Grotli - First Day Of Shooting

We had our first day of shooting yesterday. We got about eight shots so I´m happy.

(Colin hucking a Switch Backside 9, Benny, Colin and Christophe scoping in the backcountry)

Weather has been confusing us so we have loads of spots built but just need Mr. Sun to come out so we can shoot them. But waiting for good weather gives us more time to eat. The food here at Hotel Grotli is incredible. Thanks Ap!

Bloodbuzz Ohio

Ok, while I´m at it:

The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio" (official video) from The National on Vimeo.

Grotli. Norway - The Homecoming Pt. 4

Damn, I´m really bad at this blogging thing. I kind of forget that I have it sometimes. Or maybe I realise that I actually have a life outside the internet. But then again I catch myself spending half the day on Facebook. Note for the future: Less Facebook, more blog.

Anyways, I went to Russia which was a pretty crazy experience. And I didn´t blog about it. But I was busy filming everything 24/7 with the amazing Canon 7D DLSR camera so I didn´t get any cool pictures to post anyway.

And now I´m in Grotli, Norway again for the 4th time in a row. We´ve been coming here since 2007 to film at our friend HC Bergheim's hotel. This place is in the middle of nowhere, miles away from any civilization. But his family has two snowmobiles and and an endless backcountry which we can access to build jump after jump after jump. The shoots in Grotli have been pretty much the most productive trips of the previous seasons. Hopefully it turns out good as well this year. I arrived yesterday at 5 AM after a 2 hour flight to Oslo and a 6 hour busride up here. Pretty intense since I was afraid my flight would get cancelled thanks to the volcano in Iceland. You know what else is intense? Camping.

I finally got to play around with my photo camera again which my parents gave me for X-mas a few years ago. It´s a Panasonic Lumix 3 and it´s super cool.


Maybe I´ll remember to post another blog on this trip.

Oh, and I just want to put it out there: The new album "High Violet" by The National is awesome and everybody should go out and buy it! Definitely the soundtrack of my trip.

What else? Hmm...check out my friend Howzee's blog, cause he does cool stuff.

London

Lena and I went London last weekend for a quick four day vacation. It was great fun but my feet still hurt from all the walking.
Now I'm off to Russia with the IsenSeven/Pleasure crew. It's weird...first two weeks of warm sunny California and now a week of powder and cold in the polar region of Kirovsk. Nastrovjė!














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IsenSeven - First Teaser for 2010

For those of you who haven´t seen it yet: Here is our new teaser.

Isenseven 2010 - Welcome Teaser from Vincent Urban on Vimeo.

Edited by Vincent Urban. Motion Graphics by moi! Filming by Alex, Tom Elliott, Vincent Urban, Richard Prendergast and Mikkael Norrman. Watched by YOU

So Cal and Bear Mountain

I´ve been in southern California for 5 days now and life is treating us pretty well. We spent two days in LA doing all the typical tourist crap. I, being used to the size of small town Munich, was quite overwhelmed by the size of this super city. We planned to see "everything" in LA in one day....we didn´t even manage to see half of it. This city is freakin´huge. It definitely was cool to see this place but I do prefer my lovely hometown.

Santa Monica Pier

Laguna Beach, OC

After two days in LA we went filming in Mountain High, about one hour north of the city. After being cramped in a crappy hotel on some random highway for 3 nights we continued east to Big Bear Lake were we moved in to our sweet new crib. This place is off the hook! For a change, I wasn´t in charge of organizing the whole trip so my colleagues from Pleasure magazine took care of all the important stuff. And the house they booked us for Bear Mountain is definitely one of the nicest I´ve had in my last 8 years of snowboard trips.

Our living room. Just one of the nice places in our temporary home. We have two hot tubs, a pool table, 4 bedrooms and a bunch of other fantabulous shindigs to keep us happy in the next two weeks.

We rode Bear Mountain today for the first time and I must say....this resort is unbelievable. Never have I seen a resort build so much in a park for snowboarders. I did follow runs all day without a break (Mom, Dad...."follow run" means that you follow the rider for an entire run through the park while filming and riding at the same time). I´ve never been so tired out after a day of filming but I´ve never had such a fun time filming my boys before. Every resort in the world should have a look at Bear Mountain to see what potential a snowboard park can have. This place is a snowboarders heaven.

Alex Tank pressing some nose in Bear Mountain on one of the 50 obstacles in the park(captured from one of my follow runs)

Right now it´s really the german invasion here at Big Bear Lake. We´re about twenty germans in the village. We´ve been barbequeing all night, drinking (crappy) american beer and playing pool. Life is pretty good right now.

I got burnt pretty bad in my face today even though I used a SPF 50 sunscreen so I´ll be going to bed soon to sleep on my red face. But tomorrow will be another fun day in the park.

So Cal #1

Laguna Beach sunset. I'm here in LA for two days, then heading out to Bear Mountain for a week or so. California ain't that bad. Especially when it's already mid march and it's still snowing like crazy back home. I could get used to this beach and sun stuff everyone's always talking about.


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