And also happy day after Thanksgiving since I have no intention of working on Friday. Now enjoy a bit of Ralph Backstrom’s This is Valdez, a short video he shot on his GoPro while working with Teton Gravity Research on their film Dream Factory last year. Good? Good. Now go eat more turkey then pass out on the couch before all your friends leave.

Show up wearing this at the hill and you’ll find yourself more ridiculed than the guy in his hunting gear. Don it and tear down a moonless hillside and you get a pretty cool video. Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton filmed a guy wearing John Spatcher odd LED snowsuit. It makes for mesmerizing video, but I have to wonder, how the hell could the guy on the snowboard see anything? That bright suit must have blinded him so much that seeing anything farther than 5 feet from his face would have been impossible. Perhaps that’s why the trees sequence is so short.

Kick back and take a look at Travis Parker’s cut from the old snowboarding film named Lame. While you’re at it soak up some of the dulcet tunes of the late 1980′s and ponder how much better life used to be. Don’t worry, these styles/music will come back before too long. Thanks to Dogfunk for [ more... ]

Sweetgrass Productions will begin release of a new 12-part web series this March 21^st. On The Road with Solitaire is a ‘making of’ their first film in two years, Solitaire, a South American backcountry skiing adventure. It looks like it will match the soulful style of their last release, Signatures. A 12-part teaser for your new film? No wonder it took 2 years to make.

I wonder if those things are warm. I’ve also often wondered why no one bothered wearing a sumo suit at the ski hill before…I guess getting on chairlifts would be tough.

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I don’t normally have a fondness for videos featuring urban rails and gaps, but Dylan Thompson’s edits and bold riding are worth watching. His video The Arena is also for sale on iTunes. Check out the end of his promo for a bit of Alta that’s never open to anyone.

Thanks Ryan

The camerawork is a bit choppy, but yeah, those are snowboards. A few locals in Utah snowboarding Alta. When? Pretty sure it was on Halloween, but definitely before the resort opened.

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Let’s go back and take a look at that footage. Really workshop a few things in the pipe today.

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