you know

the more i watch the lakai video, the more i appreciate anthony pappalardo's part:



i also LOVE the 6 cubes piece. it works so well.



i'm up at 5 cutting patterns for jeans, so i don't have to keep using the same one over and over. in like a hour i'll have individual pieces for every size. hooray. i'll be rid of the crappy paper one.

this is my little break, as my back hurts from leaning over a table that is too short. the end.

fridays with jeff

figured i'd throw it up here too. enjoy!

lately

i've been not sleeping a lot more than usual lately, and aside from getting back into reading, i've spent my time watching lots and lots of great movies. probably one of my new favorites is London. its all about people interacting and i love that stuff. actors really get to flex their acting muscles with that crap. because their interactions drive the plot, there's no explosions to move the plot along.

anyway i'll bring myself to my point. watching all these great films really keeps me looking toward the future, where i'll maybe have some opportunities to make great works of art. and as scared as i might be, i'm so looking forward to moving to LA in order to try and achieve these goals.

in the meantime i'll continue to further my craft in ways that i can here, through local venues, and whatnot. also in light of the first paragraph, i want to re-create some of the scenes, and monologues in these great movies i've been watching. one of the great things i love about watching a play is that if i go see a play, i can go buy the script, get the rights, rehearse it, and then perform it. and its your own, you get the experience of seeing someone else's interpretation of it, and then you can make your own. and i love that about live theatre. its one of the things you can't do with any other medium. not television, not movies, nothing.

you especially can't do it with movies. a production company comes in with millions of dollars, and they make a movie, and that's that. no more. maybe in 50 years someone will remake it, but that's it.

so hopefully in the next little while i'll get some people together, and do some art, and record it, and throw it up online.

i think that's about it. i love theatre in all forms, as long as its good. haha but then again you learn from bad theatre too.

watch this:

heeeeeey

its been at least a month since i've blogged, and i felt i owed it to the Internet, so i broke down and decided to write one. i guess its cuz i don't really have anything to blog about. i just go out and skate every day, and uh... sleep and uh... hang out. haha i'm not that interesting. really.

i need a job. and to be motivated in my sewing. those two things are at the top of the list.

i feel like i need to be in a relationship for some reason. maybe its because i'm not an independent person, as lee pointed out the other day. hahaha i'm just a goober, so i don't attract the ladies anymore. haha. lemme know how true that is... pretend you have a paper that says "is robert pretty, and would you date him" (they should be the same answer) and let me know which answer you would pick. hahaha

i shouldn't blog at 2:30 at night. my brain won't make interesting things for me to put in this blog. sorry about that.

anyway. i am wearing glasses, and watching comedy central, and laying in bed. i should be cleaning my room, and sewing, but i'm writing a crappy blog instead. haha

okay i'm done.

today

today just so happens to be my birthday. and i have lots to say since i can say pretty much whatever i want... birthday aside.

well i'm 22 today, and i've been looking forward to it for a while. 22 doesn't happen to a particularly important age, other than letting people know i'm getting slightly older then they are. i just view each birthday as a new beginning. a chance to make this year of my life a little bit better than the last one. a chance to improve upon my weaknesses, and strengthen what is already strong in my life. whether that be personal relationships, or commitments to things, or whatever. just to be a better person.

most people try to make that decision at new years, but i feel like when i do it for my birthday its always a little easier to keep things looking up.

anyway i just wanted to say how grateful i am for the people that surround me, the people in the community, and the people that influence me. i try to stay around positive people, and i try to stay positive around people. negativity gets you nowhere, and a negative environment is destructive to everyone. so i try to put forth that extra effort to be a nice guy, even when i don't want to be. and the more i do it, the easier it gets.

thanks to the people that inspire me. most people inspire me at one time or another. there is one that i'd like to mention today though, because he seems to keep popping up in things that i do, or read, and such. he's Kevin Wilkins. many of you won't know him, but he's the editor at The Skateboard Mag. he lives here in lincoln, which i think is pretty neat. yes i said neat. anyway i absolutely am amazed by his work. he has a piece in (i'm pretty sure) every issue, and every time, without fail, i'm pumped on something after i read it. whether its wanting to get out there and go shred, or maybe its to get out there and take more time to film a trick a little better, or just try and improve my writing, which i'll admit is generally hit or miss. haha what even get me going more, is to be able to send him some of my stuff some day and have him say "i dig it." not that that would be something he'd say. i mean i wouldn't know, i've only talked to him a handful of times, but he might say that. the point is, is that he's out there doing things that inspire me to become a better skate/filmer/writer/person. and that's the sort of things that i love having in my life.

maybe its the accessibility that does it. lets face it, having the editor or a major skate magazine living in your town is pretty tight. but i think its more than that. he's out there doing what he loves, and making the best of the opportunity he's been given, and those are things i want for myself. maybe its all the hype that is constant in the skate industry. every thing and person seems on be on a pedestal these days. there's a rift that seems to be growing between pros and industry heads, and just regular skaters. people are forgetting that pros are just regular skaters too. we're all here because we love it. maybe its because the magazine is the best out there. yeah i said it. the BEST out there. who know what the reason it. if nothing else its because he's an amazing writer. period. and as long as he can inspire, that's all right with me.

idk. anyway... today is my birthday, and its a whole new chapter. a chance to grow. a new sheet of paper on which to write my life story. a new beginning. you get the idea right? haha so i'm off to war- head held high, and guns blazing. i'll become a better writer, or a better filmer, or a better skater, or just a better person. any of which sounds like a great idea. i'd be happy with one, but will plan on them all, because if the last year of my life has taught me anything, its that i can't sell myself short.

so happy birthday to me! huzzah!

wooooow!!!

this is a great skate part!
you can tell he loves 360 flips, but wow! the first minute on the mini is just phenomenal. enjoy


WHO WE ARE // pt. 3 // Josiah Gatlyn from untitled skateboards on Vimeo.

clothes

soooo.... i've been doing lots of research into fashion lately, because i'm costume designing for 12th Night. we're doing it in modern times, but with the original text. but the premise is two opposing fashion houses in new york.
i already love clothes as it is, but all the research has given me so much more of an appreciation for them. they speak volumes about you as a person, and how you view yourself. everyone has their own unique tastes, and their own unique styles. i mean yeah i don't like what everyone wears, or the trends that are going on in the fashion world, but i respect people who have a passion for what they wear.
yeah this is a blog about clothes. haha.
here's my thing; this:

is NEVER okay. why would jumpsuits ever be in style? EVER! i saw them in... i wanna say marie claire and i was like "oh they must be some couture thing" and i brushed it off... then i just saw cameron diaz wearing one on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and i wanted to barf. jumpsuits are hideous! now and forever and ever... amen.

well thats all i really had to say.... kind of a shallow blog for the day, but whatever...

um.... go to my new youtube page and subscribe... there aren't any videos up yet... but there will be, and they're going to be great. haha anyway here's the link: www.youtube.com/asiteforsoreeyeballs


-robert