Fuck YEAH…

The internet reached Iowa… so that means that I get to do this shit too… and at least one of them does the recommended daily allowance… and is properly bitter at my interrupting the two hour daily regime.. did i mention the rails? No aluminum in sight… American Steel..

Scientific Saturdays

As the main PremierBakedBeanBrand blog poster has jetted off for two weeks in the United States to make connections and escape this awful weather I thought it interesting that more than 60 percent of all adults in the United States do not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity. This lack of regular physical exercise can lead to illness and chronic diseases later in life. Regular, brisk walking is one of the simplest and safest forms of physical exercise. A regular walking program can help control weight, condition the heart and lungs, strengthen bones, and help you take the first step to a healthier future.

But if you’re like me and tend to walk seventeen and a half hours a week at least, then 87 percent of that time is spent looking or dreaming about what your going to ride when the weekend finally roll’s around only to find out that the weather is going to ruin any idea’s that came about in those nine hundred, thirteen and a half minutes of day dreaming.

Which more than likely will lead me to the pub and alcohol, and we all know long-term excessive use of alcohol causes illnesses such as liver damage, stomach cancer and heart disease.  So to sum up I am looking forward to a sunny day in the future.

Oh SNAP

i got a password expect something when it stops raining or when i start drinkin

Later than some, before most of the rest

We stuck up a page on Flickr… gave out the password to a couple of extra people, and you’d not believe it even with twice as many people able to post the good shit up there it ain’t happening. That’s the way of it right? You think it’s a good idea, the enthusiasm is there, everyone is raring to get out in between the downpours and anything that is worthy, and all the great unworthy, can get slapped up there for everyone, and I mean anyone with the internet and the desire to see what’s going on with beans, can check it out… Ride UK pays £70 per 1000 words; so far we’re at a shade over £7 with this post… still the idea is that instead of clogging my hard-drive space with all the unused photos we just dump all of them on Flickr… do your own editing…

Scientific Saturdays

If you spend 60 to 80 hours of your waking life working, on a weekly basis, only 3% of you is bothered that you haven’t posted on a blog. In fact 3% may be gross exaggeration
It helps if you actually do something, as work, that’s related to the subject that you are meant to be writing about, or at least I imagine that’s the case, but when it doesn’t why bother ranting, and that’s more than likely going to happen, because it’s not really fun for anyone. Some people get to hear me rant on and to those that listen patiently I thank you.
Still when the view looks like this Eganjet Photo.

Random.

The internet connects people in a way that phones and other forms of non-digital communication do not. I can’t hear stories of someone on the other side of the plane, locate an address in a short space of time and write a letter nor can I get hold of a phone number that easily; it’s not really acceptable to cold-call someone like that and even if you could get a number and you weren’t bothered how it would look phoning out of the blue how would you start the call? ” You don’t know me but….”.
With an email though, or through other internet based communication, and I’m thinking myface and all that, you can locate a way of getting through to them and you can take a chance and fire of a quick “You don’t know me but…” and it’s the done thing. It happens all the time. People start relationships that way now, that’s how acceptable it is. It’s also how I get to ask people called Brian questions. It isn’t hard, especially when there’s a product involved somewhere along the line, seeing as all promotion is good promotion and all that, you just need to see who they work for/ride for and look for a contact button and away you go. The worse thing that happens is you never hear back and when you do you can’t help but think ’sweet, that was easier than I thought it was going to be’. It helps to remember that bmx isn’t football, I don’t see Mark McGhee getting back to me anytime soon nor do I imagine that his email address is posted for all to see over at the Aberdeen website , and I’m willing to bet that he can’t decide on his favourite sections from last year either, so that keeps it all closer together, though given the small nature of bean production, I’m thinking we’ve got to be in the top six in the UK, behind the leading five, assuming that there are five top baked bean manufacturers, you’d think I’d hear more from Heinz and Branston, even if it was the odd copy of Baked Bean Today through the post. Maybe premierbakedbeanbrand need to get in a union or something. It helps to remember that before you know someone you don’t know them and it all starts with some basic form of hello, be it written or verbally, otherwise you find that the people you don’t know won’t respond and you know no-one…

So. London. It’s a big place, full of people that we don’t know, will never know, and yet someone out there has taken to leaving pianos there for anyone to play in a way that encourages community spirit. More piano playing went down than riding, seeing as everytime we were making our way between spots we’d find another piano.We’ll use the word playing rather loosely but there were no complaints and as the picture shows, it looked okay if nothing else… The riding that happened was inevitably captured by the iphone, partly as the camera bag was locked in a room about 75 miles away and partly because no-one really would of wanted to be carrying it on such a warm night, though there’s hope for moving images with the iphone G3 S now on the market and in peoples pockets…

TV on the Radio

The name of a popular band I’ll admit but also a source of constant irritation. I don’t want to be listening to the radio, in the morning with my tea and cereal before going to work or in the evenings with my tea and dinner, radio is always better with tea, no, everything is better with tea, except coffee, I tried putting tea in my coffee one time and it was foul and then, and I don’t know why I thought the result would be any different, some time later I tried coffee in my tea and that tasted just as bad, probably something to do with the fact that I like tea white and coffee black, and have to listen to the presenters chatting on about what’s happening on popular television shows. Don’t they understand? I’m listening to the radio to avoid the mind-numbing banalities of television and so, when faced with the question “Did you see….”, I can answer ‘No, I didn’t’. Not watching tv also allows me to hear more music, or at least you’d like to hope so but then the BBC do seem to have a policy of insisting that only six records an hour get played; think I’m joking try listening to the Radio 1 breakfast show. It makes you thankful for DAB and all of the options that come with it. I really have no interest in who shot who, who shagged who and who got fired all in the name of entertainment; not when music has the ability to inspire movement and thought and can fill a room even when it’s played at the lowest volume and disappear into the background despite being played at the loudest you can get it out of the speakers  depending on what you’re doing. I’m not saying do away with the presenters, they’re fine as long as they give me the name of the track/piece, the name of the artist/writer and the label that’s putting it out but as for the endless promotion of television shows, some of which aren’t even products of the BBC, and films, the majority tending to be Hollywood funded, no Jean-Luc Godard, Krzysztof Kieslowski or even Luc Besson here, the presenters take on the role of advertiser and the ‘unique way’ in which the BBC is funded is rendered utterly pointless. I guess the only reason to keep quiet is because you don’t have to pay a license fee to listen. I think Radio on the TV can wait for another time… Here’s a random i-phone photo of a spot that seems to be becoming more popular with every passing weekend especially as everyone that visits has their own chilled police/irate security guard story…
 

Scientific Saturdays

Science. Where we would we be with out it? Happier probably. Here are some scientific facts the men in the white coats have brought us-

• Male Rabbits are 89% more likely to die of Myxomatosis than female Rabbits. 
• Eating refrigerated food products increases the chances of stunted growth. Got short parents? Want to grow? Keep clear of the fridge.. 
• Pizza tastes 38% better if it isn’t cut into triangles.

Advert 2

We had a few possibilities and couldn’t choose what to go with… so we sent them both over to Holeshot HQ with the idea that we’d find out what had been selected when it drops… Don’t know what one you’d go with but these are the choices.

Sean Harland photo.

Holeshot Five arrived here yesterday, as they’re available to purchase now, which means if you get your hands on a copy you’ll find out what ad Nick ran…

Leftovers.

Apparently if you’re unemployed you’re more likely to spend time writing blogs, google Unemploymentality as it’s all on there some where, and I guess being at work doesn’t really allow you to update all the time, though if all you’re doing is updating what you had for breakfast then it’s a bit pointless, same with the blogs that are only ever posting links to other sites, but then if you’ve nothing to actually say or are busy getting out and getting on with things then updates are bound to slow.
Personally I’d of liked to of seen them go into it in more thorough detail; there was no mention of the weather and the relationship between the two, unemployment/weather, and though it might not make a great deal of difference to you if you live in the South of France, South Africa or Southern Australia if you live in the South of the UK you tend to pay close attention to the weather reports so if you’re employed, or not, and the weather is good you aren’t likely to be sat in at a computer updating, or at least you shouldn’t be, which is why I get so amazed at the amount of people that are bitter when they hear you don’t have time to be posting time on ’social networking’ sites.. yeah it’s sunny so don’t sit inside updating profiles, and letting people know that you’re having a barbecue because it’s sunny- what a fucking waste of sunshine, barbecuing, great, well done, you can barbecue in the rain, it isn’t hard seeing as you’re dealing with fire and holding an umbrella/constructing some form of corrugated iron structure will keep you dry, not that getting wet is as bad as everyone makes out, just pull on your Goretex- through twitter and posting “on-a-wall” just get outside and actually do something… go somewhere, see something, get active. And then there’s the ‘but you can get in touch with people you lost contact with…’ argument for having these sites; if I wanted to keep in touch with people I would of. You grow, you move on people get left behind. Happens all the time. 
It’s June. I’m not unemployed and the weather is shit. I didn’t expect to go to London the other day to spend the day under a motorway in an effort to evade the rain. I did and it was fun but that isn’t the point. I’m writing this because work slows down in the rain if you aren’t based in an office, or a hot climate, and global warming, or it could be evolution, maybe a combination of the two, has seen that the rainy weather of spring is now upon us despite the fact that the flowers are in full bloom and the trees are as green as they’re ever going to get… hopefully Summer will stretch out in front of us and will run through July, August and September… Maybe, if we’re lucky.

In amongst the rain, and the chillier days that came at the end of May, and with the impending deadline growing ever closer we had to get out and shoot a new advert for Holeshot; we came up with a solid concept, struck lucky with a hot and sunny weekend, discovered that seagulls aren’t really hungry come the end of the day when they’ve done nothing but harass the day-trippers,learnt that cows don’t like to eat fish, spent hours scouring the countryside and after all that we had a selection of images to choose from but as we aren’t made of money only one could end up in Issue Five… So rather than just leave them hanging around posting a few of them would make all the effort a bit more worthwhile…
 
We lost the photos of them stampeding cows…
Just imagine; we could of missed out on all this excitement if we’d of been inside updating this blog in an effort to spread the word out the quality of our beans…