Friday, May 29, 2009
two days left
taiwan has been awesome and the locals are sick. they have been taking care of us since day one. bringing us to cool spots, driving us where ever we need to go, we couldnt ask for anything better. big thanks to all them and IH bike shop. besides having a torn ACL and not being able to ride, this has been one of the best trips the team has been on. we have seen a bunch of crazy things, been to the sickest beach and stayed in the best hotels i have ever seen. not to mention everyone has been killing it. sean invents tricks on a daily basis, its crazy to sit back and watch him just session a spot without even trying. i will put some pics up when i get home but for now check the kink site for pics.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Taiwan!
the kink team and i are in taiwan, we got here a couple days ago and it has been awesome! besides it being 95 degrees and humid as shit everyday everyone is siked. we stayed in the best hotel i have ever seen, it had a flat screen tv in every room even the bathrooms! the locals have been really cool and they have showed us alot of cool spots. the food is crazy, and riding around the city is bizarre. its not unusual to see a family of four on a moped at anytime. anyways check the kink site for pics.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
AOTC= Attack Of The Crappy-ass-dvd
I'm no professional MX video critic or anything, but lets face it, everyone pretends to be so I might as well try to fit in.
Now, I guess I am a little biased in making this review. There's kids in it that I grew up riding with, and I've met the kids making the thing and they are certainly stand up guys. However, I'll do my best not do talk this shit up in spite of it all. So, without further rambling, here it is.
This video sucks. No lie. Like I said I'm no professional, but I definitely know the components of solid video these days. To start things of I didn’t see nearly enough scenery footage. No one was standing in a field or riding aimlessly down a side street or a bridge. I think there was only one shot of the Boston skyline, and lets be real, there are way prettier things to film than the Prudential building. What the fuck guys?
Moving on to the music choice, I was shocked when the video ended and I could only recall hearing one single rap song. Not to mention most of the other crap that the sections were edited too was some up-beat shit my parents would listen to.
Anyways, with the music choice being so boring I was hoping the filming and editing would maybe help cover it up. No such luck. It almost brought me to tears how rare it was for the camera to follow a dude down an entire city block to finish up a line, or how most of the filming was done in the daytime from a respectable distance. If you’re not zooming in on some weird shit like a flower or some bricks and them BAM you zoom out to a dude shredding a handrail, you are not up on your filming game. Bottom line is get your shit together AOTC, I’ll be surprised if this DVD sells a single copy.
All this complaining and I haven’t even touched on the riding yet. So without giving away any of the mediocre maneuvers that kids produced, I’ll fill you in on the good shit that you won’t see in this video.
There was a total lack of 1 ft. tall ledge footy which basically destroyed the movie right then and there. When I got halfway through and realized that wasn’t the style of this crew I almost puked and shut it off. Powering through my bout with nausea, I also came to notice how curbs were being almost entirely ignored. Why bother filming anything if it’s not going to end with a 180 off a curb?
With all this intense disgust going on in my head I was insanely relieved when it got to Chris Saunders and CB Combs split part once I realized there would be some freecoaster action about to happen. Oh how wrong I was. Everyone knows the reason the freecoaster was invented, and that is for long ass sliders. Down streets, hills, nice smooth skate park floors, whatever. Clearly these kids didn’t get the message and it more or less ruined their part.
I was excited to see my friends Jake Frost and Dave Deltoro’s part so I could make sure I was totally better than them. To my amazement, they both kicked ass. This pissed me off so much I fast-fowarded to the next section so I can’t even comment on them.
The mix sections actually looked like kids put in work (both editing and riding wise). This was unusual so I ignored them entirely and skipped on to the “real” sections. Unfortunately due to the lack of all the vital stuff I mentioned earlier I had to turn off DVD and watch some web videos on BMXboard to calm myself down. So, I didn’t get a chance to see Chris Zepieri and Craig Pasero’s parts. From what I hear though, after a an entire part of filler clips their last couple bangers might be worth buying the DVD alone.
So, I would definitely suggest buying this video. Not for the riding, fliming, editing or overall feel, but because it makes a really cool looking coaster for your coffee table.
So go check out the AOTC blog and tell them how much their video sucks.
Now, I guess I am a little biased in making this review. There's kids in it that I grew up riding with, and I've met the kids making the thing and they are certainly stand up guys. However, I'll do my best not do talk this shit up in spite of it all. So, without further rambling, here it is.
This video sucks. No lie. Like I said I'm no professional, but I definitely know the components of solid video these days. To start things of I didn’t see nearly enough scenery footage. No one was standing in a field or riding aimlessly down a side street or a bridge. I think there was only one shot of the Boston skyline, and lets be real, there are way prettier things to film than the Prudential building. What the fuck guys?
Moving on to the music choice, I was shocked when the video ended and I could only recall hearing one single rap song. Not to mention most of the other crap that the sections were edited too was some up-beat shit my parents would listen to.
Anyways, with the music choice being so boring I was hoping the filming and editing would maybe help cover it up. No such luck. It almost brought me to tears how rare it was for the camera to follow a dude down an entire city block to finish up a line, or how most of the filming was done in the daytime from a respectable distance. If you’re not zooming in on some weird shit like a flower or some bricks and them BAM you zoom out to a dude shredding a handrail, you are not up on your filming game. Bottom line is get your shit together AOTC, I’ll be surprised if this DVD sells a single copy.
All this complaining and I haven’t even touched on the riding yet. So without giving away any of the mediocre maneuvers that kids produced, I’ll fill you in on the good shit that you won’t see in this video.
There was a total lack of 1 ft. tall ledge footy which basically destroyed the movie right then and there. When I got halfway through and realized that wasn’t the style of this crew I almost puked and shut it off. Powering through my bout with nausea, I also came to notice how curbs were being almost entirely ignored. Why bother filming anything if it’s not going to end with a 180 off a curb?
With all this intense disgust going on in my head I was insanely relieved when it got to Chris Saunders and CB Combs split part once I realized there would be some freecoaster action about to happen. Oh how wrong I was. Everyone knows the reason the freecoaster was invented, and that is for long ass sliders. Down streets, hills, nice smooth skate park floors, whatever. Clearly these kids didn’t get the message and it more or less ruined their part.
I was excited to see my friends Jake Frost and Dave Deltoro’s part so I could make sure I was totally better than them. To my amazement, they both kicked ass. This pissed me off so much I fast-fowarded to the next section so I can’t even comment on them.
The mix sections actually looked like kids put in work (both editing and riding wise). This was unusual so I ignored them entirely and skipped on to the “real” sections. Unfortunately due to the lack of all the vital stuff I mentioned earlier I had to turn off DVD and watch some web videos on BMXboard to calm myself down. So, I didn’t get a chance to see Chris Zepieri and Craig Pasero’s parts. From what I hear though, after a an entire part of filler clips their last couple bangers might be worth buying the DVD alone.
So, I would definitely suggest buying this video. Not for the riding, fliming, editing or overall feel, but because it makes a really cool looking coaster for your coffee table.
So go check out the AOTC blog and tell them how much their video sucks.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
The News
Update:
Aaron's going to Taiwan
New web edit might be coming
I more or less graduated college so we celebrated with a good old fashioned fire jump
Aaron is going to graduate in 2014
Sometimes you need to unleash a nothing in the kitchen
Sunday, May 10, 2009
France/Cali/Arizona B-roll footage
I got bored tonight and compiled all the bullshit footage on my computer from the above mentioned trips. It's not bangers, but most of it is funny, to me at least. Highlights for me are Crazy Tom, anything Tony, Jay's bar at the trails, and photo.net screaming at the top of his lungs. Enjoy.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
trips over
roadfools is over, it was a long trip for me because i was only able to ride one of the days. everyone was killing it though, hopefully the video turns out cool. check the kink site or the dig site for some photos. its good to be back home though, brian hunt came over the other day and got pretty loose, here are some photos.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Kitty Carpenter: Porn Star
Weather is getting awesome. Me and Aaron pedaled around today. It was hard to stay focused and do some serious work with all the sorority skanks and idiot bros drinking and playing wicked awesome frisbee games all over the place, but we managed to produce some great digi shots.
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