Ed Templeton: Skateboarding Icon and Realism Photographer is an Orange County native and creator of Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboarding Company. Influenced from the DIY and punk ethos, Ed has helped shape a culture with his influence of images, writing and photographs since the early 90s. His snub to the corporate echelon and their goal of turning something pure into money making monsters was at the forefront of his art and brand. A giant middle finger to the establishment. Live fast, die young.
Read MoreAnna Phavong: The Barber & The Blade
Getting a haircut… who would have thought we would love and miss something so much? Yet most of us take it for granted. We don’t often tend to think about the years and training our barbers go through to make us pretty, either. Not to mention the fact they are handling hair all day. And covered in it. NOPE! Luckily, there are people like the wonderful Anna Phavong who has set up shop over in NE Portland at Cloak & Dagger Barber Co. We had a chance to visit for a good ol’ cut and shave. Sprinkle in some laughs and nice lighting and you get a little bit of magic. I might have to make it a ritual to go see her a lot more often than I currently do. Thanks Anna!
Check out her instagram and head over to Cloak & Dagger to get that fresh Fall cut!
Check out the promo video here!
Nevada Highway
Took a little time off and headed south to the desert. The dry heat and barren desert was a welcome change from the extremely hazardous air quality at home. It was nice to step back from the daily routine to appreciate all that I have and all that I’m striving for.
Separation Of Church And State
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.” -Thomas Jefferson (1802)