Czech Superstars from the past…
My post the other day got me thinking about Pavlina, had to dig out some old photos. These all date from the 1990’s and I was definitely still shooting on an SLR then, more than likely a nikon F3hp with nikkor lenses. I remember that first shot like it was yesterday, we had some HMI’s and that was my first experience humping a magnetic ballast up a flight of stairs, fun times…
this was shot at dusk at Joshua Tree, it was still a National Monument at that point in time. It would soon get upgraded to National Park and all the roads in the park got repaved when Clinton reorganized how funding got distributed to parks inside the department of the interior. The difference between the roads in that park before and after National Park status was fairly significant. Anyone remember how bad the roads were in the monument? This was sometime in the summer, all the makeup we had with us that day melted in the car under the high desert sun.
I know people will ask about this place… The world infamous nude bowl. Nothing really needs to be said about this spot, but for the uniniated, people came from literally all over the world to skate that pool and you can basically write the real and complete history of Stoner Rock in America based upon what happened on the edge of that pool. Around the time this was shot, there was a big fire here, burned at least a few hundred acres, and that really put it on the radar for local law enforcement. Shortly after, the law filled in the pool with a front loader but people dug it out, replastered it and the party went on for a while. Then at a party some people got shot and that was really the end of the end. They flattened that whole hillside and that was that. When the place got bulldozed, that was pretty much the end of Stoner Rock. It would take months or maybe years after before someone would coin the term “stoner rock” to market all the crap that exploded as a result of the parties at this place. Yeah, it actually was indirectly that pivotal. Nobody noticed at the time and of course, thats what always makes shit like that so cool. Crazy history. Crazy crazy crazy history. And that was that. Im glad I still have a handful of photos that survived from that place. This was always one of my favorites from the day I dragged a friend up there to check it out.
Pancakes in the Morning…
Barefoot in the Afternoon…
This girl always struck me as one of the most interesting looking people around, just one of those peeps you could look at for hours or days and find new stuff to focus on. Incidentally, Pavlina was unquestionably one of the nicest people I’ll meet in this lifetime and the next one combined. Just the raddest girl ever. I hope where ever she is, she’s having the best time and still pauses to giggle at the little stuff.