Extended Absense

This extended absence from posting is brought to you by Corpsy and Lucky Bearings
not that they actually sent me cash, or know anything about this..
but the clip gets me pumped to skate every damned day
so.. keep you eyes open for some coverage dropping eventually, and issue 1.5 out mid September.

- Jim Nowhere

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Goodbye winter, hello Skateboard

I don't remember the name of this dude, but I certainly remember hanging out for a few hours while him and his buddies attempted to land any number of grinds.

Spring 2011 Clareview Park.

the classic bean plant with Matt Cunningham.  Not just for slackers and songwriters.. night skating summer 2010 at Paul Kane.

See now and again someone will actually snap a shot of me.. still doing nothing

Lazy Carve at Callingwood park Spring 2012

I've been going through a photo dump from the past four or five years on one of my external hard drives lately.. so expect a few more random old shots to crop up over the next little while.

- Jim Nowhere

Plaza..

Nolan Bossert - Tail Slide

Miek Headache - Ollie North

There is this chill plaza we hit up from time to time..
hidden in a little residential area..
I'm not certain who took these photos.. I just know it happened with my camera..

2013 has begun.. now lets find some spots to skate.

Hand-plant Power Slide

Miek Headache - Hand-plant Power Slide

(Video: Jim Nowhere)

Most people know Miek Headache from either his Solo Acoustic Act, or as the front man of Edmonton's Good Friday Massacre.

Sometime in the summer of 2012 we met up for a quick sesh over at the new Grovener Park. I spent the majority of my time not landing a board slide or nose slide (I think that is what I was attempting...)

Miek however opted to rock things a little old school.

Mall Grab

Let's go back a little further then, well let's face it, a little further back then most of you were alive for. See back in 1985/86 I found my older brother's "bananna" board. I quickly sorted out how to not break my neck on the thing, and subsequently spent most of my waking summer days trying to ride the damned thing. Not once did I contemplate tightening up the trucks, oiling the bearings, or doing any sort of a setup on it.

Anyways, by the time school started for me in September 1988 my folks had kinda figured out that this whole Jim on a skateboard wasn't just a fad. As a huge surprise to myself, My folks got me this Killer "Slim Warp" complete, probably from Zellers, or Fields, or Kreskees, either way, some big department store chain that no longer exists. Plastic trucks, ABEC 1 bearings, 65mm wheels, nose pick guard, and rail slides.. I found my home.

Pictured above is me rocking a mall grab on the first day of school in 1988.

Board Slide

Lets go back to summer 2009 for a minute, we had a morning skate crew, myself, Matt Shnell, Matt Cunningham, KP, Tristan, and whoever else happened to show up. We'd get up at the break of day (or around 7/8am) and head over to Kaskitayo skatepark in Edmonton's south east. Mostly i'd just roll around attempting pop shuv-its and attempting not to break myself. Okay so mostly I took photos. There is this kinked rail on the outside that Matt spent one morning pretty much attempting every grind that he could nail on it. OF the shots, this board slide turned out the best.

The main calling of a sesh at Kask is the huge bowl, table top, and so on that the park has to offer.. I'll tell you more about those another time.

Front Side Grab

This is my buddy Chris "ThisBoyMODEST" / "Super Busy" Cookson.

Killing time down at Millwoods in the mini half pipe just off the bowl.

I last featured Chris doing an ollie.

50-50 FS GRIND

Matthew Cunningham - 50-50 FS Grind

Back in the spring/summer of 2009 we pretty much spent everyday hitting different parks around Edmonton. I was taking my Lomo Fisheye with me most places, and if not I had my trusty Minolta XG-1. It was all about going back to the start, shooting with film, and pretty much just trying to have a good time.

Just north of Edmonton there is a military garrison, and on it they built this little park. Nothing super special, but it has this gnarly rainbow rail, Matt and I must have spent a few hours just taking turns hitting the damned thing. It's in a really awkward spot.

Anyways, it's Matt's birthday today, and I really wanted to post this photo.

Ollie

Chris Cookson - Ollie

(Photo: Jim Nowhere)

The start of everything, the ollie.

No rambling story that goes anywhere today, instead go check out this post on The Gonz over at the Chrome Ball Incident