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Happy Birthday Grandma Elhard!

This has been a big week for my Elhard family back in Minnesota. Last week my father rocked the tassel in honor of his 52nd year of life. Yesterday my younger sister was awarded with a music scholarship for the best vocal performance at Bemidji State University. Last night my uncle's high school basketball team (video below) battled to second in a championship game for the Minnesota State AAA Title, and today my grandmother celebrates her 90th birthday! Not to mention that both my parents were offered great jobs on Friday...



Yesterday I celebrated my own victory with another day of snowboarding with co-workers. A dream come true to mob around a hill with fellow members of Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate!

I just called my grandma to hear of her popular birthday party at the community center in Northome, MN. She was blaring Guy Lambardo in the background and asked if I could hear it. "We used to listen to it when we were young. There were four of us (her siblings) who spent a lot of time together then and now its just me you know." she said... The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven for the sweetest grandma this side of heaven, thankfully.

Rome SDS

I started my dream first-job a few weeks ago and am slowly acclimating to life here. Yesterday was my first morning shred session with my coworkers, and although sore, I am really happy that snowboarding is a lot like riding a bike; after a 4 year hiatus to finish art school in Minneapolis, I had not been on a real mountain in quite some time. Stowe was beautiful, and the one run that we lapped was terrifyingly icy and fast at first, and later in the morning, soft and littered with teleskiers through the misty rays of sun...
The best part about snowboarding yesterday was coming back to the office and completing this dream full circle. I'm working on familiarizing myself with the overall identity and design system(s) and implementing them....and trying to navigate the server for the source files....and above all trying to stay "shrednasty".

This is me in my office.

El Perro Del Mar "Shelter" (by The XX) from The Control Group on Vimeo.

This is the song/video that gets me through my days lately.

And aside from my coworkers livening the atmosphere, this is what makes me laugh out load while I'm working.

Synergy Fitness day #1

I only broke one capillary in my face today in my exercise class!
The brazilian buttlift workout (formerly from P90X) is seriously in motion. While googling for some history behind (no pun intended) this program I came across many horrifying photos of the "brazilian butt lift" cosmetic surgery. Cant imagine how many capillaries were sacrificed during those procedures...


EESH.

Yearly Sames.

"Still the Same"...I grew up hearing my mother play this song on the piano...

About one year ago I eagerly took my friend Aimee from art school to a Creature demo at 3rd Lair in Minneapolis. There, she learned firsthand why I admire these gnarthrashers, and why the event made a perfect fit into our maniacal school schedule as we were nearing the end of our college careers.

Lately there seems to be a powerful cycle of success going on with all of my friends. Every one is sharing in life hammers right now and I feel like I have just put an end to the first week of the rest of my life.
Hesh-in-training.


Here we are posted up with Janell Carlson, Neil Heddings and Al Partanen.
Saints and Sinners.

Fun.

What a lineup!

Nordic Skaterese

This is blowing my mind, and means that I have definitely moved to the right state!

Thanks to my dad for sending me this. Cant wait for next winter, already!

I love Skating.

I do love ice skating more than anything, and not until I took a lap on the official sized speed skating rink on Lake Bemidji, did I realize that its time for me to hang up the figure skates for a shiny pair of speed skating blades. Its certain that without grippy toepicks I'd be in the clear.

As Vain as Dreads

Uh...so I'm moving to Vermont next week because I have a job there. At Rome SDS!
To commemorate my future surroundings (hexed with hippiness) and to demonstrate having a salary, I am going to buy these shoes lickity split. Cant wait to skate them in, along with a few good pair of deep black skinny jeans although tye-dye is the new black. Hoping there is something for me to skate out there. And my apologies for keeping anyone in the dark on my stagnant blog here. A lot of things (& my things on the internet) are going to change soon. Excited to be less spatially challenged over all and off the hook of social networks....

Repost: Me with purple dreads.


MUST SEE LADY SKATE SLASHERS
(I am a textbook "skate chick" alright?)

AND GNARLY MINNEAPOLIS HOMIES

SPOTTINGS

My dad sent me these videos filmed via motion-sensor from the fences of our farm(s) and before they even played I recognized our land and trees and grass.





I love deer and venison and look back fondly on avoiding the hunting part. Sort of wish I had that choice right now. Im always wishing for a wolf-ish pet to follow me around. They have a stoic way of being which I could use as some protection. The lure of the coyote call haunted me long ago as I laid in bed at Grandma Jackie's farm. Simultaneous to the howling was mooing from the herd and a hissing wild cat fight beneath my window sometimes. No peace in the real world can compare to all those comforting natural reactions. Its primal out here now, in a different way than I remember. Still looking for a lullaby.

http://bit.ly/cantnavigatethiscrapanymore

complex twitter vernacular and awful image presentation.
i refuse.

but im looking forward to letting go of the internet.
its already happening.
thanks for finally making me feel internet illiterate!
truly many thanks @youknowwhoyouare

PORTLAND

playboy rose is scarlet and gold.
cant believe i missed the garage rock festival last night!
roky erickson delight!?

via anambitiousprojectcollapsing
via public collectors
via Documentation of Things Left Behind
Mike Benedetto showcases his son's creations.
Endearing work by a four-year-old and charming collection
by his father. This photo reminds me of playing with my sister.

And this next photo reminds me of my birthday, celebrated this
week in Portland with some of my favorite people!

altamont

so many reasons to love this:
SXSW TOUR SERIES BY PATRICK ODELL

WEEKS/WEAKS

From boating to flying and crying and whining and dining. Northome, MN to Bemidji, to Minneapolis, to Phoenix, to Los Angeles, to San Diego, to San Marcos, to Carlsbad, to San Diego, to Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA. Held together by hours of contact with the lovely and wonderful ladies and families closest to me. Sarah and a Blister in the sun and my favorite Maddie Mug.

im about to sleep when im dead

you know its bad when this song/video is your sanity.
ok—kale, too.

LALALA

IM MOVING TO LA WITH THE SKATE WITCHES.
2 WEEKS.

PHASES

New moons are the new full moons. After a 12 hour work day, tonight my car got broken in to. Now I sit at home and watch a University of Minnesota building burn. The faint smell of burning rubber and the people fighting above me will certainly soothe me to sleep.

"everybody knows a different world, and only part of it." —john beldessari

making moves

is scary like this

When I Grow Up from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

wake up

best wedding ever; 10 hour reception via bars and bikes.
congratulations Tessa & Dixon Bordiano!
You are loved!

repetition

trying not to. now and then and next.

spectacle culture

junk rafts.
i laugh.
they have worn out their welcome
in my hipster mind.

Still, I enjoy this photography of people who think they are harder than the rest of us.
"There are no trust fund babies here." —NY Times disclaimer, for this specific craft.

A Declaration for Real Time

Junk


Recently was told that I need to "update my blogs or delete them, they are boring."
This is me trying to connect with people on a different social level, or not at all.
A real time ultimatum.

daily oregon

sorry. this is all i got. not going back to you for a while yet.

you gotta skate to relate

Marissa Del Santo hucking her corpse down a few stairs.

Thrasher Skateboard Magazine

This doesn't look fun. Except when she busts her tail off.

This video is crazy. A lovely intro by a total douche and some actual babes. Looks no better than a satire from adult swim network. (not without some laaaame ad, too)



Bustin boobs and corpses and boards and bowls and thats all the thanks women's skateboarding gets...You won't find a better online video of women's pool skating in the last 2 years. For reals, go to the All Girl Skate Jam (pretty cute design) and always remember that "girls rock"!?

FOR EMILY

Tunnel Vision Inside View from Jen Stark on Vimeo.

missin this farming gal. going to visit her at dream acres someday soon!

Xactly

"Im just being crazy, I know. Don't pay any attention to me."

TOTAL CHEER