lazy, hairy, boy

the death of a lazy hairy boy

2011-03-24T11:49:00.002-04:00

This is probably the last post I'll be making on here seeing how I just finished my new website at maxzahradnik.com

Go check it out!

spring break

2011-03-18T02:00:00.000-04:00

Spring break was awesome.. it didn't really make a difference to me, but everyone else got off from school.

Gwen and I ate at a the sickest skate park in the valley. She handmade those little buttercup shaped things filled with spinach and artichoke.

She also grew all this fruit in her backyard.

Went to York with Berner and Brendan to meet up with Clifford and Jarrett to set it offff. I have no idea why Berner drew this but it's hilarious.

Troutmaster.

Brendan Spohn, fakie 5-0.

Chris Berner, frontside feeble.

We tricked Berner into going to the mall.

The fish hatchery.

The fish hatchery started netting off the ponds so that birds can't eat out of them anymore, which means the increased Great Blue Heron population in the area will probably starve to death.

Real estate.

Chill.

Jarrett had this long platinum angel hair attached to him.

Bubba's back!

Bubba and his shark.

www.lostsoulskateboards.com

Working with Commeh usually goes something like this.

We went to Nawab for the buffet, but just prior to this Gwen saw a kid at a hospital diarrhea all over the floor so it was hard for her to finish this plate of green mush for some reason.

Awesome.

Sneaky.

Tile @ Kendall's house

2011-03-14T15:58:00.003-04:00

Headed to Philly in Bubba's car for the Tile show.. just happened to bring some homeless babes.

Of course we stopped at Pop's and Cheesesteaks because that's the only cool things we know there.

Baby sock.

College.

Reminder: If you like any photos I've taken I can sell you prints of them..

This one is already framed and matted, 25 bucks.

This is a print I made in my dark room, also 25.

See how cool they look sitting next to all the pointless crap you keep in your filthy room?

Make Friends with the 610

2011-03-14T12:00:00.006-04:00

The Blueprint team spent the whole weekend in the 610. Here's a few snippets of what happened.

First stop on friday was the plaza.. Marty Murawski doing a 180 5-0 to fakie.

After school let out and the plaza quickly filled up it was time to go hunt for some street spots.

Comparing facial hair. Duane had the length, but Coakley had full coverage. You decide the winner..

Marty Murawski, nosegrind.

Saturday was the demo at the Bethlehem skate plaza.

Karl Weber was being a bad kid so we made him stand in the corner.

High ollie contest.

Blew it.

I looked over and saw Nik Stain doing this backtail.

The winner!

Ohmigawd the skater park is so boooring.

It was Paul Shier's idea to have the long ollie and high ollie contests because he likes to see people go fast and fall.

Dante killing it.

Karl definitely said something inappropriate here.

Ben your heels have to be hurting.

Nik gets 19.

So did Eric.

Product toss.

This kid walked away with nothing but a muddy hoodie.

16 kids latched to one board.

For some reason Po left a bag of snacks in my car and then he caught me trying to drive away with them.

We did make friends!

caves

2011-03-04T03:36:00.010-05:00

Exploring these caves has been the coolest thing I've done in a long time.

The print of this looks awesome (someone should buy it).

The goal here was to cross over to that dark hole over there and see how far that passage went..

Solution: drop rope through the roof and use the harness to "safely" cross the log.

Deas putting his years of over undering to use.

The real problem was that every possible surface here was covered with ice, so Ans kind of just soap grinded across that log.

Mission accomplished but that passage ended up leading nowhere.

That big black hole here is actually where a small creek runs through to the other side.

Insane.

This would be a good time to mention that there is constantly rocks and icicles falling here.. unfortunately I didn't bring a helmet.

Deas decided to free climb this small wall even though he hasn't climbed in months and we left the crash pad in the car.

This is actually way steeper than it looks.

Helmet or not.. one of these would easily kill you.. I stood there like a sitting duck.

Ans climbed up those rocks once again made of solid ice.

spring cleaning

2011-03-02T00:54:00.005-05:00

Been cleaning up around here trying to get photo stuff organized and I found these old polaroids.

These were from our trip to Toronto in 2007. We're inside one of the biggest malls I've ever been to, that also happened to be the largest asian mall in North America or something. V and Brendan poured Heinekens into their large cups since they were so psyched to be able to buy alcohol.

This photo is from when Ray came over after an all night editing spree for the first lost soul video.. I miss the days when 80% of my desk was soda cans, and the other 20% was that huge monitor.

Commeh smashing a lightbulb on the last day of filming for In With The Out.

|3u|3|3@

2011-02-24T18:05:00.000-05:00

baby juices tournament

2011-02-22T14:09:00.004-05:00

One pound of candy required to enter.. Double round robin tournament, winner takes the trophy, the medallion, and the candy.

Night time huggies... low fo sho..

By the end this is what the scores would have looked like according to Chris, but he actually made up that I lost my last matches to Amanda and Lindsey so that they wouldn't be mad at him. In actuality we quit after Ans won his last match of the night, because it was impossible to take down his flawless Catch-kun.

Amanda tried to get greedy.

Sippy cup smashing..

Pacifiers up in the air!

Taste the baby's juices..

black and white

2011-02-21T14:20:00.001-05:00

That fat lump in the middle of the photo is Shiner.

babes in the woods

2011-02-19T02:29:00.002-05:00

Morpheus?

We found and dissected an owl pellet.

This was my second roll of film I ever developed myself. It was scary because it was such a fast film speed (3200) so I had to leave it in the developer for 18 minutes.. but it ended up coming out perfect!

snow plaza

2011-02-18T02:04:00.001-05:00

See you here this weekend!

still cold

2011-02-17T14:47:00.004-05:00

This place smelled like dandruff worse than usual.

Whitenight Serge.

Fancy Dancers.

Puffball.

I shouldn't have trusted them with a name like Clancy.

*shudder*

Scientific.

Ready to cruise.

modern love story

2011-02-14T05:05:00.003-05:00

Gwen and I were writing stories with my typewriter and she wrote the tale of us. (click to enlarge)

Darkroom

2011-02-08T23:20:00.002-05:00

So my dark room is back up and running. Here's some of the photos we developed the other day.

Here's one by me of a photo from California last year.

Here's one that Chris made of his dead cat.

Ans's folder of contact sheets has really interesting subject matter.. here's Scary Sherry showing Ans a book of drawings she made.

Here's a photo of Kurtz that Ans took years ago.

All of these prints are for sale for 80 bucks each let me know if you're interested.

Also just wait until you see Commeh's horse pictures.

Manly men.

2011-02-05T13:23:00.001-05:00

This is my grandpa.

A different world.

January

2011-01-31T04:10:00.002-05:00

One cold month.. but cathode rays have been keeping me warm.

Gwen and Rodney surprised me with taco dip.

A new friend.

Some expired film + 25 rolls of non expired film (well.. close enough for me).

This battle station will be fully operational really soon.

I'm not sure where to start.

Muscle

2011-01-09T17:24:00.012-05:00

Hm..

-____-

Warm up bobbing.

Muscle Revolution.

Abusing women.

Pulpy.

You deserve this.

Tertium Quid.

Burn it down.

2011-01-07T15:31:00.010-05:00

The devil.

Cloak and dagger.

Glasses crew.

Pleasing in many ways.

Gwen always told me Meghan sings to her rabbits..

Smoking bear.

Toecaps.

Marceline the vampire queen.

Pigtails.... pfft.

Bygones... but still really funny.

Pensyl inchwormed through this hole.

Ray Gurz pivot.

View from top soil.

This cat is Milo's stunt double.

Thanks for cake.

My fave sticker!

Jaunt.

Kurtz's dad's walk in freezer.

Kitsune Udon.

Baby Koza.

: )

Bleach shots.

First Wegman's trip of the new year.

hmm..

Such destruction from such a beautiful creature.

Richlandtown TF

2011-01-05T02:18:00.007-05:00

This winter has been more tolerable than usual thanks to the opening of the Richlandtown Skate Training Facility, check it out here and go have some fun instead of suffering in the cold.

The set up.

The only decent marble ledge in this area just happens to be nice and dry. Pat Villa, back lip.

Pat and Eric getting cute.

Luke Koch did this ollie, which is honestly mind numbing.

This 5-0 was even crazier.

Eric is always down to make fun set ups. Crook, and back tail..

Eric Elliot doing a nollie backside flip.

This clip was from the first time I went to the TF..

For some reason Po really wanted to upload that clip, so I gave him a crappy digital shot from that night.... but he's dumb so here's the film version that I finally got to scan.

Brendan Spohn - melon.

Peanut gallery.

Rage.

I never got a chance to really shoot photos with Jay Sigafoos before, but it was probably the easiest 20 minutes I ever had taking skate photos. Melon to fakie.

Seriously, he didn't try a trick more than 3 times, and if he did it was because I screwed the shot up.. frontside grab to fakie.

Layback, but not like Peters.

Jay Sigafoos.

This video is required watching..

change of pace

2011-01-01T18:05:00.001-05:00

Change of pace for 2011?

I wouldn't bet on me if I were you..

fuck

2010-12-28T03:05:00.002-05:00

Pirates Cove 2005 from zoe mccloskey on Vimeo.

Watching this made me regret wasting all my time skating and going to sick high school parties when I was younger instead of giving a fuck about punk, but then they showed the clip of Belegost playing at the last show and I realized that I think that I got everything I needed to get out of that place.

I remember walking down into that basement and just feeling the most intense energy, which is what wanted to make me use that song for this clip..

PTSS, after credits from Max Zahradnik on Vimeo.

I'm not even really sure what I'm trying to say in this post anymore besides that life is life I guess.

river banks and tarot cards

2010-12-13T04:23:00.001-05:00

Winter sucks. Give me all this.

edamame

2010-11-22T00:02:00.016-05:00

Got some new lenses.. psyched on myself for doing something I should have done years ago..

Batboy was at the plaza..

First snow storm of the season..

Metal to metal.

Don't.

No.

Homies.

Bernt out.

Stop.

^_______^

Went on a pre-HP7 candy run to Wegman's and ran into these fools..

\m/ \m/

Quakertown Training Facility.

New board graphic Ray?

My favorite.

Dating a death eater.

Over grown cemetery!!

Welcome to hell.

MODERN NEEDS

2010-11-17T10:14:00.000-05:00

If you haven't seen MODERN NEEDS yet..

MODERN NEEDS intro from lost soul skateboards on Vimeo.

..then you should!

Buy it here:

lag

2010-11-14T22:58:00.015-05:00

Once again I've lagged behind. Here's Novak's art show from two weekends ago..

I'm a fan of the cereal.

Cop a dime bag while you can.

Master of the house.

This was awesome.

\m/

The virgin killer.

Work on your straddle game.

Bubba's mom held a rager.

Bye bye Bubba boo.

A bad mix?

A demon.

This thing was so large it was scary.

Speeder bikes.

A linty snack.

WHO DID IT?

No don't.

Rodney.

Jungle child.

Chris and Andrew held an art show at the Quadrant in Easton. Thanks to Chris for forcing me to do this.

Lindsey's books and Commeh's statue.

Andrew's stuff is awesome.

The antisocialists found friends.

modern needs premiere

2010-11-01T21:24:00.019-04:00

Putting together the booklets.

My car is still loaded with this stuff.

Next time it's going to be an actual pyramid I swear.

Thanks for doing the merch Eleni!

Homies.

Ya heard.

Karl Weber pwning this kid.

Wine.

Eddie Hill.

Some cute ghoulies showed up.

Handsome dude.

Thanks to everyone in this room.

Future.

Goodbye monitor. Justin was bummed I threw this out 'cause it was the classic Max monitor.

Classic.

:3

"Weber!!"

I want to see you ollie the gap at the plaza next fool!

Proof that Leader loves pelvis.

Teehee.

Awww.

Thanks for this.

I went to Joey's costume party and saw Waluigi and Billy the Exterminator.

This was my personal fave. Mike looked so funny like this.

Creepy. Wait til you see this in action..

Fraggles.

At this point of the night we were talking about South Side legends such as "soul mate" and the dirtballs.

This also cracked me up.

I don't know what joke these babies were trying to make but I thought it was funny.

Billy trapped himself a varmint.

I don't even know.

Time to Breathe..

2010-10-24T23:56:00.015-04:00

The past 4 weeks I've either been locked in my lair editing, or out filming last minute bangers for MODERN NEEDS..

..here's what I've been able to squeeze in besides all that.

College.

Lozo.

Josh was extra awesome this night..

Roughhousers..

Like father like son..

Creeping on roofs and shit.

2,000 dollar sponge.

Trekking.

Beware the dark one.

Me and Gwen found this enchanted tree next to a wizard staff grove..

How would I let someone with such dirty feet peel my eggs for me.

Smeegal..

Awesomest nature I've been to in Pennsylvania.

Happy Birthday Ray..

Emery's goodbye party.

Mike had a lot of awesome mementos in his room.

This is a map of everywhere we went on our train trip through Europe a few years ago.

He took his deck from that trip and drew pictures and wrote down funny memories from everything that happened.. This is a drawing of the VW bug that the crazy kids we stayed with for 2 days gave us a ride up the one of the gnarliest roads I've ever seen. This was in Switzerland and to make everything better it was after a night of partying in downtown Luzerne, and on the way up the hill we listened to Cypress Hill. I'm jealous Mike is going to be able to fill up atleast 6 more boards with all the adventures he'll be having in and on the way to California. Good luck Mike, Bubba, and Kyle.. also Wes and Luke!

Some party..

Tap tap tap?

Party tray of lo mien and the Road Warrior.

Frosty nights..

2010-10-04T23:07:00.007-04:00

I'm glad to spend my favorite kinda nights with my favorite kinda people in my favorite kinda places..

Buoys and gulls.

Linfield armory.

Hardback.

Revisiting nuke town..

This creepy basement came complete with a creepy well.

Point of entry.

"What if we found another dog skeleton?" Oh wait.. I happen to be standing on top of one already..

Here's the original dog skeleton we found..

..and now that I think about it the same house with the original dog skeleton also had a creepy well in the basement.

Swooping bats.

A chill guy.

2010-09-28T19:25:00.000-04:00

Can't be more chill than the snow man..

Muscle Revolution

2010-09-25T22:54:00.006-04:00

If you weren't here you fucked up.

I hear Koza has a staring problem.

A glorious day.

Weber dies.

These girls think I'm a voyeur..

..see them laughing at me?

Fountain Hill skins.

Muscles all around.

Congrats on your last show.

Billy wasn't joking when he said Po had rock hard nipples.

Demons.

Funny.

Actually funny.

Epic.

Bethlehem Skateplaza

2010-09-15T11:33:00.005-04:00

With the exception of Pensyl's pictures all these photos were taken the day before the skate plaza opened. The main idea was to take some promotional pictures and make sure all the ledges were worked in before the big day.

Dan Pensyl - nosegrind

Dan Pensyl - feeble to fakie

Wes Buck - frontside smith grind

Wes Buck - backside nosegrind

Mike Emery - ollie

Bubba Smith - tailslide nosegrab

Dustin Martinez - back tail

Kyle Dalrymple - noseblunt

Home sweet home.

Cardigans and concrete.

2010-09-13T19:50:00.007-04:00

Gwen took me to some abandoned buildings in the middle of nowhere..

Like following Death's pale horse into the apocalypse..

Devil bat.

Dowsing for spirits.

Ollie to manual the flat gap to drop out of that doorway.

I guess this place was housing set up by a coal mine for the workers and their families.

15 foot tall weeds.

Lozo.

Me, Gwen, and Squidward.

One day we decided it would be a good idea to drive to Maryland in the middle of the night so we could hit up like 4 parks in one day..

Little did we know that every park in Maryland requires waivers and helmets.

Lucky for us the cop station next to the first park gave us free bike helmets.

The drive from park 1 to park 2 will be worth it..

SIKE. Woulda skated this one but the place to get waivers wasn't even on site.

What a waste.

Sabbath.

This one wasn't worth helmets or waivers, but we intimidated the pad nanny into leaving for lunch, so we skated it for 45 minutes until we got bored.

Lansdowne. This was the best of the bunch, and would have been worth wearing bike helmets, but you needed FULL pads.

These guys told us to try socks around our elbows to trick the guy watching the park, but he saw right through our charade.

I thought my elbow pads were pretty convincing too.

This park has been there since the 70s and it seriously awesome, it's a shame that it was empty on a beautiful day no doubt due to the stubbornness of the town it's located in.

White rabbit.

Rock climbing.

2010-09-12T19:48:00.002-04:00

One day after work me, Ans, and Deas went to South Mountain to check out some bouldering spots Deas read about online.

Cute.

Find that ledge.

Ha.

South Carolina

2010-09-10T12:24:00.017-04:00

Living large.

Bubba is the only one to bring pizza and wine on a road trip. Also a neckbrace, folding table, umbrella, fan, and a cot.

Cheers.

Done in.

Hill cruised almost all the way down...

..only to do this.

Aaron hooked us up big here.

Suddenly we're surfing with a hurricane 80 miles offshore..

..let's just say it was a struggle for us first timers.

Thanks Adam for letting us sleep here.

Preparing for the art show at Studio B.

Aaron took us to a skatepark inside of a pirate ship.

Went on a fun run with these guys before the art show.

Perfect place for a zombie attack.

Back at Studio B.

Took a break from high culture to go to a BBQ roast.

I can't figure out what any of these words mean.

Besties.

I hate this so much.

In the south they use tractors to make ice cream. It's weird.

Fat funnel cake.

The south had good shapes for parking blocks.

Berry is down.

Success.

I hate minigolf, but I guess no one else does.

Keith let us stay in his office, but the agreement was that this picture would have to watch us all night.

Ray plotting new ways to steal my wallet.

Just like home.

Back on the golf cart.

Sickest spot we didn't get to skate.

I enjoy seeing this.

Got shown around town by a robot.

Set off the alarm on the second night at Keith's.

Last day on the beach. Bubba was surfing MVP of the trip.

Sundae.

Ray fell asleep in the car so we got psychedelic.

Slept in the dew one night...

While these fools hogged the van.

Long hair, sunglasses, covered in tattoos, all black, blasting Sabbath is the perfect way to intimidate at a new park.

Precious shade.

Ray handing some dad his child after mowing him down.

Fast bowl.

Cleanest DIY spot ever.

My new friend.

LeeeeEeeEeEeeet's gooo o o o o o.

Lost Soul Skateboards in South Carolina from Lost Soul Skateboards on Vimeo.

End of summer.

2010-09-05T00:40:00.005-04:00

Vegan and not vegan treat.

Fudge fingers.

An ant carrying a sprinkle.

:B

Grape thieves.

Like two grapes on a vine.

A good party.

2010-08-31T17:47:00.000-04:00

It's a good party when you can sit in the corner ignoring everyone and playing with a cat.

Shoot for Muero Apparo.

2010-08-30T20:55:00.002-04:00

A few weeks ago my friend Alison at Eskandalo asked me to help her with a photoshoot for a local clothing company Muero Apparo.

I was only assisting Alison, but I took some behind the scenes shots.

And I took 3 pics with my new Yashica D to test it out.

http://www.mueroapparo.bigcartel.com

Gwen's crib.

2010-08-08T11:27:00.009-04:00

Out come the wolves.

Tug Patriot.

Sour D.

This beard guy is my favorite.

Cr33pshow.

I like Reef in this picture.

TIGER SAUCE.

Chris's new kitten.

Brendan Spohn..

2010-08-02T10:45:00.000-04:00

Who else leaves a spot mid-session only to come back with an extra care card?

Ringleader.

2010-08-01T13:40:00.000-04:00

The police think that Andy Po is the ringleader of the breakfast club.

Nuke Town

2010-07-31T22:32:00.001-04:00

Scariest lookin dude at the plaza.

2010-07-23T16:26:00.000-04:00

Mikey showing off his ride complete with "stash pocket".

Cliff's Spliffs

2010-07-21T21:53:00.005-04:00

Cliff had homies at his house!

There was some deep dark secrets in that basement...

Jessie brought over this really funny skateboarding book from the 70's.

Death before dishonor.

Boomer on the scene.

That's how humans sit!

What up.

I dipped the rest of my banana in those crumbs.. it was awesome.

T Dong.

Solid ass Genesis collection.

Weed!

Skate videos.

"Oh.. don't worry about it.. that's his chill spot."