Fiasco Skateboarding.com – Live from the South Coast

Apparently I’m supposed to be putting things to do with skateboarding on this website! So after getting boozy every Tuesday night in Portsmouth and punching my mates in the face, Cam and I always rectify our sins by attempting to do some skateboarding the day after. Growing bored of the concrete prison that is Emsworth skatepark, we decided to ‘take it back to the old-school’ and skate Milton for a change. So here’s some photographical evidence that we did actually do this:

I have also noticed that my friends come out with some cracking lines now and then, so I’ve decided that when I remember them, I’m going to add a quote of the day to the end of my posts. These will probably only be funny to me, but it’s my blog, so shut it:

“On a scale of zerra to terra, how much terra are we reppin right now?” – Mike on us wearing matching orange & green sunglasses.

On Tuesday, after being kicked out of the only room where we can actually work due to a class of 14 year-olds coming to visit, our teacher decided that it would be a good idea to give 4 very immature teenagers a £2k HD camera to play with. After showing us the ropes, the four of us were dismissed outside to explore the big bad world of high definition. The word ‘skatepark’ instantly sprung to mind. After marveling at the greatness of this little machine and getting some rather lovely looking footage, we headed back to capture. Capturing went well, and I managed to blag an external hard drive to take the footage home on, blissfully unaware of how incompatible HD video is with everything.  Instead of explaining them, here’s a list of problems I encountered:

- The footage would not play on my computer, in any application, and Google was no help.

-The footage would not play on any other Macs in my college apart from the Mac Pros, which were being used by another class today, so I had to get in there at lunch.

-Took about half an hour to find the right settings to convert the footage  so I could play them at home, without loosing the high definition.

-Took about 2 hours to convert all the clips.

-Logged out of the computer after the render to go to the car to get my iPod to use it as a hard drive, as all the college ones were booked out. Tried to log back in and remembered the footage is on my mate’s account, who had gone home and doesn’t have a phone that works.

-Had to wait half an hour to transfer it all to my iPod after managing to log in, then had to wait this again when I got home to transfer it all to my PC.

-Premiere Pro froze halfway through editing and I hadn’t saved it, had to start again.

-I finished editing at 8.30, and it’s taken me this long to get the right uncompressed HD settings to export out of Premiere, and the right settings for Sorenson Squeeze.

So after all that stress, here’s some HD footage of Mike King (who recently got his new website up) riding Guildford skatepark. Although this compression doesn’t really do the quality justice, HD cameras are definitely NOT overrated; the uncompressed files look amazing.

Or click here for a smaller version.

I do have some skateboarding footage that I thought I would get up tonight, but evidently not, so bare with me for that.

Apparently this is what we do now when we’re not skateboarding. After the boozer at Cam’s house last night things got a little out of hand:

Skateboarding footage tomorrow!

Well, today Dad, I Photoshopped Madonna’s face onto Sylvester Stallone’s body and drew a cock in her hand.

I also did something productive for a change – we borrowed an HD camera and filmed some stuff of my mate riding at the skatepark, but the captured files won’t play on my computer so I’m gonna have to wait until I go back to college on Thursday to convert them into something a little more friendly, which is annoying because it looked amazing.

Speaking of cocks, check this out – Epic.

AKA the worst part of web design.

Problems with this site in Internet Explorer:

1) Search box doesn’t work

2) Categories & Archive links in the sidebar don’t appear where I want them

3) Bottom of post titles get cut off

4) IE = fail in general

Problems with this site in Safari:

1) Tag cloud is in some shit gray box, but only in Safari 4 BETA so that will probably get fixed.

2) There is a small gap at the top of the page before the header background

No problems found with Firefox or Opera! I’ll try and get it working with the rest… Or everyone could just use Firefox, a much easier alternative!

Getting this text from Paget earlier made me laugh:

That photo was taken with a camera that I borrowed from college, that was due back on the second of this month. I thought that I had managed to blag it out of their system and it was mine forever, until my dreams were shattered today when I got a voicemail from them saying that they need it back ASAP. Gutted.  I’ve used it quite a lot since I borrowed it to get my money’s worth, so I’ll upload some photos here during the week. I’ve still got my camera phone though!

Morning all. Here’s the first installment of a new weekly feature where Paget the human footage archive sends me a link to some proper sick footage of some guy no one has ever herd of to brighten up your Monday Morning. To get the ball rolling we’ve got Shane O’Neil getting rad:

That has definitely got me stoked about going to work…