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.

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

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:

Spatziba Posted My Swedish 2007 DC Trip

Click here to see the post:
http://www.spatziba.com/snowboard/dc_goes_to_northern_sweden_1373


If you wanna see even more pics and words go here:
http://pierrewikberg.blogspot.com/2007/06/bjorkliden-sweden-shoot-mid-may.html

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:

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.

Ken is going to the WRC.

He´ll be the first American to race in the WRC and since Subaru aren´t involved with the WRC anymore he´ll be driving a Ford.

Read press release and other things here:
http://www.monsterworldrallyteam.com

New Ken Block clip.

Well it´s a remix of the original Gymkhana 2 video.







Ken gave the footage to some dudes who get very weird in After Effects. Here´s 5 minutes of remixed Gymkhana clips:

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.

Found my face in the new Transworld.

I was like.. who is that, looks familiar. Oh gees it´s me on a very bad hair day.
That breakfast though.. classic awesome Alp breakfast.

I can´t remember that quote.. but I guess I wrote it. And sure, I mean it. It was just worded strange.

And if you haven´t seen the latest clip I filmed (with Vitlale) and edited for DC you can find it here.
http://snowboarding.transworld.net/videos/thursday-theater-dc-team-euro-hammer-video

Ken drives with Solberg and Galli in Germany.

I really liked this clip.
The rally world is pretty conservative and has always been based on what car and driver can finish in the #1 position.
Ken on the other hand brings an element of interaction and to a degree some rockstardom to the sport. His Youtube videos has reached out to so many people. Nobody is arguing that he´s better then Solberg or Loeb. But he´s a very skilled driver and his marketing ideas with posters, viral video clips and spectacular photo shoots brings an element to rally that that industry has never seen. And some might say, well that´s cool Ken thinks he´s the man and stuff, but I´ve seen the people at the rallies and X-games.. they love talking to him, his pit crew, seeing him and Pastrana to some of these motorheads is like meeting Tiger Woods or Justin Timberlake and I doubt Solberg or Loeb get the same awe from their fans. Since they are more, or only, focused on winning and not so much about spreading the rally lifestyle to the people.
I mean how many rally fans have Loeb posters, Loeb sweaters, Loeb shoes, Loeb beanies or Loeb clips stacked up in their email inbox? Not as many as Ken and Pastrana´s fans...

Anywho..

Here´s a clip with Galli, Solberg and Ken.. hanging out and putting on a show for the Germans. And yes, this is wouldn´t have happened without Ken entering the rally world.
Period.

Ken Blocks winter "car".

I went out with Ken this winter to try out this little experiment of his. We drove it around the Mtn Lab and some snowmobile trails in Park City for an hour or two. It´s being modified and should be ready for some powder action this upcoming winter.

DC put together this clip of our test day:




0-60 did an article / interview about this tracks / car set up.
http://www.0-60mag.com/online/?p=20459









There was also this video that got posted on Youtube this spring..



If you want to get your hands on some DC auto / rally gear, go here:
http://store.dcshoes.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3631313

Danny Way.

Plan B has a dedicated their site to Danny´s 20 year anniversary as a pro skater.

They have 13 full video parts here:
http://www.planbskateboards.com

I really recommend the "ON VIDEO" clip from 2000 for those who haven´t seen it.

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.

0 gravity skating.

Check out Ken and Rob as they float around.

Great reactions on people who get to ride with Ken.

Ken is in a new video game called Dirt 2 and he gave some of the people there a ride in his car.

Ken driving a Ford Escort.

Apparently these Ford´s were really good cars when they came out and I know Ken has been wanting to buy one for a while. But they weren´t sold in the US, so I´m assuming this was shot over in Europe or he shipped one over. Anyhow, looks like they are having fun with it.