We're off, back to a land where people talk normal (at least to us) and the seasons are back where they belong. Australia photo blow out to follow shortly...
"Suffer the Joy", pressure is the motivator.
Deanna gives Billy some shoulder tweakage...
He had only been away from his PSP for about 10 minutes...
Suffer the Joy of being addicted...
It doesn't get more Australian than this (well unless he was throwing a boomerang, holding a koala, putting a shrimp on the barbie, and showing us a big knife while on a walkabout).
"Suffer the Joy", the epicenter of our existence and soon to be your's...
Johnny gets his head squished by Harmony in Canberra...
Man of a million names mike, owen, mike jones, owey owey oh(well i just made that one up), but whatever. Flow for foundation and pig, keep a eye out for his automatic interview dropping sometime before yesterday
Say CHEESE!
This is a SMALL moth.
TEXT UPDATE: We did a demo in Melbourne today and it was pretty fun. I couldn't shoot photos because I was skating. The guys got some footage for Suffer the Joy too.
While Bradford looks on...
The nights are getting weird here in Melbourne.
Suffer the joy of wrestling with your inner demons...
Up close and personal. Melbourne, Australia.
So psychedelic bro...
We stopped in Kaniva to get food. We saw fenced-in Wallabys, Kangaroos, and Emu's. One Emo too.
The place in this photo served fish with newspaper cooked into it. Why bother taking it off?
Billy, Pete, Josh, Kevin, Bradford the Photog, Matt B, and J-Lay holding it down.
Another mall to lose your mind in. Girls in schoolgirl uniforms everywhere.
Playing with his PSP and kickflip boardsliding 10 stair rails in Toy demos...
Thanks to all the great skaters in ADELAIDE who went to our demo
And all the people from Daily Grind who made us feel welcome!
We are off to Melbourne...
It has ben raining since we got here, and the demo was not what it could have been beacuse of the wetness... Plus dear sweet Kevin Barnett is sick as a dog, and I have prescribed him bedrest. So we had no filmer so far either...
Things are looking up from here!
Suffer the Joy of being sick in Australia, and getting rained on. SO much suffering.
Check out the always great SKATEBOARDER magazine for the details...
And since we are in Australia for two weeks. We may get LAZY on updates.
So cut us some slack!
A small tour of 4 cities, with some time to film for SUFFER THE JOY.
Click here to SEE THE SCHEDULE...
Old spot, Josh's go to trick, Grif handling slide duty, and Tempster lurking. All in a day's work.
"Suffer the Joy", getting closer by the day.
I'm sure you know...
And know that there is a trailer lurking just around the corner...
"Suffer the Joy", a mental game as much as a physical one.
Here's Josh checking out Lombard Street in SF. You can spy Jenna in the right hand corner, she's criddling in.
"Suffer the Joy", a crooked path to a unknown destination.
Kevin sits in utter anguish after filming Billy for hours while he tried a line...
So innocent! He hasn't changed a bit. Well a little bit, but not much. He is still excited to skate and always happy and fun to be around...
Photo by: Stevie Brown
Tum Yeto friend, Russ Pope has an show at Nine Star LA on April 8th. Ray Barbee is going to play music at the event. If you are around go check it out.
And Kevin will be melting down all over the world, and Josh will be skating hotel parking lots all over the world...
...And Matt B will be showing the lazy pros what it is about...
Pola's by Grif
Your wallet is gonna Suffer the Joy later this year, bung-scrapers...
I love when Hollywood uses skating to make people look "cool."
Bennett lurks where he can to find his latest Depeche Mode fix.
See...
"Suffer the Joy", your own personal jesus.
Matt Ball gap out 5-o
Corey Duffel b/s crooks
The Nuge big spin heel.
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It's the WORST!
Austin does a feeble/boardslide, polaroid by Grif.
And what do you buy there?
Billy Marks interview on skateboarding.com!!
They came to Chris Lindig's art show trolling for new pelts, some fresh wool if you will...
Joey P. lucked out and won the Foundation Orbit board in black.
Marc Tanner won the red one.
Does this need a caption?
He must have been tripping balls to get as gnar as he did this weekend.
"Suffer the Joy", candy you eat with your eyes.
"The Monster Squad" collectors card, featuring Josh Harmony as "Junk-Food Josh."
Tempster lays down the law, while Kevin documents it for the cutting room floor.
It's called "Futureopolis" and is at 7018 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles...
That is Craig on the left, and Red-Dog Jim Muir on the right.
While in Barcelona. Eating at the Spanish equivalent of "Subway" called "Pans"
I shot this in Austria, there was some weird public art that involved lots of mirrors...
No Photoshop was used!