Trysil x Oslo x Berlin x Munich x Isen

Just arrived at my hotel in Oslo, waiting for my flight home. Can't wait to visit my parents for thanksgiving.

Here some impressions from our trip to Trysil.

The arctic magic carpet

A friendly game of "Doucheball"

Peter surfing Mario on the indoor wave in our hotel

Simon and the controversial frozen squirrel "Frozey"


Simon, 5050 FS3 Nosebonk at Trysil High


The real Peter König showing how a Backside Air is done.


Mario and Peter G'in it up.

A typical situation at breakfast


Pepe's Pizza. Pizza Hut can go home big time!


Italian stallion Simon Gruber impressed by norwegian pizza.


Yum!


And here the whole reason we came for: The jump at the Sweet Rumble contest.
Peter König sending a Backside 7 way down.

Trysil, Norway

Just arrived in Trysil, Norway for the Sweet Rumble contest. I'm here with our Forum riders Peter König and Simon Gruber and joining us to make himself feel important is Isenseven rider turned Forum teammanager Chris "Bignose" Patsch. Also swiss brosef Mario Käppeli is here with us and new Isenseven rider Kevin Bäckström from Sweden will be joining us for some good time pre-season filming/riding/partying/hanging with the crew.

I got to hang out at the Oslo airport for 4 hours waiting for the rest of the crew. I seriously have never spent so much time at any other airport than Oslo. All together over the last 4 years I've probably spent over 40 hours waiting at Gardermoen. At least there's lots of Pølse to eat, Snus to buy and pretty girls to watch there.

3 hours of bus riding later we arrived in Trysil where it's about -15° C and on the way to the hotel we got to watch our friends slip on the ice which was fun. We are in the Radisson Blu Resort hotel and it's pretty sweet. There's probably like one million rooms, an indoor surfing wave, spa and all the other shenanigans a luxury hotel needs. And a beer in the mini-bar is only 8 Euros. What a bargain. I'll have to ration my one beer over the entire week or else I'll go broke.

The hotel lobby.

Chris "Christobal" Patsch and our "crib"

So it's up to the mountain tomorrow for some park laps with the crew. Looking forward to the first shoot of the season. I'll keep y'all posted.

Howdy!

Tron Legacy

I cannot wait for this movie! The entire Soundtrack is done by Daft Punk, so it just has to be off the hook.

Influencers.

Cool clip about trends, fashion, design and the people that influence it.

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

This Is The Arrival! Yes, it is!

Have I told you about "This Is The Arrival"? They are an up and coming band from Munich and are sure to blow up pretty soon. Actually this is happening as we speak. And actually they're not from Munich, but also from around Isen, Erding, Dorfen where I grew up.

They're our friends and they are awesome. It's just a matter of time till we see Mario, Hot, Timo and Piet on MTV. Perfect Indie Pop at it's finest. You just have to like it.

They just released their new single "New York's Got A Piece Of My Chest" today.

New York's Got A Piece Of My Chest by This Is The Arrival

Clemens and Vincent produced the music video for their first single "Mexico" a few months ago.

This Is The Arrival - Mexico (Official Music Video) from This Is The Arrival on Vimeo.

And when you read about these boys in the newspaper, see them on TV and listen to their Album, I'll be all like "told you so!"

Give them some love and buy their debut album. Schiller told you so!

All work and no play make Alex something something....

No time to blog. I have a life. Or don't I? I'm not even sure anymore.
Here is the best music video in the world (and Mars).

Madder Red by Yeasayer from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.

Movie done. New tattoo. Mini vacation. Big night.

So. I've been sitting in the editing dungeon with Vincent for the last two months. And I didn't blög about anything because simply.....nothing happened worth telling. All I did was sit in front of the computer, edit, eat, sleep (rarely) and repeat.
But now "Don't Panic!" is finished and we're storing it in our safe until the world premiere on September 17th.

Stefan, Vincent, Simon and I have wanted to get matching tattoos for quite a while and now we finally did it. Vincent and Stefan are leaving for a 3 month trip to Asia soon so we decided to do it now or never. The day I finished the movie, Stefan and I headed to the tattoo parlor around the corner from my office and got ourselves a good old fashioned anchor. Simon and Vincent are next and we'll all be sporting the same ink. Thanks to the dudes at Surface Tattoo for making our awesome pieces.

The back of my upper arm.


Stefan under the needle.

Now I'm off to Hannover for 3 days to meet up with Lenas family. Never been up there before and I look forward to hanging out with a bunch of north Germans.

Remember to RSVP the world premiere Facebook event. It's gonna be off the sheezy....or something like that.

Peace