Ben Raemers came to stay last night before he went off on his mission this morning to Belgium, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. I'll meet him in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks for a weekend of riding bikes around the city.
We ended up looking at some internoodles, which led onto going through some footage of new-ish local spots (bear in mind that I've filmed about 10 things in total the past year), which then led me to rediscovering a load of footage tucked away on a drive.
There's all sorts there. Like this clip of Chris Pulman.
I think it may have been in 'Good Shit', although I'm not sure. I know I filmed Fos' wrist breaking. It was right where Chris' above trick was filmed, just before the mini ramp was built (Which I think was brand new in the Pulman clip). That slam was horrible. I'm glad I don't have the footage and that he does.
Anyway - what pushed me into putting that up was that this morning on my usual internoodles rounds, I came across this Blackbox High 5's.
I guess the point of starting this blog is to finally get some of the footage I've had chewing up space all this time out there into the wide world...
They'll end up in no particular order I'm sure. In fact, this one is going up first as it is a tiny file and pretty much just a test to see if I can get the 'ol bloggins working.
This is Mattias Nylén. He'd been asked to film for the Krooked DVD and only had a little time to do so.
We had some bits which had only been seen in the UK - or had ended up as clips here and there. Cobbled together, it would have made a pretty good, short intro part to non-European viewers.
However, in classic Mattias style, he let me know of the deadline the day the DVD was premiering in the US. So, with only a few new clips we decided we could film a part and get a video going ourselves (There was among other ideas, an idea of a UK concrete video if I remember correctly), but Mattias was fluctuating in commitment - and to be fair to him, he was also traveling a lot and knocking on all doors to see if he could get something good going and a bit of solid cash coming in. So, rather than sit on footage which may never see the light of day, I spent an evening stealing logos and artwork from the internet (Google images is and always has been amazing, eh?), nabbed a bit of Sonic Youth feedback and threw together this trippy piece with a view to it becoming a DVD extra, if I could get it over quick enough.
For one reason or another, it didn't go on the DVD - Probably because it just bastardized Krooked's art output with some rider who's only half on. Not the best sell for us, eh? It ultimately ended up as a web clip on www.dlxsf.com. I' also guessing (hoping?) the DVD was authored on footage deadline, too (as they are always with skateboarding it seems). Therefore, internet was the only place for the clip of the rider who didn't get it together* for the DVD.
From what I can make out on the tape logs, the Stale Eggplant (or infact, all of the clip) was filmed on the 18th July 2006. Bay Sixty6 Vert Ramp, London.
*Although to be fair, he did have a trick in the credits. As filmed by his girlfriend.
