What a Monday to be bestowed this awesome video from Mike Gray. A lot of heavy hitter moves from Toronto’s York region to Florida to California and more. Filmed and edited by Justin Browne. Who wants to go eat at the Pickle Barrel?
We’ve got sticker packs back in stock again. We’ve been making stickers since day one, and all of the orders from our online store come with them for free, but we kept getting asked how to get just sticker packs. We packaged them up and them for sale for anyone that is interested. Comes with 6 high quality vinyl stickers for $2. You can pick them up here.
John Alden put together some unused footage that he had from just two days of riding in the spring. Normally that would be a bit of a snoozefest of an edit to post, but the no-footed seatgrab barspin in this makes it worth the while.
We posted about the St. John’s, Newfoundland scene video Stranded when Ryan Antle sent us the trailer earlier this year and he just let us know that they are finished and premiering it at Turndown this Friday, November 22nd at 6:00pm. $20 to watch the video, get a copy, and ride the Turndown park until 10:00pm. Not a bad way to spend your Friday night and support your local scene. Make it out, enjoy a Quidi Vidi, kick back, and watch what these b’ys have worked on. You can check out the trailer again below after the link.
Another wacky one brought to you by Chilling Spree. I’ll let Riley explain it:
450 Salsbury is an anomaly in the typical BMX house paradigm. Everyone has steady jobs, dialed bikes and the carpets always clean. With Jordan Hango, Jason Teet, Carl Arnett and Jordan Ross calling it home, it has long been a meet up spot to start pedaling from. A place to chill on the alley side stoop, and watch the adventures of lost minded characters. Or get buck nutty when the fire starts to burn.
Fire up the grill and enjoy this quick sizzling mixtape.
Filmed by Jordan Hango & Riley McMaster
Edited by Riley McMaster
Music by Huell Howser
Whenever I see Greg Henry, or while following him on Instagram, he’s taking and sharing photos. Whether holding it down at his bridge spot in St. Catherine’s, ON or on a road trip to somewhere nearby, he’ll have his phone out and capturing something interesting. I thought he would be a perfect fit for our third iPhoneography feature where we ask a rider to share a dozen photos with us that they took in the last six months. Check out Greg’s photos below, and you can follow him on Instagram for more photos at @bmxfu_gh and us at @northernembassy.
Our Fall Photo Contest ended on November 1st, and after we tallied the numbers from our esteemed panel of judges we have ourselves a winner. Brodie Gwilliam sent in this photo of an over icepick in what looks like a wooden ramp graveyard in the frosty looking prairies. He wins one of our limited edition Pivotal seats.
Thanks to everyone that participated and sent a photo in to us. We had a large number of entries from all over the country. Check out a few more of the judges favourites after the jump, and look for more contests from us in the future.
Dig Magazine have a really great ongoing article on their site this week where they profile the 10 most influential BMX photographers of all time. Every day they’ve put up a new photographer with a short interview or profile about them and their work, and so far they’ve reached number 5. Any rider that grew up with magazines as their prime window in to the world of BMX (i.e. pre-Internet dominance) will recognize these names and a number of the images and remember how important and influential they were.
In an age where everyone is carrying a camera around in their pocket it might seem like the true value of a photograph has diminished, and it’s interesting hearing some of these photographers giving their opinions on this and other subjects. It is of course an entirely subjective list, but you can read entries 10 to 5 here and keep checking it next week (I presume) for 4 to 1.
Speaking personally, Dig Magazine as a whole was a hugely influential magazine to me growing up as a rider, especially during the years that Brian Tunney was the editor. It’s inspiring to see them still continuing to produce quality pieces like this and finding a great balance between print and online content.
DWOK crew dropped a park edit, while making fun of people’s disdain for park edits. Now that’s meta. Fakie nollie 180 peg bonk was nice. Mixtape out…who knows when.