Promotion Where It Counts

Stoked to get a mention about "The Learning Curve" on the Tuesday Skate Shop blog site. Tuesday is a small but well equipped shop just down the road from the newly re-made Cantelowes skate park in Camden so be sure to drop them a visit on your way to the park.

Keep up to date with what's happening at Tuesday by clicking the link in the newly made "Skate shop links" section on the right.

Steady Shot

A cold day of filming yesterday with Horsey and a friend of his called Kyle who is visiting London from his sunny home in Santa Cruz. They showed Styley and I a well hidden city spot which was a real gem but within about one minute we were confronted by an angry local resident armed with a digital camera to take some pics of us. His argument was that his wife was trying to sleep and the noise of us skating was unbearable. I say she should get out of bed before 2pm on a Saturday afternoon!

I did feel a bit sorry for him though as he was clearly shitting his pants as the four of us tried to persuade him to let us have ten more minutes. He was shaking like a leaf so I suggested he pressed the steady shot button on his camera. Another resident appeared armed with a walking stick so it was clear that this spot needed to be visited another time.

Ancient Spirit

Blogger has decided to be all new and snazzy with an updated version so I'm hoping these posts are still reaching you OK.

Planning to do a spot of filming tomorrow with some guys that are appearing in one of the two friends sections, but whatever happens it's too late to use it in "The Learning Curve" now as those friends sections are done.

Edson, the ancient spirit of evil, popped round to the editing suite today to peruse his, as yet unfinished, section's progress. It was touch and go for a while as our respective music choices clashed but happily a compromise has been reached and he's in! The only bad thing is that he left his new family member at home. Click image for a larger version of Edson and his hound.

Pod Boy

New podcast of Chris Ault available now. Remember, you can subscribe to the podcasts by simply clicking the subscribe image in the menu on the right. More coming soon.

Snap Happy

With the influx of photos from Ev continuing, I've decided to create a slideshow which will be included on "The Learning Curve" dvd as a bonus feature. Hopefully that way, those of you who purchase the dvd will have something extra to enjoy that might not appear on YouTube when some little oik decides to upload my work!

If you missed some of the previously uploaded images and can't be bothered to search them out on this blog then you could click here to see them all or use the "flickr photo album" link over on the right.

How Long Is A Piece Of String?

I've told myself "this is the last week of filming" several times now, but then a week of sunshine pops up and people are keen to get more stuff done. No complaints from me though. It just means that "The Learning Curve" keeps on growing like the proverbial uncontrollable weed and the release date stays somewhere on the horizon.

This last week has been fruitful in many ways though. Ev came out skating on Monday with Mike, Leo, Rimmer and myself and just as we were about to go home he produced a folder full of amazing photos that he had kept on the down low all day. That sneaky Russian comes through again.

Meanwhile I've been getting some filming done with Leo and Mike whilst Rimmer's dog Jas has been a bit ill so that has kept him busy in other ways. His trick list is written though so we'll be cracking on with that from this weekend.

Oh and how long is a piece of string? Twice the length of one end to the middle of course! Click image for larger version.

Mike, Rimmer and Leo.
Photo: Ev

Not Guilty M'Lud

Well, I am guilty for not updating this as often as I had been previously so apologies for that, but editing is consuming my soul and hurting my head.

But did you see that Rimmer and Leo have a double page "Guilty By Association" article in issue 122 of Sidewalk magazine? Stoked for them as it looks really good. Styley took the photos whilst I was lurking, so you can see the footage in "The Learning Curve".