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)

FREE GENTLEMEN BRONCO TICKETS

Fox is giving away some tickets to Gentlemen Broncos in select cities
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Another Broncos video.
Gentlemen Broncos is NOW PLAYING in:
Los Angeles (Arclight Hollywood)
New York (Landmark Sunshine)

Opening Friday, November 6th
Austin (Alamo South Lamar)
Boston (Kendall Square)
Los Angeles (Playhouse, UTC)
Salt Lake City (Broadway Centre)
San Francisco (Embarcadero Center)
Toronto (AMC Yonge & Dundas)
Washington D.C. (Bethesda Row)

Opening Friday, November 13th
Atlanta
Chicago (Century Centre)
Dallas/Ft. Worth (Angelika/Mockingbird Station)
Denver
Detroit (Main Art)
Minneapolis (Lagoon)
Portland
Montreal (AMC Forum)
Philadelphia
San Diego (Hillcrest)
Seattle
Vancouver (Cinemark Tinseltown)

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.