Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Day 4 picture post.

Well as we speak the cops and drugs dogs have the van surrounded as I sit outside of Caribou Coffee stealing internet with a brown bag full of empty been cans, alone.  He asked me what I was doing and I explained the situation, if you are reading this and there is no day 5 it is because I pressed “publish” before going to jail.  That being said, day 4 was another great day.  Didn’t get many photos taken as Alex’s camera ran out of batteries but it was still great.  We went to a sweet little park where everyone got lines and tricks, and then right up the street to a square drop rail, see pics, and my dumbass locked the keys in the van.  Thanks Michael for saving my life.  Time flew as we got a little later start then previous days and before we knew it we were back at Chris’ house drinking beers and logging footage.  I wish there was something more interesting to say then the fencers we saw in the park, or the sweet misty flip that happened, but I would be lying.  Just another day handling business with the best dudes around.

Day 3 picture post.

Today was another great day.  We cruised some spots after breakfast (thanks Chris) out in Plymouth and then worked our way into downtown Minneapolis.  We eventually met up with One photographer Mr. Hanes and shot an ill halfpike and tranie to road.  At the gap to the road Don and I played the same game we played from 1 and 1/2 years ago, “Throw rocks into the top of a pole” people caught on and Wheeler laced.  We rewarded ourselves with some wings at Market Barbeque and an episode of the Colbeer Report in the Party Van.Brentoneventually serenaded everyone with a Santana cover and Haffey arm wrestled me switch.  Good night.

Day 2 picture post.

We woke up this morning to a wonderful spread of omelets, coffee, and belgian waffles.  After we shipped a package to South Korea we went and picked up Haffey and Bambrick from the airport.  We had a few hours before Farmer landed so we went down the road to Mall of America.  That place is redic, roller-coasters, sharks, and 15 lids.  Nobody got geared up and after we picked up Farmer we went out for an old fashioned shredder session.  The first spot was an abandoned warehouse area and we got caught trying to break in by driving the van through a chain (we almost broke the windshield.  The cop believed our impromptu story about seeing it on youtube (damned internet) and let us go.  A one armed woman (she was in a cast) tried to cock block Garlinghouse from doing a sweet wallride and the profiling continued.  ”We got a powder blue ban causing a ruckus.”  We then went and got kicked out of General Mills and a security guard chased us down through the grass and got wrecked by the sprinklers.  Hit up the bank to ledge at the Animal Shelter and then got a few “accidental” clips when Alex and Brenton made something great out of nothing next to the liquor store.  The rest of the night was filled with arm-wrestling, bonfires, shouting at roomates, and 222.

Day 1 Picture Post

Today we set out on the Minneapolis to Lake Owen tour.  We picked up Michael Collins, Alex Broskow, and Brenton Wheeler and were on our happy way.  The party bus got started a little early as “someone” was chasing the tail of a rough night.  We decided to stop in Des Moines, IA and check out the local scene.  Ended up with a sweet mizou grind to kick off the festivities before the profiling began.  The day before tour I painted the van a bright powder blue and added some “sweet” silver zebra stripes.  Turns out this is a shinning beacon to the police.  We stopped at the Capitol building and a bike cop asked Brenton to put on his shirt and then proceeded to write down my license plate number and ride off.  Shortly after I pushed through a yellow light that turned red.  10 minutes passed as we looked for skate spots and suddenly there were lights behind us.  I rolled down the window and was greeted by a menacing “Remember ME?”  It was the rookie asshole from the bike.  He decided to search our car, call in backup, and then release us 10 minutes later without as much as a ticket.  Weird.  We drove through the night and caught the last 15 minutes of the Colbeer report as the party van lights dimmed and Michael fell asleep.  We pulled up to the Garlinghouse home and were greeted with a friendly smile and some killer nachos.  Thanks Mike.

 

More to come tomorrow as we pick up Don Bambrick, Chris Haffey, and Chris Farmer.

 

-AJ

 

Michael Collins healed and filming…


Michael Collins is back. from Adam Johnson on Vimeo.

Haffey, King of Woodward West

Alex Proskow at Lake Owen


Alex Broskow Lake Owen from Adam Johnson on Vimeo.