27 March 2008
It has snowed another 15cm of light, fluffy powder overnight, and he sun is forecast for this afternoon, Thursday 27 March. But our photographer is bored with photographing snow and sun all the time. This was much more fun: some dude defying gravity and friction last ight by standing perfectly still on a metal rail long enough for our man to focus. We jest. He was actually sliding to the right faster than a Labour minister, and it was a lucky shot. He was taking part in some pose-fest on the snow square last night, where irritating adolescents displayed builder's bottoms to the accompaniment of foul music and inane comments from a public schoolboy trying to convince us he was Afro-American. It took half the spectators a while to realise that when he said 'bad-ass' this had nothing to do with a naughty donkey, but apparently meant 'jolly skilful'.
Anyway, the interesting thing to those of us unlikely ever to feel the need to slide down a metal bar on skis is this lad's apparel. It seems as though grunge has gone away, and the real trendsetters now look like fluorescent fairies. Just when you'd given your one-piece colour chart to Oxfam, it's suddenly avant-garde again! Typical.
If you're wondering how these guys do their tricks without ever hurting themselves or the audience, scroll down. The answer is, they don't...
27 March 2008
It has snowed another 15cm of light, fluffy powder overnight, and he sun is forecast for this afternoon, Thursday 27 March. But our photographer is bored with photographing snow and sun all the time. This was much more fun: some dude defying gravity and friction last ight by standing perfectly still on a metal rail long enough for our man to focus. We jest. He was actually sliding to the right faster than a Labour minister, and it was a lucky shot. He was taking part in some pose-fest on the snow square last night, where irritating adolescents displayed builder's bottoms to the accompaniment of foul music and inane comments from a public schoolboy trying to convince us he was Afro-American. It took half the spectators a while to realise that when he said 'bad-ass' this had nothing to do with a naughty donkey, but apparently meant 'jolly skilful'.
Anyway, the interesting thing to those of us unlikely ever to feel the need to slide down a metal bar on skis is this lad's apparel. It seems as though grunge has gone away, and the real trendsetters now look like fluorescent fairies. Just when you'd given your one-piece colour chart to Oxfam, it's suddenly avant-garde again! Typical.
If you're wondering how these guys do their tricks without ever hurting themselves or the audience, scroll down. The answer is, they don't...