2 WA7

Sick Board Dude
I had just gone to the garage to get some new paint. I had a passion for painting graffiti on almost any flat surface I could find. It was my dream to become a sponsored designer/artist for a skateboarding or surfing company. I had always been inspired by the artist for birdhouse, or Becker surf boards. The details and the critiques that I put into my work brought many people and was attraction around town. I had just started working on this sick picture of a cross with praying hands in front of it. I got my inspiring thoughts from tattoos, magazines, and thoughts from some of my fans.
It was a bright sunny day at the skate park, where I usually print my work. Some of the skaters came up to me and asked me “ Do you design skateboards or something?” “ No, but I wish I could.” I said. I turned to look at the guy and I noticed that he wasn’t a skater it was Bucky Lasek. “ Hey man I seen some of your work around town and I was wondering if you would like to design a board for me to use at the X games.” “ Uh, Uh, you’ve left me speechless.” I replied. “ So is it a yes or a no.” he said. “ Ya I will do it.” “ Sounds good meet me at my place at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow.”
I quickly finished my work and went to the store to load up on paint. The next morning I couldn’t wait till 11 so I had to go paint a wall. I walked to the back of my apartment complex where I painted a picture of a all sorts of metal pipes and rods bent around each other into letters that said “ live free.” Eleven finally came and I was more then pumped to go to Bucky’s place. When I arrived he had drawn me a picture of what he wanted on it. It was a picture of a skeleton that is holding a bulldog at the end of a metal chain. It took me a couple of days working on it because it was my first board that I had completed. Black and white were the only colors that Bucky wanted on it. So that made it a little bit simpler.
A week later I was at the X games watching my board go up and down the ramp. Bucky seemed to be pleased with the board, that he put in a good word for me to Birdhouse boards. The next day I went to work for the first day at my new job as the head designer of graphics and art. I was creating the designs for Tony Hawk, Shaun white, and Mark Reynolds.These were the biggest names of skateboarding. The best of the best. They were the face of skateboarding and I was designing their skateboards for a living. It was the job of my dreams.