If anyone has photos of the park they’d like to share with the rest of the world, please fire them into us here at parkphoto-at-dundeeconcrete dot com.
If anyone has any ideas of fund-raising event for the McKnight Memorial Extension… please feel free to advertise here.
Long story > short. After speaking to a few people at Craig’s service / wake, we agreed that one of the best ways to build a memorial to him would be to fundraise to make more park in his name. The images below are mock-ups of a design that has been quietly simmering away for a while now, and quotes are being gathered. So far I reckon we are looking at a total cost of something around 17k. If we can raise HALF the cash, we will be in fair standing to receive match-funding from some source or another. Sounds vague I know, but that’s the way a lot of these government funding bodies work.
The design is relatively simple, but would be very effective in opening up the lines in that portion of the park .Casting the block with his name and dates set into it would be a great, durable reminder of him. (Sorry, there is honestly no room for another bowl or similar without REALLY bumping up the price and building a supporting wall etc)
The 1m wide, 8m long block would be 300mm (a foot) high at the bowl end (the existing manny pad pad is 200mm high and a tad low) and become 600mm at the high end. Note the euro-gap/ launch thing, set back slightly for landing slides off the block. The steel edging will be 100mm wide chunky stuff; good for getting your grind on.This 3D model (below) is to exact dimensions and best represents what the proportions would be.
We will be setting up a Facebook group alongside this site to help coordinate responses to this project. Please keep let us know your thoughts about this, and any ideas you have for raising funds!
(BTW: as much as we’d love to just get a bunch of concrete-float wielding skaters together to build it for a fraction of the cost… since it’s managed by the council, they need the to have it built by a real contractor with all the various legal backup which that involves.)
Too much to say about this wonderful guy.He will be sorely missed.If you have any photos of Craig you would like to email us, we would really love to put them up here.
Some pictures of progress of Edinburgh’s long awaited concrete creation have been posted over at the Skateboard Scotland website.
Duracrete have started work spraying transitions now and it’s looking pretty amazing. There are also computer renderings of some of the park’s features so if you haven’t checked it out then go look and start drooling!
Read the article at SkateboardScotland.com: "Edinburgh starts to see it’s first ever concrete transitions"
Dunno… this modren music and stuff.
what’s it all about?
I mean these ‘Beatles’ characters are destroying the family values that make Russia great…
The Tale of TheBetter Letter:
Once upon a time:
Oh Rlly?
Well I think…
FTW!!
Remember the last night of thepilot schemeof lighting up the skatepark is tonight!
Come along and bring a picnic of shred and rat-oot.
Don’t forget: the survey wot tells us why/how you think o’the lights!
Ok, so of course every one reading this has been coming along to the Wednesday evening Lighting Pilot sessions haven’t you? Well, if not there’s still another couple of weeks to go with this Wednesday 7th and Wed 14th of October still to go.
We’re looking to get feedback from people regarding the lighting pilot sessions so we’ve set up and online survey on the site which is in the menu to the left hand side.
Take the Dudhope Park Skatepark Lighting Pilot Survey
Thanks to a joint effort between Leisure and Communites Dept of Dundee City Council and The good chaps at Dundee Fire and Rescue; at LIGHTING PILOTINITIATIVE will be conductedin Dudhopeskatepark.
As long as they can get decent access to suitable spots in the park, they will set up a generator and some portable floodlights for 2 hours:
between 6:30 -8:30 on 23 and 30th September, and 7th and 14th October
They will also probably do this for the MUGA (fenced fitbathing) up the top o’ the park.
This is to see how the usage-value works later during darker evenings.
So if the weather is good; Uncle Boring-Old-Fart Speccy sez:
SHOW UP,
BE COOL
(show the community workers / police etc that the skatepark-users are notthe onesthey should be watching for illicit activity eh?!?!)
BRING SOME MORE SKATERS.
(show them this is a WANTED thing and that permanent lights would be really appreciated.)
rock on
Anyone spot him?
… Dens park???
Despite the downpour on Friday and Saturday morning by the time Saturday lunch time came about the weather was looking up. The Fundee Jam 2009 defied the weather and a good session was had by everyone who made it along.
After the dust had settled the King of Dudhope trophy went to Ross Matthew who consistently ripped it up all day and seal it with a huge kickflip from the top of the flat area into the depths of wallows.
Photos courtesy of Derrick Linton
"11/08/09 – Lochee make another new signing…
Lochee United this evening made there 2nd signing of the season when Mark Kohler signed on at the club"
Is that Jose Mourinho managing Lochee….nowai..
Fundee day and Perth were awesome I am sure there are photo’s to post unfortunately my camera battery died after about 5 minutes on the Saturday.
Fundee Day 09 and Perth fun day 15/16th August.
Also this, oh how i laughed *sigh*
http://kempfolds.blogspot.com/
If you’re a long time skater or BMX’er in Dundee then you’ll probably know ‘Scottish John’. If you don’t then John Buultjens is a BMX’er who hails from Dundee but has been living in Melbourne, Australia for the last 14 years.
He’s now running his own bike company called Forgotten, he was back home to visit family (and more importantly for a reunion skate / bike session at Dudhope!) so the Courier thought it was a news worthy item, here’s the article that was in The Courier today:
Just a reminder that the Fundee Day is just over a month away on August 15th, get your thinking caps on for some funny obstacles to make for the day! I think there’s still supposed to be bands playing in the park that day too.
Pete Tosh posted a new video called ‘Concrete Dundee’, so here it is:
Ferry Inn Masterchef, Dundee Courier.
I am tired and lazy so blah blah blah
we made cardboard cones on the day and blah blah blah.
Jack sets up a cone and then blah blahs over it.
Over and out
nice day blah blah
Old dogs.
Nick has had his legs chopped off and replaced with a Powell re-issue, cuz that’s the sort of guy he is.
Insert clever cone joke here.
Gordon setting new benchmark ( rick-caption tm)
McCaff – another bench joke here.
Murray, not a cone in sight.
cones out.
my pictures are rubbish, as are my captions efforts, sorry, no energy.
more pictures welcome…
Ah, video edit from Pete:
goodnight
Injured at the moment so here are a few snips from the world wide web that have impressed me recently.
Free with this months Kingpin comes the new Adidas vid – Diagonaland its a belter. Featuring the Euro team with cameo’s from the bighitting Americans Busenitz, Gonz etc. its one of the best vid’s I have seen in recent years,check it out.
Gunes Ozdogan has some inventive lines and super stylish –
Lem Villemin, amazing –
Also not heard a lot from Powell of late but here’s a clip of Ben Hatchell with a cameo from Stevie Cab, awesome.
Also stoked to hear ZZ Top are back recoring new material with non other than Rick Ruben and its apparently going back to a pre-80’s La Grange sound, thats the best era kids. For those not familiar with their work they are the Texan supergroup featuring the talents of Billy Gibbons made famous by using a quarter as a pick and once described by Jimi Hendrix as the best guitarist he had ever witnessed, here is proof. You know sketchy Pete is rocking that look so cant be bad right?
Enjoy.
ALSO. SUNDAY IS “INTERNATIONAL GO SKATEBOARDING DAY” SO GET OUT OF YER BED, PICK UP YER SKATEBOARD, MAKE A SLALOM CONE OUT OF CARDBOARD AND GET DOWN TO THE PARK AND SHREDDDDDDDD.
Accidently left my camera at the skatepark on Teusday and Jack kindly looked after it for me…by taking 150 random pictures.
Here are some shots of wallriders, I have uploaded the best of the rest onto flickr.
Weather today was remarkable and a decent sized crew gathered for a session at Dudhope. Jack was playing around with my camera and grabbed this image of Phil powering out of the bowl.
Here he is hiding himself away from a dose of the sunburn.
Enjoy the heatwave.
Instead of going to the park on Saturday, All the BMXers might want to go to the City Square to check out the visiting BMX /mountain bike mentalists wot will be performing crazy stunts and daring leaps.
see articlebelow:
from the Evening Tele, 29-04-2009
IF YOU USUALLY RIDE A BIKE IN THE PARK: DON’T MISS OUT ON THIS!
please…
Here’s a Video clip: