Went up to Santa Barbara yesterday for the premiere of the Bones Brigade documentary. Amazing movie… can’t wait to see it again.

Here are a few photos from the day…

Jammin’ up the 405 North.

All the action is on the other side of the mall.

Once in Santa Barbara we headed straight to the Arlington Theatre to pick up our tickets.

Four person pass.

Cages lined up for the press.

After getting our tickets and checking out the theatre we walked down a few blocks to the Powell Peralta Skateshop.

Deck wall.

Autographed Kevin Harris, Mike V, Lance and Jordan Hoffart decks on display.

The board Aldrin Garcia rode when he set the world’s record for the highest ollie.

Autographed Cab board and his artwork from the Rip The Ripper show.

After a quick dinner we headed back to the theatre and there was already a line forming.

Powell hooked me up with a press pass.

After party postcard.

The stars and VIPs started to arrive.

Alva picking up his credentials.

The red carpet was a media frenzy.

Rodney and Per share a moment on the red carpet.

Rodney doing on interview.

Lance on the red carpet.

Lance doing an interview.

Stacy’s turn for an interview.

Lance Mountain, Alan Gelfand, Mike McGill, Craig Stecyk, Tommy Guerrero and Steve Caballero.

Mike McGill, Alan Gelfand, Tommy Guerreo, Rodney Mullen, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero, Craig Stecyk, Lance Mountain.

Lance Jr and his wife Kellie.

Theatre is filling up.

Stacy introduced the film.

90 minutes later the movie ended and received a standing ovation.

All the guys were introduced and came out on stage for a q&a session.

Someone from the audience asked Stacy how he would feel if someone from the Bones Brigade died… And just then Lance died!

Rodney talking about how much pressure was lifted off of him when he no longer competed.

George Powell, editor Josh Altman, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Stacy Peralta, Mike McGill, Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Craig Stecyk and q&a moderator.

And then it broke out into a product toss.

Sharon and Alan Gelfand.

And then it was over.

Souvenirs.

My friend Steve Hertz is a member of SC3, the Southern California Classic Collectors group and he’s in charge of helping put on their twice a year video game showcase. The past Saturday was the second show of the year and it was held at the Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA. It was also the second show that wasn’t held at Steve’s house/garage/backyard.

I missed the show they had back in March so this location was all new to me and there were quite a few games that haven’t seen at past shows I have been to. As always, the camera came with me and here are the pics…

Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra.

Overview of the gallery.

Biiitchfest banging away on Donkey Kong.

Steve giving an interview.

The upstairs trading room.

Classics. Someone needs to make an “Artwork of Atari Cartridges” coffee table book.

So stoked to see Paperboy in the mix. One of my favorite games and I don’t think I’ve played it since the late 90s.

Steve playing Berzerk on the Atari 5200.

Tron and Discs Of Tron!!!

Me playing Paperboy.

I got the top two high scores!

Steve and I.

Big thanks to Steve and the whole SC3 crew for putting together such a fun event. I demand a sit down Spy Hunter machine at the next show.

Our next stop was Costa Mesa for the Revolution Mother show at the Tiki Bar.

Haven’t seen or heard from the Powell Peralta Collector in about 5 or 6 years or so but it appears that he is alive and well! Matt currently (till this Thursday) has a portion of his insane collection on display at the Duke Gallery at the Azusa Pacific University. My girlfriend lives not too far from the University so yesterday we went and checked it out. I’m not sure if this event is endorsed by the head honchos at Powell Peralta or not but regardless this was pretty fun to check out. Here are some photos I took…

Long time RevHQ employee, Jenny Jensen is moving to the Big Apple this week! This past Friday she had a mandatory Rev “final lunch”. Here’s some pics from the big day…

Jenny’s final hours at Rev are ticking by.

Jenny’s dog Margo.

Igby.

Jenny’s replacement.

Past and present Rev employees headed to local mexican spot, Fresca’s.

Jordan says “WTF!?”

Back at the office Greg Brown was grilling up some steaks.

Due to budget cuts, lettering on the going away cake could not be afforded.

Greg Brown, Jenny and the triplets.

Last night I made the half hour or so trek up to La Habra to check out Give and visit with my old friend John Scharbach. It would be my first time seeing them play as I have been out of town the other two times they have been out to California.

The first stop of the night was the Dogzilla food truck.

You can sub in a veggie dog for any of the menu items.

But since I have the taste of a 6 year old I get mine plain with ketchup only.

Tonight’s concert venue… Pep’z Pizza and Eatery.

Punk rock pizza parlor.

I missed the first band but the second band of the night, Remission from Chile were awesome.

Remission plays some serious Verbal Assault/One Step Ahead inspired jams.

Give merch.

Remission merch.

Marlon holding it down at the door.

Give on the set up.

Crucial John and I.

Here are a few photos from the Dan O’Mahony spoken word/No For An Answer 7″ release party last night at TKO Records in Fountain Valley, CA.

The venue for tonight… TKO Records in Fountain Valley.

Flyer!

2nd press.

Gavin and Casey from No For An Answer talking with Jordan Revelation and Joe Nelson.

TKO.

Casey Jones with the new No For An Answer t-shirt.

Showtime… Author Greg Mollin sharing some of his short stories.

Dan’s turn on the mic.

The new No For An Answer 7″.

Last night I headed up to Hollywood to check out Airwalk’s 25th Anniversary party at The Colony. Fun times, lots of Red Vines consumed and some classic Airwalk footwear on display. Check out the pics…

Evite.

The Colony.

The happening scene.

Sneakers!

My first encounter with Grape Vines.

Mike V, Mike Rodgers, Andy MacDonald

Mike V and I.

I tagged along on a skate session earlier this month with Mike V, Chris “Dune” Pastras, Kilian Martin, Mark Nisbet and a few others. We hit up a couple of ditch spots in the bowels of Long Beach. Here are a few pics…

The story begins at Mike V’s house.

Mike V rigging up a new shred sled.

Cougar and The Boss.

Elvis and Elephants.

Classic Skateboarding Skeleton tee.

Stuntwoods ready for transport.

Dune and Mike V. Jersey.

Dune grind.

Niz is on the scene.

Kilian lost a wheel at one point and it rolled down into the ditch and into the water. Kilian shreded his clothes faster than Clark Kent turns into Superman and jumped into the river to save his wheel. The session can continue!

All types of Criddlers were using the bike path.

Mike V getting into a layback grind.

Killian putting his rogue wheel back on.

Niz filming Dune’s boneless one.

The Criddlers kept on creeping. This dude wouldn’t leave and claimed to be sponsored by City Stars at one point.

Onto the next spot.

Sippi gets his frontside RnR.

Mike V coming in hot.

Frontside tailblock.

Later that night we headed down to downtown Huntington Beach for an art show and ran into Ed Templeton.

Today is Mike V’s 41st birthday and a couple of weeks back we had a birthday surprise party and session down at The Berrics for him. Below are a few photos I took that day and you can watch the video HERE. I think it turned out great!

Out in front of The Berrics, Lance Mountain helped me assemble the launch ramp Mike skates in the beginning of the video.

Surprise! It’s a birthday party!

George Powell, Michael Furukawa and Elliot from Skateone lighting up the candles on Mike’s cake.

Just about the entire Powell Peralta team, crew and staff showed up for the party and sang Mike Happy Birthday.

Mike’s youngest daughter Lucy was given the honors of blowing out the candles.

Time to open presents! Mike was given a Powell Peralta team jacket which had his name embroidered on the front.

Chase Gabor filming Mike opening and reading one of his birthday cards.

Mike getting a close look at the custom Duane Peters deck that Jason Adams painted for Mike as a gift.

All kinds of guests dropped in for the party and skate session. Here’s Mike with Fred Durst.

Jason Adams, Chris “Dune” Pastras and the birthday boy, Mike.

World record holder for the highest ollie, Aldrin Garcia, Michael Furukawa and Mike V. Aldrin’s brother and Dune lurk in the background.

Mike tweaking it out.

Session is over. Time to grub on some cake.

I took about 500 photos this past weekend. Here are about 90 of them. Enjoy…

-Larry

SATURDAY

First things first, rescuing the Mouthpiece guys from the horrors of the Los Angeles International Airport. Left to right: Ed, Chris, Jason and Tim. Matt was arriving on a later flight.

Loading up the vehicular and beginning our journey for food.

We found ourselves at The Veggie Grill in El Segundo.

Buffalo wings!

Full grindage.

Next stop… the mall!

The last time Mouthpiece was in California in 1996 they would have most likely bought sneakers for themselves.

But this time they purchased Hello Kitty Vans for their daughters.

Back to the house to kill time before we had to go back to LAX to pick up Matt.

SUNDAY

Wake up and smell the concrete!

Keeping up with the traditions… heading to Jan’s.

Ed is back in the mix and joins us for lunch.

A soy turkey classic.

Ken Olden in the house!

Lots of tissue papers.

Mandel!

It’s just the original Gavin Ogelsby artwork for the Hardstance 7″. No big deal.

Loading up the van to head to the show.

The Glasshouse in Pomona.

Mike Hartsfield and Tim.

Tour laminates.

Inspecting the barricade situation.

What we believe.

Tim and Roa.

Dinner down the street at Aladdin Jr’s.

Roa with Addiction bootleg shirt #1.

Roa with Addiction bootleg shirt #2.

The Rev merch table was going off.

Tonight’s set times.

Jason and Ed squeezing in some last minute rehearsing.

The new incarnation of Outspoken.

Mouthpiece’s set for tonight.

Show time.

Insted’s Steve Larson in the front row.

And then THIS happened.

Youth Of Today’s set list.

Steve Larson getting his stage dive on during the 7 Seconds cover.

Post show… Dan, Dave and Mario.

Andrew, Jordan and myself.

Myself, Ki from The Geeks; in town for the show all the way from Korea and screen printing legend Greg Bacon.

Ray Of Today and Jordan Cooper.

The Mouthpiece guys doing an interview after the show.

MONDAY

Figuring out…

…Today’s plans.

Mouthpiece sold out of all of their shirts in about 20 minutes the night beore and needed to get more printed up for the next two shows. We headed down to Hellfish in Irvine to pick up the screens. Hellfish were unable to print more so we were passing the job onto Chris Lohman.

Outline screen.

The Youth Of Today screens were still set up on the automatic press.

SSD inspired.

Back down to Jan’s for round two.

Passing off the screens to Chris Lohman.

Grind.

Next stop was REVHQ for some shopping. The recent YOT/Cappo interview from the OC Weekly was hanging up.

Be sure to check out Matt’s other band, Frontier(s)

Mouthpiece now on green vinyl.

Todd and Mike stopped by.

Shopping for garments.

World’s Collide roadie, Greg Brown and Ken Olden reunite.

Broken dreams.

Mailorders waiting to be shipped.

The library.

Ken and Jordan talking passionately about automobiles.

Porcell and (OG) Greg Brown.

The vault.

Straight up marid.

Next stop was Chris Lohman’s to pick up the shirts he printed.

Everything looked great and we were on our way to the show.

Mouthpiece merch perch.

Tonight’s set times.

Fraud opened up the second show and it was their first show ever.

Fraud is Alex Barreto on vocals, Paul “Frosty” Hertz on guitar, Andy Alvarez on guitar, Shaun Ross on bass and Derrick Hostetter on drums.

Jordan and Frosty.

A quick YOT rehearsal backstage to throw some different songs into the set.

Mouthpiece back at it.

Na2

Terranova.

Porcell brought it down at the end of the Mouthpiece set with “Straight Edge Revenge.”

Ray warming up with some advanced yoga maneuvers.

The “Flame Still Burns/Take A Stand/Expectations” opening was flawless.

Ray hurt his knee during the show and YOT’s set got cut a bit short.

Joe Nelson and Jason Jeffery.

Ed and Al Pain.

Mouthpiece, Al and Frosty, Jordan, Me and Jeff Terranova.

Load out.

TUESDAY

The next morning YOT picked up Mouthpiece from my house and they were heading down the highway to Oakland.

This is a time we’ll remember.