Then a couple skaters showed up, coming down from the East side. They were carrying videocameras and—yes, a generator. Interesting. The first good night of the year, and some out-of-towners (assumed: they arrived in an SUV) were gonna shut down the Banks for their own purposes. They started to set up lights across the whole bottom of the Banks. Everyone was skating Element decks, so at least we knew who to blame.
A couple of the guys were just skating, including one hessian-looking dude with long blond hair, a baseball hat, and a denim jacket with some sort of crest on the back. One of the other riders I was with poked me. "That's Mike V!" Sure enough, a closer look revealed that it indeed was Mike Vallely. Which meant no one was gonna disturb this particular session. BMXers can be pretty stupid sometimes, but no one's THAT stupid. He started hitting the bank, sliding sliders and popping bonelesses. Pure '80s style.
Since I had my camera, I figured I'd try to poach again (look back for my post about Mark Gonzales to see earlier efforts). Well, I was in a bad spot, and maybe the flashes weren't going off as long. Regardless, I only got one semi-useable shot. And here it is. (I actually really dig the shadow.)
Anyway, I once again apologize for the long absence. Now that spring is actually in the air, I plan on being out a LOT more. And I have a Nikkor fisheye on the way that should make for some really cool photos. So stay with me.
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Taht would piss me off having skaters coming and acting like they own the place. Cool pic.
lets trade camras
Town to Hipsters: Shape up or ship out
WILLIAMSBURG, New York (AP) -- A group of hipsters in the historical Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, has moved a step closer to getting rid of the people known as hipsters.
The Please Eliminate Nuisances In Society voted on Monday to take whatever action it deems necessary to keep these creatures from breathing the same air as other, more important, real people. These people are gross, and punches will be delivered. Twice.
The society's vote allows the anti-hipster committee to file formal opposition to these plans, and it authorized spending $200 toward legal costs on getting rid of these disgusting cokefaces, and according to police chief Clifford Smilepie, "These delightful youngsters are absolutely disgusting, and I will exterminate them. Go post on williamsboard, and bake a dance pie with your tight jeans and pineapple hair. I hate. And I thought mods were bad."
"My personal feeling is that I just, quite sadly, hate them," Bill Quackler, vice president of the society, said at its meeting. Monday night, "If we don't proceed, oh we will. Cause I hate you guys."
He told the village in January that she was inspired to do some stuff and punch hipsters. that consists of a punch and the face. And those party websites with pictures of boobs and dumb hair.
Stewart lived in Westport, Connecticut, for more than several years before some stuff.
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Are you proposing we sick Mike V. on these hipsters?
DAMN DOOD, U NEED TO UPDATE MORE. OLD NEWS
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