I wanted to bump the horrible graphic of the newspaper logos, so here’s 2001 shot of Victor Koons at a crappy prefab in Sunburry PA. He’s a got a career, so don’t tell anyone he’s on this web site.

But it’s not his fault. I’ve always wanted to do one of those sequence in one frame shots that mimic strobe photography at night. So here it is. It’s not Mike Poor’s fault that this isn’t much to look at. It’s one heck of a long railslide though. I had to shoot it several times because my Nikon D70 is only semi-pro, limiting the number of frames per second as well as the buffer of frames it can hold in one sequence. In any case, At least Mike had the presence of mind to add a little something to make it more fun. It’s something I didn’t notice until I looked at them later. This here is the teaser to make up for the delay in posting the Illinois road trip pics. This the same skate park in Champaign that I posted earlier.

The concept of this picture turned out to be more interesting than the reality. Shoot an invert with a guy touching the bottom of a boar, flipit 180 degrees and make it look like the skater is balancing on the other guy’s fingers. It looks weird all right, like Grover has been shrunk down, but it’s all unaltered. See it rightside up after the jump. Skater: Steve Grover. Hands: Mark Conahan. Concept: Grover. Skatepark: Newberg.

Me take pretty picture. Nice. So far the only picture MC has declassified from the Hailey Loop of Death mission is this striking shot. Follow the link to see it in all it’s glory. It’s worth it.

This Flickr thing is… another great way to waste time. This kid Any Wissman has a couple of cool skate photos posted there. I googled him to see if I could find a web site or something, and found his myspace page. (Nice self portrait!) Problem with all these so-called free Interweb communities and services is that they require you to jump through a bunch of hoops to contact people. You have to join, and that means another password combo to remember. Forget about retrieving it if you use fake info like I usually do. Oh well. Andy, if you are reading this and have some more photos like these, I’d like to put up a small feature on Skate And Annoy if you are down.

Getting ready to go to Chicago next weekend for the 25th anniverary of Touch And Go Records, mostly to see the legendary Didjits reunion with all original members!(!!!) This is an excuse to bump that ugly graphic from the West Linn Tidings. So here’s a shot of a suburban Chicago skatepark in Burbank from 2002. At the time it was one of the better tranny parks in the Chicago area. Small, but with nice transitions and the smoothest finish to date. It was kind of a ghetto scene out in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it’s changed. I hope I get time to hit some Chicago cement, but it’ll be rough with family and other reunions. There’s another pic after the jump. Holy @!$#! Street skating on Skate and Annoy!