I had a great opportunity to shoot a few shows at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles at Smashbox Studios (Thanks Maz!). The first show I shot was Ed Hardy. The opener was cool with a bunch of kids breakin to some old school hip hop. The next show was the designer Julia Clancey. The last show and probably everyones favorite was the Beach Bunny Swimwear show. Check’m!

The first post in my 30′s and yes I feel somewhat the same as 29. Although hitting 30, leaving my job next week and moving to LA 4 days after that makes me feel younger. Usually people get it out of their system in the early-mid twenties. I’ve had plenty of fun and gained a shit ton of experience here in the East Coast but It’s time to pursue my dream! I’ll miss everyone here and will have room for anyone to visit (might be some milk crates to crash on the first few months). With that I’ll leave this camera phone pic of my B-Day Cake / Fried Dough. (it was goooood!)

We went up to check out the Subliminal Skatepark Friday night with everyone. Even though I wasn’t able to skate because I broke my arm this year, I pulled the camera out and got some shots.

Mike Lussier – TreFlip

Justin – backside 360

The Dirty Thirty Crew.

Well I didn’t get any pics from this years 4th of July, I wanted to put a few from the epic 2004 4th at Milkos house.

Roman Candles are always fun to shoot at people. Andrew got the hot end of it this time.

Some random shots of the bottle rocket war.

Ben thought this was a good idea…

Of course the 5-0′s rolled through to see what’s going down.

Well… they left so we got back at it.

I jacked these from the Civil site from their 1st Anniversary Party down at McKinleys. Congrats guys! If your in the New England area definitely get your ass to the store!

From left to right: Milko, Dancheck, Court and Me.

Guido and Rob… The Owners of Civil

I recently finished editing the Dirty Thirty Skateboard Video with Justin. We have DVD’s if anyone wants one. Just email me through my portfolio site contact form www.brianhigbee.com.

Check it out on YouTube!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

“The Dirty Thirty are a group of friends who grew up skating together. We may not all live in the same areas anymore , but we all still skate and we are all over thirty! The video was pulled together by the motivation of Justin Kelley and edited by Brian Higbee. Just some old farts still having fun…”

These are some random snapshots from the past few years.

This was towards the end of the shoot at the water ledges just fuckin around.

This is a shot of me skating that Justin Kelley took when we were skating one night. It’s one of my favorite shots. He set up the lights and I handed him the camera and boom… got this pic!

Well I guess it takes a drive across country for me to start a blog. For those of who don’t know, I live in Rhode Island but am hitting the road to move to California on August 3rd. All I’m taking with me is my camera and laptop and putting the rest in storage.

With that being said, I have many years worth of photos and events that I’d like to post up so everyone can see where I’m coming from. More to come VERY soon!