A quick post. Busy as ever, can’t be arsed writing much but below is what i’ve been upto..
celebrating xmas
finally getting round to shooting skate pics. Glorious weekend in london and got some shots of leon humphries
helped with the filming for the upcoming brighton festival for fat-sand productions, this included filming THE brian eno!!
boneyard jam in chester, conference cleaned up, a few clips are posted below, a real edit will be coming soon via LINE’s Ben Shelbourne.
new bemag came out, got a fair few shots in there, one from aussie land, one from San Diego and one from a UK conference tour. Also the back page USD ad featuring Hooi dawg.
Also set up a flickr account finally, was never keen on the site but it will allow me to get a few photos floating around the brighton scene which could possible lead to summit…http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamkola/
I saw photos from last year of brighton in the snow and it looked awesome, so ever since i moved i’ve been waiting for the day. Well it came and it was cold, very cold. Still the roomies and i fearced it and it was mega. I haven’t seen snow like it since i was in whistler in Canada some 12 years ago. I managed to get a few photos while everyone else got gnarly on geoffs skateboard deck. Check back for the touched up versions, as these have snow drops ALL over them, it was insane.
Previous to this we had also been getting some wicked sunsets, bunch of photos below…
Also the same week Sim warren was in town shooting a short about Brighton and its people, the link obviously being that they skate but its portraying a side to the individuals that people rarely see. It was all shot on sim’s new 7d and has come out really nice…
So my photo ended up being used on the cover of the new conference magazine along with a shed load of others, so go grab a free copy from your nearest skateshop to check that out!
Also made this quick little winterclash promo at the slamm jamm back in October and an ‘eyes on the prize’ UK tour edit…..enjoy. All filmed on my new toy, 5dmk2.
so following on from our amazing dried lake find, we moved onto an abandoned oil station, planted right in the middle of the hills were an abundance of things to be skated so long as you had your flat set up on the go. This place was very 28dayslater.co.uk to say the least,
Now in LA where i witnessed one of the coolest spots i’ve ever seen. Thanks to Quinn Feldman who’s putting nick and i up for a few days while he films Nick for his upcoming online project “A chosen-few”, keep your eyes peeled for this as it’s going to be a lovely gem for our industry.
back in brighton after 5 days on the road, demetrios and nick fly out to cali tomorrow the rest of us leave on friday. The last 5 days have mainly consisted of..
many miles in the van
lots of vitamin water as we went to the warehouse
boardroom and the amazing skate stop courtesy of bornextreme.co.uk
slamm jamm buddz’ing
nervous over excited fans puking up outside of shop stops (true story)
travelodges
english breakfasts
castle hunting
location finding for portraits
old school skateparks
EDIT TO COME SOON, filmed on my new canon 5d mark2!!!!!
So im about to set off to pick up Enanoh aka Marc Moreno, he is flying in to stay for two weeks at mine and oli shorts place in brighton, filming for Nimh and shooting for some other projects. Keep posted to the kingdom site for updates..
moving to brighton and hosting guests, many guests!
So i have finally made the move to sunny brighton, where it hasn’t failed to deliver, swims in the ocean and beach bbq’s are a daily occurrence, so i cannot complain one little bit. To add to the fun nearly everyone from manchester have been to visit helping prolong the homesick’ness.
Within this time i have also been to Dublin with the BHC tour to shoot Albert Hooi’s Be-Mag interview and advert for his new green pro skate coming out soon. This trip proved very eventful, partly due to the airline and airports. Long story short Ryan air and Dublin airport aren’t too keen on camera equipment in bags…or maybe its just my beard, none the less i was unable to board my initial flight and had to pay for another departign the next morning, this was ontop of the excess baggage charges i incurred due to their minimal 15kg’s of weight allowance, i was a happy chappy.
It’s been a long time since the previous mag but issue 33 of be-mag has come out featuring some of my work. Skaters are dominic sagona, ben schwab, alex burston and al hooi.
Also went to london for the day with big al, lee mainland and his g/f gemma and agi for ‘field day’. This was mainly to see one of my favorite bands ‘mogwai’ who put on a great show, one immense set.
