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This is an old Cooper Wilt spot that he took me to years ago to shoot this photo. Recently different people have found it and have been hitting it up, and quite frankly making it better with some DIY concrete additions. I just wanted to pull this photo out of the files and post it to give props to the person who skated it first, and without the aid of bondo and quick-crete.

Cooper Wilt, corner pocket frontside wallride over the pipe

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Digging through contact sheets I found a photo the homie New Mex aka Ben Woosley killing it on a random sesh.

Tailslide toe breaker

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I ran into Mike Anderson at the Agenda trade show a couple weeks ago. One of the best dudes ever. Seeing him made me dig up this photo up from his interview a while back, which was all shot on film. People have been skating this spot and popping out into that little ditch that runs down the side but Mike grinded the whole thing which I thought was gnarly. We also lucked out on the light and showed up right at “golden hour”.

Mike Anderson 5050 across and down

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I’m on the road for the next few weeks so these posts may be a bit shorter than usual. Here are a few gems from sometime in 2004.

-Jonathan Mehring

Rob Pluhowski - kickflip - Philly, PA.

Jason Dill

Fred Gall - The morning after getting kicked in the face during a drunken rampage.

Bill Strobeck

Danny Renaud - nollie crooks - Atlanta, GA

Danny Renaud - Nollie heelflip noseslide - Atlanta, GA

Danny Renaud - front shove-it - Roslyn, VA

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A contact sheet find from an Emerica trip to Miami a while back. The Westgate tre flip that we all know and love…

Brandon Westgate, 360 flip in the Miami night

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Top 11 Favorite Albums of 2011 in no particular order

Graveyard | Hisingen Blues
Bluesy metal with wailing vocals out of Stockholm. Swedes know how to make good music from metal to pop. This is no exception.

Jessica Lea Mayfield | Tell Me
The organ can be a bit much at times, but Tell Me has been a constant in the rotation since it came back near the beginning of the year. Her debut record is also great if you’re into some somber jams.

Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Mostly instrumentals with a small peppering of vocals.

Timber Timbre | Creep On Creepin’ On
Three piece out of Canada playing mellow, eerie tunes.

DesArk | Don’t Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker
I can’t say enough good things about Aimee Argote and what she does with DesArk. Most of her stuff is pretty low fi so this album was a slightly surprising since its sound is clean, but it was a favorite all year. She’s also great live.

Cold Cave | Cherish The Light Years
Wes Eisold of American Nightmare/Give Up the Ghost/ Some Girls/ ETC notoriety’s latest endeavor, which is a big change up from his past acts seeing as this is some variation of new wave, but all in all, I’ve enjoyed it.

Tom Waits | Bad As Me
It’s Tom Waits. That’s why.

Trap Them | Darker Handcraft
D-beat infused hardcore with a heavy Entombed vibe. Probably my favorite of their albums yet.

Thou | To The Chaos Wizard Youth
Good, angry, dirty sludge from New Orleans. They put out a couple releases this year. Can’t wait to see them in a few weeks in LA.

Deafheaven | Roads to Judah

Shoegaze with a heavy black metal influence and somehow it works. Check it out.

Pygmy Lush | Old Friends
Ex members of post hardcore giants such as PG.99 playing some spaced out tunes. Post rock, indie rock, whatever, I don’t know what to call it other than good.

In 2000, when I first started working for Slap, I lived in DC and one of the only sponsored dudes who would shoot with me at the time was Pat Smith. I didn’t really know anyone in Philly yet and I still had some dues to pay. I worked really hard on an interview with him while he was filming for Label Kills. Unfortunately, maybe because I was still honing my photo skills, or maybe because of politics, the interview never ran. I always wished it had because both Pat and I had worked so hard for it. I recently found the stack of photos we shot and decided to post them on here. Pat Smith now runs Coda Skateboards.

Pat Smith - back smith - Baltimore, MD

Ollie - Brooklyn, NY

Ollie - second angle - Brooklyn, NY

Gap to lip - somewhere in MD

Frontside 180 - Washington, DC

Ollie - NY, NY

Make shift lipslide - Baltimore, MD

Miller flip - Somewhere in West Virginia

Back tail (around a bench that I was standing on) - NY, NY

Disaster - Brooklyn, NY. This ramp was 5 ft on the far side and 9 ft on this side. Pretty crazy to skate.

Kickflip - Chicago, IL

Wallie layback frontside grab or something - Washington, DC

Kickflip - Washington, DC

Ollie - I have no idea where this was

Gap to 5-0 - NY, NY. We curb grinded and waxed this ledge for hours. It had never been skated before. Then Pat did the 5-0 as soon as it would grind. Only a couple tricks have gone down since then on this spot. Cairo's crook and Zered's front tail.

Method - Lansdown, MD

Ollie in, front 360 out - Washington, DC

Ollie - Somewhere

CAPS

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This one’s from my last trip to Denver, one of the best cities out there. Brand new shopping center’s giant gap being ollied for the first time. And behind us was a security guard on presumably his first day dealing with his new job kicking us out. I wonder if his job survived the recession, maybe on my next Denver trip we’ll go find out.

David Reyes claiming dibs on a new Denver gap. Ollie.

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I opened up a folder from 2005 and I discovered some photos from 2004 – 2006. The first few pages were several unpublished photos of Bobby Worrest and Bobby Puleo. Enjoy.

-Jonathan Mehring

Bobby Worrest 50-50, Washington, DC. This was shot with a 40mm Hasselblad lens I used to have. I only found a couple skate spots I could ever use it for. This was one of them.

Bobby Worrest - crooks. Washington, DC. Most of these Bobby W. photos were shot while working on an interview for Skateboarder. These are some that didn't make the cut.

Bobby Worrest - front nose. Somewhere in Maryland.

Bobby Worrest - Nollie flip. Washington, DC. This is the infamous Georgetown double set. You can only skate it at night and you only get a few tries before security kicks you out. Bobby nailed this second try. One flash sequence...