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Skegness Summer 2010!

Max — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:53:35 +0000

A couple of weeks ago three cars full of rowdy skateboarders hit the motorway up to the concrete wonderland of Skegness. The majority of us stayed at Adam’s house the night before for convenience, and Smither & I were banished to the outhouse to spend the night. Smither spent a good hour pacing around because he saw a spider and apparently gets chronic fear & insomnia about it. He then braved it onto the sofa, and three hours later at 6 in the fucking morning a very ecstatic looking Adam Keys burst through the door. In all honesty, I was not pleased to see him. Before I even knew what day it was we were in Smither’s deathtrapmobile heading to the nearest petrol station. A double shot latte and an all day breakfast triple was just what the doctor ordered as we pulled onto the A3 to start our 200 mile journey. We were following Adam as he had a sat nav, which is ten times better than a print out of Google Earth and Smither’s sense of direction. After just 20 miles Smither felt his steering go funny and we were flagged down by another driver who had noticed our puncture. Not a problem, we’ll just get the spare out and we’ll be back on the road in no time. We then found out that all we accomplished by getting the spare wheel out was that we had doubled the amount of flat tyres we had. The AA was called, two hours and £100 later we were back on the road, miles behind everyone else who had the luxury of stopping for several McDonalds. The rest of the journey unfolded slowly and painfully, and my hair is now greyer from trying to give directions to Smither. Conveniently we were then held up again on the A1 by an accident which had happened after everyone else had passed it. We finally made it into the surreal ‘holiday’ destination that is Skegness, only to find that our B&B had been given away. Long story short we got our money back, got discounted rates a neighbouring B&B and cheered up as we finally stood on our skateboards. It took us nine and a half hours.

As you can imagine we had a well deserved skate then hit the town. I’m not going to mention what happened in town, but Gold Dust VIP and the DnB remix of that Rihanna/Eminem tune have both been ruined for me, “Rapey” Dave lived up to his reputation, I got chucked out of the same club 3 times and am so glad that I’m never gonna see anyone in Skegness ever again.

Skateboarding happened in-between monsoons, and here is the result. Please excuse some wobbly filming, and just so you know, Dave skates regular, all of his tricks are switch/nollie:

Click here to view the embedded video.

I also took some photos:

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Very, very enjoyable weekend with some of the funniest people I know. Cheers.

Emsworth Skatepark 2006 – 2009

Max — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:25:20 +0000

Here we go lads, a nice new/old edit for the bank holiday weekend. All the worthwhile footage we’ve gathered at the local between Summer 2006 and Spring 2009:

YouTube | Podcast

“You Don’t Get That Shit On Baker”

Max — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:27:26 +0000

Yesterday was host to another great session at Emsworth, although slightly cooler than Wednesday, it was still a lovely day. This time I thought it might make a nice change if I were to get the camera out and film something, and that I did. Griptape and boards in one piece are overrated:

I don’t quite know what went wrong when one of the clips was sped up, but I can’t be bothered to sort it out.

Skegness Easter 09

Max — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:19:45 +0000

So last Thursday Adam, Paget, Rob and I set off on the road to Skegness in my dangerously over filled car. Adam thought it would be a good idea to bring a full on holiday style suitcase with him, leaving almost no more room in the boot for anything else. With the parcel shelf half way up the back window, bags all over everywhere and the car looking like it had been lowered by a foot we set off on our 7 hour journey which was spent bullying Paget and listening to Biggie at full blast when stopped in traffic in a nice peaceful country village which we thought was the one out of Hot Fuzz.

The next couple of days were spent sessioning the plaza until close, rinsing Paget in the B&B, living off of Stella, Strongbow & Subway and spending too much money while out on the town. On Saturday morning we were once again woken up with a bang on the door by the B&B owner shouting “breakfast!” at stupid o’clock in the morning, I sat up and was greeted with a monster of hangovers and was not stoked about having to drive all the back, especially while Adam carried on the night before as he governed the stereo with dance anthems.
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WMUT Trailer!

Max — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:58:37 +0000

Here’s the trailer to my final major college project entitled “What Makes Us Tick”.

“A documentary about British skateboarding aimed at people who do not skateboard themselves, as to give them an insight into the somewhat alien subject”

Watch in high quality, turn it up and get hyped:

Click here to view the embedded video.

I thought that it would take me 10 minutes to get that online today after work, instead it has taken almost five hours due to QuickTime not doing what it’s supposed to, Squeeze deciding it doesn’t actually like any format of video anymore, and YouTube failing the upload for god knows what reason. So unfortunately I don’t have enough time to post up the other content that I had planned to tonight, and I’ve now got to work first thing tomorrow morning as well, stoked.

Getting Rad in High Definition

Max — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:22:04 +0000

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.

2nd December 2008 – Skaterham

Max — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:52:05 +0000

A short edit of Adam & Jak tearing Skaterham a new arsehole one cold December night.

19th July 2008 – “Come back Steevie!”

Max — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:37:31 +0000

We thought this place would get us through every rainy day this Summer had to offer, until the Police came on the second day…

24th June 2008 – Emsworth & South Downs

Max — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:34:37 +0000

Paget & Adam at The Worth and South Downs. Paget should have another line – switch heel the flatbank, lazer flip the hip – but someone couldn’t be bothered to change tape so rewound over what he thought was unlanded tricks. Dick’ed.

18th May 2008 – “Albino beef head”

Max — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:31:27 +0000

A small session over Planet Melly.