Posts from — July 2008

Danny Way - mega slam to comeback

Bob in his backyard

What the Mega Ramp does to footwear. Bob’s shoes

Bob took first at the X-Games Mega Ramp, having one in your backyard seems to pay off. The doctors told Danny three times he couldn’t skate anymore after two heavy slams in practice and two more even heavier in his runs, he didn’t listen and got second with Jake following in third. 

Ryan Sheckler on the close wall, Alex Chalmers in the other room and Bam taking it all in. From the Tony Hawk Secret Skatepark tour #2 a few years ago.

If you haven’t stopped by the main site in awhile today would be a good day to do so. A fresh update has just gone up so drop by www.jodymorris.com to see a bunch of new travel features plus some other random items. While your at it add this site to your RRS feeds to stay up on any news.

Tony Hawk and Kevin Robinson for Boom Boom Huck Jam promotional

Ryan Sheckler for Sports Illustrated Kids, on news stands this month.

Seems like Paul Rodriguez took the momentum he had at the Maloof Cup last weekend and used it to roll into first this weekend at the Dew Tour in Cleveland. Back-to-back weekends, back-to-back firsts.

Paul’s latest ad for Plan B - switch frontside flip

This past weekend saw the Maloof Cup go down in Orange County. The contest put on by the Maloof brothers, owners of the palms hotel and the Sacramento Kings featured the largest purse in skateboarding’s history. Jereme Rogers took sixth, Ryan Sheckler came in fourth and Paul Rodriguez walked away with 100,000 dollars for first place. Congratulations to the three.

Shot the launch campaign for the new Tony Hawk Sidekick device for T-Mobile a few weeks ago. The roll-out consists of print ads, billboards, a website and one of the images being painted onto the side of a building in downtown Los angeles for the X-Games.  A big thanks to all the great people at Publicis-USA especially Andrew Lovold and Ted Koszuta. 

Tony with his new name-sake device

Tony’s right hand man, the colorful Mr. Kevin Staab

Going over lines for the video portion of the shoot

The crew 

Spent Tuesday shooting Jon Favreau and Tony Hawk for the Sundance channel’s Iconoclasts series. Turns out the scene in Jon’s latest film where Ironman is trying his jetpacks for the first time and falls back to earth was created based on the now infamous footage of Jake Brown crashing to the ground at the X-Games last summer. According to Jon if he left the CGI people to animate it it would have turned out to “cartoony” so he gave them Jake’s fall as a reference. Small world sometimes. The show airs this fall.

Dropped by Paul Schmitt’s house the other day to shoot some photos of Pat Duffy and Bob Burnquist for an episode of Fuel TV’s Built To Shred. This was an eco-friendly edition where they power all the tools with solar collectors and skate eco boards made from bamboo and hemp. An interesting concept to say the least. Paul has done very well for himself (and deservedly so) and now has a beautiful home in Orange County complete with his own private concrete skatepark in the backyard. The show was also an association with Paul’s CreateAskate.org organization which is a program that aims to empower students to learn math, science and artistry skills through the relevance of a skateboard. Stop by their site when you have a minute, it’s a worthwhile endeavor. Watch for the episode this fall.