My new blog project.

Me and Eddie Wall started a video blog. I'm pretty exited about it.
I'll probably blog here less from now on.. I think.

Feel free to bookmark us:
www.videohypershred.com

We have a Facebook fan page:
www.facebook.com/pages/Video-Hyper-Shred
And Twitter: http://twitter.com/videohypershred
Join the fun.


Here's the teaser for it / us.






“Video Hyper Shred” (VHS)

California, March 26, 2010 — The goal of VHS, www.videohypershred.com, is to update videos and photos every single day of the season. The clips will be short, raw, and feature pro snowboarders, ams, legends, friends, skaters, girls, drunks, industry tools and animals. The site will include all types of snowboarding; film trips, fun laps, bangers, trick tips, archival footage, interviews, behind-the-scenes, hugs, high fives and much more.

VHS will be a great way for riders and companies to get their talent and image out to the public every single day. The creative possibilities are virtually endless and VHS aims to entertain everyone, whether they be pros, weekend warriors, kids, teens, fans, haters, or single women between the ages of 20 and 40.

The internet has changed the way snowboard videos are viewed. Declining dvd sales and growing online activity are signs that the old formula of how we film and view videos needs to change. Filming 200 days a year for a 2 min video part doesn´t make as much sense as it used to.

“Times are changing and we want to change with them. I feel like snowboarding has more to offer then a two minute video part at the end of the year. I just want to show people everything that is involved with snowboarding and this is the perfect way.” says Eddie. Pierre also comments “I have been filming for a long time and I am very excited to dive into something where I can combine my Facebook updating skills and my filmmaking.”

VHS is open to work with all snowboarders and companies. The site will launch today, March 24, 2010.

About VHS Creators:

Pierre Wikberg has been professionally filming snowboarding for 13 years. He has created many noteworthy projects such as the Robot Food trilogy and the DC MTN LAB series. Pierre is considered to be one of the most respected filmmakers in the snowboarding industry. A native of Sweden, he usually spends most of his time couch surfing around the world documenting things while looking for the perfect mojito.

Eddie Wall has been a professional snowboarder for ten years. He has produced over 16 video parts, won multiple contests, and has been ranked 8th in world wide coverage over the last 5 years. He currently lives between Mammoth Lakes and San Clemente, CA or wherever his snowboard, skateboard, and guitar take him.

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.

Jussi edited some videos.

Jussi started to blog a while back and he´s doing a good job updating it.
He´s also edited two videos, but his embedding and compression skills aren´t that great, yet.
I´ll let him know how do compress better, the quality is pretty shitty but I still liked the clips.

I filmed this skating one with his point and shoot camera at one of our favorite school yards in San Diego.
Jussi can bring his kid/kids there too. They run around with toys while the 30 year old play too.




And in case you didn´t notice. Both Jussi and Iikka skate goofy footed and snowboard regular... weirdos.

And here´s a clip starring Jussi, Iikka, Lauri and Devun from Park City.

park city from jussi oksanen on Vimeo.

Some photos from the Diana Mini.

It´s a really fun camera. Small and it takes normal 35mm film.
I always like to shoot photos in pairs, or series and with this camera you always shoot two things on one frame..

There are no settings, except some focusing options, just point and shoot. Click on the pictures to enlarge.
Read more about it here:
http://microsites.lomography.com/dianamini/about



Iikka on the boardwalk between Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach.




This is one of my favorite houses in the Manhattan Beach area.



Iikka at the skatepark in Del Mar / Carmel Valley.



Todd doing grinds at Del Mar / Carmel Valley.



Todd and radar detector.



Todd and Reef at a renaissance fair in Escondido. People dress up in ancient gear and play war and stuff, for a whole weekend. Funny scene.



Cam and Reef play in the garage while dad plays some race car video game.



Hjalle outside his house.



Erin in Hermosa Beach.



Erin on the Hermosa pier.



Venice pier bird.



Venice pier bird #2.



Venice skatepark.



Venice skatepark, again.



Venice houses.



Mitch.



The canals in Venice.



The house from season 1&2 of Californication.
Check out the video of the house here:







Random garage by LAX.




Hangover day in Laguna Beach, nice.

New clip I made for DC. Pretty happy with this one.

Feel free to watch this clip I made featuring Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, Lauri Heiskari and Aaron Biittner.
It was shot in Lech and St Moritz in 4 or 5 days.
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/videos/thursday-theater-dc-team-euro-hammer-video

If anyone has any similar trips planned feel free to give me a shout since I'm unemployed and always looking for fun things to do.
I'm pretty good and filming, editing, eating Mexican food, blogging, would you rather scenarios and team managing.
God knows us filmers have to do that more than the team managers :)


More powder to you / Pierre

Iikka and foam pit.

I´m so jealous of this set up. I always wanted to skate into a foam pit. Soooooooooo jealous!



You can follow the DC fools, I mean tools, here:
http://community.dcshoes.com/blog

New clips I edited for DC.

Here are two new clips I've edited. Well I edited 99.9% of them, one weak clip made it into the Chile edit that I wasn't responsible for. Whoever guesses the clip/trick gets a prize.
Unfortunately the encoding is anything but great. But you kids these days don't really care about that anyway, so no reason to apologize on DC's behalf.
I also heard that they are on auto play... which obviously suck.. I'll ask DC if they can change that.

The first one is from Chile and was filmed by Jaakko Itäaho.
Jaakko, together with Brad Kremer made Picture This, From _ With Love, Follow Me Around, Double Decade and the new Burton 'B' movie. Even though Burton said they made it, which I'm sure they did. I haven't seen it yet but I know it would have been a better movie if Brad and Jaakko would have had final cut. By saying that I guess I'm giving Burton free consultation, like I've done many times before. None of it reached the top though.

I did see the "B" dvd (in a vhs box) at the Burton SoHo store yesterday.

It was actually playing on the projector as well. But for the first time in many years (maybe forever) I had no urge to see it or buy the most expensive (production) snowboard movie of the season. Actually that is not true. The Burton 2006 release "For Right Or Wrong" (you can see the trailer here, after the 20 second corporate commercial) that I'm sure less than 2% of you saw was another release I wasn't eager to buy.

The Burton guys are coming to town in a few days though for the "B" premier so I'll give you a review after that.

Woow, went on a little tangent there.. here's the Chile clip. Also holding the 16mm camera is DC's team suit Sean Lake.

I took down the embedded version because the have annoying auto play. Click on the url links to watch the clips:
http://snow.dcshoes.com/videos/#chile-shred-isode






Second clip is from Australia and was filmed by Clayton Larson.
Regardless what the title might say. Kimmy Fasani, Raewyn Reid or Lonnie Kauk aren't in the clip.
Clip here: http://snow.dcshoes.com/videos/#/oz-shred-isode




Hope you like them, they were a fucking struggle to make. Fuck the music industry. Well not the musicians, just the greedy publishers and labels.

There will be some more coming this within the next weeks.


While at the Burton store I walked across the street to the DC store as well. And there they had the Mtn Lab playing in stretched fat mode on the screens, great. You spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of hours (lots of "of" here) and then they destroy your creation in one second by hitting the "fill screen" button on the remote. Great, just great.
Travis looked a little pudgy in this format.