london weekend

we drove to london on saturday morning for a wedding reception in the evening back to cornwall on sunday. had a good time.

blur, hyde park, july 2009

bit busy at the moment but had to find time to say that I was very pleased to be in hyde park on friday night for the blur gig. it was everything that it could have been and more.

london

I have to say I don't get to london as much as I used to part through choice part through opportunity, but the last few times I have been u there I have really enjoyed it. almost gone are those days of slogging away in the middle of the big machine that I seemed to be part of years ago. 

instead a walk through acton to chiswick last sunday made me feel happy. I saw the leftover snow as well as plenty of sunshine and these decorations blowing in the light breeze and had to put them here. london is not that bad after all.

>> go skateboarding day 2007

tomorrow (thursday 21.06.07) is go-skateboarding-day-2007 and all across the world skaters of all types and ages will be going skating. I am no longer part of the brighton skate scene as I moved to cornwall years ago my son gabes is. I am sure that during the day he will be going skateboarding.


as part of the event the vans skateboard team will be at the west pier brighton around 2pm. now the reason I am interested in the vans team is that they have some old school skaters as well as contemporary skaters, I will always consider myself old school, I first went skating in the 70's and that was in brighton then later london. since moving to cornwall the skate possibilities stopped as the old school skateboard parks became derelict, and generally we have less tarmac, and concrete down here, so the beach becomes the way to go and surfing the real deal.
however more recently some repairs and rebuilding has happened and I now have some good skate parks close by, and good friend and surf98 colleague moby is the man for them (check his surf pictures on the surf98 site).
anyway to add to the skateboard day I thought this video made in brighton might be worth a look.

london 2012 >> banksy

it is probably all the coverage of the london 2012 logo that set me off thinking about graffiti and tagging, though the more I think about the london 2012 logo the more I think that aside from it being unbelievably awful the publicity it gained was out of all proportion. perhaps that was the intention? as I still can't see any other reason for it, but I can't see the marketing guys on that brief being as clever as that.

any way to the graffiti I have long been a fan of banksy and and have to say that in the right place the banksy work is so good, not so much the visual tricks more the political statement and place that have made me look and notice.
whatever you think of banksy the marketing or lack of it in the conventional way is major a reason for his/their huge success.