Evan Smith

For some reason there's been a lot of skating since I started bloggin again. Not sure why.
This new clip with Evan is pretty nice.

New spots and kinda new way of reading the terrain.

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.

On a Ken Block Rally Mission

For the next week - 10 days I'm going to follow my old boss from DC Shoes, Ken Block, around Scandinavia.
He's now a very successful man behind the wheel. If you don't know what he's capable of I suggest you go to YouTube and search for his name.

I'll be uploading videos daily from this WRC event on his Facebook page, so befan him here:
http://www.facebook.com/KenBlockRacing

Here's the video from our first day:


iPhone photos from today:

Sauna view.


Work out with Saydah, MONSTER Rally Team Manager.



View of the Central Station, Opera House and some water.


Icy walk path.





Robin Williams calls biathlons Norwegian drive by's.
Norwegians are very outdoorsy people.

Meeting some Scandinavian snow shredders and Oslo locals for the past days was a huge perk, I really like Oslo (except the homeless people and crack heads / hookers who loiter around the Central Station.

Stay tuned.




Here are some videos of Ken I made for a DC movie in 2007:

Ken playing with his car again.

While I was watching this 7 min clip over 100 people had made comments on it. That has to be some kind of record.


If you´ve been living under a rock and haven´t seen Ken´s past clips I´ll post some at the bottom. Enjoy.




Ken also had 2,000 people give him feedback on a 45 min old post. Also some sort of record?



Last year:




Two years ago:





I shot this last year one afternoon when we tried out a new toy:


Shot this in 3-4 days in NZ in 2007, hectic and fun days.


Top Gear did this sweet piece last year:

Ken Block ties Kimi Räikkönen!

Even though Kimi is new to rally I think it shows that Ken is pretty darn skilled.
This was shot today in Portugal.

Part two of the Utah clip.

Here's part two of the Utah clip I made a while back.


I made it as one part, but they cut it up.
FIlmed by me, Anthony Vitale and Per-Hampus Stålhandske.

Here´s the first part, in case you haven´t seen it.

My latest creation.

This clip is actually about 8 minutes long but DC decided to cut in up into two pieces from some reason.
Here´s the first part.




Anthony Vitale filmed the first section with Iikka, Lauri and Devun and I filmed Biittners stuff (which was shot at Snowbird and Park City in 4-5 days).

Hope you like it.

New 2009 highlight clip with Ken Block

I´ve made some highlight clips (2006 and 2007 among others) for Ken before and enjoyed it as well as shooting some of his driving. He´s opened up a lot of doors/eyes for rally in America. Mostly through his viral videos. Using a skate/snow marketing in an industry who wouldn´t know what Facebook is if it hit them in face hasn´t hurt his reputation. Some still argue that he´s not a good driver compared to the WRC people and yes sure Solberg might be a better rally driver but Ken has never claimed to be better than him.
If you know that WRC use a completely different race technique (with recce) compared to the American rally circuit you´d know better than comparing the two. And since Ken has friends / staff in the video / photo / video department and thinks along lines the other rally people don´t he´s created a great outlet for his ideas, online videos.. How you can hate on someone who drifts his car around an airport ate call him a bad driver caise the video is editing I have no idea. I do know that a lot of people are morons, and I guess that´s the answer.

Anywho.. here´s Ken´s 2009 highlights. Made by Josh Martelli at Mad Media, enjoy.



If you haven´t seen Ken on Top Gear, check it out here:

Found a clip I made on Youtube.

Well not really. I made the clip for DC´s Mtn Lab movie in 2005 and I haven´t seen any clips from that movie with more than 100.000 views or something.
But this clip, which someone raped and put horrible (unless you are a Volcom stoner) jazz tunes to has 730.00 views. Incredible.
Kind of funny how at least 730.000 people have seen this clip, but only about 200.000 has seen the original version ( including 100.000 Youtube views).

Why change the song? Why put it the effort? And why this it have 730.000 views? 73 views would make more sense.
I read the comments and people like it..

Gees, no wonder I´m unemployed. I obviously don´t know what´s good anymore.... kidding, I do.



People are such morons.
What´s up with every other comment on clips on Youtube being "What´s the song?"
Fucking morons, in 90% of the cases it´s spelled out at the start or the end of the clip. The other 10% of the time it´s in the description. Fuck people, grow a fucking brain.
And I worry about changing an edit to another song until I get an ulcer.. then I spend 20 hours re-editing and always feel like I raped the original version. And then this dude completely lays down a new tune on it in 10 sec and people love it?!

And to the hundreds of thousands who think the dude who uploaded this clip made it, are you that stupid? I guess so.. I can´t wait for the lizards from V to come and eat this sorry excuse for a species. As long as they eat the stupid ones first. Then the ones who doesn´t believe us humans are an evolving species. Then they can eat me.



Here´s the original version, for those of you who care (not my upload):



So why do I care? I just have very little faith in humanity and people on Youtube. It´s scary.
Am I bitter? Not really. Just sucks to see something you made get raped. Since people still like the raped version it makes me think why me, the riders, the brands and the musicians involved in creating the original piece even bother.



Here are some of the 600 comments:

mellowest fucking music ever...fits perfictally to the vid!

the song fits teh video perfectly

the best video with the best musi i have ever seen. man it makes me so relaksed.

sick video and the music was pretty tight to go along with this video, didn't mind it. It was actually pretty good music..sweet video

fuckin sick. Its gonna be a kick ass season. too fuckin stoked. I'm watchin this shit all day every day

did u guys learn those tricks by yourself???? or did u take leasons???

love the music

sweet video AND sweet music

sick song so chill

Awesome jumps and flips!!!

yo wats the name of the song?!?

this video with its music represents what snowboarding is about - just one of the best videos on youtube !!!! AWESOME !!!!

awesome! great music, much respect dudes

whats the song called?

What kind of boards are they all riding?

Nice video. Great song.

this video is great!
where can i download this song? :$ :)

im so sad i cant find the sone on itunes :(

by far the best freestyle snowboarding video on youtube.

Great job off the video guys i really like it :)

hey whats the name of the song ? And where was the video made ?

whats the name of the music track used in this video?

Awesome...looks soooo difficult to do....so cool. I just wish somebody would give the name of the tune!!!!!!!!!!!!!

exellent music made by japanees trip hop master ! if you need music for your video you can checks on my label

Whats the name of the song under the video?

This.. Is one of the best videos I've ever watched!

one of the dopest snowboard vids i ever saw!!! incredible riders, fuckin stylish tricks, cool musik!!!!

amazing video!
and how is the song caled?

great video and perfect music!

OMG.
Im a skier but i have to say this is one sweet video. The music makes it so good and some of the photography ooooooooo Fiiinnnneee.

what is this song called ? ( : so dope !

Great Video! Getting me pumped for winter and the music is perfect.

this video is sick, I like how it has backcountry, park, and crazy ass random freestyle tricks that mesh super good with the mellow music. sick video

SIIIIIIICK video, can anyone tell me the song please??

awsome!!!
Could anyone tell me the name of the song plese:)

this song is F-R-E-S-H

hey, what song artist is this?

wicked video and really sweet music.
what music is this???

what mt is this? it loooks familiar

Great vid!
well chosen song!

travis parker??? thought it was barker

great vid, love the track too.

one the best 5 minutes i spend on youtube
amazing

the music is sick dude, up the culture level, Vid is one of the best. Front flip at beginning was perfect

Guys these guys are epik, so really I love rock to man but it was actually pretty cool what they did with the music, props to them.

nice track, who is it by?.... bit like bonobo!

whati is this song ????

For anybody who's interested, I'm making a video this year. Might not turn out as good as this one though. Anybody who wants to see themselves in a video can send one in.

Love the video, love their skills, love the music... Id give ten stars if I could!

what song is this, its actually really good =P

really good. what is the name of song..?!

whats the name of the song please ?!

What's the song's name??

were is that filmed

The Music couldn't Be better!
Nice Choice!
Nice Jazz!!!!

who is artist of these song ?

really nice video and awsome music, relaxing too travis parker is the man!

Greg Hunt has a website.

Gregory is prolly one of the most talented skateboard filmmakers out there.

In case you don´t know who he is you need to check out his website. No fancy flash, straight up clean layout. Very easy to navigate through.
And if you know of his work you should still browse through it for a bit.

Directors reel (with the nicely made Devine commerical that hasn´t been seen by many).
Skate reel, with Cardiel, Way and Kirchart video parts.
Bio.