Styley in Japan vid.......

The rollapaluza winter series keeps on going...last Wednesday at the Horseshoe. I spent the first half of the night trying a crude video shoot with 2 cameras, here is a rough cut of Gertie's race in the qualifying rounds. Using imovie...final cut version with sound levels sorted and maybe in colour too....black and white seemed the easiest way to get around the cameras being different and having differing ideas of white balance and colour .....

Rollapaluza winter series-4 from Jono on Vimeo.

Second half of the night i played some tunes, even got the Young Offenders possible first play in EC1...Waxwings!!!
Full track list in a bit for anyone who cares.

Chuck Ragan sings a good song

Here's some reasons to go to Central and South America.......another one is the blog miles you can wring from it for years to come, i went in 2005 for a year and i saw so much that i'm still going on about it in 2009. Saw that Dan Cates went there recently and it gave me itchy feet to get back there sometime....in the meantime here's a load of links to South America stuff including Cate's blog and my clips and pictures.......

Cates in Ecuador video

Cate's Costa Rica blog

Cate's Latin America trip looks a bit like the one i did in 2005....the spots are all still there, not surprising though due to the abundance of concrete. Quito park is huge and the Tilawa hotel is just packed with lines. These spots are actually hundreds of miles apart but looking back it all seemed so close. I guess he will be heading to Lima sometime soon and there are some cool Cate's type spots there so looking forward to seeing what he makes of it all....
Here's a clip from Tilawa when i went there

Camped in the bowl at Tilawa

Hot all day and night by the lake

Fullpipe in Quito is massive.

Mancora is on the border between Ecuador and Peru, this is on a hill looking over the town.

Blending in with the locals in Peru.

Tilawa pics and review

Quito pics and review


Volcano smokin away in Nicaragua

More volcanoes in Guatemala

Cate's in Ecuador blog post


peru from Jono on Vimeo.

Rollin a bit further and heading for a whole pile of danger, didn't hit a single stone though. Boxing Day roll pic from Len.

Long time since posting...here's a quick clip of the Crossfire Christmas Jam that happened a couple of weeks ago....no internet in London, it's so backward up there.....

Rollin againslow and low

Tenuous November 5th post

Bricks And Mortar: Hail Satan.....

Bricks And Mortar: Hail Satan.....

Maxine's show on Halloween at the Se1 Gallery


Naomi and Max

Crossfire Halloween Massacre.


vicar heelflip disaster on the tombstone, chris oliver

ione has her own blog......

Barrier Kult

Have a look at the bottom picture on this link to Hong Kong Fixed.....
A roller face off set up at a track in Hong Kong i presume... permament rollers where you can simply ride up any time and do some spinning. The way things are going these things will be set up at some of the new skateparks as the scenes crossover, spin, carve, grind, sprint, skid......


Styley found this bit of skate history.

My photographs are in the art show downstairs at the Foundry this weekend. The show is a group show which is part of London's Calling
Here is a quick review/preview from Bill.
Each of the four images represents a courier killed while working in London.
Working as a courier you come to expect the unexpected each day, you expect a near miss, some lost skin, a stolen bike or to be wet and cold all day. No one expects to lose their life. These images are dedicated to the eight London couriers who have died at work over the years.
The locations and even the dates of these tragic deaths have become blurred. I wanted these photographs to remind us of the real dangers and unexpected turns in the road and also to remember the eight riders who died doing their job.



Mark Francis - London, d. June.1999, died in hospital from injuries sustained June 8, 1999, East Smithfield, by unknown lorry.


Sebastian Lukomski - London, d. 23.Feb.2004, killed at junction of Lower Thames Street and Queen Street Place, by a left turning tipper truck.



Joe Cooper - London, d. 1989, killed on the job at Pentonville Road, by an unknown HGV


Calvin Simpson - London, d. 1991, killed on the job at Stamford Street by an unknown HGV.

Names and details can be found at the Messenger Memorial

Link to Japanese Fixed blog

Bill's write up at Moving Target