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More Chance

Here's a little edit with Chance Garrison riding (puts in work for Sunday Bikes & Albe's) at an indoor park (Skate Zoo) in Kalamazoo, Michigan on a rainy summer day.

More and more dudes are finally getting well deserved attention coming out of the Mitten. It's good to see.

Wasn't a planned edit, per se, but he lays down moves like a boss. So, enjoy.



P.S. Dear Sunday/Full Factory,

If you have any extra Model C's just laying around, and you feel the urgent need to send one to the Philippines for me to show off here, I would be more than willing to send you my address via e-mail. Just throwin' it out there.

Like a Light

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See you on the other side of International Dateline, y'all. I'm out. - RV

I Can't Reach (Grand Rapids)

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Custer, SD

Badlands, SD

 

Stems. And Tourists. And Junk.

 I don't usually wander around during Tulip Time (or, like this year, "Stem Fest"). As someone that grew up in Holland, was part of the parade through St. Francis de Sales for years, and as someone that generally doesn't go for things with large groups of people--I've been pretty burned out on the whole idea since, probably, the end of middle school.

I love junk food, however. I'm Midwesterner through and through.

Handyman

When I was still little, my father would carry me around on his shoulders every time we went to the grocery store. I was always happy, sitting above everyone else--up high, chewing gum, and happy.

He would ask me, "Are you still chewing your gum?"
"Yes," I would say. If I wasn't, I had swallowed it.

I was that kind of little.

One day at the grocery store, he asked me "Are you still chewing your gum?"

"No," I replied.

Super Crop (Not Starring Jackie Chan)

I've really been into square crops, lately. I'm not really sure what brought it on, but I just feel like it works so well for a lot of things that I might not be one hundred percent on board with.

For example...

Mid-winter (?) Updates

It's been around 40F during the day for most of February, so I'm convinced that this either isn't really winter, or the matrix is broken and this isn't really Michigan. I'm unemployed like I'm in Michigan, so I'm guessing it's the former.

Lately, I've been taking pictures of things that I don't typically take pictures of outside of bmx: people.

(More after the jump.)

Zeeland, MI

 I shot this at f5.6, 125iso, and 6 seconds.

 

I'll usually try a couple different settings to see what I like best. After the jump, there's another shot, cropped slightly differently, and shot at 8 seconds rather than 6. There's also one other shot from a different spot, shot at 5.6, 200iso, and 8 seconds.

Boerman

Boerman gapping, past the snow, from the walkway to an icy parking lot. Photo by me, RV.

January Webby

A quick vid of an evening I spent hanging out with Pat & Matt at the shop, in Holland (Michigan, for you non-Michiganders [lucky bastards]), after hours.

The winter will probably consist of lots of this. Then, once winter breaks, we'll actually start filming for something full length this year (if you know what I mean).

Rabbit

A vid of friends, from near and far, (mostly) filmed in the year of the Rabbit (2011).

Family, and Stuff

Not exactly pictures, but I shot some footage of my dad during one of the workshops that he puts on. It's a style of Filipino martial arts primarily utilizing arnis (or eskrima, to some), but also taking advantage of kicking, grappling & weapons, etc.

12 for 12

12 shots from this past year... And some words.

This night was actually one of the first times that I met Juan, and aside from the fact that I knew he killed it on bikes, I couldn't have told you much else.

Long story short, Juan is cool as shit. Awesome guy to hang out and ride with, and he knows pretty much all of the spots in Boston. One of the many people I'm glad I came to know while living out in Mass. I miss all of those dudes/dudettes.

It's Never Sunny In Michigan

That's a lie. Michigan can actually be a really nice place, weather-wise... For, like, three whole days out of the year.

On a positive note, what with all of this dreariness, I seem to be somewhat productive.



I'm hoping to collect some clips and what have you to make a fun little edit in an attempt to kick away some of this cold and boring Michigan weather.

Then finally, over the course of the next year or so, I'd like to make a full on MI video. We'll see how it goes.

LCF Skate & BMX

About a week or so ago, I spent the day at Lakeshore Cycle, over on the skate and bmx side of things, and along, with some general tomfoolery (including putzing around on the mini that they built in there), I spent about half the day shooting some 400 pictures, give or take.

Because they're super cool people over there, I quick threw this thing together--and because I didn't really know what else to do with it. Hope you like it.

Rainy, Cold, Generally Shit Weather (and Other Cyclocross Fun)

Last Sunday, I made my way into Holland, MI to run a few errands, and to try and shoot some pics down at one of Krisscross's cyclocross races.

It was cold, it was raining, and it was generally poop--but I guess that's really what you're looking for in a good CC race, so everything worked out.

Return of the Ellis

Our very own Mr. Ellis has been getting a few pics (one taken by me) put up on the Sunday! Bikes web site, and they posted this little vid of Pat working the U.P. and the Mitten proper.



And if you're ever in the Holland, MI area, don't forget to stop on in to Lakeshore Cycle & Fitness/LCF Skate and BMX and say hi to Pat, Sneller, and the rest of the LCF crew!