My semi vintage point-and-shoot 34mm Olumpus Mju II camera. (1997).

Barcelona was a blast and we all had a hell of a time. I recently digged out a semi old school compact camera from some old boxes in the bacement. A typical 35mm "Point and Shoot" camera with active auto focus. I bought it in 1997. Then it was kinda cool as it was water repellant. But it is pretty cool to take snapshots with.

My first trip with it was Barcelona.

NOTE! No editing, cropping, color adjustments, or anything at all what so ever are done on any of these pics!

Here are some snapshots... :P

Ellngsen portrait.

Line at a famous and nice spot.

Skateboard shoes.

In the tube.

Me cruisin the streets.

The posse.

Me with a random fella...

A random fella with MY hat...

Ellingsen and me.

To the right: THE DUDE. To the left: Me! :)

I hope to use this camera frequently and post cool pics here every now and then!

So many funny things happen on tour. Tonnesen got robbed today. That was pretty bad as thei got a analog camera with lot's of great shots. Damn what a shame!

There was a lot of wind on some of the spots today. Despite that Kim P were killing it. This Nollie Invward Heel into this bank was just on the return from a good spot were I busted a lot of tricks and lines. Happy that we caought it on both photo and film. Will be revealed soon for sure.

This was just another productive day for me personally. I was surprised over my self as a matter of fact. That's stokeness! :) The Bs Tailslide to fakie up this ledge on the pic below was also a spot we found cruising from one spot to another we had in mind. I also nailed a line here, so you'll see the Back tail on film too. :)

Kim with a nollie inward heel.

Ellingsen with a wallie Bs 50-50. This is one of my favorite spots. But we were busted by the Police. That was a shame, cause I busted a coulple of lines. Have to get back there soon.

Ellingsen chillin.

Very nice random ledges. Me with a Bs tail to fakie. Yes! All the way up! ;)

Pjuuh! Even on a "vecation" it's hard to find time to blog and edit pictures. Day four was hard but good, and we got another productive day with lot's of tricks and lines busted despite everyone had a bad hangover from New Year's Eve until early morning!

It was pretty windy and kinda cold. But despite of that the boys busted a lot of tricks on new locations.

Here are some pics from our New Year's Celebration. We had such a good time that everybody for some reason forgot about the time, and we were 10minutes overtime before one of us took a look at the wath... 00:10! We were already in 2010! We had a good laugh and cheered and partyed until early morning...

The crew! :)

The two new lads on the boat! Ellingsen and Karlsen! :)

Here are a little flick mainly from this fourth day:

Ellingsen and his grilfriend between the sk8 locations.

:) Stay tuned for more Barca feelings!

Risi and Ellingsen in a good mood on a nice location somewhere in Barcelona.

First: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yesterday, the final day of the fabulous year of 2009, and day three on this trip, was a very exhausting and terrible day!!! Why? We woke up early, met Ellingsen 45minutes too late at Starbucks, it started raining... Some of the crew overslept, some got lost, some had no more battery on their phone so we couldn't reach them, some had no keys, some got split... We cruised streets and walked all over Barca and spent a lot of time in the underground from stop to stop trying to locate spots and to find the others and hook up. The day started 08:00 and the first trick went down about 15:00!!! So a lot of lurking around. :P

Spanish Oranges tastes about 10 times better here than back home in Norway. Amazingly fresh and tasty!

Here is the smashed jar filled with water or something. Pretty sick and lucky that noeone got hit.

Tonnesen, our golden boy, at work. Classic Bs Tailslide.

We're as I write preparing the New Year's Eve dinner at our apartment. And we're drinking and cheering!;)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :D

Stay tuned! Love from Barca!

23 degrees Celcius makes one hot! :P

Day two, with 23 Degrees Celcius, here in Barca started really slow, because everybody were tired and worn out from day one... Classic failure kicking to much upon arrival day and using too much energy. Despite that, after nearly all day was "wasted"... We got busted and kicked out of the POLICIA two times, and the sunset came to early, we captured some great tricks on both film and pictures. Some leftovers are shown here below. We're having a blast in Barca, and we're very productive. Enjoy...

Some spanish lunch snacks and fresh pressed orange-juice between the sessions... Risi, Ellingsen and me.

Tonnesen with a loooong Fs Feebs.

Kim with a Sw crooks. (Pic by Tonnesen).

Tonnesen with one hot trick among many other cool tricks. He's just amazing...

Stay tuned for a blog of the absolutely last day of 2009... Namely 31.12.2009! With great love from Barca! :D

Stavanger as we left...

The winter arrived our hometown with a white layer of snow for about week ago. Ice cold but still able to get some skateboarding down in our local park and some surf as the surf season just kicked in. We've planned this 2010 KICK OFF team tour to Barcelona for a long time, and it was Ellingsen that pushed it trough. (Thank's Ellingsen?). We were all super happy to leave the ice cold North and chill in Barcelona for s while.

Risi and Kim departing ice cold Norway!

It is Ellingsen, Kim, Tonnesen together with Risi on camera 1 and 2 and I on photography. Some footy and pics of both Risi and me will also be captured and published. ;)

The crew... Arriving Barca was pretty nice, warm and comfortable. Ellingsen arrived a day before us and confirmed 18degree Celsius and sun. Warm as hell. Cruising the streets in only a T-shirt.

Our first day has been very neat. Kim busted a insane banger that ever have been done on the spot before. And it was perfect. We captured it on Tape cam, HD cam and Photography... You just wait and see! ;) But he suffered with some rough bails before he busted it. That is for sure.

Kim preparing...

Kim STOKED! NO DOUBT! :D

Tonnesen warming up with a Sw Bs 5050.

Kim with a Fs Tailslide Shuvit on a popular and famous Barca sk8 spot. Risi getting it on tape! :)

Ellingsen and Tonnesen ripped as hell as well. And we had the first day super productive. And all were very happy, satisfied and stoked. Just can't wait to get some more on tape tomorrow.

Stay tuned! Love from Barca!

This Saturday was just awesome. After a wild party @ a friends place with amazing dinner and lot's of models aka hot chix on Friday, waking up late Saturday with a mellow hangover, Blue aka Jan Erik Jensen called me out for surfing... And as the pictures truly and honestly states it was EPIC! No doubt! And with only a few heads/friends in the water it was a perfect session with loads of waves for everyone!

This is how beautiful a surf spot can be.

This is something NOT to do: Dropping in on someone that already are charging a wave. We call those RP (Ronke Pelle) aka Wanker.

This is so few people that it can't even been described as a crowd...

This is a "Five-0"... It's me there yeah!

This is Blue aka Jan Erik Jensen with a powerful cutback.

Surfing is a pretty neat and good feeling thing to do. Sometimes you just feel complete after a surf session or while you are out in the water chillin between the sets. You just feel lucky and in harmony within yourself and your beeing. I know you core skaters are laughing of this statement, and you NEVER get that feeling of skateboarding. It's sad but true. I got good sk8 pal's that surf and confirms this for shure.

But as a skateboarder in my heart I also have surfing as a true passion. And I love it both! :D

This is Blue, my good friend-, rat-, team surfer-, surf mentor and oracle. Super happy after a good session.

Oh! For the record.... The water is approx 5 degree Celcius. Ice cold baby! :P

All pics by Blue's girlfriend Elin Minde.

Time passes by too quickly... That's why it is a while since last blog. (Sorry!)

The 28Th of November we had a VIP ELLINGSEN BRO LAUNCH PARTY @ SHIT FLAG STORE in Oslo. Only Ellingsen's closest were invited.

Ellingsen ready for rumble:

There was off course Jack & Coke served on the house. And the party was a blast in the shop and the athmosphere was good!

It is awesome to own a skateboard company. One of the advantages is definetivly when ur out skateboarding, snapping boards or just wearing them out, and picking out a brand new deck for FREE! That is a great feeling! :) I can imagine that PROS and sponsored skateboarders do get the same good feeling. But I admit that sometimes I have forgotten to think about how great this actually is!

The pic above is setting up a new deck before what became a good session @ BEKKESTUA in Oslo few days ago together with Tonnesen, JAY, Kim P and Mr Petter Garaas!

The old board is now on my livingroom wall! Nice art.

:D

Lena Skaar Storseth that we collaborate with regarding the SHIT JEWELRY is also a wonderful teacher at St.Svithun school downtown Stavanger. And for a while ago she started on a project were she involved SHIT JEWELRY that she is a big part of, and us at SHIT, and they had a class were the project was to come up with recycled products out of skateboard decks that our Team skaters Mentzoni, Tonnesen, Ellingsen and Kim P had worn out.

The products was on display and for sale during an auction for a project to collect money to poor people in poor contries.

The outcome of the project is amazing. I am super proud to inspire these "kiddoes", and trigger them to come up with products that they came up with...

A nice Belt bucle...

A CD Rack.

A smart deck display.

Sunglasses made of a used skateboard! How wild is that!?? :)

Assorted key-rings.

A bunch of nice neclesses...

SHIT RULES!! No doubt!!! Rulers made of skateboards!!! Cool!

Slingshot!!! What??? This is my personal favourite!!! :D

This is just a selection of all the cool products that the class came up with. If you got a good idea, just don't sit there! Get on it! Make it!!! ...And send us a pic! Will launch it for sure! ;)

Here is a part of the creative crew together with Lena and me. The local TV was also at present and made a story that got broadcasted. This will come out here or on shittm.com soon!

Thanks a lot and high-5 to all joining this project! You rock the world for shure! I am super impressed and stoked!

A special thanks also to Arvid, Lena and my homie ol pal Steffen C.S. Storseth aka TMC represent (he joined the class helping with bits and pieces). :D