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.

Board Rescue Portraits by Jay Watson are posted

Beautiful portraits by Jay Watson from the Board Rescue event at the Boardroom. Here is a link to his images.
Big thank you to everyone that Supported our 2 nd Annual Board Rescue Art Show Fundraiser boards. I have to say I am thoroughly stoked. The Board Rescue art show evening, the window display and then the ebay auction that just wrapped up last night.

Steve Caballero



Jake “Ginger” Jeffers


Jason Jessee

Steve Caballero's custom Van's and Sockshop window

Steve Caballero's window is up. Window #3 at the Sockshop and Shoe Company. Shoes are available for auction. Other items like the prototype Cab toy are on display prints are available on Steve's website.

Lake Cunningham double photo shoot Nikki Brooks

While waiting for the concrete to dry and between shooting with Lucia Griggi, Gary, Patti and I were skating around having fun trying some freestyle moves with Gary Holl. Nikki Brooks came over from Santa Cruz with Ben Marcus for the shoot. Nikki takes great photos as well so we got a twofer that day. This morning I was pleasantly surprised to have her send these photos and thought I would share. Patty in the bowls playing as the park was not open. I warmed up in the pool as it was super cold and there was snow on the mountain tops this day. Rick Blackhart in the full pipe was ripping until he crashed. I push the helmet thing on him and I got the finger. This run or the next he hit the ground pretty fing hard. Not saying but saying told you so.

Nikki's Jetty Girl write up.

Big thank you to the guys at the Lake Cunningham Skate Park you guys rock!

Patty created this great Women's skateboarding Audio piece that is really good, part of it was made at Lake Cunningham Skate park with Steve Caballero and his daughter Kayla who is quite the ripper.

Am I really 50?

I think about skateboard way to much still. I woke up the other morning thinking to myself, "Am I really 50?" I'm still passionate about going to the parks and skating. Thinking about dropping in and getting nervous about whether I can pull it or will I chicken out. Imagining the best line to take. Not skating to the caliber I use to but getting my park legs back slowly and still enjoying the adrenaline rush (I think it keeps you young). I've spent most of my past 7 years racing slalom and practicing for races when I skate. I like the park challenge and feel I better get back on it a little before I'm too old to even do it. There are so many great skaters over 40 ripping it is amazing. Us old farts still raising the bar.

Old photo of Winchester Skatepark almost 31 years ago after spending 5 weeks in Hawaii, this was my first session in January 1979. Photo by Mike Smiley Goldman (still ripping) and Steve Caballero in the back ground at 14 years and a size 23 waist. I know cause I made him a pair of skate shorts when I use to sew skate shorts.

Going skating with Mikko and friends. Mikko drove me to Winchester back in the day and sold me my second skateboard from Wings Waves and Wheels, I still have the deck. Skating with Gary Holl, and the NorCal crew LCSP.

Go out and skate!

Women in Skateboarding Audio Project

Super stoked to be part of Patty Fung's UCSC multimedia audio project about Women's Skateboarding.



Patty Fung:

As part of my community studies social documentation course at the University of California, Santa Cruz, we were asked to select a medium and to produce a short documentary on a subject of our choice. The subject I choose was women’s skateboarding with a goal of highlighting not only the barriers that continue to exist today, but the rich narrative of women who have been riding since the rise of the sport as well as the recent growth of female skate communities that empower and encourage girls of all ages and abilities to ride with confidence. What you will listen to here is not only an assignment for a course, but a project for the community of women skateboarders all over the world who have ridden and those that continue to push the limits of skateboarding with passion.

(Note: My hopes is that this will be continued as a bigger project to capture the stories of individuals beyond the community of skateboarders in the Bay Area, California. If you would like to share your stories, experiences, and related media about the subject, please contact me at patricia.s.fung@gmail.com with “Audio Documentary” in the subject line.)



Voices:
Steve Caballero, Kayla Caballero, Cindy Whitehead, Patti McGee, Julia Davis, Jolie, Mathew George, Gary Holl, Erica Harris and myself.

Thanks Patty.

My interview was done at Nextspace it seemed as though we were being followed by the Harley from Patty's place to downtown. I enjoyed the Nextspace ROP graphic design forum yesterday morning. Thanks for the invite Iris, Jeremy and Ryan.

Made this Side Project Website



Oyaha, Oyana, Obama it's all good.

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.

50 th Birthday party LCSP Oct. 24 th

Proof you can teach and old gal new tricks. Never did tail drops back in the day. Never too late to learn on my 50 th birthday bash. Gary Holl giving me some pointers and my first go without a helping hand. Felt pretty good. Tried it a few more times and a couple times before ending a long skate session. Skated with many friends I had not even skated with in over 30 years. Thanks Steve Caballero for bringing Kayla and Kaylib. Michael Chantry for taking all these great photos and for driving all the way down from Placerville.

Thank you for all my friends for coming out to skate. Gary my coach, Wally, Patty, Rick Blackhart, Fly, Mofo, Zack, Ray Meyers, Stephen King, Cat, Victor, Joe Fong, Joe, Kenny, Tahj and friends.






Ray Meyers asked me if Patty was my daughter. I said, " do you want me to slap you now or later" jokingly. I'm afraid I'm old enough to be a grandma out there, but if I can inspire a few daughters, wife's, girlfriends or mom's. I'm going to keep having fun.