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Games Editor Jerelle Coatman editorial Music Editor Elli Brazzill The Big I Am’, is a new alternative magazine for young people aged 13-21 in Manchester. It is Lee Hebb 2014 Neck of the Cat Urmston a quarterly magazine and is in print as well as an online magazine, has a presence on twitter, a woods Editor Photo by: Kenny Brown dedicated facebook page and an accompanying Vimeo channel. Our ethos is ‘Think outside the www.kennybrownphotography.co.uk mainstream magazine’ Lead Designer Jo Lane ‘The Big I Am’ will be a platform to showcase diversity in life, showing alternatives to the stereotypical worlds of the mainstream media. 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DEADLINE FOR SUBmissiONS: 5TH SEPT 2 The 3 www.beastrampz.com Sport - bmx sport events 19th July Salford Quays INTERVIEW - LEE HEBB The Great Manchester Swim, begins at Dock When did you start BMXing, did you do 9 near Media CityUK and finishes a mile away something similar before? at Dock 8 beside Salford Watersports Centre. I’ve always been into the risk-ay side of sport like To enter is £33! but to watch and cheer the Beast Rampz Skate Park Unit 2 Matthews Street motorbikes, bmx’s, roller skates etc. I switched swimmers on is free! www.greatswim.org/ Ardwick, Manchester M12 5BB schools just before my 16th birthday and met T: 0161 276 0752 friends who where riders there. Got invited to France at Fise contest was insane! The riders, the let out the funniest noises! Or E: [email protected] a skatepark hire out in Stockport and brought a parties and the people made it a life experience! mmm I shake my head to adjust bmx along and it escalated from there! Deffo recommend it! my helmet, I do it without noticing! Check out the video What do you love most about it? What person do you most admire dead or What program on the telly makes you most of Lee on our Vimeo Mmmm that’s a hard question, I think what ties alive and why? annoyed and why? Channel: vimeo.com/ me most to bmx is the atmosphere when you’re Err it’s going to be really cliche but my good friend My mum watches Bargain Hunt! There’s nothing in the park with your friends. Nothing beats the Harry Main is a big icon in bmx and I like where worse than coming down in the morning and channels/642212 feeling of having a progression session with your he’s taking the sport! His attitude and way of life is seeing David Dickinson on the TV! Get a bmx! mates! how every rider should be! Love riding and enjoy it! Or why else would we do it? What move or project are you working on If Bmxing is not at the moment? Have you got any funny habits? What is the most important lesson life has for you................ At the moment I’m working on a few different Funny habits.... I tend to make funny noises when taught you so far? creative projects along with a select few people I ride if I’m about to fall or crash into someone I Ahh gettin deep with these questions! joking... I’d to hopefully bring a breath of fresh air to say if there’s something you enjoy doing ... Don’t the sport. Also filming a few different video stop doing it! Life is too short to sacrifice the projects with some fresh ideas in mind. finer things in life! Such as riding! Do you have a day job too? Can you make up a sentence about yourself I do have a day job! I’m a graphic designer/ that has all these words included in it. The, sign writer so basically I play around with Big, I,Am stickers all week long! I think the job reflects EASY! THE one BIG aspect that relates to every how diverse and creative bmx is. time I ride is... It’s all about having fun with your friends and pushing yourself, no asking someone if What is the best job you have ever you’re better than I AM! Photo: Sue Blaylock done? What is the worst? Why not try our all ability inclusive Best job I’ve ever done... Getting paid to ride What was the last cool video you watched cycling sessions on a range of trikes, of course! Numerous projects I’ve worked on youtube? bikes, hand-cyles, side by sides, tandems and on(i.e. sky, Wayne Rooney’s Street Striker, No further comment.... Go watch Harry Main’s wheelchair accessible bikes. Open to all Cbbc Johnny and Inel Show) and the people clocking on episodes!! in Wythenshawe Park, Boggart Hole I’ve met make it all very exciting and being Clough Park and Longford Park six days paid for it is a bonus! # your day or your week? a week. For more information about times: It would be #progressionsession #beastrampz! Where’s your favourite place you have www.simply-cycling. Lee Hebb 2014 been? Twitter: Lee_hebb org or 07753428937. Mmm in regards to bmx? I’d say my Photo by: Kenny Brown Instagram: bmx_hebby No need to book - just turn up! experience at Montpellier in the south of www.kennybrownphotography.co.uk Facebook: Lee Hebb 4 The 5 FILM....Old School NEW school THE BLUES BROTHERS Article: Will Tomkies FRANK Article: Sarah Martin When Jon, a young and aspiring musician, finds After being released from Joliet prison, Jake Whether they’re brushing off the rubble of a an opportunity to join an unusual band, he meets Blues must team up with his brother Elwood building exploded around them or escaping the eccentric Frank and discovers a whole new to get their old band back together and raise the police by driving through every shop in the world of craziness, adventure, as well as a sense THE WIND RisES five-thousand dollars to save the orphanage mall, the iconic duo retain their cool exterior of belonging. Jiro dreams to be a successful designer of where they grew up. But things have changed whatever apparent disaster comes their way. Frank is a very unique film filled with comedy, airplanes, inspired by Italian designer Caproni. while Jake was on the inside, the band has Full of over the top car chases, famous cameos sadness and sheer oddity. It is inspired by the Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company moved on, and blues is no longer hip. Can the and classic tunes, “The Blues Brothers” is a must legendary papier-mache-headed minstrel Frank in 1927 and instantly begins to accomplish Blues brothers reunite the band and find a gig see for lovers of comedy, music and all things Sidebottom. As an audience we are enthralled many things in the designing industry. He soon in time? Or will trouble get in the way? cool. by the strange, wacky world in which the band, becomes one of the most successful aircraft You couldn’t talk about “The Blues Brothers” The Soronprfbs, who originally formed when designers in all of Japan; to the point where he is without mentioning the music. With the bands leader, Don, meets Frank at a mental the person who designs the Japanese airplanes in performances from James Brown, Aretha hospital. Immediately the audience are taken World War Two. Franklin and Ray Charles the film is full of aback by the overwhelming weirdness of Frank’s classic R&B, blues and soul as well as a small determination never to remove his mask. The ‘Tackles devastating slice of country and western. Combined with Licence: Fair Use Source:http://ow.ly/xM5Wl Title: The Blues Brothers (film) film deals with serious, heart-breaking scenarios, its unique humour, the music of “The Blues situations in the most such as suicide, in a very dark yet light-hearted Brothers” has cemented it as a cult classic and way, highlighting its originality.