Vegas, Baby....VEGAS!

No, I will not be in Vegas for Interbike....AGAIN.

But if you happen to make it to the expo, check out the IH and FSA/Gravity booths to watch a few short clips filmed/edited by Lucent

Iron Horse @ MSA



Gravity profile of Chris Van Dine @ Sea Otter 2007


and lastly, the recently finished Gravity profile on Dave Smutok @ Highland Mountain Bike Park.

...about time.

Either the mailman is really slow, or Fox put me on the back burner. I FINALLY got my Fox 40 RC2 in the mail yesterday, after being told to expect it the first week in June. I guess I can't really complain for getting a free fork from the Fox video comp.

Highland

This past week I went up to Highland Mountain Bike Park in NH to film Dave Smutok for his FSA/Gravity spot. Shot a bunch of crane footage in the jump park which I think came out pretty sweet. Also shot some 'behind the scenes' b-roll for the segment since Don Hampton was in attendance with George Ryan and Adam Hauck shooting for the next Chain Reaction.
All in all it was a complete waste of a day as far as shooting. 3/4 of the day was wasted trying to get a cable line setup for Dave's new line in the woods which was a bust.

Snapped a few pics in the many hours of down time.

Hauck, George, Doug, and Damien Breach all enjoying a quick YouTube video.



Highland has their own in-house setup for cutting planks. Totally bad ass.



Step down/step up portion of Dave's new line in the woods. He has some sick plans for this area next year which will be amazing.




If you're at Interbike this year, check out Dave's spot at the FSA booth, along with my segment on Chris Van Dine @ Sea Otter.

Scout's Honor

I am working on a new site design, I PROMISE! In the meantime, I was bored this afternoon and made up a new 'Under Construction' page.

Lucent Productions

Iron Horse 2008

Iron has launched their 2008 site (kind of), which includes a video from Mount Ste Anne filmed and edited by yours truly!

Check it out HERE for an idea of what type of footage to expect from the full segment later in the fall!

Kiss the cook.

Who's got two thumbs and a brand new Weber from his girlfriend?

THIS GUY!

(Technically, Joey Appleton's gfriend ALSO bought him the same grill. Our ladies rule btw)

Seek Your Bliss

Its pretty crazy that its been 3 years now since one of the coolest riders in New England had left us. Jeremy Demers had touched many people through his life, and even though I had only spent a few dozen times hanging out and riding with him, I still felt his genuine compassion and down to earth aura that he possed. No ego, no attitude....thats how he rolled 24/7. You could be meeting him for the first time at the skatepark, but he'd treat you like you were one of his boys. But we should not be sad today, I know Jeremy would not want us to reflect on what is missing with him gone. I'm sure he would just tell us to keep doing what makes us happy, celebrate cute women everywhere, ride our bikes, and seek our bliss.

RIP JD

8.24.04

Bulldozers and backhoes

As stated in my last post, I am off in Peoria, IL at one of the main Catepillar offices all week. I arrived in Chicago on Sunday only to find out my connection flight was cancelled, and that the next flight was delayed 4 hrs. So instead of sitting around HOPING I'd make the next flight on standby, I rented a car on the company dime and drove through 2.5 hours of corn:



To give you an idea of how old school industrial the town is, this is one of the main roads I first drove on once I got into town, complete with some gigantor factory pumping out ozone-loving pollutants:





Seeing as the two best parts of my trip so far were this huge statue, and the Catepillar Merchandise Store, you can assume that I am NOT having a blast:

OOTO

I am once again gone for another week, but I wish I could say its vacation or bike related! I am off to the Catepillar offices in IL til next Friday to teach some of the employees how to use my company's software....so if I'm lucky i'll get a picture of a dump truck.

Van Dizzle

I had the pleasure of filming Chris Van Dine at Sea Otter this year and put together a video for FSA. I must say that Van Dine is probably one of, if not THE, coolest and most down to earth DH pros I've gotten the priveledge of getting to know/film. In the first 5 minutes of meeting him I felt like we've been friends for years, which makes a huge difference when working with a rider.

Anyways, FSA/Gravity finally updated their site and put up the vid! (along with a few others)

Chris Van Dine: Back in the Saddle

Artsy Fartsy.

I got the new camera crane out last week for the first time, and I must say that it is kinda tricky at first. In the first five minutes of using the crane, I did the following:
1.) Swung the camera into branches.
2.) Swung the camera into people.
3.) Swung the back end of the camera into my head when I was too busy watching the monitor.

After a few minor adjustments I got the hang of watching the rider, watching the monitor, and watching the position of the crane all at the same time.

Check out some of the footage!

Tobler(one)

Big congrats to Michael Tobler of e.13 Components on getting married this past Sat!! I heard he's on his way to Hawaii for his honeymoon to work on his tan, lets see how that pans out.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tobler!





This is what mtn bikers look like dressed up:




There were really Toblerones in here.




Seth and Weagle thought the flowers were edible.



Mandatory 'Rock Out' photo:

I always Wonder(ed)

I just found out that Daniel Stern was the guy that did the voiceovers as 'Adult Kevin' on the Wonder Years. If you don't know the name, he played Marv in Home Alone 1& 2, and also the pitching coach in Rookie of the Year. Pretty much his two best roles ever.

It's a bird, its a plane, no.....its.....

A CRANE!!

Lucent has just upped the anty with an 8' camera crane!!



Instead of buying an expensive monitoring system, I scored a HOT deal on this Zenith DVD player from Best Buy to use instead! Full 180 degree swivel screen, two headphone jacks, and pimp white. I'll be able to monitor audio and video from this bad boy, and not to mention watch DVDs in the car (while I'm not driving of course). I should be out testing it this week at two locations so check back this weekend for a sneak peak at some artsy fartsy footy!!

Duck Sauce.

I hadn't checked the Red Bull RoughCuts page in a long time since the last comp ended. The internet hit a lull tonight so I randomly browsed over and discovered that the the winning edit that took the top prize was a JOKE! There were three other finalists that could have easily won the comp based on technical editing alone. Straight cuts, some minor splices, and not even one cross dissolve?! For an video editing competition winner thats pretty weak. I guess I can't blame Red Bull, Ryan Sheckler picked the winner on this one, not an actual panel of judges that know a thing or two about making movies. Lame Duck Sauce for sure. Check out the vids for yourself and let me know what you think.

Am I bitter that I wasn't a finalist this time aroun? Maybe. I guess I'll have to go watch my second place edit for the first Rough Cuts while I pout.