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!

FS

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!

Joey and I getting weird.

Chris and Tony.  These dudes ran Brother's Boards which turned into The Denver Shop.  I love these dudes.

Littleton Rippers.

We ended up at a house party over at Dan/Owen/Jur's/Whoever else lives there.  Good times.

Yep.

Thanks again to everybody for coming out.  Next week you should be able to buy the video here.

Food, Skating, Party

On Saturday I went to the People's Food Justice Summit held at Kepner Middle School in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver.  I went to learn about what organizations and communities are doing about food inequalities in Denver, because I am doing one of my independent studies on food deserts in our city.  The summit was really informative, I got a lot out of it.

At all the food events I've been to, there is always amazing food.  These people really practice what they preach and make what they love, delicious and healthy food.  I had a breakfast burrito, strawberries, apples, yogurt with granola and blueberries, and orange juice.

This is a picture of the breakout session held by Denver Urban Gardens.  They have nearly 120 gardens in the Denver-Metro area, promote farmers markets, and teach children how to grow and eat well.  Some of the people in my group attend Fairview Elementary, where they have a farmers market selling food they grow at the school.  So cool!

After I handled my academic work for the day, I had to go to Denver Park.  Still the best place ever.

Met up with these two at this abandoned mini-golf course.

I filmed Shardy nail it.

Then onto this spot.  I really hate how short the days are getting, it makes it so hard to skate more than two spots in a day.  I'm going to start skating at 8 or 9 a.m. just to make the days count.

Dinner.

I came home after skating and arrived to find a surprise. Ryan Lovell sent me a package all the way from Kansas City!

I got an Escapist shirt, some budget whiskey that was half drank, a dollar bill, a tech-deck, and other random stuff.  I'm really excited to go out and film in this shirt.

Then I went to a Halloween party.  No, I didn't dress up.  Mason did though.  Eazy-E.

Keith was Wayne.  He is also holding the cutest puppy ever.  Thanks for hosting again Keith.

 Tyler was a cat-burglar.

Omar was the karate-kid.

Mike as Bob Dylan.

Ryan and Steph as dead people (?)

Natalie as a tootsie-roll, Joey as himself wearing a sombrero.

Kansas City's Own

Ryan Lovell, the King of the Road legend, was in Denver for the weekend with his family. 

Here he is with his lovely girlfriend, Loren.

We migrated to the piano bar, Sing Sing.  Ryan was so excited about it he yelled at Loren.

It was Ryan's brother's birthday.  Happy birthday Rob!

My song request that I don't think they fulfilled.

Always great seeing anyone from Kansas City, best people out there.  Lovell is sending me an Escapist shirt for me to film in for their new video due out in Spring 2012.  Should be fun!