7.10.08 - 21.10.08

Sorry for the delay on getting these up on line I've been meaning to get these online for 2 months now! More to come:



This is Oceana one of the main clubs in wolvo. Garrentted every tuesday night you will find me here from the start of the night (see pic) till the end of the night. I've had so many good and bad nights out here and so many stories from my adventures in this place... Pound drinks all night FTW.


Upstaris at Oceana. This place has the best light up dance floor ever. I just like this photo.



Dance Dance I was to drunk to rember what night this was or what the hell is going on.



Lots of mirrors and lights.



This is the view out of my bedroom. Me and faye once spent about an hour feeding a squirel crunchy nut and ready salted crisps out of m window. The view sucks compared to my room back home.



Finaly went motocrossing with ed and rob the first weekend i went back. I love riding my motorbike and i loved being back and picking things up right where i left them.


I finaly have my bike at un. It lives under my sink. The first time i ever went on a solo street misson I ended up having some kid try and jack my bike of me whilst i was riding it and ended up geting a punchture. Sweet.



Night before my birthday went to see kids in glass houses. Didn't really listen to the music much becuase me and steve just spent the whole time nailing wannabe tough guy, hardcore bearly teens in the mosh pit. good times. Later that night when we went to yates for a after drink, we where acused of being drug dealers and they tryed to kick us out. Dicks.



I'm 20 now. This is the first photo of me in my 10 year photo taken in fayes bedroom about 10 mins before leaving to go to a school disco party in oceana on my birthday. I think it was a good night.

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28.8.08 - 21.9.08

Sorrry for the lack of party photos from my freshers week. But i didn't take my camera out cos i kept forgeting amogst other things. (I know i'm lame) there will be some eventuly tho.



I can't wait to ride my motorbike its rad....




Last ride at stratford before I go to uni. I spent the majority of my teens about 8years to be precised at this place and it holds good child hood memorys aswell as some bad ones.



This is a crack den in a disused carpark that we ride at on our brum street rides. Theres skag needals, human poo, soiled clothes, dead pigeons and dozons of used condoms littering the floor. This guy is living the dream....



The bottom window on the left is ed's flat over the years i've had many good times and bad in there. P.S. Someone buy it of him he needs to sell it.



This is rob. He's one of the best guys you will ever meet and i always enjoy hanging out with him and listening to his sotries.



This is ed at one of the many corona jobs. As you can tell by his expression it was incredably boring becuse they fucked up again and we had to wait around alllllll day.



This is my room the morning I left for uni after I had gutted it with all my important belongs only hours before leaving.



This is my new room its a little cold and not very homely but its a roof over my head. On a side note i've only ever sleeped in it 3 times since starting uni 3 weeks ago.



This is where I wash and will wash for the next year or so.



This is faye, I met her on the first night of uni. She's awesome. I like this photo cos I think it show's how drunk I was and she was.



This is steve I also met him on the first night of uni along with a few other guys from his corridoor in halls. This was taken when me and him cooked a full english breakfast and nearly set of the fire alarms.



This is chris I met him a couple days into uni. He lives in the same halls as steve and the others. We make fun of him but he's not bad really.

31.7.08 - 27.8.08

Slightly longer between this update might be another 3 weeks before the next as things are pretty hectic but in a good way. P.s One day I'll get the hang of focusing my camera.



This my bedroom. I spend allot of time in this small room in fact I'm in it as I type sitting right there in that seat. I'm 19 and sleep in a bunk bed most people call it childish but I call it space saving and storage management.


This is my dog Bentley. He likes to lye in the rain. Bentleys grown up with me since he was born and i've grown up with him. He's most awesome dog ever and I love him so much.


Another weekly street ride with Al and Pete this time in Walsall this was the first time I've ridden street in Walsall.


When Al was trying to do those rails in the background backwards these to people came over to us. They where Spanish Jesus people me and Pete ended up talking to them for a good half hour whilst trying to drop little bits of blasphemy in to the conversation. They also did a wheelie and a endo for us. I forget there names now but I did manage to get a photo of them with Pete albeit out of focus damn it.


This was on the way to Hopton downhill track thats the hill in the distance there. Its fun to ride down quickly. But not fun to walk up to the top with big bikes.


This is hopton car park. This is part of Hugo's car. This is taken midway through a reverse donut. When we went back a couple days later I beat Hugo's reverse donut with a 180 reverse donut through some cones and stopping perfectly on the track to leave. Dialed. More reverse donut action to come.


Here it is. A life changing letter, Its not everyday you get one of these. This marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life. Its my acceptance's letter for university I barely got in but all I care about is that I got in to uni. The next few updates will probably be quite diffrent now what with new people and places.


Me, Pete and Martin went to Liverpool for a long weekend we overloaded the car and set off to get stuck in traffic on the m6 for most the day. I think this is the first picture of martin, he's small, quiet and buff. I ride with him and guy several times a week. Him and guy live in tamworth where Pete used to live hence how i came to know the little guy.



This is Jason and Garth. They let Me, pete and martin stay at there house over the weekend we were in Liverpool. I'd like to thank them they much for letting 3 randomers stay for a weekend and for being really nice guys. Me, Tain, Pete, Jason and Matty L went out in to town and got hideously drunk it was awesome. I pulled of my first sick in a club aswell whilst standing at the bar after drinking some stolen shots. It was probably the best sick I've ever done (and I've done alot of sicks) it was by far the funniest I've done especially seeing people in sandals standing in it afterwards haha. Jason thought it was awesome to even though I manged to get sick on his shoe's despite only meeting him for the first time only a couple hours before (Again an example of my first impressions like i was saying in my last update). Later Jason stole some drunk American girls bra and took his shirt of and proceeded to walk around the club in it.

Once again thanks for letting us stay you guys where awesome, and again sorry for being sick on your shoes Jason.


I brought a motocross bike. Its a Yamaha YZ125, 2005. Its badass and super quick the guy who had it before spent loads of money race tunning the suspension and engine and I got it for a bargain. Cheers Joe


Another weekday, Another Street ride this time with Me, Pete and Ed. This is the first photo of ed. He lives in the next village from me and is a super cool guy I hang out with him a lot. He's been to almost every country you can think of due to riding and has some pretty coo/odd stories.


This is my ratty bmx bike. It rattles and looks shitty. It feels sketchy to ride for everyone but me and I love it. It's opened up a whole new world for me and allowed me to see parts of the world I wouldn't of otherwise seen and has changed my life in many, many ways.

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19.7.08 - 30.7.08

I'm expecting to get through a roll of film every 2 weeks so check back every couple sundays or mondays for updates.


This is a photo of jackass the movie after a drunk night out I spent ages trying to work out who they where and if I knew them until I figured I must of taken a photo of the tv when watching jackass after being out. I didn't get any photos of being out in town well i did they just came out blurred due to being drunk. However I can tell you that I insulted a girl singing on a bench by asking if she could whistle because she couldn't sing. I also hurt my knuckles on a body shop sign. Manged to convey myself as a utter dick to about 3 or 4 random girls with a my first impressions. (Over time you will find out that I never ever make good first impressions). Acted salty to a girl who was/is a dick to me but doesn't seem to realise it. Then I went home was sick in the toilet at 4am and then drove to south wales at 7am. All in all it was successful night out.


I spend a lot of time driving my car and most of the time its driving long distances on the motorway this is a shot on that big bridge in wales (dunno whats its called) after riding downhill in cwmcarn.


I like this photo purely because of the person taking the a photo out of the window in the other car which I didn't notice until I had the film developed.


I probably spend half my week scanning film negatives. What with working in a photo lab and scanning my own film.


My dad races morgans. This is a photo from the pit wall looking up the pit lane at silverstone. Shortly after this I was told that I had to be over 18 to be on the pit wall and had to have a special pass by a Marshall that looked about 17. He soon shut up when I produced my pass and told him I was 19. Twat.


This was taken when my dad was driving down to get on to the track for his race. That's my dad you can see in the mirror. I wish i got his whole face in.


My dad owns a balloon company and every year I do some work for him contracted by corona beer which consists of getting paid to go away for a long weekend to random beach locations to set up a human table football balloon. Its a pretty sweet deal I get paid for about 2 hours of work and do what i want the rest of the time. This one was at a pub in london cos they canceled one of the beach ones. The people who work for Corona are either hot posh girls (see top right) to attract people to the balloon and posh boys who don't know fuck all i just care about the latest fashions and there hair styles. There useless and cocked up and didn't get a permit to have the inflatable where it was so we could not get it running. As well as this they showed up 4 hours late as usual.

The other to people in the photo are the other people helping me set up. The Kid closes is a close minded dick who thought he was superior to me simply because he was a year older despite me shutting him down on everything he did/said he also had the cheek to call me close minded becuase I don't watch TV. He's supposedly a writer at the bbc with his own show and had lots of celeb friends he would drop this in to every conversation. I never asked him about his tv show though becuse I knew thats what he wanted. He didn't like me when I said I don't watch TV becuse everything on TV is utter shite and TV programs are written by narrow minded wankers.


The next day we had to set the balloon up in the pub car park. Corona where late as usual, they didn't give use the free tab at the pub like they told us, no one played the on the balloon and all i could do was sit in the back of the van getting bored due there being fuck all to do.


It was a beautiful day the trails where dry for the first time in well ever so plans where made to go meet pete and ride the trails. We got to pete's and it rained a weeks worth of rain in about an hour and then continued to rain and thunder for the rest of the night. This happens every time the trails finaly get dry and we go to ride them. God damn it.


These donkeys live in the field outside my bedroom. The white donkey goes around making lots of noise and waking me up in the middle of the night chasing and raping all of the other donkeys in the field. It will chase them for ages with the other donkeys running away kicking it then when they give up it just rapes them. One time It spent ages chasing a donkey and then another donkey joined in and started kicking the rapist donkey until it gave up. I guess all the other donkeys got fed up and 10mins later 5 other donkeys cornered it and started chasing it and kicking and biting it. The moral of the story is if you rape donkeys, your gonna get beat.


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The beginning (11.7.08 - 18.7.08)

Well this is the first of many installments for my personal photo project documenting the next 10 years of my life.

I figure between the age 20-30 are probably the most important/fun time of you life what with making plans for the future, university and still being young and getting up to all kinds of random activities. So why not document it so I have the memories forever.

Will it last 10 years? Who knows, Hopefully.


This is the first photo I took It was meant to be a picture of the ebay auction that I won the camera from and of the time and date. However seeing as I had never used the camera before and rangefinder technology (if you can call it that) is new to me so its out of focus as are some of the other photos.


Thats pete with the half yellow bike and he's standing on his drive with alex cook in the background. This is a photo form one of our weekly street rides in birmingham where pete lives. later on Al did a massive gap to double peg down a double stair set that people have talked about jokingly and and got big swellbow but kept riding he's awesome. Oh and he's only been back on his bike for a couple months.


This is my desk. It consists of a laptop, a printer, a scanner and normally a couple bottles of beer and always a big mug of tea. I waste lots of hours here getting fed up because its nice and sunny out (see overexposed window) and there's nothing for me to do/know one about. It drives me insane you carn't even fathom how much I dislike days like that and they happen all the time. FUCK


Me and hugo ride downhill mtb we went to bewdley for the day to ride our new bikes and to take photos. However when we started to take photos it started to rain hence my wet camera bag and helmet. Oh and this was taken in mid english summer.


I took this on the drive back from riding downhill mtb in bringewood nr ludlow. Thats hugo in the photo. I took this whilst driving around a corner I was most impressed I managed to capture the other car and the guy in it completey by accident.


This is pete again and another street ride in birmingham this time it was just me and pete and we rode at an old car park that was covered in used jonnys and skag needles aswell as tramps sleeping around. I also completed 3 of the weekly street ride manual challenges. Tramps live the high life. Posh wanks, heroin and sleeping all day.


This is another weekly street ride. It ended up raining so we walked to tescos where I brought beer and ice cream covered in ice. Me, pete, Guy and Martin (pics of guy and martin in the future no doubt) stood looking in to the freezer for about 30mins deciding on what ice cream to have. Then pete and martin had a snowball fight.


This is pete scrapping ice of his ice cream. This is petes room its the size of a large cupboard and he keeps a motocross bike in it and sleeps on a duvet on the floor.


This is my favorite photo from the film. Its of another weekly street ride. This time in lichfeild where Al Cook lives. That's Al holding on to petes car whilst driving along a narrow country lane doing an impression from the Goonies.


This is a ditch Al found in lichfeild. Its super hard to ride but super fun. Later Al jumped over the fence out of the steep right hand side of the ditch near the oposite end it was crazy. He also did it with his T shirt wrapped around his head like a Turban. Kids got a screw loose.

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