Some more good advice this time from Freestyle Motocross legend Ronnie Faisst. Ronnie was cool to work with and a good laugh.

This one was all Stephen and Nasty's idea, good old fashion horseplay. Music by Seve Vs. Evan. So yes I guess it is good advice to take your training serious, especially if you have a personal trainer.

It is always good to get a few pointers in life. We were honored to work on a campaign for Fuel TV called “Good Advice.”
Here is a lovely spot with one of our favorite athletes “Nasty.”
You know it gets you thinking, how can I be more helpful?
I go to our local skatepark and the kids didn’t lift a finger to get that place built and on top of that they can’t even walk 10 yards to put their own trash in the trash can. Our skatepark is covered in trash.
So I like Nasty’s words, help out, pays some dues and you will get to enjoy the place that Nasty has spent years building and taking care of. It doesn’t take much to show a little respect and gratitude.

Excuse Me Mr. Captain from Solpin Films on Vimeo.
Enjoy a clip from an upcoming film called:
YOU CAN BE MY PHILOSOPHER
IF I CAN RIDE YOUR DINOSAUR
a freestyle documentary about the band SEVE VS. Evan shot in 1 day by 6 filmmakers.

Here's a shot of me shooting Bob with the RED at the Bondi Bowl.  Photo: Chris Ortiz

A shot of CAB hanging his art at the Bondi love and guts show.

We wrapped up shooting for New Pollution season 4 this week.  Seamus O'connor was our last kid.  Beacham and Seamus got it done for us.  Thanks guys.

While in Bondi we had the privilege of working with this guy, Bob Burnquist. He is an amazing skater, a family man and a peaceful soul that is trying to make the world a better place. His style of skating is like no other, super fantastic. Thanks for the photo, master photographer Chris Ortiz.

Kira Kotzenberg and Matt Beacham worked hard for us the last couple days on Kira's New Pollution segment.  We wrapped it up tonight at the Kotzenberg's place, thanks for the ice cream!

spent a couple days in the bay area on the math project

One of the most stylish skaters in and out of the bowl in Bondi, Danish skater Rune Glifberg.

One of the things we covered here in Wellington was the Love and Guts art show.  Here's a shot of Pat Ngoho setting up the gallery.

Steve and I are on our way to New Zeland for the Oakley bowl-a-rama.  One week there then on to sydney.

sent from my phone

A new passion project for me. My Nephew Paul had very bad stroke over a year ago and is relearning how to do everything including talking. I am getting him together with an amazing artist Fidalis Buehler.

We are doing a film about math.  More on that later.

The new season of Camp Woodward starts at the end of this month.  Steve and I both spent about 3 weeks last summer doing our part of the shooting.  Here's the trailer.

Folks,

We are taking a break from the posts about our film making to ask you to give some money to help the people of Haiti.  It's very easy, donate $10 that will be charged to your cell phone bill.

It's $10, you can do this.

Donate $10 to the American Red Cross – charged to your cell phone bill – by texting "HAITI" to "90999."

Or donate at the red cross site

No filmmaking for a few more weeks. I am taking a winter and or summer camping vaction with my family in Australia. Follow our updates at our family travel blog. Happy Holidays.

I spent the last 24 hours shooting  Rodney Mullen for National Geographic.  All I can say is wow.  This guy is so inspiring, super thoughtful, genius skater, ultra friendly, uber creative,  totally generous, More determination than I've ever seen, not to mention a complete mathematical wizard.  Rodney has it all.  I was honored and stoked to get to know him.  Thanks Rodney for a great day.

From the archives, an experimental film I did about 15 years ago. Music by Swim Pigs, written by Kent Carter. It was good fun to make... trash from the edit floor, about 3,600 frames to mess with. Good fun with an ice pick and a razor blade and oh yeah, lots of tape.

Jared Hess called me up a few days ago and told me about his neighbor Holden.    He grew up in a polygamous family in southern Utah but left the community when he was 19.  He hasn't seen his family in about 4 years.  Jared and I spent some time the past few days documenting his attempts to see them.

Spring cleaning, downsizing, getting rid of crap, moving from an analog world to a digital world, anyway we filled up a dumpster, ch-ch-changes.

K7 beehive bazaar video #2

So I got a pentax k7 and i've been having a lot of fun with the video function.  Steve and I decided to put it through it's paces and do a couple spots for the beehive bazaar as a kindof test run for the camera in an actual production situation.  It's definitely got it's strengths and weaknesses, but i think the images it creates are pretty stellar.  Here's the first spot.

A few years back we got to work with Gary Fisher and Subaru. It was great fun. Gary is a great guy and is a legend. He drives cool cars and rides amazing bikes, but I would like to raid his closet, I love the chick shirt he wore in our Subaru spot.

so gentlemen broncos is out.  I think it's funny, but of course I'm biased.

It's been getting blasted by most critics, but the few that do like it

seem to be the critics I have a lot of respect for.

David Edelstein wrote a good one.

Richard Brody at the New Yorker

But I think the best written piece about the film was by

Lauren Davis over at io9.  It's a worthwhile read

whether you loved or hated the film.

I think this is the best Ranch Exit Sign in Utah. It has a clean look, I like angle on the arrow and it is a great arrow, it has a good exit number, no pesky graffiti and of course no other information other than that this is a Ranch Exit, good luck finding the Ranch.

Here is an old spot that we did for Fuel TV, that we have not posted. Terry Adams on bike and Matt Wilhelm on saxophone, shot in Central Park in New York City, the rain is real.

scenic route fuel tv from oi documentary services on Vimeo.

Silo Films is the commercial production company the represents me in Los Angeles. They have been excellent. They did a press release in Shoot Online about the "Scenic Route" spot for Fuel TV. (photo: a dirty medium format snap of David Law pushing in the middle of nowhere)

This is our spot for Fuel TV called "Scratch" I have posted it before, I am reposting it because it has won a few more awards. Awards for editing and some overall awards, if that makes any sense. (I will try to post details later)

Okay, for Halloween I was basically an idea, I called the idea "Project 1000." The goal was to take 1000 photos at the Call's Halloween party- between 4 photographers we ended up with 2100 photos, check out 500 photos here and 500 there. There were lots of dance moves, goofing off and a lot of pseudo performance art. (the photos: Tim and Barbara as stick people, and me and Monson preparing for a fake fight)