This (also here) would have to be one of the stupidest events I have ever heard of during my research. Here is an account of someone who was actually there. Extract: I seriously thought we were going to die, we were being pushed off this dirt road, zero visibility, zero control, towards a massive drop […]
Category Archives: PhD
Where I is?
Today I went through every single thing I have written for my PhD over the last two years or so, synthesising everything that is at least half-useful, which is about 63,500 words and 180 pages. Now I’m scared, because that means I must have written about twice that on stuff that is entirely useless and […]
Waste organised by exhibitionists, for the sake of sensation
In the first issue of Street Machine magazine (Aug/Sept 1981) they published some comments from a French reporter who covered the event of France’s first ever drag race. I quote from the Street Machine article: We were going to print the story in toto, but after re-reading it a few time we decided it should […]
silly buggers…
Just saw footage of this on the news. It looks like a Datto 1600 was doing something and crashed into a car which was pushed into a crowd of people. The datto had different mags back and front. Maybe they were ‘burnout’ tyres on the back or they could’ve even been drifting, but it is […]
Time Machine
I haven’t had so much fun with my thesis for ages! I spent half the day scanning articles into my computer at uni that I had photocopied from the Street Machine ‘archive vault’ yesterday. I am only do the most important articles and colour photos. When I have sorted them out a bit I will […]