Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

I have known Oliver since year 7 at secondary school. We used to ride mountain bikes around Didcot doing skids and jumping off kerbs etc then going back and playing guitar. I got into BMX and Oli didn’t ride so much for a couple of years. He’s brought himself a BMX again now and rides it around the pikey infested city of Bath. He does illustration there and is damn good at it. I thought I would share a couple of his drawings. Enjoy!

Self portrait

Mr.Mime has recently learnt how to play jazz flute

St. Harry

Big thanks to Oliver for letting me put these up here. You can see more of his work at kookaburra fly. Will hopefully have more stuff like this on here soon. Leave him some love in the comments too!

This weekend should be a cracker, Louis and the Aversion boys are running another Aversion trip this time for trails. The last one was real good so hopefully this one should live up to expectations! Along the way we should also be going to the Stephen Murray Benefit jam up at Alianos. I have brought a new memory card so I can take lots of photos, I got a SanDisk CompactFlash 4 GB EXTREME IIl so that should be fun, no more running out of space…

A field before the corn was cut

Seeing as I don’t have any BMX photos at the moment to put up thought I would post up some other photos I have been taking recently from the old countryside near me.

Lots of corn. Jim is coming down for the trip which should be real good, and Chaz now has room for a professional filmer to go with him?! Who knows but should be good. Going to be taking my camera bag with me so expect lots of trails photos in the coming weeks. If I see you on the trip I will most likely put a BlewBMX sticker somewhere on you, or your bike you have been warned…

Also I saw some good birds out on my travels the other day, I think this is a Red Kite, but if you know better let me know… Maybe I will get a book on them haha. Can’t wait for this weekend, won’t be riding but should be some really amazing trails and people so will be all good. Everyone should watch these videos to get inspired to ride big jumps.

why greetings. my name is yak of the vale and i hate people who use song lyrics as their msn names.

so heres another shocking update from me. soon you’ll learn to skip over these ones, until then, read them. it makes me feel worth something. heres 25 things that have happened recently:

1 > in oxford at about 4am on a saturday night a tramp asked me if i had any spare change. i told her i didnt want to, but saw she had a cute dog with her called tiny, who was very little as you may of guessed and lived in her jacket. this isnt tiny, but here aidan models a dog that looks similar although slightly more scared.

2 > aidan smelt so bad he gagged on his own smell and a bit of sick came out on the fireplace so he had to run to the bathroom to clean up.i swear this is true.

3 > a few months ago i made a bet with the landlord of the flowing well alehouse that i wouldnt smoke in his pub ever again. he gave me ?20 not to. the other night he busted me smoking in his pub. i didnt give him his ?20 back.

4 > aidan went round squirrels house when squirrel wasnt there, to eat some cookies they made, then came home.

5 > this is dot. we folded back her ears because we thought it was funny.

6 > noel edmonds hosts deal or no deal on channel 4. he has a very groomed head of hair. we bet his pubic hair is just as well groomed.

7 > theory tests are hilarious. heres 2 questions with a ridiculous possible answer they asked.

Q - WHY SHOULD YOU BE MORE CAREFUL WHEN FOLLOWING ELDERLY DRIVERS?

d)- THEIR CAR MAY BE VERY OLD.

Q - MOTORCYCLISTS SHOULD WEAR BRIGHT CLOTHING MAINLY BECAUSE…

c) - THE COLOURS ARE POPULAR.

ridiculous.

8 > me and aidan made a flapjack cake for my brothers 25th birthday. it was rad.

9 > i have a hair on my arm that is about 3 inches long. its my source of power just like samsons hair was to him.

10 > aidan can fart better than you. he brutally farted on my arm then we had a fight. whilst watching The Friday Night Project he farted 15 or so times. i think it was more.

11 > aidan went through a period where he didnt brush his teeth for 4-5 months. vile.

12 > we went to the zodiac one night. pipe flattened me to the floor near the end and my white t-shirt now looks like this.

13 > there was an old bloke in blue and white checked leggings in there. when it was closing time i talked to him and found out he was 62. he was one of the most amazing people ive ever met and said he just wanted to do fun stuff.

14 > the legend that is couch chatted up a girl who once tried to strangle pipe on new years. she gave him a blowie then he banged her with a strap on. good couch.

15 > daz drove us home. he was so drunk that he could barely talk or walk but managed to drive fine. i hugged pipes leg all the way home whilst couch and aidan sat on deckchairs.

16 > aidan now wears girls pyjamas with nothing on underneath. i dont know why. he doesnt either.

17 > me and poll agree that girls with fat legs that you cant see daylight through are fucking disgusting.

18 > we met a jon robinson lookalike.

19 > aidan met a girl called heather who was pretty cute. whilst dancing with her he got a bit um…pumped and prodded the poor girl in her flowergarden with his trowel. i met a girl called zoe who liked to shout 1-2-3-4! alot. i didnt prod her with anything.

20 >this is the trails monkey. he sits and guards our trails while we’re away. aidan found him and looks after him.

21 > we’re planning to learn girls aloud - love machine lyrics perfectly so then we can impress people with out lyrical rhythmical genius.

22 > when i work in hampshire doing woodland work i operate the chipper amd feed big trees into it. the other day a piece of wood flung out the wrong way and smacked me in the lip.my lip was so fat i looked like aidan for a while.

23 > a bit of blackthorn got stuck under my skin and made this orrible blister thing. aidan popped it and loads of white puss came out of it.

24 > me and aidan sit down once a week and look at where our relationship is going and how we could change it for the better.

25 > if you made it this far, then i suggest you do your own 25th thing and let us know what it is in the guestbook. i’ll like you if you do.

take a moment to see whether this was worth it.bye bye xx

hello. my name is yak of the vale apparently and i am no sickhead.

im going to write a few words here that bear little relevance to the photos i present. with any luck they will, but if that happens its not something i planned. theres alot of things i havent planned but sometimes they just work out. other times they dont and i really wish i had planned them. aidan and chaz - im gunna win this one. do your best.

heres an slr photo i took a while ago. ive taken alot of slr pictures and had planned to put them somewhere else, not on a bmx website anyway. however, it didnt really work out like that, and for that im glad it worked out. i took this one with a wideangle/macro lense that i bought from a small camera shop in exeter for ?19 with people who know what they’re talking about. this is the first photo i took with the macro end of a puffy thing that i always forget the name of.

so i went into london last night for my nutbar of a cousins 26th birthday. shes one of the most genuinely crazy people i know and i like the way she talks. i had an amazing amazing night. it was one of those nights that started off slow and civilized that often makes you wonder whether it was worth the ?100 you’re about to spend. at ?6.50 for a double whiskey and coke it doesnt take long to reach that number. i spent ?12.50 getting from my door to the door of the bar place we went to, which took 3 1/2 hours. within 20 minutes i’d spent the equivalent on some alchohol and fizzy drink poured into a glass with ice and a straw. doesnt really add up. this picture is ironic.

so i ended up clearing a dancefloor on my own, with some help from my sister by doing press ups and lunges to impress. its amazing how people react to pure stupidity. i met more random friendly people who allowed me to nick their ?50 hats off their heads than expected and chatted up a 31yr old woman by sitting on her table and asking her name. i doubt i would of talked to me in similar circumstances. she then stole my ?60 jacket which by per square inch is better value than peoples hats.

so that was pretty awesome. londons growing on me slowly. i could never live there, i like puffy flowers and the stars too much buts its nice to venture into every once and while and look up at all the big buildings and gaze in bewilderment and how fast humans can actually walk when they think they have to. i experienced what meeting people and talking to people on the underground is like, something thats never happened before. it was a similar feeling to how you’d feel if you were to walk into a library and start shouting.

i like this photo cos it makes me want to read the paper and own a BMW, perhaps wash my hands with dove soap and eat vine ripened tomatoes from waitrose that cost much more than perhaps they’re worth. ive categorised this little clippet as ‘art’ cos when in doubt, you can just call it that and feel satisfied you’ve been able to label it. thats all the photos i’ll show for now but i’ll leave you with a little video that i can only refer to as art but for more genuine reasons than vague ones.

AIDANS LITTLE CAR PODCAST?

aidan can do some pretty funny stuff if you leave him on his own for long enough. i hope this link works cos if it doesnt then ed - you’ll have to fix it. i have neither the power nor the knowledge to. enjoy. oh and btw, 49p from oxfam was what fuelled this excitable outburst. it really is the simple things in life. the best things in life arent free. most of the time theyre 49p. byebye xx

this is my friend’s band cotton blond, they’re pretty good. supposed to be making a website for them soon. plans for this weekend:

friday go to grove for rev’s birthday madness

saturday ride with shovelload somewhere?

sunday ride corby and epic with didcot people.