DurianRider

Here is a talk by Harley 'DurianRider' at the Woodstock fruit festival on fitness on fruit. Fantastic knowledge and a clear and strong talk on the subject. Drink more water, eat more carbs! =D

climbing again..

Kalymnos, Greece

At last.. University has finished and I've picked up a whole load of shifts at TCA for the next few months, so I guess that's my summer! Luckly.. cheddar and portland isn't far away which is great for sport climbing, had a really good few weeks down the gorge, and will be sessioning some slightly harder routes this summer in preparation for a month away in innsbruck and kalymnos! Although there are very limited amounts of tufas in cheddar :(




Anyway here are my efforts on Valley of the blind, just after my shift we drove down and it went first go, it was a hard warm up! I'm making a habit of warming up on my projects at the moment.. time to push harder perhaps!

excuse the rubbish quality, canon is taking forever to fix a dead pixel in my 60D so shot on the phone.

..And a couple of photos working the moves

 

                                              Credits to Archie for the photos!

VEG GARDEN

So It's really hot outside today, I sent out a load of messages to see if people were up for cheddar today as I fell of the last move of my project on Tuesday with Robbie! I know it will go first time next time, it's just a case of getting there. As i have no wheels (other than my bicycle, which would take far too long and i have no guarantee of a belayer) I decided to whip up a Vegetable bed!

I looked through lots of youtube vids, articles and so on but I soon realized that the logistics would be costly and again, 8 foot planks on the bike just isn't practical!

Anyway, here are my efforts! 

A veg garden made from:

Tomo and Lucy's Wadrobe 

Ikea Cd Rack

Old steps stored at the top of our garden

And a few screws!!

More photos to come as the bodge job progresses.

So far I will be planting beetroot, red lettuce, green lettuce, perpetual spinach and whatever else can grow at this time of the year!

And there is the result :) The spinach is almost full size now. Love it.

Bristol does fontainebleau sping 2011.

So here it is.. After many days worth of hours of rendering, exporting troubles, uploading troubles, codec troubles and re-editing and almost deleting the thing! I present to you, our Fontainebleau video 2011! It's my first climbing video and I've learned a lot! Psyched to make another one.. not too soon though, I need to leave the seat in front of my computer and go climbing again! Enjoy =D

Watch this space!

I'm currently editing a short film from our bouldering trip to fontainebleau, France. I've had to learn final cut, which at first was a bit mission impossible, and then get the suitable plugins like TWIXTOR for those super slow motion shots.  Watch this space, it should be done later this week after countless hours of editing.

Cutting Shapes

A few photos from the degree show - Bath Spa University. A great night marking an end of an era, but the beginning of new directions in my painting and creative work.

Click here For more photos of my work from the night and other students!

I showed a lot of work for this exhibition. I could have hung perhaps 5 - 6 and given them a lot of breathing space, however I wanted to show paintings in relation to one another, reflecting elements of abstraction and colour.

Here are some close ups. All of them vary from 40 x 40cm to 60 x 60cm and are mostly made up of enamel, acrylic and eggshell paint on MDF. They are all up for sale so please email or call me on 07584063895 if you're interested. I'll be continuing the painting now I have finished at Bath Spa and have an exhibition at the Science Institute of Bath in October / November. I'll update once i have exact dates.