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Rocky Mountain Sherpas — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:01:40 -0500

40hr Inukshuk timelapse

Rocky Mountain Sherpas — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:57:29 -0500

Summit whistler mountain. Hung out for 2 days. Epic weather and light. -20. So happy this worked out. Hope you enjoy too.

rockymountainsherpas.com

Cast: Rocky Mountain Sherpas

Simon Garstin and Max Horner

jason steele — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:26:28 -0500

They need to slow themselves down.

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jason steele — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:25:44 -0500

bikes in places

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Cumberland and North Van

Derek Tryon — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:24:50 -0500

Me riding some local trails and the Shore

Cast: Derek Tryon

BC Bike Race Stage 2: Helmet Cam Singletrack Samplings by Geoff Kabush

Geoff Kabush — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:18:59 -0500

Thanks to the people at BC Bike Race I was allowed to poach a couple stages of awesome singletrack in my old stomping grounds on Vancouver Island. Stage 2 started in Nanaimo at the BC Ferries terminal and followed an epic 70km route through local selections of singletrack ending up in Parksville. Still need to work on my helmet cam angle but this gives you a good taste of what to expect if you are thinking about doing the race. I highly recommend it.

Cast: Geoff Kabush

BC Bike Race Stage 3: Helmet Cam Singletrack Samplings by Geoff Kabush

Geoff Kabush — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:14:31 -0500

Thanks to the people at BC Bike Race I was allowed to poach a couple stages of awesome singletrack in my old stomping grounds on Vancouver Island. Stage 3 was around Cumberland where I started riding back in the day. Easy to see how I got hooked on mtbing with the wealth of trails in the area. Still need to work on my helmet cam angle but this gives you a good taste of what to expect if you are thinking about doing the race. I highly recommend it.

Cast: Geoff Kabush

Menzies Mtn, BC mtb ride

Cyclops — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:11:48 -0500

A fun evening ride introducing a new technical trail on Menzies Mountain north of Campbell River, BC.
Spectacular views, subalpine ponds and the "spiral plunge."

Cast: Cyclops

Hornby Island, BC mtb ride

Cyclops — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:11:38 -0500

Climb and descend as many times as your legs will allow. 'Bugs in your teeth' kind of fun from grinning all the way down. Hornby offers many fast swoopy singletrack trails and is off Vancouver Island BC.

Cast: Cyclops

Gold River, BC mtb ride

Cyclops — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:11:22 -0500

Tall trees, lush mountain trails and slippery bridges on Vancouver Island. Check out my lame log ride bail at the end, intimidated by the massive gap jump way up above my head!

Cast: Cyclops

Cumberland BC mtb ride

Cyclops — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:29 -0500

A quick rip through some excellent trails on Vancouver Island. Mostly helmet cam.

Cast: Cyclops

Afternoon Dump Riding

Ken Perras — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:52:42 -0500

Cast: Ken Perras

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Ken Perras — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:51:50 -0500

Cast: Ken Perras

LBL-004_GHOST_AN

Mark Benard — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:57:49 -0400

Just in time for Halloween, the third project at Lost Boys Learning is the popular Ghost project. In order to create a ghostly apparition that is subtle and believable, students worked entirely within our compositing software NUKE, as well as shooting individual live action background plates, black-screen character plates in our studio and a group cloud-tank elements shoot. Blending together the three live action plates, the students strive to create volume and cohesion between the different 2D elements – and a scary ghost.

Creating abstract, amorphous VFX can be a very challenging experience. Unlike recreating practical or physical objects the students design a look that requires subtlety and creative vision. In a real production experience, the client or supervisor will have difficulty explaining exactly what they are looking for, so it is up to the artist to analyze all their references and design a look that can be effectively sold to the client. The artist might hear “that's not quite what I'm looking for...but I'll know when I see it” or ”more oily-smoky, brighter but more subtle, etc.".

The Ghost project is designed to demonstrate the power of leveraging practical elements (physical effects filmed in studio) to achieve very organic looking effects in a short period of time. In our studio, we shot a variety of substances on our high definition video camera including fluorescent ink, egg whites, cream and sparkles in our "cloud-tank" - a repurposed fish tank set up with a black light.

Our students have four weeks from start to finish, including finding relevant film reference, designing their idea and scouting locations. This year, we shot in the village of Cumberland, including the museum mine shaft display, the Japanese cemetary and an abandoned mine; and at the old dairy ruins in Merville.

Lost Boys Learning is located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island - a community with a huge variety of accessible, free locations, including urban, rural, seaside, old-growth forest, ruins and mountains. For this shoot, we used guerrilla-style filming with our portable generator, fog machine, lighting kit and occasionally a bit of fire starter in hand.

"I spent a lot of time shooting for this project because I'm interested in making movies. My story is one of an explorer who finds the abandoned "1913" building, a former research facility. He discovers an old movie camera, which triggers a "flashback" sequence, showing a scary surgical experiment that happened a long time ago on that site. The flashback reveals the true story to the explorer just before the ghost of the surgeon attempts to kill him. We filmed all of the flashback sequence in studio with costumes and props, including a juicy raw steak. The most difficult thing was making fog and matching it with the ghost." - JongJun An

Cast: Mark Benard

Rumblefest DH - Port Alice

chris sykes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:55:13 -0400

Sunday practice run down the Rumblefest dh course. Located in Port Alice, BC.

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Cast: chris sykes

Port Alberni DH

chris sykes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:58 -0400

Thursday night practice run with Woodsy.

Cast: chris sykes

Lumpys

chris sykes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:39 -0400

Gap to Stepup-Drop

Cast: chris sykes

Rudys

chris sykes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:25 -0400

Rudys on Forbidden Plateau. Bruce and Jamie to follow at the end.

Cast: chris sykes

Screamin Demon

chris sykes — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:13 -0400

Screamin Demon. Bruce, Jamie and Steve Followed.

Cast: chris sykes

Campbell River, BC mtb trails

Cyclops — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:30:41 -0400

A quick view of Campbell River's XC/AM mtb trails. Those 'in the know' call these Vancouver Island's hidden gem. Snowden Forest, with about 80K of trails is the largest of several trail systems in the area.

As a bonus, pro trials rider Aran iolo Cook puts on a show at the end of the video.

Cast: Cyclops

Thunder Mountain, Red Canyon, Utah

Lee Lau — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:32:41 -0400

Both Sharon and I agreed this was one of those very very rare trails in the category of "Trails you must ride before you die". Rare intangible combination of superlative downhills, views and stoke.

Its just W of its more famous red sandstone hoodoo cousin, Bryce Canyon

Cast: Lee Lau

Boulder Bike Story

Bikes Belong — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:26:31 -0400

This is the story of how any town can become bike friendly.

Cast: Bikes Belong, Mat Barlow