Archive for the 'Snow Stuff' Category

Level 1 Productions ‘Turbo’ Teaser

25Jun08

So as much as I do not like the heat of the Summer, the beginning of the Summer is kind of my favorite time of the year outside of Winter. At the beginning of each Summer comes along the teasers for each ski and snowboard movie. The time in between the end of the season until now is usually filled with anticipation of what the film companies are going to come out with, especially the ones I work with throughout the season. It’s great to see a final video piece filled with clips of my ski season I was fortunate to be a part of and also to see all the footage from the other crews I didn’t work with.

Level 1 Productions is one of the crews I work with throughout the season, especially out here in Utah. Check out the teaser for their movie for 2008 named ‘Turbo’

For higher quality versions check out these links in Quicktime Format:
720p (210mb Quicktime .mov file)
480p (100mb Quicktime .mov file)

Rage Films - “Such is Life” teaser

11Jun08

I’m really stoked on this. It’s the best work they’ve done as of yet. I’ve been working very closely with Rage Films since the beginning of my career and it has been great seeing the progression we have both made throughout the years and seeing friends put together solid film segments. I can’t wait for the full movie. If you like the music as much as I do, go check them out and their album “Oracle Spectacular” - MGMT - Myspace page and their website - www.whoismgmt.com

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Check out their website at: www.ragefilms.com

Spring terrain park shoots are done!

11May08

So, it only ended up being a little over a month straight on the road, a lot less than I had expected. 4,424 miles later I’m finally home and editing through the rest of my photos from this season. I’m super stoked the season is out, it’s been really long but it’s been a great year but am really looking forward to this summer. Here’s a few photos of some of the Spring shoot features I got to shoot on over the past month.  My ski shooting season is officially over.  I’m pretty pumped.

The Poor Boyz Schweitzer transfer gap jump The Poor Boyz Schweitzer transfer gap jump at sunrise just before the sessionThe Poor Boyz Schweitzer step up to Rainbow box.  Some next level shit happened here.The Poor Boyz Schweitzer mini quarter pipe at the Stella lift terminal.  I went nuts with lights here, this was a fun feature to shoot.Riding the cabin cat down with Abe Blair, Parker (assistant for the shoot, thanks Parker) and and Patrick Sande from Schweitzer trying to keep 300lbs of gear from falling over going down a steep slope.“Long John Olsson” - The big gap jump at Stevens Pass.  100′ from lip to knuckle this was a big ass jump.  The cat driver killed it building this one.The Rage Films double tree jib at Mt. Shasta - this one was all about timing, it went off.The Rage Films step up to step down jump.  We carved this one out by hand after the cat pushed up a massive pile of snow.  We got some real dope light on this one.The Level 1 step over jump at Copper Mt.  This started out as a hip and turned into the poppiest jump I’ve ever seen.  Retarted.Level 1 Halfpipe channel gap at Copper Mountain.    Not seen since the days of Dave Crichton.The Level 1 30 foot tall quarterpipe at Copper Mountain.  You could see this thing from the top of Vail Pass.  Yah it was big.

Blogging on the road

19Apr08

yup, still on I-15 in MontuckeySo im 950 miles into my Spring terrain park shoot at the first stop in the 2 months of Spring madness. 12 hours later through Utah, Idaho, Montana and back through Idaho I’m back at my home mountain from college at Schweitzer Mountain Resort in Sandpoint, Idaho for the Poor Boyz Productions Jib Jam. Here’s a few photos from the road.

Northern Utah - I-15Montana, still on I-15, 6 hours inLightspeed! The unsafe maneuver of drivingat night in a snowstorm while taking pictures!

A night in the backcountry

03Feb08

Way too much gear piled on 4 sleds. Dan, Kyler and AJWow, we brought a shitload of gear in the backcountry on some sleds! 2 Generators, 5 light stands, 2 filmers and their gear, 1 skier and myself with 3 strobes, 2 power packs, a pile of speedlites and light stands and then my camera pack. We got shit done, I’m really stoked and I can’t believe how much effort went into one little shot. Here’s a photo of the sleds with all the gear, Dan and AJ from Rage Films and Kyler Cooley. I was too stupid to put the camera on self timer and get in on the shot. Oh well. Blew it.

3 feet of snow in Quebec City

24Dec07

So I just went to Quebec City to shoot a bunch of urban, imagine that!So I’ve been planned to shoot this trip for a feature in next season’s SBC Skier Magazine the past 2 months but we had no idea the monster of a storm that would roll through. Temps at -10F, lots of wind, 3-4 feet of snow, massive drifts and even an avalanche in the suburbs! Surprisingly enough we were busted a lot at a lot of the rails and jibs we were doing, slow going on the gnarly roads, frostbitten toes, (fortunately for me, not mine) etc made it for quite an interesting experience to say the least. Oh, one of my strobes literally exploded on the inside. It started smoking, then went off like a firecracker and stopped working. Heh, that was 2 days into the trip! Then some more speedlites broke too!

So now I’m sitting in DIA in Denver right now waiting for my connecting flight back home to SLC that I missed due to a late plane yesterday. I got to stay the night in Washington DC last night, fortunately in a hotel but stuck in DC none the less. I also just missed my flight from SLC to Seattle for Christmas and now get to fly there on Christmas day for $100 more than I had planned.

All that being said the trip was successful and the daily trips to the gun shop (shoveling out rails buried with 3-6 feet of drifted snow) at least got me doing a little more than I usually do on urban trips. Note to anyone going to QC, most of the rails are dug out for you now. Enjoy!

Here’s a few random photos from the trip. Check out the rest of the action photos in one of next year’s mags.

Tori Beattie, Jen Crichton, Kim Lamarre being blasted by the storm.  Looks cold right?Kim buried in the snow.  Yah, there’s a lot of it.Tori checking out the giant walls of snow from the ol MVThe line of trucks ready to remove the massive amounts of plowed snow from the roads.The neighbors digging out.