Hello and welcome to the all new fiascoskateboarding.com!
This is a brand spanking new blog designed & brought to you by myself, Max Palmer. Mainly focusing on delivering content from the skateboarding scene in the south of England (well, part of it), I will keep this blog updated as often as I can with footage and photos, as well as news and general happenings from my life. Please view this site with Firefox (I haven’t checked compatibility with Safari yet, although it will probably work fine) as IE is terrible and so many things on this site look different/don’t work. I don’t know of anyone who uses IE these days anyway, but if you do, don’t.
Newest blog entries will go here, with links to archived news on the right. You can navigate to old content (such as edits) either using the tag cloud or the category list, or alternatively you can search by date using the monthly archive, or type a keyword into the search box at the top of this page. Please ignore all posts below this one – these are just posts containing old footage so that they are added to the archive and can be searched. Also be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get all the new edits delivered straight into your iTunes ready for your iPod.
Sorry for the whopping wait for this new website; I thought that I didn’t have the skills and knowledge to be able to covert a Photoshop image into a WordPress theme, so I asked Charlie if he would kindly do it as he does this sort of thing for a living. After only tiny amount of progress was made every couple of weeks I got sick of waiting, so by using trial and error and Google alone, I have managed to do it myself! Cheers for your help though mate and getting it started!
I can’t even remember how long ago I took the old site down, but it must have been about 3 months now! So, time for a little catch up.
At the moment I have about 2 weeks to start, and finish (been putting it off for a bit) my final major project for college:
A film about skateboarding aimed at people who do not skateboard themselves. I aim to give an insight into the subject, explaining why we do it and why we love it. Whether or not I’ll get it done is another story…
I’ve gotten into saving money where I can at the moment, credit crunch and all that, so pound a pint every Tuesday at the Registry in Portsmouth always goes down a treat:
Also, to my disgust, my new-ish very high tech phone (with slow motion video) cracked its screen the other week, showing nothing but black. Normally in this situation I would just blag another one off of someone, and put the broken one up on envirophone (cheeky £20 from a phone I got for free, everyone’s a winner) but this is the first decent phone I have ever owned, and with me paying £35 a month for it I wasn’t going to let it go. Canceled my insurance and this type of damage isn’t covered in the warranty so I thought I would have to fork out £65 to get it repaired professionally. Not on my watch. Found a screen on t’internet for £25 then proceeded to get myself in far too deep:
A little perseverance goes a long way – £40 in this case. Stoked!
Bored’s ‘official local’, Little Johnny Russels, put on a skateboarding pub quiz the other week. Went down a treat and was enjoyed by all. Adam & Smither came 6th with Cam & I coming in just behind in 7th place, with absolutely no help on the text from the human footage archive that is Joe Paget. The older Southsea heads had the upper hand when it came to stuff before 2002! Cam & I also won a pint each for answering the ‘ubernerd’ question of the world record highest ollie and the year it was set. Hi-5′s all around.
I suppose you’re all eager to actually see some skateboarding, and you probably hope that I’ve got a banger of an edit lined up for the new site. Well… no. I have filmed some stuff recently but I haven’t made an edit or anything. I will be posting up quite a lot of content this week – footage & photos from when the site was down. I’ve mostly been filming arty stuff and some interviews for my college project, no real hammers. The only thing I can offer you at the moment is a short video I made with the tiny bit of filming I did when it snowed whenever it was:
I think that’s probably enough time spent behind my computer screen for one day, but I have plenty of things to update this with from the past 3 months or so; so many times i’ve though “that would have gone on the blog if it was up”, it’s just a case of remembering it all! So get this site bookmarked and keep checking back. In the mean time you can check out my neighboring blogs on the right – 6.57, a video by Rob Crawford, and Yoghurt & Biscuits, random ramblings from Cam.
In a bit.