the predatory bird

Podcast: Flight Response with John Rattray

  • Episode 2 | Childhood Lasts a Lifetime

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    In this episode I revisit a conversation I had with, photographer, journalist and trainee clinical psychologist, Alex Irvine.
    The conversation was to accompany a skate career retrospective (my skate career) in Free Skate Mag.
    Rather than a standard Q and A, I sent Alex a couple of thought starters and then we let the conversation flow from there.
    The thought starters were the statement, “Childhood Lasts a Lifetime” and the question, “Is skateboarding a form of self-harm?”
    I hope you find it helpful and/or informative.

  • Episode 1 | Giving Up Alcohol for Once

    Episode 1 | Giving Up Alcohol for Once

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    Flight Response is a story of a skater’s journey through life in the late 20th and early 21st century.

    The flight takes off in Aberdeen, Scotland in the 1980’s. It goes through Glasgow in the ‘90s, and moves through the California skate industry in the early 2000’s.

    We begin in the present day with a reflection on some of the hidden forces that have fueled the flight.