The Albe’s Team came down to our neck of the woods recently (Twilight trip? No idea.) They hit up some of the more notorious spots on campus and a few even I didn’t recognize. For instance, where in the blue hell is that indoor park? Is that in Athens??
h/t DigBMX
Came across this today and immediately thought of Rad. Honestly, I think a version of Rad for this generation is long overdue. The story seems to be similar, a hometown kid rises up against the odds, with the additional “gritty” factor upped by the way of street-crime and a kid from a bad neighborhood. It’s your standard redemption story which, ideally, will be bookended by some awesome riding. I don’t know if I’ll pay to see it in a first-run but if I can catch it at a $1 theater or on DVD I’ll be all over it. Even if the narrative is sorta tired and the acting sub-par (both of which are common to these kind of indie flicks IMO) I’ll still step up to support something that showcases a sport I love (and hate
Check out the website for more info: http://www.accelerate-themovie.com and check out the trailer below:
I tell ya, the kid is everywhere these days! He’s blowing up! Sooo crazy to me that he’s about to graduate. I can still remember when we was “little” kid in the shows. If you want to know more about the Boy Wonder I keep posting about, check out his interview over at BMXUnion: http://www.bmxunion.com/blog/interview/devon-smillie-interview/
If you haven’t heard of Devon, there’s a good chance you don’t really ride that much, or you are too busy actually riding. In the last probably two months he has had this explosion of web videos that seemed like he had come out every other day. The talent Devon holds got my attention and I started getting more and more curious what this guy was all about. I figured I’d see if he would be into an interview, and he came through.
Now I want to find out if I can convince BnB to do a show so I can announce it before Devon is too busy winning Dew Tour stops!
I’m not sure which is more sick, the trick itself or the fact that the feat had Scotty Cranmer in awe.
A ~5’9″ bunnyhop. One word: sickness.
So, apparently Kat Von D came across the post I did about her interview on Sixx Sense and tweeted the following:
Saw this blog and thought it was sooo sweet! – http://tinyurl.com/y85lqfb
Srsly, how awesome is that? Thanks to Kat’s tweet blog traffic for that post BLEW.UP. My usual readership amounts mostly to George, The Wifs and maybe a few random hits from my Twitter feed or Facebook. Today the traffic has been so high that it basically flatlines my usual traffic spikes.
Suddenly I feel like the cool kid at school.
So to all the folks that are here from Kat’s tweet, what’s up? Thanks for stopping by! If your interested please stick around and check the place out. You can find all sorts of stuff about my love/hate relationship with BMX, my not-so-secret desire to grow up and be a rockstar, my hopeless love of all things 80′s and my journey into and thru the Christian wilderness as I try to navigate from darkness into the light.