rainbows on the horizon... page #2

were you looking for coffee or skateboarding?

the first 12 issues of Thrasher Magazine ever right here

a rainbow over the Wakatipu...

Over at monsterchildren.... "I skate alot with my shirt off"... Ryan Sheckler in Mens Health Magazine. Check it out, it's really wierd. This was ages ago, now, so google it.

the Queenstown Skatepark is nearly finished but officially open. It's frikkin amazing, the first skate-plaza of it's kind in the Southern Hemi, and it's been getting heaps of press.
check the next Manual Magazine for fresh shreddin on it. If you're my myface mate check it.

it's go skateboarding day so... go skateboarding.
big ups to Gav in Queenstown for the poster...

some photos 'from the street'. you know 'urban', 'ghetto' and 'real'.
well photos of paint and rubbish anyway...

taste-tripping - trippy. go on, take two seconds... you'll learn something.

strong contender for t-shirt of the year, 2008
from www.abccuz.com...

went up in anoher heli the other day courtesy of glacier southern lakes helicopters. it was amazing. jumped out on this snow, may 14th, and it was knee deep...

they dropped us on a west coast beach, took us to milford sound, landed on a bunch of peaks around the place. like i wrote - amazing...

milford sound...

want to know how they make stuff? this site can probably tell you, in great detail.
don't even look up salsa.

after reading this site i actually felt a bit bleached. it's genetics i guess.

thanks to twothousand.com for emailing a link to this video. i love it. maybe i just like the girl in the green pants but there's something about the japanese doing metal that rules.

can we hunt people who hunt whales, narwhal and manatee (dugong)?

burnt inside, firewood outside - now that is irony...

best music video of the year (apparently) just here. the girl is hot, and there's a donnie darko element to it aswell (rabbits and bikes) which i quite like.

Omaha Beach, from my phone. I've got a little light leaking on the left though :(...

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Sealord Group Ltd is New Zealand's largest fishing company, which is 50 percent owned by Nissui (Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd).
Sealord owns 19 percent of the New Zealand quota in fisheries throughout the EEZ. With joint ventures, the company has expanded to other Southern Hemisphere hoki, orange roughy and toothfish fisheries in the waters of South America, Australia, Antarctic, and the Indian Ocean.
On March 31st, the Japanese company Nissui, owner of whaling ships and a whale meat cannery, announced they would divest their whaling company assets and no longer participate in Japan's controversial "scientific" whaling scheme.

Hands up who reckons they actually have? Still keen on Sealord tuna bites? Wondering to yourself why a Maori tribe (through Aotearoa Fisheries Ltd, formed in 2004 as part of Treaty settlements) would get into bed with whalers?

http://uncensored.co.nz/2006/01/26/greenpeace-sealord-and-commercial-whaling/

i did not know that yesterday

we went fishing. fish died that day...

A cloudy night some years ago...

For those of you who don't myfacebookspace here's the golfing shots from a little while ago. Don't you just wish you had a fish-eye camera too?

"5:00AM Monday November 12, 2007

Anak Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait close to Java, has been spewing out flaming rocks and smoke since rumbling to life two weeks ago.
A volcanologist says the "Child of Krakatau" is not especially dangerous."

Any of you who have read "Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded" by Simon Winchester will know that it is, in fact, especially dangerous.

a Queenstown sunset...

Anna Didsbury wrote at 5:40pm on October 3rd, 2007

Here we go again................. My Chocolate Brownie Recipe

250g Melted Butter
500g Castor Sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
125g cocoa powder
1 and a half tsp vanilla essence
100g flour
250 g Dark Chocolate chips

In a large bowl combine melted butter with cocoa, add eggs, sugar and vanilla. Mix well then stir in flour, baking powder and choc chips. Bake in a lined tray (say 40cmx 30cm or smaller) at 150 C for 50mins.
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I got a free ride in a chopper a few days ago, my first time ever. It was rad. Big Ups to Ollie, cheers!...

Sopranos Final Final last night! Mean.
Holy shit. and Meadow Soprano is in Queenstown right now... hot damn!

Easy as 1,2,3... ABC (Aotearoa Board Co. by Chey Ataria) have joined forces with legendary shoe makers, Lakai, to produce this little beauty. Available later this year this is one shoe all NZ skaters should support.

Lib Tech offically make the sickest board on earth. I'm calling it. After one run I bought one.

Toby Mills, attacking shit-house cambered snowboards with my Lib Tech skate-banana. Yeah. Nice Swandri too mate...

ozzie gets a long barrel, but not in oz.

If you're ever thinking of reading TIME magazine remember that in '89 they called snowboarding the "Worst New Sport, ever".

Quest LibTech Banked Slalom 2007.
I did have a poster image here but I got over it.
so, yeah. we got our jib off.
Rich Hunt won it! Took $150 in Huffer vouchers and $350 CASH-OLA.
I came 6th. Pretty respectable I reckon, for my first comp ever.
>>>FULL RESULTS HERE<<<

it was really really cold this morning. my ears hurt. that one's from my phone...

more photos from the other night (before going out anyway) here...

how to fold a t-shirt in 2 seconds.

OK, big site update... as far as the grind goes.
Here's a gallery of some photos from our Quest, Adio, Mountain Dew Keepin It Rural Skate Tour. Good times, long name.
If you see one you like, or want a copy of, let me know.

And here's a couple of other photos, older ones, of scenery...
filenames in it aren't working properly for some reason. probably my copy of adobe.

bonus shot of the day

jack woodrow fs boardslide to fakie on a steep hill in duds

shot of da day(ish)
dallas in crompton (cromwell)

the thin white line.

Jim Phillips seems pretty damn cool.
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=542&Itemid=92

http://mumblemagazine.com/307grantbrittain.htm
fine photography by a fine photographer from a fine site. mumble magazine. found it on monster children.

We went for a drive to the industrial area today and found a cat, a damn poodle and a couch. after a while craig had a sit-down, I had a lie-down and bryce kept doing some ollies...

peter bjorn and john, tv on the radio, wolfmother, rodrigo y gabriella, your mum.

Did you hear there's an "axis of evil". Apparently it's quite bad-ass.

Clyde on a hot day. It was so hot I think we got dilerious (might be spelt wrong) or something...

OK PEOPLE!!!
It's on again and you know you don't want to miss this one.
I shit you not.... it's LOTHFEST 2007 !!!

So time to check the camping gear, book the dog into a kennel and buy your ticket for March 3rd, 2007. Same deal, killa line-up, details coming soon but the Little Bushman and Ladi 6 are gonna be there so... me too.
www.lothfest.co.nz

*update* - i lied. i didn't go. it was my birthday and all. i went to Gore instead. i think i need my head read... by someone whose job it is to do that sort of thing.

Jafa Mafia and Rafstar on tour - reprezent!

check this out then go read some of this site, indymedia.org.

check this shit - QT snomies killin it... peace to the reasonfilms crew.

how to dump your girlfriend in one easy step...

Kill first, ask questions later....

a spiders web of countries, all fuckin with the innocent until proven not.

LINK of the YEAR - www2.akpress.org, so, yeah, Read More Noam

who shall we bomb next? (wmv) - shit i posted this about 3 years ago and it's just done the rounds on facebook last week (dec 2007). that seems to be happening more and more...

This isn't Breaking News......
Lothlorien Music Festival 2006 is all go for March 11th 2006!
Bloody exciting that is. (Yeah, it would have been. oonly I got the chicken pox. Which sucks ass when you're not still a kid).

The line-up so far...
The Sunshine Soundsystem, Herbs, Kora, Ladi 6, Sola Rosa, Batucada Sound Machine, Open Souls, and Hollie Smith! T.B.C

And remember...
1. Camping is cool
2. Respect the farm and other people
3. Don't bring your dog/pig/cat etc
4. Don't bring your own alcohol
5. Do bring your tent, sunnies, pillow, togs etc etc

BACK ONLINE!
Yeah! I'm gonna make a flasher site now :) Not for flashers. Although there is nothing wrong with public nudity.

Bury this.

Don't be too worried about Bush getting re-elected, they're going to fight the next war with themselves.

Would you like an Oil change with that?

interesting stuff..
http://www.sacred-texts.com/piri/index.htm#map

and from our "This sounds hauntingly familiar" file comes this....

“Naturally, the common people don’t want war... but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/hermann_goering_quote_65d2

peas out mofos.