Wake and See
Being on the road before the sun rises hasn’t let me down.
Do wake in the dark.
Do see the candied dawn.
A few photos. Westbound in South Dakota.
Devour Heaven
We fly. We dream in darkness. We devour heaven in bites too small to be measured. // Rebecca Solnit
“We fly, we dream in darkness, we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured”
// Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
SIGNAL FIRE
To signal fires, lighthouses, bright spots in the dark, and beacons in the monochrome. All those stars agleam to guide us.
make light the dark
color in the monochrome
like those stars agleam to guide us
Edifice Complex
New temples and new gods root in the mortar and bones of old temples and old gods. One night at Sk8 Liborious in photos.
New temples and new gods root in the mortar and bones of old temples and old gods.
The following photos are from one on of many night sessions at Sk8 Liborious in 2019.
Update: Sk8 Liborious burned to the ground overnight on June 29th, 2023.
No one was injured.
House Of Weather
Obviously, Weather.com wasn’t an option.
I named this thing Weather at the end of summer in 2011, and through the past 8 years, I’ve tried on many domain names: Intheweather.net, weatherbrand.com, weather.house, weathermaker.com, weathermade.com, weatherof.earth and numerous other variants of .nets, .coms, .us, .earths, .worlds, and even different name altogether — WIIND.I landed on Houseofweather.com.
After resisting it for a few years due to being ubiquitous naming conventions in the world of luxury brands, and the adjacent/kindred art, design , and skate/BMX spaces. But, then I thought, who really cares. In notes to myself over the years trying to make sense of what I felt was emerging with Weather I would often describe it as a house with no walls.
There are doors here, but there are no walls, there are windows, no borders, no laws…
FBM at the Lucero Family Picnic
CALL COPS
Last weekend I rented a car and headed down to Memphis to meet up with Jackson and the rest of the inhabitants of FBM’s black school bus. They were wrapping up a trip across the south culminating in Lucero’s Family Picnic at Minglewood.
I shot a roll of film on the Olympus and another with my Holga. Here’s what turned out.
Sharpie tats and Seamus airing a DIY vert wall with Betty Boop eyeing him up are my favorites.
Thanks to Crandall for having me and Brian Venable for letting us stay at his house.
sasquatch weather
It’s not explicitly a BMX company, we just all have our roots here.
Jackson has a quick interview on BMX UNION about his most recent Sasquatch Canyon video, Notes From the Field: Short Cuts.
“Kurt: How does Nathan Parker’s brand WEATHER come into play for this video?
Jackson: WEATHER is an apparel company that Nathan Parker conceived in 2011. We are interested in making durable, timeless things that will stand up to some abuse. It’s not explicitly a BMX company, we just all have our roots here. WEATHER is an effort to preserve and celebrate some of the same feelings we got when we first put a leg over a bike. A sense of wonder. While this isn’t a WEATHER project, almost every rider who is a part of that brand (officially and unofficially) has a small part in this video. In each of those parts there are some tiny inklings and hints of what a WEATHER project might look like.”
BMX Union- Behind Notes From the Field: Short Cuts
Fair Weather Gathering
In 9 days the Fair Weather Gathering will be taking place at Ramp Riders skatepark here in St.Louis. When I began to make more headway with Weather I knew the first thing I wanted to do was to bring people together to celebrate bike riding under The Weather flag. I hope to see you there September 21, 2013.
And the word was Weather
It depends on where you draw your line. Is the beginning here, at the creation of this, my first real website, rather than a Tumblr, rather than just in real life?
Maybe it was 30 years ago, back through my life, the thread of continuity, of what fires stayed lit, and grew with experiences, and knowledge, and time? Was it just two years ago when when a rolling wave of feelings and visions, broke the surface as a wave of ideas, and became a symbol and a word, Weather. Maybe it’s earlier, the beginnings of beginnings?
It's something to think about, but probably not important, because, here we are anyway.
If you're here, close to the start of things you're likely a good friend, family member,or slightly adjacent. Whoever you are, however you made it here, thank you for coming. Also, to many of you, thanks for having been there.
Let’s see what’s next.I look forward to knowing who you are, and in time, as things unfold, sharing in some of your stories.
Cheers,
Nathan
