Way up North

Mr James Coyle recently sent over a link to his first Newcastle scene video 'Way up North'. From 2008, W.U.N features sections from James himself, other Irish heads such as Dan Sammons and John Fleming, as well as Kurt Mitchell, Sunderland sex bomb Paul Morris and the north east's legendary man of the wild; Jimmy Boyce. Also featured is a Mischief section filmed by our greatly missed and fondly remembered friend Steven Binks, known to most simply as Bingo. Enjoy!

Way Up North 2008 from D.O.T.T on Vimeo.

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From The Toon to The Smoke

In the weeks leading up to my move to London and in the weeks following it I slowly shot a roll of 35mm film using my Praktika MTL3. I finished the roll over a month ago but it just sat in my room for weeks before I finally found the time to get it processed. But get it processed I did and below are the results starting with Newcastle. CLICK TO ENLARGE. Will with one of his noseblunt bonk thingy's way back in April. Dan pops off the end of Temple banks via a 5-0. The lack of Hurricane's in the atlantic ocean is apparently what's stopping us from having a summer as they force warm air our way. If this one from Jamie had the same affect on our global weather systems we'd all be basking in 30 degree heat. This well known North East spot was the destination on my last skate mission before I moved. Here will performs a cheeky nose pick as a farewell present. Jimbo gets his blunt on down below at the same spot. Now we have some shots from my new home of London town. Time is hard to come by at the minute so these are really the only shots I've taken (of skating that is) since being here. Will joined me for the opening of the newly revamped Kennington Bowl back in May. The highlight was him winning some shoes and getting knucks from Pontus for a nosegrind pop out. He still hasn't washed his hand. I didn't get a shot of said trick but did get one of this dude (can't remember his name) doing a legit bs noseblunt slide: The next shot pretty much sums up the majority of the time I have been in London. Rain, rain and more rain, this kid couldn't give two fucks though. To finish we have a shot from one of the few days that I have actually been street skating. Parlour Skate Store rider Simon De Oliveira busts out a nose slide on this pretty tall ledge with an even taller drop at the end. I'm back in Newcaslte this weekend so I'll hopefully have something blog next week when I return to London. Peace. BL.

London update

Hello again everyone. It's been a while now since I left the banks of the Tyne and moored up on the Thames so i thought I'd just give people a little update as to what has been going on and why there have been no posts whatsoever from me. Basically, work has taken over completely and I have little time for shooting photos as all I want to do with my time off is skate. I'm working in production as an assistant on music videos, short films, commercials etc. The most interesting thing I have done is available for you to view below, it's basically a crazy light show with flying robots. If you imagine Danny Way and Daewon Song had a love child then this is the light show version of that child; super tech and world record breaking (this many flying robots have never been programmed to fly together before). Enjoy. Hopefully I will be able to post some skate related stuff soon instead of over the top productions like this, it is a skate blog after all. BL.

D.O.T.T Tawee Lines

Dog resident iphone video blogger takes the canon for a drive at 5 bridges and chases Jamesc.

D.O.T.T Sunday Parking

Dan Main,James Coyle and Sean Tracy head indoors to jump into a giant bed and avoid gale who was kicking up a storm outside the walls of the park.

D.O.T.T Night Owls

Dan Main and Niall McDermott clock in at 5 bridges one evening to get a sess on.

James Coyle

I went on a couple of mission in the past few days with Coyle. Here's a still and sequence from each of said days.

This is a weird little spot in North Shields that we went to yesterday. Coyle ollies over the rail into the bank. CLICK TO ENLARGE.



Todays mission was to Hurworth where this quarter lies and where Coyle did this BS blunt to noseblunt.



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Bridges.

Just a couple of sequences from the past few days at bridges.

Jimbo with a back lip to cheeky switch crooks.



Will with a super stylish bs noseblunt bonk to fakie.



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D.O.T.T Blaydonly Niice

5 Bridges.

Today I went on a little mission with Dan and Jimbo to Temple park banks. I didn't shoot any digital shots whilst we were there but got a couple at bridges on the way back. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Dan with a steezy fakie flip.



Then Jimbo had the idea of doing some doubles. After a bit of timing issues the lads managed to get this front tail/backside ollie combo.



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D.O.T.T Guetto Owl's

March on film

This year March has brought some quite exsquisite weather with it, which is a far cry from the snow of last year. Throughout these hazy days I have been shooting a roll of 35mm film, recording the joys of skateboarding and chillin'. Here are the results for your viewing pleasure in chronilogical order. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Niall and Cherry chillin' at the heli-pad before the sun put his hat on.



A soft looking Jimbo performs a wallie at the heli-pad.



Dan with a nosegrind taken from a tree. I managed to get two birds stoned at once with this shot as I got to climb a tree and got a nice photo.



Dan and Adam on the floor.



This dodgy looking character was staying in a tent hidden in one of Gateshead many alcove's. According to his lass it was a bargain at just £17.99.



Dan, smith grind.



Check out the intense leg shapes on this 180 switch manual. Yes Dan!



Will, frontside nosegrind pop out in an ethereal haze.



Niall with a noseblunt at West Jesmond school.



Classic.



Art.



Will chills in Heaton Park as 'Booze Britain' unfolds around him.



To finish we have three of my favourite things; skateboarding, sunshine and a bottle of Dog. Happy Days.



We are entering what may be the final month of posting by me on Dog on the Tyne. I'm moving to London to try and make something of myself and I don't think I'll have much time for shooting photos at first. Who knows though, maybe one day Dog on the Thames will be born.

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Sequences

I went on a couple of missions in the past couple of days with Native riders Dan Main and James Coyle. Here are a few sequences from said missions.

On Sunday me and Jimbo went to this bank in Fenham where he did a cheeky little backside flip.



Today I went out with Dan to the huge manny pad by Asda in gateshead. He did this 180 fakie nose manny revert 3 times as he kept landing a bit dodgy but this one looks good to me.



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Will Creswick

Today I took Will to the boathouse ledge after we'd had a good sesion at 5 bridges with the homies. He's back smithed this ledge countless times but this time he did it with a 180 out making it considerably harder. Feast your eyes on the sequence below.



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Jan and Feb on Film

I shot a roll of Fuji 200 35mm film throughout the months of January and February. I used up a lot of the roll at Bingo's memorial Jam, the weather was pretty dyer on that day and because Fuji 200 works best in nice bright conditions it meant that a lot of the shots didn't turn out as I would have liked. The ones that did can be seen below along with shots from various other locations I visited.

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Matty Smith, BS wallride.



Jimbo, front tail.



Chillers.



Stitt, FS nosegrind.





The Wasteland looking pretty haggard.



Cherry with a broken equipment NBD.



To finish here's a few shots from our recent trip to the Heli pad.







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Dan Main

Dan has been getting on it recently and today was no exception. After a few failed attempts at shooting some sequences in Gateshead and town we went on a little mission to Wallsend where he got a couple of tricks. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Firstly we went to the Segedunum ledge. Anyone who has been before will know that the steepness of the hill makes it pretty hard to skate but Dan managed to land quite a few of these front smiths.



The next and final spot we hit was this little gap to rail where Dan got a quick K bonk.



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The Heli Pad.

Today a few of us went on a mission to Newcastle Heli Pad. Initially it doesn't seem worth climbing over two spikey fences for but it is actually an alright spot. I was mainly shooting film stills but did get the digi out to shoot a couple of sequences. Here they are:

Jimbo with a half cab nose manny shuv it.



Dan with a super silky backside flip fakie nose manny.



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Dan Main

Today I went on a little mission with Dan Main to try and shoot some stuff that might go towards a first light. We didn't end up getting anything mag worthy but we did get this wallride in Byker. Johnny has already been here with Dan but I never shoot when I go to this spot as I always end up skating it so I decided to go anyway and just used a different angle. He landed this one. CLICK TO ENLARGE.




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Durham

After last nights mission to Chester-le-street we continued on to Durham City centre to skate the recently installed granite ledges. There were drunk people everywhere which was funny and annoying in equal measure. Here's a little montage Coyle made.

D.O.T.T Durham from D.O.T.T on Vimeo.

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Chester-le-street

Tonight a few of us went on a little mission to Chester-le-Street to try and find a spot. We found it and it turned out to be a pretty good except that the run up was soaking wet. However this did not perterb Matty Smith who proceeded to ollie the rail into the bank frontside and backside. We're planning to go back on a dryer day and get some more tricks. CLICK TO ENLARGE.





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Peter Lally

After Bingo's Jam on Sunday a few of us went street skating in the centre of toon. Here's a shot of Peter Lally stylishly executing a backside lip slide on monument bench. CLICK TO ENLARGE.



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Bingo's Memorial Jam

It's hard to believe that it has been a year since we lost our beloved Bingo. Just like last year local scenes from all over the country came together at 5 bridges to celebrate the life of perhaps the U.K's greatest ever skateboarding ambassador. Also like last year the weather played it's part and half of bridges was soaking wet once again. However, spirits were not dampened and the turn out was nothing short of spectacular, perhaps not on the same level as last year but still a strong showing. I was shooting 35mm film for most of the day but heres a few digital snaps that I also shot. CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Matty Smith was on a mission and nailed some nice tricks on the big ledge including a beautiful frontside crooks, I wasn't shooting at the time but I did get this 50-50 180 out.



He also battled a 5-0 back 180 out for quite sometime which he was unable to get. Afterwards his face looked like this:



And his back looked like this.



Jamie Errington busted out this back tail 270 shuv with consumate ease. Very impressive.



This ollie to wallride down is also rather impressive when seen in person.



Lally, Bish and Baines.



Jimbo with a frontside hurricane.





Kurt.



Will and Boris.



Blinky.



Connor.



Mr Scott Cherry was killing it all day, especially in this portrait.



This switch 50-50 was the only skate shot I got of Cherry but it was one of the most impressive tricks of the day as this rail is wobbly, steep and surrounded by shitty ground so anything on it is pretty sick let a lone a switch 50.



All in all it was a great day once again and another great celebration of the wonderful life of Steven Binks. If you haven't already you should check out Andy Harker's piece on Bingo in Grey Magazine's newspaper style publication called 'The Edition'. Andy was one of Bingo's closest and oldest friends and he writes about him in a way that oozes love and admiration in a way that only the closest of friends can. MISCHIEF FOREVER.

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