Woke up in Fresno County the other day. We were there to snowboard. Snowboard in Fresno County? Yup. China Peak Ski Resort is the spot to be exact.

Top of Chair 1.

We were there with next year’s 2012/2013 Santa Cruz Snowboards. Looking sick. Simpsons Snowboards, too.

Everybody gets hucky in the rail jam with a little help from their friends.

Style for miles. Definitely best jacket of the day. Best Ricky Henderson stance.

This dude was stylee.

Young ripper. Get out and shred friends. Shred some new places this season. Watch out for bears and security. Point it and go big. Leave the details to the pencil pushers. Over and out from Fresno County.

Santa Cruz Snowboards 2012/2013 line-up. Going to be a doozy. Bart pro model with Springfield style Santa Cruz font? Check. Homer board? Yes, please. Salba graphics, a powerlyte model with bamboo stringers, surf rocker reverse camber and a board that has a joint it. These boards will shred.  

Emmanuel Guzman Marionette 8.0

Sid Melvin Marionette 8.2

Nilton Neves Marionette 8.26

Justin Strubing Marionette 7.9

Available at cooler skate shops world wide this very moment.

Go skateboarding.

More new releases to follow shortly.

Emmanuel Guzman makes some rad grip tape art.

Cryptic trinkets.

Crazy Darren Lee photo collage. This must have taken forever. Includes a male ball sack.

Jason Arnold pulls from the past and draws for the future. Next level shit for sure.

bird yurt. brilliant. squirrel’s might like it more, though.

Thomas Campbell contributed some stuff to the show. No big deal at all. Such a cool art show. Get out there and make some art.

Headed north last week to Sacramento. The Golden Bear of Cal Expo awaited me. This bear kicks some major ass.

If you didn’t already know, Heckler Magazine is back up and rolling. Thanks JP for all the new gear.

&work is a new work wear brand out of San Francisco. Good stuff.

Javier Coupe from Boards N Motion with the new Burton skateboard, err, I mean, new Burton snowboard. Sick graphic.

It was getting pretty nipply over at the volcom booth.

I guess it’s better than having ass crack in your face at the vans booth.

It was tent city over at the nhs booth.

That’s a brown bear face mask and oven mitt to boot.

Corey Smith dressed his girlfriend up in black metal and it’s got to be the coolest capita board of 12/13 season and one of the best graphics of the year. Makes your eyes bleed and your penis hard.

One of Halldor Helgason’s Lobster snowboards. This is a rad board not too be missed.

Some of the Rome line-up for 12/13 season. That’s their splitboard second from the left.

Don’t pass up an opportunity to skate the granite skatepark when you are in Sacto.

Live from camp smokey where the fire danger is extreme. Over and out.

Another wonderful match made in hell. The fine folks at creature skateboards have teamed up with artist jay howell and the band trash talk for the ultimate in skateboards, music videos and eternal world domination. Bow down.

So, the holidays are over. And what did we learn this Christmas? Still piecing that one together. To give is better than to receive? Well, I wish we could receive some snow. In the meantime, here’s my festivus in photos.

Just a skier walking out of the woods. On dirt.

That said, Alpine Meadows was a lot of fun. You can get pretty rad and experimental with low snow conditions.

Snakes in the grass.

Where, oh where is Scooby Doo?

We’ve located shaggy.

He’s at the beach.

Until the snow falls, this video of Tahoe is really really cool.

If you haven’t already heard, yobeat.com is the best online snowboard rag on the planet. proof? just go to their fucking awesome site. They also make some of the best softgoods in the world, too. Pictured above is the mountain s/s and the mountain crew neck sweatshirt. Not sure if these will make you a better snowboarder, but they will make you a better looking snowboarder and isn’t looking the part all that really matters these days?

“Style is Everything” – Christian Hosoi

Brooke’s spirit animal is definitely not a wolf. He hasn’t taken any peyote and watched the sunrise yet, either. His spirit animal is probably a flounder. He’s a pisces. So he has to be some sort of fish he imagines. Rad dude keeps getting radder. He’s gonna be a rad dad this springtime too, so world watch it out. Brooke can most likely be found at: NHS, Derby (sunday afternoon’s only) and occasionally he can be spotted at Malone’s in Scotts Valley. Carry on, friends.

Shot the 2nd music video for Will Haven off the Voir Dire album, for the song When The Walls Close In. Kerrang has listed Voir Dire as one of their top 10 albums of the year and they got that fucking right for sure. We had a fun time chasing Adrien round the woods here in Santa Cruz. We filmed the video over in Nisene Marks State Park. Interesting fact, Nisene Marks is the epicenter of the 1989 earthquake that you might know well from destroying the Oakland Bay Bridge, The Embarcadero Freeway and ending a game between the A’s and Giants over at Candlestick. You’ll get quite a few weird looks shooting a video in a state park when your chasing a dude around covered in fake blood who is welding a pick axe, not afraid to use it and other tomfoolery that you’ll see when the video premieres.

Expect “When The Walls Close in” to premiere the 2nd week of January.

Until then, watch the first video off of Voir Dire. Held To Answer.