…and other good stuff, here.

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 28, 2009 at 11:35 am, filed under music. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 14, 2009 at 8:16 am, filed under DIY, Doodle, timelapse. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Ethan says they’re working on a “secret” art project but I think the blog title gives it away. So, Ethan, when do the first copies drop?

Stay tuned here.

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 13, 2009 at 9:38 pm, filed under andy, beefin harsh, ethan. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

…among other things. Here. In a sea of free music this is pretty good stuff. Good job and thank you Sub Pop!

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 10, 2009 at 8:43 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

I met Chris of Beta-lactam Ring Records back in 2005 after doing some prepress work on one of his CD sleeves. I asked if he’d mind if I filmed one of his label’s shows. He was cool with it, so I enlisted my buddy Seth to operate a second camera and we taped the show. I’d never seen Green Milk play live and I was impressed. Very high energy. The fans were pretty vocal, too.

Since then, I’d just let this footy languish on my hard drive. I lacked the appropriate software to do a proper two camera edit and I didn’t want slog through the painful workarounds. Last week, I finally decided to just do a split screen and leave it at that. Enjoy!

If you dig this music, check out Green Milk’s site.

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm, filed under music. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Check out my friend Devin’s simple but effective Lego MOC:

Nice characterizations!

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 4, 2009 at 6:14 pm, filed under artists, devin, inspiration and tagged Add new tag. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on June 2, 2009 at 6:40 pm, filed under Uncategorized. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Well, John Lin Lin has a new blog… check it here.

Also blogging is Mr. Seth Gross…  please peruse The Power of Crystals.

And for my readers, this bonus drawing:

Have a good week!

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on May 31, 2009 at 9:25 pm, filed under Blogroll, artists, linlin, seth, sketchbook. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

I skated with Ethan today after about a 3-week gap. It felt good to be skating again and I didn’t lose anything in the interim. In fact, I think the lapse helped. I picked up a couple new tricks and landed some old stuff including a couple backside hurricanes on a curb that made me feel like Danny Sargent or something.

We started filming with Ethan’s newly acquired hand held consumer grade “AipTek” camera. He picked up on Craigslist for only $60! It records to an SD card at 29.97 fps. Frame size is 1280×720px — that’s right, Hi-Def!!! There are noticeable compression artifacts if you watch full res but downsizing the footy produces a cool, softened effect. It’s a nice switch from all the 3-chip stuff that is so ubiquitous in skate videos. Recording to SD is nice too — no tapes to rewind! He got a 8GB SD card for it for $20, so storage isn’t a problem. The battery lasts a couple hours and can be recharged via mini-USB connection.

Ethan hasn’t figured out yet how to get it uploaded to YouTube without being squished to 4:3 and he’s still figuring out optimal compression settings, but the video definitely has a character all it’s own… pretty rad!

Check it:

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on March 15, 2009 at 9:41 pm, filed under DIY, artists, ethan, inspiration, skate and tagged Add new tag. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Matt and John have a new site, myparentsskate.com, and they’re updating frequently. Check it out!

In other news, Ethan, Dan, and I drove up into North Portland yesterday to an epic homebrew skate project. It’s located on a vast tract of very flat, overgrown and abandoned industrial land down by the waterfront. Supposedly it’s a Superfund cleanup site, so who knows what we were exposed to by being down there, but there weren’t any obvious signs of environmental hazard.

Three abandoned buildings still stand on this tract. They are now giant canvasses for graffiti artists and cement pouring skaters. The largest building is about three stories tall above ground, and below, well, I’m not sure. One of the rooms had a gaping hole leading down into a dark catacomb like area that I wasn’t about to check out. Anyhow, the building is divided into three main sections, of which the center section is the most developed for skating. It’s about three quarters full of cement quarterpipes, bowl corners, and even a twinkie. The other sections have some random cement tranny pours but seem to be mostly used by graffitI artists.

There were a bunch of people painting when we showed up and the fumes were pretty awful. Ethan ran into a guy he knew from Eugene and we saw a gnarly am we recognized from a Strange Notes promo destroying the spot. Ethan and I took a couple short runs but I mostly watched. Dan had a smoke but quickly moved on to another part of the complex. Soon a group of about six or seven haggard dudes walked up. I felt kind of stupid standing there with my board not skating so I motioned to Ethan that we ought to catch up with Dan.

We walked through a field and across some railroad tracks to the second building complex. This section had a big flat cement pad split into two levels, the higher level being only about curb height. A wedge connected the two levels. Here the skater constructed feature was a two cinderblock high, one block wide, and about six or seven block long ledge with angle iron coping on both sides. This ran along one side of the wedge. I skate regular so I could hit the ledge backside, on the wedge side, but anything frontside meant I had to gap out on the drop side. I totally wussed out and pretty much stuck to boardslides.

More about this spot later…

This entry was written by eli fleming, posted on February 8, 2009 at 10:13 am, filed under Uncategorized, ethan, skate. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.