wake up

Trying to get in all I can before it's super cold!

Messing around before I took a sequence of Bubba.

Pat trying to figure out the laziest way to film.

Glen Onoko




We went all the way to the top! It was awesome.


Commeh had an art show at Homebase.

He said it was just a man's face, but I know he was sculpting this guy..







He makes his own mate bowls and his own mate. Which to us stupid Americans seems like really bitter gross tea at first, but after a few tries it grows on you.

Most of this stuff will be at Homebase over the next month and most of it is priced to move.

Me and Jen stumbled upon kitty city. This black cat was our guide.



Cats popping out from everywhere.

The gray one got roughed up some time recently and the orange one wouldn't let him get too close to us. He was very protective.

The orange one blocking him from us.

Our handsome guide.


Someone put a lot of time into this.

Poor guy.

I showed this feral cat the wonder of chasing string so when I left I made him a toy and hung it from the tree for him to enjoy.

fall?

I feel weird lately. I swear fall gets shorter and shorter each year. I still enjoyed the time in fall where it wasn't raining. School is getting more intense, but right on time for daylight savings. How convient. Here's some pictures of hanging out indoors.

"I am a God"


Resting.


This makes me feel a bit better.

That's actually a lot more candy than it looks.

Buying these also makes me feel better.

This is brilliant.

nerdout

Po hooked me up with a bag of his old anime stuff.

All of it was cool, but the hot items were the bootleg Street Fighter 2 anime movie, and the Japanese Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

Oh! And the little gundam.

Also earlier in the week my dad called me and told me that he had old videogame stuff that he found in the basement. As you can see most of the games I had were pretty choice.

Except Gex and Rampage. X-Com is one of the best games to ever exist, and the sword and shield were made by my grandpa so I could pretend to be Link. Too bad I ruined the shield with markers.

Bangers! (ignore Fighter's Destiny and Legend of the River King.)

Never ending.

I saw this at school. I think it's supposed to be shin chan.

All joking aside I walked into the computer lab to see Shiner looking at pictures of food. Not so secret fatty!

This guy was giving blood. Look at his 75 pound backpack.

Rainy weeks lead me to boredom. Re did my plexiglass on my T5 so the button layout is exactly the same as the madcatz sticks. I also heavily edited some artwork I found. Now I just have to decide on what color buttons/balltop to get.

Awaiting some love.

BM2k

BM2k starring Andy Vasquez, Erik Smith, Issac Southard, Joe Nicolello, and others.

BM2k from Max Zahradnik on Vimeo.

In 9th grade I met Erik Smith skating at Hollywood Video in the eastside of Allentown. He was pretty cool and we went skating a few times, but then he told me he was having a video coming out and eventually towards the end of 9th grade (or maybe it was the beginning of 10th grade?) I got a copy. Andy V starts it off with a pretty sick part but you can tell that this was a different phase in his life by the trick selection, loading dock/steps, and the Ludacris song. Although his trick selection is a lot different than nowadays you can see his inner anti hero when he does a boardslide transfer on a orange barrier which I still think is nuts. Although he's probably embarassed by this footage I think awesome. Erik Smith skates to Reggie and the Full Effect, has a badonkadonk, and does a fs halfcab flip down a gap which is probably the last time anyone in the area did that trick besides on flat, also his first line is pretty choice. The next part is a bunch of kids I've seen at Homebase or at Liberty that I never really got to know, but Jack Kroemer's footage was awesome. Issac Southard is another kid that I never met, but his footage is cool and he could bs nosegrind better when he was 15 than I ever will. Joe Nicolello has the last part and it's pretty nuts, he was ahead of the curve on tight acid wash jeans and does my favorite bs shove it ever caught on film. Alot of his footage was nuts back then but honestly it still holds up, the switch ollie down liberty, and of course the nollie bs 180 down Dunnegan. I'm not really sure where Joe is or what he does, but I know if we went to Dunnegan he could probably nollie bs 180 it in under 7 tries.

I thought this video was cool back in the day because it's quick, unlike the Clear Out (the Bishop video). While Clear Out was like 45 minutes long, I think the last part is over around the 13 minute mark in Bm2k, which honestly is how videos should be.

Group photo

Group photo from the Halloween Skatejam.

Eskandalo 2 year anniversary Zombie Prom/Homebase Halloween Skatejam

Zombie prom was tight except no one was feeling Jen and I's diseased faces.


Bernard Bernoulli.


Tile played and I thought I was taking pictures of them, but it just looks like a a crowd of people watching a fucked up movie.

I don't even know.

Hahahaha.

Yeo.




Brendan thought he was too old for Halloween.

You know you're bound for a good time when you walk into a basement and are greeted with this.






Jungle rumble.

Bah kaw!

New levels of stardom.

Weirdest shit I seen all night.


Jen's pumpkin looks better now after a week.

Nice 80's costume?


So glad Jen took a pic of this.









The downhill jam was cool but there should have been more obstacles like oil slicks and barriers.




Saved it.

Lost it.




Tyler mastered the corner.

The artsy girl.


Two freaks of nature.



Kyle clenched the title with a varial heel. Yeah brother.

I don't know why so many people did sleeveless shirts over sleeved ones. What's the point.

Neff.

This was a land.










Segretto pushing Davontae.

You're like 21 dude.

Love this outfit, really speaks to me.

This one.. not so much.


Huck jam.

Abe getting stinky.




Kids lined up.

Like sorry.


Mike's shirt overloaded my sensors.

If you didn't get my costume then skip to about 3:40










After everything we went to a chinese buffet.


Jen filled up all her plates with nothing besides meat.

Capcom Fight Club NYC 2009.

I got to the city around like 4:30, but then I got lost, went to an anime store, skated far, bought buttons at video games new york, and by the time I finally got there.. the line was humongous.

BUT, the people I was standing next to were hilarious, and the guy in the tan coat reminded be of Alphonso Ribiero. I heard references from a large number of nerdy subsects including Reboot, Masters of the Terra Kasi, Gem Fighters, and Killer Instinct ("I dunno about that game man.. I mean.. the guys name is Combo!"). I also heard some goth kid arguing with his friends about what to do after the event "I'm not sure if I want to go with you guys cause I might go gothclubbing!" Weird.

Down in the basement there was lots of people hungrily awaiting to play on the systems that actually had joysticks (way to go Capcom, no one likes pads wtf).

Too bad the systems that everyone was playing on didn't have Super in them! The only people that got to play Super were the pros and some lucky randoms. (Way to be deceiving, fuckers!) Super did look awesome though!

All in all, it was cool to be around so many nerds for one night, and the place kind of really did feel like a fight club with the body heat from the crowd/moist air, but it would have been cooler if Capcom honored the people who rsvped online like they said they would.



Of course I went to China Town Fair afterwards, and I saw this guy killing it as usual.

Recently..

Fun fall activities..

Babe hunting at Wegman's.


Empty house.

Billy killed it as usual.


Then he spilled soda on V.


We went to Barnes and Nobles and found a real babe!

Rachel and Kurtz carved pumpkins..

..they were okay...


One day I drove with the point of getting lost and finding spots (I do this often), but I ended up in Pottstown or whatever.

Kickin' Chicken.

After much fruitless searching I remembered there was supposed to be a good arcade called Challenge Arcade at the Berkshire Mall in Reading, so I went and checked it out.

These things are so sick! Dr Mario and Excitebike.

Super Mario Bros. I died on the second level. What a nub.

Cool!

This was definitely the highlight. Baby smooches!

Look at that marquee.

This game is too hard, but I saw an azn own it.


This was cool, but my ball got stuck in the deathstar for like 5 minutes so I walked away.

The Challenge arcade is probably the best kept arcade I've ever been to. There's no games with broken buttons/sticks and all the monitors and cabinets are beautiful. There isn't many new games, but what they had kept me entertained until my 8 bucks ran out.

School.

Creepy.

Best place, sick movie.


Beauty in the Buff?

Gordo.

Gordita.

Sally!

qt

That's my cat, Jen's witch, and some goards that are supposed to be pacman and his friends, but they were too hard to cut so they are half assed.



Chinese buffets now have buckets of stale chips!

And mozzarella steaks!

Emmaus Halloween parade.

Too much for me man.


"I've been in the gutter before"



I made this background for Brendan's computer but if anyone else wants it then take it.


Tss tss tss.

Doo... da.. dipitty.

For your viewing pleasure the first two Homebase videos..

City Without Spots from Max Zahradnik on Vimeo.

This came out when I was in 8th grade if I remember right. Po chased me, Chris Lick, and Brad the Fat Kid down when we were on our way home after a session at Mosser and gave us fliers. The premiere was pretty nuts, the only thing I really remember is Ray and his brother getting into a fight during Carpenter Ant's set and cymbals being thrown. The video itself was nuts too.. Andy Mack was gnarly and bombed the three humps in Catasaqua with a board with monster wheels on it.. which is just straight stupid. He also ollied that long gap at wax works, which was unbelievable back in the day (still is), and he bs nose picks the Sheridan ledge which is probably even more stupid. Kayes has a ton of solid footage, especially that pole jam. Erik Clark ollies the Parkland 12, and almost does the 15. Everyone(especially Pensyl) makes Yosco look like it was a fun spot, and everyone (especially Sigafoos) makes me want to buy a season pass to the old Penn Skate. Josh Novak nollies taller than your head, and also has (in my opinion) the sickest trick to ever go down on the Lehigh Rail. Dave Schwartz almost blunt fakies the Liberty brick banks. Gleason does fastplants and two casper flips. In the Easton section Mike Emery makes a bleach blonde debut, Hanson makes me want to go re-watch old Daniel Shimizu parts, and a twelve year old Luke Koch does switch front boards better than I can do it regular now. Dave Hill wears a pair of DVS Mayans and does a perfect hardflip down the Liberty 5, and Eric Potts eats a lot of shit and skates really hard.

Kill The Filmer from Max Zahradnik on Vimeo.

First of all.. the intro of this video is one of my favorite intros ever (I'm a big fan of intros). After that comes Josh Novak and Colbert sharing a part. Just pay attention to Novak's fakie manual on the Mosser manual pad and wish that you could do it like that, and think about how nuts the 50-50 that Colbert does in downtown bethlehem. Ray's last two tricks at Pennskate are nuts. Dave Hill does a fucking ghetto bird! I'm not sure what to say about Kayes and Gleason's part so I'm just going to say to remember to check out Kayes's inkless arm at the end of the part and contemplate how much he's spent on all his ink in the past 7 years. Whoever this Joe Lanenga guy is, he nollies the Liberty 11, shreds FDR, and ollies that sketchy street gap in front of the cemetary. Shiner looks skinny and skates good, and... Vlad.. lol. Eric Potts does a nuts line at Mosser with a kickflip up the pad and then backlip the rail. Phil makes me want to learn how to come off the ledge in the middle of a crooked grind, and Po has goes in the history books for the most coordinated outfit at I-95 in Philly. Wes Buck makes a lot of weird noises and skates like a freaking nut job, and Dustin kills it. Especially the front blunt shove, backlip shove, and the kickflip melon.

These videos come from an awesome time for skating in the Lehigh Valley, and Po did an awesome job documenting the whole era. Most of all they make me want to go skate local spots (no matter how crummy) instead of just heading to Saugy. Too bad Liberty is gone...