So my friend Dan Randall, rather obsessed with fireworks (was an explosives specialist in the army for a while) put together a bottle rocket launcher that put 10,000 bottle rockets in the air in 2 and a half minutes last year on the 4th of July. It’s quite the entertaining video if you haven’t seen it. Check it out below. This year Dan put together the same launcher but we packed in an extra one thousand bottle rockets at 11,000 of them. I’ll have a post a bit later with some photos from the day and a video of the 11,000 bottle rocket launcher.
Check out last year’s vid here though:
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This is the part of the year that I absolutely loathe. Spring time means submission season. This means a lot of me sitting in front of the computer for 12-16 hours a day editing photos I’ve shot throughout the season I was too lazy to edit immediately after shooting, organizing, keywording, then compiling everything and getting them out to magazines and the gear companies. Then, sit back and hope for the best. Can you tell that I’m getting sick of it already!
This season I was much more organized and it’s taking significantly less time. I’m pretty stoked about that, and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. It’s real close, then it’s time for some vacation. I can’t wait. Then it’s time for golf, for autocrossing, hopefully a track day, some karting, rafting on the Payette, maybe something new who knows. It’s so close.
Then I’ll go into Summer mode for some weddings, corporate events, some stuff out at the race track and whatever else people want me to take photos of. Photos of babies? Why not. As long as someone wants to pay me or it’s fun.
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531 miles later, I’m at Mt. Shasta, California for the annual Rage Films spring park shoot. Today was a build day so I stayed down in town and sifted through photos from the past few weeks. I strolled around town at sunset to take a few photos of Mt. Shasta and I saw gas to be over $4 a gallon. Awesome.
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So I’ve driven from SLC to Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Idaho for the Poor Boyz Productions Jib Jam, then off to Sevens Pass, Washington for a Spring terrain park shoot there, off to Seattle for a day to hang out with the parental units, now down to Mt. Shasta, California for Rage Films’ annual Booters Ball. After this, I don’t know what I’m doing, except driving a whole lot. So far I’ve covered 1,610 miles in 2 and a half weeks, I have 531 miles ahead of me today with possibly another 1,200 miles of road ahead of that, finishing off with another 600 miles back home to SLC. Then another 1,000 miles of road back to Seattle when I’m done with editing ski photos for the year to hang out with the fam a bit more, then back home to SLC, another 1,000 miles back. I think my stupid-roo might blow up before I get a chance to sell it this Spring!
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So for the past few years I’ve covered the Sundance Film Festival at Club Harry O’s as their house photographer shooting concerts and in paparatzi mode for the club. This year was a lot different as I was covering Scum-dance for Wire Image instead. It was a lot easier not dealing with the madness that is Harry O’s during Sundance and I had to work a lot less days. It all worked out pretty well and I actually did meet some great people I hope to see next year. I did however experience gapers gone wild at Deer Valley for a charity fund raiser ski race. Basically it was a nastar course with a bunch of corporate people and man it was amazing. There were a few people that could kinda ski but everyone else, wow. Amazing. Gapers gone wild, Sundance edition! There was so much carnage at one gate where it got tight. Everyone trying to beat the person next to them carrying way too much speed for their ability into a sharper turn. Homeboy in the photo below didn’t fare so well. So I leave you with Gapers Gone Wild and a paparatzi photo that I basically took over and over and over and over and over again during Sundance. Stoked it’s over, had some work, going to buy some new gear and get back to shooting skiing. A big juicy storm is on the way and it’s gonna be sick!
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I just checked this out from Dano’s blog, thought I’d pass it along for anyone that hasn’t seen it. Cool little vid on the history of snowboarding in Whistler done by Brian Hockenstein and Lenny Rubenovitch.
http://brianhockenstein.com/videos/firsttogoup.mov.
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This is simple thing that I have not thought of for quite a long time. In the past 3 years I’ve been working hard to develop my photography, kind of with my head down the whole way doing it my way…plugging away working harder than I imagined I ever would getting quite frustrated at times with the business I have started for myself. I have not really taken a step back to get some perspective in a very long time. Over the past 2 weeks I’ve taken some time off, for the most part just helping my parents out back home in Seattle with various things around the house which has helped me take that step back.
I just came across an old email I had sent to a photographer who used to be based out of Utah. I was inspired by his work then and more than ever now. Matt Turley is someone like myself who’s photographic roots seem to be well footed mountains. His work seems to have taken him in many directions, both in travel in with his photography. All of which are the same directions I started to go a few years ago and would like to eventually get back to myself. Flipping through his photos on his website reminded me of all the photos I would go out and shoot, on my own, just me, my car and my camera pack in the middle of nowhere. It’s something I’ve lost over the past 3 years, something I’ve missed, something I see but now pass by on the road in a hurry to the next location. Simply put I lost my way. After browsing through some amazing photos maybe I’ll find my way back.
Check out some of Matt Turley’s work. You’ll be glad you did.
http://www.mattturley.com
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Here’s my first blog check it out. Got some play in the magazines outside of North America so I thought I’d make a place to show them. Check em out. BTW, here’s what 10,000 bottle rockets in one launcher looks like. This was our 4th of July home made firework for this year.
Also check out the video. It starts off a bit slow but picks up (with 10′ flames) around 45 seconds in.
http://media.putfile.com/bottlerockets
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