Invite only
We got a chance to preview the new Gabriel skatepark last weekend.
Check out more photos on Skate and Annoy, Earth Patrol and Skaters for Portland skateparks. I felt funny thinking about the people who weren’t getting to skate yet while I enjoyed the privilege. Fun park except for all those eyes looking at you from outside the fence…
June 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Looks like another well earned session for you guys.
I’ll happily wait till it’s open and thanks for letting me live vicariously through your posts!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Any date for the grand opening?
June 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Last I heard July, they have a few things to finish around the outside of the park and a bunch of landscaping still to do.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Really, you felt bothered? I felt… a strange sense of entitlement.. after feeling a bit awkward at first.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:19 am
No wonder you were uncomfortable, you were riding your freestyle board again.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:25 am
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Love that expression in the second frame. MC, are you using a WACOM tablet screen to draw these up?
-kev
June 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Thanks, I actually ripped that mouth off from Calvin and Hobbes – Calvin as a zombie. I pencil the strip and then ink with a sable brush. I scan that drawing and color and letter it in Photoshop. I use a couple of typefaces I made for the lettering.
I had serial port Wacom tablets but the company doesn’t support them anymore. I have a USB adapter and some third party software but it doesn’t really work. I may get one someday.