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I was looking through my hard drive, and came across The Bolddog Lings Freestyle Team, which I had forgotten about, and I was very pleased with the way some of them had turned out.
Freestyle painted in 1998 solo mission at the Bomb Shelter, Minneapolis, Minnesota. I always had fun when trying new style ideas. After my 1996 trip to Copenhagen, where I created my own choppy outline technique, I didn't really use it that much. It was something that I kind of kept in my back pocket for days when I got bored of the traditional Bar styles. It added a fun swing to simple outlines and was even picked up and used often by an old crew-mate, who took it further then I did, Kept aka Mope. To me, it was just a way to escape the mundane. Nowadays, Outlines that are jagged or with a whole bunch of craziness to them, is pretty common but back at this time in America, it was real out of place. Even after I painted pieces in this style, I felt like I was going backwards. This style was actually real easy for me to do because you didn't have to follow the traditional rules. Other then for Kept, it really didn't seem to catch on, so I just stopped doing it and went back to my symmetrical bar style. This piece in general always reminded me of some underwater starfish or coral or something. If you look in the fill, there is actually giant jade green stars in it.
Each season, my wife puts up her Reebok Freestyle collection to match the seaon. This is 3/4 of Autumns collection. Each Season she has at least 110 pair, and every single pair is different, by color. All pairs are size 11, 11.5, or 12. Some leather, some canvas, some are wide sized, but all original Reebok!We just spent the last couple hours boxing up the summer seaon collection! I love my wife!
I was dragged by some friends to a sports event that was sponsored by the insecticide company that makes Mountain Dew.
I totally mesmerized by the free style motocross event. I'm sure there is a cooler name for it but I'm allowed not to know it...:)
I've never shot at night so These aren't perfect but I think they capture some of the excitement.
What you see in the background is San Francisco City Hall
War Pigs by Black Sabbath was playing so I guess I had a taste of Heaven.:)
These are best on Black.
I chose to interpret Freestyle as "anything goes". Which for me means shooting from the hip. I love shooting from the hip. I get lots of crap, but I also get some gems that I'd never be able to get if I stopped, positioned myself and then tried to get the shot.
With dogs, so much of what they do is dependant on what you are doing - every action, creates a reaction. So if I had laid down on the ground to get this shot, Coulee would have definitely moved. Leaning down with my camera and just shooting blind was the only way to get it.
Freestyling with the likes of Mash(Simply Rockers), Corze and the infamous DigitalMerc.
Top guys, top day.