chrome ball incident #354: canadian maple

quick update today with the mighty rickoo's yellow big brother interview from '99.

(giving rick's adventures in cheese part the nod on this one cause it seriously doesn't get enough credit. satisfaction guaranteed.)

almost forgot how much i dug those dc howard 1's.

special thanks to my friends at epicly laterd and nike sb.

chrome ball incident #353: kool bob love

a famous skateboarder once said that of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, cellar door is the most beautiful.

hi elaine.

chrome ball incident #352: gimme danger

one of the gnarliest on any terrain out there... strictly on his own terms.

i had a request for alan petersen's '92 transworld spotlight but it just didn't seem epic enough for the long-delayed first post of fresno's finest.

(i lost the email so whoever that was, hit me up)

some really good links

big up to keith, patrick and sean for those.

chrome ball incident #351: the dark side

90's super-am and chaffey legend, richard mulder.

a vital (and underrated) piece of the chocolate squad back in the day, i always wondered why it took so long to turn him pro...

no mouse part online: bummer.

chrome ball incident #350: quicksand

evidently the subconscious theme of the week was "tum yeto goes to hawaii"... i'm just gonna roll with it.

went with some 90's steve olson to close out the week... back when he burned bibles and skated to bowie and didn't wear those all-one-color sweatsuits.

always thought this dude was ill (he killed hubba hideout back in the day and his fulfill the dream part is still amazing) but it seems like history's kinda swept him under the rug a bit... the kids grew up and turned on shorty's while the daggers came back and reclaimed the name. sad really.

didn't he try starting a rap career too? 

thanks for all the support everybody. see you monday

big up to tod swank.

r.i.p. eric stricker

chrome ball incident #349: adventure today

Hope you don't mind but i'm really starting to have fun with these curveball thursdays...

Had a few requests for swank lovely and i was happy to oblige. i had almost forgotten how much i loved that early f-troop aesthetic... back when foundation was more lettus bee than corey duffel. while i've always maintained that the star and moon is one of the best graphics of all time, it was nice to revisit all the xeroxed diy-silliness of the rocco/skull skates bastard lovechild.

By no means was swank the best skater in the world (i don't think that was the point) nor am i vouching for his "sorry for being a dick" business moves of the past (the rumored "chocolate flex" would've been fucking weak) but the creativity that flowed through his artwork, 'zines, photography and skating remains to be, what i feel, this honcho's greatest contribution to our culture.

...that and Glam Boys on Wheels.

P.S. I really need to do a GSD post.

chrome ball incident #348: hell push

a freshly-shaved blur not afraid of employing the gentlest of touches as a means of destroying absolutely everything in its path.

friend of mine once referred to donny barley as "bill danforth's new school wet dream." not really sure how accurate that is (I'd probably opt for eric dressen) but it still makes me giggle a decade later.

gotta admit that, for whatever reason, I kinda slept-on this dude when he first started blowing up... can't explain it... but that classic attack-steez is undeniable.

"while it can be said that style has many different varieties, its finer forms never remain hidden for very long." -miles horovitz