News From April 2008
B.A. Photo Blowout
Just throwing up the leftovers from the South American Adventure...
Duff and Nuge on the assembly line.
Burger stop in Buenos Aires.
And one last stop at the airport. Back to the day to day posts soon enough.
Burnout has some sweet pics too! --------------Celebrities that moved to Oklahoma...
the EERRRRRRR-FACE:
Logan Kincaide was making everyone do their best EERRRRRRR-FACE
Grant and Robs...
Eds...
Kevins...
Griff's ERRRR face is pretty good.
Deanna doesn't play the EERRRRRR-Face game.
Josh Harmony will be PERFORMING! at the Roots, Rock, Revival this May 2nd, in Westminster, California. (the OC) You won't want to miss that!
Catalina Adventure...
Kevin, Grif, Rob, Grant, and Deanna and I on the boat over to Catalina Island.
Logan Kincaide takes his vision underwater...
The posse explores Willow Cove after our picnic.
Before that, we hit Frog Rock.
This is the view from atop Frog Rock, that is Deanna on a float, and some kayakers passing by.
Just the other day a man was killed by a Great White Shark in southern California.
Here is footage of a great white off Catalina, and some reports... Deanna would be a tasty morsel.
Another view from the top at the beach and the the bros warming up after swimming in the freezing water. We all climbed it and jumped multiple times...
Grant washed up to shore finally.
Grif took in some sun, the went all Chakra on us. Damn hippie.
Group underwater shot: Unsuccessful.
Logan Kincaide at work on his latest creation.
After a day of surf and turf, we relaxed in the shade.
Yippie Kai Ya...
The last day was spent at the ranch Diego keeps his horses at.
We had a giant bar-b-que with Abuela in attendance.
Duffel gets gnarly on Wild West style too.
It was epico. Even Bill had fun. Maybe.
A Sandwich Shop in Bali, Indonesia...
Looks like the 'Bread Station' used our Robot Star Logo--!!!!
Seriously going for it! I like it! Don't forget about the RVCA Demo.
Posted April 25th, 2008 by Our crack team of lawyers is on it, NOT.
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Leftover South America photos...
Bill skates while getting cancer at the same time. Buenos Aires was smoking too.
That is Nick when not bedding foreign wool...
Kevin shoots Johnny sleeping on a long car ride. I bet he is dreaming of Giant Dildoes.
Do you think Burnout has anymore updates? Don't forget about the RVCA Demo this weekend!
--------------------This just in: Boulala Jailed! -----More for this guy, why?
Go see these dudes shred and sign...
Namely, Josh Harmony, and Austin Stephens.
If you live anywhere in or south of Santa Barbara, there is no excuse.
Leo is great fun to watch skate as well.
Cut and paste this address: 1144 Camino Del Rio N, San Diego, CA 92108 into Google Maps because the one on the flyer doesn't help.
Life gets weirder. Looming Ominous.
Got this e-mail from Geoff today: The Grizzly Bear, (named 'Rocky') behind me in that Vans ad just killed a trainer with a bite to the neck, i visited him two days prior.
Logan Kincaide - Le Grand Auteur - day 2
+++++++++++++++++++Burnout - Burnout - Burnout has new stuff from Argentina!
Featuring: Grif, Grant, Josh, and Ed, and the soon to be destroyed HB park.
Josh Harmony will be PERFORMING! at the Roots, Rock, Revival this May 2nd, in Westminster, California. (the OC) You won't want to miss that!
Posted April 23rd, 2008 by I don't have any good photos, so I leave it up.
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Toy Machine Starts a Riot?
Riot fencing needed to be erected to keep the women away from Nick...
They brought out the riot truck to beat back the crowd of teenage girls creaming a line of slime through Buenos Aires towards Nick.
Unfortunately, poor Johnny and Nuge were trapped inside, and were not able get any love for being pro.
Last Days of Argentina...
Nick continues to have superhuman game with the women. Must be nice...
The 'Girls who prefer to get with random traveling skate pros' love the T-Sect socks.
Diego gives his approval to Nick, 'Thumbs up my boy!' Photo Key.
The Nuge has decided to become a bad influence on my team, luring them away from skateboarding with DRUGS and DEVIL's BREW, bad Nuge, bad Nuge... What does Burn-Out have to say about it?
Diego documents the scene in Buenos Aires...
Sometimes the world becomes too much for Johnny, and he has to take a time-out.
Kevin does his job, (filming a pole?) while the rest of the guys discuss the purple PSP...
Nick has tussled his hair into a perfect '80's hair-band storm...
Nuge flashes his guns. (Meanwhile on the Emerica site, Transistor Sect reincarnates.)
Nick and Nuge take a shade stop while someone else gets gnarly.
The Duff-man ollies the world famous Roberto Bummin' gap. (You have to scream it.)
While Burn-Dog is perplexed at the new upsurge in skate photogs in Buenos Aires. Photo Key.
Kevin Reports from Diego's Homeland.:
See a video update on Burn-Out!!!!
From beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina.
From Kevins' e-mail: As expected, the demo day was a wild one.
Johnny got interviewed while eating a sandwich. The demo was great, the guys killed it, and afterwards they signed and crowd surfed...
...Billy pissed electric...
...and Nick went down to double town with some of the local wildlife.
(And by 'double-town' he means Heavy Petting-Junction.) (population: 3)
Over all a funny, exhausting, and epic day.
Posted April 20th, 2008 by The Tempster who sits at home rotting away
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Billy and Johnny in South America...
Spot checking some shitty spots. NO, we mean that Literally.
--------------------(in other news, scope this free online skate mag from Belgium: Swiftfoot)
Skate Shop Owner Sees Austin's New Shoe...
Beloe Footwear, and more precisely Austin's pro shoe should be hitting stores in July...
What is up in Buenos Aires? check Burnout to see Billy and Johnny wreck a huge double-set.
(More news from South America coming tomorrow!)
Some extra photos from Valparaiso, Chile...
Valparaiso is a beautiful city.
Then OFF! Over the Andes to Argentina...
Kevin and Diego Report from South America!!!
(Johnny wallie into sun photo:Diego) Update from Kevin: Here's the haps. We finished our tenure in Chile with a trip to Valparaiso...
...where Nick moaned the setting sun...
...and Billy looked on, wondering if they had the new purple PSP.
(Flying over the epic Andes Mountains)
Flew over the Andes to arrive in a chaos filled Buenos Aires...
...filled with smoke from the grass fires taking place throughout Argentina.
Diego: There's some gnarly smoke in the city from burning grass in a different town and the wind blew it this way. The whole city is smoky as shit. Looks gnarly as fuck!!!!
Things are going good, everybody's getting along...
Butch is still hurt but having fun. Buenos Aires rules heavily. A town full of gnarly Diegos. I'm having a blast.
Some footy of the soon to be doomed HB park
Brian Hanson, Grif, Andrew Allen, and other park locs...
Updated the Ad Archive too.
Posted April 17th, 2008 by Enjoy While Logan Kincaid makes a new creation
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Another Day with no update from the bros...
But you can see a full report on the Burnout Blog, and even some footage of Nick...
This is a photo of Josh Harmony getting sweet in a ditch as shot by Grif-Dog the Pho-Tog.
No News from the Bros in South America today
They must be busy travellin' and shredding. But here is a photo of Johnny flying into a steep ass ditch going mach-Julien into it for a special secret trick at the other end.
Another Logan Kincaid Creation...
The 1 day video starring Nick Trapasso...
Posted April 16th, 2008 by Professor Grif knows: Yo I ain't milk-toast!!!
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It's Tuff Being Famous: Toy in Chile Update
Johnny was big-time in Santiago. He was signing stuff and even made a TV appearance.
The local news channel covered the event.
Diego was interviewed as well, telling the Chilean people to buy Toy Machine or get butchered.
The Butcher's knee is looking gnarly.
The crowd was massive and started chanting 'do hammers!' at us. Apparently, they were more happy just watching their local heroes skate. We didn't even need to come! Kevin put it this way: 'With only three riders and in the midst of a local contest, the dudes did what they could among an expansive and jeering crowd. Diego was on the news and Johnny signed for days before injuries jinxed us.' Our driver likes to watch TV while on the road. Hopefully he runs over one of these street performers. After some hiccups with rider arrivals we're off to Valparaiso today.
There are many more photos to see from the trip on BURNOUT!!!
Posted April 15th, 2008 by We IKE alot about your feelings and wants
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South America, the trip.
Toy Machine homie Mike Burnett is there covering the trip for THRASHER magazine.Scope his Burnout Blog for some sweet photo and video updates!
Santiago, Chile: Day One update from Kevin
Flying down to Chile doesn't look too fun. These photos are from the first day in Chile.
But once We got there we were off to an Andes Mountain ditch session with cows and a campfire.
Johnny at the ditch high up in the mountains.
Those cows I mentioned. Diego pokes at the dying campfire.
Later that night we were taken to a house party with an epic mini-ramp, dogs, home grown weed, and bar-b-que.
Diego gets the fire started
J-Lay enjoys the house party.
Pretty epic.
Diego sends an update from Chile!
He didn't send any text, just photos, so I'm gonna have to take a guess as to how things are going:
Johnny was walking by a group of hot young models doing a photoshoot in the street when one of them recognized him and freaked out. She ran from her shoot over to Johnny and started hugging him and kissing him. Since she was dressed for some 'sexy schoolgirl' shoot, her skirt was hella short, and johnny was getting a boner. Then she handed a camera to Nick and asked him to shoot a picture of them together. Johnny was pretty embarrassed about the boner and was hunching over to minimize it. Nick said 'Stand up straight dude!' and everyone was looking now. He stood up and all the people around started to laugh like crazy because you could clearly see J-Lay's raw boner through his pants. Nick is telling that story to Kevin in this photo. ---------------------Billy is here, but flies in tomorrow.
Diego shoots johnny while reflecting about the days activities. Then they went to get coffee, and fuck, for all I know they are in LA chillin. How do I know they are in Santiago, Chile if they go to Starbucks?
Posted April 12th, 2008 by I'm pretty sure he got her number though
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The guys are gone south, but you can still...
Get your Toy Machine fix in the form of Josh Harmony signing your souvenirs at Sun Diego this weekend!
And scope the other sweet RVCA pros too...
Planes, Trains, Automobiles...
A good portion of The Team is off to South America today. Land of cocaine unbridled, wait, that all gets shipped up here... I wonder what their chances of dying are down there? Johnny Layton doesn't think about such things. He is concerned with one thing only, and we all know what that is: Shredding. Josh and Matt B. stayed back to keep filming for the Fallen Video. I hope they send me photos to update their trip!
What DID he Do?
Posted April 10th, 2008 by What Would Mr. T Do Will Serve You Better
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Ain't the Devil Happy
J-Lew the Damaja got down on a crook and Grif was there to capture it. Off to South America tomorrow. Get ready.
Photo Essay: Billy Marks Gets Interviewed
Erica was trying to interview Bill for the Fuel TV, so I barged in to make it terrible for him.
Billy started out with eye contact...
But then he shut it down and went 'shades on the inside guy' on us.
Then I cut in and started talking about dildoes, my favorite subject.
Billy's girlfriend was busy taking care of the dog, McLovin. On the scene of skateboard commerce, the marketplace of looking like one person and doing another. I'm not a real skater, I just play one on TH3...
Posted April 6th, 2008 by By Kevin and Ed (Costner and Begley, of course)
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Scenes and Faces from Rancho Active on Friday
It started with masses of Loyal Pawns choosing Toy Machine decks from the Lifetime Supply that Active has in stock. We sat and signed things for hours.
Matt B was there, looking fine as usual, and hanging out with his family who came to see him in action.
Austin was there too, hanging in the shadows as he is want to do from time to time.
Nick showed up with a popsicle.
Josh and Ed posing for a picture. Compare the young to the old, the fresh to the grisled.
J-Lay rocks his best Blue-Greco.
Grif and Grant get a grip.
After signing was over we all went out to the parking lot to watch LURK-FEST projected onto a big screen with the sound full blast. It was pretty cool to see it outside.
Even this kid from the Emerica Website was there getting rad.
Posted April 6th, 2008 by Always the guy next to the rippled adonis...
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A photo tribute to Active Erica...
It came to my attention that many Toy Machine website Lurkers were posting comments about Active Erica. For Example: 'We wanne see her naked' or 'We think she is hot' so I went out of my way to bring you little horn-dogs what you want. You wanna see that one Closer?
My first thought was to try to get a secret behind the scenes photo shoot going...
But then I realized that would probably be inappropriate, so I resigned to getting these photos.
Getting Erica on the Table wasn't easy. I had to demonstrate exactly what I wanted (for you, my Loyal Pawns.)
Posted April 5th, 2008 by Pervs of the world, Unite and take over.
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Tribute to our LOYAL PAWNS...
Our signing and premier at Active in Rancho Cucamonga brought out a plethora of Loyal Pawns.
I want to thank all these Toy Pawns for coming out to show their support of the Bloodsucking Skateboard Company.
Kids from far and wide made the pilgrimage to see their overlords, (us) and to seek advice on how to conduct their lives.
As you can see, I told them that buying a Toy Machine board is a step in the right direction. This one was Packin' Red-Bull after too many Life of Ryan episodes...
(or was he trying to inflate his package area to impress Active Erica?)
All Pawns were very happy to be seeing the Lurk-Fest video and to shake hands with their favorite Toy Machine representative, including the creator of the videos, Kevin Barnett.
Johnny Layton was there in a surprise appearance, (we thought he was gonna be in Brazil!) making the entire team present except for Diego the Butcher, who we think is in Spain.
Overall, the signing went great, even the flow-rider minions got in on the action.
I have plenty more photos to post tomorrow. Thanks Active! Thanks Erica!, and Thanks Loyal Toy Fans!
TODAY...
TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!
TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!
TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---TODAY!!!---SOMEDAY
Any Loyal Pawn within a 300 mile radius is REQUIRED to be there. All others must post their apologies for not being there in the comments section below, along with an essay about how Toy Machine affects your life in a positive direction. Winner gets nothing. -------- I said Good Day, Sir!!!
Where I Drew Some Blood
Matt B. unleashed his tranny dog under the bridge downtown. Grant watched on somberly and Rob got bloodied.
Don't forget, tomorrow LURK FEST premiere! And the ever looming Fallen Video!
J-Lay parties with Skate stars, Billy gets famous
Raging with Mike Carroll...
Muska, (yeah dog...)
Duffel (-Bagging some girls...)
Meanwhile, Billy Marks surfaces in a 'TurboTax' web-commercial?
---------------See him at the Lurk-Fest signing this Friday...
Posted April 2nd, 2008 by Get paid for something you do anyway? Sure!
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