Standerd Slides

Subject: George Daniels, Lake Georgia, FL
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Critique section, page 83

Lake Georgia, FL.
Good ol’ George on Lake Georgia, coincidence? Who knows? But I do know it’s no coincidence how consistent he can ride that skate.

We shot this last winter I believe. I remember it being freezing cold outside, wearing a full suit, and floating in the water for about an hour while George and Byerly rode passes by me.

We got a lot of great shots that day. In fact, in book 1.2 George is busting a huge benihana from this angle, also shot on that same morning.

This angle is cutting it close to the “danger zone” as some might call it. The beninana was deliberately driven a bit farther away, just because George is edging directly at me with much more speed.

For these kick-flip attempts, we brought the boat in closer to where I was floating. By the time the wake past me, George would be right in my face.

It’s closer in real life, but this lens I used make it looks about 3 feet farther than it really is.
Kick-flips in mirror are closer than they appear.

- Meddock

Subject: Guys in Kilts, Enniskillen, Ireland
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, “You” page, page 111

I think was about 3am when we returned from our night out on the town when we met these dudes at the hotel bar.

They were celebrating a friend’s scottish wedding. Dressing in their traditional kilts apparently is how you do it on that side of the pond. It might be weird to us, but custom to them. “Man in a skirt? No way,” some would say, but come on… it’s culturally pimp. I think it’s awesome.

Thanks to Ike, the cowboy hat snuck in the photo and even Danno the Manno’s hat made the cut. How? I don’t know. Why? I have no idea.
But, issue 1.2 tied it all together.

Subject: Scotty Byerly
Photo: Bryan Soderlind

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Critique section, page 91

I wanted to shoot some 16mm of Scott riding his bike for RLAND. You know, just in case you haven’t seen one of the other 16 videos that have him riding his chopper.

It went pretty well, and at a stoplight I pulled out my still camera to get this shot. Also just in case you didn’t know, Scott is a bad ass.

- Bear

Subject: Daniel Watkins
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 28

On our recent trip to Ireland, we were pretty damn die hard to get a castle in the background of at least one photo. Watkins and I saw this bench that we thought we could lie on it’s side to jib. “Oh yeah, this will work great! We’ll shoot it at this angle, castle there, flash here, Watkins jibbin here, yeah basic, let’s do it.” It went something like that. “SNAP!”

“Sweet, Watkins! I think we got one. One with you directly blocking the view of the castle in the background.” What are the chances?

- Meddock

Subject: Starry Night
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 33

I traveled to Lake Roosevelt, Washington last summer for the 08 CWB product shoot. The weather was nice and cool at night. Cool enough that most of the people on the boat slept on the roof and stared up at the stars. They took all the bedding out of the living rooms and set up shop upstairs to get the incredible view of the bright sky.

Before I went to bed that night, I walked up on the shore bank and set up my camera and tripod. I pointed it toward the sky and did some multiple minute exposures to capture the stars and glowing light coming from the houseboat windows. I must of sat up on that hill for about an hour, timing exposures and counting over and over again. The arcing streak from the stars is the earth moving while the shutter is open.

- Meddock

Subject: 1.2 on press
Photo: Megan Miller

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 26

So, this is a shot of hundreds of pages of Book 1.2 after rollin’ off the press last summer. The printing process is pretty intense. Lots of checking and double checking and learning about how the whole deal works. Basically, three months of work and an even longer stretch of planning all come flying out of this crazy machine with colored ink dripping into it. Had to document all of those hours and colors finally coming together.

- Megan Miller

Subject: Aaron Reed
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 23

Wow! Rider, photographer, and now fashion icon.

Aaron Reed can make a statement with the best of them. Reed had some awesome moments during the Liquid Force BroStock in Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. There is never a dull second when he is around.

He ran full speed, stoagies in one hand, lighter in the other, down a hundred-yard grass field at 6 in the morning. Having energy like that early in the morning isn’t always an easy task.

Reed, however, shows up on time, smiles on, and kills it everytime he rides…short-shorts or not.

- Meddock

Subject: Danny Amir
Photo: Joey Meddock

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 19

Our Irish friend Garvin owns a barber shop in Enniskillen, Ireland. Dano, Ike, Watkins and myself, were there participating in Wake Jam, an event that went down last July.

We were there for three or four days talking about getting a shave the old school way with just the ol’ open blade technique. Turns out, we never got the chance until the last night, after a huge dinner, at two or three in the morning. Dano went first while Watkins and myself drank some wine waiting our turn. A few glasses later and a dull blade in hand, Dano’s facial hair was successfully removed, managed, and hand sewn into an original piece of carpet that now sits on top of his mantel. Ok, I made that last part up.

There is really no point to this story other than it was two or three in the morning. What, you didn’t get that out of reading the poetic paragraph of letters and words?

- Meddock

Subject: Luciano Rondi Neto
Photo: Josh Letchworth

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Juice section, pages 4-5

“Welcome to Sports Marketing.” I just felt like saying that because Matty Swanson took us all to The Amazon for the filming of Push Process, and he really likes to say that phrase. Another one of his quotes from the trip was, “It’s not about what you did yesterday, but rather what were doing tomorrow.”

This was truly one of the most amazing trips I’ve been on. We had a day of fun planned for every day that we were there. This shot of Brazilian local, Deko, was taken on one of the last days on the Negro after we had traveled 12 hours deep within its belly. We did not see another human for 3 days straight. Just beautiful stretches of water and a very diverse eco-system. There was no wind, no boats and just miles of water like you see in this shot. The kip rips too. I’ve always been a fan of shooting behind the rider. You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been. I see where Deko has been.

- Letchworth

Subject: Clean light reveals a rough night
Photo: Josh Letchworth

TSQ Location: Book 1.3, Chronicle section, page 23

Whoaaaa man, this was a rough one. Every year I always wonder if were going to be allowed back to Lake Powell and rent houseboats again. I guess when its all said and done, we do clean them up pretty good, but there are moments like these that I am sure that this is our last trip. We decided that it would be much more fun to all pile up out in the living room area. Its kinda like a slumber party. We sang songs, quoted lines from “A Christmas Story” and even imitated dirty old man jargon with our raspy, morning voices. I think Melissa Marquardt cleaned nearly every one of those dishes piled up. She’s so nice. Thanks.

- Letchworth