Tim's passionate discourse on the subject, though, has helped me to realise that actually there was a lot more going on for those drivers just then, that they were each performing all the minute physical and mental functions required to help them through that particular passage, and relating to their surroundings, wondering about the bloke they'd seen above them gripping tight hold of a camera he was pointing towards them as they passed.Īnd any motorway service station has a sociability and a spirituality about it. I looked at the intensity in the drivers' eyes as the road reared up before them at 70 mph plus, and - aligning myself with the conventional view of what these drivers were doing - I interpreted their look as a dullness, a deadness, a switched-off state. I was a vulnerable pedestrian standing nervously on a thin metallic construction which shuddered with the eddying currents sent up by every container wagon, 4-by-4 and saloon car. On my motorway walk I spent hours standing on bridges above the M62, watching thousands of people pass beneath. disrupt composure, even more so when large trucks pass by with a jolt instigating a firmer grip on the wheel.' road surfaces which dip our vehicle toward the hard shoulder. the motorway journey is full of smells, sounds, and tactilities, producing a corporeal sociality that inheres in the intimate relationship between bodies and cars and the spaces through which they move, the distinctive roadscapes, particular models, road textures, and driving conventions and habits.Tim celebrates what he calls the ritualistic process of motorway driving, in which we are 'constantly mutating and creating' as we interact with cones and temporary narrow lanes. Tim has published a paper entitled, M6 Junction 19-16: Defamiliarizing the Mundane Roadscape, in which he insists that. At a psychogeography festival in Manchester recently I met Tim Edensor who has written learnedly in defence of motorway driving against the conventional assumption that it is a numbing, soulless experience. ![]() like when standing on the hillside above Booth Hall Farm watching the traffic steadily flowing across the high Pennines like a metallic ribbon glittering in the sunshine, I was won over by the wonder.'Īnd any motorway has a fascination about it. ![]() In my own book, Walking the M62, a diary of my journey, I described the sense of awe I had on 'the best days. Helped confirm for me the direction my route should take. I did a walk last autumn, spent the whole of September and October following the M62 corridor all the way from Hull back home to Liverpool, and reflecting back on that adventure now, I realise that one of the inspirations for my journey was Bill's quote. Driving it east to west is always best, especially at the close of the day into the setting sun. Chuck Berry can keep his Route 66, Kerouac his two-lane black top, Paul Simon his New Jersey Turnpike, Billy Bragg his A13. Even saying its name fills me with a longing. got out of Hull and on to the most alluring, powerful, even magical motorway on our lump of an island. Listen to this quote by Bill Drummond, from his book How to be an Artist: I. Especially the Works which we have been to a few time now.The M62 is a beautiful road. Already done The Works in Leeds, Subvert in Castleford, The House in Sheffield which were all cool. but that’s another story.Īnyway, always looking for new places to take my son so suggestions welcome. ![]() apart from that mini on the left cos that’s my lads.ĭidn't realise how much fun and how much it hurts at the same time !!! I have already recovered from a broken wrist 3 months back from dropping in a 6' concrete bowl while a bike cut me up. Love being back on the boards (In my avatar) especially my Sims scratch off graphic 2…. The Gas Worx at Bridlington is OK but full of Yobs and broken glass. Live in Bridlington but have been going to Hairy Bobs in Scarborough for the past 8 Months getting back into it again. Used to Surf and Skate as a kid but only got back into Skateboarding cos my 8 year old son wanted a go. New to this site.but not that new to boarding.
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