Secrets......

Last week I went to Brighton to see Merman and Dayson. Haggler and Moses were hanging around too having spent the night there getting up to no good. Merman took us to the not-so-secret warehouse/ghetto ramp setup they have there, which was super cool. I was expecting some really shady ramps with holes in, but was actually pretty surprised at the quality. The cool thing about this place, as with most ghetto setups, is the fact that you can't just ride it first time round, it takes quite some getting used to. I'm definately going back there to ride it, it probably won't be there much longer.

Lemme Explain....

It was a Friday night, last Friday in fact. It was pissing down with rain and Me, Moses and Haggler were preparing for massive night out in Wokingham. Massive. Anyway, cut a long story short, there is a tree at the end of Hagglers driveway, it's pretty old with knots and stuff on it. As we opened to the front door to greet the taximan, a great thing stood before us. Like the Turin shroud, or statue of the virgin Mary crying blood. Where the rain was running down this tree the water marks made a perfect face. Not any perfect face though, but Lemme from Motorhead. And not just a little bit either, where you have to sort of squint a bit, but 100% Lemme Kilmisters face, right there in wood and water, 8 feet off the ground and about 4 feet top to bottom. It was the highlight of the night, like I said, we were about to go out in Wokingham. Anyway, judge for yourselves. You won't be disappointed!

Burnley Allnighter

I went on a small roadtrip this weekend with Hitchcox and Big Money Brian. We went to Corby first and met up with Bellerby, Briggs and Hammerfist Lee Boyle, which was well busy as usual but pretty good fun. They headed off home after the session while we headed up to Interact in Burnley for an allnight jam. We got there about 11 and started riding. When I say riding I mean [Me and Brian] mostly sitting and watching the rediculous show, like young Harry Maine from Liverpool doing some flair-540 tyretap (almost to whip in! - Which i'm sure he's done already) and stupid stupid high airs with some really nice snappy inverts thrown in. I didn't get any pictures of this unfortunately due to his tyre splitting. Gay. I did however get a couple of pics of a nice chap called Jason Phelan who is another Rampworx local. He lookes like a ginger/blondish Howard Moon from The Mighty Boosh (to me anyway), and was doing some rad shit. Flairs out the 9 foot over head height, and massive pocket airs - with a barspin thrown in too. Have a look!

STREEEET!!

Mr Zeal rang me the other day to see if was up for taking a few pics of him, riding some street and what not. The weather's been pretty rubbish lately, but it was dry all day so it was all on. Until 5.30 when i left work and the heavens opened. James was already on the way so we had a cup of tea and then headed out to the underground. To my surprise there was actually a pretty fun session going on. I got a few pics of James and Ashley doing a mahoosive hop, so all was not lost. They're up in the BMX section. Peep them up!

Animals!

I've been taking a few pet pictures lately. My friend Iain got a cat who I wanted to take pics of, and my sister also got 2 new cats at the same time. My mum is a dog-sitter, where she looks after peoples dogs when they go away on holiday, rather than putting them in a kennel. She sometimes gets some funny characters in, like Betty a fat Bassett Hound who looks like a seal when she rolls on her back. I have put in a new section for Animals because I'm sure there will be more. Go and have a look!

Down and Out

Well it looks like Haggler has broken his hand and may be out for a good few weeks. This sucks because it means i pretty much have nobody to ride with. On the plus side though I did just stumble across a wicked picture of him I forgot all about. Nothing fancy, just chilling at Farnborough. Go have a peep. x

Wales and that

My legs are still aching a bit after going to the Brecon Beacons in Wales over the weekend with my Dad. We walked a few miles on Saturday, we took a trip up Pen Y Fan in the afternoon even though it was pretty cloudy. We didn't go to the top because of the weather, and I'm pretty sure the view would have been amazing on a clear day.

On Sunday we spent a few hours on the edge of death tying not to fall off rocks in to the waterfalls below. I can't remember the names of any of the falls, but they were all pretty cool. It would be good to go there with someone with local knowledge because I'm sure there are some much better photo opportunities than i got. You can See the pics in the Travel section.

In other news I just got a Holga. If you're an art student the chances are you'll already know about these, but i only just got told about them. Basically it's a really plasticky, cheap medium format camera from China, with very basic controls and unpredictable (but in a good way) results. To see more about Holgas go here



As you can see, I have a rather advanced model, complete with a real hot-shoe to attach a flash, 2 apertures (one of which is completely useless) and 4 focusing distances. Not forgetting of course a thread for a tripod.

The sad thing is I actually had a dream about this camera i was so excited about getting it.

Jeesus!

Oh yeah, I stuck up some more pics in the People section, mostly from Gay Pride in Brighton over the summer. Go there NoW!! QUICK!