I can best describe Odyssey’s Texas Toast Jam as some sort of large scale local jam/BMX festival. I think the combination of those two sums it up pretty well. There was a pretty standard dirt comp going on, but every thing else was pretty non-standard (but that was the best part). Once people got on site, they knew they were in for an interesting time.

Despite the heat (did you know it was hot in texas?) and windy conditions, I can’t help but feel that this jam was refreshing and just plain fun. I’m pretty sure everyone left with a smile, especially after Mike Aitken’s run. Click through the photogallery to see what I mean.

Click below to check out some pics from the Texas Toast Jam and hit up THIS link for more coverage.

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My old friend Mike Dytri is one of those “never not working” types that gets you pumped to go accomplish things, and on top of that I love the irony of him being such a “design guy” that you’d never know that, just for fun, he’s also a MMA killing machine.

I met Mike back in early 2000 when he was doing all of the creative for MOSH, which was a cool time because he was exposing all of us BMX kids to some fun stuff… introducing us to the staff at Big Brother, having our ads shot by fashion and skate photographers, and hooking us up with free custom-made, shrink-wrapped graphic tee shirts from his line Subfreakie.

Most recently, with his brand Ludwig Van, he’s collaborated with Vans to make an interesting run of shoes that have gone over quite well.

Read a quick interview with Mike at Breaks of 10.

Here is your first look at the cover of Albion #2, which releases on June 1st.

Albion is available free through all good UK BMX shops, and subscription only outside the UK. This mag comes highly recommended by yours truly (that’s me), so hit up the Albion site for info.

The first issue was remarkable, so I can’t wait to see this one.

Check out the trailer for the next AOTC vid.

Thanks to Chris Zeppieri for sending it through.

Richard Forne put together this intense look into Niki Croft’s recovery/crash from last year, as a Relentless short story. Richard always puts in good work, and this is no exception. Shouts to Richard and Niki for reaching out to us with this.

From Richard:

On the 10th of October 2010 Niki Croft suffered a near fatal crash at the London Cycle show.
He was put into a medically-induced coma that should have lasted five hours but he did not
wake for two days. When he woke his memory was shattered.

This is the fragmented story of his accident and recovery since the crash.

-Richard Forne

I don’t know how it happens but we always seem to do a bunch of posts on Nigel at the same time… This G Shock commercial dropped a few days ago and I’m super stoked on it. Nigel worked with photographer and filmmaker 13th Witness to put together a commercial for G Shock. This is definitely a quality edit that needs to be watched in 1080p full screen. Check it out!

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Nigel and Gatorade are back with a new video series for the summer. This year Nigel and Ralphy Ramos headed to Miami and New Orleans to ride and get clips for three edits that will drop starting June 1st. The trailer just went online yesterday and you can check it out after the jump.

Continue reading All Day Sessions with Nigel →

Tom White graces the cover of the new Ride. Shouts to Jeff Z on another great pic.

More info HERE.

Click HERE to check out the new 2012 United completes. Available worldwide from the 2nd week of June.

Continue reading Devin Feil @ Random →

The Texas Toast jam will be going down this weekend in Austin, along with a party put on by Darryl Nau (click below for the party flyer). The video above gives you some good insight into this event and all it’s insanity. Should be an interesting time for everyone that’s heading out, haha…

I’ll be on the premises snapping pics, so check back for a gallery next week.

Continue reading Odyssey’s Texas Toast Jam →

If you enjoyed my gallery from the POOL, than you will surely be into all the pics that Devon Hutchins just dropped into his Flickr. Good stuff.

As Devon puts it:
This is my take on the Nike contest that went down at the Dagenham swimming pool. No flashes just a high ISO and about 6 beers deep. Enjoy.

Check out the set HERE.

“This was fun” – @bradAsimms

Keep posted on the DC Roughing it tour HERE. Pic by Matt Lingo

Tim “Wolf Man” Harvey is one of my favorites. Like all of the world’s most interesting people, he’s multi-faceted and he might fool you if you judge him too quickly. Click below to read our brand new full length interview with him.

Continue reading Interview: Tim “Wolfman” Harvey →

The FBM dudes done gone crazy and updated their site with over 100 pics of the crew, as well as added a new Media page where you can check out the FBM doc ‘I love My Bicycle’.

Go HERE.

Continue reading Davis James @ random →

Over the last couple of weeks, the main albums in my rotation have been GOBLIN and the new Fleet Foxes album. Both of these albums couldn’t be any more different, but I’m equally stoked on both.

Even though I’ve heard of Fleet Foxes before, I never actually heard them. No idea what they sounded like. When I bought the new album, I basically judged a book by its cover. I picked up the CD and thought “wow, cool cover and text”, I then turned it over to some pics of the band and thought “these look like some proper musical hippies”. That’s all, done deal.

I’m glad I picked up Helplessness Blues, because it’s a great album and definitely musical. It’s full of big soaring melodies and has an overall mellow vibe.  Perfect for early mornings or rainy days kinda thing. Furthermore, the music breathes and doesn’t sound too digital or overproduced.  Quality stuff for sure.  If you’re into folk-y indie stuff, check out this album

It’s not often I come across albums good enough to write about here, but this one is definitely worth it.

Photographer Noah Kalina has a great series of hotel room views on his blog. Check them out.

Continue reading Noah Kalina Hotel Rooms →

Craig Passero is damn good. Here’s his section from BMXFU4: DIGITAL VIDEO DISC.

Shout out to that graphic, haha….

Here’s the official Nike POOL edit. Hadrien Picard did a good job of putting this together from beginning to end. Like I said before, this event was unreal riding wise and concept wise. You will see a bunch of the wild shit that went down in here.

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The Pool was more than a BMX comp, it was one of the most extra-ordinary gatherings of the BMX community this century.

From the draining of a soon to be demolished local authority swimming pool in Dagenham, East London, into a world class park in less than two weeks was a feat in itself, but to see the diversity and level or riding on display at the launch event was truly remarkable.

The Pool is free to ride until the 12th June 2011

The Bakery producing more heat (no pun intended). Go HERE.

Help kickstart the last issue of Holeshot.

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To keep our approach fresh, issue 9 will be a box set of zines and materials produced by Holeshot’s main contributors and friends. Since its beginning, Holeshot has generally taken the form of a normal 5.5″x8.5″ zine format. To celebrate the end of the zine though, issue 9 will be a box set of zines and materials from Holeshot’s contributors and friends. Included in each box set will be a multitude of zines, photographs, DVD-R, and BMX ephemera. Our working edition is 250. The end result will be a box that resembles a book that can be shelved. Currently, our contributors and their respective projects are:

Andrew Burton Hyde Pride Zine – Interviews, photos, and more relating the to great skatepark located in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
Chester Jones – Blazeguard
Kyle Emery-Peck – set of 10 color and black and white 4×6 photographs
Jake Honesto – Bears
Matt Gaspar – Hangn Brain 2 – Holeshot’s funniest contributor. Responsible for the famed Hank Hill bikecheck, Beetlejuice Trail Digger drawing, Evolution of Osiris D3′s article.
Vinny Martin – North Park
Nick Ferreira – TBD
and more to be disclosed

There will be no advertising in Issue 9. Instead we are hoping that our readers and prospective advertisers can help us reach a modest goal of $500 to cover some of printing, packaging, and shipping costs. If you have already subscribed, this issue will be sent to you free of charge. Do not feel obligated to donate, unless of course the spirit moves you. All backers will receive a gift. You can see all of those details at the Kickstarter page.

This looks promising.

Camille Seaman has been working on her series ‘The Last Iceberg’ for a few years now, and every update is somehow better than the last. Shot in Greenland and Antarctica, Seaman states that the series “chronicles just a handful of the many thousands of icebergs that are currently headed to their end. I approach the images of icebergs as portraits of individuals, much like family photos of my ancestors. I seek a moment in their life in which they convey their unique personality, some connection to our own experience and a glimpse of their soul which endures.”

Seaman couples strong artistic theory with jaw-dropping photography. It’s really quite hard to put into words just how incredible these photos are, and it’s very sobering to think that these once-gargantuan stretches of ice are now lonely blocks in our oceans.

Her website scales to your browser size, so I highly recommend making your browser window as big as it will go and clicking here to check out The Last Iceberg.