Torrey, Utah end of day Friday.
Decks framed in.
Plywood down.
Coping half on.
Tommow ramp will be done.
Jay starts painting too.
Monday the big session.
It's all good.

Mid-day Friday, Torrey, Utah.
The ramp for the Fuel TV spot.
We have had rain, wind and snow.
Jeff, Tim, Bob and Doug are making it happen.
Thanks

End of day Thursday, Torrey, Utah.
The ramp we are building for the Fuel TV spot. Shot of Tim.

Jeff Chase from Omaha, Nebraska, master ramp builder/skateboarder.
Jeff is building the ramp for the Fuel Tv spot. We met Jeff in Nebraska while filming our documentary about skateboarding and public space “Freedom of Space.” (Nebraska is a very cool place we met so many cool people there--skaters, artists and musicians)

Torrey, Utah
Wednesday
Tim stand on the cliff above the site of the ramp for the Fuel TV spot we are making.
We will be here for a week---building, painting, and skating.

BRIGHT EYES---JOEY LYNCH---SALT LAKE CITY
Sunday morning I got a message from our friend Joey Lynch. Joey is an artist we met in Lincoln, Nebraska while shooting skateboarding, anyway Joey said he was on tour with Bright Eyes and he could get us tickets. I am a fan of Bright Eyes so I said Yes, please, thank you very much Joey. Anyway it took a while to figure out why Joey was on tour with Bright Eyes. We hooked up with Joey before the show and told us he was doing the artwork that would projected on screen behind the musicians. The show was amazing and Joey’s work was brilliant. He projected candles, colored fur balls, 16 mm film prints, flowers, colored wires, food coloring, his art work, and he drew with markers while Conor Oberst was singing his heart out. The projection was not just pictures in the background it was huge and magnified the mood of the music. It also doubled as the spotlight on the musicians. It was one of the best shows I have seen in years, and it was excellent to see Joey at work.
Thanks Joey for the hook up.

Wrapped up shooting for the 1st fueltv skate spot yesterday with Ben and Kordell. Here's ben, nosegrab blunt on a rock. Kordell frontside rocked that rock! Tomorrow we start shooting the next skate spot, near torrey, UT.

We've been shooting the first of 3 Skate spots for FUELtv. Workin with lots of cool SLC and Utah County Skaters. We've been shooting on 16mm with a High speed Arri SR3. It's crazy how cumbersome this camera feels after being spoiled with the hvx-200. But unfortunately, the HVX doesn't cranck up to 150 frames per second. Maybe the "mini red" will help us out with that in a year or 2.

Our boy Kent Carter from SF is doing some music for us for another skate spot we are doing for Fuel. Today he recorded cello with Sam Bass. This weekend we have a high speed Arri SR3 to shoot a bunch of street skaters in Salt Lake City.
(photo: sam bass with cello not bass, to see his eyes click on his link)

We just started a “Firsthand” (mini biography---diary style) for Fuel TV of Fuzzy Hall. Fuzzy is a legend, role model and super positive guy. It is always fun to be with and film Fuzzy.

We Jam Econo on the Sundance Channel

WJE was picked up by the sundance channel and will have it's first airing tomorrow (monday) night at 9:00PM EST as part of the channels DOCDAY programming. They've got a little page up on their site about the film and it's currently scheduled air dates.

Big O, Jeff and all:
This were we want to build the ramp for the Fuel Skate spot.
Big O why don’t you come and help on the shoot...?
(click on shots to see them bigger)

On the day we left for sea otter, we had a quick gig to shoot with decker for a couple hours. He's doin a life sized sculpture of elvis on a motorcycle that will end up at Graceland. We covered the early stage of this process as jeff has a model sit on the bike in different poses and clothes to help narrow down what form the sculpture will take.

Sea Otter Day 4
Downhill and...

Sea Otter day 3
Wind, rain, mud, dual slalom, short course cross country.

Day 2 Sea Otter
We did more interviews today. We interviewed Brian Lopes. He is an amazing rider and it is fun to watch him race and win. He has a million titles including several world championships. In this photo he is working on his brakes on his dual slalom bike.

We are at the Sea Otter Classic bike race in Monterey California for the next 4 days. It is always a good way to start spring. This photo the cross country guys: foreground Burry Stander from South Africa---background Todd Wells from Durango, Colorado. Todd was in the Olympics in Athens.

On Tuesday night my favorite author passed away. His words have a stark honesty to them that are often tragic and comedic at the same time. His books are amazing and worth your time to read, but I hope that you will take 5 minutes and read his essay
"cold turkey".

Kurt Vonnegut is dead, long live Kurt Vonnegut.

nothing party photos

more nothing photos

photos from the "nothing to say" party

The "Nothing to Say" show was super fun.
More photos to come for now a quick 30 second point and shoot video of Severin Bozung rocking the piano.

My next task is sorting and organizing these 26 external drives. That's about 10.5 TeraBytes worth. It's a mix of DV, DV50, Uncompressed SD, and DVCPROHD. I'm guessing somewhere around 500 hours worth of stuff.

Along the lines of old skate photos... I'm pretty sure this is the only photo in existence of me skating in my high school days. We were video taping ourselves constantly, but very rarely did any of us take photos. My Friend Dave Brewer took this picture i'm guessing Late '89.
At any rate, Steve and I are doing some skate spots for FUEL tv. One of them is with Mike Watt. The first time I ever met watt in person was when I approached him about doin' the minutemen doc. He said something to me that I'll never forget. He said "I never used a skateboard, but I always try to play my bass the way a skateboarder rides his board". Blew my mind.

Printing like crazy for the "Nothing to Say" show.
I'm showing my photographs and Noelle is showing her works in fabric.
Gallery One Ten
april 2-20
opening reception April 6th 6 to 9pm
Food
Severin Bozung on Piano
gallery one ten/110 south 300 west/provo, utah

Steve and I spent the last few days shooting at the Roxy Chicken Jam. Thanks to Dave, Shawn and Scott from Fuel TV. Got to see the Kotsenbergs again too. Here's a shot of little kira Kotsenberg.

Cass Barney is a good friend and a world class artist. She just recently started a blog that should be a cool look into the mind of very creative person. Check it out. This photo is when she tagged our garden fence right before she and her family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. She is married to Dan Barney, Dan is an amazing artist too. They are in Canada while Dan get his Ph.D.

Since we are doing some skateboard spots, I had better give some background.
I like skating bowls and stuff like that.
I skate regular and I push mongo---I’m sorry!

Just spent 3 days writing in this chair.
Is writing ever easy?
Working with Fuel on some skateboard spots.
Got it done, feels good, clean up.
Relax this weekend.
It will be a fun project.
Thanks Big O.
I OWE YOU A BURRITO!

THE END courtesy of RANCH EXIT
Last night at 1:00 AM while while clicking from photograper to artist to graphic designer to this to that to what-not, I ran into THIS
Hallelujah.

Noelle and I are going to have a show at Gallery One Ten in Provo in a month. Here is a temporary postcard for us to take to tonight's opening. I am showing my documentary photography (aka snapshots) and Noelle is showing her purses, aprons, and clothes that she designs. She can make anything. Once we were watching "Old Yeller" and when Old Yeller gets hurt our 6 year old, Maia, said I wish Mommy was in this movie she would sew up Old Yelller.

Another trip for Jawbreaker is done. Went to NYC this time to hang out with Blake. He did a marathon session with us, about 10 hours worth. Very inspiring and thoughtful stuff. Now that we have footage with all three guys we will start to piece it together and try to discover what holes need to be filled. Huge thanks to Blake for his words.