Steve Jobs

He was a true visionary and I'm not going to get too personal with this. Anyone who knows me and works in my field of filmmaking knows that he made a huge impact on my life.

Apple's and Google's homepage today.




I watched this a few years ago. You should too.






Old Apple commercial:


The guy who made this had an interesting day yesterday.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hong-kong-teens-tribute-to-jobs-a-cyber-hit/190687-11.html

Here are some articles I've read and would like to share for those who care.

This guy wasn't a fan until.. you'll have to read the whole article:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/steve-jobs-eventually-made-me-think-different/18883

Tributes from co-workers, presidents:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-has-died/

Short background on him and links to other things of interest:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/index.html

Pixar related:
http://img.ibtimes.com/www/articles/20111006/226459_steve-jobs-died-pixar-disney-john-lasseter-toy-story-george-lucas.htm

Lots of stuff at www.junkyard.no at the moment.

Norwegian Junkyard have three posts with my signature on it right now.
Link to the first (of two) DC Mtn Lab videos.
Link to the first (of three) Robot Food video.
Link to the first (of probably three) webisodes of the 2011 Nixon Jibfest.

Watch em if you got some spare time.

Oh hi.

I said I'd blog more, and I didn't.. too hooked on Instagram (my Tumblr blog) to keep up with this thing.
So to the 50 that still come here every day here's something for you.

1 of a few clips I'm doing for Nixon.

Here's the first from this years Nixon Jibfest. You have to click on the url cause embedding is disabled.
Enjoy.

http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000157760/featuresobf/coming-soon

Made a clip about Ken Block's new rally car.

I went to Wales a few weeks ago to make a clip for Monster World Rally Team.

To quote Ken:
"Despite the fundamental similarities between stage rally, rallycross and gymkhana, my World Rally championship Ford Fiesta just can't do what my gymkhana Fiesta can, and vice versa. But running three cars is a logistical nightmare, so we built one car that can be transformed to suit each discipline."

MWRT thought stop motion would be a suitable technic to show the car.
The stuff was shot in three days, with less than 30 min (might have been 15) to shoot the car in action.
My thought was to shoot the action on film to compliment the stop motion roots instead of HD video. And I like film so why not?
Many ideas we had for this clip weren't possible to shoot, we had next to zero sleep for 2-3 days and it was one of the most gruesome experiences of my life. If only we had another 1-2 days to shoot it.. the reason for only having a very limited time was technical issues / engines etc that were late and what not.

But here's the result. Not close to what we had envisioned, but it's still serves it's purpose. Hope you like it.
Ken picked out the tune from the Scott Pilgrim movie.

WRC Swedish Rally - Day 3

Got to ride along today again. It's pretty wild but for some reason I don't think it's very scary, fun though. Trying to hold a camera still on these roads is not easy.




Filmed for an hour or so on a frozen lake. Pretty nice day on the job. No wind, sunny, and not cold at all.
I also met Mike "MackDawg" McEntire who's in town to film Ken's new car. He was running the most successful snowboard video company back in the 90's but he also made Sick Boys (filmed the first fs boardslide on a handrail EVER and Hokus Pokus (legendary skate video from around 1990).



He was also the first one to hire me to shoot snowboarding back in 1996, so we have a lot of history together, really fun to see him here in Torsby.
More on how I got into the snowboard world here:
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000108819/uncategorized/quote-this-pierre-wikberg

We also toured Petter Solbergs giant workshop, impressive.

Day 3 clip here:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=499909352332&saved#!/video/video.php?v=499909352332&oid=139454585764&comments

WRC Rally Sweden - Day 2

Went out to party with some friends in Oslo. While at the bar I met Swedish snow shredders Chris Sörman and Kalle Ohlsson, very random and I got free drinks from the bartender, that's rare at my local watering holes so I was honored to be recognized in a place I haven't been to in 6 months.
Woke up at 6am, ouch, and got in the car to Torsby Sweden (home of playboy / soccer coach Svennis) where we will stay for a few days to try out tires and shoot photos / video of Ken's new WRC car which gets revealed on Wednesday.





Here's the clip from day 2:
http://www.facebook.com/pierrewikberg/posts/132824080117941?ref=notif¬if_t=like#!/video/video.php?v=499350432332&oid=139454585764&comments

Solar Eclipse in Stockholm.

Today most of Sweden got to witness a partial (80%) eclipse. I love these things.
In the late 90's I went to France to see a total eclipse and I will for sure travel to see another one.

Apparently the Faroe Islands and Svalbard will have a total eclipse in 2015 while the north of Sweden will have a partial.