Skateboards & Books: Stake Is High

Three years since "In Color", the new Denver Shop video was finally going to premiere. Anna and I went out for breakfast the morning of.

Then I cruised to Denver Park to meet up with the Kansas City homies and Ryan.

Ryan and I wanted to skate this rail, but there was a puddle up top and some snow on the landing. That kind of stuff bothers me, but it didn't phase Ryan. The day of the premier he already got a banger for the next video. He's coming up!

The cop showed up after Ryan killed it. It's hard to kick people out when they just do it first try.

Pizza party at The Shop before heading over to The Mayan.

We had a little pre-premiere at The Shop. By the end of the day I had seen the video three times... over it.

Chad "Damn" Lewis and Monico Candelaria

Ryan Franzman.

Garrett. Super proud of him, Jan, and Alex for coming through with their first part. Flaming Shit all day!

We out here!

Tharsh crew.

Mrs. Greer and Mrs. Wells holding it down.

Spencer with the wildest shirt out.

This guy! So glad he made it out. Jason Clark, Littleton legends never die.

View from up top.

The video! Not going to lie, I was super nervous, but it seems like it was well received. If not, we had a lot of good times making it, I know everyone worked super hard, and all our friends came to see it. Can't complain.

Came out of the theater after the second showing and these guys were on the loose. Didn't see anyone get arrested, so everything must've been alright.

The man of the hour... Anthony Mellick. None of this would've happened without him.

Josh Cray... I mean Crane.

Kansas meets Colorado

Greg Knight called me on Tuesday to say he was driving from Maine to make the premiere. Apparently he only caught the last 10 minutes or so of the video, but he made it. It was super rad to have people come from New Mexico, California, Maine, Kansas/Missouri, Arizona, New York, etc. to see the video!