

Back before the weather turned against the world Stephen went frontside.

Stephen - FS Ollie

I liked both pictures so I put them both up. A straight up shredder. He’s got a good head on his shoulders.

French Toast at Overeasy

Some sort of desert French Toast breakfast at Overeasy. I normally have a salt based breakfast but once a year I go sweet.

Monkey

Monkey.

Uncle Fun - artist in the window

A while back I was the artist in the window at Uncle Fun.

Uncle Fun  - Artist in the window

It was pretty fun. A ton of homies came by. I got some work done. Fantastic!

prints

I was working on these things. I turned them into…

Such Luck 2010 calendar

That’s right, the Such Luck 2010 calendar. I’m still finishing these up. If you don’t get yours in a week or two give me a yell and I can remail another one.

Yearly Holiday Mailing

See there was a bunch of postal problems.

Uptown Post Office

As you can see everyday is Veteran’s Day. Hopefully they’ll bounce back or you’ve received one. I have a few extras. Like I said, if you want one give me a yell.

Big Kohn Studd

Randomly.

Mr. Beef

Beef?

Mr. Beef

Beef.

Winter times

Winter times.

Cartoons by McKutcheon

Checked out this show at the Cultural Center. It was pretty good but…

Barbara Crane - Challenging Vision

This show was amazing. I hate to rant about how great shows are when they’re gone but I loved it. Went back twice.

Spacca Napoli

Spacca Napoli.

Spacca Napoli

We got there before it was open.

Spacca Napoli

The owner invited us in and cooked us a breakfast pizza for free while we waited for everything to be ready. It was delicious. Then we ate our actual meal. That guy seems to really love what he does and that’s always inspiring to see. Makes me want to do more.

Suhail - Cream City

There hasn’t been much skating.

Suhail - Cream City

Still snuck in a trip up to Cream City.

Charlie - Cream City

This guy was in town to do some holiday high fiving.

Charlie - Cream City

He also got to enjoy some snow.

me - Cream City

Parking blocks.

Nate - Cream City

I always forget about this bowl.

 

Ian Pizza

Ian’s BBQ chicken and chicken taco pizza.

Dimestore

Dimestore added to my arm and gave me a kickass black light painting.

Edzo's

I trecked up to Evanston to try out Edzo’s.

Edzo's Garlic Frys

Garlic Fry’s. Pretty serious.

Snow Lawrence stop

Winter is good time for adventuring.

Painted In Show

Alex had a pretty awesome show at Beck’s. I was really impressed with the final result.

Painted In Show

The windows to the walls.

Painted In Show

Turboism.

Painted In Show

Buster.

Painted In Show

There was a lot to look at.

Painted In Show

Seriously. Art everywhere.

Painted In Show

This guy.

Painted In Show

Twizzlers

Spencer and Alex for Szymanskeee

This one’s for Szymanskeeee.

Chris Smith

Chris showed up. He has a show next month. You should have read about it on Parking Block.

Coffee Shelter

Coffee shelter.

Fontana Meatball Sub

Meatball sandwich at Fontana Subs.

Alex vs MB

I thought the peppers were great.

boosters beware

Beware.

spot

Still lurking spots.

Time Machine

This guy was transporting a time machine.

MCA - Chicago

Contemporary art.

Wintering in Chicago

Wintering.

calamity

Calamity.

Werewolves

Tongue twister werewolfing.

The Counter Burger

Burger at The Counter. Looks better than it was.

Morning moonlight

I took this picture of the moon at 11:00 in the morning.

Torta Xoco

Torta from Xoco.

Bean

Bean day.

empanadas

Columbian Empanadas at Macondo.

empanadas

Chicken.

empanadas

Cheese.

sunglass tree

Sunglass tree,

Lucky Sandwich

Lucky Sandwich. Slaw on the side.

Hai Karate

I got the best gift for Christmas and it wasn’t even a gift. My father is moving and he gave me a box of stuff that he found. In that box was this fine product and a tape with random footage from a day in 89 or 90. Look for an edit of that in a month of two. It gets me hyped and makes me laugh. Pretty amazing.

winter in chicago

Only a few more months.

st. Ides

Crooked letter saint.

twilight zone

Twice a year I watch the marathon.

“The focus of Dude Life is just dudes who are into stuff, whatever that stuff may be. Primarily, it is skateboarding, babes, tacos, hot dogs, rock and roll, jobs without bosses, beers, road trips, art, and buddies,” says Ryan McClennan.

hot steve

Hot Steve had relocated to Miami. It’ll be weird not seeing him at Wilson.

Nate and Mat at the Ferris Buehler show

Arluck.