Vert is Dead. Oh, Well. It's Halloween, Let's Party
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009
Stalker Steve's Photos, Captions, and Story: Vert, the Departed
The night before the Contest I shot some photos. Dylan front crooked to fakie the tranny to ledge with ease
Jacob whipped out this maneuver on the quarter-pipe - one footer to fakie hang-up
Wizard just wore his normal gear
The Body had a Hangover
Barak was that pilot that flew 150 miles past the flight destination because he was on his lap top
Porpe assisted Clem in his Flight of the Conchords costume
Clem was Jemaine, the mayne in Flight of the Conchords
Jay and Silent Justin. Adam Kearly and Justin Ryan held down Innetech with an awesome costume
Alejandro Burnell did the quick foot ollie up to airwalk off the box
Cameron Miller had a kickflip to fakie
Alejandro - frontside axle drop
Top two of the "Other" division
Brandon Bristol was Stuart from Mad TV - backside crooks
Captain Gnar - feeble
I forgot this kid's costume. Skateboard king? Front board
Brandon Bristol - proper blunt to fakie
Captain Gnar, front smith
Who dat? Frontside nosegrind
I think this kid was Zach Braff from Scrubs. Back smith
Bristol pulled this front smith 180 out of nowhere
Top three from the Sponsored division
Porpe felt like putting on a show after the Contest and got called out to drop in on vert. Good job, bud!
Rob Meronek's Photos and Captions
So there were more employees than people in the Contest today
You know what you're doing with that baby?
What? I've found babies before.
Where?
Coffee Bean
Wizard Smoke didn't even wear a costume
Guess which one is Abdias Rivera
First place in the Intermediate Division with a gansta lean accidental manny, Cameron Miller
Alejandro Brunell was the only other kid in the Intermediate Division, so the old saying from Ricky Bobby applies, "If you ain't first, yer last."
Running the Nontest from on top of the toumbstone
Results from the "Other" Division were 1 Ricky Vipperman,
2 Cristan Lesh,
3 Jacob Krajewski,
4 Davelle,
5 Brandon Bristol,
6 Shane Mullins, and
7 Tony Ahedo. This is one of them, but I'm not sure who
I don't know who that is either
Who Dat? is killing it in this Nontest
You can tell how bad that coping is from all the way over here
I believe that's the guy from Mad TV or something
I'm stuck with these slanty eyes so I used them as part of my costume. By day I was The Nuge and by night I was kung fu guy. In the same reasoning, Stalker Steve is stuck with these busted ass tats so he used them as part of his costume, a Bushnell redneck
Alright, vert's dead, but Halloween isn't. Let's get out of here and party. Looks like I'm not the kung fu guy. Cheeta Chad is Chuck Norris approved
I'm at Mike Goodwine and Cheeta Chad's art show right now. That's some of Cheeta's work
This piece in amazing detail was done entirely with a ballpoint pen
I never figured out who the Transformer was with Mike Goodwine, Lt Dangle
I'm slacking on the foot fetishes
Is that one of Goodwine's women?
Eric, Matt Selego, and Pat Stiener - all too cool to dress up
It's now Halloween night in Ybor City and I'm rolling with these partying pregnant chicks, daddy hillbilly, and Pinocchio
It's time for your standard shot of sauce to get things really loose
Partying pregnant ladies and daddy hillbilly got on the bar and danced at that one place. Yeah, we had no real plans so ended up in here
Trampa
That nose went to plenty of inappropriate places
I spy a member of the FSEC
The most legit R2D2 I've ever seen
Did The Senator get a tan?
More inappropriate nose poking. That's Mama from Reservoir Bar - thanks for the liquids
The Ybor City Trolley is the worst form of public transportation in any city I've ever visited. I think I can run home faster than this thing. Good night, everyone
Looks like the Kiddie Course isn't going to be done until tomorrow. Here's some photos from our first session on the main course and some random bar antics at Skateboard Industry Night in St. Pete: A New Course and a New Bar Scene.
You can get a fisheye's view of the completed street course on the SPoT Facebook Page. If you're a fan of SPoT on Facebook, you already know that we sometimes do special sales and give out coupon codes there. Maybe there might be a special just for Facebook fans next week? Who knows? Maybe. The kiddie course isn't done yet. Photos from that coming up in a bit.
On the Win an All Expense Paid Trip to Tampa survey thing, I should have added, "Stay away from the Skatpeark of Tampa Party Team" as one of the options to prevent your skateboard career from derailing. When you come to Tampa, it's easy to get spinning in the party tornado, especially when 200 of your homies are all in the Ybor hotels or the Ho Jo. If the sauce is not your scene or you're trying not to make it your scene, a nice hotel for a decent price just a few minutes up the highway from SPoT is Days Inn. If you're just looking for a lower price room, a cab ride from there to the tornado in Ybor is probably about $15 or so. There's also another Days Inn on Dale Mabry that's across the street from Mons Venus. They don't serve booze there, just boobies. Boobies never hurt anyone's career. Anyway, you have some time left to enter the Tampa trip giveaway which comes with a hotel room and $500 spending cash, among other things. Since you're not skating, we will see you at all the parties that you get passes to.
I went out to shoot photos of the Kiddie Course construction and spotted Kris Markovich hanging out. Here's what things look like as of now. Gotta go, I have a conference call with 25 people from Fuel TV. 25 people??? Yep, mindblowing. It's about the live HD webcast for Tampa Am. They should put this phone conference on live webcast.
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The main street course is done and skateable today. The kiddie course should be done late tomorrow or Saturday. Check out some construction progress: Street Course Construction and Completion 2009.
If you're in St. Pete tomorrow night, join us at Durty Nelly's for an event that The Finest Skate Shop is putting on called Skateboard Industry Night, appropriately abbreviated as SIN.
The winners for the Globe Cruiser completes have been picked. I know at least one of them is a local - Yonis came out on top. See you on the Booze Cruise this Friday. The first $600 worth of sauce is all on me. The trucks on these boards are called "Slant" as in my eyes. Sick.
What song is this in this Tampa Am promo video? That one dude, you know, the guy who will be at Tampa Am 2009 on December 3 at SPoT then
on Friday, December 4, doing a show in Ybor for our 17-Year Anniversary Party at Czar. Yeah, him. Oh, and there could be a little bit of ripping skating going on.
Today the staff at SPoT got started on putting together all the skateboard parts collected in the Shop all year long. Through your discarded skate stuff and contributions from your favorite skate companies, we build as many completes as we can and give them away to as many kids as we can find in the underprivileged neighborhoods in our area. We call this charity Boards for Bros. Check out a few photos from what we did today: Boards for Bros November 2009 Assembly.
If you haven't entered the Globe Cruiser Board giveaway yet, you have one more day for that. Tomorrow, all the emails go into a spreadsheet and get sorted random. The top two get a Globe Cruiser complete. On Friday night for the Booze Cruise, the first $600 of sauce is paid for by eBay shoe nerds who bought some of my old Dunks.
One commenter suggested we change the website every year like we do the street course. As soon as we get one of me for every construction dude out there, we can make that happen. Check out some street course construction that just started. In case you don't know, we have completely changed the street course every single year since 1993 when this place was born. This is the first year we've had a slab of granite, however.
Stalker Steve took some nice chill shots at the Harvest Jam this weekend. The skate ones are sort of like the bennihanna of photography, not that mine were any good either. I know we both can do better than that. Check them out: Stalker Steve at the Harvest Jam 2009.
A known hater on the Skatepark of Tampa Facebook page also has photos from the Harvest Jam. Thanks Kirk Hallinan. I'm putting you on the next cover of Frontside Grind Magazine.
