This shot of Gary Young is from a road trip in 2002 that I took with Aaron Nardi, Ryan Sher, and Gary. We drove from SoCal to Chicago for a contest, hitting some street spots and parks along the way. We stopped in Las Vegas for at least a day to ride some of the many skateparks, and since it was mid-summer, you can imagine it was hot. There’s a photo I took of a thermometer on this slide sheet that registers 113-degrees. Skateparks are like giant reflectors with all the concrete, so it made it feel even hotter. This shot was a two page spread in Ride UK, and a similar one was used on a pull-out poster in the same issue. Later in the trip, Gary lost his wallet, and used a bio from another magazine he had in his car as picture ID at the bank. He’s the only person I know that’s used a magazine feature to take money out of their bank account. A few weeks later, Gary went back to a gas station in Utah where he thought he might have left the wallet. They still had it. How he found that gas station again I have no idea.

Made a trip to Vegas this weekend for a jam at TJ Lavin’s house celebrating both the 4th of July and the tenth anniversary of the jumps in his yard. Unfortunately it was really windy all day long, so the riding on the day of the jam was pretty minimal, and didn’t start until right before dark. So I didn’t shoot much in the way of photos… aside from these ones of TJ with his dog. I did shoot some video for BFD.com which they’ll likely post within the week. It will be mellow since the action was such due to the wind. Despite the small amount of riding that went down, it was nice to be back at TJ’s. I think it’s been at least 5 years since I was at his house. That was long before dudes like Brad Pitt and Oscar de la Hoya would roll up to hang out with him. You can see another photo of TJ with his dog after the jump. Edit: I added a video from BFD.com. I shot the footage, and they edited the clip.