Skateboard Typography & Lettering assignment Jim Goodrich and others

Thank you to Jim Goodrich for letting me use his photos as reverence and inspiration for this project. A few other photos were taken by Ted Terrebonne, John Krisik, Brad Bowman and Mike "Smiley" Goldman. This past Spring 2012 I took a class at Cabrillo College down the hill from my house. I went there after high school and drive by daily. I have been trying for a year to get into the Final Cut Pro Class. No luck last Fall so I took a Photoshop class that I loved. Helped me fine tune some skills and learn about new features. This Spring they only offered the B intermediate Final Cut class so I took Carl Rohrs Lettering and Typography class. I had always wanted to take it and since the students enrolled get priority in registering it was worth it. If you ever have a chance to take his class do. He teaches around the world and we have him in our backyard. His knowledge about type is amazing, his lettering skills to die for.

Illustrator vector art from photoshop work.

Wood laser cut 1/4" final piece. Still have a paper cut project to finish and it is on black paper hand cut. Can you say sore fingers.

Duane Peters

Curt Kimbel (Old Santa Cruz Teammate who has a son that rips named Willis Kimbel)

Skated with all of the skaters in this letter but one. The two women in this are Cindy Whitehead and Leilani Kiyabu, Tony Alva, Steve Alba, Jay Adams, Steve Olson, Duane Peters, Brad Bowman, Scott Foss, Steve Caballero, Chris Strople, Curt Kimbel, Randy Katin, Bobby Valdez, Mike Folmer, only skater I didn't skate with John Gibson. Yes I have two skaters in twice. Was running out of time and had a deadline.

Skateboard Journal Magazine Art/Design Profile in issue 2

Super stoked to get a large piece in the second issue of Jack's Smiths "Skateboard Journal Magazine"

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Lords of Dogtown and Z boys Press Kit & wheels ebay

Disc inside on the back cover and a OSX viewer with the following. Captions (word docs), Contact Info., Logos, One Sheet (highres poster image), Photos (25), Production Notes


Poster image on disc high res tiff



Screen shots of disc OSX





24 1/4" tall by 6" wide
15 pages
Hard cover skateboard cover saddle stitched with CD with press kit info inside. 18 two side pages. Back Skatedeck cover is thick card stock heavier than the cover which is laminated to the back.






Lords of Dogtown Trailer



Dogtown and Z Boys Trailer



Feel cool to see friends that I still skate with in it. Jack Smith of the Skateboard Journal, Chris Chaput of Abec 11, Jim Muir, Steve Olson as a judge. Very fun. Though I think Dogtown and Z boys is much better.
Putting this on ebay today. I have a few and thought I'd clear out a few skateboard, Lance Armstrong, Madonna, barely used wheels.

Ebay
Foyster2
Item number: 120751188283
Will post links later.

Barely used Avalon 3DM longboarding skateboard wheels.
Item number: 120751240184

Rare Tony Alva Santa Cruz Skateboards

Rare limited edition Santa Cruz Skateboard Alva Sticker by Jim Phillips.

This was made for Alva to launch right when he was going to sign on and skateboard for Santa Cruz. He changed his mind and signed on with Logan Earth Ski. I scoured the internet and didn't find any images or history. I remember the big box of stickers at the top of the stairs. Jay Shuirman told me to grab what ever I wanted because they had to be destroyed. I grabbed 2 stacks of 50 and have given most away and sold a few on ebay for up to $49.50 each. I thought I'd sell this one and help my kids school.

Available on the Mar Vista School Website to help fund raise for the school.
Many of the original Santa Cruz Skateboard team members went to this school.
Oldschool stickers are rare and not cheap.
Here's a few links
Retro Sticker
oldschool skate stickers
skateboard stickers uk

Alva skate memory in Santa Cruz back in the day

Lately I've been thinking I should write down some of the skate stories for my kids and for myself. I've had quite a fun life skating over the decades. I brought up the story yesterday of down hilling Rodeo Gulch with Tony Alva back in 1980 and it got me thinking I should document some of them.

It was the Friday night before the weekend of the Capitola Classic and Tony came by NHS and was hanging out. He asked where he could go shoot a hill around Santa Cruz, I told him Hutson and I had been practicing on a road close by. We jumped in my red 1963 bug and headed out a few miles away. I remember it was a warm afternoon and I was like I'm going skating with TA, cool. Rodeo Gulch is tucked away and is a windy redwood lined road that at the time was pretty quiet unlike today where you wouldn't probably want to be going full speed with all the car traffic. We parked at near the end where there is a lone tree you can drive around to loop back to avoid the single lane steep road that goes over the hill toward the summit. We got out and he asked if you could shoot it I said yes. It is always good to get the lay of the land. I told him just don't cross over the lines on the blind corners and to look out for deer. A week before Hut was in a full tuck and we were following him trying to get a rough speed and we were around 35 miles and hour. I remember noise to the right and a bunch of deer charging down a steep embankment right down to the road right in front of Hut's line. He stood up and clapped his hands and they spread a few went right and a few went left he threaded the needle and went right in between and even brushed his hands on one of them. He was so lucky that they split. He slowed down and was just glad not to get taken out by a deer.

After getting out of the car and a few pushes later we were hauling down the road. I was on a Jim Gordon cutaway downhill board and he was on a pool park board. I remember the cool spots in the shade as we were going down. I wasn't too far behind and when we got to the bottom he looked back and smiled as I was on his tail. Toward the end I remember weaving back and forth to slow down. We hitched a ride back up and there was another car with Roger Hickey and crew ready to boom the hill. The LA rivalry was in the air and Tony started yelling at them calling them kooks or something and we got in my car and left.

We went back to NHS and he forgot his board in my trunk. I still have the board as and I told him a for a few years after that when we ran into each other that I still had his board. He told me to keep it. It is a super wide laminated concave, hand written graphics on the bottom, Indy's, white now yellowed Alva wheels with the buttons that fit in the hubs, pizza grip tape with a few stickers on it.

The next day was the race and that's another story. As well as the weekend I spent in Malibu at his ocean view shack with my broken leg. The road trip from Santa Cruz to Clark Foam, which was the first weekend Royce Chancleer became the NorCal Gotcha rep and they dropped me off at TA's on the way down and I got picked up on the way back. Got to see first hand Alva's rock star skate status and the wild life going on in LA. He was always very nice to me and we remain friends to this day.