Being the Art Director for Defiant is an absolute dream. Not only do I get to oversee all the aesthetics, artwork and design, I get to do rad action-sports shoots with our fantastic riders. These guys carve it up day and night, rain or shine. We recently did a shoot at the Greenlake skate park here in Seattle with one of our daredevils Charlie Philipp. Charlie excels on the verts and gets into an insane routine down in the bowls and out onto the rails. He maintains some heavy air time and is constantly on the thread of explosive defiance. Charlie, AKA Chuck D, is an amazing dude. This cat has the heart of a lion and a fierce yet positive attitude everywhere he skates. Here is a montage of some sick footage I had a blast putting together that day.

Charlie "Chuck D" Phillip

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My favorite season of the year blended with the best holiday of the year always makes me feel like a kid again. This year I had a blast hunting down the perfect pumpkin with my brother’s family and my niece. Jude did a great job getting everyone involved and helped us all find the best pumpkin for a wicked carving party.

Little did I know, that even though the goosebump pumpkins look rather cool they are tough to carve. Those types of pumpkins are almost like a gord and feel like your carving into bone when you actually get past the outer orange skin. Needless to say, everyone but me chose a standard carving pumpkin and got to get messy with the seeds and innards and light up their jack-o-lanterns on que. Myself on the other hand needed some power tools just to crack the pumpkin. So, rather than risk splitting the warty gord I decided to break out the old carving tools and do a surface carving design. It ended up like a semi-relief that involved peeling away the outer layer. Either way, it was a ton of creative fun. We need Halloween like every other month…nostalgic!

Pumpkin Woman

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