Wednesday 18 September 2013

things sir things

Hello!

Here's some things that I have made.

 Rabbit Carrot says, eat yo greens! not yo oranges!


I tried to make somebody who looked as if they were real and it kind of worked! a bit! kerpow! So I made this with photoshop brushes, digital painting, call it what you will. Only took one sitting which was pleasing.




I spent too long in close proximity to Cult's Hurtler wheels and it all got a bit funny after that.




On reflection this crop looks better than the reet shit rest of the design that I made. 




I thought "fucking hell it's going to be a rather arduous task to bring to life some wings that look vaguely real" and then I got started after looking at some pictures and it all went not too bad.


Those wings belong to this person. She also has a damn hench sword and a cool suit of armour and is going to take EFFFFF INGGGGG ages to bring into existence. But I have all the time in the world so it will happen.

Now lets draw a line under that

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Anyway, other things.

I think it would be a good thing, and have started, to avoid sitting through adverts on telly and instead spend the time doing something else entirely, something productive or at least better. I think you can come up with a damn good advert that even upon repeated viewing retains it's ability to add amusement or whatever to the lives of the viewers, however, most are bloody shit. Lazy and shit. Lazy and shit and shit and lazy. And so (why do I remember something about it not being good to start sentences with "and"?)

and so (I do what I want!!!! hahaha)

AND SO,

I think that it is a good thing to listen to music, read something, learn something or even mute the damn thing and recline in ones seating arrangements and have a chill. I don't watch that much telly anyway but have recently got fully into the Big Bang Theory, at first merely to justify owning a "Bazinga" shirt and then because it's really rather good. It grows on you. 
Such advert break activities for me have included listening to my Ipod and trying to memorise camera things (yeah I know nothing but I'm learning).

(perhaps if I spent the advert breaks doing press ups or something I might not have the strength of a paper plate that's been somewhat neglected)

on the topic of television, I wonder when the next series of Utopia commences because tis a fine, fine program and furthermore you should all watch eeeeet.


ye.







au revoir

bonne nuit

asta manana

hasta luego
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me gustaria una tortuga!!!!
 (thats probably the longest line of any language I for some reason memorised. translate it, you might find it useful if ever you find yourself alone and bewildered in a spanish pet shop)





Monday 2 September 2013

all teh vandems


Hello!

The Vandem Freeride went down! It brought all manner of excellent things. Here are a selection of them.

  • Taking a first run and footbraking into everything before quickly learning I wouldn't have to do that any more.
  • Having a speed trap with the board facing you to "incentivise" a vaguely aerodynamic tuck into weary legs
  • Totally legitimately overtaking Oli/him giving it a large airbrake and waving me through
  • Greetings from Pete as he zoomed by not 30 seconds off the push
  • Being happy as hell
  • Hearing music in your head whilst in your tuck/sequel office space from edits of the event you are skating at right now
  • The Chris Vanstone-Richard Auden Early Morning Hungover Winch For Escorting Large Objects From Pretend Guard Towers Procedure (T.C.V.R.A.E.M.H.W.F.E.L.O.F.P.G.T.P)
  • being happy as eff
  • thinking that it would be nice to have an enjoyable job, habitable vehicle and be able to make it to these things everywhere
  • Ready to skate sunday morning and seeing the residents of the campsite extract themselves from their alcohol fuelled stupors with varying degrees of success
  • running for vans
  • having traffic altercations in the uplift vehicles that were equally as entertaining as some of the questionable shenanigans being pulled on the hill
  • bringing enough lunch on the second day
  • Seeing and hearing how bloody happy everyone was
  • hearing people talk about how epic their last run was
  • having "cult wheels shred your mind" stickered on my leathers only for it to become "cult wheels shred" and hoping it wouldn't just become a shoddily cut up single gaffer taped on sticker
  • people not walking around on the hill
  • learning that one bend was called "The Wet Patch" but it wasn't actually wet
  • making up for not being very quick by tucking everything in sight and apexinging the living hell out of anything even slightly resembling an apex
  • being really fucking happy
  • enjoying fast runs as much as slow ones
  • putting in colemans to toesides in the shutdown zone and pretending to be Dom Kowalski
  • Hopping over bits of hay like an overexuberant giraffe
  • Bemoaning my tall but utterly made of nothing frame and decidedly tired tuck as I didn't get to the safety of the corners before the Borek caught up
  • pushing like it was a race to escape the "freeriders" and their art of dragging shenanigans from the most mundane scenarios
  • not getting overtaken by a grom
  • being able to sort of "keep up" with the faster dudes
  • being really, really effffff inngggggg happy

I think that's it for now. Thank you to everyone who made the thing happen and everyone who I shared the hill with. I love skating down hills and can't wait to do it all again soon.

Will