Johnny Rotten

funny how Johnny rotten says every song Crass does sounds the same.....
the sex pistols were posers......

The Eleminators....

and surf music at the WHitey festival...
enjoy... gettin on a plane!

Glorification

You can call it glorification, or unclassy or not art... I show some alternative photos some times cause its life... and its happening....
sometimes i shoot bums, sometimes i shoot garbage on the beach or dirty needles i find in the street, sometimes its other things...But its photography and its life happening.....
Life has been happening so my blogs were kinda lagging... Gettin caught up and the surf is coming in!!

Blogging is Hard!!

haha... I knew there would be days that were slower than usual or no real editing gets done...
there are down days where I am researching info for upcoming articles...
or just reading stuff for my own personal gain for an outlook on our world....

OH i did laundry too.... haha

Jake over at ESPN blog is lookin out for me and sent this saweet photo!!!!

call before coming over! hahahha

Decals....

this was a Decal I found in Pat Kelly's collection of super surf stuff....
Pat is a good man and helps run Dockside Surf Shop with his wife Tippy....Pat has a lot of Hot Rods and collectables such as this.... NO SURF here today but heading off to my old roomates HalfPipe for the day...
Cheers...

SHREDDING to Legends!!!

So i popped into Infinity board shop here today to pick up some ear plugs and shoot the shit...
Dave was there to greet and show me the new video cut of our Tanker excursion.. good stuff Badfoot...

So then in walks mamma Boehne and i happened to be wearing her shirt.. haha..
SO check out the crazy skateboarding goin on on my shirt back in the 70's..... SO...... Kurzbard called and said! HEY lets go skate!!!! I said HELL YEAH...
Kurz shot these photos of me at the San Clemente Park....
Good times with friends...
OH and a sushi roll from 9Style sushi the other nite with my sister and her husband to be... stoked...
Large files

MORE SHRED!!

GET SOME!!!

Skateboarding photos!

From the Demo..

David Anderson, Mason Wright, Joey Lopes and Kyle Ayon get rowdy in Ladera!!!

Demo day!

so,,,,,,,,Life is good and skateboarding is fun..
Gave a demo for BOS today.. (Basics of Skateboarding)... i teach skate camp for this company and they are a group of Great people!!!
All the instructors are awesome and Matt the boss is a good man with his heart in the right place...
i shot photos for this project but here are a few clips of the gang i slipped in....

enjoy Saturdays.....

Revisit and an Edit

Hahah.. I rescanned this image so i could do some more color work on it..
When i shot it i wasnt thrifty in Flash use and needless to say this photo could be improved upon..
I made it a Cartoon later which i LOVE and want to do more of...
I will redue the Cartoon treatment on this better scanned image and see what it comes out like...

ART IS FUN...
Gbones saves the day...

Life happens daily.

So yesturday was beautiful... i found a young bird but nowhere near a nest....

A few of my friends didnt know what to do either.. the cycle of life is happening daily....
I will think of this stranded bird often.....

Blankets of Love.....

Not to get all soft and mushy on ya.. but shit man... Greg Bible is the man....
I walk out to check the surf midday and who do i run into...
Greg... "Here bro" he states as he hands me a warm fuzzy Pabst Blue Ribbon blanket....
I got this from my grandfather who owns part of Pabst...
I have more stuff for ya.. just forgot to bring it....

Thanks bro!!!
I have a bad stress in my neck.. so i am out today.. surf is a tad sloppy but its even hard to type...
getting old... need to take care of the body more.... ugh.....
Kassia Meador trimming her toes...

Beautiful.....

Started out JuneGloom today but now its pretty and the sun is shining...

here are two photos of sunshining... One is of Trisha in Jamaica, the other of Karina in Indonesia....

enjoy

Lets Get Weird!

Had a job shooting a clients portfolio..... You can pretty much guess the nature of the photo shoot the client wanted..

YOU LOVE TO HATE ME!!!!

Cause i speak the truth!!! Learn the names, tucking your knees matters and for God sake man, PULL YOUR TRICKS!!!
Surfers are Posers!!!

Tricks are for Kids.
Words and Photos by Jon Steele

"Which came first the chicken or the egg?" is always a good debate, but what happens when the egg takes forever to catch up to the chicken? Well that's finally happening in the surf world catching up to the real name calling of skateboarding and with great anticipation. It's finally posted in the newest hip surf mag that Dane Reynolds is tucking his knees in on his airs. Well yeah!! It's about time people started payin attention to style and and actually "poking" tricks out instead of hanging on for dear life and hoping for the best. I mean c'mon you guys are "professional" right? Take some pride in the tricks you are doing. The linkage between the 2 sports, surfing and skateboarding, and how important they are for the progression of both has always been overlooked unfortuantely until now!

If I see another slob air reverse I am gonna puke as it is a staple trick every 12yr. old can do now and unfortunatley most of the young groms dont know what a grab name is or much less know that a non tucked (or poked out trick ) skate or snowboard photo would NEVER get run in a mag...Double Grabs? You'd get laughed right out of the photo editors office showing "double grab" tricks to the respected publishers. Surfer's get it in their heads that their shit dont stink and that they are on the top of the cool food train. Well to bust your bubble, skaters and snowboarders in a whole take more pride in thier work and style in their photos, if they didnt pull the trick, it doesnt RUN in the mag..Tthere are no freebies, if thier grab is a tad off they take it very personally and dont want it run or if their fingers are alittle outta style for them its done. Each spot they surf or skate needs to be ante'd up one at a time and there is a lot of thougth and stategy that goes into their job along with pride.

The modern collective movie(Taylor Steele) was a great start at giving credit and pushing the real manuevers into becoming real manuevers, people are actually starting to give Christian Fletcher the well deserved credit for doing skate tricks on water that the top pros' stilll dont have in their bag of tricks nor most judges know what the name is . The music to the movie, well, not so much. Just look at the tricks that haven't been duplicated yet such as Fletcher back in the day was captured doing backside judo's, 360 varials at Pipe or ollie norths on his salt creek/Lowers platform or the gang that ran with the ball like Joe Crimo's shuvits and Matteson's "one motions" that spurred the Lost.... movies fame. Surfers need to step up their game and only a handfull like Josh Sleigh and his rail on water attempts as well as b/s 180 kickflips and Warren Smiths kickflip attempts are stepping outside the norm to push surfing to the level it should be at.

Skating can take up the flat days with excercise as well as help your fast motor skills and don't be scared, slams are the common place in both sports! Getting hurt in surfing is as equal to skateboarding it is a myth most people put up a mental block about. If you are progressing in your sport, you are going to get hurt. Ask any athlete in the surf/skate community and most probably the answer would be 50/50 on injuries incurred on land and water. It comes with the territory, if you are not getting hurt, you are not pushing yourself or your sport.

Many airs are classified in terms of where the boards is grabbed. The name of the the trick also depends on which hand is grabbing. They all have a building degree of difficulty with slob air being one of the easiest and good starting foundation. The harder the grab the greater instability and requires greater skill and control and thus should earn more points in competition. Many judges still don't know what they are veiwing when a surfer blasts it nor the name. I've sat next to them so many times and seen a great air with potential for scoring only to hear the old judges still say " whoa that was a good air thingy." So take some pride in your work and your surfing, learn the names and do something new that no one does. Frontside slob air reverses are being pulled by 12 year olds all day long at your sloppy beachbreak, what's gonna set you apart from that type of surfing or maybe you should just go skate.

So whether you are goin for evening session, mellow longboard session down the street, bombing a hill or an intense short board surf at Lowers, just go skate.... or surf.... Both equally are building muscle and keeping limber as well as benefiting balance and the learning curve as they both go hand in hand. Whether it be sidewalk surfing or gnarbuckle shredding just don't disrespect the athletes who have come before you, learn the names of the tricks then go poke it!

Hurricane Season opens.....

Shitty i know... i used to get stoked on hurricane season but the last couple years have been kinda shit like that......
Now with an oil spill a ton of wind and waves in the Gulf isnt gonna help none......

Lets say our prayers and hope the best prevails....

Friends in Texas!!!

Here are some outtakes from the Museum party opening!!!
Shapers, Lifeguards, surfers and all around bad asses!!!!! The first Texas surfer and his friend....
Enjoy...

Still Following!!????

Good cause it only gets better!!!!
Catchin up after a week tour in Texas..... Good times...

Got a new clothing sponsor Pablo Surf... and a paycheck helps... NEW TEXAS Surf Museum Tshirts with my Christian Wach photo on em!!! stoked.....

Kendal's Artwork is AMAZING... She paints unreal...

Richie Collins bummed someone out at Uppers and a few pieces of Artwork I shot before i paint over em...

Jonesy's boy!

Plays in a mean metal band... Lead By Example

check em out and this crazy 75+mph thunderstorm we went through!!!
Pay attention I'm catchin up to par quickly!!!

Watch the Metal with this video

Wait till the end...... its worth it...

Gavin Beschen! Take 2

Some photos of Gavin bombing barefoot... awesome..just awesome....
Sector 9 photoshoot...

Photo edit world!!!

I am in true photo edit world.....tons of photos to widdle down.....
Enjoy these as Colin Emery Lean to tail in a sketchy neighborhood....

Chrisitan and Caballero

Had an amazing opportunity to shoot a demo with both the big time stars!
needless to say i was stoked to see em skate and shoot them so upclose and personall....

Sorry my blog has been laggin, we have been in Texas touring.... more updates here ASAP!