Joe Carlino on Today's Earthquake

As you may have heard already, there was an earthquake in Southern California today. I always like earthquakes, as long as no one gets hurt. You know, the day is considerably more interesting when an earthquake drops in. So I decided to see what Joe Carlino thought about it all.

Joe, did you feel that earthquake today?

Joe: Yea, it felt cute.

Were you editing? Did it ruin everything?

Joe: No, Corey and I were talking about the avalanche he was in, then the room started to shake. It was wild.

It felt really strong up here, how was it down there? Are you used to earthquakes yet?

Joe: Not that bad, nothing fell over. That was the biggest I have felt since I moved to California.

It would be. It opened my filing cabinets and knocked over some pictures and dvds. Did you hide in a doorway?

Joe: Nah, we just all looked at each other. I thought about. I was more worried about protecting the hard drives. Like in case the wall fell down.

I thought about it too, but instead I looked out my window. Do you think that These Days will be influenced by the quake, like maybe it will be more edgy now?

Joe: I hope, I think thats what snowboarding needs right now.

Yeah, maybe the earthquake will be foreshadowing of the new trends for next season.

Joe: Whats that? Construction helmets?

Maybe, or maybe people will start riding their fixed gears to the top of the slope instead of using the chairlift.

Joe: I heard the new Autumn Line movie is edgy, I want to see it.

Yeah it's out there. I heard that the Newsroom movie is done too. It's getting around that time. When is your movie done?

Joe: Probably never at this point.

Gold Country Webisode 3

Team Thunder's Gold Country webisode 3 is now up on Snowboardermag.com. This one has crails, two and a halves, skateboarding, and emos. Click on the guy just to the right of the N in brighton to view.

themustachio.com interviews Nima about Ashbury

themustachio.com just did an interview with Nima about Ashbury, CLICK HERE to read.

Peter in Belize

Peter Benchetler just got back from Belize with his family. He sent me some photos, without much explanation other than titling the photos. Which is fine. I think the photos speak for themselves. Don't expect these photos to be in any sort of chronological order either, they're just laid out alphabetically.

Barracuda are fast. Peter must be an unbelievable swimmer to catch this guy.

The Belize River, from Peter's vantage point. He's very tall.

Bonefish.

Peter's the copilot.

Crocodile territory.

Peter's haggard grill.

Dinner.

Dolphins are very intelligent, and everyone knows it takes intelligence to be capable of evil. Everyone knows that. Well, dolphins are sometimes guilty of gang rapes.

Peter's Belizean front yard.

His goodbye photo.

I'm not the guy who goes in the water when there are jellyfish around. Peter however isn't afraid to stare danger in the face.

Peter tanning.

Peter labeled this one, Lancestore. I believe I'm a little more prudent than that.

Copilot Peter's seat.

You can see Peter fishing in the distance.

Protective measures.

Awwww.

Doesn't this look nice.

This reminds me of the bass fishing games I'd play as a child.

Snow Rev Interviews Team Thunder

Sam Spedale at Snowboard Revolution interviews the Team Thunder's Cody Comrie and Ben Gustafson about their upcoming release Gold Country. If you read it you might be able to draw cool Team Thunder hats like the one above. You also have to click on the hat to read the interview.

Snow Rev Interviews Clancy

Snowboard Revolution interviews Kyle Clancy, you can read it too it you just click the background of the above image.

Super Girl in Huntington Beach, CA

The US Open of Surfing is going on at Huntington Beach right now and alongside the US Open there is an all female snowboard contest, skate contest, and all kinds of other things. Huntington is kind of a weird place as it is, but you bring all this with it and it's super awkward and crowded.

Well Desiree did the snowboard contest today. Big Mountain Mike, Harrison, and I came along as well to intimidate the judges or back her up in a fight or whatever.

Desiree and Harrison, happy in hats.

Palm trees.

Creepy microphone.

Don't worry, she's ok.

This girl backside smithed that rail FT.

Harrison and Big Mountain.

Under all those tents are pretty much every stupid idea you've ever had.

Desiree 5-0. This was Desiree's first time snowboarding since breaking her collarbone in April. She did all your favorite tricks. I'd tell you what they were, but then I'd sound like a douche bag. And I want you to like me.

Here's one of the cool tricks though. Hardway 180 fakie 5050. I took it a little early, but it was FT. And in case you care to know who won, it was Laurie Currier from Wrightwood. She landed a lot of tricks. And an honorable mention is Raewyn Reid, who I believe got second, but she nearly made a hardway backside 180 fakie 5-0. Yeah crazy. She locked into it, but just didn't ride out. Almost though.

I think she is trying to look like a Super Sayan again.

Top Fives with Jordan Mendenhall

Places to be:
1. In the basement
2. Ben's ramp
3. Raging Waters
4. Sandy Skatepark
5. On a bike

Things to do with Rohen:
1. Play in the dirt
2. Go swimming
3. Feed the ducks
4. Slide down slides
5. Long walks

Skateboarders:
1. Rowley
2. Reynolds
3. Dylan Rieder
4. Spanky
5. Silas Baxter Neal

Musicians:
1. There is
2. No way
3. To narrow it
4. Down! My brain hurts just
5. Thinking about it.

Things that make you cringe:
1. Scratching a chalkboard. It's cliche I know, but it
makes me cringe every time.
2. Watching people roll their ankles
3. Hearing about blown knees
4. Putting on grip tape. It's improved lately, but it
still gives me the chills.
5. Trends in snowboarding.

Things you appreciate:
1. Life
2. Every second with Rohen
3. Good tunes
4. Hot tranny moves
5. Most modern inventions

Things about growing up in Utah:
1. Mountains
2. Lakes
3. Rivers
4. Good skate spots
5. Mormonism

Things about snowboarding:
1. It's a damn good time
2. It will never be as cool as skateboarding
3. Snowboard movies are horrible right now
4. The bigger the spin the bigger the bank account
5. Snowboarding is dead, Shaun White killed it.

People to film with:
1. Jon Kooley
2. Joe Sexton
3. Bryan Fox
4. Mills
5. Fillipo

Snowboard video parts of all time:
1. Any Peter Line part
2. Jeremy Jones parts
3. Every Love/Hate part except for mine
4. Gigi Ruf parts
5. 90's snowboard movies

Things about Love/Hate:
1. Justin Hebble
2. I think it depicts real snowboarding.
3. Hot rail moves
4. Mikey Leblanc is the best guy
5. Hanging out with Forgash and Shelby all winter

Artec Team Update

Artec Snowboards has updated us all with the happenings with their team. Click on one of Nima's eyes or Gus' flower to view.

Catching up with Robbie sell

Robbie doesn't ride for Ashbury, but why not catch up with him?

Robbie owns this Ak47, he also just bought a Glock 17 too... No joke

ROBBIE WHERE YOU AT?

Robbie: at a coffee shop in Portland

WHY ARE YOU IN PORTLAND?

I came up to hang out at Mt Hood for a session at HCSC to get some photos, and now I'm just visiting friends in the city, and to chase after some hipster girls.

NICE, THEN BACK TO RENO?

Yeah, back home to take advantage of the rent I pay.  Then off to southern california to stop by the snowboard magazines and to see other friends and to chase after some beach babes.

YOU GONNA COME VISIT ME IN LA BEFORE THAT?

yeah for sure. Pierre and I actually might be bicycling from SF to SD.

OH SHIT, THAT'D BE CRAZY

it's going to be sweet... I'm down for pedaling.

LANCE JUST TRIED TO GO FROM SF TO LA, BUT HE COULDN'T HANG AND TOOK THE TRAIN BACK.

He told me about the itinerary and it was way too much, even for a trained rider.

WHAT'S THIS SHIT I HEARD ABOUT YOU GETTING IN SOME BIKE ACCIDENT?

Some old lady ran a stop sign and ruined my day, actually ruined a month of my life...
$28,000.00 later and my shoulders still hurt.

WHAT KINDA DAMAGE WAS DONE TO THE SHOULDERS?

I took the initial impact with my left which fractured my scapula and cracked my collar bone, I also partially collapsed my left lung.

Then when I hit the ground on my right side it separated my ac joint a little, and smashed my face and got some stitches by my eyebrow.
Luckily I saved my bike with my body, it's totally fine.

FUCK, THAT SOUNDS ROUGH, AND YOU PAID 28G'S OUT OF YOUR OWN POCKET? NO INSURANCE?

nah, I have health insurance, but that's how much all my bills were.

The lady was way under insured too, just had the state minimum.  So no big settlements or anything... next time I'll aim for a Range Rover!

OR JUST RIDE THE BIKE PATH... AT THE BEACH

True.

WHAT'S YOUR PLANS FOR THE WINTER?

I hope to be a full time photographer, working with the snowboard film crews again... I did all last winter and got a ton of great photos.
The mags are all hyped, and so are the brands who sponsor the riders I shot.

YEAH MAN, WE GOTTA HOOK UP AND TAKE A RAIL TRIP

trips...

TRUE

It was great to work with the People crew again... missed my buddies.

WHICH FILM SHOULD WE ALL BE LOOKIN' FORWARD TO?  SINCE YOU WERE OUT THERE IN THE MIX WITH A FEW DIFFERENT CREWS.

Oh man, since we didn't get skunked on any of our trips, I say the best films are going to be: Finger On da Trigger, MDP, Autumn Line, Standard, MDP-People, and TWS... every one of those film crews I shot with and came away with "A" grade stuff.

THAT'S LIKE ALL THE MOVIES

I heard Grenade is going to be sweet, same with Absinthe too,
but they had legit photographers with them all the time, so I didn't get the call... next winter I hope!

AND YOUR WEBSITE, WHAT'S THE URL?

just my name, robbiesell.com

I DON'T THINK I'M GONNA REMEMBER THAT

I can't update it until the mags publish my new photos though. So look out for my name credits in print.

YEAH, I HEARD YOU GOT SOME LEGIT PICS COMING OUT, THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW ROBBIE

Oh you know this!

PEACE FOOL

yeah, till we meet again!