A quick edit of Southsea skater Matt O’Neill skating the Leigh Park skatepark before the rain set in. Matt and his wife have left Southsea for a new life in Melbourne, Australia, wishing them the best of luck in their new adventure!
P.S. Song is a little NSFW, just so you know
I’m a huge fan of self produced zines and have built up a bit of a collection over the years. There is something special about someone wanting to put their photos, words and ideas out there in a DIY, pre-Internet, tactile way.
So needless to say I was stoked to see a new local zine the other day, Gnar Pages by local photographer and skateboarder Eugene Noble. We’ve featured Eugene’s amazing photography previously on a couple of occasions and he is one of Southsea’s young new breed of local creatives and this new zine is really good. Gnar Pages is a sort of skatespot directory featuring some famous and not so famous Portsmouth and Southsea skatespots but also includes Eugene’s own thoughts and memories on the locations.
The zine is free and has been distributed here and there around Southsea so keep your eye’s peeled if you want a copy. You can also check the zine and Eugene’s photography and artwork on Flickr HERE.
1401 Is a home grown skateboard company out of Portsmouth. They currently have two European pressed decks in their range plus hand screened raglan tees screened in Southsea. Great to see a small, local company on the up and we wish them the best of luck!
Check the edit below by the mighty Sam Bailey, loads of local Portsmouth spots getting shredded all wrapped up in Sam’s own incredible editing style. Quality.
Find out more at 1401.co
Dave Stevens (with the help of Steve) documented much of the early 2000s skateboarding in Southsea, with Dave’s first video Hate Portsmouth Love Southsea covering 2001 to 2004. The video came out on DVD originally but the titles are now online (including some skating by our very own Tristan):
Southsea Skatepark is now operated by Southsea Skatepark Company, a registered charity set up by a small group of park supporters to take over the park from Portsmouth City Council. They hold the park on a 60 year lease from the council and have an Agreement which includes a reducing revenue subsidy for the first 5 years. To carry out the large scale improvements needed to make the park viable in the longer term, they are seeking grants and sponsorship. If you have any good ideas, we’d like to hear from you via their website.
You can also Support Southsea Skatepark by buying a selection of hats, stickers and tee shirts, ideal Christmas gifts. These are now available to buy at the skatepark. See the website for opening times and directions – http://www.southseaskatepark.com/
Prices – All hats in various styles and hand knitted – £5, Stickers 40p each or 3 for £1, Tee Shirts – £15.
More exciting products will be available soon.
Southsea Skatepark is looking for old skateboards to be donated as part of a fundraising drive. These will then be recycled into products made and designed by local artists and makers in the city with a percentage of profits going to the skatepark.
If you have any skateboards that you don’t use or are broken then please drop them into the skatepark. Please leave your name and contact details as we would like to include a history of the board on the product tags. Further information on where and how to buy the products will be revealed soon. Below are some prototypes and also testing the cutting.
Bored represent’e and Blueprint flow rider Phil Russell has a mad banging ten tricks for Kingpin Magazine down at Hove Lagoon. You’d be hard pressed to spread more butter on that toasty skatepark. Late kickflip (had to watch that a few times) is a touch. Filmed and edited by Sam Bailey.
Phil’s 10 For Kingpin from Sam Bailey on Vimeo.
Know your smith grinds from your feebles? Strong Island, Southsea Skatepark and Little Johnny Russells are hosting a skateboarding themed pub quiz at LJRs on Wednesday 26th October with a load of prizes up for grabs. It’s only £2 per person entry with teams of up to two people, all money will go to the skatepark charity. The last time we ran this it was a busy night and a lot of fun, hope to see you there this time.
Know your smith grinds from your feebles? Strong Island, Southsea Skatepark and Little Johnny Russells are hosting a skateboarding themed pub quiz at LJRs on Wednesday 26th October with a load of prizes up for grabs. It’s only £2 per person entry with teams of up to two people, all money will go to the skatepark charity. The last time we ran this it was a busy night and a lot of fun, hope to see you there this time.
This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.
With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.
The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.
Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.
PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.
The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.
Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.
We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER
Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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