Lake Cunningham Session with BK and friends

Fun sessions with the NorCal crew getting together for a last session before the park closes for two weeks to put in lights. Night skating in the summer is the best. Bryce Kanights and Donna were in the Bay area so he called a sessions and a ton of folks came out. Gary Holl, Cab, Blackhart, Fly, Joe Fong, Mikko, Patty, Fedge, too many to name and many I didn't know. The park was the most crowed I'd ever seen. It was great to see all the young kids out skating. My first session after a good smack down on the concrete doing a tail drop. Tail dropped again but not in the one bowl that got me last time. Couldn't do it yet.

Santa Cruz Skatepark Wave in the Wall Street Journal

It's not often in one week I get a call from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Santa Cruz Sentinel all for skateboard related info. The WSJ wanted to get permission for using one of the images I took of the Santa Cruz Skatepark Wave public art project I did with Jimbo Phillips and Diamond D Concrete. Super stoked see it live today in a skate article with an interactive section along BK's photography.

Ripper Book

Art before framing old magazines and skate imagery.



Brought back some great memories from back in the day.



Stoked to be part of the Ripper art show at ASR and now looking forward to seeing the book. Thank you Desiree Astorga for including me in the show. Here's a video link.


On January 23rd, 2009, Powell-Peralta hosted the Rip the Ripper Art Show. Fifty eight artists had pieces on display. The reason for the show was to celebrate The Ripper graphic. So many skaters and artists have been influenced by VCJs image over the years, we wanted to do something that would pay respect to VCJ and get skaters stoked. We invited a group of artists and asked them to interpret The Ripper in their own style. Curator: Desiree Astorga

The book is the culmination of passion, hard work and effort from this exhibit. It features the artwork that was created for The Rip the Ripper Art Show featured at ASR.

The Rip the Ripper art show that went down last January has now spawned a book and commemorative limited edition deck. Featuring fifty eight artists’ reinterpretation of Powell Peralta’s famous Ripper, the book will be available in either a 8 X 8 soft cover for $40.00, or a 10 X 10 hard cover for $75.00.

Aaron Brookes launches his new company Brooklebee

Congrats to Aaron for launching Brooklebee a Product and Brand Strategy company. Aaron is a successful product and brand marketing executive with broad, global experience with world class brands, innovation leaders, and growing companies. He is an accomplished business, brand, new product launch and go-to-market leader. An exceptional presenter and a collaborative leader, Aaron has a natural strategic orientation and ability to inspire diverse, creative teams. Aaron has an MBA in Management from George Fox University and a BA from University of Colorado, Boulder.

NextSpacer downtown Santa Cruz 101 Cooper Street.

Illustration by James Jean, photography by BK Byrce Kanights, Giro catalog design by me. Fun project.