DeathRamp!!

Was looking through some old pics and found these my pal O'grady took of the ramp we built in our first flat in Heaton 5 Cardigan Terrace. The first one was just a few pallets hammered together but we were eventually donated a full half pipe off a Mr Chris Souter!. It lasted a year even after it was ripped up when a drain underneath it was blocked and shit was spilling out. We ended up leaving it there for the next occupants but was told the council were brought in to rip it up not much longer after we left. Haven't had a yard since big enough to build another and that one was just barely big enough to fit that at the time, was a seriously tight set up. I'm sure there is other images of people riding it and a video but cant find it anywhere might stumble across it, al stick it up here if I do. Good Times!!

FlowRider..

Seen a poster for this at the metro station, been wanting a bash on one of these for yeeeaaars.

Its just opened on the 15th of Nov at Heworth Leisure centre Gateshead, Gunna have to blag a lift of one of the lads and go have me sel a blast.

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Miserable

One miserable day in the bay!....

Gettin Tatted

Went up to my brothers tattoo studio today to get the top of my arm finished off, was pretty tender on the shoulder but well worth it, took some trendy snaps during the process. I'll stick a finished product pic up when its been cleaned. He free handed the image around my existing tattoo, came out spot on for not using a stencil. Check his blog for some other Tattoo's and Artwork:
ChrisDevineArt.Blogspot.com

RipItUp..

Sat in on Rip It Ups practice last night, All chipped our Penny's in and got 3 crates of Stella from Morrison's for £18 which gladly took the edge off the freezing cold practice room down the Ouseburn, was a cool night, no pun intended. filmed one of their new songs too.. got a kind of rockabillyesc twang to it. check it out at ripituphc.tumblr.com

AppSnaps

Downloaded Hipstamatic for the iPhone, so took some snaps of my weekend, Chekimout...

Snow Mexa

Its fackin freezing outside I haven't rode in a while and I don't think I'll start again any time soon due to the weather, but this video popped into my head when thinking about both the weather and BMX. Seen it years ago and we actually tried to make a snow mexa after watching it out of an old BMX and shovel but it didn't work like we thought it would and fell apart after five minutes.

Pieminister

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I worked in Oxford over September & October and was introduced to this place one lunch time by a work pal. we ended up making it a regular Thursday tradition to do one of these in before our 5 hour drive back up to Newcastle every week. If you like a good pie and ever stumble across one make sure you take a few minutes out of your time to try it out. The one in Oxford is in the Covered Market, its like an up market version of the grainger market in Newcastle. Really tasty array of hand made pies, not cheap at £5.50 for pie, mash and gravy ( I don't know if that's just Oxfords prices) but well worth it if you have it to spare.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Sure Are Bombing!

Got shown this off a pal, Check it out......!!

Pure Gallery

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Checked out this the other day, The Pure Gallery is a new alternative art gallery that's just opened at the bottom of my street which exhibit local and national artists. got some cool shit in and there selling everything at really reasonable prices. Especially loved the lino prints by Chris Bourke, seen some of his stuff in a magazine a year ago and was buzzin to see his stuff on the walls and you can get your hands on a print for a measly 60 quid!

Think I might grab myself one of those when I have some coin.

Check out some more of Chris Bourke's work here chrisbourkeart.com

Jack That Cat Was Clean..

Found this Blog a few month ago...
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Ive been into the mod style & culture for a few years now and stumbled across this a few month back, It is an Archive of the original modernists recollections and information, especially found the Diary of a Mod a good read.

extract from the personal diary of 18 year old bernard schofield - October 1964
" Thank God for Saturday night. Downed five blues. Took a tube to the Dilly + waited for Maureen"

Loft Space.

Ive been off the past week Inbetween work contracts bored out of my skull, So besides sleeping till 1 in the afternoon I decided to sort my loft out and make a kind of chill out spot, set my kit up too as I havent been able to play it for over a year.

Got the BMW car seats off a Pal who was the van driver at my old Job, still have all the leavers and seat belt buckles on, Ideal for the height of the ceiling..

Rockaway Taco

Found this while browsing another Blog, Check it out. Just a cool video about some Dude from Queens who sleeps on a roof, has a Taco Joint and likes to surf...
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Living The Dream.....?

Changing It Up..

Forget The Art Im Using This Space to Post Whatever I Feel Like....