Fun Weekend
Saturday was crazy.
I had to go to the framers to pickup my last two pieces for the One Up show, then I met up with Captain Al at his place in Stowe and we headed to Burlington to pick up Cavin. Al skated the Burlington park for a bit while we waited for Cavin. We made one last ditch attempt at getting Paddock to join us and we headed to Magic Hat to pick up the donated beer for the show.
When we get there they have no record of the One Up Gallery.
Cavin and Al made friends with the maintenance guy real quick
After a bit of waiting they decided our cause was just and we should get our beer.
those people in the top of the frame are getting the official tour
It felt like an episode of “how its made”, we got to check out everything from the ground floor!
yeah, it was this awesome
Everyone there is super cool, we basically got to go through the factory and pick out cases of whatever we wanted.
We packed Al's car until the shocks where bottoming out.
Then we were on the road for the three hour ride to Manchester. Normally I would have been bored out of my mind but I felt like I was getting a History of Snowboarding 101 lesson. In every town we went through Cavin had filmed a handrail with someone I had never heard of, but Al knew’em and was stoked. I heard awesome stories about some blue house in Plymouth that Al and Cavin hung out at and the early day’s writing for Eastern Edge.
When we fianlly made it, there was a mad dash to get my work up and get the beer behind the bar.
Brandon and I had talked and in the end it worked out pretty good.
A few days before the show I got a phone call from the One Up Gallery explaining that they had received my work and didn’t feel comfortable showing it. I was bummed because I wanted to show, they were bummed because they wanted to show my work but due to the sensitive times we live in, they didn’t want soccer moms rioting outside the shop.
some of the offensive work in question
This is Kevin Cyr
We traded a piece for a piece, thanks man!
In the mad rush to get my work up I hardly noticed, Podium is not only a really awesome shop, it’s a fuckin museum!
old Sims deck next to a 1965 snurfer
look at the those crazy binders
Al holding an old Lib Matt Cummins
the wall was lined with old copies of Eastern Edge
old skates everywhere
Big Thanks to Al for driving, all my friends for coming out, Brandon and Nick for putting on the show, and everyone else who showed up. The whole thing was a blast.