2 Things...

The first one is amazing. How Sean Burns isn't dead 10 times over I'll never know.

And this one just made me LOL for about 40 seconds. Cat's don't like the wet, but they are too lar-de-dar to make a fuss.
wet kitten

G33k T4lk

In case you are interested, here is what equipment I use. Some of which stays in my bag all of the time, other things I just take with me when I know I'll need it.

1. Tamrac Expediton 7 Camera bag. Pretty big, deep enough to carry a camera with a grip attached.
2. Lowe Pro something or other, pretty small but useful if you're just having a dander around the woods.
3. Nikon D200 with grip thing. I'm not a Nikon vs Canon type. I just use a Nikon because that's what I started with, and that's what I know about.
4. The behemoth. This flash is about as old as me, used to be my dads. It's about as sophisticated as a telegraph pole, but I love it.
5. Nikon SB-28. A few battle scars, worth nothing on Ebay now but still works perfectly.
6. Nikon SB-600. Not much good off camera because it's a bit weak, but good for i-TTL fill in, on camera occasions.
7. 3x Pocket Wizard plus II's. They're good. I like them.
8. General selection of Flash sync cables. A bit of a hotch botch collection. If you need a spare, I've probably got one.
9. DIY PW mounting rods. I haven't patented these yet so please don't do it before me. Made of pens.
10. Nikon 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 VR. Good if the lights good too.
11. Sigma 10-20 my old wide angle. Don't use it for BMX photo's anymore but still good for the odd landscape.
12. Nikon 10.5mm f2.8. My second favourite lens.
13. Nikon 50mm f1.8 Cheap for some odd reason, my favourite lens for sure.
14. Extension tubes. Not used very often, but pretty good fun on a rainy sunday if you want to photograph dead bees.
15. Sekonic L308B Light Meter. I only use it for flash metering, i'm sure it does more but I didn't get that far through the book.
16. Remote shutter release button. I use it for artfag stuff when i don't want camera shake.
17. Spare memory cards, battery and card reader.
18. Battery Charger.
19. Lens filters for fagging the art.
20. Filter holder. It holds filters
21. Flexi flash cable. Rarely used these days.
22. Tilt flash brackets.
23. Portaflash light stands. Purchased just before Jessops bought out Portaflash and doubled the price.
24. White brollies for portraits. Hardly ever used, but they cost me £4 off ebay so it would be silly not to have 'em.
25. Cheap but reliable tripod, no brand.
26. Cleaning stuff
27. Portable thought capture device. Limited storage space. (Note Pad)

There you go. Who cares.

Beers For Cheers Vid

Pull up push down pull up push down pull up.......

I'm oop north at the moment, well it's probably the midlands actually. Cheshire to be exact, I dunno, it's where they talk different. Anyway I'm on a training course so i'm in a hotel for a couple of days, living like Alan Partridge, although I haven't made friends with any geordie barmen yet. Anyway, I took my bike because I was planning to go to Warrington which has a load of concrete bowls, but it tuns out it's further than I thought, and it rained a bit today so it might have been a wasted journey. I did an interweb search on something called Google, it's a 'search engine', you probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty hi-tech. Anyway I searched for BMX stuff here in Cheshire and I came across this brand new track they built, somewhat in preparation for 2012 olympics (for training) but I guess more just for kids to do something good. Now I used to ride at Farnham BMX track years ago, and back then it was one of the best in the country, quite steep and lots of jumps instead of rollers. i turned up here (on gate practice night) and was A) pretty amazed at just how dialled and actually well built this place is,and B) even a bit scared because the doubles all have really steep lips compared to what used to be (I was never a racer or anything, but I rode a fair few tracks. Maybe i'm just getting old and scared. I seem to remember being quite fit but I was sweating like Jeremy Beadle in a glove shop after 3 times round. I didn't need to peddle, I still got the pump! Some of the kids were pretty much going as fast as you could go, it was cool. I love how kids/people in general who race are a totally different breed of BMXer. No flashy shit, usually in trackies, poles apart from the fash skatepark twats we see all too much of.
I love watching racing and can't wait to see it in the olympics. Go here http://cheshireghostriders.blogspot.com/ to see their website.
There is a small skate plaza behind it too to keep the wood pushers happy. Pay a visit if you're passing through, it's in Tipkinder Park on Victoria Ave in Crewe.

TheRollingImage.Com Gets Fancy

Hey Y'all

I finally got round to getting this website of mine to look nice. If you just saw my old website pop up, use your refresh button and the new one should appear. i have some media to upload but it may have to wait a while. Keep popping back to see what's new.

I'm not sure how much i will be using the blogger page from now on, it depends how much hassle it is without it.

Come back soon!

Haggler On ZEAL

More old news now. Or new news if you didn't know already...

Mr.Hitchcox from ZEAL hooked Mr Andy 'Haggler' Hall up with some lovely new parts, i.e. most of a bike. He's riding a Sputnic with Superstar, Sputnic and Mankind parts. Its fresh as a daisy, and since his bike was put together by people who know how to put a bike together it is pretty bloody dialled. Even the wheels which never went round go round now (he'd pretty much have to pedal downhill to keep up with the people coasting along before now).


Haggler engraving his postcode in his frame incase the Finchampsted mafia have it away like.















Yeah new bike. It won't stay like this for long I'm sure....















See....















He didn't.

Well done son.

Arrrr! Soo close.

I'm a slack old thing sometimes, hence the reason i'm only just putting up pics from 2 weekends ago. Maybe it was one weekend ago, i dunno, it was when the snow happened. Anyway we went to sheffield to see Snowy aka Green Bike Steve (nobody knows him as snowy up there - he's trying to hide from that one) and do some riding. The weather was shit so we had to go indoors. I couldn't even ride cos i had a fat painful hand after mashing it up a bit, so i just hung out and took some pics.

Anyway my main point here is the most brazen thing i've seen for ages. At leeds park there is a 6 or 7 foot bowl with a big iron support set back about 5 feet. Mayo wanted to walltap it, and kind of suggested over a cuppa that he wanted hag to footjam it. We laughed, with our little fingers pointing in the air (because we drink tea like that). The we suggested that to Hag, and he went a bit quiet, which normally means he want to do it.

Long story short... session on. Mayo getting right up there - it's brazen enough for a walltap, and at least you can pull back out of a walltap. Hag and mayo keep hitting this thing time and time again, Mayo pulled it in the end. Hags bike was getting so fucked every time he jumped off (more than it normally is), it would bounce off the coping and go cartwheeling in to the bowl. He was getting bruised feet too. Still carried on though. He was soooo close to this. I reckon he could have scammed it a couple of times too, just not to be this time. The pics came out good so i'm putting them up anyway.

Black is another close but no cigar winner, just failing to pull the toothpic on the sub a few times. He officially has the best toothpics. Just hanging up a bit on the way in. It's coming though, and it's gonna be good.














































































When we weren't being in an indoor park we were being in an outdoor not park trying to find this reservoir halfpipe. Snowy is crap at directions. Probably as bad, if not worse than Dayson. Anyway we found it in the end. It was cold. It wasn't snowing to start with so the bikes came out. Then immediately after people were ready to ride the blizzard happened. It was fun anyway, maybe less fun for the ones who had to take their bikes apart again and try to get them in the car in minus 40.
















Bodywarmth

































No thanks....



























Rad.

Angle Iron Coping vs Super 7KA

Yeah, just in case you ever wondered who the winner would be in a fight between a grind box with angle-iron coping and an Odyssey Super SevenKA rim then I have the answer for you.























Grind Box - 1
Shodyssey Rim - 0

click the pic if you want it in detail!

U-G-L-Y You Ain't Got No Alibi You Ugleh!

Said Joanne, my beautiful ladywife to me one morning. That's not strictly true, but I am pretty ugly. So i decided to try this thing I saw on American Psycho. It's something girls do. Imagine my delight when I found out I could buy one for a mere 98p from Asda, and it's a mans one. I guess that just means it's got more in it because we have bigger faces.

Remember at school when you put glue over your hand, waited for it to dry, then peeled it off pretending it was skin? This is the same except you are allowed to do it. It would take about 30 sachets to cover your whole body (in Joannes estimation).

1. Open Packet of purple man cream N/H



















2. Apply to face, become shiny, wait 20 mins while looking thoughtful. Don't move.














3. Stand in front of large (dirty) hallway mirror.















4. Start Peeling!














5. Take your time. Try and get it on one piece, like after bad sunburn. (you can't eat if after though).















6. Pull it around a bit while wifey takes pictures.




















7. Show all the dead skin stuck to glue.



















8. Have a tanned face in the mirror- continue to peel















9. Make a funny skin/glue hood















10. Put in the scary eyes. Wash before use. Don't share with others.















11. Look dashing with a beard and contemplate keeping on face for a day or 2



















12. Complete removal of glue















13. Get the bits you missed (try not to get it stuck in your eyebrows because that hurts getting it off.)















14. Triumphantly display first successful facial peel and stroke clean face.
















15. (not pictured) Wrap up in a warm blanket, watch dancing and boybands on Youtube for 2 hours while eating jellybeans.


I never said I was Rock and Roll!

A whole load of no handers

Hey you Guuuyysss!

First of all, you may have read on here a few months back that i did some pics for Mankind rider Martyn Cooper, through Zeal for an ad. Well at last one of them made it in to a mag, I believe it is a full page, in the next Ride UK. Stoked. I haven't seen it in reality yet, but it should look like this...























Also, in other non related news, I have another pic of Dayson from sheep hills. I can't really put it in the proper gallery bit... But why? I hear you ask.....Just keep looking, you'll figure it out....























LOL out loud.

Some new pics

I stuck up a couple more artfaggy pcs in the Dero, Travel and People sections.

Kaliphornia!

Hello.

I've just got back from 10 days in Cali so I thought I'd do a little trip report type thing seeing as i never write stuff any more.

Basically Me, Dayson, Haggler and Mayo went over to see Arrash to ride bikes and have some fun in the sun. The idea was to go and ride all the brill spots that Arrash rides, go to S&M to see bikes being made, and visit all the famous riding spots that we've seen in videos over the past 10 years. As it turned out all did not go perfectly according to plan.

For a start Arrash had to work the whole week, unexpectedly for him and unfortunate for us. Then there was the weather. While the week started off very promisingly indeed, with lovely twentysomething degreeses and enough sun to get some colour on my milky complexion, it eventually turned a bit grey and drizzly, writing off at least 3 whole days of riding.

So day one, or should I say day -1, seeing as we had literally got there, dumped our bags and gone straight out, turned out to be fairly eventful. As some of you may know Haggler has had long messy hair now for a while. He never washes it and there was a KFC stuck in there for three weeks before he realised. The smell was pretty bad and it wasn't until he found a rat nibbling at the chicken bones while he slept that he even knew it was there. Anyway we all got pissed and Arrash made him take it all off. Then after they had finished he got the clippers and shaved Hags glorious locks. Matt (an old friend of Hag and Arash) briefly tried to talk him out of it, then ended up with the same treatment. All the while the sound track to Romper Stomper played on a loop. Observe.

Then we chilled for a bit and then dragged dayson out from his sleepy hole.

The following day we went and picked mayo up and went to some concrete parks where i got a couple of pics of Arrash doing a lovely onefoot downtable over the hip, but not before riding Snoop Doggs old high school in Ling Beach. That's right kids, Snoopy Dee Oh Double Gizzle's old High Schizzle Biatch!. On Monday we went to Huntington Beach where mayo made friends with a mad old lady which was fun. Nice and warm, I got a good base tan. Then we went to Sheep Hills where Dayson did a good few jumps.

I think the next day we rode some drainage ditches. I can't remember, i may have a load of stuff in the wrong order, but anyway we still went there. The first one was a mission trying to find, and we weren't supposed to be in there, and when we finally got in there it was wet, but Dayson and Hag got a wallride or 2 in each. We didn't stay long and instead went to Santa Ana Banks. It was pretty cool there, it's a HUGE drainage ditch with massive bank to wallrides there. There's loads of clips in Etnies Forward of that place. So we did some wallrides, and some manuals, and laughed at this mental tramp who thought we were trying to hurt his kid (actually it was his dog, but he kept referring to it as his kid) He was quite animated, he was going on and on like a broken record, saying we were spawn of Satan or something, and ending every sentence with "Asshole" "Dipshit" "Jerkoff" "Loser" and other related insults. I told him his kid had a limp. Mayo thought he was going to shoot us. We had time to take some amazing group pics before we had to go and get Roy the Boy from LAX.

We had a good booze up that night. Mayo did something amazing which i'm not allowed to post up on here, We only had eggs and booze in the fridge, Haggler rolled a snooty roach (in fact he rolled 2 snooty roaches, by pure coincidence) and Roy built a small piece of England to sleep in. Mustang.

I think the next day was raining so we went to Hollywood. We drove right up to the sign and took some pics. I made it look like mayo was pushing it in to Hags mouth. It wasn't funny. Then we went on to Hollywood Blvd which was mainly off limits due to the Oscars preparations. We saw a lunar eclipse, R2D2's foot prints in the floor, some Scientologsts trying to brainwash the public with a free stress test (where as soon as you sit at their table a big actor jumps out and puts you in a sack then takes you to a cinema like in A Clockwork Orange and subjects you to brainwashing images of Tom Cruise and some other famous scientologists), and a rapper dude who stitched us right up by selling us his 'album' which only had 1 track on it. It was only $3, but it's the principle of the matter. He'll probably spend that on smack.

I think the next day might have been raining too, or it might not, but one of the days we went on a drive to try and reach a road called the 138. It was quite a fun jaunt, we ended up going up some big windy roads and saw some massive dam with a huge chute for the water which we discussed riding down for ages, as to whether it would be possible and what would happen if you did. A bit further up the road we got out to check out this road which had been washed away and played around by the river. Mayo was looking for snakes and we got really wet. We never got to the 138 because the road was closed, so we walked up a hill instead. It was cool, there was a good view and Dayson slid down the side a got a big rock up his arse.

I can't really remember what went on between then and going home, we rode a bit, we got drunk with Arrashs mates band who are all funny and hairy (apart from Ace who is not hairy, but he is funny and Chinese or something). We went to a club and got drunk then came back to the house and everyone wrestled. It was well alpha. We rode home all piled in this van all on top of each other. Dayson bought a pasty which we took off him and chewed up without tearing the wrapper, so it was all mush inside. I called up Gina, an old flame. A really old flame. She couldn't bring the Mustang over. Mayo was gutted.

On the final day the weather was good, then it went shit so we went to see Grotbags in his pub. I saw Todd Lyons there, I was stoked. I was also stoked on the orange early twentys year old guy with massive guns and a ridiculous plastic surgery face. And I was even more stoked when he started driving round in his Lambo, doing circuits with the window down. He looked pretty much into himself. I bet he's got a small dick. It dried up eventually so we went to se Hidden Valley trails but couldn't ride, then went to ride the Civic Ctr, another well famous video spot. I wanted to do this rail really badly, but we go kicked out before i could do it. I was gutted because I just wanted to do something good before I had to come home. After Civic we visited UCI, a college which features a lot in Nowhere Fast. Straight away there's this massive rail in front of us. I couldn't leave it because I would have regretted it so after a few bitch runs i went down it. i nearly got it first go but didn't come off the kink. i got a snake bite before i pulled it properly so i was a bit gutted, then suddenly my tire just stopped deflating. I seized the moment and got it after 2 more goes. dayson got a pic which I'm stoked on, proper scary like. That college is amazing, ledges, rails, grind blocks, gaps the whole lot. Haggler hopped up a loading bay using a 1 inch high kicker. Only he could do that. Dayson and Arrash were eyeing up a rail gap of death but chose to leave it seeing as the landing was really wet and steep. Probably for the best.

So the next day Me and Dayson had to go home. despite the rain it was still a really fun trip. Always fun to hang out with Arrash-cheers for the sofa! and everyone else. Next time I go back i just hope the weather is a bit better!

Cheers for the fun times chaps!

Duncan