Posts Tagged: video

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11
Oct 11

Mountain Spirit

Ear­lier this year I had the amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity to visit Peru to explore a story about moun­tain guides. How­ever, when I arrived there and started work­ing on it, I real­ized there was an even deeper story.

Being in the Andes reminded me about what I love the moun­tains. The Andes are mag­nif­i­cent, not only in their beauty, but also in the peo­ple that live & work there. I was inspired not only by the com­pany of our group but sim­ply by the energy that exists there. In the moun­tains, daily tasks are ori­ented toward food, shel­ter, sleep, and com­mu­nity. There is more space to reflect & appre­ci­ate. It is in that space, change can happen.

When I asked Julio why he was guid­ing, he talked about a change he saw in peo­ple after vis­it­ing the Andes and I instantly under­stood. Being a guide myself, I’ve seen it as well. It is one of the most amaz­ing expe­ri­ences to be a part of. I was intrigued how this drew him into guid­ing. The story that unfolded was of fam­ily, strug­gle, and inspi­ra­tion. I found it a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to con­vey in a 5 minute spot, but you can watch it here.

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climbing / film making — 1 Comment
10
Sep 11

Courtney Sanders & the Summer Backlog

Sum­mer is wind­ing down and I’m back spend­ing hours behind the desk catch­ing up on all the back log. Man, what a great sum­mer! I’ve been on a project tour of Vir­ginia, Wash­ing­ton DC, Aspen,Co, Boul­der, CO, Peru, and of course some climb­ing in between. I’ve met some incred­i­ble peo­ple, been inspired by their tal­ents, and stories.

One lucky oppor­tu­nity this sum­mer was work­ing with pro climbers Court­ney Sanders and Daniel Woods at Domin­ion River Rock ear­lier this year. I was doing my first film project and did a short on Court­ney. After only climb­ing for about 6 months, Court­ney met Daniel Woods and was imme­di­ately thrust into the pro­fes­sional climb­ing world. Can you imag­ine? Six months in, I don’t think I even knew what half the climb­ing terms were! The sim­plest prob­lem seemed so impos­si­ble, even when some­one showed me the moves.

This story intrigued me.

I recently pub­lished the short on Vimeo and shared it with Court­ney. I was com­pletely ner­vous that she might not like it.… But for­tu­nately she not only loved it, she shared it on her blog. I was so very hon­ored by that!

This being my first short doc­u­men­tary piece, I was a bit shy to post it. There is so much of the story yet to be told, so it feels a bit unfin­ished & rough. But, I’m try­ing to let that go and embrace the learning/adventure that is film mak­ing. :D

Either way, Court­ney & Daniel are amaz­ingly tal­ented climbers and gen­uinely sweet peo­ple. Court­ney has been able to accom­plish in a few short years what many top climbers have spent a good por­tion of their life on. So, please check it out and let me know what you think!

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13
Apr 11

Hello Spring, is that you?

Wow, happy Spring every­one! April already? I can’t believe it.

This win­ter I worked on so many side projects, I barely had time to write. Nonethe­less, I’ve been work­ing on some very fun things!
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11
Feb 11

Lake Placid Ice Climbing

Just back from some ice climb­ing near Lake Placid in the ADK. The ice there is thick with short approaches from the road. It was magic on ice!

I haven’t had a chance to edit all the footage from the trip, but quickly put together this lit­tle iMovie trailer for Brian and Josh. If you like it, please sub­scribe, rate & com­ment! More to come!

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15
Jan 11

Ouray Ice Festival 2011 Videos

Just posted up some videos from the Ouray Ice Fes­ti­val! Both were cut with iMove ’11 as an excuse to play with it. Pretty cool app. Though Win­dows Live Move Maker has many com­pet­i­tive fea­tures, the trailer tem­plates are so cool. Here’s a quick trailer I made from our footage:

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2
Dec 10

Worst Date Ever

Recently Tom Antos shared his lat­est pro­duc­tion for a Cana­dian com­edy group called Noc­tour­nal Emis­sions. Hilar­i­ous!

Oh, inter­net. What would I do with­out you? :)

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23
Nov 10

Rescue on Valhalla Treverse

Win­ter is here! Seat­tle was blan­keted today in it’s first snow of the sea­son. I’m dream­ing about ice climb­ing and can’t wait to get out there.

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28
Sep 10

Personal Anchors: A Closer Look


One of the con­tin­u­ing top­ics I see come up in climb­ing classes is the use of per­sonal anchors: should you use them, what you should use, what is com­mon prac­tice. This is an age-old debate which I can­not do jus­tice describ­ing in a blog post. There are entire books and papers writ­ten on each topic, and depend­ing on how deep you want to go, you can spend all your days buried in sci­en­tific data.

Most of us just want to know how to be safe and get out­side! So, let’s dis­cuss some areas which are inter­est­ing to con­sider when look­ing at these safety sys­tems. From here, you can start to think crit­i­cally about the dif­fer­ent options and dig deeper as you wish. 

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27
Sep 10

First Ascent: The Series

Out­side Mag­a­zine posted a review of Sender Films First Ascent series. It looks really cool! The series will also be avail­able as a HD down­load, which is what I’m hop­ing to get in on.

Have you ever noticed a lot of out­door adven­ture film mak­ers are from Col­orado? Hmm.…

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24
Sep 10

Microsoft Tag rocks!

Uh… I’m a lit­tle late to the party, but I just dis­cov­ered Microsoft tag… Whaaat?! This is so cool! Have I been liv­ing in a cave? I’m not sure how I missed this!

See vid below for overview. Check out tag.microsoft.com and head over to their blog for more info on how peo­ple are using tag­ging. My head is spin­ning with possibilities…

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