Skate Or Die in San Francisco. Opening night at the Purple Skunk Boardshop.
Getting ready to start hanging the boards at the Purple Skunk Boardshop.
Some of the boards in the show.
A sweet Natas skateboard chair at the shop.
Yong-ki Chang helping out with the drilling.
Yong-ki hanging some of the boards.
All of the boards are up.
Yong-ki with his trusty cordless drill.
The rest of the boards in the show.
The limited edition Skate Or Die in San Francisco silk-screened poster by Joe Kral.
The view towards the front of the shop.
Jafon Hakkinen with his mouth wide open. Nice one!
Special 7x7 foot canvas painted by Brian Barneclo, Pnut and Ferris Plock.
Little old lady checking out the kick-ass skateboards.
Michael Schmidt and his girlfriend Maggie.
Leri Greer is in the house.
The Purple Skunk crew serving some beer and wine.
Toke Nygaard and Michael Schmidt from k10k.net.
Huge amounts of food and snacks.
The curator of the Skate Or Die show, Joe Kral.
Dara and Dina catching up.
Checking out the boards.
Jason Herring having a drink.
Some more boards at the show.
It was packed at the opening.
Outside the Purple Skunk Boardshop.
Ferris Plock with his new hair color.
The very talented Brian Barneclo.
A couple girls chatting in front of the Skate Or Die painting.
Sara and Yong-ki screaming for their lives.
Ferris is looking at me.
Arlo Jamrog and Mike Buzzard.
Yong-ki pumping up the crowd for the big raffle that's about to start.
Sara Lim from Nixon/Gravis.
The crowd continued to grow outside the shop.
Taking pics.
I see Scott Barry in the crowd.
Matt Petty from the SF Chronicle and his girlfriend.
There's Pnut and his girlfriend.
Matt Owen's skull is nice!
Whoa, it's a two-headed monster.
Peek-a-boo. Who's that girl?
Waiting to see who wins the raffle.
Z-Flex board is up for raffle along with several others.
Maureen bid on my board. Nice!
Yong-ki rules!!
Cool tshirt.
That guy just won a complete Tony Hawk deck.
Lizzie and Robby.
The Purple Skunk crew poses for a group shot. Say cheese.
And that's it. Thanks for coming out!
Many thanks to the artists, sponsors, and everyone else that helped out with the show.