Fixated

Those of you who are regular readers of Sidewalk magazine may remember Mike Sutcliffe's "Distractions" article which told of his interest in fixed gear bicycles, also known as "fixies" to those in the know. Well, when you're trying to film a line with Mike and someone rides past on a fixie you're best advised to turn the camera off and wait for him to finish chatting to the cyclist who caught his eye. Here's a snap of one such occasion captured by the Russian master. Click image for larger version.

Mike Sutcliffe
Photo: Ev

Mad Tech

It took a lot of confusing time and some furious head scratching moments whilst staring at mumbo jumbo computer code, but I finally managed to get a podcast up and running. Check it out if you have iTunes or use some other technical way of viewing it that I have yet to learn about.

The easy way to subscribe is to simply click the podcast icon in the "Video clips" menu on the right.

The more complicated way is to click the advanced tab above your iTunes window then select "Subscribe to podcast"; then in the window that opens, copy and paste this link http://feeds.feedburner.com/Jahlada and Bob's your auntie, it should all work and you can stick it on your video iPod.

Return Of The Mack

Evgeny is back in town so it was good to catch up with him at South Bank today. Hopefully he won't have lost that magic touch for producing fantastic photos while he was back in the motherland.

I also met up with Styley who had been shooting pics of Dan Cates earlier in the day on the roof of a church! The congregation inside were not too chuffed so when the vicar protested, Cates told him that he was simply trying to get closer to God. Almost as bad as one of Styley's jokes that.

The rest of the day involved Styley, Cates, Boots and myself driving around trying to find a café and then, once the hunger had been dealt with, watching Boots produce the goods at a little driveway spot that is a favourite of late. Photographic evidence of a truly ridiculous trick will be winging it's way to a magazine near you soon. In the meantime, here's a picture of Boots and his cheerleading squad. Click image for larger version.

Boots And His Fan Club
Photo: Styley

In His Presence

A return trip to Cantelowes left us reeling as none other than The Mighty Interweb Overlord Himself turned up and set about capturing souls deep into His ecto-containment system. Danny Brady did his best to appease The Evil One and it looked for a while as though he would survive but the cyber voodoo simply melted his trucks and they fell apart to our horror. Take a trip through the myskateordie portal of doom (link added) if you dare. I was terrified to do so but managed to film never before seen footage of Him so say your prayers and behold the voodoo camera in action!

Promotion

"The Learning Curve" has received a mention on the website so check it out either by clicking the logo above or by using the newly added link on the right (although it should already be one of the websites you visit each day). Thanks Percy.

Camden Smoothie

Edson, Mike, Leo, Billy, and myself all managed to get kicked out of every street spot we went to today although Edson's plea for "one more try" paid off and even got a couple of security guards clapping as he made his trick in front of them. After that, we headed to the newly finished small section of Cantelowes skatepark. There is currently only a small section open and usable, but peering into the adjacent building site revealed evidence that this place is going to be amazing! Here's a wee clip of Mike enjoying his second helping of new London concrete this week. Click it.

Helping Hands

I received a couple of tapes of footage from Morph and Guy today who are both really good filmers and so I'm stoked to be able to add their names to the fairly short list of contributing filmers for "The Learning Curve". Some good days of sunny weather are forecasted for the coming week too so capturing footage will have to take a back seat for a few more days.

Under Pressure

Self-imposed pressure, but pressure nonetheless. The unenviable task of capturing all the footage for "The Learning Curve" needs to be done. Here's proof that I have at least started though. That's Chris Peacock tailsliding the Shell Centre which is one of the first things I ever filmed (that's why the exposure's bad, haha).

Oh Chute

Summer decided to return today so I took a trip to the newly opened Mudchute skatepark to meet Mike. That place is amazing! I've heard good stuff about it and had a quick look through the fence before it was officially opened, but boy, now that I've skated it, I understand the hype. It's so much fun! Despite the usual kids with mountain bikes stuck in first gear there was loads of shredding going on as many familiar faces turned up throughout the afternoon and made the most of the sunny weather. My advice? Take a trip there soon. Click image for larger version.

Mike Sutcliffe
Photo: Ev

Breakages

I don't often film in supermarket car parks these days but that was where Leo added some manual roll trickery to his repertoire this afternoon, and Rimmer made a re-appearance after going missing for four weeks too! Turns out he had sustained a couple of broken toes at work by leaving his foot in the way of a large and heavy piece of rolling machinery. It wasn't broken toes that stopped him skating this evening though, a broken board did that instead.

Waffle

Had enough of my rambling? Well get yourself over to the new Flickr page where you can look at all the pretty pictures on their own. Link on the right.