Happy New Years...

But seriously who cares?

Don't die before making it a Toy Machine year.

Photo Key: Make a New Years resolution to try new things, like buying only Toy Machine boards and clothes, and getting more creative with your manual love-making. Answer to the post below: Ed shot the top one, and Grif the bottom one.

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR OVERLORD

This year you will finally score.

it's not a big deal

Girls fan out on David in Colorado. It's not a big deal...

Billy Marks Daydreams...

About things he wished he did in 2007...

Who shot it? Grif or Ed?

And what does it matter when Harry Potter is Evil? Answer: Ed shot the top one, and Grif the bottom one.

Name these 3 pro skaters and WIN!!!!!

And gain a trillion respect points if you guess the name of THIS pro skater as well. Phil is the WINNER, he guessed it - it's TOM BOYLE -an old vert pro... The adoration of web-viewers awaits you.

Koston Officiates an Arm-Wrestle Between...

Mike V. and TWS Photog Pete Thompson. Memphis, 1998.

might as well?

Since everyone is on holiday vacation right now anyways.. you might as well just enter to win this Sierra contest that Circa is hosting right now...

as winter comes...david leaves

David ponders how much better California is about to be for skating when he flys out after the new year. Colorado is not the most ideal location right now...

Name all 3 pro skaters and WIN!!!!!!!!

Who is this wearing my hat? MUSKAAAAAA!

This one is easy!

Josh Harmony, where are you?

Some results from a poll about Americans' views on Religion... And Jessica Simpson is Bummed and Not Stoked... Added some new ads on the ADS section.

take it easy...

Rough day at Skatetopia getting fireworks thrown at you for 8 hours straight.

Santa got run over by a semi-truck.

Photo Key: 'Christmas was transplanted onto winter solstice some 1,600 years ago, centuries before the English language emerged from its Germanic roots.' --says Secret Santa, the Santa with a hole in his pants. Rotten Tomatoes' Top Ten Christmas films. Quote of the week: We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence. - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

Hope your Christmas was Grand...

Johnny Celebrates Winter Solstice in a creepier way than most... And Matt B got a half-hoverboard from Santa! They haven't quite worked out the other half yet. Did anyone eat Gingerbread cookies? Gross. Don't forget the homeless this holiday season, you can still do something nice for them. This heavy metaler did, because he knows he will be homeless one day. Grant got a 'Nazi-terrorist fun set' from Mattel Toys complete with lead paint and a working M-80! Uh-Oh! Someone switched the Santa letters into Satan again!

The trade world is treating me good

The trade world has been good to me lately. Acquiring all the Nintendo 64 stuff we could possibly need for the break room and also it looks as though I will be getting a paint ball gun for our warehouse. Merry Christmas yes sir e. The Toy Machine shirt didn't make the cut though. I was almost sold on trading something for it but not completely. Ed let me know if you want it?...

Hey watch this guys...

all these photos are leading up to the great idea Nuge had one day... wait for it, wait for it... Bam! Good idea Nuge. Real good.

skate art

When half the guys disapear in a photo is that art? Nice rail Nuge...

Colorado love...

Since Angel is from Colorado I figured I'd show you a little bit of his town...

VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS DANCED IN HER HEAD

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS from the TOY MACHINE team...

Photo Key: And a safe New Year too. Don't: eat too much. Do: get lots of presents.

Fiberlam are backed by real riders...

Read the article EXPN posted about all the board technology's out in the skateboarding industry.

Family Christmas, Check.

Just 2 more Christmas things to do...

Skater kids shot from the car in LA

Random huh?

Billy goes to Sheckler's Party - MEGA POST!!!!

Ryan gives Billy a peace sign. Now that he is on TV, there are lots of people showing up to his parties. And of course they know his fridge will be well-stocked with all that MTV cash. And anyway, you know a party is huge when there is a band and a 'jumbo-tron.' Or when you see a posted model release when you walk in telling you that you might appear on TV, and if you do, you can't sue. Billy hired himself a new 'Life Assistant' his name is Alien from Canada. He's into beer like most Canadians. And who the fuck does this guy think he is? And what about this guy? Where do these people come from? I never saw this guy at a Dew Tour. Billy started wondering if it was such a good idea to come here... Active Erica was there with her tight homies. Billy is one of her tight homies. Alien fell in love with Sheckler's mom... And arm-wrestled his dad! Don't trip over the camera dude. I'm almost 95% sure that this is Colin McKay. Things started getting weirder the more drunk people got. Then J-Lay showed up... Someone (Alien?) disrobed and started spraying the crowd with urine. Johnny was loving it. Then Billy started taking photos of girls, but zooming in only on their boobies. (He is single now, we can allow it.) These ones look like they are sitting on a shelf. These ones are texting. These ones are married to a pro-skater. Then Billy started going for the up-skirt shots, but wasn't too successful. These ones were available for a squeeze test? Thanks Ryan (and Red-Bull I assume...) for having Billy over! It was epic!

New Skateboarder Magazine has a big Toy article

Get a closer look at Austin Stephens' schralping. Thanks Skateboarder!

These two guys make Toy Machine happen...

...Just as much as Ed Templeton and the Team do... Tod Swank, and Matt Barker. Two awesome skateboarders who do a lot of the important behind-the-scenes stuff. Our graphic artist Jamal found these while going through an old Transworld from 1991. And Swank took Matt's photo too! Photo Key.

to put it simply...I'm Ov's

I went on the roof to get some fresh air. I was ov's my desk. Heres a couple shots of the downtown San Diego area and also the surrounding neighborhood of TumYeto. When I went back down to the warehouse I noticed 4 boards lined up perfectly for someone to pick the shred sled they wanted to cruise around on. Guess which one I picked. Yeah duh... cause I was Ov's the rest of them. Game over lights out. That boards the best. To bad its 1/1 so you will never get to buy or look or touch or see or anything it. Unless we just made it? What do you think...

Billy WINS!!!!

He was the first Toy rider to call and say thanks for his Christmas bonus! And he NEVER calls me! Something is going on... I'll have to keep a close watch on this situation.

Kevin Left to Kansas for the Christmas

Photo Key: He was looking feral while holed up in his room making the LURK-FEST video. But now he is all cleaned up and happy.

Happy Holidays from Foundation Skateboards

Hopefully you score a new board for the holidays...

teamwork in the big apple

Angel helps Abdias in the blind folded game of skate that took place on KOTR.

Hipster Olympics

catching up with Nuge

Nuge has 2 days left before heading out to Oklahoma to visit the family for Christmas. I think he's coming down today. Maybe I'll get some new photos of him. Last time I talked to Broach(Circa and Thrasher staff photographer, also Nuge's next door neighbor) the conversation went something like this. Me - "Broach what are you doing" Broach - "hitting this punching bag in the garage" Me - "are you with Nuge?" Broach - "yeah he just bought a speed bag and a punching bag" Broach - "we're training for real life fight club" Me - "good idea" Broach - "hold on a second" Broach - "ok I'm back It was my turn to punch the bag again" Me - "Ok thanks for chatting, I'm over this though" Broach - "Ok yeah I need to get back to "work" anyways" Me - "later" Broach - "later"

I went digging

I found some more items that might be of interest to you. If you think you have something worthy to trade me for this then go ahead and shoot me over a note. Promo@TumYeto.Net. Heres Gareths last board he skated. Heres the artwork on top of Gareths board. I dont know what it means either... This is the gem right here. A Spiderman board... The bottom of the Spiderman board is bamboo. Barguing...day 3 I have plenty of Nintendo 64 games/controllers/carrying cases and even regular nintendo stuff on its way. So I'm now looking for other entertaining stuff for us at the office. I'm thinking Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, paintball guns, lazer tag, computer accesories, fish tank items - tank atleast 30 gallons, gravel, heater, filter and stand. We're about to have a office fish tank. So if you have any of those items and want to possibly trade them for something TumYeto has then let me know. Promo@TumYeto.Net

Day In The JLay

Johnny has a Day In The Life up over at the Active site. Pretty epic. Check out the FAKE Ed Templeton MySpace page.

For you Random Blog surfers...

Some Barry McGee artwork!

Austin & Matt Post Rippage

Photo Key: They pretty much burned shit down. Austin's been inspired by blind patriotism lately. Matt gets stoked on this.

The barguing has begun

So I invented a word awhile back that applies for my little trading project that I'm working on right now. Its called Barguing. A mixture of bargaining and arguing. Tell you're friends about it. Probably gonna be big soon like ipods or something. Anyways I've compiled a couple photos of stuff that I could be willing to part with for items that you think I might be interested in. I've had a great response so far of people interested in the trade market. But I'm still looking for a couple more Nintendo 64 controllers and rumble packs. Toy Machine Turtle boy toys. A collector item... retail price - $4.99 A really big hat. retail price - $10.99 Broken razorblade deck. retail price - $24.99 Soccer ball, turtle boy out of the package, and a trophey that states "most likely to break out into a song". retail price - $19.99 Tech deck ramps. retail price for each item/park - $8.99 Gas can with 1/3 full of gas. retail price - $12.67 blow up sect character with head set and a smoke. retail price - $21.41 The sales dept. also offered up this. A water bottle, half eaten chocolate chip cookie looking thing, sect bearings, lowcard sticker, and a 100 pack of hardware. Skate book. retail price - $25.99 The production manager offered up Jaguar bearings, one core wheel, and a starbucks cup filled with a undisclosed amount of change. But he assures me its all silvers inside there. retail price - $i dont know.99

Careful, people are trying to read your lips...

New trend in Cell phonery... (and paranoia.)

Pig tattoo

Beastie from the Czech Republic shows his love for Bacon off with this brand new Pig tattoo. Thanks for the support Beastie.

coming through like a champ

What just happend today does not happen often. A TumYeto devoted fan and frequenter of the website noticed my enthusiasm for video games. So he did the only smart thing and got in contact with me. Figuring out what I needed for my system of choice(nintendo 64) and offering me a trade. One James Bond 007 The World Is Not Enough video game for a Corey Duffel Roky board. Done. Just like that. Board is on its way. If anybody out there wants to bargain for a couple rumble packs or a controller or basically anything for that matter that you think I would be interested in then by all means get in contact and ask! My new contact for contests is this - Promo@TumYeto.net

From Bummed to Stoked, thats how life goes...

so we hope.

A Message from Toy Machine:

Photo Key . The best way to send Christmas cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.

On the road...

Sometimes on the road you get to see cool things that you usually don't. Interesting huh.

Charlie Coatney tag?

Found and collected by none other than Geoff Rowley. You may be asking, 'Who the fuck is Charlie Coatney and who cares?' Well, those who know, they know. Those who don't, watch the 'Toy Machine LIVE' video.

Tell the Geico Gecko... 'I'm after him!'

Photo Key: After looking at Kevin's daily injection, why not dive right back into some... celebrity news!

Some scenes from other people's lives...

Check this out. When you get bummed, go here to do something about it.

be there or be square..clever huh.

Matt B has a few massages for you.

In this holiday season of crass consumerism, it may be a good idea to remember how all the shit we buy gets made, and how it gets taken care of when we throw it away. It's the Story of Stuff. Watch it, its short! Matt B tried to save it, but it was a lost cause... Photo: Key

Vengan a la premiere del ojo de pez #10

If you are in Buenos Aires, Argentina, go check this video out!

Can't remember if I posted this one or not...

Perhaps a loyal pawn will know? If it turns out I have, enjoy one of Deanna's photos of girls with autographs on their bodies...

It sounded like a good idea at the time...

Interviews galore.

David and Sierra both have somewhat new interviews over at the team page at Circa. Abdias has that Thrasher interview thats been up for a second...

The Amazing Billy

You have to scope the Active website to see this epic footy of Bill ripping Berra's park in LA. Or try to gank it if you have an .flv player.

A look inside TumYeto

Taking you inside TumYeto once again with this in kinda depth look at our showroom that we hold all the sketchy business meetings in. Unless you're super duper in trouble or sketchy then we take it into the isolated room of torture that is beyond boring. I will show you that one day when I'm in there. Which is more often than not. If you don't like walking around barefoot well then we got some Deklines for you... We got something for everyone... All the newer Pig and Ruckus products are showcased in here. Got plenty of newer Toy boards to show off in here. Notice the variety? Yeah we got it like that. Incase you get thirsty while you're having a sketchy meeting we got the energy drink hook up at Who's Your Daddy...

I guess you could call it a update

With the holidays nearing I've been catching up with the team to figure out all they're plans... -Corey just got back from the Osiris video tour in Europe and will be at home for the holidays with his family. He is back to rolling around again on a skateboard. -Gareth has been busy with all that goes in to having a new house. Painting and decorating constantly. Expect new Gareth Foundation and Pig ads to follow shortly... -Nuge splurged and had Christmas for himself a bit early. Turned his garage into some sort of fight club style gym. Complete with punching bag and speed bag. Also purchasing a new huge TV for his house. Hes now trying to make it back to Oklahoma for the holidays. -Mike just got back from a short trip in Chicage to skate. Now back in northern California working on a 411vm part. -Sierra returned yesterday from Montana where he visited his family. He will be back until the weekend when he flys out for Christmas with the girlfriend. -Abdias will be heading back to Tampa, FL for the holidays. Spending time with both his family and also his friends at The Skatepark of Tampa. Following the holidays you can catch him at Tampa Am in January. -Angel is in Hawaii right now with Volcom. Must be a nice change compared to the snow in Colorado that David was telling me about. After the Hawaii trip its back to snowy Colorado for Angel to hibernate the holidays away with some video games and myspacing... -David decided the snow was too much for him and is flying out on the 1st of January back to sunny southern California after spending Christmas with his family. Look for Davids first Foundation ad to hit any day now. Its a doozy. -Tommy has been training in the desert lately at his local skatepark. Spending the holidays at home in Indio, CA.

I wonder... (as does Billy...)

What is ENTERTAINMENT?

Ah, The Ephemera Of Video Making

Look it up.

TumYeto and Check It Out Magazine combine forces

Get in the holiday spirit this Saturday by beer bonging egg nog or something cool like that...

Once upon a time we visted Bruce at Skatetopia...

Skatetopia has a pretty big deck and complete collection. We went inside for a closer look. Oh look we even made it on the wall... Nuge, David and Sierra look on as Bruce chats about one of his many completes.

The art of Art Basel, and Miami in general...

Bright colors...

Music and Movie

Two for one.

LURK FEST Coming In Hot

This video is almost done.

Do it yourself construction with TumYeto

T.G.I. Ov's. Thank God I'm Ov's was the modo for last friday. You see the boss man thought it would be funny to scare a few people in the office with a suprise. Not a good heres free lunch or take the day off suprise but the sketchy kind of suprise. The Plan - making a window in the office overlooking part of the warehouse without the people knowing it was about to happen. Since the upstairs(A team) is seperated from the downstairs(B team) a lot can go on with out us knowing.. Little did they(B team) know that they calculated the whole project wrong. So everyone(A team) is minding there own business when all of a sudden shit just starts breaking through the wall. Since there calculatioins were off they not only took out the window but also a bookshelf full of micellanious items scattering everything across the corner of the office. Scaring the shit out of everyone upstairs... It wasn't the most thought out plan as you can see in the rest of my investigation... We didn't film the construction project so luckily I can compile realistic sketches of events that happend off peoples explanations. I am trying to report this back to you with the least amount of confusion as possible. Heres the bookshelf that went down nearly inches away from where I would've been sitting. No joke I would've either died or been seriously injured. Good thing I don't work much and can be found outside smoking rather than sitting at my desk 95% of the time. Moving on... With the falling of the bookshelf out poured every sample hardgood item we had been collecting for probably the past 15 years or so...I'm just guessing on atleast 15 years of that guess... The success or failure? of the broken window right through our Foundation ad layouts... The close up view shows just how much thought went into this construction project. A total of 10 seconds worth of tying a sledge hammer onto Hacksaw Jim Duggan's piece of wood with shoelaces then onto pallets stacked up. Then drove full speed into the wall where they wanted a window... Yeah real legit guy's... The office is looking good guys, real good... I keep trying to think of something real epic to say but I'm stumped. I wanted to say something like it was like the great flood of 1889 in blah blah blah you know? So I could sound all smart and like I went to school for something smart and then a skateboard job fell in my lap and now I can combine both my talents and impress people with a epic comparison. Well honestly I'm comparing it to the flood in Evan Almighty the movie because well I saw that last week... Yeah we have a lot of crazy wheel samples... Back to this amazing invention downstairs... Some of the crew responsible for this mess... Again luckily I have this skill. After gathering everyones after thoughts I compiled this sketch of what looks like the start of the construction project... Now my view is looking a little bit like this... T.G.I. Ov's...

Wounded Brave

When Austin gets hurt, he gets bummed.

Movie Rental Suggestion

If you haven't already, get on on it.

Naked Time!

Diego passes travel time by getting nude and partying. Fellow passengers beware.

Bwana Spoons - The Calendorks show

First, thanks to everybody that came out for chicago and VTN.

Now, tonite- The Calendorks show opens at grass hut from 6pm-9pm
It's a tittle-antitizing sneak at some of what we have in store for 2008!
And....
Our 2008 Calendorks Calendar is out. printed on recycled paper using soy based inks. Totar raddness!
And...
Le bleu Lagoon Steven goes on sale at noon today.
And....
Scrappers new tee is out. Paul Bunyans.
And...
Tonite is Moshi Moshi's print show.
And...
Next week we are getting in a pile of biskup prints and goodies.
And... Oh forget it.
Thanks, and have a fine weekend.
Bwana.

Also.....

Dec 7th (1st Friday) 6-9pm
Printed and original work by: Apak, Amy Ruppel, Evan Harris, Matthew Feyld, J. Otto, Mark Todd, Dawn Riddle, Cho-Chan, Bwana Spoons, Scrappers, Martin Ontiveros, Alicia Rose, Trish Grantham and Luke Ramsey.

Jeremy Reeves checks in

Pig Wheels rider Jeremy Reeves checked in with me the other day. He just got back from a epic trip to China. Look for coverage of that to follow. Photos: Dan Z

What Happens When A Goal Is Scored In Hockey

People really came to see the fights.

Tropical Trapasso

Nick stopped by yesterday to scope the Lurk Fest vid before being off to beautiful Hawaii on one of those epic Volcom trips. Get lei-ed for me...

Movie Suggestion 2

If you're not afraid to get artsy try it out, otherwise you'll be stuck with crap like this.

Shadows of the Beast

Josh sings to summon the spirit of Toy Machine. The Monster is rising.

Looking for Mountain Dew sponsorship

I'm just gonna come out and say it. We're looking for a Mountain Dew sponsorship for Gareth. Any Mountain Dew reps out there... well, hook us up.

Bill Shreds Demo Somewhere

Cab flip perhaps? It's harder than it looks.

How Did Johnny Get So Good?

By being one with Nature.

todays random randomness

Everyone knows that Gareth has been ripping lately right? Ok. Cool. Just checking... This guy named Tim sent in his Foundation tattoo. Not his actual Foundation tattoo. A photo you could say. Its not like he cut it off his arm and put this bloody piece of skin into a envelope and then mailed it off. Just clarifying.. C-L-A-R-I-F-Y-I-N-G... looks about right, right? I got this email last night from the man. Its about a letter we recieved from one of the many fans of the Fiberlam board construction. So of course I did post it because I like getting paychecks and free skateboards and stuff... Heres a bigger version...

Kidnapping and Acid Tripping

JLay and Matt B are both getting the Hell out of Dodge this week. Master B is going to trounce Mexico City with his Fallen mates, while Johnny is getting trippy up in San Fran. Happy travels boys.

Grill Session: Patrick Melcher (Part 2)

Part two of Patrick Melcher's Grill Session featuring Braydon Szafranski, Danny Gonzalez, Ethan Fowler and Thomas Bonilla...

The windy city

As we traveled through the United States on King of The Road we made a short stop in Chicago. I don't even remember if we stayed there or not for a night. But I do remember Sierra kickflipping this gap and Abdias front boarding the rail.

Angel in Hawaii

Angel Ramirez will be shredding in Hawaii with Volcom for a week or so. You can catch him at this event...

A possibility...

I'm thinking about changing David's skateboard gimmick from "little kid" to "chess". Not sure if anybodys tackled the chess/skater market yet. Let me know with some encouraging comments below if you back it. I could be way off here though...

Foundation and Ethan have parted ways

Melcher gets grilled - part 2

See More Skateboarding Videos at VitalSkate.com

This Movie Rules Heavily

You must see it. If you're under 18, sneak in.

Let Me Ride

Harmony and the nefarious Bilbo got weird on the skate mission this weekend. With that Fallen vid looming, there's no excuse not to.

Shimazoo and Beagle

Guess who showed up at my house at 3:AM recently. Former team riders Daniel Shimizu and Joshua Zues Beagle for a morning nitecap?!? Hey guys try and make it earlier next time. Like six or seven hours! Good to see you both.

Babies at TY

We have two new babies about to happen here at TY. Claudia and Amy both. Amy has been at TY for 12 years or so. Many of our accounts know Amy well. This is her first baby. Here's Amy and baby to be with some of the TY staff.

Joe Lazar and Matt Gentilucci on board!

Joe Lazar and Matt Gentilucci have joined Tum Yeto's rep squad. Joe will taking Orange county for both Dekline and Tum Yeto hardgoods for Orange County. And Matt is doing the same for Los Angeles. And we are siked. In the photo Swank, Kevin, August, Joe and Matt.

Miami Heat

Ed is off to Miami to get into a vato phase he's long been planning. Hope he avoids Crockett and Tubbs.

Andrew and Austin, GUILTY of arting out.

I hope young Kevin will be updating this RANDOM blog while I am away!

we have a winner

it was the nosegrind he did on the same hubba that he ate shit trying tailslide on in the beginning of his part Posted By: nickell on December 1st, 2007 at 04:39:34 PM PST If you slow mo Ethan's part when he backside nosegrinds the Euro hubba filmed fish eye you can see a person in the background randomly light on fire...look close or you'll miss it. Stay tuned for another contest this week. Theres plenty of hidden gems that you probably never knew about... Oh by the way Nickell send in you're address to caca@tumyeto.net and caca@tumyeto.com because I don't remember which email works.

A portrait of Kevin by Logan Kincade

Kevin is finishing up the TOUR video as we speak...

Red Hot Super 8 Frame Grab Fun!

The team posted up after Johnny got happy and Matt got sketchy. Russia ruled.