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Strangeways Volume 4 is up on the site Nearly an hour of audio-visuals featuring Loz Taylor, Addy Snowdon, Gaz Hunt, Tim Evans, Fathead, Clarky, Dan Price, Chris Barrett, Leo McKenna, Jake Frost, Sandy, Jambul, Sam Waller, Wozzy, Tommy C, Shanky and pretty much everyone else. Also features the trailer and Bomb the Suburbs from last year. £2 from each copy goes to Mind - the UK mental health charity. We ship worldwide - but there'll also be copies of this in America thanks to 90East, Berks St, Challenger and Empire, in Australia with Wiretap and in Japan courtesy of Rodiconnect.
Once again scoured the information dual-carriageway for decent videos and stuff from the last month. Hit the link at the top for bits from @challengerbmxmag, @motobunka, @cheekymonkeybmx and more. Photo - Mao Yuasa by @2thrasheravenew.
The new issue of @challengerbmxmag is here. With a strong Japan theme, it's full of shots from a recent trip to the land of the rising sun, featuring photos of people like Shanky, Sandy, Tyler Rembold and Coleman Lopes riding all sorts of wild looking architectural anomalies. As well as all this, there's a look at the famed 'Mikasa Death Bowl' (with some cracking photos of Zac Costa), a chat about noodles, some trails tips from Satoski Enda and a fair bit more.
Paul Osicka outside Chicago's Union Station as snapped by @teddgarvin. "Whenever I got opportunity to shoot with Paul I never tried to rush it. I’d try my best to acclimate myself to his schedule. You have to respect a man’s ritual." Hit the link at the top for more true photographic gold from Tedd's archives...
Another snap from the @teddgarvin archives. Mark Choquette on his backyard ramp. "At one point this ramp was housed in the Playground Skatepark in Wallingford, Connecticut. When the Playground unfortunately had to close their doors in the mid-90’s, everyone had a chance to take this ramp home. Mark was the one who could put the desire and all of the resources together to get it done." Hit the link at the top for the full article...
New article over on the blog... East Coast photo master Tedd Nelson (@teddgarvin) pulls some gems from his archives - like this one of Luc-E in Bethlehem. "He was always super cool and chill. I got to follow him and Butcher around a few times and it was always interesting to see what they would come up with. It was like when you first get into riding. That feeling. They were just playing around." Hit the link at the top for more...
If there was such a thing as the 'dopest riding photo', then Tedd Nelson's snap of Luc-E toothpicking a dumpster (as seen on the front cover of Neighborhood Superheroes), would definitely be somewhere in the running. Proper kicked-out grind-poise, on a spot that could be in any town, captured perfectly on high-contrast Kodak 35mm film - a truly bodacious image from the gilded age of street riding. Here's a t-shirt we made with it slap bang on the front. Thanks to @teddgarvin for making this happen, and obviously thanks for Luc-E for being dope.
Coming soon... @teddgarvin
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