Video clip from the gun range.

Ian was pretty confident. Eero was quiet (and I think a little nervous), Iikka wants to go back there tomorrow and shoot the Uzi ($10 extra) and I was straight up sweating.
Of course the target you're aiming at are illustrations of the human torso.. is a circle that dull?

The fact that Iikka can go back there tomorrow and have a loaded Uzi in his hands with no drug/alcohol check or any other form of check up is just flat out scary.
After we left the place Iikka said:
- How can I go back to playing shuffle board or something after this? Nothing compares to this, it´s all downhill from here.

But this is what Ian does when he´s not helping scared Scandinavians to load 9mm guns. Shooting guns isn´t that scary in comparison imo.


Apparently you can wear a loaded gun in some states, Arizona for example.
They even have a gun check at the bars so you can't access your gun while at the actual bar, only when you leave.. true story.
This gun loving mom from Pennsylvania unfortunately died way too young.

JP Solberg in Transcendence!

In 2001 I went to Kauai with Justin Hostynek and Patrick Armbruster (of Absinthe Films) to edit Transcendence. A film the three of us had filmed for the 2000/2001 season.

Justin had this vision that went with this Beatles song and me and him shot JP in a bunny suit just weeks before the movie was done. I actually stayed in Mt Hood for one or two days and made JP ride up and down the chairlift and stuff. Super contrived, but he was a sport.

The powder footage in this clip was from JP´s first couple of days of riding powder, so I was mighty impressed with his skills even though I had filmed with him the summer prior in Norway with Daniel Franck (for Daniel´s movie Sensored) and seen how incredibly gifted this 17 year old kid from Bergen was.

I shot all the park stuff which is from Hemsedal in Norway. Some of those shots look kind of weird due to some weird interlacing / frame blending effect in FCP which happened when Justin needed to speed them up to fit the edit.

Justin did a great job editing this clip. Unfortunately the song had to be replaced after the first batch of vhs´s and dvd´s went out due to the ridiculously expensive price we got from The Beatles label / publisher.

Guest riders are, I think: Eero Niemela, Alex Auchu, Keir Dillon, Fredi Kalbermatten and Tommen.



To this day I must say that JP Solberg has the best style on a snowboard. He looks so good while he´s in the air. Hopefully I get to shoot with him in the future.

In case you didn´t read my post about JP doing the best trick out of all people last year, here it is:
http://pierrewikberg.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-favorite-trick-in-all-2008-snowboard.html