Another bit of advice from our man Stephen Murray, his 2 sons are in this spot with him.

We did not do this one but I love this man Donavon Frankenreiter.
Good advice.
He is a pro surfer and a musician.

BMX advice from the man Stephen Murray.

About 1 penny's worth of advice from Ronnie F.
I guess taking care of your tools is a good pointer.

More advice from Nasty, my favorite part is how proud he was of his advice off camera, Nasty Rules!

More Ronnie Faisst advice, RIP Bruce.

Even more advice, this time from our friend Stephen Murray.

Russell Johnson's Theme from Solpin Films on Vimeo.

Clip #2 from the upcoming Seve vs. Evan film. So this is another passion project, no money just for fun, because I love their music and I feel these guys are worth celebrating. So this will be a freestyle sing-along documentary in the spirit of the freestyle documentaries of the great Norwegian filmmaker and artist Maggie Henriksen.

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."

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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.