E gat an that beek an gan dan big yella leek

Yeah i didn't understand much of that either. Went to Silksworth in Sunderland with the Zeal boys for a little demo for a new shop up there, rather cleverly called BMXbox.
The weather was spot on and the park was pretty rammo. Cooper did some flips for the kids which was fun so everyone seemed happy enough.

After riding there we went to a super tight ramp setup in a shed of sorts. Once again cooper shut it down with upside downs and high wall taps. Good though.

Other shinnanigans involved going to Leeds to get krunk and generally be horrid to Eisa.

We also stopped by Corby on Sunday where there wa a jam, but i'll save those pics for another day.

You have just read something I couldn't be bothered to write properly.

ummm, title gowes here...

Right, yeah, went to budget jam. i was well good. I did a writeup for ride today so i'm not about to do another one for this silly website. instead i will do bullet points.

• Many people
• good weather
• loads of sponsors
  
• camp essex
• annoying spectators standing right in front of me while im taking pics
• someones massive dog
• lessers text message = amezzin
• lesser in general = amezzin
• Luke towey. Legit.
• 10.5 ft air.
• knickers on the landing
• Captain Fun
• Rozzers
• Injury free
• Flairwhip
• Flash nearly knocked over but not.

I have pics but you're not getting them. Instead I have some bad scans of good pics from Canada. I have more to come but got bored of scanning.












Also here's a couple of Max Wood from Nass which didn't go in Ride but I like.




Stoked on the Carhartt book too, see post about Miller down there somewhere.

FIN.

Don't fear the Router

By that I don’t mean router, like on your computer (ooh that rhymes!), I mean Router (ra-ow-ter) like what Jesus used back in his carpentry days.
So I was at home last night drinking Pimms and shooting at foxes from my second largest veranda when Ben rings me up rather unexpectedly. This is Ben from the olden days we’re talking about. ‘Trucker’ Ben, or ‘Hillbilly’ Ben as some people might know him. His mother calls him Benjamin. I just call him Ben as I don’t have many others to confuse him with, especially not in the same social circle.

So anyway, Hallvard my Scandinavian Butlers assistant passes me the phone and the conversation goes as follows:

Ben: Alright Dunk!
Me: Alright mate, what’s up?
B: Well I just thought I’d call you and tell you something
M: Right…sounds interesting...
B: Well you know the other day when we were having a laugh about your friend who thought she saw that guys leg come off when he got run over
M: Ha ha, yes, I do recall said conversation. Continue….
B: Well I just cut the end of my finger off!

At this point I put the rifle down and got Hallvard to top up my Pimms. I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear this!

M: What the fuck?! How?
B: Well I was doing a job and was using the router and got the end of my finger with it.
M: Right...
B: Yeah, it smashed the bone on the end and split the next bone in two.
M: (slurp)
B: They said they might be able to fix it by taking more skin off another finger, but said it might not work so gave me the option of having it lopped off.
M: Sooo...
B: So yeah, I just had it cut off. I was under a local anaesthetic too.
M: So you watched it?
B: No, I didn’t want to, but I felt it when the end of my finger popped off!

For someone who had just had an entire fingertip removed, Ben seemed rather upbeat.

I bode Ben farewell and sat back in my bespoke relaxment chair, lined with Siberian Tiger fur. I wondered about the photographs on Bens wedding day (should he choose to go down such a path), the one with the Bride and Grooms hands in the picture. It’s going to look funny.

I saw a brown and white object move out of the corner of my eye, down by the Coi Pond. Hallvard passed me my rifle and one single round. I shot the dirty vermin between the eyes without a seconds thought. That pesky fucker had been through my bins.

Mermanator

Merman visited this weekend which was a nice surprise, so to celebrate we shot a couple of pictures down the old Abbey Blocks. Now you see that shelter which the blocks are under? Well that's made of black glass and is attached to the rest of the building, clad in equally dark coloured glass, and ascends approxiately 10 storeys. While waiting for somebody to use the cashpoint we heard a loud thud, followed by a second thud, followed by a pigeon sized object landing on the floor by the blocks. Initially i thought somebody had thrown an insediary device, then when i realized it was a bird, i thought a pigeon had been purched on the roof and died. as it turns out, it was a juvenile duck (female) who must have ben disorientate and flown in to the side of the building. She appeared stunned but was still alive, so Merlin picked her up after she righted herself and transferred her to a safe location. Good luck birdy!

Anyway, so yeah Merman just wanted to do that nose wheelie so I shot one, then got him to do the one footed one. While at the train station waiting to go home to Brixtaaarrrnn Merman realised his headtube was rather badly cracked which could have just fallen off at any time. Luckyyyy.

You may notice that two of the pics are slighty differently coloured. I just tried out a few things in Photoshop that my friend Morgan fron Canadanadianada showed me. I like 'em. Don't really care what you think

In case your'e interested it's done as follows:
Duplicate background layer twice
Desaturate middle layer
Change top layer to soft light
Then basically i messed with the colour balance on the middle layer a bit and brought the opacity right down. I think i reduced the opacity on the top (soft light) layer too. i dunno, just experimented really. Cheers Morgan!

I do believe it's budget jam this weekend. Tommy Bruzas been working hard on the jumps so it should be a good one! It's over two days too. See ya there!

Some shit and that

Umm well I'm back from Canada and not that stoked. But hay ho, whatever. I'm quite stoked on Ride this month though I got loads of stuff in there like that Arrash pic below.

I got a couple in there from NASS which I'm happy with, one of which i didn't even know was mine till I checked. Pea brain. This is one that didn't get run, but everyone knows that this flair was radddd, and It's Ryan from Fboro. You can tell because Joy has her boobies out (just out of shot) cos that's what she does when Ryan goes upside down.

The Miller ones are from a quick couple of hours where we had to get some for Carhartt. Dunno if I'm allowed to put them up on here but it's a bit late now I guess.



I shot a load of film in Vancouver so all being well i should have 45 photos back by about weds. I'm estimating 10% of those will be usable.

That's all for now. Oh yeah, check this Farnborough edit from Sam Barrow. Is naice.