Our friend, Chris Cutri just released his new art film on dvd, you can get it here. It is a great film about surfers that do art. I am very inspired by this film.

hi ho all.
Tim and I are speaking at BYU Museum of Art this Thursday. We will show clips and talk about our journey in nonfiction film. It has been a great trip, Tim is a brilliant filmmaker. He is technically a genius, a creative powerhouse and he understands the history of filmmaking enough to charge boldly into the future. It is an honor to travel the world with you dude.
Peace, see you Thursday.
Amen.

Last thursday we got to go to the Utah Premiere of "Gentlemen Broncos"  It was great to see a bunch of the folks we worked with on the film.   The film is being released in select theaters on October 30th.'
Thanks Jared for the gig and the laughs.

Yesterday a friend of the family, and world class artist V. Douglas Snow died in a car crash in Central Utah. Doug was a brilliant artist and respected by many. He was also super duped loved by his students when he taught at the University of Utah. I had always planned on spending time with Doug and doing an interview with him for the art world to archive, but I never made time for the interview. Lesson to me, if you feel like doing it, do it. Love people while we are here together---we all just one swerve of a car away from our final resting place. Rest in Peace Doug, you will be missed.


V. Douglas Snow

OK, this is one of my favorite web spots we did for Gentlemen Broncos. One of my favorite lines of all time came from Sam when he called the theater “Sparkly and Fantastic.” Also I love the that he talks about touching all the cookies and stuff after he has handled the stag. And who doesn’t want to a peppermint feeling all inside them? Anybody? Anybody?

On the way to the Airport in Chicago we had the treat of eating breakfast with one of the best skate dads in the business "Mr. Joe Kelly." It was great to see CJ too, CJ in amazing kid and a great skateboarder, we filmed him last year for New Pollution.
(borrowed photo: Joe Kelly rocking out with his band the Beer Nuts, We just missed his Chicago show by hours...next time Joe)

This is the finished segment from the Mike Aitken interview i did a few weeks back for The Weekly Update.
I am stoked on this guy.

Couple weeks ago i got to shoot a segment with Chad Kagy out at the Miller Motorsports complex.
Here's a link to thie finished segment

We just finished a great shoot in the Chicago area with London Davis and his family. London is skateboarded with a great family that supports his skating 100%. We also shot a magic session with Chaz Ortiz and London. We ended the night with the best BBQ I have ever had. London’s mom cooked us some of her famous D’s BBQ sauce, a family BBQ recipe that has been in the family for over 100 years. Thanks for the food and the good times.(Photo: The family with Matt Beacham the host of New Pollution on Fuel TV)

This is Rob. Rob owns the Warped skate park and lets us crash in his basement anytime we come to town. Rob deserves a medal for the great environment he provides for kids out here. Be sure to say hi anytime you get to Chicago.

We met a couple of cool people today while on a shoot in the Chicago area. Logan and his dad Matt. They are on a mission to skateboard in all 50 states in the next 9 months, basically Logan’s entire 6th grade year. He will be doing home school with his dad, going to museums and learning about the country by traveling it. They are doing it low budget, staying with friends, family, and couch surfing with people they meet along the way. We had fun chatting with them and listening to their stories. We already have plans to help them out when they pass through Utah in April. Anybody interested in helping out when they pass through your state should check out their web site 50skatekid.com.
Peace,
Steve and Tim

Another Bronco video, this one was one of Jared's favorite ones. Jared really like his production designer, Richard Wright. Richard is a creative peaceful dude.

Okay, last night had a perfect night with my Park City sailing friends. It was the last night of our Tuesday night race series and it was brilliant. We had tons of wind, warn overcast weather and refreshing water. The racing was fast and crazy with people getting flung into the water all night long. It was a great laugh for all.
Anyway, I started racing this year and it has been a great thing for me. I do not play golf or have a poker night with the boys, so has been fun for me. It is great to be outdoors and the challenge of racing is good for the mind, body and soul. Also I feel like I have 20 new friends. We ended the season with El Chubasco, my favorite Mexican restaurant in Park City. (this photo: me trying to keep the boat flat in heavy wind, taken by vollbrechtt)

We've been in New Hampshire for the week shooting our first segment for New Pollution season 4. It was great to be back with Matt and Zane was a great first subject. Super stylish riding and an awesome family that made us feel very welcome.

Another behind-the-scenes video we did for Gentlemen Broncos. Sam Rockwell rocks. It was a treat working him. This scene was shot on Stansbury Island on the Great Salt Lake, one of the most miserable places on earth.

We are back on the road. Had a layover in Atlanta. In my opinion Atlanta has the best art of any US airport.

Got to work with simon tabron the other day on a shoot for the weekly update.  We covered 5050 bmx's ride with a pro day.

I've been working the Dew Tour in SLC for the Weekly Update. Dew Tours are always fun cuz you get to see lots of folks you've met over the years on various projects. This is a shot of one of the Free Flow kids. Kickflip footplant over the picnic table

Another video we did for Broncos, a nice look at Jared and Jerusha working things out. She is a massive part of this whole thing, but mostly stays in the background. When you hear the DVD commentary of Bronco you will learn a lot about their creative process.

This summer had a fair amount of time off. We discovered soft boards for surfing. It was a break through with the kids, the 3 oldest kids were off and running. Our last night in California was magic. We surfed will till total darkness and we were the only ones in the water. In love with water fun.

Today we recorded the DVD commentary for Gentlemen Broncos
with Jared and Jerusha Hess, and Munn Powell. It was funny to hear these guys riff on the film.
Thanks guys for having us on board as the BTS crew.

I got the chance today to interview mike aitken.
It was super inspiring to here him talk about his accident and his attitude about what went down.
Class act all the way.

Another web video for Jared's new film. This is a good one, Sam Rockwell was amazing and super fun to work with, and love to hear about the Hess creative process (after that i want to be a writer).

This summer I was given the opportunity to be a judge for the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. I set up shop in the garage and watched hours of movies. I would watch a film, fix a bike tire for the kids, watch a film... It was fun and it is good to give back to Heartland. They have honored me as a visionary with 2 Crystal Heart awards for my films “The Potter’s Meal” and “In The Presence of Healers.”

One more of the Gentlemen Broncos videos we did for Jared Hess' new film. Edgar is an amazing person.

I am a big supporter of the Deer Creek Open Water Swim Marathon . I was getting ready for this years event and my boy Fish 11, said he would like to give it a try. So At the last minute I dropped out of the race to be his paddler. He was awesome and was the youngest kid by 15 years, the next youngest was 26. He liked it and said he had fun, but he did say he got cold.

We spent a day with Parks and Shane Bonifay in the heavy humidity of Orlando. We were shooting another spot for Fuel TV.
Parks and Shane were super funny and willing to get silly for the spots. Look for the spots in a month or so.

This week's Bronco video.

The behind the scenes web spots we did for Gentlemen Broncos are finally starting to roll out.
more info here

I had a shoot today that got cancelled so Steve and I decided to have an oi documentary services board meeting today. We had about 15 miles of board meeting with about 1600 feet of climbing and about 4200 feet of descending. The shot above is of our board room, you are gonna have to click on it to see anything worthwhile. Utah valley is visible on the left, Salt lake County is visible on the right and you can see steve in the far right corner making a phone call. We finished our meeting with Al Pastor tacos at El Mexiquenese


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