CALIFORNIA LOVE

Uncategorized July 24th, 2009

In Cali Huntington to be exact checking out the Agenda trade show,getting some rays and drinking beers with my men’s DQM Dave and Chu riding shotgun most of the way..

This is Christian Hosoi the worlds greatest vert skater of all time and my friend for over 20 years. Christian is a Venice original and if you don’t know well your heads up your rear basically Christian invented swagger on a board nuff said

This is Toby Morse and his man whose name I forgot…Toby is the singer for Hardcore legends H2O and is also in Hazen Street Toby is a DMS brother forever

Went to Agenda and saw a bunch of friends running the floor here’s Brooklyn Dom who’s been in LA for so long I’m gonna rename him Melrose Dom soon

Scotty Hundreds and Crazy Dave Ortiz aka Dave’s Quality Meats

Dave is so cool I gotta flick him twice! Dude had us laughing all day the last two days cat’s too funny!

Kevin Ancell right here with one of his infamous Hula Girls Kevin is a tremendous artists, a OG Dogtown surfer and the guy who did the Thrasher Logo amongst a zillion other really cool stuff. Kevin is a key part of the foundation of Venice surf/skate culture having done a gang of DogTown graphics including my homie Scott Osters board back in the day

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Aaron Levant the man behind Agenda and a good dude……

Josh The Fish from 10Deep was working the show killing it like always….Fish and me we got history!

Sweaty from Goods Seattle one of the best stores in the country was in the house…Yo SweatHog what it is and does everyone know your government name is Scott? I’m blowing dudes up son!

Ease Da Man from Mishka…Ease is one of the realest cats in the mix….and he’s mad funny some people act like they don’t give a shit…Ease he actually doesn’t give a shit and I like that

Ray Ray Mate Tay my Pinoy  brother from another…Mighty Healthy is the most under rated line out, I rock the ish on the regular the Tee’s are most excellent and the cut and sew is looking good for fall! Ok now that I jocked super hard where’s my gift box peoples?

This is my man…When I lived in LA me and this dude would go on serious sneaker missions….Cat had me running all over the hood cooping dunks back in the day…Chad ShoeMaster….This is another dude I have history with

Muggs and Mills Soul Assassins all day long these dudes are the best!

Craig Weatherby and Timbo Broadahagen my brethren from back east…Tim’s a pretty good writer and Craig is a pretty excellent photographer and me and him have been all over the globe together….Tim’s pretty good at taking pics as well these days I think Craig showed him a thing or too…NYC in the house!

Zest and Revok MSK ..Zest is a terrorist on the bombing tip and Revok is a style master end of story

Ran in to the homie Rip Zinger he’s a OG skate photographer from Japan and a total trip Rip is the man!

I hit the beach with Dave and Chu who i didnt get any good pictures of….We raw dogged it Coney Island styles no towels just trunks and the clothes on our backs….We were the least OC people on a OC beach maybe ever……

Chu on the beach seconds after admiring fat boys gut!…

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Had a blast at Agenda and at the beach all in all a great vibe at the show much more personal and friendly than most shows and I actually got to see a lot of my bro’s and go to the beach plus I hit up comic con the next afternoon and got my uber nerd on….Funny shit kids were asking me about The Berric’s all over OC shows you the impact of the Berrics ya know?

Still out west till Sunday and loving my 2nd home LA…..Might just have to move back here again some day ya know?

Enjoy

Dante Ross

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