Dan's first Native ad. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
Friday, 12 November 2010
Thursday, 4 November 2010
October on film
Sorry for the slackness over the last few weeks. Here's a mix of skating shots of the usual suspects and some others from my recent trip to London. The roll I used was Fuji Provia 200 , I shot it throughout October and hopefully it compensates slightly for the lack of blogging. The spool on my camera broke so I accidentally opened the back before the roll was back in the canister, fortunately I only lost a couple of images to the clutches of the suns rays and it actually had quite a satisfying affect on others. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
This image combines my mistake of exposing the roll to daylight and the mistake of the person who scanned it to create a photo that is potentially better than either of the images that conceived it. Sometimes mistakes breed success.
Brick Lane is a Hipsters paradise, there's street art and fixed gear bike shops as far as the eye can see. This piece of incredible street art is just off Brick Lane, it has been chipped out of the plaster on the side of a building, thinking about the skill and time that went into this blew my mind. The photo is by no means a piece of art but I had to document it.
Here we have my 7 year old cousin repping Slam City and giving society the finger. Or is it directed at me?
As most people know Covent Garden is full of eccentrics like this street performer. Well, someone who sits perfectly still in a costume isn't necessarily a performer in my book but they're still quite entrancing.
Me and Peter Lally were skating back from Mile End park when Lally noticed this furry little fella chilling on a fence post, I couldn't not blog him. He's a bit hard to spot but the other images I took of him were lost in a storm of incompetence.
Back to The Toon and to shooting skaters busting out advanced maneuvers.
Pigs in Wigs' MVP Dan Main executing a tight little tail slide from two angles.
Jamie Errington administers a dose of skateboarding medicine in the form of a backside noseblunt slide.
To finish we have Jamie in the latter stages of a backside tail to switch crooks. A trick that he polishes with style every time.
That's all for now but as the long nights set in I'll do my best to top the blog up like a Sunderland fan trying to top up their pride, it won't be easy.
Ben.
This image combines my mistake of exposing the roll to daylight and the mistake of the person who scanned it to create a photo that is potentially better than either of the images that conceived it. Sometimes mistakes breed success.
Brick Lane is a Hipsters paradise, there's street art and fixed gear bike shops as far as the eye can see. This piece of incredible street art is just off Brick Lane, it has been chipped out of the plaster on the side of a building, thinking about the skill and time that went into this blew my mind. The photo is by no means a piece of art but I had to document it.
Here we have my 7 year old cousin repping Slam City and giving society the finger. Or is it directed at me?
As most people know Covent Garden is full of eccentrics like this street performer. Well, someone who sits perfectly still in a costume isn't necessarily a performer in my book but they're still quite entrancing.
Me and Peter Lally were skating back from Mile End park when Lally noticed this furry little fella chilling on a fence post, I couldn't not blog him. He's a bit hard to spot but the other images I took of him were lost in a storm of incompetence.
Back to The Toon and to shooting skaters busting out advanced maneuvers.
Pigs in Wigs' MVP Dan Main executing a tight little tail slide from two angles.
Jamie Errington administers a dose of skateboarding medicine in the form of a backside noseblunt slide.
To finish we have Jamie in the latter stages of a backside tail to switch crooks. A trick that he polishes with style every time.
That's all for now but as the long nights set in I'll do my best to top the blog up like a Sunderland fan trying to top up their pride, it won't be easy.
Ben.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Archives
Here's a little mix of some old published shots and unused ones from the archives. Starting with Jamie Errington. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
Nose bonk.
A kick flip where strippers lurk.
A kick flip where Brown Ale once brewed.
Beasty half cab at the same spot.
Wallride nollie out or whatever you want to call it.
Joe hill fires out an XL hard flip with alien arm steeze to boot.
To finish we have a recent one of Mark varial heel flipping civic 8. He didn't make it on the day but said he was going back two days later.
Ben.
Nose bonk.
A kick flip where strippers lurk.
A kick flip where Brown Ale once brewed.
Beasty half cab at the same spot.
Wallride nollie out or whatever you want to call it.
Joe hill fires out an XL hard flip with alien arm steeze to boot.
To finish we have a recent one of Mark varial heel flipping civic 8. He didn't make it on the day but said he was going back two days later.
Ben.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Monday, 4 October 2010
Pigs in Wigs alterations
The premier date for Bish's latest work of art, 'Pigs in Wigs' has been changed from the 9th to the 16th of October. Be there or be square. Annoyingly I will be square as I'll be shredding the streets of London.
Ben.
Ben.
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Friday, 24 September 2010
Crayon Summer tour
Back in July Crayon Skateboards embarked on a short tour around the south of England visiting a number skateparks constructed by Wheelscape. Part one features skating from Chris Jones, Paul Cooper, Korahn Gayle, Welsh Tommy, Dan Wileman and our very own James Coyle. Kill City rider Nicky Howells and Motive rider Barney Page tagged along also.
Ben.
Ben.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Pigs in Wigs Premier
Krishna's Muthurangu's latest video project 'Pigs in Wigs' is nearing completion. Check the poster below for the premier details.
Monday, 20 September 2010
Jamie Errington
A couple of sequences from the other day. Tie dye in full affect.
Bigspin
Back side flip
Ben.
Bigspin
Back side flip
Ben.
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Randoms
Some random 35mm shots from the past few weeks. CLICK TO ENLARGE.
Always down with the Deekies.
Jamie with a BS noseblunt slide.
Freestyle Bicycle Motorcross Riding makes it's first appearance on Dog on the Tyne in the form of The Count.
He might still be little but Will skate's tall shit these days. FS Smith grind.
Matty and Will team up.
Matty loves a good slam. Here's the result of a recent one.
Ben.
Always down with the Deekies.
Jamie with a BS noseblunt slide.
Freestyle Bicycle Motorcross Riding makes it's first appearance on Dog on the Tyne in the form of The Count.
He might still be little but Will skate's tall shit these days. FS Smith grind.
Matty and Will team up.
Matty loves a good slam. Here's the result of a recent one.
Ben.
Monday, 6 September 2010
Friday, 3 September 2010
Big Push
I have been getting some stick recently for being extremely slack on the blogging front. This is perfectly justified as I haven't posted anything of great substance since before I went on Holiday on the 11th of August but that is about to change. This post will hopefully make up for some of the absence of updates, it is the first occasion on which well known skaters from around the country have made an appearance on this humble blog. Sidewalk magazine's 'Big Push' competition is the reason our haggard concrete was graced with the urethane wheels of various pros and ams all looking to travel and skate whatever they could. The guys from Shiner Distribution asked Dog on the Tyne's James Coyle to show them round so I tagged along with my 35mm in the hope of getting something worthy of blogging and with people like Scottish Skateboarding powerhouse Stu Graham in tow it would have been hard not to. None of the images have been edited in photoshop and they were all shot on 35mm film. CLICK TO ENLARGE
The guys from Shiner Dist. had been to a few spots in the morning but I met up with them at one of Newcastle's best known spots; Gap to bench. Carl 'Potter' Wilson got straight to work with a gap to lipslide.
Barney Page is one of the most talented skaters I have seen skate, he didn't land this back smith to gap out but he did plenty of other things that were not blogged.
All I know about this guy is that his name is Matt and he was injured. That didn't stop him from trying to backside lip slide the bench, unfortunately this was another trick that wasn't landed as we got the boot by the infamous 'Street Rangers' that lurk in every corner of town waiting pounce.
The boys watching on without an Englishman in sight.
The next stop for the Shiner team was Exhibition skate park. Not since the day the park opened have I been as excited to go, the prospect of watching Stu Graham blast around the bowl at mach 10 was hair raising.
Carl Wilson got straight to work when we arrived and pulled out a sick line starting with this front side ollie, finishing with the back smith below. There was a lien to tail between the two but I can't wind my film on that fast.
Stu started to get warm and was loving the bowl, which he hadn't skated for over 6 years. The smile says it all...or is ti a grimace?
Once he he was warmed up he really started to show the local radgies and BMXers what he could do, all of whom stopped riding their bikes in the bowl simply because one collision with this guy would leave you needing reconstructive surgery in at least one place on your body. This back side air over the deep end hip was done so nonchalantly that it didn't register at first, once it did I was already excited about getting the film back.
Carl then repeated his earlier line but this time he finished with a beaut of a backside tail slide.
Stu then tried this front side grind from deep to shallow, he didn't make it but I know he's done it before and it makes a nice photo.
Shiner's last trick in Newcastle was the best one I've ever seen done at Exi park. Carl was feeling the effects of a long couple of days of skating and travelling but persevered and stomped this front side flip over the channel. Annoyingly for me it was getting dark so I couldn't have done much to combat the motion blur.
After Carl landed his trick and we checked out the footage we headed over to brewery bank to unfortunately find a car sitting right in the way. It was getting on so we headed to Clayton street for fish & chips before the team headed off to Sheffield to continue their adventures throughout Britain's skateboarding countryside. Cheers to Jerome and all the skaters for being so sound and letting Dog on the Tyne tag along.
The next day I was pleasantly surprised to find the UK I-Path team skating at the waste ground, they were also on the big push.
Harry Lintell was going off and pulled out this back lip on the rail, he also back smithed the whole thing in a line which blew my mind.
I-Path brought a special guest along with them in the shape of Conhuir Lynn, another heavy hitter in the skateboarding world. He's a friend of Newcastle's Irish contingent and him and Coyle pulled out some nice doubles lines, here he is kickflipping into front side crooked grind.
My roll of film had run out by this point and I had no more as I was not expecting to be shooting with the I-Path team, so unfortunately this is where the Big Push Blog comes to an end. I hope this has made up for my slackness over the past 4 weeks. More non Big Push related blogging will be on its way shortly.
Ben.
The guys from Shiner Dist. had been to a few spots in the morning but I met up with them at one of Newcastle's best known spots; Gap to bench. Carl 'Potter' Wilson got straight to work with a gap to lipslide.
Barney Page is one of the most talented skaters I have seen skate, he didn't land this back smith to gap out but he did plenty of other things that were not blogged.
All I know about this guy is that his name is Matt and he was injured. That didn't stop him from trying to backside lip slide the bench, unfortunately this was another trick that wasn't landed as we got the boot by the infamous 'Street Rangers' that lurk in every corner of town waiting pounce.
The boys watching on without an Englishman in sight.
The next stop for the Shiner team was Exhibition skate park. Not since the day the park opened have I been as excited to go, the prospect of watching Stu Graham blast around the bowl at mach 10 was hair raising.
Carl Wilson got straight to work when we arrived and pulled out a sick line starting with this front side ollie, finishing with the back smith below. There was a lien to tail between the two but I can't wind my film on that fast.
Stu started to get warm and was loving the bowl, which he hadn't skated for over 6 years. The smile says it all...or is ti a grimace?
Once he he was warmed up he really started to show the local radgies and BMXers what he could do, all of whom stopped riding their bikes in the bowl simply because one collision with this guy would leave you needing reconstructive surgery in at least one place on your body. This back side air over the deep end hip was done so nonchalantly that it didn't register at first, once it did I was already excited about getting the film back.
Carl then repeated his earlier line but this time he finished with a beaut of a backside tail slide.
Stu then tried this front side grind from deep to shallow, he didn't make it but I know he's done it before and it makes a nice photo.
Shiner's last trick in Newcastle was the best one I've ever seen done at Exi park. Carl was feeling the effects of a long couple of days of skating and travelling but persevered and stomped this front side flip over the channel. Annoyingly for me it was getting dark so I couldn't have done much to combat the motion blur.
After Carl landed his trick and we checked out the footage we headed over to brewery bank to unfortunately find a car sitting right in the way. It was getting on so we headed to Clayton street for fish & chips before the team headed off to Sheffield to continue their adventures throughout Britain's skateboarding countryside. Cheers to Jerome and all the skaters for being so sound and letting Dog on the Tyne tag along.
The next day I was pleasantly surprised to find the UK I-Path team skating at the waste ground, they were also on the big push.
Harry Lintell was going off and pulled out this back lip on the rail, he also back smithed the whole thing in a line which blew my mind.
I-Path brought a special guest along with them in the shape of Conhuir Lynn, another heavy hitter in the skateboarding world. He's a friend of Newcastle's Irish contingent and him and Coyle pulled out some nice doubles lines, here he is kickflipping into front side crooked grind.
My roll of film had run out by this point and I had no more as I was not expecting to be shooting with the I-Path team, so unfortunately this is where the Big Push Blog comes to an end. I hope this has made up for my slackness over the past 4 weeks. More non Big Push related blogging will be on its way shortly.
Ben.
Monday, 23 August 2010
cardiff plaza opening
check the video below on the crossfire site!
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/spot-check-cardiff-barrage-plaza/
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/spot-check-cardiff-barrage-plaza/
Friday, 20 August 2010
James Coyle offcuts
Here's some throwaway from Native rider James Coyle to keep you occupied whilst he finishes up his latest video project.
James coyle bits,bobs and bails offcutts >>
James coyle bits,bobs and bails offcutts >>
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Midnight Flames
Get good people, Grab a tent, get into the forest, snort some buckfast, stare into the flames and enjoy the simpler things.
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