On the subject of the Big Push and repeat voting:

So now that Document is out and you can vote for your favourites in the Big Push it's pretty easy to see that there's plenty of repeat voting going on again. If it's not repeat voting then it's probably a bunch of emails going round to all the friends, family and co-workers of the guys involved.

"Please vote for us! Yeah, even though you haven't seen the DVD or read the mag and probably don't give two fucks about skateboarding, please - vote for us!"

So with a campaign like that you're gonna get loads of votes - maybe you'll even win - but wouldn't you feel better knowing that the people who voted for you actually have an opinion and have used their vote properly? To just win 'cos you've persuaded loads of randoms to vote for you will feel more like a victory for your organisational skills and your ability to whip up some support among friends rather than a true victory won legitimately by your teams performance on video and in photographs.

The team I worked with haven't been rallying votes together from our long lost cousins or our Dad's workmates so I consider the votes we have got to be honest and meaningful. Being 70% ahead on the first day of voting looks like a "Me! Me! Me!" attitude and a will to win which fairly reeks of cheating.

A voting system that allows votes to be solicited from non-participating voters is fundamentally flawed. To win or do well in the Big Push is to be good at canvassing for your team not necessarily to rely on the votes from the people that count - the real readers and skateboarders who have read the articles and watched the footage and have cast their vote accordingly.

So I urge you as possible non-skateboarding enthusiasts and possibly non-readers of Document not to vote for us because you feel you should or because you've been asked to but because you've seen the mag, watched the DVD and genuinely feel we deserve your vote. I'll value the work I put into the project far more if I know it really did please you.

Hope you enjoy our efforts.

"You'd shoot me over that fuckin' midget!?!"

Word up, I'm in Paris fool! I've been here since Thursday staying at Soy's and trying to get some filming done, the weather has been semi-kind with 2 days of rain so far but we've managed to amuse ourselves watching Inspector Cluesoue, R. Kelly's R+B soap opera and discussing conspiracy theories (Soy is a bit further into it than me - Sumerians, Planet X, Giant Aliens etc!)

On Thursday I take the train down to Avignon to meet Rachel and go to her Mum's for a week to swim in the pool, eat fresh figs from the tree and drink our own bodyweight in Rose!

As you can see French advertising is as subtle as ever.

Chas and Lucy have had a baby! Sophia is 4 weeks old and nearly as cute as me.




Tura and Ursula's house for dinner and laughs. Good to see these onion selling, bratwurst eating types!




They have this new bike scheme in Paris where you can pick up a bike from most street corners and ride away for 6 euros a week. Unfortunately They also took €150 from my account to so now I'm skint while I'm here. Yesterday we must have cycled further than the tour de France!





One foot tail grab.

Fake Japan. Isn't shred sledding fun?




We went to my favourite Pizza place. Are you gonna order Coque....

....or Fanny?





I never seem to get very close to this thing. Some tourist huh?






Fuck's sake! All the way to La Defense to find the spot knobbed! Thumbs firmly down.

Man, these two were chewing each other's faces off for like 15 minutes. It was gross, even in the city of love.

Here's a short film I made about the cruelty of the world and the futility of life. We see the headless carcass of a pigeon being pecked at by a seagull in an attempt to prolong it's own fragile existence by the consumption of the dead flesh of one of it's peers. The pigeon is repeatedly pulled around in the fetid waters of the fountain before it's spirit ascends to the heavens where it is greeted with white light and the promise of eternity.

Submit to a duel with my son.

My Ricoh now sleeps with the fishes so here's some phone-cam randoms from recent times.

Marker pen graff from Valhalla.

I never called. I'll always wonder about it though.




I made a short film of this seagull eating the pigeon carcass. I'll put it on here when post-production is completed.

Nobody yawns at the motherland. I will crush her.


I drew Smith a tattoo.


Flooded kitchen from biblical rain.

The back of some dude's death metal shirt on the tube. I looked up the words...

Extirpating –verb (used with object), -pat·ed, -pat·ing.

1.	to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.

2.	to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.

Omniscient –adjective

1.	having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.

–noun

2.	an omniscient being.

3.	the Omniscient, God.

Certitude –noun
1. freedom from doubt, esp. in matters of faith or opinion; certainty.

So there you go.



Deer man? Any ideas?








Ha ha!