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Hung up on brand names? Surely the epitome of uncool.
Cool kids at the skate park where I take my boy (these kids are so cool they wear woolly hats with ear flaps in the summer, man) have BMXs without brand names on them. Cool bikes for cool kidz, I reckon.
When I see a fit girl riding a dutch bike, I think she's cool 🙂
So, no coolhunters on STW today then?
Random observation:
Just saw a flash geezer wearing flash shades get into his flash soft-top and flashily press the button that removes the flashy roof... only to get stuck in city centre traffic and try way too hard to hide his frustration under a cloak of über cool.
I spend a lot of time at skate parks actually skating.... bloody BMXers should stick to dirt jumps! If I could ride anywhere and build my own ramps etc out of dirt there is no way I'd be riding a skate park. thats uncool.
😆 - well they're cooler than the scooterists (eg. my son!) and the inline skaters 🙂
damn straight they are! scooterists should be banned. Inline skaters have no idea how to use parks and always stand on top of blocks or in the run outs from stuff... At least BMXers have the courtesy to start from similar places in the park and look out for people already dropped in. so I guess they are not ALL bad 😉
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I'm at home working on my MacBook Pro drawing with a Wacom Intuos 4, whilst doing a live mix on Native Instruments Tractor DJ on my iMac.
You are Nathan Barley and I claim my £5
Haze - agreed. Always rode Gullwing, but Indy definitely cooler.
Totally Mexico my friend - 5 Kubriks are yours to collect from my Surrey Hills Media Hub! Nath x
never ride anything other than Indy's anymore stage 10 149 are the nuts. never a fan of gullwings.
Indys, Anti Hero 8.25 or wider, reds, Jessop tape, shorty's mounting hardware (if you find it) and Bones SPF wheels... lush.
I love skateboarding... any other skaters about?
Just waiting for the eldest to grow a bit and show a bit more interest so I can err.. supervise on the local mini ramp. Found I can still kickflip 2/3 times, and heelflip to amateur vasectomy the other day 😯
Sometimes I'll have a play on my Zoo York
The wheels on my skateboard:
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Just waiting for the eldest to grow a bit and show a bit more interest so I can err.. supervise on the local mini ramp. Found I can still kickflip 2/3 times, and heelflip to amateur vasectomy the other day
if you're ever near brum I have the keys to a mini ramp, that belongs to the local skate shop... 19 years of loyalty has its rewards.
Bit before your time eh?
Ideal?
I don't know if this is cool.. or even a good deck.. but we have one on our sitting room wall because it looks nice..
I haven't skated since the 80s cos I'm not cool..
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Just waiting for the eldest to grow a bit and show a bit more interest so I can err.. supervise on the local mini ramp.
Used to have an amazing 5ft high mini ramp with a spine to a 4 ft mini ramp in our garden that my dad and brother built. All rotted away now sadly. Will try and find some pics of it one day.
Cool seems to me to be all about a state of mind.
Well loved ancient Moto Guzzi = Cool - Brand new Harley Davidson = Ha
Aston Martins = Not cool - Person who can afford Aston Martin Driving a battered runabout = cool
Person making good music without any commercial consideration = cool
Person making formula music to make money = Not cool.
I'm not too sure theres that much cool stuff around anymore the marketing bods get their filthy mitts on everything and befoul it.
And so on and so forth.
Can i wade in? Cool is fluid and relative. What i think is cool is not what you think is cool. Anyone who thinks their version of cool isn't cool (see: all the angst on this thread about 21 year olds' opinions) obviously isn't cool.
Having said all that, if i had to pin down a moderately(but not too) popular version i'd go for things with a woodsy, unbranded, ethical vibe. Makr. Bestmadeco. Foraging for fruit in the woods.
i'd go for things with a woodsy, unbranded, ethical vibe. Makr. Bestmadeco. Foraging for fruit in the woods.
deeply uncool
I think it's cool, therefore it's cool. You can disagree, and that's cool too.
Not cool man, not cool:
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Ice cold:
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Not cool man, not cool:
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Ice cold:
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PS. Skateboarding is not cool unless you're like 13 or something
cool man.. I'm cool with that.. 8)
Cool beans, man
Person making formula music to make money = Not cool.
i know a few people who do this, they are cooler than anyone i know who work in I.T.
I.T.: not cool
a little before my time yeah Dez.... only a little though, the older guys were riding things like that when i started but milled down to rubber band thickness 😉
and yes its Ideal.
http://www.idealbirmingham.co.uk/
Person making formula music to make money = Not cool.
Being paid to write/record/produce music would be ideal for me, it's one of the few things I'm pretty good at and really enjoy. I'm not stupid enough to think that I'll ever "make it" and be a rock star, so making some money off it would be pretty good. Most of the stuff I write sounds a bit generic so it could actually have some commercial appeal, I just don't know how to go about trying to selling my tracks, maybe some kind of music alternative to istockphoto?
ps I am definitely the coolest here, I just had a lie-in, had some breakfast, and am about to go riding in one of the best places in the world. Ice cold 8) Oh and my bike has recently been named "The Werewolf Slayer" after some guy commented that "you can only take down a werewolf with a silver bullet (Bullit)" 😛
Cool brands? Factory Records IMHO is the epitome of cool. Cool bands (mostly)! Cool venues (Hac, Dry). Every release, product, venue, event given a catalogue no. Massively influential on music, art, culture. Lost shed loads of money just doing what they wanted 8)
Factory Records cool? Maybe in 1986!
Buying stuff because it's cool, is not cool.
Conformity is bland, I'd much rather have a conversation with a person who behaves how they want to; not how they think they should.
The only 2 on the list I relate to are Google and Youtube as they are functionally useful. Some things on that list cry out "D*CKHEAD!". Vulgar decadence and "look at me" spending are desperate.
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One man's cool is another man's cack, or something like that. What the hell is "cool" anyway?
Made up word by ad executives now also used by marketeers to sell over priced crap.