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
