That's right, a day late again. Why fire yourself into the eye of the storm when you can sit back, ponder and let the calm settle before sending your ship of words floating out onto the sea of the interweb?
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I know I promised to read the accompanying issue of Kingpin in order to have a little more insight into the motivations of those involved with these builds. I have of course been distracted by beer, snowfall, hanging with Harper, motorway driving and preparations for Valentine's Day. This is not so say I have failed completely, I have read the first couple of articles and was struck between the eyes by something Daryl said in his little interview.
Daryl's interview is mainly about the process of building and demystifying some of the technical aspects and explaining how you can do things on the cheap rather than having to buy all the expensive tools. Hidden in this interview was a little throw away remark that struck to the heart of what sets these places apart form others "it's your spot for you and your mates and not for a load of poxy kids on sc00ters". If that single sentence doesn't get you excited about the prospect of spending all of spring, all of summer and all of Autumn up to your elbows in concrete, nothing will.
As for any hi-brow dissection of the motivations and thought processes of the people involved in these builds you'll have to wait until the final installment.
What I can do is mention how pleased I was to see the skating of Casper Brooker in this Sheffield edition. I saw Casper at South Bank in the dying days of SEDJ and couldn't help but be a little jealous of his pop and power. I think this "Set in Stone" shows the what I mean by that. and if you want to see more, here's his Emerica welcome edit from October last year.
Enjoy.
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