Therollingimage V3.0

Autophoto

2010-02-11T13:31:00.003Z

I have decided to try and get a few car pics for my portfolio as it were. My mate Rob fancies himself as a bit of a rudeboy. He pretty much owns Bracknell in his Civic Type R and has the fastest recorded time round the Bowlplex car park. I managed to tear him away from the McDonalds Crew and 15 year old hangers on just long enough to get a couple of pics of his shiny red toy.

This is my first real attempt at this. I must say I struggled for ideas a little bit. But i guess when I do a few more I'll get in to the swing of things. I'm going to go and buy a car mag and see what they do in there for ideas, which weirdly enough is exactly how i taught myself how to take BMX photo's! Well i never.

I added a hard light layer with 35% opacity to pop the colour and contrast a little bit.

Lemme no if you are a rudeboy an you wouldn't mind me practicing on your piece of tin.

Bet you didn't expect to see an update did you?!

2010-01-27T11:29:00.008Z

I think that may be a new record. HAPPY NEW YEAR! IT'S SNOWING! etc etc, that's just to make up for all the stuff I've not written since the last one.

Anyway, believe it or not, i have been doing some stuff here and there. i still haven't got round to redesigning this website, mainly because I have forgotten how to use Dreamweaver and I'm a bit scared that i'll do something bad and irreversible. I really have no excuse for not updating or anything, seeing as i'm currently unemployed, but you know it really is hard fitting in things like that between 60 minute makeover and Jeremy Kyle.

Actually one day the electricity was off because i'd run out of washers to put in the meter, so I had to resort to making my own entertainment. This involved photographing drops of water and a bit of smoke (not simultaneously of course!) some of the results are published below

I have been using my beloved Bronica a fair bit lately too. I recently went to Prague and popped off a couple of rolls there, the results of which should pop through my letterbox in the next day or two. before that though I just went round farnborough a bit. I'm going to put the majority of the film pics on my town in a little gallery on the new website whenever i get round to it, but here's a couple anyway.

Willy

I dunno what's in here. Gas maybe?

I took some photo's of this old tower on a disused cement works too. I returned a few days later with my digi because i wanted to mes around a bit with some filters and flash. The tower is subtly lit with three flashes and I used grad ND and grad tobacco filters to colour the sky. I'm pretty happy with this one.

Does anyone remember the 'Big Freeze?'. Remember? We had a bit of snow. Remember? The whole of Great Britain was totally fucked for two weeks because it snowed. Of course you remember it was only the other day.
It's a great excuse to dust off the old ski's and take a trip round Asda carpark behind Hagglers van, or try and learn to snowboard on a skate deck, or indeed verbally communicate with strangers simply because it's snowing. What did they call it.. Stockholm Syndrome or something. No wait that's to do with abduction... umm oh yes, the 'Dunkirk Spirit!' I think that's it. Slightly over the top I think, likening 2 weeks of sledging to 6 years of poverty and war rations, but I guess it's as good a name as any.
Bruza made the most of this time off work to build something productive, i.e. the snowbike. Can't say too much more on that for now, but here's a pic or two to prove it does exist and that it did indeed snow.

It is worth mentioning here that not only did Dayson not reach the seat, he also did not reach the bars upon landing. Needless to say he ate shit as the front ski bit in to the snow.

Anything you can think of with a flat shiny surface was present on that hill.

And finally, I decided to get some of my prints done on to small canvasses and staple them to wooden 10x10cm blocks. Just a bit of an experiment really, but I guess they make fun little things to hang on the wall if you were so inclined.

Email me if you want some.

That's it. See you in August.

Durka Durka!

2009-12-04T14:13:00.000Z

My friend Lee, AKA the Hessian, is currently in Iraq. He's been sent
there to count sand, but I heard that he gets confused after a hundred
so keeps having to start over.

Anyway, on one of his counting excursions he stumbled upon these
pipes, which he thought would be fun to ride. He didn't however get to
ride them because he doesn't have his bike there, so he just sent me
the pic as is.

Maybe he inadvertantly stumbled upon those WMD's that were all the
rage six years ago?

Vert=good

2009-11-25T21:16:00.002Z

So we here in Fboro have started a new club. It's called Vert Club. It's quite simple; we go and ride vert ramps and scare ourselves. This all started a few weeks ago at Corby when me and Ricardo Chippervelt thought it might be fun to have a session on their monster ramp, and indeed it was. Having got over the initial scary dropping in bit it was just really bloody good fun, so we returned a couple of weeks later and now we're all on it.
Riding vert is good for two reasons: Firstly, because it's massive and scary one isn't expected to be throwing whips and shit left right and centre, so a two or three foot air is in fact an acheivement. This is good because I can't whip.
Secondly, other vert riders we've met tend to be a bit older, therefore a bit friendlier than the salty font wheel dancing kids we all know and love (who may or may not have had their locks recently cut and now resemble a young lesbian).
Oh and as a bonus I get to wear my old Bell fullface lid again which I've had for about 10 years. Love that.

Obv Corby is a bit of a mission, so Caterham is the closest place really, albeit a fair bit smaller. There seems to be a good little scene there, which was surprising to us as we thought nobody really rides vert anymore. This guy, Paul Meacher, was there. The guy doesn't even look like he's pumping the ramp and goes so high. Totally rad, I've never seen a one-hander look so good (not pictured this time I might add). When I get more time I'm going to shoot a few more, from slightly more interesting angles, but here's a couple of lazy fisheyes for fun anyway. Oh yeah, those rafters.... pretty much as close as they look.

Yeah we've all seen nine million whips. They are totally legit on very though.

Condor

Booomm!

Textbook!

In other news, I should be getting film No.2 back from the 100 year old camera tomorrow. Odds on the pics all being softer than a fieldmouses cough? Pretty high, but you never know. If i'm feeling proactive I'll scan them in and put them up right away, seeing as I finally got round to buying a desk and all!
Also for those who care, I came one step closer to becoming a fireman today. Don't like to blow my own trumpet, but errr... toot toot!

Later yeah?

Some Filum.

2009-11-17T17:54:00.004Z

So here's some results from the 100 year old camera. As you can see there are a few 'sharpness issues' shall we say. But yeah I'm going to work on it because this camera is rad fun to use. One major thing I realised is you can't see anything through the 'viewfinder' when trying to take a picture. The viewfinder(s) is a small image projected on a frosted glass window no bigger than 16x12mm (you can see them on the top and sides in the previous post) so not only is it small, but in any sort of daylight you just have no chance due to glare.
I said the negs are a lot bigger than 120, which you can see on the pic of my light box. The colour ones are 6x4.5cm and the B&W ones are 6x8cm.

Emo film

Actually if you squint a bit, or stand further back, the pics are a bit clearer.

I got a 40mm lens for the Bronica the other week so went out to the Fboro ghetto's to try it out. I'm going to start a little project following this theme and put the collection up as a whole when I redesign this website. As much as this town is a depressing, commuter belt suburb, it actually has a very rich and interesting history, mainly in aviation.
The big arch is a replica of an airship hangar which once stood at that spot. Jet powered flight was developed at the airfield, as was powered flight in general. 'Thrust SSC' the current land speed record holder was designed and tested here.
Anyway, I'm not going to concentrate on that stuff, more just the depressing 1960's architecture.

Willy. Classic.

The U.G. (short for underground [carpark])

Airship Hangar.
Oh yeah, the final big scene of Quantum of Solace where the long building is all blowing up was filmed here too, and the Aston DBS dove past my old house, though I don't know if Daniel Craig was at the wheel.

Enough, I'm rambling.

There's life in the old dog yet!

2009-11-16T13:29:00.001Z

I got a B&W film back after running it through this old beast the
other day. I'm not going to lie to you, they came out shit. None the
less, I am scanning some in and will post them soon. Now the main
problem is that they are either way out of focus, or I was moving a
bit. I shot hand held, so I may have miscalculated the shutter speed
and it is a lot slower than the 1/125 I estimated. Or perhaps I didn't
wind the film tight. Either way, it's a learning curve. I'm going to
run colour next time, and use a tripod, see where that gets me. I was
excited to see the physical size of the neg is more than double that
of my medium format! More to follow...

I say old chap, did one just acheive a full loop?

2009-11-10T18:03:00.007Z

Holy crumbs is this another update? That’s like two in four days or something! Funny how I can never be bothered to do updates, then when I do one I get all motivated to do more. Like when the washing up builds up and up, and it’s a mountain of a job, but then when you’ve done it and your kitchen looks all tidy you actively seek out other untidy surfaces in the house to reveal them once more! Maybe that’s just me.

Anyway, a series of links follows. The picture above caught my eye that’s for sure. It’s not a fake (from what I can tell) and it’s circa 1900 or something. Maybe it’s Morgan Wades great grandpa. So he’s doing a full loop, with no top half of the loop, on a big ass bike, with no padding, in a suit, sitting down. SITTING DOWN???!!! Two words. FUCK THAT!!

I saw it here on Falcon Motorcycles. I stumbled upon the website after Ozzy Adam (pictured below in the tunnel) told his friend Brian from TheLastPeople about Therollingimage to which he added a link. Now I must say that TheLastPeople is a website I had never been on, but it’s full of great things BMX, Photography, Design and Art based. Plenty there to keep one entertained.

Talking of Ozzy Adam, I do believe he will be submitting some kind of diary affair to Rebel Yell upon his return back to Oz. Adam contributes to the publication and an account of his travels will be available on their website some time in the future.

I’m trying to find a seamless link in to telling you that Sam King has revamped his website but I can’t. I will just tell you that Sam King has revamped his website. Oh and that you should go have a little look because there’s lots of good stuff on there.

The new sense of enthusiasm I am currently experiencing has lead me to make provisional plans on paper to re-design Therollingimage.com. See Below.

Don't hold your breath.

A month of shit and that....

2009-11-06T13:54:00.004Z

Welcome welcome, those of you who still look on here. Well done, your patience will be rewarded with some pictures should you care to read on.

So over the last month or so I've been to the tunnel a couple of times, destroyed 2 flashes, went to take some photos of Matt Burton with only one flash working which was less than convenient but relatively successful none the less, went on a roadtrip with Zeal up to Liverpool and Glasgae, had my lid nicked in Liverpool (seriously, who'd want that?), made some new friends and generally had a ball. So here's some phototototo's

Chris Russel and Ozzy Adam, double teaming the curved wall. If I'd taken this a microsecond later you'd have sen the heart-stopping wheel crossover where Adam was going rather faster than Chris. He's actually breaking at this moment whilst simultaneously shitting his pants no doubt.

Dayson wanging round the wall. The tunnel was actually quite busy, so lighting locations were somewhat limited.

Ozzy Adam again, pegless wall smith (which rhymes with Paul Smith, who is my dad)

Matt Burton boshing out his rad 360 tables.

I actually hate this pic cos of the single wanky flash, but Matt might want it for his Facebook.

This is a Nac-Nac. So called because it's a backwards Can-Can. Every day's a school day kids.

This is unit 23 in Glasgow. Isaac is an animal, Icepick on a 15ft wall with five feet of vert. He can keep that trick thanks.

Mr James Louise Hitchcox, nosepick fakie on the hitchin post.

Mr Zeal again, normal no frills fooofaaanooo

There you go. I'm going for a road ride.

Finger hookin' good!

2009-10-20T13:33:00.001+01:00

You know the other week I wrote about my mate ben getting the end of
his finger cut off? Well I thought I'd make him this device, to make
his life a little easier. Feel free to nominate me for any acts if
kindness/unsung hero awards. I'll act surprised I promise.

The tunnel

2009-10-07T12:53:00.001+01:00

I was just having a little think about the tunnel jam. The course
design is not bad I suppose, but I really think the addition of a mini
ramp would have enhanced it no end, maybe 5ft, with a little sub.
Yeah, next time you make a secret skatepark just come see me first for
a little advice.

Old/New/Filmy/Digi

2009-10-05T23:12:00.007+01:00

Just saw the Tunnel Jam on Mpora. Some amazing shit going on there. Pretty amazing considering what was there before!

December 2008
October 2009!

Not bad huh!?

I am in the process of clearing out my hard drive and have a load of pics i'll put up sooner or later, just stuff i had put by for stuff and never used. Here's a couple old pictures. Mayo at 4A and Arrash which is like the one used for his bike check, but a table not a darkside. More to follow when i can be bothered.

Why you do this!?

I haven't takes any pictures of motorways for ages. Here's a couple. Nothing mind-blowing but who cares.

I took a visit back to the water towers the other week. I'm guessing they aren't patrolled that heavily cos the hole someone made in the fence last time is still there. Unlike the more popular areas of the site which are guarded by regular foot patrols.

Here's a few more from Canada.

Stayed here on Hornby Island. Well, we stayed in the garden and cooked in here.

Orange grad filter, not the apocalypse.
Awww, Abs and Sarah. We smoked a lot of ciggies on that step!
One of the buildings at the entrance to the massive shipping yard in Van.

Hornby Island

Morgan. Shit timing sozzler

That's most of the medium format stuff up to date. If anyone has a cheap 40mm F4 for a Bronica ETRS then hook me in!

Amity Bike Co ad

2009-10-02T12:26:00.001+01:00

Went out with cam the other week to shoot a pic for an Amity Bikeco ad
for ride. The stuff we had planned didn't quite work, so we just set
the kicker up and cam started jumping this rail while we decided what
to do. I shot a couple of pics anyway, and as it turns out the result
looked prety good, so we went with it. Nice, simple, stylish.

E gat an that beek an gan dan big yella leek

2009-09-30T23:20:00.006+01:00

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...

2009-09-22T18:14:00.007+01:00

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

2009-09-16T13:34:00.002+01:00

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

2009-09-14T17:06:00.002+01:00

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

2009-09-06T21:39:00.004+01:00

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.

Home gay

2009-08-31T08:22:00.000+01:00

Rubbish. I hate coming home from well good holidays. I should be
touching down in about two hours in rainy old blighty. I'm assuming it
will be raining, it is august bank holiday after all.
The flight home has been somewhat better than the one out. I had a tv
and I'm not freezing cold so that's already a million times better.
So for the past few days I've just been mincing about during the day
and mainly hanging out with Abbie in the evenings, with a hint of Tami
and ewan thrown in too. Lovely.
I went to a jam starting at Hastings yesterday which was pretty well
attended. It was like an all day street jam thing but I had to get off
early to sort my shit out.
Popped in to 3ride the other day too and caught up with sam lowe and
got a lift downtown with him and kym grosser who also works there. His
tired old truck konked out on the way over a single carriage way road
bridge in rush hour, with the sound of engine parts tinkling off down
the road behind us. Me and kym tried to push this thing, but the
bridge goes up hill before it goes down, and we weren't exactly near
the top. Still I'm sure it looked funny to the oncoming traffic, maybe
not so funny to all those commuters stuck behind in gridlock. The
people following us were nice enough to shove us over the crest with
their car. Thanks general public.
I've decided that no knee pads are a bad idea after my last Hastings
mishap. If the grazes weren't bad enough they are so bruised I can't
even kneel down. This meant that when I was packing my bag I had to
just sit on the floor and shuffle around on my bum. Abs told me that
chicks dig scars though, which I suppose is a slight bonus. I'm not
sure if chicks dig gooey sore looking wounds though.
Anyway i'm about to get my land on so I need to turn This phone
contraption off. In a bit yeah?

Ode to Hastings, my cruel lover.

2009-08-28T22:45:00.000+01:00

Oh Hastings bowl, my beautiful yet violent mistress. You tempt me with
your flowing lines and curvaceous figure, beckoning me to use you as I
wish to my hearts content. What have I done to hurt you my sweet lady,
have I not been respectful in every way? Have I grinded your coping or
chipped your concrete? I think not. So why tease me in to riding
faster and smoother and higher, only to change form beneath me,
causing me to come crashing down on to my delicate body?
You are like a siren to the sailors of old. I know you have played
this trick on many a man before, and many more will follow. Like them,
I will return time and again, aware of your plans but uncaring. I am
under your spell.

Camp as a row of tents

2009-08-27T19:12:00.000+01:00

I'm on the ferry back from an aweome few days on the island spent with
Morgan and amber.
We took a trip over to hornby island, a small hippy hang out, to just
relax and have a good time. The journey there was pretty cool, we went
through Duncan 'city of rotems' rather aptly name because I have a
very intricately carved and decorated penis. Then we slipped through
fanny bay which you can get oysters in.
Upon arriving to hornby we put our tents up in gale force 9 winds,
drank some booze and went to a party. We decided to walk back from
said party after we were done, which was a long one so it turned out.
About 6.5km apartently. On this epic trek home I did what any other
drunkard with an iPhone should do and dropped it flat on the road
smashing the screen. I saw it as my duty.
So to cut a long story short we did some kayaking, saw millions of
shooting stars, drank a lot of booze, played some fun games, poked
many a dead jellyfish, got rad on the skim boards, arrfagged, ate
jellybeans, found rocks which resemble a fanny and bum hole, said ooh
fuhck a lot, bullied amber, enjoyed ambers dance which she kindly
named after me, and just generally had a fun time.
Morgans parents were in a cabin so when they left after a day or so we
used that for cooking and showering. Sweet deals.
On the way home we stopped in at ambers sisters place and I met
charlie her hairless cat (no pun intended) who was well funny. He
looks really annoyed all the time because of his little wrinkly head.
So now I'm on my way back to Vancouver to hang out with my cousin
again and Abbie where there is never a dull moment, do some riding and
to do whatever comes along for the last few days of my trip.
I'm seriously considering moving here. No joke of a lie.

2009-08-27T19:11:00.001+01:00

2009-08-27T19:10:00.000+01:00

2009-08-20T20:36:00.000+01:00

I forgot to mention the scorching weather and a truck that looked like
a transformer eh?

Welcome to my velvet crease

2009-08-20T20:34:00.000+01:00

Right off to hornby! I got the ferry to the island a couple of days
ago which is always a good trip. I was doing some hang nothings in the
carpark while I was waiting and went ass over tit which was not good
for the knees.
Met up with Morgan and amber which was pretty brilliant, amber works
in an adult shop so we played with plastic dicks then went for beers.
I rode at vicwest yesterday with Morgan and fell on to my other knee
immediately after arriving thanks to the dusty concrete but other than
that it was a good ride.
So now we are just leaving to catch the ferry and drive in to the
middle of nowhere. This is where I shall hunt and execute a medium
sized bear.
Expect nothing for a few days.
Taraaa!

You cand put a dick in a dick

2009-08-18T18:51:00.000+01:00

Vancouver is like well good!
Went back to kirkstosne park for a bloody good ride and met up with my
old friend ewan. He's a ledge. He's got a motorbike and brings his bmx
with him strapped to his backpack. Ingenious!
We went to the cambie, my old local and got drunk In The face, such
good memories from there. No sign of tree or a poll man as yet though.
I did just see a roller-tramp though which brought a smile to my
weather beaten old face.
I took a pedal round the seawall yesterday with Abbie, my awesome ozzy
friend and went the wrong way round the one way bit, because basically
we are rebels and were sticking it to the man.
Today I'm getting a ferry to Vancouver island to see Morgan and amber
which will be super amazig cos they are brilliant people, then going
camping in the middle of nowhere for a few days. I plan to stalk a
Medium sized bear and take it down with my bare hands. I will then
skin it and proudly wear it's pelt as a badge of honour. I'll let you
know how I get on with that. That's it for now. Fags and coffee give
me mad shakes!

Wizzler

2009-08-16T19:09:00.000+01:00

I just posted the last thing a bit late. I actually wrote it on the
plane but haven't had internettles till now. So anyway I just got back
from crankworks in whistler, which is a mtb slopestyle and downhill
event. It was pretty cool, lots of mtbs doing bmx stunts, but still
well gnar.
I met my cousin and his mrs at the airport after that god awful flight
and went pretty much straight there. We met up with a couple if his
friends and had a good time. We played megaquiz and I was awake for 24
hours, but still managed to surprise Neil (cousin) with my knowledge
of grecco roman wrestling.
Today I plan to build my bike, go ride concrete and try to meet up
with my homeslices.
Toodles!

Stupid boring fucking plane wank

2009-08-16T19:02:00.001+01:00

I'm sat here, on my airbus a330 wondering whether I'm bored enough yet
to return to that copy of nuts and actually read some of it, like the
football stuff that just gets skipped.
I got a seat change just before boarding which was fine by me cos I'm
not fussed really where I sit, or so I thought. I'm now middle seat,
middle row, with some kind of wall in front of me with clouds painted
on it.
On top Of that my tv doesn't work, and I've read my backup material
(the sun). I resisted going for a wee because i was saving it for
somethig to do when things got really bad, well I guess they did.
So to sum up I have nothing to read, nothing to watch, and I'm staring
at a wall.
Oh and I left my jumper at home and it's cold in here and there's no
blankies left. Aids.
Ok, plus points. I have plenty of leg room, I just got given a mini
cornetto, and the chap next to me said "ooh la la" when he saw some
boobies in nuts.
There appears to be something going on outside, like scenery, but I
don't like to clamour round small windows with the riff raff, I'll
just sit here and listen to skid row for the next 5 hours.

I am literally going to Vancouver

2009-08-14T09:00:00.000+01:00

Yeah mayng! No sleep till whistler! I'm going to some mtb event today
with my cuz, sounds pretty crazy, I'll say hi to lance macdermott for
y'all! Expect no updates. Bye!

Chicks And Bikes

2009-07-30T23:34:00.000+01:00

If you like chicks, and you like bikes, then go here http://chicksandbikes.blogspot.com/

Shit the flipping bed!

2009-07-27T22:41:00.005+01:00

I'm not really in the mood for writing but i though i'd better do it now while the interweb is behaving itself. As you will see i have some more pictures. (I can tell you right now that the writing to follow is unlikely to be funy or interesting, because i have just strugled with those two sentences)

These first lot are ones I shot of Isaac a couple of months back. They are the ones nobody wanted, like the dogs at battersea.

No arms fronty

Isaac didn't have a great time getting his bike on this roof. He made it worhwhile though.

Tight curved hang-5, dialled.

I went to NASS which was wet but pretty good. I took some pics, I will probably put the majority on here when I have seen what ride use. Until then you'll have o make do with this gem. Unfortunately I know both f those people. If anybody wants them please Facebook me. They do come as a pair though and thy are both particularly annoying.

I have an article in this months Ride for the Zeal trip to Florida. It's pretty funny because I was very slack on the photo's, but managed to write a fair bit, so there's 4 pages worth of text on a 2 pag aricle and only a couple of pictures. If photography was my actual job then someone would have sacked me by now.

We did this. A lot. From this very spot we put the world to rights.

Bruza at Vans

Yeah Bazza!

Balls out Barry!

I got the first roll of film back off my medium format which I'm quite stoked on. It's been ages since I shot film, so they are not all perfect, but the ones that came out are rad. Loads of saturation. I only shot 2 bmx pics on that roll, but the next one has some more pics from Bobs Jam so we'll see how they turn out. I shot a couple at epsom the other day too, but i'm fairly sure they will be shit. Still, lots more satisfying than digital.

I always said to myself that this would be the first thing I took a picture of if i got a medium format. I love this wondowless monolith.

I taught Mikey a magic trick involving toothpicks which he shows everyone now.

1st set at Bobs x2

Finally, I stopped on the way to NASS to go to this place. It's got something to do with water, but it's rideable all the time. There's two trenches like this; ones full the other isn't. You get in and out by lowering yourself down a plastic hose. I shat my pants (not fond of high things without being strapped in/enclosed). You can see it there on the left. Hitcher made me take my life in to my own hands just so I could get a photo or two.

I'm going to bed now and there's nuffink you can do!

Interwank

2009-07-27T19:22:00.000+01:00

I tried to do an update tonight. I have some film piccies, bits and
bobs from here and there, a bit of this and that, but my Internet
doesn't know if it's coming or going. I can't face calling sky support
and being on hold for 2 hrs. Sozzer.

Ross Penny photos

2009-07-22T17:03:00.000+01:00

Ross Penny from Bstoke went to the worlds and blagged a press pass
through therollingimage (cos it's so damn bigtime!). Here's some pics
mainly from the wet spine midi when it wasn't wet. Www.myspace.com/rosspennyphotography

More Ross Penny ting

2009-07-22T17:00:00.000+01:00

2009-07-22T16:50:00.000+01:00

I have 5 million pics to put up here and no time to do it. In the
meantime you will have to make do with this tramp me and rich found in
our hotel room on Friday night. If there's no picture then this
didn't work.

More jumps and shit

2009-07-07T21:17:00.004+01:00

Second update in as many days? Something must be up. Well yeah atually I took 50 grams of speed yesterday before the first update and I haven't slept since, and the only reason I haven't done more updates is that my internet is still impossibly slow. luckily I do have some internet, just not the one I'm paying for. I got an old BT phone, one with a dial, and rigged it up to a sattelite dish which I made from a New York Cheesecake dish and a lolly stick via some red cable I borrowed from work. Then I got a mouse from behind my cupboards and have secured him inside a running wheel to generate power and an internet signal transmitted through the phone. I have also cleverly linked this device to my lapop using some wet string which although is not an approved or particularly safe method of tranferring electrical impulses, appears to be doing the job so far.

Bob Manchester had a little jam at the weekend on his jumps in his field in Hertfordshire or wherever he lives. It's somewhere nice and fieldy, like the countryside but without the smell of shit. What you see below is photographic evidence of said event. The pics are the ones not going in the old wotsit, so that's why they are not great. Anyway what do you care? All you're interested in is if you are in the background so you can steal it for facebook and tag yourself.

Randomers. LOL!

Matt Priest, Booost over the first. LMAO!

Adam Dayson FYI it's a nacnac

Matt P again, mid set. ROFL!

Another Matt. Matt Burton 360's FTW!

Priest again waving. TTFN!

OMG! Another 3 from Matty B!

Madame Dayson, Dialled turndown flip. (BTW Haggler took this, not me)

Bob Himself. Flip Whip last set. WTF!

Matt P yet again. Another 3. FML

Yeah the weather was good, the atmosphere was chilled, it was generally a good day. There was about 90 people with cameras there, but there was 91 cameras there cos I had 2 that day! Ha Ha! I win the most cameras owned in that day competition! In your faces single camera owners!

Arrash grazed the shit out of his shoulder. What is it with shoulders and that boy and this country. No matter, it is a mere flesh wound.

Enough of that business. I shot a pic of Sean Lafferty flairing the Basildon banks a while ago, and as suggested in a previous post it's in a BSD ad in this months Ride.

See?

Now I see a wierd shadow in there, to the right, like someone's in front of my flash. That's defo not in the original. Are BSD going all Shadow Conspiracy on us or is that something they always do? Or are my pictures haunted?

Who cares.

Oh by the way, I'm going to NASS this weekend which will be fun. And, er.. Ladies.... I have a two man tent and a whole load of stamina! (Half of that statement is definately true, the other half may well be a cleverly disguised lie)

Ok go away now, the mouse needs a rest.

4A an ting

2009-07-06T22:00:00.003+01:00

Here are some pics from 4A. I can't be bothered to write anything.

Dayson Scissorleg

Mayo
Pete Jahn. From the old days.

I was motivated until the internet got on my tits.

Boom Boom Pow

2009-06-26T15:16:00.011+01:00

Does anyone remember Jurassic Park, the first one, where Dr. Alan Grant has some sort of thing about him where technology always fucks up when he goes near it? Well that's me right now I think. Mr Sky Broadband is still being a right Dick, Firefox has decided I can't blog anymore, I can't go on any good websites during lunch at work now thanks to the stupid web filter, and to top it all off my CD drawer keeps popping out at random on my laptop, like it wants a bit of
attention or something.Despite all of this I am currently winning, so all being well I'll be able to put up some pictures in a sec. I'm not holding my breath though.

I'm watching some music channel while i type this. I have just fallen in love with Keri Hilson. Sorry Alecia Keys, you missed your chance. Anyway you fucked up when you did that stupid song with Jack White.

Anyway, as promised here are some new pics. Actually oldish pics, but pics none the less. The first is from Wakefield which has a new bowl / satepark. It's actually pretty cool there, all odd shapes and lines. Obviously full of kids though. This is Ben Manuel in the big
bowl.

Here are a few from Florida. I mainly took photo's of things like party times, however there is one riding shot there to keep you amused.Ant Pearson whip to footjam whip.

I know smoking isn't cool, but be honest, I look pretty baller right here. Believe.

Good Times! I know some of these you've seen before but who cares..

Fatoff!

Priceless! ha ha..

Bels face. BELS FACE!! So wrong... ha ha

I went to Bstoke the other week to take some photays which I can't put up. I do have some I can put up though and they look a bit like this:

This is Bruza. You know him right?

This is the other Bruza, sneaky gap in Bstoke. Check the drop.

And just so Vince doesn't get salty there's one of him here too.

There's an old cinema in Camberley which has been dero for a couple of years now. I was at a loose end a couple of weeks ago so went on a solo mission to see what it's all about in there. Well, fucking scary to be honest, but pretty rad. I used to go there as a kid so it was well wierd seeing it like that, and a bit of a shame it's so smashed up in there. The theatres are the best because they are literally pitch black in there!

Go now.

NEWS!!

2009-06-17T12:01:00.001+01:00

Cam Hardy has broken his metatarsal after kicking a swan in the FACE!

Half of that statement is true, I’m not saying which half.

Well I never!

2009-06-05T16:01:00.013+01:00

Would you Adam and Eve it! A bloody update! Never!

Yeah I know I literally never ever ever update this thing any more, it's a combination of complacency, laziness and apathy. That and the fact that I literally hate my internet connection more than I hate Grays Anatomy. I haven't thought about that program for ages, let alone watch it, and when I thought about it whilst making a cup of tea earlier I got really tense for a minute, then relaxed when I had a word with myself and reassured me that I never have to see it again unless I'm A) being tortured or B) self-harming. It really is that annoying.

Anyway, enough of that. I do actually have stuff to put on here as you will certainly observe should you choose to scroll further on down the page. A few of these were being kept back for Ride (in fact I think they all were bar one or two) but didn't make it in there for whatever reason.

I suppose I should start off with Bruzas massive gap. This is the only one which made the mag, in fact it was the final frame on the Photo issue (latest issue) so I was well stoked on that. People who see this always ask if Bruza pulled it. Well yes he did, and as a result of landing so hard he broke his seat and left a rather sore looking friction burn in his arse crack, though that's probably not the first time he's sustained an injury of that kind. The tenner in his pants was off the old guy who, overwhelmed by what he's just witnessed, thought it only fitting to pay Bruza for the entertainment. Again, not for the first time, just the first time in his clothes.

Balls out!

Shake your money maker!

During that day we also re-shot that big barry down the Guild Hall steps which was pretty off the chain. Once again we got heckled by many a passer by, being right by Portsmouth uni's closest night spots. WEEEYYY! Do a backflip!!

Whilst in Basingstoke a while back we got in to the warehouse (I stuck up a pic of Mayo footplanting the wall remember) and shot a couple of pics of Bruza in there. Both the tricks over the box are to flat, there's no need for a landing where this boy is concerned.

I normally hate flashes in pics, but after doing a quick test shot from this angle decided they looked pretty cool! My opinion.

Chunky was killing the tiny spine at memorial park too, with stupidly dipped threes and sky high Tbog 180's

I had a bit of stuff in Ride last issue, it was the Uni article that I did with Dayson and Tinhead, I can't remember if I mentioned it. Anyway I shot a couple pics of Dayson down at the level for a Parkwarden article which they didn't use. Dayson is moving back here soon, and what with Merman having moved to London it would seem that my frequent visits to Brighton are going to become rather less frequent. Booo :(

That's as flat as it's going to get. Table 3.

This is a picture of BSD's Sean Lafferty doing a barspin through some trees. That's pretty much all there is to it. I took this shortly after fucking up that pic of Isaacs whip down that massive set of stairs. Go me. Look out for a BSD ad with this chap in it in an upcoming issue of Ride or Dig, I probably took it.

Umm, oh here are some pics of the fabled and rather elusive Cam Hardy. He's a slippery fish. Although not that slippery in this case as he came to me. If you ever need to get hold of Cam don't even bother trying, he doesn't even have a phone. Even homeless people have phones these days.

The sequences are a nosebonk 180 and 360 respectively. The 360 one was dialled in my book, but Cam wanted to do it again. Upon landing mostly on the front wheel he managed to puncture both front and back tyre. How a 3 stone boy riding a 12 ounce bike manages this I have no idea. In fact when riding from spot to spot it was a bit breezy and I had to make Cam carry my camera bag to stop him from blowing over. Bless.

Nosebonk 180

Nosebonk 360

The original reason for going to Farnham to take pics was to get a pic of this. It's a fair hop to flat, pretty simple pic but I like it.

After fixing the tubes we had time to shoot a couple of these massive floaty OPPOSITE 3s down the log, well corked.
Bosh!

In unrelated news I got a new camera. I'm in the Medium Format club now. It's something I've wanted a piece of for a while now having had a dabble with other peoples setups. I got a Bronica ETRS in the end which whilst I write this I have yet to use in anger. I am officially in love with this camera.
Incidentally if anyone cares I took the pic below in a home made studio type thing I saw on Strobist.

<3I might have mentioned it I can't remember but Florida was rad. I have some pics to stick up but I'm done for now, maybe in another month or something.

Sorry I'm rubbish. Frequent and rather more interesting updates are available on every other BMX website.

PPP Okerface PPP Okerface ma ma ma ma

2009-05-14T07:50:00.002+01:00

Today we found the search butting on our car stereo. you can press it and it just skips through every available station until you stop it. If you leave it long enough lady GaGa will come on (avg. 10 mins) This is how we roll.
We visited gainsville skatepark which was a bit skatey, but made a fun group photo. we did still sweat harder than jeremy beadle in a glove shop though. Not before poking a 13ft gator in a cage though. Tim and Barry got in to their pants and did some sunbathing by a bit of stagnant water.
Later on we went to a nice tall wide midi where Bruza went to the moon (breaking the record for the highest air on that ramp) and ant P did some tech.
I've just got back from a few drinks with my roomies and bel. we were just getting into it when we had to go home cos it was going home time. Still haven't been out properly yet, but we will. we must.
I don't want to write any more, Hitcher has just removed his shorts. make of that what you will.

day 2

2009-05-13T06:08:00.000+01:00

Oh hello. It's very very hot. it was about 30 degrees by about 8am. And humid as hell too. Rubbish. This meant that us pasty englishmen have spent the day going 'ooh it's fucking hot ain't it!' and other similar weather related whinges. We had a hummer yesterday but changed it for a big toyota people carrier because the hummer, despite its [perceived yet non-existant] fanny magnetism had literally no room in it what so ever.
Anyway we went to the beach where bruza and Sonny decided it would be a good idea to throw an american football full pelt at each other right where the sunbathers layed, nearly bringing an end to some poor old ladies life. There were lots of pretty girls in bikinis. Lots. Pretty.
Then went to Merritt Island to ride some big park. The ramps were pretty old, with .wood frames and rather oddly, metal decks. But their metal decks were all rusty and very grippy so all went rather well really. The riding was quite good, james harrison did a 540 to barkeless nosepick (kind of, and i'm not saying if it was intentional or not, or whether or not he actually pulled it) (he didn't). Ant pearson was quiet, then amazing, then quiet again. he did a whip to footjam whip, as well as a 3whip to 180 nosepick. What a jerk. Big Bazza was throwing some sweet nothings about too which was rad. Ummmmm, what else..... Oh yeah we saw aligator roadkill on the road, pretty cool.
I think that's it really, we have been listening to lady gaga all day (it is on the radio every minute, you just have to look for it) actually i'm listening to the old tart right now.
Go away.

Floridaizzler

2009-05-12T02:35:00.001+01:00

Got to Florida today. Fucking mission collecting bags and shit. So hot here, 35 degrees and humid. I'm planning on going on a human catapult.

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Radders!

2009-05-08T09:15:00.002+01:00

Got sent this the other day. Looks pretty awesome. I think the route is about 4 miles.
Nothing is quite as fun as bombing through saturday London traffic and causing mayhem with a load of other riders! Be sure to register if you want to join the fun!
Don't forget your Jofa!

Does Anyone Remember Gentle Ben?

2009-05-06T11:43:00.004+01:00

It was a big friendly bear who lived in Florida. Well I'm going there on Monday to find him with a load of other people. What I mean is I'm going with a load of people to find him, not like I'm going to find him with a load of people he shouldn't be with or someting.

In between trying to find the hairy boy we plan to do things like A) Ride bikes, B) Get hot, C) Get drunk, D) Get lost (?), E) Put on our best English accents to entice human females, F) Dance, D) Get farmers tans. Also E) Go in the sea, but that depends on whether Orlando is by the sea or not, I haven't actually checked.

Also, in honour of my birthday, Mesh Skatepark have decided to have a small jam, which is really thoughtful. I know it doesn't mention me or my Birthday on the flyer, but rest assured it's going to be all about me and my big day (which is actually tomorrow - thanks in advance for the cards and WH Smith vouchers). When I find Ben I'm going to saddle him up and do a Bear Flair.

I may attempt to do updates on a daily basis off the Iphone. No promises though.

Yeah!

2009-04-30T17:14:00.001+01:00

Below is proof that I am a legitimate photographer. Yes ladies and gents, I have had my finest work yet printed in 'Manitowoc World'! This is a company mag which goes all over the world, including the USA in America! Signed copies not available on request.

Legit!

2009-04-30T17:08:00.001+01:00

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OK Here Goes...

2009-04-26T12:12:00.007+01:00

Well I suppose I must say sorry for not doing any updates lately. I have kept on meaning to do them but just haven't really had the urge. Luckily I woke up really early this morning and although I haven't actually left my bed other than to make a cuppa or go for a wee it's been fairly productive.

First of all I thought I should post up some old stuff. Well not old, but stuff I shot a while back that never got used. The first one is Martyn Cooper downwhipping at Corbizzle. This is one I shot for the Role Models issue of ride that they didn't print.

Talking of ride the Uni article that Dayson and Tinhead made (and I photo'd) is in this month and looks rad. I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

Here's another pic of Brad which we shot when it was raining outside. He does this so quick it was harder than shooting barspins (which I've got down to an average of 3-4 attempts, less if i've had a redbull). They used the cancan pic instead, which in hindsight is actually a lot nicer pic.

In non-BMX related news me, Mayo and Black went on a little jaunt last weekend to where the sea is. The plan was to go crabbing but we soon gave up on that and went pot-holing on the seabrake rocks instead. Brave or stupid? Probably stupid, but quite good fun, even if it was terrifyingly claustrophobic at times. We started off by going in to smaller and smaller gaps, then trying to make our way in and out of the rocks by going through tiny tunnels, unsure if we'd A) get stuck in a tunnel, or B) be able to get out once we made it through said tunned. Needless to say we all survived, then went for an ice cream.

This hole Black is crouching in is literllay the size of a crouching man. I.e. very small (and a bit smelly). Which by coincidence is how I like my women.
Squeeeze....

Planning the next route
Too many pies

Black found an arrow-head.

I went to visit Isaac with the Bruzas and Sean lafferty from Scotland on Friday night/Saturday to shoot some photo's. The evening got off to a good start, took a few at Basildon bowl (the car park with transition wall all round it) then headed in to town. Long story short, there's a massive set of steps. Isaac wanted to whip them, I took forever setting up, it was not lit very well, one hit wonder. Isaac whipped them first attempt, dialed, to the pedals, no messing about. I got the pic, but could not have got it more out of focus if I tried. Now my excuse is that waaay to dark for auto focus, and with no obvious reference for manual I took my best guess. Turns out I'm not a great guesser. So anyway here's the pic. Now you can see why I was a bit peeved. (Though between you and me, I'm not feeling this angle now anyway.)

Manly.
Tom Bruza hang nothing'd this whole ledge at least twice too which was rad. Mad skills.

The following day we hit Leigh and Rom. Isaac was going off (pics with held) and the Bruza boys were shredding the hip. Good ting.

Tommy-B wangin it about..

James-B not being put off by me being right in the way. No.... not one bit! (That's a lie)
Rom was good as ever. Again Isaac was getting ridiculous (9ft whip air anyone?) and Billy Purcell was owning the place like he does. Styling it out with some beautiful non-frilly tables. All in all a good day, especially as the weather man said it was going to be wet. What a nob.

This kid spends a lot of his time eating shit. He doesn't seem to mind too much though. Sean Lafferty (currently living in the Bruzs garage) oppo flair.

Isaac, front jam on the shed roof.

Yes Bill.
There you go, I did an update. I bet you never thought you'd see the day!

Gotta love the weather

2009-04-12T16:06:00.002+01:00

Just in time for the Easter weekend, beautiful British summer kicks in. Lovely job. Cup of tea anyone?

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JDM Allstars

2009-04-12T15:00:00.005+01:00

Drifting eh? What a wierd sport. Not as as wierd as street biking though. Street biking is akin to going out and buying a brand new BMX, and then smashing the shit out of it in front of a load of spectators. Saying that I'm sure they think the same about BMX.
Anyway I went to this thing in Newcastle last weekend with the Zeal lot. I didnt really know what to expect, but just went along for the ride really, nothing else fun to do. The event was basically a car show, but with some ramps for a bit of side show entertainment. The setup was quarters both ends, with a box and spine in the middle. Pretty basic. There was a little comp for the kids, and the rest of the time it was just there for people to ride willy nilly. Some people did stuff, it was ok.
The drifting on the other hand.....! Well that was pretty off the hook. I can't tell much about the cars apart from they were loud and wheel-spinny. Mad skills from the drivers who were just practicing for some time trial. They came out one at a time at first, round the small circuit just thrown together in a car park, absolutely caning it, then a couple came round together, then 4, bumper to bumper, literally inches from each other. Well good.
Saturday night we all went out to a bar where Ive never seen so much sausage, then moved on to a different bar with a little less sausage, found booze on the way, got drunk, hid booze, annoyed women, met Billy Mills off the telly, didn't see many orange girls which was dissapointing, Isaac got his foot run over, Ummm and probably lots more besides. Then slept at Tom Kirkbys house. Thanks Tom.
That's about it really, Sunday was a write off (for me) then we drove for 100 hours to get home.
Good times good times, cheers to Hitcher for driving.
(Can you tell I just got bored writing this?)

Luke Peeters

Isaac Chillin on the Redbull

Coops

Ben Jones

Lady Victoria Hervey

Rob Andrews

He's got a metal plate in his leg you know

Dunno what this car is but it was my fav.. WAP WAP WAPPP!!!Cut it a bit close..
Twos up. Mad skills.

Run Awaaayyy!!

2009-03-30T21:00:00.004+01:00

Me and Mayo went to Bstoke on sunday to meet up with Bruza. I wanted to take some photo's of him, but more on that later.
I haven't been to Bstoke skatepark for quite a while and since I last went the council have dumped a load of dirt in there. The jumps are still being perfected, and even though they are pretty bumpy they are still rideable. I think they are getting even more dirt in there too to make more stuff. Budget Jam 2009 should be a belter!

Helltrack
L-R: Hollywood Mike Miranda, Rex Reynolds, Cru Jones, Rod Reynolds.

SpecialBasingtoke has a bit of a pikey problem.
After watching Chunky twist the spine with the nose so dipped he was pretty much upside down, we went to the warehouse ramps that the locals made. Unfortunately the building was literally welded shut but after some rooting around Mayo managed sniff out some rotten wooden panels. With Bruzas brute force, a bit of wedging and jimmying, and putting a steel footing through a wall of glass we got in. Though not before hearing a police siren about 2 miles away and legging it like a load of little girls. Amazing. I shot a few pics in there of Bruza and Mayo. I can't put Bruzas up yet, but the Mayo ones are cool. The idea was to icepick that steel cable housing above the shady QP, but it kept on popping him out the wrong way. The outcome wasn't what was planned, but I kind of like the picture anyway.

I took this pic of Ryan last weekend but forgot to put it up. Nothing else much to say really.

Fly Free Little Mikey......

2009-03-27T09:54:00.002Z

I must first comment on Mikeys lovely video posted below. He’s clearly been busy in his windowless little hole stitching clips of stunts together for months on end to come up with this smashing little number. He really is rather good, if a little pale.

He’s decided that I’m not that fun to blog with anymore and is now fully involved with his new website venture with the Guildford based BMX photographer Sam King (who he may or may not be related to). I think Mikey would like people to think he made the website himself but I’m fairly sure Sam did it. It looks pretty pro, and about 99% more sophisticated than the sooo 2008 rollingimage.

I know what you’re all thinking, Mikey has just used me for everything he can, and now he’s just throwing me to the side like a sweaty sock to choke on his dust. It pretty much is like that actually, but I’m dealing with it. When I first invited Mikey to blog with me he was just coming up, nobody knew who he was and nobody really liked him, least of all me. But the begging letters were just getting beyond a joke, and for the sake of the environment I had to let him have write access. In the however long it’s been since he’s been posting up the odd vid on here Mikey has been seeking global BMX video domination. His popularity among the sort of people who ride UKBikeco frames has doubled, he’s learnt to communicate using actual speech, and he’s even learnt the art of humour (that’s what he calls it anyway). His dress sense has got a bit better, if a little generic, but anything is better than grey peacocks ankle swingers, and he’s got a proper camera bag now instead of carrying his equipment round in a Transformers lunch box. Old habits die hard I suppose.

When Mikey came to meet me in my second largest study, the one with the signed Heather Mills prosthetic leg in a glass cabinet, I could tell by the look on his effeminate face that he was about to deliver a heavy blow. After that was over with he looked up and told me he was leaving me for a younger, more flashy, but undoubtedly rather less dashing website owner. It was the end of something special. I called security and they promptly ejected him.

I feel that without me, Mikey would be literally nothing. I taught him everything he knows about videography, editing, women, home made boobie-traps, you name it. But I feel proud that he is going to bigger and better places. He said he’ll still pop by from time to time though, but I don’t doubt the visits will become fewer and fewer until I’m long forgotten, like a great grandparent in a nursing home.

Farewell Mike King. Go and annoy someone else with your stupid magic trick.

Now go and have a look at FFWDbmx here.

; )

MY AUTUMN WEB VIDEO

2009-03-26T09:57:00.001Z

so here it is pfffft.
my web video i worked on over autumn.
my website is also now up and running :)
check out www.ffwdbmx.com

FFWD Autumn 08 Web Video from mike king on Vimeo.

Ahhh Shit Son!

2009-03-25T10:18:00.005Z

Looks like bruza and Isaac have had a little Q&A up on Fatbmx. Go peep. They used my pics. Sweet.

JAMES - http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6785

ISAAC - http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6790

In other news I believe that Basingstoke Skate park now has trails! Currently being shaped by the the locals, the things are legit, and possibly floodlit (i may be wrong on that one) Pics to come hopefully (hint hint Bruza)

Hitcher invited me along to this the other day

I think it's a car show from what I can work out, with drifting and boy racers all over the place. They are having a skate and BMX thing there, but I can't figure out if that's just a demo or a comp or what. I think I read something about it being round one of this years Backyard jams??

Who knows. All I know is I've never been to Newcastle. Ben Hennon is from Newcastle and he's nuts, so Newcastleites must all be nuts, and therefore funny. I think we'll have to get Vienna to provide packed lunches again because I heard they only eat coal up there. Dunno if that's true, just what i heard mate.

http://www.jdmallstars.com/

For crying out loud!

2009-03-17T21:36:00.008Z

I'm so over messing about with this website. I was trying to fix it but I've basically forgotten everything about writing code and Dreamweaver seeing as it's been so long since I did an update. I decided once again to put them on the blog before I chucked my computer out the window.

So this is basically a Dayson based update. We've been up Petersfield (Shotgun) trails lately and rebuilt the step up. Dayson was doing some nice 3's and went upside down, this time managing to avoid putting a big hole in his shin (although he did pop it open again at Southwater this weekend.)

Talking of Southwater here he did a couple of the usuals in between making those stupid screamy noises he does, but they looked quite good so got involved with a load of brambles to get a piccy or 2.

I've been hanging out in Brighton a fair bit lately with whoever happens to come along or be there. We hooked up with Brad and Chef who are pretty fun, to get some pics for a thing me and Dayson were working on with Tinhead.

Many things happen in brighton, including gay Nazism, tame eaglets in the house, and Mayo trying to ruin Daysons happy time with an unlucky girl.

Brace yourselves.

I think Mayo owes me a pint. No questions asked.

this is awesome..

2009-03-16T23:57:00.000Z

the end..

Nothing to see here

2009-03-10T11:52:00.003Z

I must apologise for the massive lack of updates of late. I have plenty of stuff to put up right now but I have not had the internet for ages which makes things a bit difficult, and I've been well busy doing other stuff.

So until I put something worthwhile please enjoy these pictures of baby Otters. They're not mine, but you can't realy go wrong with baby otters can you?

LOL!

2009-02-19T11:56:00.002Z

I tagged along to the Role Models thing at Corby as seen in Ride this month. Displayed below is the reason why I am a photographer, not a photographee. I’m no Adam Bora.
This pic of Bruza is mine, but I must stress that this is a rail ride to opposite whip, not a regular one. As if regular isn’t hard enough!

Nice one barcode face, it came out good!

Ahh the glamour!

2009-02-17T12:55:00.002Z

I’m pretty sure most people think that taking BMX photo’s is one of the most glamorous things a person can do. Ever. And for the most part they are right! There’s the leather jackets, Instant access to the woman of your choice, beautiful locations such as old industrial estates and dero warehouses. Not to mention people just generally wanting to be your friend and carry your 15KG camera bag round so you can actually hop stuff and do manuals while riding to different spots. It’s a pretty sweet deal.

Reality checks are something I personally like to steer clear of. Saturday was like any other normal day of photography, money and women. I was just hanging, waiting to get a picture of merman doing a ledge of no considerable ease. I left a 20 minute window between my pedicure and wine tasting to get the thing done. Plenty of time I thought. The Chauffer won’t even need to turn the engine off. I set up and found a pleasing angle, lying on a tarmac carpark floor. A tad cold I thought, I should have brought the two small boys I normally have accompany me so they could lie underneath and provide padding and insulation. Mental note taken.

Now I’m not knocking Merman in any way shape or form, but the 20 minute lie down turned in to a 40 minute lie down turned in to an hour or so lie down. Merman just didn’t relent (apart from 2 minutes running off a dead leg) meaning the cold side of my body went in to near shut down to keep my vital organs working, my craning neck was severely aching and my trigger finger was so cold that I was unsure if I could control it well enough to fire any pictures at all. Top this off with more than one passer by mentioning the fact that I looked like I’d been run over (I was pretty much under a Porsche Cayenne) and others trying to talk cameras and it was getting rather ‘samey’.

Today, it has to be said, the ledge won. Now I’m tempted to publish a picture of said failed attempts, but I will save the picture for the day Merman wins. It would be an injustice not to. I have added an illustration to perhaps demonstrate what demons David had to battle that day. Nobody begrudged him. (Though having said that I did have to cancel the wine tasting, the Indian massage and my debating session with good friend and fellow philosopher Dr Gunther Olaf-Denk.) I think Dr Olaf-Denk would like to have words with Merlin, although he probably wouldn’t understand any of them.

Should my helicopter be serviced in time I will be back in a couple of weeks. I will have the gas heaters and on-site catering standing by.

This is BMX after all!

You can click the picture to enlarge it if you need to. It is probably worth mentioning that the stair set somewhat narrower and much longer than sown in this crude mock-up.

DUNK IS LITERALLY DECLARING WAR

2009-02-11T23:30:00.003Z

well done duncan, you're friday nights sure look radddd.
i'd rather 'listen' to paint dry then 'party' with you..
ok no i wouldn't, and im sorry i got a little teary then, but i dont enjoy being antagonised, i found this and realised that i AM the better man and dunc is actually a hamster..

'customers who enjoyed this, also enjoyed these:'

"i understand, are you the mayor?"

the last trick in this is an actual joke..

and finally, i got sent this, some kid ripped all my videos from youtube, aswell as some footage from other people, and made his own edit.. hmmmmm.
stoked or not stoked?

xx

Alright Mikey do this then!

2009-02-11T18:43:00.001Z

More friday night drunk stunts

Not so smug now are we Mikey!?
I got the skiiiilzz!

Let's Play DARTS!

2009-02-08T02:57:00.000Z

Booze and darts. Don't do it kids.

Arrash Saidi footage.

2009-02-06T21:51:00.003Z

I just saw this vid of Arrash on thecomeup. Fuckin rad to see that the footage from last summer didn't go to waste. We thought at one point that it was going to be impossible to use. That last gap is seriously crazy, the vid (as is always the case) doesn't quite convey the gnar. Awesome styley trails riding as always. And a wee bit of fboro on there too. Reppin the log for real!
Nice one son!

Arrash Saidi - S&M Bikes from Johnny Elia on Vimeo.

Hyper Massive Super Update!

2009-02-04T18:00:00.007Z

Well, maybe not an update of super stellar proportions, but an update none the less. I've been meaning to do it for ages, but in between working out, counting snow-flakes and punching horses out cold I haven't really had all that much time.

It's old news now, but I got some more stuff in Ride this month which I'm happy with.

Also pretty cool that my boyee Craig Tull has a full page of Fboro Shredder Ryan Winterbotham right next to my article. World domination next I think.

I stuck up some pics from Belfast in media which didn't make it in to Ride. There's also some more pics from Estonia.

Lately we've been to Petersfield trails a bit. I took a couple pics of Mayo and Vid. Vid hasn't ridden for 10 years, and to be honest it looked like it last time I saw him here. Then this time (about 3 weeks later) he's throwing t-bogs mid set and doing fancy turndowns over the hip. I was pretty amazed at the difference. Mayo did a table too.
I heard the locals are changing this line soon, hopefully not too much, it's well fun.

Haggler has started editing little bits and bobs, here is a quick edit from a chilled one at 'The Barn' with Mayo and Monkey. Expect more to come from that handsome chap.

A few of us went to Brighton over the weekend. It was pretty bloody cold, but we still got to ride the changes made to the Level (still unfinished). It's better than before, a lot more bikey. Niki Croft called this out, so we shot a pic. It's 6ft, pretty big.

And finally, this last pic is just one I randomly found on my hard drive. I shot it when Arrash was over during the summer, I think he was mid-Segment roadtrip. This was over the Ultimate Warrior, so if you're familiar with Chertsey you'll know it's a biggun. I just forgot about it I think.
I feel like I should put up some pics of me frolicking in the snow but I think you've seen enough of everyone else doing that.

Phew!

Yeah rub it in mate....

2009-01-27T16:09:00.002Z

Right, when I did all those bullet points I totally forgot to mention the thing you see below, but thinking about it it warrants a bit more than just a bullet point. Mikeys bloody magic trick. Now I’m not easily impressed with magic tricks, generally I don’t care that much, but when Mike did this I was pretty stoked. Then immediately annoyed because he got all high and mighty because he knew how and I didn’t, well… don’t. The annoying thing is that it’s not even slight of hand, it just shouldn’t happen, but it does. He’s such a smug little twat, sitting there in the pizza shop watching me try and make it work. Even Cooper made it work, but conveniently he ‘learnt’ it while I was out of earshot for a minute. Mike King literally ruined my whole trip because of this trick. Mike, I hope you’re proud of yourself! It still doesn’t get you friends though.

DUNK CAN'T DO THIS..

2009-01-27T00:11:00.001Z

don't hate me coz you aint me..

x

Sorry everyone I'm a lazy lame loser who aliterates

2009-01-23T08:21:00.003Z

You know Updates yeh? well it seems like I don't. I'm rubbish yeah yeah no pics for ages. Well who even goes on here anyway.

Right so Estonia was good. My Bullet point run-down from Belfast a few weeks back seemed well received so I may as well do that again seeing as it would appear many of you have simple tastes.
In no particular order, I will endeavor to list whatever pops in to my head:
Ok, Here goes.
Here it is.
Get ready.
Um.......
Right:

Not that cold
Not that cheap
Chase Hawk was working at the hotel
Samwise was a funny colour a lot
Cam shading off like a cat
BMX riding was good
Getting crushed to death in the coach door
Isaac Lesser sleeping in chips
Making new friends
Pretty girls
Lots of pretty girls
Smashed flash
Small american man dancing
Bruzas gap
All the local men look like convicts
Dancing on ice

Smoking waaaaay to much
Drinking within my limits for hours and hours and hours
Bulldog on ice
Bars to hang-5. Go on son!
English ale in a foreign country
They eat Carp
I found a beret

Lobby Beer bongs

Disconcerting signs telling me the lift is likely to ignite when used
Hanging out with Chris Russel for the first time in literally years
Martyn Cooper only mentioning the metal pin in his leg once the whole time, as opposed to 5 times a day
Catfishes bitches thinking they were it when they were in fact the least hot girls in the whole city. Note: Applying makeup with a paintball gun does not make you hot.

I think there are many more. I can't think of them right now.

Upon retuning home I was re-united with this skinny white freak.
He has been sashaying around NZ and South America for months with his wife, no doubt buying beads, wearing a sarong and generally being 'mellow' (apart from when I made him think he had rabies). He tried to re-purchase my friendship by bestowing upon me these hand woven foot bags.

It worked. Everyone needs Mexican foot bags in their life. Nice to have you back old bean. And no he's not my brother.

More to come? I wouldn't hold your breath.

Why haven't I thought of this before....?

2009-01-13T17:57:00.002Z

I spend so long stressing about how I'm going to get all my photo gear from A to B safely on a plane. And having always travelled light i.e using a backpack, I tend to forget that suitcases even exist. And It's got wheels! Awesome!
I'm off to Estonia tomorrow at the crack of dawn. Should be a fun time. Pretty cold there though. Although I did just find my gloves which I thought I'd lost. Result.
Also just booked a flight to Florida in May. Get in. I'm a traveller, therefore I'm a pikey. Mush.
Bye!

You Ain't No Rockstar!

2009-01-06T22:36:00.003Z

Aiit! Me, Isaac and Martyn Cooper Rockstar Supreme minced right up north with Hitchcox and the very organized Vienna (Hitchers missus) for a bit of new years fun and a smidgen of riding bikes. We drove up on the 30th fully loaded with ham salad sarnies, crisps, drinks, clementines (not satsumas) courtesy of Vienna, which took about 8 hours to Glasgow then rode Unit 23 for a while. That place is cold. The bowl is rad though, like the little devil one. There was some kids there ruining it which was cool.
We drove to Aberdeen the next day and hooked up with some old friends (and some new ones) and sharked our way into the new year.
Mingo at 20/20 sorted out a lock in Jam following the new year celebrations which was cool. The locals there all all well good, and a funny bunch. I'm pretty sure Simon Gibb fancied Martyn because he couldn't leave the poor boy alone. I think Martyn liked the attention though because he kept on flirting right back. Quite cute I suppose.
I was pretty lazy with the photo's to be honest. Actually i was just getting in to it when the lock in ended. Ho Hum. I've put them on here cos there's only three.
There was loads more fun stuff that happened, but in jokes are never fun for the people who weren't there.
I must say cheers to Fisher for letting three strangers sleep on his floor for a few nights, and the same to Ozzy Chris, even though he's just a glorified version of us tramps.

Happy new year yeah?

Front jam, 10foot bowl. Brave.
I wanted to get a good feet-in-camera shot
Old Skool 3

I have just read all that back and I must say it's the laziest bit of writing I have ever done.
Do suink.

Viewing in Firefox - Public info notice

2008-12-28T11:32:00.003Z

Aparrently if you are trying to view any of the media pages in Firefox they don't work. I don't know why this is but I'll look in to it. If you are really desperate to view the media pages then you will have to go through Explorer or Safari, it works in both of them.

If anyone else has experienced the same problems while using Simpleviewer and knows how to fix it then I'd like to know how to fix it.

Thanks!

I told you I was going to do an update.....

2008-12-27T10:08:00.003Z

Last weekend was a bit wierd. We managed to ride down the trails 2 days in a row. No rain and not freezing cold. It's not right. Then we got to ride the amazing tunnel that the locals have, you may have seen it in Ride to Glory. Cheers to Dan for inviting us there, we met up with him and one of the other locals who's name i forgot (sorry i'm bad at names).
The best bit was that the ramps are only in the front part of the tunnel, leaving 3/4 of a mile to rag the car down as fast as possible. Amazing fun, and quite scary, as the surface in far from roadworthy!

The ramps are solid, but pretty dusty, and the lighting is courtesy of a faithful genny. It's a fun place to ride, but invite only. Not that that that's relevant really because you'd never find it by accident.

I stuck some pics up in Media so go peep. Oh yeah, I hope you all had a Happy Christmas.

Some Ride Articles

2008-12-27T09:44:00.003Z

I had a couple of articles in Ride this month, Zeal B'day and the Bruza Informer. I stuck the pics from them, plus some that didn't get printed, up in the Mediasection. I was pretty stoked on these, but not as stoked as this...

I think it's probably old hat for Chris, but stoked to see Craig in there too!

merry sifilis and a happy gonohhrea..

2008-12-27T01:54:00.002Z

hello world..
today.. is christmas.. well, no it isnt, its boxing day..
well, actually, its 1:55 am the day AFTER boxing day..
regardless, this doesnt make anyone exempt from being wished all the best for a happy new year, and hopefully you all had a good xmas too..
i dont ahve much any new material, sadly, BUT my website is coming along now for real, i started again, and again and again, but this time ive really decided to cut my losses and go with something real simple, so hopefully it works..
my web vid is also done, im pretty stoked on it, and am looking forward to getting it online as soon as the sites up..
i might even put up the left over 'offcuts' that werent put into the video just to tease you even more..
watch this space..
in the meantime, seeing as i cant provide you with any of my own material.. watch these videos, the first is randy taylors props bio, and is fucking sick, the first trick is rediculous..
then watch this sean sexton video, i dont know what its from, but its fucking amazing and i cant stop watching it, and the last video will make you ROFLOLMAOMFGZZZ.
sooo good.
peace.
xx

This is not an update

2008-12-24T12:12:00.004Z

This is merely a notice to let you know that an update is imminent. I have been doing a few things here and there and taking some photo's, so I do have something to put up. I may even do it today but I have some presents to wrap.

In the mean time why don't you go and have a little look at my Photobro Craig Tull's q&a in the Shooter section on Dig. Nice one son!

Jay Phelan

2008-12-14T22:59:00.003Z

I stuck a new pic on the front page of Jay Phelan that I took in Belfast, manning up over a rail. I got the bars too, see below.

Ace.

Zeal in Belfast

2008-12-09T13:43:00.003Z

I learned a few things on this little trip to Belfast. Here's 10 of them:

When sat together on an aeroplane, James and Tom Bruza and Isaac have a combined mental age of 11. Fidget, fart, draw things on sick bags and annoy everybody on the plane (apart from us who found their antics quite amusing.)
If you're planning on going street riding in Belfast in November all day, then take some gloves with you. And don't be fooled in to thinking that your t-shirt and 2 jumpers will keep you warm - they won't.
Contrary to popular belief, the Guinness tastes no different over there than it does to here. It's just a bit smoother because they actually let it settle for a long time (119 seconds approx.) before serving.
Some people still can't get their heads around N.Ireland being part of the UK. Especially when we needed our passports to get in to the country and they have different looking money. For those still confused - the passports are for ID at the airport, and the money looks different because the Northern Irish banks make it, but it's still £ sterling.
They have funny bread that they didn't realise we don't eat.
Tom Bruza is clumsy
High jump contests over a jumpbox will end in broken limbs
One can sleep better in a warm house on a sofa than in a cold skatepark on the floor.
Monster energy drink is a bit rubbish.
No matter where you are, fat girls in rock clubs will always kiss each other.

Long story short, 9 of us went there, met some locals and some scousers, rode street all day Friday, Tom B broke an antique tea pot, went out Friday night, got drunk, rode the skatepark all day saturday, allnight jam started at 6 with booze, bbq and energy drinks, arm-wrestling, pro bench, loads of free condoms (??), high jump, broken arm, no sleep for some, sofa for me and Hitchcox, Sunday morning Mayo still drunk and trying to fight, flew home.

Cheers to the locals for all being friendly and welcoming! Pics up in Media.

"Mr Griffin, i have M.S." "Oooh Chris, you hear that? He's got monkey scrotum.. And he's bragging about it.."

2008-11-24T12:36:00.004Z

unless youve been living under a rock you would've more than likely heard of the nike video, well you also probaly saw all the sections on the come up first.. but anyhow, watch the trailer below and go watch the sections on the site, denis enarsons last trick is unbelievable, and lets not get started on garret reynolds section, in my opinion theyre the only two sections worth watching, i nearly went into a coma watching spinners section..

See More BMX Videos at VitalBMX.com

my 'website' is pretty much done now, its the most basic site ever, just made up of pictures basically, but im excited about it, if anyone knows anything about podcasts then drop me a line HERE because im struggling hahaha.
the web video will be up in 2-3 weeks.. im fucking on it..
x

In the absence of actually riding....

2008-11-21T21:35:00.003Z

.....we can look at thing which will be rideable soon. Here's some new stuff at Basingstoke. There should be some flat ledges, stairs and a new quarter. Well done Bruza and others for getting hat all sorted. Flood lit trails to follow!

I'm with Stupid

2008-11-19T15:20:00.000Z

Yesterday I booked my ticket to Estonia for Simpel Session. In case you have not yet booked, heed this word of warning. Check the date, then check the date again. Long story short, I didn’t check the date, I went and booked up. £100 later, very happy. Thought I’d better check the date (after booking) and went on Simpel Session 08 website. Realised I got the dates wrong. Fuck it, I have to change the dates. Changed the dates online. £40 later I had a feeling something was amiss. Simpel Session 08… Simpel Session 08… Hmmmm… I’m not going to Simpel Session in the past. What a dick. I was right the first time! I knew I was wrong before I even bothered to re-check. I rang up and pleaded to be let off a second £40 charge. She was kind and only charged me £15.

The moral of the story. If you have budget brain cells, get someone else to book your flight for you.

I’d better get into boarding group A for that price!

Put me to sleep with your kind boots Mr Fancyman...

2008-11-13T16:08:00.002Z

Oh Hey!

I went to see The Mighty Boosh live in Brighton last night. Gosh, it was a jolly good time. So many LOLs I let a wee out a bit in my trousers. If you didn’t get tickets, unlucky. If you have tickets and yet to see the show, you are in for a treat. You plagiaristic yellow bastard.

At the end of the month I will be popping over to Belfast to this all nighter with some of the Zeal riders. Should be a good time, I hear it’s lovely over there this time of year.

Good job it’s indoors no?

ROLL ON..

2008-11-11T17:03:00.002Z

Simpel Session 08 - BMX by Props from Simpel Session on Vimeo.
SIMPLE SESSION 09.
in other nes, i got my copy of tomorrow we work last week, i know its fairly 'old' now but FUCKING HELL did it make for a good watch?!
typically its not the style of riding im into, not a signle skatepark clip in it, but wow, just wow, i reaaaaaaally wanna go to barcelona now, the street in the whole video is amazing, and those northerners know a thing or two about how to send a gap! so, joe cox is a genius, you also get a free copy of voices with it, and its a mere 5 squid with free postage! you cant go wrong, head over to TWW.com to get a copy!
also, props to dunk, those pictures in the media section are incredible! that boys got something in his trousers to be doing that!
x

NGTE Pyestock Exploration

2008-11-10T19:53:00.004Z

I bloody love derelict old buildings. I'm lucky enough to live right near a site once used for military development, arguably one of the best urbex sites in the country. Stupidly, I have only been unaware of this amazing site until fairly recently. It was wet yesterday, I was at a loose end, so decided to go check it out. I had originally planned to explore the west side of the site, which carries a slightly higher risk of capture/memory card deletion/slap on the wrist, but soon after my reccy saw two minibuses full of army cadets enter the site, so thought better of it. I chose to check out the water treatment plant, which is on the eastern side, with very little chance of capture (not that I new that when I was cutting a hole in the fence mind). I got inside one main water tower, which was scary as fuck, really dark, drip drip drip off the roof every few seconds, and every tiny sound echoes. Very horror-film, but cool as hell. I followed the perimeter fence to get to the main site, but came across a security building so turned back and got on the roof of the water treatment plant, and inside through an open window. The workshop is still full of tools, plans, magazines, safety gear. Literally like everyone just got up and left one day. Go and have a look at the pics in the Media section. I'm planning on going back soon. Maybe even today.

Edit: So I planned to post this up yesterday, I was pretty tired from the previous day and was just chilling, looking at other peoples pis from this place, it made me a bit excited in the tummy. It wasn't raining outside, I got the sudden urge to just pack up my gear and get back there while it was still daylight. This time I had a vague map (taken on my fone off the computer screen) and just kind of winged it. I got in to the main site ok, but inside is another layer of security fencing. I was literally shitting myself, I could hear people - or maybe it was my imagination. I eventually found my way past the security fence and legged it to the nearest building. I could see the roof was accessible, so headed straight for there, although getting there was well risky because I had to go up a fire escape with no cover from passing security. It was a good view of the site from up there.
I entered the main room and literally couldn't believe what i saw. 8 MASSIVE power generators (2 of which can power a town with ease) along with pressure chambers, control units, the lot. Literally amazing. The control room has a wall of 1950's controls and dials, and a massive narrow corridor behind a door which I was no way in hell going down. I've seen the films, I.know what happens to those people.
On my way out I decided to get a couple more outdoors shots, fired one off and looked over my shoulder to see two security guards walking towards me. FUCK FUCK FUCK!! I'm not sure if they saw me, I bolted like a little rabbit and hid n the nearest hole i could. Well I was just backed in to a small corner, behind a rubbish bit of fence. It was the best I could do in the circumstances. I waited 5 minutes, or 2, it felt ages. I figured they had gone. My heart was beating out of my chest, I ventured out again and with my fear induced tunnel vision, ran like the flipping wind. Luckily I was right by the hole I came in by, so I darted through there, throught the woods and through the main fence again to safety.
I'm so glad I didn't get caught, not so much for getting in trouble, more because I really really didn't want my card erased. That would suck. It's all good, i got the pics. Check out the Media section, Pyestock #1 for Saturay, and #2 for sunday. Phew!

The Banger

2008-11-06T17:56:00.002Z

You've probably already seen this on TheComeUp or wherever. I usually skip most of the vids on there, but a bit of UK footage is always good so I watched it. The vid is ok I suppose, you know, OK. Just fast forward to the last trick, that's all I'll say. Or watch the whole thing if you have a couple of minutes to kill before checking Facebook again.

Subrosa Cheers Brother! (Brighton Ain't Ready Bonus Section) from Subrosa Brand on Vimeo.

KKBRBLOLMAOMFG.

2008-11-06T00:21:00.002Z

i cant speak for anyone else, but as soon as they announced they were doing a full length video i was stoked!
all the riders on levis are amazing, and i couldnt even wait for the issue of dig where you can pick up a free copy, good thing is popped up online!
music could've been muuuuuuuuuuuch better though..
a must watch none the less..

Hungry Anyone?

2008-11-05T14:40:00.009Z

Sooo it’s around lunchtime, I’m thinking about food, the kitkat I just ate hasn’t filled me up, so what better to do than sit on my ass and look at food on the interweb instead of actually eating some.
Well looky looky… I think I may have found the most amazing place on earth. Greasy horrible fatty burgers, super high caffeine coke, and fags sans filters. All in one convenient location. Oh and did I mention the nurses? THE NURSES!! HAVE YOU SEEN THE NURSES??!! They even sell candy ciggies for the kids.

"Quadruple bypass please. Yeah I'll go large for 30p extra. I'll have a Diet Coke with that."

Finest Rump Steak. Rare.

I’m pretty sure I’ve made up my mind to sell everything I own and make a pilgrimage to this place. I’ll walk if I have to.

In un-related news, i think I found the bike on which the lawnmower-fufanu was invented.

robogoth

2008-10-30T19:06:00.001Z

so no one really likes watching mountain bikers doing footjams, and im not a fan either, but watch this video, theres some savage riding in this bmx, and, (dare i say it).. mountain biking.
take a look..

К10 - Эпизод Шестой и заключительный from kaunet roxx on Vimeo.

Sweet Milky Bacon....

2008-10-27T22:55:00.005Z

In case you didn't know, Zeal turned 1 year old the other day. Amazing. So to celebrate this we attended a jam which was kindly hosted by Ben Manual from the olden days, at his skatepark, Pitwheels, in Upton which is really really far away in the Narth.
So Me James, Josh Wiles, Bruza and Mikey - oh wait not Mikey, because Mikey had the sniffles. Waaa, waaaaa. Anyway we went up there in the morning and Mayo met us later with Haggler. The park is in three sections, a main room with a couple of spines, jump box, a selection of vert walls and a hip, a mini ramp room, and a wierd room linking in from the main one with a vertwall, hip, and big slack quarter oppoite a wallride. The whole lot was pretty tight, but well packed in. Quite scary too cos some of it was higher than the rafters which is a bit off putting.

Ben has this place dialled, it's soo good to watch. So for the day we rode, and met some cool people. It was a good vibe with everyone doing their own thing. There are some amazing locals there, Gaz Wilson for one. Fucking hell is all I have to say. He ain't no Andy Hall though (who by the way hasn't really hurt his leg, he's just in it for the sympathy), and Chips. He's a one off for sure.
After riding for ages we went to the local bar, conveniently placed right downstairs. I thought I'd just stepped in to an episode of Phoenix Nights. We'd just missed the hypnotist for christs sake. THE HYPNOTIST?...
So a few of us sampled the local brew, took in the sights, and danced to oops up side your head, while Chips and Mayo (??? Why the hell didn't I realise that was so funny at the time?!) picked up a couple of local ladies. Mayo took them back to the skatepark to teach them how to ride wich was funny, and I nearly had a panic attack when one started using my camera un-supervised. Loads of funny shit happened, we all got a bit fuzzy, and went to bed in a big man pile while watching Till Monkeys Fly. Cheers to Ben for letting us run riot in the skatepark. And Cheers to Hitcher for driving 9500 miles. Want some pics?

Here's a vid I nicked off Zeal

Zeal jam Pitwheels skatepark from gavin repton on Vimeo.

ERMMM..

2008-10-27T16:58:00.002Z

hello there, sorry for my slackness, big thank you to dunk for inviting me to blog :) from me you'll see the occasional video from time to time.
im currently working on a website and a full length video, the website, is proving difficult, but the video is starting to take shape and should be done around febuary.
you can see the promo for the site/dvd here.
there's an archive of all vids on my myspace
enjoy!
for now here's my most recent video of webby, which hit 20,000 views in less than a week.
peace.

x

Whatever Yeah?

2008-10-21T21:12:00.004+01:00

Right where do I start?... First of all there are some extra pics from Budget Jam in the Media Section which Ride didn't use. Bruza did an awesome write up for Budget and I sent off a few pics. Here's what it looks like....

Forge is off to Canada in a couple of weeks, so as advertised we had a little jam down the log to see him off. Once again Josh did his thing with the timber and constructed a rather nice little kicker which adorned the drive way. The turnout was pretty good, everyone was riding around and having a jolly old time. I snapped a few piccies, up on the Media page.. Forge was the founder of i3MX which many of you may have visited time and time again before the days of Myspace. He will be missed, but I'm sure he will have a swell old time over the pond. Good luck Kris! Just in time for the sort of winter you don't want to fuck with.

On Sunday Me, Dayson, Mayo and Haggler (oh yeah and Roy. Can't forget Roy...) popped over to a secret spot which has been allocated to a rider from the old days who none of you will know. Currently at the secret location is a foam pit (with the foam still on the way), a dumper truck and not one, but two diggers. Smashing! The best bit about this spot is the fact that you pretty much have to pass through a petting zoo to get there, complete with a load of funny goats and some small horses. More pics to come, but here's some to keep you sweatting.....

Who the hell puts a foam pit in their garden??

Brighton Backyard 2008

2008-10-13T13:54:00.005+01:00

You thought the Backyard Jam was all over and done with right? I don't know when the last one happened in Brighton, it was a few years ago I know that much. I popped down to the coast this weekend with Old Man Forge to meet up with Merman, where he said about this backyard setup. So we rode of about 100 miles up hill to this guys house. I was expecting a 4 foot mini. Oh no, this is a proper job. 4 sided 5-6ft (ish) mini with [unfinished] vert wall, wallride and bowled corner. The transitions were tight and that combined with blinding sun in to black shade caused a few mishaps, but it was all good. It was a fun session, so cheers to Rich for allowing us to ride. Check the pics in the Media Section.

After the ramp we hit some street. Merman was shredding (his hands) and I got a sequence of Dunc - not me, a different one - going pegs 180.

I still can't believe the weather was good!

I almost forgot to mention, we went to see Curst Sons on Friday night. Good ol' country music. Actually amazing.

Don't forget the Jam next weekend!

RIP Kris Forge

2008-10-13T00:51:00.003+01:00

(Ride In Parts [of Canada]) that means.Yeah Kristian Forge the fabled BMXer of Farnborough second only to Chet Barrow local hero is skulking off to Canada for ever in a few weeks to live the dream like tree or a pole man. To commemorate this we will be holding the Kris Forge Memorial Jam on Saturday October 18th at Fboro wonderpark. Come down and do some stunts all up on yourself. If anyone has Josh Wiles number i need it asap.
So yeah, if you see

this chap, wish him well.

Sorry about the in jokes.

The weather looks like this by the way!
(At the time of writing the weather was looking good. Therollingimage.com can not take responsibility for changes barometric pressure)

Surprise!

2008-10-04T14:18:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the new look therollingimage.com. When I first created my website I intended it to be somewhat of a portfolio for all aspects of my photography. In the year or so that I have had Therollingimage I found that I rarely updated the parts that were nothing to do with BMX, so I have shelved them for the moment and made it BMX only. I'm pretty sure that the majority of you lot are only interested in the BMX side of things anyway.

I have created a new media section, so if I have a significant photo update to do you will find it there. As well as photo's up on here you should see the odd video or two from Mike King as well, who's always busy with is camera.

BO!

Therollingimage V3.0

Autophoto

Bet you didn't expect to see an update did you?!

Durka Durka!

Vert=good

Some Filum.

There's life in the old dog yet!

I say old chap, did one just acheive a full loop?

A month of shit and that....

Finger hookin' good!

The tunnel

Old/New/Filmy/Digi

Amity Bike Co ad

E gat an that beek an gan dan big yella leek

ummm, title gowes here...

Don't fear the Router

Mermanator

Some shit and that

Home gay

Ode to Hastings, my cruel lover.

Camp as a row of tents

Mores

Welcome to my velvet crease

You cand put a dick in a dick

Wizzler

Stupid boring fucking plane wank

I am literally going to Vancouver

Chicks And Bikes

Shit the flipping bed!

Interwank

Ross Penny photos

More Ross Penny ting

More jumps and shit

4A an ting

Boom Boom Pow

NEWS!!

Well I never!

PPP Okerface PPP Okerface ma ma ma ma

day 2

Floridaizzler

Radders!

Does Anyone Remember Gentle Ben?

Yeah!

Legit!

OK Here Goes...

Gotta love the weather

JDM Allstars

Run Awaaayyy!!

Fly Free Little Mikey......

MY AUTUMN WEB VIDEO

Ahhh Shit Son!

For crying out loud!

this is awesome..

Nothing to see here

LOL!

Ahh the glamour!

DUNK IS LITERALLY DECLARING WAR

Alright Mikey do this then!

Let's Play DARTS!

Arrash Saidi footage.

Hyper Massive Super Update!

Yeah rub it in mate....

DUNK CAN'T DO THIS..

Sorry everyone I'm a lazy lame loser who aliterates

Why haven't I thought of this before....?

You Ain't No Rockstar!

Viewing in Firefox - Public info notice

I told you I was going to do an update.....

Some Ride Articles

merry sifilis and a happy gonohhrea..

This is not an update

Jay Phelan

Zeal in Belfast

"Mr Griffin, i have M.S." "Oooh Chris, you hear that? He's got monkey scrotum.. And he's bragging about it.."

See More BMX Videos at VitalBMX.com

In the absence of actually riding....

I'm with Stupid

Put me to sleep with your kind boots Mr Fancyman...

ROLL ON..

NGTE Pyestock Exploration