Dick Jokes gone digital. shhhhit.

Just got a little digi cam for my birthday. Yaaa that's right, Dick Jokes has gone digital. Anyway, here's a cruddy little line from skating Queen's campus in Kingston today.

Thanks to my family for an awesome birthday!!

 

Skatepark tour/endless summer.

           

                                                   

Burnin' the midnight lamp all summer long. I got a call from New Line Skateparks on Wednesday, quit the mine later that day and my bro and I drove down to Kingston on Thursday. Psyched to be on the road again and psyched to learn how to build proper skateparks. This is the park I'll be working on apparently for the next two weeks (It's right across the street from my Aunt's house) and then I think we might ship out to Alberta or Saskatchewan. The jobs are all by contract so it should kind of be reminiscent of my tree planting days without planting fuckin trees.

                        

Beseler setup

I'll bet your darkroom doesn't have a beer fridge in it. 

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world's been turning.

After years of intense data collection and countless hours of experimentation I have discovered the meaning of natural life on this planet as represented in the above Venn diagram. Each region within the schematic represents an equally important finite aggregation that culminates in the centrally located intersection that I have labeled here as "Dick Jokes Zine". Haha

Double exposure fool!

Decided to try to expose doubly two old pictures tonight and it pretty much worked. Gotta work on exposure time and dodging during exposure but I'm happy with this for now!

This is why I made the bicycle.

                                                                                              

Milner package!!

Usually when I hear that a friend is getting married my gut reaction is "that poor bastard". haha.  It's like the end of an era and time for that person to put his/her big boy/girl pants on and get a real job and go into debt and what have you. But when Ron Ron and TURD life advocate Danielle tied the knot they kept it real (see back cover) and put out a full length noise album.

On a recent skateboarding trip to The Big Stink, Ron Ron set me up with this John Milner You're So Boss care package. 

Milner, I'm really psyched on you. 

The album art, that depicts a dog and two peopleiods puking in the shape of a pentagram was drawn by Milner's own Matt Davey (far right). And the fact that Milner decided to press this offering on vinyl adds to the authenticity and stoke factor of the whole project. 

At 8:48 long (yes, both sides), the album crams in 12 boisterous songs that my Mom might refer to as "nightmare music". My favourite tracks are the loud as fuck "Meat Shits" and the more sedated "Hope Void". And I was especially psyched to hear "Taquitos" on the B-side because from what I can gather, it's a song about one of my guilty 7/11 pleasures.

It's so great to throw this on the turntable and hear friends doing good things on vinyl. And after Ron gave me the shirt I wore it for like 5 days straight. 

Milner plays shows pretty often in and around Toronto. Check their bloggy blog and check them out to support some local talent.

Ollie from flat...

... Just kidding, its a just a wallie. Cool shot that my buddy Prashant took last weekend in the city. If you were able to see the other side of the lens you would see something quite rare. Skateboarders and BMX dudes sessioning the same jersey barrier at the very same time. A phenomenon usually seen only in the confines of a skatepark. As Prashant put it "we're bridging the gap". Thanks for the snapper home boy.