This is a wicked film

Sim did not post it here, RN did! (so why hate sim)

pro = profession (sorry cant spell and cant be arsed to look up)

if you dont like whats on the telly change the channel

oh yea and props on the front page of vimeo

Below, I will attempt to construct an original and coherent discourse, drawing on reputable sources. This is something I have been professionally trained to do for the past decade or so. But then again, by what I can extrapolate from Sean Price’s definition of the word “professional” in the context of photography, I’m not sure if I would be able to class myself as a “professional” in my field either.

Unless otherwise stated, all definitions are from the Oxford English Dictionary.

@ Reddesire

Is everything ok with you? You seem to be exhibiting some rather unhealthy narcissistic personality traits. Maybe you want to work on that, to prevent problems for yourself later in life. Don’t worry, you are a unique and special person, and perfectly ok. Just like everyone else on this planet.

Why do I think this? Here are Hotchkiss’ “seven deadly sins of narcissism” (from Wikipedia):

1. Shamelessness – Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.

- I can obviously not feel what you are feeling. However, the overwhelming evidence from the tone and content of your posts indicates that you are unable to process “the painful emotion arising from the consciousness of something dishonouring, ridiculous, or indecorous in one’s own conduct or circumstances” in a healthy way. For example by expressing it.

Instead, you show no shame about your behaviour here, despite chastisement from your peers. Thus we must conclude that you are either a complete buffoon, who fails to realise how ridiculous you look and therefore does not experience shame, or that you are in fact repressing your sense of shame in an unhealthy manner.

2. Magical thinking – Narcissists see themselves as perfect using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.

- Magical thinking is defined as “the belief (specially characteristic of early childhood and of many mental illnesses) that thoughts, wishes, or special but causally irrelevant actions can cause or influence external events. You clearly see yourself as “perfect”, or at least superior to several extremely competent people in a variety of fields. While you do not categorically state “I am better than X, Y or Z”, it is implied by your abasement of their achievements. Unfortunately for you, simply thinking this does not make it so.

You are clearly also trying to project feelings of shame onto others, for example by statements like this:

“Sim Warren sounds like a sad prick sticking up for his edit with such venom on here.”

This might be a valid point, if your statement were correct. However, I have reread all of Sim’s posts, and I can’t seem to see where he has been “sticking up for his edit with such venom”. All of his posts seem perfectly benign.

3. Arrogance – If a narcissist is feeling deflated, s/he can reinflate him/herself by diminishing, debasing or degrading somebody else.

- “We do need less skating Alf. Especially your shit full cab alley oop mizous and general thinking you are Colin Kelso nonsense.”

Poor Alf. I don’t know Alf. Maybe he can’t disaster 720 topsoul. But he’s probably quite happy doing his full cab alley oop mizous. You just called them shit to make yourself feel better.

4. Envy – If the narcissist’s need to secure a sense of superiority meets an obstacle because of somebody else, s/he neutralises it using contempt to minimise the other person’s ability

- See above.

5. Entitlement – Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves uniquely special. Any failure to comply will be considered an attack on their superiority and the perpetrator is considered to be an “awkward” or “difficult” person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.

- See pretty much any of your posts for examples of how you use rage to counter people who do not comply with your world view.

6. Exploitation – can take many forms but always involves the using of others without regards for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. Sometimes the subservience is not so much real as assumed.

- See the bit about Alf above. You completely hijacked his comment for your own purposes. And then metaphorically shat all over him. If that’s not exploitation, then I don’t know what is. If you need a definition, look it up. By the way, the OED isn’t available online unless you have an institutional or personal subscription, which I highly doubt. Maybe a trip to your local library would do you good.

7. Bad Boundaries – narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate and are not extensions of themselves. Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who provide narcissistic supply to the narcissist will be treated as if they are part of the narcissist and be expected to live up to those expectations. In the mind of a narcissist, there is no boundary between self and other.

- Without having had any sort of extended contact with you, it’s difficult to judge this last one. However, 6/7 is not a bad score. Congratulations, you also seem to have passed the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. Like I said, you might want to get some help with this.

Reading through your posts, I’ve also noticed your rhetorical and deductive reasoning skills seem to be somewhat lacking. If you really want to convince people of your point of view then you might want to brush up on those as well. Below are a few pointers. I’ve taken the liberty of arranging your posts by argument, rather than by chronological order.

“Jake Eley does own a skateshop this is true but Oli Short a musician??? Adam Kola a photographer? I have never seen an Oli Short album in HMV and I have never seen an Adam Kola photo in anything other than a two bit skatemag.”

- I’m not sure if any of Oli’s music has ever made it into HMV, so for the sake of accuracy let’s stick to deconstructing your reasoning on Kola’s photography credentials. Your argument seems to hinge on the notion that you have “never seen an Adam Kola photo in anything other than a two bit skatemag”, and that this causes you to doubt whether he is, in fact, a photographer. I’m going to be nice here, and assume what you mean is “professional photographer”, otherwise you are more intellectually challenged than I thought. While it is immediately obvious that part of the problem may be your limited range of reading materials, I would like to be a bit more thorough in my treatment.

A guy called Karl Popper came up with a clever example of what is known as “inductive categorical inference”. This example is now commonly known as “one black swan”. I quote from Wikipedia:

“One notices a white swan. From this one can conclude:

At least one swan is white.

From this, one may wish to conjecture:

All swans are white.

It is impractical to observe all the swans in the world to verify that they are all white.

Even so, the statement all swans are white is testable by being falsifiable. For, if in testing many swans, the researcher finds a single black swan, then the statement all swans are white would be falsified by the counterexample of the single black swan.”

Your original argument is something along the lines of:

Adam Kola is not a photographer, since I have never seen an Adam Kola photo in anything other than a two bit skatemag.

Now, this argument is neither valid, nor sound. Leaving aside the whole question of what constitutes a “professional photographer”, let me show you where the rest of your argument falls apart. Let’s frame it in a similar way to the example above, for ease of comparison. Please note that while I may have rephrased your argument, your “logic” remains intact.

One notices a photograph by Adam Kola in a two bit skatemag. From this one can conclude:

At least one of Adam Kola’s photographs appears in a two bit skatemag.

From this, one may wish to conjecture:

All of Adam Kola’s photographs appear in two bit skatemags.

Just as it is impractical to observe all the swans in the world, it is impractical for you to read every publication ever published (or at least those published within the period of time that Kola has been, ahem, “professionally” active). Yet just a single occurrence of Kola’s work in anything that “hasn’t been given to him by friends or by skate magazines of which he is an owner/founder” would falsify the statement all of Adam Kola’s photographs appear in two bit skatemags. And this would invalidate your statement that Adam Kola is not a photographer, since it is directly inferred in your original argument.

Oh wait… didn’t he have something in the guardian? Sorry, the Guardian?

“If he has indeed done work for the Guardian he should probably stop writing it ‘guardian’.”

- I’m pretty sure this is an example of what is known as a non-sequitur. I’ll let you look it up.

“The Guardian hahaha yeh of course he has.”

- I’m pretty certain that this is an independently verifiable fact. Again, your local library might be able to help you out, and I’m sure Adam will be happy to provide you with the date his work was published.

Right, enough with the serious.

“OH yaeh adam u think ur so tough, why dont u bring it!

u fake photographer bitch….

im way more cooler than u are, ever done a 720 disaster topsoul.”

- omgwtfbbq clearly you are way most the coolest person ever ftw for being able to 720 disaster topsoul.

We obviously all missed the memo on the new ISO standard for coolness. They must have also changed the dictionary definition of cool, because I can’t see how either of the following definitions (of which I assume one at least is the one you are referring to) are in any way descriptive of you.

cool, adj., adv., and int.

2. a. Of a person or a personal attribute, quality, etc.: not affected by passion or emotion, dispassionate; controlled, deliberate, not hasty; calm, composed.

or

8. colloq. (orig. U.S.).

a. Attractively shrewd or clever; sophisticated, stylish, classy; fashionable, up to date; sexually attractive.

Of course, I like to take everything on the internet with a pinch of salt. You should too.

P.S.

“Sorry about my outbursts. i Havent had any big black dick i quite a while, which was stressing me out, but luckly someone has just jizzed down my throat and i released my juice all down his face.”

Oh good, sexual frustration be tough. Have you thought about finding yourself a boyfriend? Maybe try having a wank once in a while too. Here, this might help http://www.monstercock.com/

With love x

If somethings good and you know it you don’t need to defend it, doing so so vigourously makes shows you have your own doubt. Yeah fair enough you guys are good bladers among the best in the uk, but to be honest the guys who run this site shouldn’t put edits like this up because it encourages this whole rollerblading hipster look which is beginning to detract from actual skating, get a grip you are bladers not film stars.

First of all, Reddesire and Sean Price are clearly just trolls who have nothing better to do with their lives than incite hatred and hide behind the anonymity that the internet provides. Please stop feeding the flames and hopefully they will get bored and leave.

Secondly, it makes me sad to see people cussing my incredibly talented and motivated friends. Obviously not everything is to everyone’s taste – that we all have different opinions is one of the things that makes this world the incredible place it is – but to confuse legitimate criticism with venemous, unsubstantiated and personal attacks is surely a sign of a weak and uneducated mind.

@ Steve: Joby can, of course, be a massive prick. As can we all. He is also an incredibly good judge of character. If he is a prick to you, that says more about you than it does about him.

@ Reddesire, Sean and all the other haters: I truly pity you because your view of the world must be greatly sullied by your negativity.

@ Everyone else: keep up the good work!

Much love and Merry Christmas to all x

nice short edit. wish it went on longer. nice clips with the dolly as well. i want to see more of this didnt want it to stop. cool bit with the snow and graffiti.
This is hilarious the amount of jealous people hatting over people making a living and having a fun time.these guys are clearly the winners over moaning internet haters.

good job, keep doing what you do