Sooo its been a little over a week since weve done something here.. my baadddd. We went to San Francisco the weekend of the 11th - 13th and skated with Jeff Stockwell and Erik Bailey out there. Lee and Victor were holding it down too. Erik's roommates are all really cool and nice and hooked us up with some groundspacee.. Lots of lines, follow-cams, and a ton of photos out there.. Then we stayed in LA this past weekend and hit up some good spots. Ryan Santos, Anthony Williams, Steven Cortez, Obidobe, JC Rowe, Nick Rother, Victor Galícia, Lee and Rachard all came out this weekend, and everybody got clips. Go team. Anyways.. since im at work doing a bunch of crap i dont yet have time to upload all the pictures from the past weeks.. I will however leave you with a cool little video i made of my room cleaning itself. I did this about 3 years ago when i still lived in Dallas.. peep game..
this picture is of my cubicle. I spend about 40 hours a week here. To the right of my cubicle is Kevin Gillan. On the other side of the wall is Brian who used to be mindgames only employee. Now we all work together and it makes showing up everyday a little easier. Im often talk about work and how stupid my desk is. It is always covered in garbage. I dont know why but i think if your work area is clean then youre not focusing enough on the work. Im always juggling multiple crap so i need a ton of different tools to get everything done.. off hand i see my laptop, the imac, a light table, a vcr, scattered helmet packaging, a canon battery charger, the case for the gl1, the canon digicam, some transparencies for making silk screen films, a coke, a starbucks drink, the color index, some highlighters, 2feet vids, fade nation videos.. and a ton of other things.. im still working on downsizing all the sf pics so bear with me..
January 8th.. so its Chris Haffey's birthday today, and his roommate threw a surprise party for him. Ive never been a part of a big surprise party walk-in thing, so me and lee and kev rolled over to be a part. We were fashionably the earliest people there, but we live the closest too so give us a break. We helped blow up balloons and get the decorations ready (actaully kevin and lee did most of the balloons) and trudie and myself went to get the beers. After all the setup and everyone arriving we actually had a very successful "SURPRISE" yell..
Before we partied lee practiced using his new camera..
Negrete computin it upp..
Lee driving and practicing his new camera
In celebration of the new year i have dramatically cut down my drug and alcohol intake.. This, i am now the built in designated driver.
Blowing up this many balloons will give you a sweet headrush.
SURPRISE!!
Silly string attack!
emily and nick and me (lonnie)
Negrete and Adam Kola busting the science experiment
"Dude, we should get drunk more often.. this is pretty fun." -Negrete
KG on hot pocket detail.
KG and lee
Negrete cuttin up the rug
hot pocket feast.
Alejo and Haffey do a duet
Lee and Negrete were pretty juiced on the empty plate
Si and Adam are englishmen but their patriotism is questionable.. i heard Si (or cy?) call it "football" instead of soccer.. How un-english
singstar is an amazing time consumer and an awesome karaoke replacement for the home
emily and trudie battle while Si watches on
my man-boobs made out of party hats..
even when theyre made out of cardboard and shaped all weird, boobs are still fun.
negrete and his new shirt doin something
one of my boobs doubled as a mask when i got inspired by "i'm a cyborg but thats ok"
KG smiley face balloon
Negrete on the karaoke video from trudies 21st birthday
and this isnt from the party but we got a little video money and negrete made it rain. too bad everytime we get money we turn around and pay a bill with it.. oh well.. thats why were working on fade nation 2 right now.. see you next blog.. and until then enjoy us singing happy birthday to the haffey.
wow, long time no blog. time to get back here.. my camera works, we have moved into a new place, weve been filming, things are coming together again. Skating alot on the weekends. Ryan Santos has been coming out with haffey and rachard. This past saturday was cursed when rachard hit his head and messed up a rib, and haffey hurt his elbows, knees, and his private parts too, but did the trick about 5 times before so at least it wasnt in vein. Ryan santos came out alive though so that was pretty cool. Sorry for the random chatter.. heres some pics..
Kevin gillan, jc rowe, lonnie (me), lee martin, and negrete @ blow up LA
JC
I gave lee a $20 to get some drinks.. what he came back with was 4 double shots of jack on the rocks..
brown boys..
supermanguydude
Lee. Q.
2 man sesh.. i dont even remember if we actually skated anything this day.
Is "illest" even a word? isnt it "most ill" instead? Ive always sucked at english so i could be wrong, but couldnt they have chosen a little more proffesional adjective? In any endeavor, at least the king magazines are good for propping up the projector.
go kings..
Negretes film roll from england..
super 8..
"autoload" my ass.. transferring this crap to digital is never easy. and im sure as hell not going to pay for it. But the transfer box footage should look a little cleaner than the "film it on a white wall" style ive previously used.
KG on the assist once again while negrete is behind the camera.
and thats about it for now. lotsa skating until then.. and umm.. find the bush babbees gravity album and listen to it until next time because its really good and has alot of cool mos def stuff on it and im listening to it right now so its fresh on my mind. alright adios.
sooo we finally kinda got back into it this weekend. We've been out once or twice since fade nation came out, but now were back and have started filming alot more lately. Since the last post i moved out of my dads back into downtown LA with Lee Martin and Kevin Gillan. More on that later.. But for now, a small collection of pics from the first spot of the weekend.
Flat Raily thing..
Lee topassid
Mike Obedoza royaler
Ryan Santos Topsoul
After that the dudes skated a cool drop rail thing and Obedoza got a fresh line. It was in the shade and i dont have flashes so no pics.
So, along with Chris Haffey we have won VIDEO SECTION OF THE YEAR for 2feet! Which was my (Lonnie Gallegos) previous video to Fade Nation
other nominess include Brandon Negrete/Chris Farmer from The Meantime (His previous video to Fade Nation) and some other dudes who dont matter cuz this isnt their blog. ha!
Anyhow, if you havent checked out 2feet BUY IT HERE! and for the meantime GO HERE
Thanks to anyone who voted or whoever decided that we rule.
Sorry for the lack of pics, i cannot find the battery charger for my camera so i havent shot any photos in about a month :(
Hey our friends Jason Reyna made a sweet edit of the footage he filmed at the Fade Nation screening at our loft in downtown Los Angeles. Check it outtt!
So we had a screening at our loft for the video 2 weeks ago. Since then I've been super busy at work, and super not-feel-like-touching-the-computer-when-i-get-home, so sorry for the blog update slack. Anyhow, heres some pics from that night. Thanks to all the people who came outtttt!
"BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Heres the video. Thanks."
Decoration Smoke Break
Decorationing
Mas Decor
I always think about Sean singing "I Hate Jesus" whenever i see Jesus.
Drinks by Roxy and Liz
Connor Obrien
Dean Coward and Brierly (sp?)
Ryan Northway
Full House
Victor Galícia
Ben Schwab and Lee Martin
Tracy White and Carlos Kessel
Supporttttters
Mike and John and wives.
Demetrios, Sayer, and Sagoners
Nick Rother
"Mindgame" Brian Ehrich (our music supervisor) and Mae
John Nicely and B Cam
Truds
John Fox and Racharddd
Drew aka "Fade Nation" and my Dad
Jeff Stockwell and John Starr
Tat Nasu was there.. really.
peeps..
Obedoza and Zack Hendrickson
The party wouldnt count if somebody didnt puke
Negrete being fondled by Alejo
Alejo guey..
Carl Sturgess
Kevin Gillan
Clayton, Negretes, Rob G
Emily, Brendan, Tori
J Sizzla
Ryan Schude, Sayer, and Mike McMullen
The Bulldog and The Haffey
FP in the houseeee.. Rachard Johnson and Demetrios George
Marcus and his boo (i forgot her name, but at least i wont lie about it.)
