The Side Effects Of Urethane was a skateboard and art project at the Jam Factory, Soutwark. Built and Curated in 2001 by Rich Holland, Toby Shawl, Marcus Oakley, Pin and many others, whose names I cant remember. This clip was badly filmed with a cheap video camera and sketchy fish eye, the footage was cobbled together along with some snapshots. Loads of folk in here: Bobby Puelo, Badger, Fos, Jimmy Boyce, Frank Stevens, Matius Nylen, Martin Herrick, amgounst others. I think Fos’s Band was called Doku Dango. Really wish there was someting these days to match the creativity and energy that the TSEOU events created (maybe there is but I am just not clued up about it?). I found this edit which I thought was lost on languishing a DVD i had made, so thought I would share. Filmed and Edited by Gorm for Bullet Creative.

He was on a break from manning the store and was sessioning these backside lipslides. I always liked the shapes people make when doing this trick, especially as Carl’s were fully lapped and slid for miles.

Shunt was an arts space / members club that was situated in the arches under the train tracks and platforms of London Bridge station.  It was a surreal and estoic place, filled with art an performance.  It has in recent years been forced to move to new premises due to the building of the Shard.  Maybe one day it will return?  These Pics are from an art installation that was skatable, I never actually found out who was repsonsible for it, let me know if you know. Real stoked on how this set came out, I won Element’s Skate Photo of the year with a pic of the mighty mighty Stu Smith.   Some of the photos were originally ran in an article in Tweaker Zine