Doomed Creature.
John is from Auburn, California. He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Sacramento State. His dad is a surfer and skater so John basically grew up on a skateboard. In addition to shredding pools for Creature, he works as a glass blower and makes all sorts of cool things. John has had some sick photos in Thrasher lately.
Doom Sayers is Omar Salazar's project. He started it when he was still riding for the Alien Workshop as a clothing company. Once the Workshop ended, he expanded Doom Sayers to include boards. Cody Chapman was a pro rider. I always intend to do a week of scans, except they don't advertise often and would sometimes use random historical photos without skateboarding in their ads.
I did get to skateboard over the weekend. I went to Jamestown Skateboard Products on Saturday afternoon. The day was warmer. However, it was also breezy and damp so I figured an indoor park was the best option. It was nice rolling around in their garage street setup. I smacked my knee. Nothing serious, but enough to kill the buzz. It sucked because skating was feeling good for a change. Sunday was cold with a few very light snow flakes in the air. Nothing ever got wet so I skated in the driveway late in the afternoon. I got in about 30 minutes before my trucks froze up.
The new Transworld Photo Annual showed up in the mail yesterday. It's cool to have an issue of TWS in print again. The annual is on the thin side and has one article plus two odd ads. Maybe that's a good format for print in 2025. The photos look great and Blair Alley put in a lot of work for the project. It's worth checking out.
The photo is by Daniel Stelly.
Thrasher - October 2018 Volume 39 Number 10
