PHOTOGOON: BROOKS FRITZ

More negative scans means more photos. No, I’m not being negative. I mean negatives as in film negatives. Ever hear of them?  Yeah that’s what these following photos are and it’s what you used to load into your camera instead of that sweet memory card. After 12, 24 or 36 exposures you would have to change the roll of film for a new one. And a lot of the times Murphy’s law would happen. What’s Murphy’s Law? It’s when things will go wrong when you expect them to go wrong. What do I mean? I mean when you are sitting there stressing on changing the film as fast as you can for a freshy with out fucking it up and not dealing with a jock who doesn’t wait for “the shot” and just goes and does his trick. Sometimes there just isn’t a second try or a re shoot. Not saying these photos are like that, because if you know me I’m a complete photo goon. I will make you do that backside air over and over until I get what I want. I’ll bribe, I’ll beg, I’ll do what it takes to get “the shot.”Why? because I am the photo goon…

San Diego, California

Willis Kimmel, grab grinds on the hip. Speaking of hip. Damn dawg! Look at all the dizope graffitti.

Carlsbad, California

A Beer Beagle find. I enjoyed this one. Brendan Klein surprised the hell out of me when he grinded frontside over the love seat.

Carnation, Washingon

Captin Boohyah! Aka chairman of the board, aka the guy in the sky, aka ry guy, aka top gun, aka Ryan Williams.

Ryan didn’t need a YMCA, straps, or lame ass pads to learn proper  deep end backside airs. I got lucky one day and he told me what the secret is….

Dont jump off. It feels a lot cooler landing the “trick” then running it out. You like the light leak in this one? Yeah you cant do that shit in photoshop..

Port Angeles, Washinton

The Rad Ramp

Yeah it’ rad. But not that rad after drinkin two 30 packs of Pabst with only 3 other dudes and waking up in the dirt in the scorching sun only to try and not kill yourself on this thing.

Salton Sea, California

Wu Weller is pretty popular these days on the revolution. Tail slides  in the 100+ degree sun.

Orcas Island, Washington

MFBK layin it back south American style.

San Diego, California

Busted before the “tricks” went down. Guess they never went down then huh? So i mean would of went down. Kinda hard to match Hensley’s photo from here. Shit is priceless.

Oceanside, California

Poor potato head. I think I only shot a couple of makes of this guy. It’s not like Nollan cant skate. He just has very bad luck when the camera turns on him. Another bail photo….

No big deal but when your shooting film and the costs is coming out of your own pocket shit can get expensive. Easy to forget about that when you get caught up only shooting digital.

Carlsbad, California

Nick Palmquist kickflipped this thing. When we rolled up I was going to be stoked just to get a ollie.

Arizona

I Couldn’t help it. Had to add one my mandatory lame nature scenic shots. Have a good week. Enjoy your 4th of July. Go get your nipple pierced and a american flag tattoo. -Brooks

All these photos are from 2003 or around then. Enjoy. Shoot black and white film. Don’t let it die like Poloroid.

My Skateboard 2004: I cant believe the tank of a skateboard I used to ride. 9 inch decks, risers, and 62’s………

Mira Costa College, Oceanside, California: I enroll or more like used to enroll at this college just to use their darkroom. This rock sculpture is right by the photo room. Pretty cool.

Pat Duffy, backside smith, Donald Oregon, 2003: After skating Burnside for a few hours my friend Luke and I drove to Donald. The plan was to sleep in the bowl that night and then drive back to California the next day. I’ve slept in the bowl a few times so it was a no brain-er to go back. We figured we would grab some 6 packs of tall cans and have a mellow night. Guess again, when we rolled up there was a giant RV and a crowd of people. What the hell is this? A Kronick Energy drink bowl barney party? Nope, it was a Transworld blowout photo shoot.

I was pissed people were at Donald, but hyped at the same time since I had a chance to take some pictures. I saw my friend Jon Holland ( ooh name dropping ) and asked if he wouldn’t mind if I took some photos. He could care less but said I should go ask Dave Swift. (more name dropping) I had never met Dave before so I was a little intimidated approaching him about permission poaching. But to my luck, Dave was cool and didn’t give a fuck. I was stoked, I went and grabbed my camera and started taking some pictures trying not to get in the way.

People are funny sometimes… Some photo/film monkeys weren’t to happy about me being a non Transworld dude/bro and started trying to purposely get in front of my lens so I couldn’t get photos. Quite pathetic if you ask me but whatever, I ignored it and managed to get a couple of shots. The T world circus bailed and me and Luke were left by ourselves to laugh about it and pass out in the bowl……Thanks Jon and Dave for being cool. To the others…… as the beer beagle would say “two double x thumbs down”!

Pala Pipes, North County San Diego, 2003: yup they are still there….

Davey Rockit, fs grind, Pala Pool, 2003: When it wasn’t blown out, when it still had good coping over the light, when there was still a light, when there still was the slide, when there was still dirt on the deck, before the parties ruined it, and most of all before we all lost complete interest in skating this pool.

J-Rad Smith, Kendal Washington, 2003: This a photo of Jared using a Pabst Blue Ribbon smoking device. You haven’t lived until you smoked out of a aluminum can……

Zalba Wells, backside smith, Cactus Flat Square pool, California desert, 2003: Zach becomes Zalba when he skates pools. We convinced this RV park owner to skate his empty square. The whole family came out to watch but lost interest quickly when they realized we weren’t going to do any of the tricks they had seen on the X games.

Chairman of the board, Ryan Williams, boohyah stalefish, Borrego Springs California: Out in the middle of nowhere in the Borrego desert is this skatepark. They wanted 10 bucks or something to skate it. I conned the skatepark staff into letting us skate for free since we were “professionals” and were out there to do a skatepark review.

Rays Pool, Clairemont California: Heard it might be done soon. Or maybe it is done?

Lance Mtn: Layback grind, Donald Oregon: Same night as the TWS blow out. Lance was cool…..

Grind Master Matt Gasby, Negro pool, North County San Diego: Permission pool ruined by high school shit heads…. still empty, still off limits… Way to go…