#John Rattray

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SMiLe Interviews. John Rattray

How does skateboarding help your mental health?

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On March 7th 1744, the world's first golf club was founded in Edinburgh.

Originally called The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith, this is one of the world’s oldest golfing societies, founded in 1744 by a group of men who played on a five-hole course at Leith, which wasn't officially part of Edinburgh back then.

In 1795 the Club applied to the Lord Provost, the Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh for a Charter. This was granted on March 26th 1800 together with a Seal of Clause under the new title of 'The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers'.

In that year the group petitioned the city officials of Edinburgh for a silver club to be awarded to the winner of a golf competition. It further established the earliest known rules of the game, a code of 13 articles recorded in its first minute book. They were adopted almost without change in 1754 by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, later to become the governing body for the sport here.

The Honourable Company later transferred its activities farther east to the town of Musselburgh and then to the Muirfield course, with which it has been associated in modern times. The club only allowed men to join until it voted to accept female members in 2017.

The original rules of the game which were;

You must Tee your Ball within a Club's length of the Hole.

Your Tee must be upon the Ground.

You are not to change the Ball which you Strike off the Tee.

You are not to remove Stones, Bones, or any Break Club for the sake of playing your Ball except upon the fair Green, and that only within a Club's length of your Ball.

If your Ball come among watter, or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your Ball & bringing it behind the hazard, and Teeing it, you may play it with any Club and allow your Adversary a Stroke for so getting out your Ball.

If your Balls be found any where touching one another, You are to lift the first Ball, till you play the last.

At Holing, you are to play your Ball honestly for the Hole, and not to play upon your Adversary's Ball not lying in your way to the Hole.

If you should lose your Ball by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the Spot where you struck last, & drop another Ball and allow your Adversary a Stroke for the misfortune.

No man at Holing his Ball is to be allowed to mark his way to the Hole with his club or anything else.

If a Ball be stopp'd by any person, Horse, Dog. or anything else, The Ball so stopp'd must be play’d where it lyes.

If you draw your Club in order to StrIke, & proceed so far in the Stroke as to be bringing down your Club; if then your Club shall break, in any way, it is to be Accounted a Stroke.

He whose Ball lyes farthest from the Hole is obliged to play first.

Neither Trench, Ditch or Dyke made for the preservation of the Links, or the Scholars' Holes or the Soldiers' Lines, shall be accounted a Hazard, But the Ball is to be taken out, Teed, and played with any Iron Club.

The first competition was won by John Rattray, an Edinburgh surgeon – but only 12 people entered, all locals, and only 10 played. Open entry stopped in 1764 when it was limited to members of the Honourable Company.

When the Society of St Andrews Golfers wrote their version in 1754 only one change occurred – a ball in "watery filth" at Edinburgh must be teed and at St Andrews it was to be dropped.

Rule XIII mentions 'Scholars holes' and 'Soldiers lines'. There were "Scholars' bunkers" in St Andrews but there were no "Soldiers' lines"

If you are familiar with the game of golf you will see that the above rules are still the bones of the game. But situations arose which were not covered and modifications had to be made.

The spellings in the rules are from the original note book as seen in the second pic.

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About skateboarding

Since I'm bored out of my skull I thought I would talk about one of my other interests: skateboarding

Deck size: 8.125

Wheel size: 52mm

Trucks: Thunder

Favorite deck brand: Either Krooked or BBS Alien Workshop. Actually any deck brand made by BBS. If we're going with strictly aesthetics and graphics, then Magenta.

Least Favorite: Any brand made with Clutch wood. Those nose and tails are way to steep

Best trick: Frontside flip or frontside 360

Trick I want to learn: Overcoming my psychological barrier of switch ollieing up curbs. Other than that I would like to learn smith grinds

Advice on tricks: For frontside 360s, the key is to use the upper part of your body to complete the first 180, and then use your legs and bottom half to force the last 180. Learning how to do late 180s are extremely helpful.

Favorite skate video: 3 way tie between Tilt Mode Army "Man Down", PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life and Girl/Chocolate "Yeah Right"

Favortie Skaters: Mark Appleyard, Heath Kirchart, Rick McCrank, John Rattray, Gustav Tonnesen, Mark Suciu

Favorite Shoe brand: Hmm that's a tough one, but New Balance has consistently lives up to my expectations. More niche, I'm a sucker for DC, Kalis models always deliver. Anyone that makes a good cupsole and not focused on vulc (*cough* Vans *cough*).

Gear you would love to own: Enjoi with the Butterfly Lite concave, Lakai Howard 2, Lakai MJ1, Tum Yeto era Zero and Foundation, OG eS Accel Plus

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Why so sad? by John Rattray

'Why So Sad? is a cycling and skate-focused campaign founded by John Rattray with the goal of driving awareness, education, and fundraising around mental wellbeing & suicide prevention in the skate community.'

why have i chose to research into the 'why so sad campaign' ?

Once developing my research plan and steps moving forward, and looking into Gen-z, their interests and popular brands amongst this. its evident that fashion is a big thing to Gen-z, over a few years social media and Gen-z have created a whole other angel of fashion design and trends have been created from every angel, whether they're into street wear, cottage-core, thrifting or well known brands, the young community love clothing trends and fashion as a whole. i decided to use this to my advantage for creating awareness for mens mental health by creating a partnership concept with nike.

This idea is what led me to research into other campaigns similar that have partnered with big brands for mental health or suicide awareness/prevention.

In mental health awareness month lots of well know big named brands partnered with campaigns or created their own social campaigns in honour of suicide prevention and mental health awareness.

The why so sad campaign is one i really enjoyed finding out about, it has a story behind it and its done great thing for mental health within and outside for the skate community.

as this brrand is a stroy telling based campaign a comic was created along side the posters and partnership eiht nike;

The why so sad comic by John Rattray and Jon Horner

As well as looking into the why so sad campaign i also looked at other brand that took part on mental health awareness month through their own campaigns or partnerships:

Maybelline: Brave Together

Kate Spade NY:

Adidas: Adiclub partnership with Calm Unite

After looking into all the positive outcomes from big brands making a difference and spreading awareness i wanted my brand to have the same concept to be successful.

i decided to do concept sketches and illustrations for what i think the partnership with nike would look like if i was to go through with it and i wanted to use a simple illustration style to then carry on into my poster designs too.

Next step's:

to research poster designs/ styles of campaigns and partner ships to the look at how i wanted to go forward with my poster designs

Look at what kinds of illustration and imagery style i wanted to go for with my posters and social media posts and appearances.

create a social media presence other than my branded one (concept mockups of nike posting about the collaboration, and a brand instagram account posting about it too)

create a mood/insp. board of the style i wanted to portray throughout my brand on the social media presence, posters, and any other visual representation of the brand.

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Graveyards by the sea

Abandoned churches dotted along the Aberdeenshire coast give it a pleasingly godforsaken feel.

The regional council has put out a guide to 12 of the best such ruins.  Here is my short list, from south to north (map at the end of this post.)

The remains of St Mary's Church, in Cowie - pictured above and below - sit oddly between a golf course and cliffs overlooking Stonehaven Bay.

The 13th-century chapel was dedicated to "St Mary of the Storms" but fell into disuse in the 1560s.   Perhaps the newly Protestant kirk objected to involving the Holy Virgin in maritime meteorology.  A panel at the site only says that the church "was unroofed by the ecclesiastical authority on account of certain scandals".

Locals recycled the crumbling walls as building material, despite a rumour that the stones would "rain blood upon any house built with them".

There was an attempt to rebuild the chapel in the 19th century.  The churchyard includes a memorial to a Stonehaven lifeboat crew who perished in a failed rescue in 1874.  Far from bringing succour to seamen, it seems, the site was jinxed.  Parishioners deserted it.

The adjacent golf clubhouse, on the other hand, is doing brisk business.

Twenty kilometres to the north is another former church in an incongruous setting.  The ruins of St Fittick's Church stand next to the south shore of Aberdeen harbour.

The 12th-century chapel was named after an Irish monk who set out to evangelise the Picts in the 600s.  According to legend, Fittick's boat was caught in a storm.  He told the sailors that salvation lay in Christ.  They threw him overboard to placate Manannán mac Lir, the god of the sea.

But the holy man had the last laugh.  He managed to swim to the shore.  When the villagers asked him how he had survived the wrath of Manannán mac Lir, Fittick said: "Salvation lies in belief in Christ."

The church testifies to the complex relationship between Scots and their fellow Celts across the Irish Sea.

The kirkyard features the gravestone of one William Milne, a victim of Britain's civil wars of the 17th century (my post about the Scottish part of that conflict is here).

Milne, a farmer, joined a Protestant "Covenanter" militia during a royalist offensive backed by Irish Catholics.  The Latin epitaph says that he fell in 1645"for the cause of Christ... by the sword of a savage Irishman".

Fifty kilometres up the coast is Longside Old Parish Church, built in 1619-20.

The churchyard features many memento mori symbols: skulls and bones, hourglasses and the like.

My favourite gravestone is that of William Reid, who "depairted this life" in 1702 and "rests in hops of blesed resurection".  I quote this not to mock the spelling, but my own obsession with spelling.

Soon I will be gone, as will the linguistic proprieties I held so dear.  For a pedant, this stone is the most poignant memento mori of all.

St Mary Chapel, Rattray, is another monument to transience.

Rising from flatlands that seem to merge into the sea, it is all that remains of the "royal burgh" of Rattray.

That status was granted by Mary Queen of Scots to encourage local clans to engage in commerce rather than feuds.  Thus Rattray gained the right to hold markets and trade far and wide.

The sea had other ideas.  Winds and currents filled the harbour with sand over the years.  By the 1800s the village had vanished, as if engulfed by the soggy ground.

But the shell of the 13th-century chapel still stands, at the end of a single lane that seems to lead nowhere.

A few kilometres inland, on the outskirts of Fraserburgh, is St Ethernan's, Rathen. 

A front gable and a side wall are all that's left of this 17th-century parish church.

The stars of the kirkyard are John Greig and Anne Milne, a couple of tenant farmers who happened to be the great-great-grandparents of Norwegian composer Edvard Greig.

One of their sons emigrated and became a successful merchant in Bergen.

Three generations later, little Edvard learned how to play the piano and the rest is musical history.

The inscription on the gravestone is quite worn but someone deciphered it: "Here lyes the remains of JOHN GRIEG, late tenant in Mostoun of Cairnbulg d 6 Jan 1774 in his 71st year. Here also was laid the body of ANN MILNE, spouse of above named John Greig d 17 Nov 1784 in 81st year. This stone is erected to his memory by his surviving children."

The survivors refrained from mentioning the couple's connection to an illustrious descendant. Another lesson in humility!

Fraserburgh is home to an informative Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.  Those uninterested in nautical beacons can happily skip that town and follow the coastline to the west.

The highlights of the northern Aberdeenshire seaboard are fishing villages that are little more than strip of cottages between water and cliff.

They look cute now but were born of desperation. Farm labourers settled these unpromising shores in the 18th century, after being evicted in the Highland Clearances.

One of the most picturesque of those villages is Crovie (above). There is not even room for a road either in front or behind the cottages.

The most famous is Pennan, which was put on the map by Bill Forsyth's film Local Hero.

Its phone box plays a big part in the movie - made in the dark, pre-mobile ages. 

Forty years on, the red kiosk is still there.

The Aberdeenshire council has apparently kept it in service as a tourist attraction.

Talking about maps, here's the one I promised (forgive its crudeness: the only cartographical tool my incompetence can handle is Google My Map.)

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Je vous présente Why So Sad? x Nike SB Dunk Low, une paire pour laquelle j'ai eu un coup de coeur, non pas spécialement pour son design mais pour son histoire !

C'est le skater écossais, John Rattray, qui, après avoir perdu sa sœur par suicide et avoir lui-même fait face à la dépression, a développé le projet à partir de 2017.

Why So Sad est une plateforme de narration qui aborde un sujet sérieux à travers un jeu léger sur le langage du skateboard. Son objectif : «récolter des fonds pour différentes associations qui luttent contre le suicide à l’image de la Association for Mental Health ou encore de la Grassroots Suicide Prevention.»

Avec cette nouvelle Why So Sad? x Nike SB Dunk Low, John Rattray continue de nous sensibiliser sur la santé mentale.

J'ai trouvé particulièrement intéressant de vous partager cette paire car en tant que graphiste en devenir, et personne engagée je me demande souvent quel nouveau support peut-on utiliser pour faire passer un message.

Et vous, connaissez-vous une sneakers dont l'histoire vous a touché ?

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Some customers that dropped by the shop today got lucky and found the @nikesb x Why So Sad? dunk up on the wall 👀 ‘Why So Sad? is a storytelling platform initiated by John Rattray that explores the nature of mental health. It approaches the subject through lighthearted play and invites conversation.

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John Rattray, 2001

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Transworld - Videoradio (2001)

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John Rattray, the Scottish Jacobite Surgeon and golfer was born on September 22nd 1707, at Craighall Castle, Rattray, Perthshire.Another extraordinary man from our history, it has become a 20th century cliché that the best business contacts and opportunities for professional promotions may be made on the golf course. For one 18th century Edinburgh surgeon, however, it was his golfing connections which literally saved his life.In 1731 he joined the Royal Company of Archers, the Sovereign’s bodyguard in Scotland to this day. He was a proficient archer winning the Archer’s Silver Bowl on four occasions. On two further occasions in 1735 and 1744 he won the Silver Arrow, presented each year to the champion archer.John Rattray also proved to be a proficient golfer, and was the winner of the first recorded open golf championship in April 1744, the month before he and several others formed The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, who put down on paper the first 13 rules of golf, which are more or less still adhered to, to this day. A contemporary poem ‘The Goff’ by Rev. Thomas Mathison published in 1743, the first poem devoted to the sport of golf, it mentions both Rattray, and the man who would later save him from being executed, Duncan Forbes of CullodenNorth from Edina eight furlongs and more,Lies that fam’d field, on Fortha’s sounding shore.Here Caledonian Chiefs for health resort,Confirm their sinews by the manly sport.Macdonald and unmatch’d Dalrymple plyTheir pond'rous weapons, and the green defy;Rattray for skill, and Corse for strength renown’d,Stewart and Lesly beat the sandy ground,And Brown and Alston, Chiefs well known to fame,And numbers more the Muse forbears to name.Gigantic Biggar here full oft is seen,Like huge behemoth on an Indian green;His bulk enormous scarce can 'scape the eyes,Amaz’d spectators wonder how he plies.Yea, here great Forbes, patron of the just,The dread of villains and the good man’s trust,When spent with toils in serving human kind,His body recreates, and unbends his mind.John’s father was an Episcopalian priest who became the Bishop of Dunkeld, then of Brechin and was elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. On his death in 1743 his elder son James became clan chief and inherited the estate. As the second son John had no such inheritance and he trained as a surgeon in Edinburgh by apprenticeship to the surgeon John Semple between 1728 and 1735, when he began surgical practice in Edinburgh.Following the Battle of Prestonpans, Rattray treated the wounded on the battlefield and joined the Jacobite army travelling with them throughout the campaign.By the time of the Battle of Culloden in April 1746 he had become the personal physician to Bonnie Prince Charlie. Rattray was captured after the battle but was freed after a personal plea to the Duke of Cumberland from Rattray’s old golf playing partner, Duncan Forbes of Culloden, who was Scotland’s most senior judge and a supporter of the government.His intercession on Rattray’s behalf secured his release from prison and saved him from certain hanging, the fate of most Jacobite officers. He was re-arrested by the Hanoverians in Edinburgh and held under house arrest until the spring of 1747. Thereafter he returned to life in Edinburgh practicing as a surgeon and winning the Silver Club of the honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1751. He continued to practice as a surgeon and died at his home in Leith Walk, Edinburgh, in July 1771.A relatively new statue and series of plaques honouring Rattray and the golfers now takes pride of place on Leith Links where the first golf tournament and meeting took place.

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My Son (2021) Review

My Son (2021) Review

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