Hermann's Hole the first stop on the way to Colorado.

Hermann's Hole

A few years ago I was given the pleasure of being invited to Hermann, Missouri to skate a large DIY project that my friend JP has been working on.  My other friend Ben has made a tradition of going on a Fall trip every september.  I had been racing to get my truck ready and I made the fall trip my deadline.  With Hutch waiting for me to get my camper together we finally left at 6pm that day.  When we got there we found out JP was having concrete come that monday.  With no real deadline to get out to Colorado I decided that I would hang around for a little bit and take part in the concrete.  Jason and Taylor even decided they would stay to.  I had a great time with my stay at Hermann's.  I finally got through all the footage and put a little edit together. AND Jason grabbed my camera and took some pretty awesome photos.  Thanks Jason.

Scott getting way out of that wall.

ladies, he's taken.  Shirtless backtail over the loveseat

a classic frontside 5 from Mr. Joe Carroll

Taylor using his front lip in an interesting spot.

The man of the hour.  Stoked Ben started teaching and I am sure he is killing it.  He's killing it in life and I'm glad I can call him a friend.  

Ryan got a flat spot.  Did you know you can fix those urethane harleys with an angle grinder.

JP hooked up an awesome spot just had to trim the front lawn.

yup

Jason likes skulls

The OG bowl

JP setting up for the pour.

Here comes mud

We didn't have much time in the direct sun and close to 100 degree temps.

The homestead.

My back yard for the weekend.

Colber

E.D.

HERMANNSEDIT from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.

fail trip

So fall is here.  This has become quite the tradition.  Every fall I get a phone call from Farmer Ben about the fall trip.  I normally get really excited.  This year was no different.  He said that we were heading to St. Louis this year.  They packed up Johnathans big red van and I packed up my little red van for a weekend out at Hermann's Hole.  Perfect weather, great accommodations (thanks JP), and awesome buds to skate with.  This is the first edit I have made on my iPhone and I realize the coverage was lacking, well, I like to skate more that film.  I haven't skated as much as I did last weekend in a really long time.  Thanks Ben for organizing the trip.

Fail trip from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.

gregs bowl.

My friend Greg is definitely keeping the DIY spirit alive.  In a barn out in the heartland of america he is building quite the masterpiece.  Four corners, two hips, roll in, wall ride, and a fun looking miniramp.  All heated by a huge wood burning stove.  The wood has a built in storage rack under teh deck.  Greg is a lineman and works hard for his living it is awesome to see someone keeping the dream alive.  He works all week, sometimes during the weekend, takes care of his son Tucker, and still finds time to work on the bowl.  He is doing it right and doing it well.  Greg asked me to draw him up some plans because he said he had no idea what he was doing.  Now, I am learning from him.  Sometimes I think I take skateboarding for granted, I learn to settle and skate what we already have. Greg gets me psyched to build and push for new stuff every time he calls me about his bowl.  I could be doing so much more.  Everyone could and we would have more stuff to skate.  Good job Greg and thank you.   Lets finish the bowl and build the vert ramp!

labor day N-caca S-caca

I've been talking about moving for years.  I love Indiana and my close friends but I feel it is time to move on.  I travel so much from my home now, I realized that I leave my home a lot to do the things that I love.  Maybe it is time for me to try somewhere new.  I am not saying that it will be permanent but you never know until you try.  This coming summer I think I am going to try my best to pull the trigger.  North Carolina has always interested me since the first time I went there.  I love the ocean so I convinced Katy, Jeff, and Masaru, and Jackson to drive down there with George and I.  We left Thursday night and drove to Asheville, then we went to Wilmington but ended up in Carolina Beach.  After that I took my friend Jersey Drew's advice and tried out Charleston.  Now I used to take tons of pictures and videos everywhere I went.  I started to realize that I miss out on skating and good times being behind the lens.  It is nice to have the memories but I think its better to just sit back and enjoy them.  The reason I say this is after the ferry ride I took a nap, woke up in Charleston and I didn't take the camera out again.  The hospitality and friends in Charleston really made the trip.  I am looking forward to heading back down there in March.

straight edge party row... not really

Jeff pulling an all nighter

we got to a campsite too late.  Way out of the way.  I have driven way out of the way and ended up somewhere cool. This wasn't really the case.  It was a nice river but not really "out there"

did some sight seeing.

ferries are awesome

 These vultures were flying behind the boat.  Jeff was feeding them saltines.

riding piggy back

mountains have tunnels masaru has a straw hat.

SUMMER EDIT!

Finally I sat down and edited something.  This is mostly our trip to Orcas but there is some other stuff too.  I hope you enjoy. Music by Skyhunter, Johnny Cash, and Sleep.

summer edit 2k12 from Tim Devlin on Vimeo.

Phil the pain

Masaru was training for the cruz.

 Photo face.  Masaru needs a job find him one.

We all met in Carmel and began the push southward to broadripple.  The OIS dudes always have a good turn out.  Lots of homies and it was all for a good cause.  Phil broke his leg so we all pushed to raise some money for him.  Everyone donated a little.

Masaru put a board together for the event.  He took tons of photos.  Check out his photos here.

Bart has a vision.  OIS is a group of older skaters that get together and skate every weekend.  I see these things come and go but OIS has been doing it for a while now.  It is really cool to know that every weekend these dudes will be out ripping and just having fun.  I have never gone out and skated with these dudes and not had fun. 

Phil even made the trip.  Beers and pushers.

Ended at the monon food company.  Everyone had lunch and beers in the parking lot.

Awesome sunset after an awesome session at Gages.  Sorry no photos of that.

placementality and stuff

School has started again.  Summer is kind of over.  However I am trying to keep it alive.  Galen and Mike Block are helping out though.  They put together an event called placementality.  Big Car was gracious enough to host the entire event.  It was a great event a ton of people showed up and we had a lot of fun.  Art, skateboarding, music, and friends.  

Tamale Place.  I finally made it and it was amazing.  I ordered way too much food.  Go there and try it out.

George is always hanging out and helping.. kind of.

Homemade polejam.

New Shoebox decks, fancy grip tape.

So the kids just ripped off the walls of the stall.

Drew, Phil, and Davis slept over for a couple weekends.

Hutch demonstrating how they make cappuccinos in prison.

Here is part of placementality.  Skids hanging art.

Ryan Smith rips.  Bs flip over the flap.

Again ryan demonstrating how to properly use the wallrides that I made.  Art by Jacob Bryant, JT Puterburgh, and Gunnar Campbell.

Mike Gage is a ripper.

some Chicago dudes came and tried some crazy stuff.  No ladders allowed though.

So four of us decided to get a tattoo.  Then it turned into nine.  P-blocc crew!!! 

even Jacob did his own.

P-blocc crew. Thank you Jacob!

Bella chases the skateboard like she chases the vaccuum.  I've been watching my parents/brother's dog trying to get it in better shape.

Big Car posted this photo from the event on saturday.  Thank you.