THA-ELL-BEE-SEA-NOOK

on the 110

2011-10-30T21:34:00.000-07:00

SO in a few previous posts i wrote my new cameras to look for were the "higher end" polaroid pack film cameras ( 180, 185, 195), and while im still in search for those, i have also found something else im looking for that might be a little bit more reasonable/ realistic.

Polaroid 110A

Now the only reason why i would be getting one of these is to do a conversion to pack film, and while im a retard and have no formal clue on how to hack or re-create anything other than air, I think I shall be ok with this one....maybe...

That was done by moominsean and it looks amazing.. mine will look like ass but hopefully once i find one it will at least shoot.

and thats all...

camera porn

see ya

weapon of choice

2011-10-24T02:10:00.000-07:00

was goin thru my point and shoot collection which i'll be posting here soon. Changed the face of this epic.. kinda looks like a cow:

works like gangbusters!

2011-09-12T22:22:00.000-07:00

With everything in life its true that time heals everything. " Good things come too those who wait for it".. i think chingy said that?....i could be wrong. Anyways months back I posted a blAH-G about how I was searching for a specific point and shoot 35mm camera. The camera is a Yashica T4 but most importantly comes with a Carl Zeiss lens. No biggy right? Its film so it should be cheap.. prolly could just score a deal on craigslist or ebay:

F THAT!.. $200 scrills for an old camera.. thats re-donk

So I made it a point that id keep searching for it much like I did with the Polaroid SX-70.. That was many months ago with no luck...

( gotta love the ...)

Until I got close.. a clue if you may, in the form of a Yashica T2 also with carl zeiss lens for a measly $2.95 at a honey hole:

I was still really jazzed to find this camera ( did he really just say jazzed?), but after i spent $15 on a battery there was no dice. The camera did not load the film so I pronounced it dead on the scene.

A week later I found another camera that had a Colt following in the LOMO world. The camera is called a Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim:

I looked up a lot of photos that were taken by this camera and decided too cough up the 72 cents for the purch. Loaded it up with some film and snapped some testers:

Nothing too crazy.. I dont see what all the fuss is about really. Maybe ill load it with some slide film and have it cross processed.. who knows.
The day I found that camera I actually found 2 at once.. Which is crazy because I found another 2 today.. bringing the grand total to 4 Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim ( go ahead... check my math)

Whatever whatever whatever.. ill keep 2 and either give away or sell the others.. I think in total I paid $3.75 for all 4
Anyways.. the search continued for the Great White Elephant ( yashica t4).

That very search landed me at a thrift store that I had never ever had any luck at in the valley. The place was once good.. then they cleaned it up and made it more professional and camera selection went down the drain. It was a thrift that id go in with hopes and dreams of finding gorgeous gems but always walked out in a rage thinking " why do i waste my time going here". Well today my luck changed...

i found a briefcase full of LOOT $$$$$$

Kidding.. but i might as well found that.

I walked up to the camera section and thot too myself " damn... it looks like the same of shit... im wasting my life with this crap"
till i noticed a black and red camera bag sitting towards the back.

It was open.. meaning that someone must have looked at it... and there she was.. tucked away in a padded black bag.. just looking for some love:

My new Yashica T4 Super

Crikey... i was soo stoked i didnt even look at the price tag. Good thing the place didnt know how much it was worth because I ended up only playing $6.99 for it!

and it even came with a new bag and camera manual:

guhh im a nerd

Ok... well shit should I tell you my next search? I will anyways...

Im going to be super unrealistic on this one and shoot for one of these 3 beauties:

im rather confident that i'll never find any of those.. fingers crossed i guess!

thanks for tuning in

peaces

lost in the abyss

2011-09-03T22:54:00.000-07:00

" FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!~ "

I DONT KNOW WHAT i just pushed but it erased the long post I was just making about my mammoth trip... guess it wasnt meant to be.. im'a leave this up here as a lesson to those who randomly push buttons from time to time.. an HouR of work on this in the drain.. FML"

gotta choppa in the car

2011-09-02T00:26:00.000-07:00

So a while back i was pretty excited to find a brand new in box

Nikon Lite Touch

35mm point and shoot camera at a thrift store in Burbank for only 5$. Anyways i did some research and learned that its a relatively sought after little camera, so i decided to give it a whirl.
In all honesty, I wasnt too impressed with this camera. Most of the shots were out of focus, and just not all that clear in general. Nikon nailed it with the design of this camera tho. It fits like a glove in hand. Only downside is for some reason when I try and compose a quick shot through the viewfinder my eye isnt quick enough to find it. Now I wont be entirely negative about this little camera that-semi-could. Too be honest.. i love the panoramic ability of it. Matter of fact I should just super glue it on pano because those shots i got with it i was actually impressed with:

and here is the only shot that came out semi ok in standard frame. The foto's aite but the creeper in it is another story:

Anywoot....

Question is .. should you buy it?

The answer is if you can find it for less that $10... i say yes, but only shoot in panorama mode, you'll like the way they come out.

So far with al the point and shoots ive been using I've really enjoyed the Olympus Stylus EPIC and the Pentax UC-1. they both are awsome cameras, and although I am still searching for the Yashica T4 i would like to explain that i came pretty close by picking up a Yashica t2 with carl ziess lens. It was $2.75, but the battery for it was almost $15.. sheeeesh. Oh and once i got the battery in it.. the damn thing didnt work. FUH!

have a good one. bros and bro-dets

developed

2011-08-09T00:25:00.000-07:00

My homie Donald ( not d-ray.. d-rays still a homie tho.. even tho he x'd me from his life.) started re-training me how to develop Black and white film at his house.. Such a nice bro, super helpful and patient. Anyways it was a good time and here are some shots from my Re-birthed olympus XA-1

thats right big homie

2011-08-07T13:12:00.000-07:00

your boys linked in:

fuqin smart

2011-08-02T23:14:00.001-07:00

epic food battle with patches:

VS

ill let you decide...

reality

2011-08-02T00:24:00.000-07:00

Was lurking on the VG vimeo site and saw a couple good videos as well as a Polaroid Contest I'll be submitting some crikey too.

anyways they do a profile on Snow Photographer Andy Wright.. whom says some good stuff about film vs digital. I used to shoot a lot of digi because it was easy and if i messed up i knew what i did wrong right away.. so then i tried to challenge myself with film.. but in the end bought rangefinders and polaroids which is essentially childs play.. anywhoot.. check em out.. git puck

Open Shutter: Andy Wright Part 1 of 2 from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

Open Shutter: Andy Wright Part 2 of 2 from VIDEOGRASS on Vimeo.

attempt numero dos

2011-07-29T01:54:00.000-07:00

2nd attempt at being creative..

recycled polaroid case:

almost done...

boring on roids

2011-07-25T22:34:00.001-07:00

I used to be so much more interesting... id make up stories and never leave out details of my random ass photos or trips. Now i just post photos and hope that the 3 of you that still look at this leave with some sort of satisfaction.. well hopefully this does the trick. If it doesnt.. boom! :

your boy started making wallets, so I've got that to fall back on too. ( not really.. first wallet.. shiiiiize)

Went on a fishing trip.. shot some roids.. have fun!

new weapon

2011-07-18T23:44:00.000-07:00

So i semi have been on a Point and shoot craze buying any that I think are worth taking fotos with. My latest purch which really was quite some time ago is the pentax uc-1.

The only problem is that they come in a pretty lame almost mirror like finish. No problem there!

Ive become pretty good at taking apart these stupid cameras, and even tho I constantly get shocked by them.. i keep trekking. So anyways I found some guy in japan that took his apart and re-painted it. So boom i did the same:

Murderd that mofo out. ( fuqin SMART) Loaded it up with some slide film ( currently on exposure 5 out of 36).. and slapped a 4q stick on it to seal the deal:

Its been a good camera past few months and thats about all thats been good.

I'll be baq!

p.s. ive got 2.. and from the research ive done.. they're pretty rare..pop!

( no clue why its uploaded in that direction.. do i care... HELL NAWWW)

slip-n-slide

2011-07-07T22:45:00.000-07:00

More slide shots from born free 3.. fishing..and everything else along the way:

nanas graduation:

pescado:

: /

randumb

expired slide film

2011-07-06T00:26:00.000-07:00

One Shot of Max Schaaf's Bike at Born Free 3 with the Olympus Epic DLX and expired slide film from 1998. GET THERE! ( shot on actual film.. not iphone app)

lbc swap

2011-06-27T00:34:00.000-07:00

Lots of parts, Finally found bars that i wanted for the bike and the show price ( which is usually cheaper than online) was a good $30 more than the online price with free shipping, plus the RUB's ( rich urban bikers) selling them should cash in their chips and join jersey shore

Born Free i-FONE

2011-06-25T22:43:00.001-07:00

Coolest event, lots of Over-night-bikers ( went from popped kanye west collars, to denim vests and grunge cause it was the cool thing to do).. amazing bikes, cool companys.. legit time

hipster

2011-06-24T01:19:00.001-07:00

6/22/11

2011-06-24T00:09:00.000-07:00

French Bread
Roast Beef
Provalone Cheese
Green Chili Peppers
Avacado

SUE-BEEFS:

get there!

6/21/11

2011-06-21T23:35:00.001-07:00

photo A day

2011-06-20T16:49:00.000-07:00

I recently started following Jerry Hsu's blog.. its low key but pretty legit.. no writing, mostly cell phone pics. Id love to say im going to Upload 1 picture a day from every day of my life.. but im lazy with my computer so the likely hood of that is not too high. Anyways I also stumbled upon another project were this girl took a photo a day then wrote a short description on it or quote.. So ima bite her steez.

dirt

2011-05-09T00:16:00.001-07:00

Ay EE One

2011-04-21T00:33:00.000-07:00

A lot Of people ask where I got into cameras... and my answer is always a long one. I guess it all started when I realized I was much better behind the lens vs in front of it. Or at least this was true with snowboarding and skateboarding... Or could this be hereditary? My mom was into photography when she was in college and was a far better photog than I am or prolly ever will be.. here are some of her shots i ghetto scanned in:

this one is actually of her:

grandpa

anyways when i was younger my mom had this Camera with a few different lenses that she never used but also never let me touch.But after she realized I wasn't going to be a doctor or a famous athlete she let me use it. My first shots sucked.. my current shots suck... SHIT i just had an epiphany .. I needa give this photography stuff up... Phew! at least I figured that out at 25 rather that 60

aight peace bishes!

kidding.. ill shoot terrible pictures til im blind

ciaooooo

Back To work...

2011-04-18T18:07:00.000-07:00

enjoi:

Kyle Castellani "like old times"

2011-04-11T16:17:00.001-07:00

Shot a short little video of Kyles New song... Enjoy:

Check him out on FaceBook AS well

ramble on

2011-04-07T23:28:00.000-07:00

>So I recently connected all my forms of media to my computer ( i-phone, digi cam, and scanned in some film shots) to give you loyal viewers yet another taste of my life.. here it goes.

This is my dad.. hes special:

that foto really had nothing to do with anything.. Back story is that I came home one day with the surprise of my dad being there.. whatever aint no thang.. only i noticed he had a 5xl extra tall nike hoodie.. WTF was he thinking you may ax.. he was thinking $7.00 on the sale rack at marshalls.. well worth it i guess?

Balls.. this shooting film stuff is getting expensive.. I needa just shoot B&W then re-learn to develop myself. If im not shooting film i usually have my iphone on me to snap shots with then use some app that makes it look like film.. here are some:

Oh fuh!.. forgot to tell you.. just got my Harley Tank painted.. hella stoked!:

here he is ladies and ladies:

Oh no chit? I actually went snowboarding this year.. GiiiiiT BUCK!:

Awww nice lazy/disappearing/eye right?

Awwwww.. went to the Griffiths Observatory with ma the GF: (transitioning into actual film fotos scanned in from my Oly-EPIC)

Then ur boy D-RAY came into town for a minute.. got some Chipotle ( not as healthy as you think) and watched him shop for some new threads:

After departure Patch and I went and got some yakis.. it was bomb.. I knew u were wondering.. anyways.. we then dipped off too check out Haines Canyon RES just to see if there was any water and if possibly some fish. There was water.. but no fish.. Which i'm glad there wasnt.. this place is dangerous:

laugh now like i did then:

and you might end up submerged in quick-shit like i did.. and have to be saved from patches himself.. Thanks Dubble A (he spells his name AAron.. wich i dont understand..o well)

Oh wsup... not only do i dance, observe, eat, photo, love... i get down on the courts too.. Just ask patch and JR.. they know wsup!:

find the creepy bum art in this photo:

BAM!

Hmm oh.. yea So i did the annual horse track this year with the girl, d-ray, patch and a few other homies that were there as well.. Good times for sure.. but i know nothing about horses odds or any of that shit.. so we just put all of our faith in Patchett ( aaron)

There he is studying away.. which actually worked for Tory ( gf) because she won the first i think 4 races... kudos to both. I won just 1 race but it paid for my margarita and then left with an extra $10 to blow on video games and candy.

D-ray tryin to git the inside scoop on winning horses before bets are off:

D-ray watching his life savings go down the drain.. while patchett readys himself for his next big move:

i should be a writer;

but not as much as d-ray should be a model ( polaroid 600 film in sx-70..cause im dope like that)

DUH as usuall.. HOMIE SHOT!

super over-exposed because im not as dope as i should be.. didnt bother using a filter.. just set it.. and forget it!

OK.. now getting up to the more up-to-date life:

THis past Monday My boy E-Man and DOnald had the itch to go fishing.. so we hopped in E's car and left burbank at 5:30 am to catch the morning bite at Paradise Cove in Malibu:

WE had the dock all to oursizzles ( i at times use random words for i don't know how to spell some...bare with me).

Before that tho we walked down a residential beach and E-man snagged some muscles off the tide pool to use for bait.. Sun was just rising saw a couple dolphins and seals.. woulda been perfect picture making materials.... buuuuttt i forgot ma stuff in the car.. better luck next time

OK so we got the the dock set up our gear.. cut up some Muscle and before you know it. BAM.. the bite starts and starts off with a bang!:

HUUUUGEEE! ( thats what she said.... ) ( sorry mom)
That was the first fish of the day.. and from what I hear.. that fish is way poison-ess.. But Donald wasnt scared.. he had first catch

Oh wsup player.. Don also got 2nd catch... e-man and I were too busy head-banging i guess:

FInally.. ur boy B ( author of this amazing blog literature) got in on the fish action as well as got his skunk insurance:

Boom then I locked into a smooth Perch:

SHortly after....donald gets a bite.. sets the hook.. and reels in what i thought looked like the devil from where i was standing:

WTF is that you may be axkin.. WEll.. let me introduce you to Lucifer the Lobster and New Host of OLN's fishing show " wtf just happened" donald miller:

how D managed to catch a lobster off a Short Pier is beyond me... even Emanuel had to do some investigating:

PS... we practiced catch and release all day... so don't go calling PETA on me....thanks

BOOOM! 3-peat alert! a three-fer..

All at once DOnald, Emanuel, and I all hooked into some pescado.

These 2 are Mine and Donalds catch ( proper english?):

And after we let them back in the water we ran down to check out E-Mans Catch:

BOOM!.. Halibut son!.. and i would say that was the catch of the day minus the lobster.. which im not even sure if thats classified as a Fish

dunno who caught this.. either donald or I:

E-Man had some sushi:

Then i magically ended up catching a 3-fer? basically I catch a fish who gives birth to Live fish ( not eggs) on the pier.. which donald quickly swoops up and throws into the water:

and I grab the big fish and rush it to the water hopefully saving the baby ... Or was it maybe something the bigger fish ate? who knows.. bottom line .. im all about perserving life:

( notice the tail coming out of the fish's belly):

krazeeee~

E-Man picked up a couple more:

and we bid the place ADEW~!

So much fun.. get out there and LIVE

ba leee ba lee ba lee DATS ALL FOLKS!

FIrst Burst of EPiC

2011-03-16T03:04:00.000-07:00

Shot a roll of some 99 cent store 200 speed film in my newly acquired stylus Epic DLX.. way amped on the camera.. got some light leaks and some overall good fotos:

ghetto scan?

2011-03-07T18:58:00.000-08:00

Yo?

A few days back I purchased a transparent light pad for 3$ at a Thrift store in the valley. Now I saw somewhere on youtube where you could use these , put a slide or film negative on it , turn the light on then use a simple point and shoot digital camera to take a picture of the film. So I did that without problem.. and after that all I had to do was invert the image and adjust some levels and BAM.. like a 7 gram rock shooting up charlie sheins nose.. I had an image.. enjoy

now that was actually idiot proof.. super simple and no porblem. My next thing is to do it with color film, which I have tried but they don't come out quite as clear as they do with Black and White... Im sure some photo shop novice could do a much better job.. any whoot..

I got my first roll of film developed from that silver Olympus Stylus Epic i picked up a few weeks ago.. and when i finally scan the photos in you'll see some of the cool things that happened to pictures.. im pretty stoked.. Have a good one!

git buck

2011-02-27T10:44:00.001-08:00

Untitled from ben Walters on Vimeo.

Bleeq

2011-02-26T01:43:00.000-08:00

New design... whatdaya think?

Pretty lame.. i know.

But i am stoked on the d-ray foto at the top.. brings back good memories. I also tried to do a photo of the month thing but that will prolly change cause its tiny. Oh well...... the only way to know if something works or not is to try it out.

Anyways ive got good news and only good news.

Last post I shared with you some cameras that I am searching for.. wellllllll I found 2!

Technically I found 2 of the same one but one is a Olympus Stylus Epic DLX.. and the other is a Olympus Stylus EPic.

Found em both at a thrift store.. Grand Total for the 2.. $7.00.. bow chica bow wow!

Search

2011-01-31T22:00:00.000-08:00

Oh what? Is this fa real?... is B-Nugget actually posting something on his blog?

The answer my fellow fans is yes.

... and that's all for now.. Peace!

I kid i kid!..

OK now that its been so long and I've lost my entire fan base ( 3 people.. my mom being one of them) I don't have to censor my shit!

Actually I never really went crazy on here with curse words or blabbing about politics i knew nothing about.. It mainly just focused on things that interested me. A way I look at the world through words, photos, and the occasional video.

So anyways a while ago I posted up a photo of a camera I was searching for called a Polaroid sx-70. I wrote about how I didn't want to just buy one off eBay for a ridiculous price, but how i hoped to stumble upon one at a thrift store or possibly garage sale. Anyways within a month or 2 of posting, I finally found one At a goodwill store nearby.

WEll since then I have found 4:

Now I really have no need for all of those cameras.. but I dunno. I guess the collector in me hasn't left yet. Even tho Polaroid no longer makes the film .. which I'm not gonna get into. I hate when i type in "Polaroid" in Google and there are 40000 blogs complaining about how they don't make film for there old cameras. Look people times have changed. We used to be able to walk into mostly any store and find shelves stocked with a wide variety of at least 35mm sometimes 120 film. That no longer happens. Now all we see are hanging memory cards that can fit 6-trillion images. If its a true hobby of yours then you know you simply just have to adapt.

More recently I have become semi picky on the cameras I look for. I used to buy just about anything that looked cool to stock my case. Here I am.. 3 years later.. prolly close to ehhh 50 cameras maybe more? No room to store em..and about ready to give the ones i DGAF about away.

That's not to say I dont spend most of my Mondays rummaging thru people's old shit in the ghetto-ist of areas ( aka the best).
Lately ive been pretty interested in 35mm "point and shoot" or " rangefinder" cameras.. Or really any camera I see used on on of the many blogs i frequent.

Mijonju talks about a Fujica M1 that showed some interesting photos in it. So I began looking for one... but gave up on it after about 3 months.
This last sunday I was in ventura with my dad and his friend and we wandered into some local Thrift stores. To my surprise I found a Fujica MF:

.. for a wopping $1.95.. pretty jazzed. The MF i believe is the same model as the M1 or MA-1 just with a flash built in. So I went to the 99cent store and got a test roll of film which is in it as we speak. Check back for the fotos at a later date.

Oh shit.. also i dropped off a roll of film from my new Holga 135bc which was an x-mas gift from a co-worker.. so im excited to see the images from that....as well as the expired ektachrome images from my favorite and newly painted Ansco Sprite:

Ok ok ok.. Anyways Since i was able to find a SX-70 ( or 4) after writing that i wanted one on this blog.. i figure i might as well do it again.

I will call this the " i want" portion.... for things we "want" are rarely what we need.

Kyocera T Proof:

or Yashica T4 :

Olympus MJU:

Contax t2 and t3 ( basically anything contax with a Zeiss lens)

theres prolly some new camera I'll want tomorrow as well..

P.s. I hope to find those ( fat chance.. i know) at a thrift store or something cheap.. I guess im anti paying retail ( poor).. bahah.. till next time..

always remember to have your pets spayed or neutered !

hippie

2010-11-29T22:54:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the homie Big RAZ!

Your boy got laced up with a fresh I-Phone ( sorry d-ray.. you snooze you lose)

anyways.. My old ipod died on me.. it did the notorious " wont stay on when the battery says fully charged" thing.. So my Boy Ramon handed me his old iphone at not charge.. what a homie.

So minus the fact that I can bump that Bruno Mars ( grenade) song ( no homo)

while getting hella jacked at 24hr.. i also have the ability to get hipster ass APP's from the free wifi at Star-B.

The one i use the most is Hipstamatic... anywhoot i connected the iphone to the mac.. and a wham bam bloop.. photos are uploaded.. heres a few...

Oh wsup.. the homie Juniors lookin more like a Senior these days.. all blasted down.

Best torta ever!

Smooth Havasu Trip:

Troy b-fast of champions... YUUUUP

Home-Girl NANA gettin some goods from her Bee Costume..

Nice lil coffee date with Mr. Kyle ( no homo)

Nanas friend puts together a beach cleanup the every month in Long Beach, so i cruised by and showed some support and saved the world? who knows... i actually just worked on my tan.. BOOYAH!

Oh weird.. after that beach cleanup I went over to D-Rays pad.. no biggie.. he said he was in his room and that i should just walk in.. so I did.. and my story ends there.. If you want to know what happened Next.. ask dirtball.. Regardless he looks to be enjoying himself:

Oh shit.. homie patch and I went to the re-located honey hole camera thrift store.. hes lookin like Opie from Sons Of Anarchy these days:

huh?

and thats all folks..

MoPed.. Mo Pu..

2010-09-27T01:41:00.000-07:00

Oh shit.. shake that ass.. now move it like a gypsy?

Yo players!

Ive been so damn busy with dance instructing, school, work, dexter-ing ... that i forgot all about this damn thing

Last winter I bought a Puch Magnum for a pretty legit price. I know I got it for a good price because when i listed it on craigslist.. i had 10+ offers for over double what I paid for. Which got me to thinking.. F- selling this and finally finish something you've started.

now thats what it looked like for the most part when I bought it from some shiesty mo fugga in riverside.

I rode it from time to time, but the best thing was that I wouldnt ride or touch it for like the months.. walk into the garage and kick the crank.. and it would fire up first go.

Anyways so now im stoked on trying to get it to look how I always wanted it too...

here are some fotos of the mission:

ok check back soon. hopefully I will have the tank in motion and possibly painted.. bow chica bow wow

p.s. i know , D-ray....this wasnt a banger post

PEACE

Don ball

2010-08-09T13:53:00.000-07:00

Short video of d-ray graduating and life that follows.. congrats mang

d ray grad life from ben Walters on Vimeo.

cha?

2010-07-05T23:06:00.000-07:00

Eyyoh whats up?

.:.not much

Sweet..what have u been doing?

: I dunno taking pictures, fixing cameras, goin to sea world with someone special.

Really.. thats awsome... I miss your blog man.. You need to post more.

:I always say i will.. but currently my mac sits ontop of a small ladder next to the window picking up a wi-fi signal cause im to broke to pay the internet bill,

Rough life man.. lets see some fotos...

: fair enough.

both those polaroids were taken with this SX-70 i got a while back at a pasadena camera show for $20. I got it home and it wasnt working.. so bummed, but after some tweaking with it and messin around with things that i shouldnt be touching.. i got it to work. I also removed all of the porvair covering so its naked.. so once Aki asahi updates there website.. ill get it looking sexy again and show you. I also did the same to another sx-70 ( i now own 3)

Mortal Kombat:

Oh.. got a hard-body polaroid at my secret spot last week for $3.00 this one is the most legit so far. I think im gonna stop buying cameras..and focus more on buying film..till next time

real-eye-zation

2010-06-15T23:49:00.000-07:00

At times we adults get caught up in lives that we thought we'd never live. By the time we turn 18 we forget about the power of simplicity and focus more and more on work and/or school. Is that to say we have forgotten about what really matters? No... we just at times need a pick me up to help us realize what makes us thrive and happy in the worst of times.
As children just about anything makes us happy. From fluttering butterflies too pouring rain. Everything is new and everything holds beauty. The clouds of maturity and influence of others leeds us to believe that we must grow away from the adolescent mind. I say dont..
Forget the opinions of modern society and live your life the way you want it to be lived. Laugh at things that strike you as funny but also find humor in things most people would describe as unbearable. WE sometimes forget that we can regulate what makes us happy and what makes us sad.
My past month has been shit.....on different levels that has sent me into bed with the cousin of depression ( he's twice adopted and 3 times re-mairried..long story) For many reasons no one knows about, but at the end of each day i come to realize more and more that i let even the small things turn my world upside down. Many are over-reactions.. ill be the first to admit that I over analyze every single thing that i do.. and my at times arrogant conscience takes over my thought process... i dont like it.. if anyone has the cure send it my way..

Sorry that was quite the rant..

Anyways that was sparked because over the past weekend ive been around children ( non creeper) and i've come to see how much happiness lies within. 1 minute they could be crying after taking a table corner to the forehead.. and the next they could be laughing at the sight of ball rolling on the hardwood floor.. anyways here are some kid polars of My cousin tiffanys daughter evy:

and some more of just i dunno.. simple things..

bottom line.. enjoi life..no one knows how long you'll be here

maybe throw on some tunes

puff an ounce of crack and call it a day.. im out

recent roids

2010-06-12T19:14:00.001-07:00

Im starting to feel normal again..so ima start it off with some roids...enjoy

Happy b-day monezzz.. and im out

huffster

2010-05-25T20:01:00.000-07:00

Chad Huff ladies and gentlemen .. overall cool kid and ex roomate from mammoth.. makin some legit stuff these days.. ENJOY

MONEY SHOT! from Chad Huff on Vimeo.

huh

2010-05-17T00:25:00.000-07:00

So i had a canon 35mm camera filled with Delta 100 b&w film and decided to take it to get it developed today. My blog has been lacking actual content for quite some time so i figure kill 2 birds with 1 stone.. Get some film developed and have inspiration to write about something.
Anyways, so i drove my moto down to CVS in montrose handed my roll to the guy..
1 hour? yes

Glossy or matte? Matte

Singles: Yes

Want a photo cd? No

And then exited the store with a receipt that said; Pickup at 4:01 pm. So i left my house a lil after that just for a safety cushion.

I get there... and hand the photo guy my pick-up-paper and he looks at me with a smirk.

" man something happened.. we should have told you when you dropped it off..but our developer doesn't produce professional grade film"

me: " so what are you saying"

dude " Your film is ruined..it didn't develop"

Now Ive had a pretty bad 2 weeks.. this was just icing on the cake, but for some-reason i didn't get too heated

That was until the fucker scanned my receipt and said $11.50 please. I looked at him as if he spit in my face then asked for a favor.

"i'm sorry.. $11.50 for what?"

" well we took the time to attempt to develop your roll... so for the work done $11.50"

me : " so let me get this right... you want me to pay you for ruining my roll of $7.00 film"

dude " well we tried to develop it"

Me: " thanks for your time" and walked out

What has come of this world...

The guy was lucky that i've become a non violent man these days...because otherwise i woulda ripped his pony-tail out and beat the living shit out of him with it.

What if these were pictures of who shot jfk.. or tiger woods having group sex ... i would be heated.. I still am.. for the fotos burned into that film are memories i cant relive through visuals... thanks CVS

2010-05-16T20:08:00.000-07:00

“Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.”

monday flopper

2010-04-27T00:38:00.001-07:00

Holler players!

Most Monday's i take the bike for a spin then grab some coffee... usually some subway with b-kauf..then scope out the thrift stores.
It's weird. When i was younger I used to be so embarrassed to go to thrift stores. My mom would every once in a while hit up sun thrift looking for typically old furniture like head-boards for beds that she could sand down re-finish and paint silly vines all over em. I hated partaking in the thrift missions. I felt like i was above them... To me shopping at 2nd hand stores meant we were poor , and now i go too a few on a weekly basis. I guess the older we get the less we care about status's. My friends give me shit for scoping out new spots in search for the diamonds in the rough, but fuck it. I'm weird i think this blog alone holds truth too it..
My main search was always ANY old looking camera, but i believe that i have narrowed it down to mostly Polaroids. Today tho was different.

picked up that for $1.04 in the valley. Not bad. Now i know i wont use it and they probably dont even make film for it, but i thot it looked kinda cool and Ive seen em on other peoples blogs under "thrift finds" so i forked out the money for it to try and be like everyone else.

Now i didnt get this on monday but i got it a few weeks ago at #3 ( i'll give numbers like a rating system...the camera above was found at #1 wich is the spot that rarely lets me down)

That thing cost ehhh i think $9.95..which whatever it looks old..i like it.

Now i dont always just find cameras at these places. I've also become addicted to finding old sports jackets or shirts as well:

boo yah... now we currently dont have an answer for Kevin Durant but im lakers all the way. Win or lose purple and gold still flows every time that IV gets stuck in my arm.. HeaRD THAT!

anyways . I think what draws me to these stores are memories. Other than pictures ( check!) the only things that spark good memories are seeing things that help you remember a time back when. Ive seen old toys and t-shirts that I had when i was a weeeee little chap that just sparks my mind.. if that make me "weird" then so be-it

Eh shot these photos in the valley of a ghost bike i pass on the regular while goin to the hot spots. I pulled over one time and a cop pulled up behind me and just pointed to a sign...the sign read " no stopping ANYTIME" wich i thot was a lil overboard. Im sure i could come up with a valid reason to stop..but i didnt feel like arguing with this guy.. so i took off.

The next time i parked off the road on some dirt...where i was angrily greeted by a man in his early 80's " you know if you park here and cross this road they're gonna put a Headstone right next to that bike with your name on it" which i thot was too clever. This man had a good 50+ years on me of intelligence and prolly some good shit talking too. Now you may have won the battle old man..but i will win the war:

spoils i guess

PEACE

up-great

2010-04-11T23:43:00.000-07:00

Holly wow...ive honestly got so much to talk about but am quite lazy when it comes to doing so.
So with this entry ima just kinda run through some key points and hopefully ya'll will follow.

When it comes to exercise im no tony gazelle

in reality...i hate sitting in gym's pumping iron and sweating my ass off next to a few other guys jacked up with steroids. Grunting with every press. And the mirrors? WTF are those for? so u can see how juiced you are?...oh well...maybe im just venting cause i dont have chiseled abs...or bulging biceps. Maybe im missing the part of my brain that makes me care about that....oh well

anyways where im getting is that when it comes to exercise id much rather do something outside. Swim, bike, hike, play basketball naked....all lubed up with baby oil... I mean REAL SHIT people!

WEll a few weeks ago Monnez, Spam and I hiked up La Tuna canyon. No biggie

now on this particular adventure I ended up video taping more than i took pictures so here is video-proof that my fatass actually did something one day..

Bros hiking from ben Walters on Vimeo.

Ok enough self attacking.
Towards the end of march my dad and I went to Lake Isabella for their annual trout fishing derby.
When we arrived up to Lake isabella the wind was howling.. Not to mention that most of the good camping spots were taken, so we took refuge in rocked out tornado beach.

As much as I should complain about the wind and cold, i wont. For even a bad day on the lake beats any day at work.
Now..those who know me well know that i am not much of a morning person...so when 4am came along with my dad pounding on my door..it would be safe to say i wasnt too into it. Now what better way to cure a shitty wakeup than to take a nap. So once our camp was all setup i threw my line in the water and went back to my tent with a mighty fine view:

and said hello to the darkness my eyes so desperately longed for.

"bennn!.....BEN!....BEN YOU LAZY FUCK" screamed my dad.

"what DICK" screamed me

" you've got a bite" father

"reel it in you sloppy gargoyle!!!" I yelled back

My dad did just that:

after i netted that fish and upon further investigation i realized it was a cat-fish. Now i know what you're thinking..." didnt he say trout derby"...yes i did. But this was the day before the contest started and after sitting in the truck for 4 hrs u cant help but want to get a jump on the competition.
Now i dont eat fish...so i cut the line ( catfish are indestructable) and set that bitch free. Shortly after that I caught a ok sized rainbow trout...then decided to go back to my tent...munch some trail mix:

and re-enter my nap.

Passed out for a good 2 hrs and just as the sun was setting and the wind was dying down i woke back up... colder than that mark ass bitch Tila Tequila:

I noticed a bear growling next to my dads tent...so i used my investagatory skills and later proved that it was My dad making all the noise cause his ass was in hibernation...

So it was up to me... the city slicker...had to start a fire.....so i did...and if you build it...even the bears will come out of hibernation:

I was shivering because i managed to rip my pants mid day...but with my normal DGAF attitude i didnt change. My dad on the other hand was outfitted like he was stranded in alaska...even 2 pairs of gloves!

whatevers.grilled up some hotdogs:

and called it a night.

The next morning my Dads friend AL-Dawg came up to join in on the fun?

To be honest..when the actually derby was on...we didnt catch shit...but it was still fun to just dick around and not be inside all day. Now you can take the man out the hood...but u cant take the hood out the man...( AL-Dawg in true form):

(thats a gun folks)

AMERICA!

there i go again with that stupid color grab feature ( hypocritical)
Man the fishing was so good!...nawt..the DAWG decided to catch up on some urban politics:

Eventually the sun started to set and dinner was bein made.. Chili burgers, dogs and beans... 100% health!

After a few man sodas were pounded and the shit talking was at a high..i decided to walk over to the water...and to my surprise was my dad fishing in the dark....eat ur heart out edward cullen...this ladies and gents is emo:

..ok well not really:

AL-Dawg was in true slayer mode:

after a cupple more hours of hoodratting we made our ways back to our tents and called it a night.

I woke up to people talking right next to my tent around 6am...fog still on the lake. I figured..F-it get ma fish on..Put my line in the water and as usual...NOTHING...oh well

After about an hr the bros exited their tents and breakfast was on the grill:

now if that ain't american...i dont know what is!
( bbq'd doughnuts...holly hell...SO BOMB!)
Now we tried to eat as much of the food as possible so it wouldnt spoil on the trip home...my dad spared nothing:

woof...heart-attack

and thats all she wrote..heres video:

trout skunk abella 2010 from ben Walters on Vimeo.

Later hoodrats!

U2 was wrong..within time i found what i was looking for..

2010-03-19T21:34:00.000-07:00

Oh wsup....

Can i git yo myspace?

Cmon..at least a facebook..?

Naw?

Aite fuq u den...

Holler...

To those who care or who have read a blog i posted a way's back, I finally found a polaroid camera that has been my main reason for waking up early to go to sketchy thrift stores all over the valley.

It was a shitty day at work..as usual. This day was different in the fact that I have been sick for the past few days. So a headache, throat ache, and life ache didnt mesh well with stupid people for 8 hrs....but i digressed. I got home around 7:30 pm. Eyes slowly shutting looking for that darkness they crave, but i wouldnt give in. My lazy ass needs to get out and do shit in my life...for who knows how long i will be here
Over the past few months my boredom cure has been going to a few select thrift stores bordering the town i live in. I found a new spot ( wich will remain un-named) and usually find some good cameras..and old sports shirts. There is another called sun-thrift that is truly hit or miss..which most of them are. The one place that sucked the most just so happened to have the camera i've had my eyes set on.
My heart was stuck on a Polaroid SX-70 and i didnt want to stop til i found it.
It was that night of sleepyness, sickness and over it-ness that i found it.
Shot over to goodwill and saw a leather bag. Asked the Bro behind the counter what it was and he replied " its like a really old camera" , i was stoked..thinking it might be something vintage or maybe an old AE-1 of sorts. But when i opened the dusty brown leather bag my eyes widened and the little kid inside of me awakened. There it was...exactly what i was looking for!:

I had to keep my composure. Acted like it was just some old thing..no biggy, cause nothing is final until my card has swiped and the reciept is in hand. I payed the gentleman and rushed to my car to further investigate the camera..
Flawless..... It even came with a flash....Holly balls i was high. My outlook on the day went from woof to ecstatic in a matter of moments.
It cost only $8.00... HYPED!
So hyped i went and got a gay outfit to go with it:

Booyah.

Every story has meaning. I set my mind on something and never stopped until my goal was achieved. I could have very well gone out and bought one of these on ebay for a crispy $200.00, but i didnt.
"it's not the destination..it's the journey". Not finding the camera gave me purpose...i made sure i did my rounds, got out of the house and looked for what I thot i'd never find, but enjoyed searching. Even found some awsome stuff along the way..

Relate this to anything...( you already know)
If you want something bad enough the only way to get it is to go for it, and not give up on the search....whatever it may be

Aight fuck you john denver..i'm out!

braaaappp!

2010-03-16T22:02:00.000-07:00

Holler players.

Yo fools...its hot outside which means 2 things are about to happen..
#1 I will prolly go snowboarding sometime soon. I really hope to get as loose as possible and post some of that explicit shred content that everyone is garg-a-ling for.

#2: It's riding season. NO! i wasnt talking about snowboard's, Skis, or those ugly ass sketcher butt toning shoes equiped with heeleys....

IM talkin bout motorcycles....and i hopped on the wagon just like everyone else did.. Bought a harley...a 3/4 helmet and kissed my future goodbye. The way i figure ill be dead in just a few short years if 2012 doesnt get me..

Aight so this past sunday my dad:

His friend joe and I decided to take a put out to Ventura.
WE hopped on the 210 and Joe thot it was a legit idea to start the ride of with a mellow 85mph speed up. Now i know 85 isnt much..esp when those fags on crotch rockets go that fast in 2nd gear...but it was sketch...Ive got a thin ass front tire and no windshield ( they're gay)...so i was bein pulled off my bike. My hoodrat dad eventually caught up and said to keep it mellow.. So mellow it was.
We then hopped on the 126 wich is super legit. All you folk who've got girlfriends...take em on this road..its pretty..its mellow, and there is no reception so they can't turn on horrid country music...( belly button?)
Oh wait i got lost...aight so anyways Joe's bike wasn't up to the torture he had bestowed upon it..so he had to pull out half way ( thats what she said) :

Peace out joe!...and we hit the road........jack......

Aite so we exited california st off the 101 and went to main. The place is sweet..a few thrift stores tons of hip ass cafe's and a grip of stupid rich urban motorcycle enthusiests jamming around with their flame helmets and leather chaps
aka...KOOKS!

WE paid homage to the Ventura HA club-house and then zooma zoom zoom'd over to andria's for some grindage.

The place is sick..long line to get in..but right on the water. I grabbed a seat outside in a packed deck..that unfortunatley sat under a shit-bird tree. My dad actually got bombed 2 maybe 3 times..I felt bad.

After snapping some bird shots my dad slammed this on the table:

you guessed right...Thats a whole tray dedicated to sauces... Woof my dads on a whole new level of LOCO
( i def used a good amount of em)

Now i bet you're wondering what i got at this known for its fish and chips type place...

here it is...

chicken fingers? ...yea i dont even know what to say...ima idiot.. But my dad threw back some halibut fish-n-chips that looked flashy..

ART:

bahhh..i felt like such a shoobie using that dam color grab funtion on my digi-cam. Woof , i only hate cause i see so many of those pictures where only certain colors are show-cased and i know the people taking em think 1 thing and 1 thing only, " damn...im a really good photographer".. when the truth is...you're a reeet reeet..dont quit ur day job people...

woah..that was a lil negative rant..oh well

Aight so we gear'd back up and headed back up the 126...Stopped at a fruit stand and sputterd back to L.A..

truely was a real good time...something I will do again in the near near future...

p.s. my seat is super uncomfortable so i was wiped out:

but still made it by Joe's to talk shit and let him know hes a goomba for thinking he could take his bike on a lengthy ride after letting it sautee in his garage for 3 month's

woof..

heres a video..its not cool so u shouldnt waste ur time by watching it....CIAO!:

riding season hoodmilf from ben Walters on Vimeo.

hey momma this surly is a drrrreeeeaaaam

2010-03-01T11:28:00.000-08:00

Wow feb 8th since the last time i had anything to talk about. That really isn't the trooph... but it is easy to say that on a scale from 1-10 for motivation in life...mine currently is at a 3. Thats not to say that i haven't been doing anything tho.. so here it goes

FEw weeks ago i rode along with Kyle to pick up B-Kauf and danny at LAX when they were arriving from some nascar ass shit in daytona floriwhocares. here is proof:

OK that's all folks..thanks for tuning in!

Im jus fuqin wit cha:

Aite so any woot..through work we won a contest with the prise of sitting at a suite at the Lakers vs Celtics game on feb 18th. the last game i went to was Lakers vs the Supersonics who have since relocated and become some gay team no one pays attention too.
That one kid d-ray that i always talk about on here got me into watching a ton of lake show shii...so i was highly amped. Not only did i become a fan of laker basketball...but also i became an all out hater of the Boston Celtics. They way they act..the way they play...90% of the team the coaches can all lick my balls after i take a Hike through Mojave Desert. D ray will talk shit for me liking a player but if i had to choose one..im OK with Ray Allen..only cause hes relatively quiet and just handles his shit.
Anyways the game was fun..free drinks..cool people.. and laker ball. Kobe didn't play which i didn't think would be much of a problem...but i guess it was cause we lost by 1 point.

beginning of the lake show:

Bow chica chica yeaa. Game was cool but it was also nice to hang with folks from work..throw back some man sodas and scream at opposing fans.

oh wsup nana:

the suite was catered with lamb chops of all things..i too opted for chips beer and salad...a wise choice..Justa workin on ma fitness...

huh?

This is mike..but i wont show his whole face cause hes sort of like the International Man of mystery (no homo)...hes die hard lakers fan..Thas WSUPPP

I finally got my lil point and shoot to do infinite zoom...and i was able to catch some ill ass action shots:

as i look at these shots I think to myself " i bet even when pros take shots in games they secretly are saying "kobe!" in their minds"........the cool thing ...is that i know i'm right.

Aite whatevs...we lost...fuck it

Ok so that following saturday monnez and I drove up to San Fran...but started the day off right with some marij-ack in the box:

mann i am clever.

Alex drove and i sat shotgun...which is weird because i have always driven drove..drivvelled? to nor-cal.
I'll admit...we were coming down the grapevine and hit a freak downpour. Monnezz decided that its kool to go 80mph and kiss our asses goodbye. It was sketchy and i def had my hand on the " O-Shit" handle, but Maverick didnt givashit:

After a few pit stops and some good tunes we finally arrived at my home away from home..645..
As usual there is never a dull moment and this excitement came from sidewalk graph:

Thats sarah..shes pretty neat..but mildly sarcastic...and super into the brothas...i dont blame her..YUM!
After some hugs and remenising we decided to jam on over to get some Burritos at nikkis work. I used to be super into taking food fotos...but i truely blew it on doing so thise trip..Sorry world.
I will recover tho. For after fooding we rumbled over to the Golden Gate Bridge to soak in some views and snap some fotos:

Anyways after jumping off the bridge we jammed over to the market in our super sweet red jeep cherokee:

After all that malarky we went back to the casa to get ready to thrash..
awkwards:

Monnez:

OMG ash-matz even graced us with her presence. I havenbt seen her the past 3 times i've been up there so it was definetly a treat:

No shit...monnezz was creepin that night

I actually ended up taking a cab home by myself cause im a weirdo and don't really like bars.. Anyways
The next day it was raining.. So Van, Monnez, Berg, and I wandered over to the museum on our segways:

Saw some cool ol-shiiii:

Damn what a look in the past. As sarah and i were walking thru the museum there was this Girl sprawled out infront of some artifacts and was having her BF take a picture of her..SCANDALOUS

OK so after that we jammed backed to 645. and the girl from "the hills have eyes" was there...lookin mighty fly:

We decided to keep it low key this night...so we just threw back some pabst and played some games...HoooRAH:

The next morning was our last one there. Of course we jammed out to Squat and Gobble on Haight and ate some yum yums but i have fallen off the taking pictures of what i eat train..a train that i need to get back on. So heres boring ass van an monnez:

Aight sorry..i know ive left a lot out..or maybe im just not as detailed as i used to be. Ok well i also took some pack-film cameras so here are those fotos:

Ahhh well thats all folks..check back next year for I may just get my shit together and post more often... Stay safe! Don't Take DRUGS!

forqd

2010-02-08T21:36:00.000-08:00

hayyy!

WTF!

OK as usual I have mondays and sundays off each week. Now every monday I get super hip and visit the surrounding thrift stores mainly in search of cameras and vintage sports jackets/shirts/ and bongs.... ( not lookin for bongs...i's was kidding) Anyways Sun thrift has hit a dry spell...pretty much the same crap i see day after day..and goodwill is lame. I started goin to this other zone in Pasadena but it is hit or miss. So i got my nerd on and looked for local ghetto stores ( thrift stores) on the internet, and found one just a short drive away. Now I would tell you where it is..but i dont wanna blow the joint up..then all of a sudden they dont have anymore goods. Ok well this place is a gold mine... They have a whole wall full of cameras and another one behind the registers...oh and its dirty cheap..peep this:

That is Kodak's answer to the instant camera. It might be the dumbest looking i have ever seen. They had one with a flash but it was $3.00 instead of the $2.00 i paid for that beauty. The best part about the camera is the Model that it is " party time"...woof

Next i got this old..i dunno i think Kodak too makes this:

that ones pretty basic..i have a few others like it..they're just so simple that i usually buy em...oh and it was only $1.00

The best for last maybe?

kinda maybe. I got this Polaroid 320 for a few scrilla. Kinda bummed cause the previous owner " Stuart Bogartz" decided to etch his name on the top of the view finder...but F-IT i guess that adds to the unique-ness.

Now ima be honest..ive seen this place before but i refused to go there because last time i was on my moto:

and no joke...some prostitute tried to jump on the back. No lies....Needless to say i jammed outa there right quik.
after going there it's safe to say its my new hot spot...

Aight today come to think of it... was a pretty legit day. I woke up with a package on the front porch from 4Q conditioning.

Now 4Q is a costom motorcycle company that in my eyes makes the coolest lookin custom panheads, shovelheads, and knuckles I have ever seen. ( those are engines)

Max Schaaf is the owner...who also happens to be a professional skater from Oakland CA

so anydig i ordered a shirt from him no biggy...and inclosed was some stickers as well as a little note:

I was more apmed on the note than the shirt...it was just cool cause i semi-idolize what max does and has done..thot it was legit he took the time to scribble some words on a piece of paper for me.

word...aight well im out..peace

103

2010-02-08T00:04:00.001-08:00

pack flame

2010-02-06T22:17:00.000-08:00

dubble 1

2010-02-06T02:48:00.000-08:00

fucked

2010-02-04T00:33:00.001-08:00

Last Minutes with ODEN from phos pictures on Vimeo.

Under a spell of ZOO-DOO

2010-02-01T23:14:00.000-08:00

Oh what!!!! its funny..i was just walking by and noticed that u were lookin at this page...so I hopped on my I-PAD and decided to make a new post.

This past sunday, boredom struck like the gold rush did in 1847, and with prior talks of hitting up the Los Angeles Zoo, we decided...FUQ it.

So SAM, B-Kauf and myself hopped in the cleanest tahoe in Bro-Cal:

and drove over to the Los Angeles ZOO:

We couldn't believe our eyes when we saw a zig-zag line formation to get into the place. But after about 20 mins of shit talking we handed the lady $13 and in return we received this:

and c-walked our white asses into the joint.
After some animal watching the bro's decided that life is only fun while under the influence of a controlled substance....i didnt agree but they got some man sodas anyways:

Sam even said he felt like a creeper walking around a children filled zoo with a brew..but he didnt giva FUH
This is SAM..im trying to make him a hipster:

Here are a couple of aminal fotos:

Now i know what you are thinking. " damn B..you went all the way to the zoo and took 3 maybe 4 crappy fotos of some boring animals"... and I couldnt agree more.
The reality of this is that im trying to stay away from taking digital pictures only. So you guessed it..i brought the Beast camera
Polaroid 103 and shot away. Most arent that cool but whatever..i had fun. Especially when a few people asked me where i got it? Does it work?...can i have your number?
and so on and so forth....

Anyways when I wasn't bumming on the fact that we have exotic creatures caged up rather than out in the world roaming ( i know some hippy in the Arizona wilderness will get what i mean) i managed to pack film it up..

So here is a video of the camera and some still shots of the zoo day:

polaroid pack film camera 103 from ben Walters on Vimeo.

as always...get out and live. Lifes short.. carpe diem... or...sit inside and play video games all day...frankly..i dont give a shit.

PEACE!

Packing

2010-01-27T23:16:00.000-08:00

Hey party people....I'ma be honest... I literally just smoked 75 ounces of the liquid they use when making Ecstasy... so please, bare with me.

Kidding folks

OK so while in vega$.. D-ray and i had a conversation. WE talked about something as simple as hobbies...and or what makes life more enjoyable. Now obviously my number 1 hobby is selling drugs to kids at elementary schools and re-programming pagers, but when I am unable to participate in either of those acts ( court ordered) I truly enjoy taking pictures. Now I'll be the first one to tell you i suck at taking pictures but something about experimenting ( no homo) with different films/ cameras gives me excitement ( not that kind of excitement d-ray)

well anyways I've been collecting cameras for i dunno maybe 3 years...pretty much any type that looks old is all i care about. In all reality they dont even have to work.

So on my journey to buy junk i stumbled across this Polaroid Automatic 315:

At a local goodwill. Handed the short lil asian man $15.00 and walked out the door.

A coupld months later my boy Patchett and I went too a Salvation Army store and picked up this Polaroid 103:

for $7.00. That 103 is legit cause it came with a leather-case, portrait lens, and flash.

booYAH!:

When I had initially bought both these cameras..they were intended to go into my camera display-case. Not knowing that Fuji made a film for them...thats exactly where they sat. Then..while lurking on google and researching the 103...i got linked up to a few message boards that claimed they still made film.
So boom..called up Samy's Camera and sure as sheeeit..they carried it in both color/ black&white.

the black and white cost about $11.00 and the color i think was $13.00

They type of film is called pack film. Really its just and older instant camera...but with a vintage look.

The first few pictures on the 103 came out suuuuper dark:

I believe i wasted a whole pack ( 10 exposures)

I knew something was up..so i took the battery out of the 103 and put it in the 315...problem solved:

So after some failed pictures i decided to put the battery back in the 103 only this time using color film..to my surprise it worked:

As always..have fun capturing the moment..even if the pictures dont turn out how you wanted them too. Its an experience..like life

" life is like photography..we use the negatives to develop"

or something like that..

Oh and i'd like to thank my sponsor:

the salad crisper..for keeping my film legit

ciao bustas!

Holly santa clause shit

2010-01-25T22:41:00.000-08:00

hello? I just took a bag of blue and purple pills, passed out for most January. When I woke up I remembered that Ive got some Vegas to talk about so here it goes....

Went too Vegas...got the clap...It didn't stay there like i thought it would...the END

Juuust kidding..about all of it. If you wanna hear about the clap send me an e-mail and I'll give you the phone number of this guy:

He will for sure give you the low low..

( doesn't have STD's ladies...he's clean......we think)

OK f-it...here we go.

So it was our boy Ramon:

's 24th birthday...and what better way than to spend it in Las Vegas with a group of closest friends ( and some stragglers)

note to readers: the last picture was taken by a bell-man...which thanks for taking it but notice how much head-room thure is..shit gives me a head-ache.

anyways so yea.

Friday came around and it was time to depart from good ol La Crescenta . Junior rolled up to my house ready to GETHEFUCKOUT:

We then drove down got in Ramons truck:

Picked up Lt. Jon:

ANd got on the road heading....? whatever direction it is that takes us to Las Vegas Nevada
There is an old saying " it's not the destination...its the journey" now dont quote me but i think Lady Gaga came up with that one..and I totally agree. The better part of vegas was spent in CA...on the road.. 4 bros..( no homo) just shootin the shit...i like

Now enough of that John Denver crap:

We arrived to the Place with the worlds Largest Thermometer...aka Who-the-fuck-cares-ville.. and the bros were ready to pick up some man sodas:

Safety Notice: NO..we did not drink in the truck on the way out there...you're welcome

OK So after a Chronic 2001 looped in ramons truck for a few hrs we finally arrived in good ol Sin CITy.

Our good friends Sarah and Vanessa flew in from San Fransisco and were right next door...

and after a lil bit of catching up..we were down at Bills casino to catch the Lakers Game

After trying our hands at some Roulette and Blackjack we headed over to get some drunk munchies:

By then it was time to go back 2 the room get our bank/ credit cards and max them out after a few swiggers ov course:

Ok so we headed down as a group and left as smaller groups.. since i'm not much of a gambler nor is Sar-Chase and by then Van lost all her money ..we decided to make our way back up to the rooms. Now im guessing it was prolly 3 a.m wich means its fight time for an angry ms marquette:

by then the eye gouging, hair pulling, and screaming became un-bearable. So i slinked into my room without further incident

Saturday morning came up just like vans puke all over her bed ( sry van) So jr and I met the rest of the early rising crew over at Margherita-ville...had some laughs:

then zoomed back to the Flamingo....and when we got there look who was waiting:

You're right people.. Kid MOTHER FUCKIN ROCK

kidding...but seriously.. In tru D-Ray form he ceases to amaze me. I mean it didn't even cross my mind to bring a set of whigs to Vegas.. But to dirty it was no big deal:

OK then there was some more catching up then straight back down to the tables...

Ok this is the point of the blog where I like to tell a story..here it is

Vegas Hoodies: By Ben walters

It was a warm January night... the smell of money was in the air. I looked down at the green velvet table in-front of me and toss around my chips as if they were monopoly money. I place my bet..$6000.00 on black and just as the ball slows its roll on the rich mohogany wheel i look up and see:

thats right..Kid-Rock or the guy from "rock of love..brett michaels" standing right across from me. Pure sex..seducing a ebony crack-queen.. He walks over and i'm floored by his over-all swagger and ability to attract girls like the artist formally known as prince...

The end

Thats not really how it went down..long story short. D-Rays dumb ass is standing at the table with his arms resting on the glass... and after the 7th time being yelled at for doing so...a cracked out vegas local walks by and says " ain't you kid rock" Donald ( wich is d-ray) says " hell yea" and they lock eyes momentarily:

Just then her sketchy ass brother walked over..now normally i refrain from taking pictures of people that look like they want to kill me...but i was under the influence of alcohol so i ditnt giv-a fuq:

right after i snapped that gem.. the guy walks to his sister and says " uh oh..someone got a picture of me" that sketched me out..but after him circling the table a few times they finally took off into the sewers. ( sry that was mean)

Right back at the gambling action:

Back to the room came next..to get ready for ramons night of Birthday thrashing.
D-Ray finally found a wing-man in the form of this tall all lil jon look-alike:

Then sarah palin stopped by:

and threw up weird gang-signs:

Then things got serious.
Walked over to get some margheritas:

we then went back to Flamingo and Ramon hustled us a Limo...thas right people.. WERE dope...as we were waiting ov-vourse i got down on some bro-tography:

AHHH then the fun began..the limo arrived ( side-note..this was my first time in a limo) It was so much fun once the music got turned on..it was like a moving club.. Smiles and laughter all around the car:

ok really it was d-ray, samanior ( brad and angelina have brangelina...spencer and heidi have spidey...samantha and junior have Samanior.....keep up people) Ramon and I all dancing and just livin life...everyone else was emo...

You may be asking urself " gee i wonder where they are going" well instead of telling you ima show you:

Thats was a $30 entrance fee gets you to Saphire strip club...oh and a set of these as well:

( hopefully someone got that joke)

It was still fun...and Ramon looked to be having a good time.. Hollah:
THen it was back in ANOTHER LIMO? ...yea we're dope like that.. More limo party pics:

The next day was sunday and everyone was feelin like ish...but we all made it over to excailbur for lunch.. As i look thru my comp i notice i didnt take a single picture of that day... D-ray jon and I headed back to the hotel cause d-ray wasnt feelin all too great...eventually the rest of the group followed. From what i remember after excalibur everyone was wandering around gambling the day away while d-ray and I had some no homo bro time at the rooom.. with d-ray tryin to recover from the night before. The group came back and the Homie ramon passed the f-out at around 8:00 pm:

a few hrs pass and just as i think the nights over.. Ramon rises from the dead..puts on a button up and a la fitted and walks over to the elevator.
So me bein the over-all downest G of all..i get out of bed put on a flannel and go try and catch up with ramon. So i walk over to the elevator ( ramon left a good 15 mins before me) so i push the go down button, the doors open and guess who the fuq's in there.... You got it.. RAMON..sitting on the cell fone.. he steps out of the elevator looks around and then boom a lightbulb pops up over his head...and he realizes hes been sitting in the same box for 15+ minutes.. SOOOOOO FUNNY holly crap it was a HTBT ( had to be there) moment.
Ok so then went down lost some money...met up with Sarah and walked her burrito ass down the strip came back around 4:30 and bid the night a-dew..

Next day was departure day and this picture says how everyone was feeling:

and thats all folks.. Mind you that i have left a lot of juicy info out...because somethings have to stay in vegas..esp the crabs that d-ray got from that one chick

just kidding i didnt leave much out.. Oh and in american history X the kid says its good to finish off a paper with a quote...well you're in for a surprise cause ive got a few from the vegas vaca...

Jon: " that bitch was so dumb..she made vanessa look like a professor"

d ray: " so far im brett michaels. kid rock. eminem.. and stevie wonder"

jon : " dude that guy couldnt even get a handjob from himself"

Jon too Ramon about losing money: " hey man...didnt u just lose 500$....RAMON: na fool 7....

and thats all folks happy birthday homie...thanks for vegas for doin us dirty..til next time...PEACE

card

2010-01-15T01:06:00.000-08:00

Yo ima keep this short.. Goin to vegas tomorrow with most of the OG friends..its gonna be a blast. Esp since i got my b-day present from my madre in the form of this card..pretty funny i think.

opened it up and saw this:

thanks for the advice mom...

Check back for updates after monday..till then..PEACE

want:

2010-01-13T00:45:00.000-08:00

Bahh we all know I have a problem with wanting things...I have 90% of everything i could ever ask for but every once in a while i see something that catches my eye. This time its not a Moped..cause guess what..i gots one. This time its a Polaroid SX-70

What Makes me want it is that it has the ability to focus on single items in pictures which i think would look legit...
Anyways if you or any of ur friends/ family have one or if you rummage thru thrift stores like i do..and happen to stumble upon one..let me know...Ill gladly pay for it..thanks?

Makes me bummed cause i saw one of these at sun-thrift back in the d..but it looked banged up so i decided against it..stoops

woof that was like a craigslist add..geyy

birthing a goat that sells ganja

2010-01-06T23:19:00.000-08:00

Heyyyyy...I know what ur thinking...WTF does this title mean...Im just as lost as you..

Enough of that...Now i know ya'll been waiting on the edge of ur seats for a new post..So ima give it to you like this.

Deeeezember 30th 1985 a king was born..That king is me....Just Fuqin wicha..But yea my birthday was this past dec 30th and it was a dewsy... WEll come to think of it..didnt do much..which is fine by me. Later on in the week my madre and padre decided to have a lil feast containing carne asada:

wich off the record..100% the best carne asada ive ever had..SOOOOO bomb right off the BBQ

My dad was heating up some hand made tortillas for some carnitas tacos...:

which looked pretty illin:

I ov course cant get enough of dem carne asada burritos..this one was mucho yumms:

Now I always put my dad on blast with this blog but this time ima set my mom up

There is nothin so close to nails on a chalkboard than watching an adult text message...Woof here scope this:

Thats my mom..and watching her text gives me a stomach ache..In this picture shes prolly asking me where the space bar button is..Woof throw in the towel.
My dads even more funny...for some reason he puts !!! after everything...which makes me excited yet i dont know why

TXT convo with dad:

Ben. Yo fool wsup wit it?

Dad: Nothing much. I am just at home ! ! !

Ben: Oh word..ur really that excited?

Dad: no ! ! !

Ben: then why all the exclamation marks?

Dad: Im fuckin high ! ! ! ! ! ! !

OK it went somethin like that..

heres some token jack pictures:

The next night was new years..I didnt go out..but i had an amazing time!

OK so this past monday i went up to big bear and took some laps with my bro kurk ( his real names kirk but no one can spell it..you'll see shortly) Even made a mini movie..and here it is:

kurk summit throwback from ben Walters on Vimeo.

WOOOWOWO good times..summits still super fun.

Ok after summit we went to of one of the best burger places ive ever been. Its called Get the burger in Big Bear lake CA:

it was soooo Damn good.
Kurk got the director:

and as you can see he was wayyyyyy into it.

pretty sunset:

and then my car blew up on the 210 in Rialto of all places.. im not gonna get into details tho..cause 2010 is all about positive thoughts..even tho it all ends in 2 years.. Have a good one folks!

ahhhh rats!

2009-12-28T23:08:00.000-08:00

Hey ima post this really quik

My day was cool said whats up to patchett:

And D-Ray:

over a plate of Yakis heart-attack...

then rolled over to newly and poorly renovated Haines Canyon RES:

Then blah blah blah..got home and set a trap....enjoy

hahah...i know i cursed a lot...oh well..Sorry?..but im not...
Im cool with killing these rats because they tormented my dog calie in her last year of life...And with no dog around and house in the middle of re-model..they came to destroy... Only problem was they under-estimated the power of revenge...GOOD RIDDANCE !

shot in order

2009-12-27T21:55:00.000-08:00

Oh what? I forgot i still had this thing...

Kidding!

With the holidays bein chaotic and all that malarky I've been slow too post about the marvelous life I lead. So every-now- and again i Plug in the ol- digital camera...scan some film and reminess on some shitttt.

This one is for Blake Nyman..he claims to eat healthier but on this night...i was crowned king:

thats right blakey....thank me later!

I arrived home one night and saw this heep of unhealthiness:

but really thought nothing of it. I then left only to come back and noticed all of it was gone...and then saw this beast on the couch:

if you ask me ima say he looks pretty suspect..

After losing all that candy and junk food my fat-ass became en-raged. I had to kill something....and what better things to kill than rats...:

and kill i did..!

Fast forward a few days right before x mas...A few friends came into town so i rolled on down too Jose's to vibe with the bros

Dirty bitch d ray was there: ( p.s. Long Beach States newest Graduate)

ohhh wsup mark and sar-uh? and even van-tard showed up..she never goes out so this was rare:

Ok...booo yah Fast forward to x-Mas eve...WEnt over to the grandparents as usual. Did the whole fam-bam thing..id like to say i ate a ton of food..but to be honest there wasnt anything to eat. So instead i just snapped polaroids of,
Tiffany and Evy:

and my cousin Jon and his daughter Pheebs:

as you can tell..they were both super excited to have their picture taken by yours truly

haha

Ok so after the whole family thing i drove up to my dads in wrightwood...yes VAN...wrightwood. Ate a few corn-dogs..and called it a night.

The next morning i woke up and it was Christmas DAY!!!!!
best present anyone could ask for...a plate full of egg's benedict made by me madre:

ahhh soo good. Anyways my dad also got a new dog...and with the recent passing of calie it was nice to have something to BBQ once again:

I dont know what it was...but this year i got straight hooked up by santa. I would post what i got on here but i heard that people look at blogs after x mas..see all the shit people bragg about getting then rob them clean. With that being said...i got 2 shot-guns, 4 glock pistols and 1 hand grenade for shits and gigs. come and test me fools...

Where was I? ok anyways x mas morning after unwrapping my arsenal of weapons i decided to drive up the street to Mountain High...I was greeted by some douche bags with tapout and famous stickerd out lifted 2 wheel drive trucks..bumping lil wayne while putting on their boots.
Ive said it before and i'll say it again... I hate snowboarding...not the sport itself but the pieces of shit that exploit it and promote it in ways that should be punished by death from firing squad. People never understand why i dont "like" snowboarding. I see it different...like the way Jake Phelps feels about skateboarding..i feel the same way about snowboarding ( 100% no one will know who im talking about when i said jake phelps)..Its a love..and when people throw dirt on that love..their is nothing to do but fight for it..

OK woah...kinda got side-tracked...heres 1 picture i got from mtn high:

I ended up only taking 4 runs..it was ok snow my new board was legit..but just wanted to get out of there...and when i did...i showed up to this on the table:

soo bomb..i bet Blake Lewy is bummin right now!

Spoiler Alert ( for blog reading criminals only) I received a Fuji Instax 210 instant camera ( modern polaroid... which they still make film for)

Now i know ur sick and tired of hearing why im backing film over digital...so i'ma tell you why..

Digital cameras are like internet porn...They're dope but when you want to hold that picture or in this case...that boob... it just cant happen..

My new camera is like in the skin real life bumpin and grindin. Instant gratification when you can take a picture and be holding a physical image in hand rather than a eye only image on screen..

OK fuck it bottom line..i snapped a picture of my mom and my dads new dog jack:

my dad and j bone:

and for shits and gigs..got one of my mom wearing a snuggie...bahaha:

shes obviously amped on it..hahah

Ok im out..happy belated holidays and stay safe on new years...i know i wont..PEACE!

no subjekt?

2009-12-14T20:32:00.000-08:00

Scanned a cupple pics into the comp..thats all

R.I.P

I also have ADDDDDD so when its 1am and everyone else is asleep im out in the garage rummaging thru stuff that isnt mine. Since i have an addiction to old fotographs i grabbed a box that looked to be filled with em. I was right...

This is of my Uncle john and ted and other bros straight chillen.. SCope the mustaches...SOOOO MONEY!

These are of my grandpa...hes my hero..nuff said:

It turns out my grandpa was also Sean Connery...who knew?

resemblance?
I always thot they looked a lot alike. Only thing is that Connery is a Scotsman and my grandpa has a pretty thick English accent.
I dunno.. I also stumbled across some more of him with his corvette. Wish he still had it....VROOM?

If you notice in most of these pictures my grandpas always got a Coors in hand..if thats not gangster i dont know what is.

Before i got a harley ( yes..i know...im fuckin kewl) I didnt bring it home for 2 months cause i didnt know how to break to my mom that i was about too cut my life expectancy in half. Then i found these puppies:

How sketchy is that. Tandem dune jumping...Im not even dumb enough to do that...and I kill bugs for a living..

what?

OK im out

Hayy gurl...is he everything you wanted in a man?

2009-12-06T23:54:00.001-08:00

Sorry justin timbalakes song be running through my dome currently ( no homo).

ANyways i recently went to ma boy Dirty Deezles apt in Long beach for some good old fashioned bro-ing and maxed relaxin. Only problem is that when i got there...D-ray went from life experiencer to straight up Gamer:

So after i got back from Ninja Assassin ; )....i munched some archys b-fast burrito...Which off the record...dopest dope ive ever smoked... and dirty was still gaming away...Oh well i guess
The next morning dirty and I went to the RVCA werehouse sale in costa mesa. Bahhh fuck lines..we waited in this:

which took a good 2 hrs or so to get thru.
The line was worth it tho..I had a price list i would have scanned in but d ray kept asking me for it..even tho he had one in his pocket i ended up giving him mine.
WE both came up on a trash bag each at a fraction of the price..
RVCA wars fool:

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Fuckin A thats good cake... D:Rays in his last week of College...Id like to take this time to congratulate the lil bugger on his success!! DEANS LIST BABY!!!!!!( he also wanted me to tell everyone he hasnt worn jeans with sandals ( mandals) since 04'...just in case yall was wonderin)
SO dirty bein all excited about the big day...what does he go out and buy....

a fucking backpack?.....he was so amped on it that he wore it in his apt the rest of the day..
He may have a bachelors in Political Science...but hes also got a Masters in retardation.

Im kidding d...you know i luh you...( homo)...wait what?

Oh well i figured id leave you with this...saw it while goin to sun thrift today with B-Cough...:

Now i know its a baseball player with a catcher behind him...but to the untrained eye..it looks like a man about to hit a kid with a baseball bat in the head...

food for thought i guess...PEACE!

foto scan

2009-12-06T18:12:00.001-08:00

Im sleepin with Tiger...there...i said it:

beeq spray

2009-12-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

Bkauf white stuff at face from ben Walters on Vimeo.

Bear attack #1

2009-11-30T19:29:00.000-08:00

Hey there america. Ben " what the F am I doing with my life" Walters here with another fantastic product:

R.I.P Billy Mays..

Word so this sunday a few friends and I went up to Big Bear to get some early season snowboarding in. It was a dewsy...but on the drive up things almost took a rather dangerous turn.
We were tailing the worlds coolest car ( PT Cruiser) when on a turn it decided to do a 360...The best part about it was that the driver of the sweet mobile was trippin.. He was spinning the wheel every wich way. Now as we were watching this man freak out we hit the same patch of ice...and decided to do some sliding of our own...right toward douche-in the PT. WE BARELY missed clipping this guys hood. We then proceeded to BMR without further incident.

Booyah g ma! Winter came early to Big Bear along with 12 total inches in just a few days....
Sam and I started the day off right with some smooth breakfast burritos:

With the beginning of the season out came all the sports retards in their bright ass outfits:

...Its funny...I actually wrote a book on what people should wear snowboarding...it goes like this

Snowboard Fashion: By Ben Walters
Don't wear bright colors to make a statement or stand out... matter of fact..Don't snowboard at all.

THE END...

OK where was i? Oh yea we were snowboarding...umm the weather was iffy and they were blowing snow all day:

(look at how baggy the fool on the lefts pants are....) classic

Not ideal weather but we still had some good laps..here is a video of the day..CIAO:

Bear Mountain 11/29/09 from ben Walters on Vimeo.

Space Jam Garden

2009-11-29T00:06:00.001-08:00

If i had one guess...then I guess im just new Orleans

Heyy foolios...Recently scanned some polaroids into my computer so here they be:

D-Rays kickin it jammin to some lil wayne:

Caught a snap shot of my Grandpa on Thanksgivin:

This is a picture of a rat messed up by a weak ass trap...it twitched for a minute then took off..bastard:

This was my fav ( non creepa) its a polar of my cousin Jeff and Shannons son Owen:

sup fooooool!

2009-11-24T11:41:00.001-08:00

booyah!

Ignancy from ben Walters on Vimeo.

sign at the dotted line

2009-11-17T00:15:00.001-08:00

saw this guy while driving thru burbank yesterday...he was maddddd good at flippin...backin his style:

sign flip from ben Walters on Vimeo.

oh wahhht fool

2009-11-16T20:22:00.000-08:00

Hooolalalalaaaa

So this weekend was rather uneventful. Things still went down.
Had a lil bbq/ punch forward ( same thing as a kick back but words in dif motion ya dig) slammed some man sodas and even got down on some beer pong BRO:

Montes went pre-madonna and put gloves on cause his lil fingas were coldsies:

We then moved that shiii in-doors, cause we eventually sided with Alex and agreed that it was too cold outside:

Oh wsup Patches:

Nothin like dorritos and ranch...right wop?

At this part of the night people started getting roudy...as usual Junior thot he could take patchett and patchett thought he could take the oven...both lost:

Homie fotos:

then the night ended...
The next morning kirk Kaufmann Dun called me and said he was in town from big bear...so i told him to walk down to my casa to scope out the new moped....and scope he did:

BAHAHAH that foto..

SAm came down as well...figured hed give it a whirl:

Oh i forgot to mention..it was Kirks birthday.. HAPPY BDAY fool!
He wanted some good american heart-attack...so naturally we went over too tommys and got our clogged arteries on:

WTF is in that stuff:

And that'll doo it folks...hope u had a good weekend..PEACE

Puch me..until i get my..Satisfaction

2009-11-12T22:36:00.000-08:00

Hey there lads and ladies...Thanks too everyone who takes the time out of their days to check out this blog...and those who sent condolences over my passing pup.

With that bein said...lets get down to bidness shall we?

OK so on a day off i had this week I woke up and scoped out Craigslist cause i've been trying to find a Moped that I could restore.
Ive been looking for a few months now and on this day I finally found what i was looking for. What I wanted was a Puch Magnum...which is a mid to late 1970's moped.

Thats a picture of the same one as mine..only that ones in damn near close to perfect condition. I would show a picture of the one that i got...but people will prolly have too much shit to talk...so i'ma just do without it.
The reason why i chose this make and model over others is cause with a little bit of money and creativity i could make it look like this:

I'm writing this as if any of u care..
Oh well so anyways My boy Patch and I want to restore some of these and then throw them in the back of the truck and drive up to SF to blast around.. I guess blast isnt the correct word. Moped stock do anywere from 25-35.. But with gearing and motor mods ive seen some go 50+ which is pretty legit. Oh and most of them get 100+ MPG...eat ur heart out Prius..

heres some pics of close ups on the bike as u can tell work will nee to be done:

I know it will be a fun little winter project...im pretty excited

Oh and i neglected to say it starts first kick...eat ur heart out bitches...something thats just under 40 years old still rollin...im out!

Calie

2009-11-09T16:18:00.000-08:00

Dogs at times are funny creatures, but more than anything they are the most loyal beings I have ever come across. 13 years ago my dad found that in the likes of a hyper active Australian Sheppard that my mom named Calie. She was the best at keeping everyone in the house safe...so much that she wouldnt let anyone near it. Whenever id move away and it was just my mom in our house id still feel that she was safe, mostly cause she had Calie around. Above all, the way dogs act are what many Humans should aspire too. I know that if i was at home sleeping and a someone came in and whistled for me too come too them i'd gracefully decline...not dogs tho...they're there for you thick and thin...rain or shine...or any other methaphor you wish to add. With that said...Rest in peace CAL..

calie rest in peace from ben Walters on Vimeo.

happy gilmore

2009-11-09T10:44:00.000-08:00

Hallelujah holla back.

Lets get right too it.
So yesterday (sunday) after a nice lunch Sam:

lapd-Damien:

And I:

Decided to get our Tiger Woods on over at verdugo hills golf course:

The place is small...everythings a par 3...a lil over-priced but still a good time, when ur not dodging families of 3 who think they can play soccer on a closed course..people these days....

anyways the first hole went pretty good...I landed to the left of the green. Damien a lil beyond it...but that sneaky italian decided to put a lil too much juice on the first hit..and ended up in some planters where he then had to take the ball out and proceed:

I was doing ok but like every great golfer..we sometimes unfold when we get to the putting green. Damien and Sam on the other hand seemed to have it down to an art-form:

PASS:

PASS:

FAIL:

So i guess golf is a sport that demands high level of concentration... Too bad i dont have that...D-Dawg does:

Nothing like golfing in:

Where the women are pretty and the:

tastes exactly how it says... DELICIOUS!

Some good old fashion BRO-ing took place:

ART:

SAM with that Long putt for birdie:

ART:

"thats one...small Blow for mannnnn....One....Giant blow for mankind" ( no homo)

Like sam...i also blew it on this shot: ( el no el homo)

It then became too dark to see and Sam got a lil scared..but we were on the 18th so it was alllll good.

And with the SCORE CARD IN:

That has Sam beating out High School golf team veteran Damien by 1 point...So sam claims that #1 spot...damien 2nd:

And i got last...but ima blame it on the poor economy...cause thats what people do when they fail....Im out yo!

PEECE

git some?

2009-11-05T23:06:00.000-08:00

just in case you were wondering...baw-wit-da-baw-da bang da bang diggy diggy is still pretty sweet too say...With that being said...FUCK OFF

kidding...someone told me that i need to cut out my bad language on this...and they're right...but thats not going to change...for this is a reflection of my life and how i see it. Now before i get too political on this lets get right into the same old boring stuff.

OK...so a few weeks ago i was pickin up my bro Kirk from his house...but when i called i told him i was on my motorcycle ( which i wasnt) and said to bring a helmet so we could sail my majestic hog ( that sounds bad) into the mystic. Too my surprise he exited his house wearing this old ass brink style helmet:

which was just a reflection of kirks random sence of humor..

after our man-date ( no hom0s) we headed back to his house to harass his dog bowie...who might be the coolest dog in the world currently:

only problem is that shes anti basketball...so when u try and git ur Kobe or Derrik Rose on...she steals that outa ur grips:

got down on some tramp skate session

oh wuh foool:

even that spicy italian got down:

photos at random:

WTF?

and then the day sky met night...

A few days after that i got ma chef boyardee on...in the form of biscuits and gravy..with chopped up turkey sausage in the mix...Now im not one to toot my own horn...but its was pretty damn good...super healthy too!

(that was a joke)
(whatever bro)

sry that was a.d.d at its finest...:

bahh that posted in the wrong order...should i change it.. FUCk it....It aint that important...

OK Shit son! halloween was the past weekend i was so fuckin smashed dude!...2 shots of jeager, 6 beers, 2 bong loads ( dave chappelle on how white people list what it takes for them to get drunk).. Jk

I think halloween is over rated...not to be a downer... but it really is. So in normal b walt form i planned on doing nothing for halloween.. But as has happened before i gave in. 12pm hit and i was with ben kauf and Kyle cast and we were on a mission. FOr the sake of tom cruise..this mission was not impossible. All it took was bens wallet..truck..and a lil elbow grease. Made our way on over to smart and final where ben got some goods for jello shots..

Got back to ben and aarons pad and decided to make the backyard fit for kings. I mean were talkin lights..fire pit, music, beer pong table, and a couch that we picked up off the street ( fo real..we ghetooo)...

Anyways we all went our separate ways and got dressed and when i showed up..this was what the fuck i was lookin at:

Thats right ladys and gents.. Ben Kaufmann was a abercrombie douche bag...He went on a diet for it and everything.

haha holly hell these pictures are awkward too look at in a dark room....with baby oil...and tissue..

WHAT? too far?
made this b&w in true A&f fashion:

KC showed up ready to party:

i like how hes promoting natty light...50 cents got vitamin water...kyles got natural light...what a dream!

things started getting weird..esp when no one really showed up and we had 70 jello shots, 60 beers, hard A,, and 37 lbs of that sweet sweet cheeba...

OH WHATTTT ? is that A-MON future rap/producer/ money mogul...i think soo:

more douche shots:

Ben even bought some jeans to go along with his outfit...I like the brand:

FUnny thing is that as the night got later and guests would stop in they would look at ben and not really know what he was. The one guy that asked made it weird.

GUY: hey man...so what are you?

Ben: Im a abercrombie and fitch DOUCHE model Fag

GUY: oh...OK

Not that funny i know...but what actually is funny is that the guy he said that too...is a male model...was on some TV show...i Knew it..kyle knew it...Ignant Ben didnt...SO not knowing ben just talked shit to this guy about models being gay and stupid not knowing he was talking too one....

haha oh we had a fire:

Not that cool right? Well the back-door neighboor didnt think so either. So much that he had the odascity to come out and complain at 11 pm on halloween which fell on a saturday night. The battle did not end there..
Since the fire pit couch setup was so nice, the next night we decided to hang by it and reminess about the previous nights happenings. It was Ben, Kyle, Aaron, and I..no alch just hangin. AND this MOTHER FUCKER comes outside again demanding to talk to Aaron (owner and operator of the house).

STUPID FUCKING NEIGHBOOR: "hey guys...no fire tonight..i was nice and let u have fun last night but tonights not going to happen"

( i forgot to tell you..it was 8:30pm...)

Ben; " you know what man...NO! its 8:30 were sitting by a fire...we will not go inside.. you! go inside"

and the stupid JPL fag followed orders.

What has this world come too? Im convinced that everyone just trys to make other peoples qualities of life lesser and lesser. Look at the situation again...If i cant sit with some friends talking about life hanging by a fire ( no brokeback) then wtf else are you going to take away from me..from US? i know someone out there shares my hatred for lifes regulators. Im hoping that karma is real..and when this 60yr old man realizes that his life has been a boring and meaningless...dont come to me for sympathy..good riddance..

OK woah i was gettin angry right there..aight anyways thanks too those who made hallows fun...and too anyone else who defys petty authorities...lates!

mtn hoodrat

2009-11-02T20:38:00.001-08:00

Holluh!

oh word? So today I decided to make a quik trip up to mountain high...git ma shred on..you know the the deal. Since that dirty italian sam couldnt get the day off i drove up solo, and got there around 9....the first few hrs were good times just gettin ma john denver on and enjoying the scenery.

After some time the good people at ASHBURY decided to grace the mtn with their presence....

heres nima with a early day 5-0

lance with a regs 180 to switch 5-0

then lance brought out the camera too blog:

the best frontboard in snowboarding:

desiree backtail:

caught lance fronting:

which Nima backed up with a 270 to FB:

and thats all... Tons more shredding went down but it was too fun to take pictures all day...till next time!

sprite

2009-11-01T18:30:00.000-08:00

Recently got another roll developed. I went into this one thinkin....ahhh most of my pictures have come out shitty...waste of money...but every once in a while u get one that makes shooting on old lame technology all worth it... So with that bein said here are some pichas:

and thats it..i should be puttin someone on blast but ima refrain from that...umm big bear tomarrow...we'll see

Octo bored

2009-10-26T17:12:00.000-07:00

Wsup haters? (everyones sayin it)

So i've been laggin on this once again...and i dont plan on letting up.

Today i finished off a roll of film from my octomat camera and decided to take it in to get developed. The best part of shooting film rather than digital is the time from when you drop the film off...till the time it takes for you to pick up. Since im A.D.D and dont have patience i usually opt for the 1hr photo.

Only problem with my octomat is that it needs to be bright out to take clear pictures. Another problem is that it looks kind of weird so people tend to always pick it up and push the "take picture" button...so my roll was half useless and...well another 25 percent stupid pictures...Here are some of the few i actually liked:

This is of BLake, Banks and the sweeds on one of the last days at park city...we made a death edit to this...one of the most fun days of the season:

This is when dirty D came to utah for some snowboard action. Another good time in youtah:

Here is callie when she used to be able to walk....(sad face)

and this was my favorite foto of my seester and her chupacarba:

There you have it folks..$7.00 for 4 useable pictures...A smarter investment would have been goin to downtown LA to purchase a pistol'e to end it all....but im into some big picture type shit these days...you know the deal

ADIOS!

ma new whip

2009-10-21T00:18:00.000-07:00

saw this beat on the freeway so i offered the guy 20 scrills and a vintage Snow record...to my surprise....he was into it:

more calabo

2009-10-19T23:24:00.001-07:00

its back! Picture story

2009-10-13T00:01:00.000-07:00

Like omg!...

So i was walking down the:

the other day and noticed i was:

But it didnt really matter to me...cause i was high as a:

Anyways someone:

and i said..

to the "people who have swine flu" group....needless to say he was:

but a very:

man. I wouldnt care but i noticed that he was wearing:

and

which i then gave him a:

for doing so.
The day turned to:

and things got really interesting.

by

a.m. I had acquired 16

and:

It was pretty safe to say that i was:

So i did what any:

would do....walked straight over to the:

and sold my:

for a pair of:

and a:

By then it was 10a.m and i was:

so i decided to shave my:

and

the fuq out...

see ya

life fail

2009-10-12T20:13:00.001-07:00

I think half of the world needs to check themselves. Especially when it comes to how people dress. My biggest pet peeve is when men combo sandals and jeans:

sad thing is that d-ray rocks that shit all the time ( look at the old school pictures on the last post). What baffles me is that no-one seems to share my same hatred. OK lets say you saw some dude wearing rain boots and boardshorts...you'd give him crap for it right. Then why in the shit are MANDALS ok..fuck em..It erks me to the point where i would rather see someone rocking these:

than see a grown ass man rock the sandal jean combo.

I guess ima prolly piss a lot of folk off with my views....

Oh the cut-off jean shants...They're not of the top of the hate list but c'mon...its like some pro-bro started rockin them and all of a sudden they were the hot commodity:

hmm what else is ugly. Oh If you're 23 and still rockin baggy jeans and

...u might be a piece of shit:
Ahh music...i would say dont even get me started but then i wouldnt be able to make people look stupid.
Country is the music most people say they dont listen too when you ask them. you'll be like " what kind of music do you like?" and the most popular answer you'll get is " everything but country".. Now there is a good reason for this.. When was the last time a contry artist changed the world or had something to say about the current state of the world and how it needs to change. The only one i can think of is the Dixie chicks when they called out Bush...but even there own fans turned on them. If you wanna talk to me about some real shiiiii...then holla to me about my boy:

thats right peoples. There is too much stuff i caould talk on my boy so i aint even gonna get into it..

bahh i felt like writing a lot but now im just over it...lates

old life

2009-10-11T20:16:00.000-07:00

BAHHH .It's weird how we all wait for weeekends but when some come we dont know what to do with our time. Perfect example of my day...so i opened an old bag of pictures and decided to scan them into my computer...most from a long while ago...cheq it:

These are from 05 when d-ray used to have partays at this house in Tujunga..they were always fun and low bust:

haha.. heres one from high school halloween its my friend nick and katey...i was goin thru my punk phase it wasnt even my costume:

Oh wuuuh these are from Mammoth. After my surprise graduation from High SChool my friends kirk, sam, and chad and myself all moved to mammoth lakes too pursue freedom, school, and shreddddin:

and here are some old ones from random times:

thats all for now folks...