Looking for a skiing photo

[Mike-O]

Or two in fact, of the same skier. What I remember:

-Skier has black jacket, Atomic Tweaks (blue, circa 03-05) and spiky blonde hair sticking out, possibly Oakley A-Frames

-One picture is an amazing gorilla steeze cork 3 safety, the Other is some cork with a very tweaked reverse mute

-Pictures probably originally uploaded by an NS member

-Both pictures show only the bluebird sky in the background, with a few clouds, there are no points of reference

I just remembered how I had both of them as my background for years and can't find them anywhere. If someone has a clue, hook me up.

 

[Mike-O]

Oh, and I'm pretty sure the skier has yellow pants.

 

[danbrown]

rex thomas?

 

[Willard]

These sound good...

 

[Mike-O]

I'm pretty sure it's not him. Can't be certain, but this guy's name... it might have been one of those that sound a bit weird "How do you pronounce that?" type of deals... The thing is, I don't remember ever hearing about him again.

 

[Mike-O]

This is how the Cork 3 picture looks like (through my best artistic impression and memory):

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[Malcolm]

I'd use that as my background

 

[Mike-O]

Haha, if I won't find the OG pic I probably will...

But I hope it could spark some pictorial brain cells into action for those who are better at visual memory than imagining from a short description.

 

[Mike-O]

And this is the rendition of the reverse mute trick:

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I hope someone has a clue.

 

[Capurnicus]

I can gaurantee the skier is Rex Thomas.

 

[Mike-O]

Then I have no idea and am out of options. I've searched NS and Google pretty thoroughly with his name crossed with skiing, cork, mute, atomic etc. and came up with nothing like it...

 

[Mike-O]

Well fuck me... I found it! It wasn't Rex Thomas, I knew it.

I Google Picture-searched my reverse mute doodle and BOOM! There it was after a bit of scrolling.

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Looks like the skier is in fact Anaiah Kirk, who was in a bad crash in '04 and had to stop skiing, finding 'God' in the process and wrote a motivational book about it... A video his website has the Cork 3 picture as well, but I just can't find any HQ versions.

 

[inactive]

good work mike

 

[PJS.]

Another life saved.

 

[James7]

nice pic bro, glad you found it

 

[Mike-O]

I called my dad and asked him to go through my old externals if they still worked, and he found the pics and sent them to me, along with a lot of others I thought I'd lost, nostalgia hit hard...

So here are the ones I had, they're not very high quality today, but better than nothing.

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So damn sick, too bad he was injured.

 

[WikiWiki]

first thing I thought hahaha

 

[rareison]

so d

 

[rareison]

So dope*

 

[EmperorKuzco]

it wasnt rex thomas

 

[Mike-O]

Haha, plus Anaiah is one of those "how do you pronounce that" names as I remembered.

 

[japanada]

Your MS paint doodle was pretty damn accurate! Mad skills!

 

[206Productions]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1J8fbegGN0

 

[Mike-O]

What the fuck was that?

 

[*SNO*]

dafuq?

 

[ForeverYung]

This

 

[RICK_ROSS]

holy nostalgia

 

[terrible_skier]

U BRING A BAD NAME TO SEATTLE U SHOULD BE BANNED - BASEDRILEY

 

[PJS.]

hax

 

[terrible_skier]

Okay, now its me. You fucking crystal skiers should go find the largest building and jump off of it

 

[EmperorKuzco]

Bhahahhaha epic.

 

[Capurnicus]

No way, thanks for the update bro!

 

[DayMan]

those are so dope. those pictures you made were pretty damn accurate as well

 

[stoned_sorcerer]

That thing small black thing on the safety grab pic was really bugging me so i decided to remove that and share it with ya:

 

[CrotchKiller]

naaa he got rid of the hair on the left side