The new way!

This is amazing! Yeti Bicycles of Colorado, US, has reworked their website to something really exciting. This is the new way of doing product-related websites, where the potential customer can get a real feel of what the product (in this case bikes) has to offer. Super stylish, and informative! Thumbs up, Yeti!

Yeti Cycles

They're also awesome at posting webisodes from their WC-races, as well as small videos of their athletes. Below is short clip of Aron Gwin, US National Champion of 2009.



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Throwing punches...

Tired of the good old slow-motion fight-scenes, or seeing someone stomp a sw bs 10 at 50fps. What about office workers dating a fist, at 1000fps? Pretty cool!

slow motion punches from cody kern on Vimeo.

Ha en fortreffende helg!

Hey! Santa Cruz did it again! WC team-title!

Yep, the Santa Cruz team checked off this years team overall as well, repeating last years overall win. Last year they had Minaar on the top of the world cup podium, with a team overall. This year they have Peat on top of the World Champs podium, and a team overall. Congrats!

Schladming Austria 2009 World Cup Finals from santa cruz bikes on Vimeo.

Crave

Could someone please get me one of these?

















I really feel the need for a new camera, and what's better than having one that can shoot crisp and wonderful HD at 50fps at the same time? I know the 5D mkII might be hotter, but rumours has it that they're having troubles giving it 50fps. Anyone know the facts about this?

Lots of videos popping up on vimeo that are shot on the 7D and the 5D mkII. They all look so amazingly great... 35mm lenses shooting HD. Can't go wrong. That's for sure...

Perya (Town Fair) - a Canon 7D Short from Jason Magbanua on Vimeo.

I know "Perya" is a marketing movie, but look at the shots! Great depth of field.

Talking depth of field, have a look at this. Shot with the 5DmkII

Sofia's People: Canon 5dmk2 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

Chur

Hill is the King of the Hill

Once again, Sam Hill of Australia proved to the world that he is the ruler of slippery and steep terrain. With a blistering pace, he just won the final round of this years DH world cup. Also giving him the overall win! Great to see Hill back at the top, and super good to see the young Kiwi Sam Blenkinsop getting a podium on the last wc-race of the year.
What's also worth mentioning is that norwegian Anita Ager-Wick qualified 13. and put in a 10. place run today. 16 seconds behind the winner that is, so still a bit to go. But I think that might be the first time a norwegian DH-racer claims a top ten at a world cup race. Congrats Anita! You deserve some solid back up from a team!

Here's a vid. from yesterdays 4x and the DH practice



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It's soon going down!

The last round in this years DH and 4X world cup is soon going down!
Make sure you get to watch all the action!

Freecaster is streaming the event, in case your curious or imensely stoked on seeing this stuff.

Last world cup round, UCI DH WC

This weekend the last round of this years DH world cup is going down in Schladming, Austria! The track seems to be fast and rough, and it is guaranteed to create some exciting moments for both spectators and riders. It is super-even amongst the top-four riders, which means that they'll be going flat-out!

First video of the race-prep is out! Be sure you watch it. MTBcut delivering the stuff, that is:


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Do you wonder how the track looks like from a riders view?
Please welcome abord Ben Reids chest-cam. The Irish rider schreddin' down the steep gnarl that this hill has to offer.


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My calendar

Even though things are busy, most of the stuff going down is actually pretty fun.
Just handed in a script, and looking at this weeks schedule it is filled with meetings regarding shortfilm productions or workshops on everything from writing doco-scripts to directing actors. In between that I'm spending some hours in a bike-shop, getting some extra income. Oh, and on top of that it's student-tv! How's that for a week?

iLike shorts!

Thinking a lot about short films nowadays, as we're closing in on our script-deadline. What makes short films interesting is that they don't have to bear any obvious meaning to be good. Being creative, portray good cinematography, or just brilliant editing can be more than enough... The place for such films are all the various channels at vimeo.

Here's a random selection of three films I really like, which can be found at vimeo.

First one's super short, but really creative

Ecological apple (experimental short) from Andreas Soderberg on Vimeo.

Second out has some astonishing cinematography and editing, coming from one of my favourite snowboard-film production companies; Isenseven.

Isenseven - TIMES from ISENSEVEN on Vimeo.

Third is a little longer, and it's a romantic short stop-motion shot with a Canon 30D. Experimental and beutiful.

Notte Sento (English subtitles) from napdan on Vimeo.

Madly busy!

Things are going down, big-time. So much to do, and so little time. Luckily things will probably ease down a bit over the next couple of weeks...

One good thing is that the fall isn't all about hard work. It's also packed with quite a few movie premiers. It suits this time of the year well. First of all there's the incredible amount of awesome ski- and snowboard films, but there's also a couple of more summer-related releases.

A little bird just flew by and informed me of a film called "Who is J.O.B.". Pretty sick trailer... Don't wanna go surf now... No, not at all. Yeah right!

The old boys!

While I've been on a cabin-trip with Bergen Student-television, two important races went down this weekend. The latter one being a lot bigger than the first. It was all about crowning champions, with both the Norwegian and the World DH Champs being arranged. While the Norwegian riders fought on slippery and technical terrain in Oslo, the big international riders had to put both power and skills into it to claim the win at the rocky track at Mt. Stromlo in Canberra, Oz.

At the end of the day the young riders weren't cabable of outdoing the "old guns". Emil Carlson won in Oslo, once again proving why he is regarded as one of Norways most capable downhill mtb'ers. He was the man to beat at the end of the 90s, and he still is. He's an awesome mountainbiker, and a great inspiration to us younger riders. To read more, visit terrengsykkel.no.

On the other side of the globe, and a little before Emil claimed his crown, the man who's claimed most world cup wins finally got the long awaitet title as world champion. Steve Peat has been riding and racing world's since the mid-nineties, winning several world cup titles. But never a world championship. This time, it was finally his to claim.
For those who don't know who Steve Peat is, the best way to describe him would be as a downhill legend. He might be one of the main reasons why british riders are so good at DH, having supported and trained younger riders while he has still been focusing 110% on his own career as well. I think he might possibly be the most important downhill rider of all times.
If I could spend a day riding with one of the wc-contenders, Steve would be the one. So stoked for his win!

To read more about worlds and about Peaty's win, visit dirtmag.

Here is a video summary of the WC in Canberra made by DirtTV.


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And Peat's segment from Seasons



And yeah, this text certainly contained the word "claim" alot.

Almost there...

I don't quite know where to begin.

The past 3-4 weeks have been pretty hectic, yet really awesome. Meeting friends, riding my bike, and then finally getting back to Burgundy: Probably the best student-city in the world.
It's good to be back here, though I wish that Norway and New Zealand could just merge into one insanely great place! If Norway and NZ were to have a child, it would have been a true wonder-child.

Anyway. Big amounts of work seem to stack up, being everything from scriptwriting at my study, to budgetary work within Bergen Student-TV.

No adventures at the moment, but I'll soon post some photos from this summer.
Meanwhile, drop in at my good friend Lars' blog. Here you can read about his work and adventures in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Chur!