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Sunday Funday - Sasquatch 2012

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Trampled by Turtles, Little Dragon, Deer Tick, James Murphy, Bon Iver, Beirut, backstage dinner, beers, beers and more beers,  people watching, finger dips, awesome people, camping... perfect day.  Thank you Sasquatch!!

 

Sasquatch Saturday

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Day two of Sasquatch, woke to beautiful weather and ready for more festival.  Bryan Fox, Curtis Ciszek, Melissa and Austin Smith joined the crew.  Meet up with my Canadian people later in the day:  Mark Sollors, Rusty Ockenden, Matt Belzile, Jenna Romanin, Adam Grey, Clayton Larsen, Erica Tizzard, Michael Hannah, and friends.. Saw many more familiar faces in the crowd and rocked out. The days lineup highlights included Blitizen Trapper, Metric, the Shins, Wolfgang Gartner,  Jack White, the Roots and more.  Check out the line up and Venue here.

 

 

 

 

 

Sasquatch Friday - Evening Uno

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Sasquatch!!  Music is such an important part of my way of life. It will always be there for me, picks me up and keeps me smiling.  Friedrich Nietzsche puts it best: "Without music, life would be a mistake.”   It's unreal how it can bring people together, especially when shared live, and this year's Sasquatch was the perfect example.  So many great times, memories, new friends, great sounds and huge hangovers. I drove down from Vancouver with my girl Alexa Butt.  One boarder, and 6 hours in the truck to good time city: the Gorge Amphitheatre, in Washington.  It wasn't until the turn-off, off the highway that we really saw traffic.  Thank goodness 5 year Sasquatch veteran Mr. Jake Price himself, guided us to skip the 4 hour car jam lineup and slipped ourselves into the VIP camping area without any wait or fuss.   There, we were greeted by an awesome crew and fimilar faces:  Jake Price, Sam Hiltner, Alex Nawrocky, Cailtin Alexander, Howard Price, Macy Price, Danger Aeron, plus a few others..   We hit a couple vodkas, filled our pockets with beers, picked up our press passes and headed into the jungle (aka the venue) with huge smiles on our faces and a great weekend ahead of us.

The number one goal was to have a blast and enjoy music.  I brought my Canon SLR and my S95 point-and-shoot into the Amphitheatre everyday.  The idea was to capture some of the bands, but more importantly capture the people, the culture, the vibe.   Lucky for me, the Price family owns Honey Bucket (port-o-potties) so we had 'box seating' to keep my oversized backpack and I was able to ditch the bricks and participate in the festivities without pulling a muscle or being completely over hauling the gear around.

Santigold, Girl Talk and Pretty Lights were the highlights of the evening.  Back at the campsite we ate, drank some more (water duhhh), and cruised around following the music and people.  Nothing but great fucking times.

 

Single Fin - Bali

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Party times in Uluwatu, Bali.

The Bukit Peninsula is at the southern end of the island of Bali, Indonesia. It's traditionally considered to be all the area south of Jimbaran beach. Unlike the bulk of the rest of the island, it features a dry, arid and stoney landscape. Bukit means 'hill' in Indonesian, and when you’re hiking up the 500 plus stairs at Pyang-Pyang beach, you’ll know why it merited that name.  The area consists of many world-class surf breaks including Padang- Padang and Uluwatu.

Uluwatu, is beyond beautiful.  It’s an advanced surf spot with several reef breaks, and handful of restaurants and shops on the cliff that look over the breaks.  Even with a mediocre sunset, it's gorgeous.

Sunday nights have been going off here at one of the restaurants, Single Fin.  The last few weeks I've been here, a local band plays mostly reggae from sunset until 10ish, followed by DJ and Australian surfer Adam Bennetts, aka Adam &Eve (hope that's right).  Lots of Bintangs, sweaty dance floor, great music, and beautiful people.  Be sure to drop by if you’re ever in the area, it sure beats Kuta.

This was my Halloween, Bali style.

Standing Sideways - Burton Premier - Vancouver tonight

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Time
Today at 6:00pm - Tomorrow at 2:00am
Location
Ridge Theater

3113 Arbutus St.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Created By
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Join Jussi Oksanen, Jeremy Jones, Keegan Valaika, Ethan Deiss, Zak Hale, Mark Sollors, Mikey Welsh and Mark McMorris for the Vancouver Premiere of Burton's new movie, Standing Sideways. The autograph signing and movie premiere at Ridge Theater is an all ages free event. After party is 19+

Autograph Session & Movie Premiere at Ridge Theater Autograph Signing: 6-7pm Standing Sideways Premiere 7:15pm (doors at 7pm)

After Party at Metropole (320 Abbot Street) Party starts at 9pm and a second showing of Standing Sideways will start at 9pm.

Women in Boardsports Saas-Fee / 28th September – 2nd October

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Women in BoardsportsSaas-Fee / 28th  September – 2nd October By Carmela Fougsted (yesyes:)-Fleury / Les Ettes & Daniela Meyer / Popcorn

More girls and women than ever are interested in boardsports, but are boardsports companies and media currently living up to their potential to positively affect young girls and women? Or are they continuing to sell trivializing, minimizing and objectified images of women, albeit lightly powdered with "empowering" rhetoric? Using surfing as an example, we'll explore how advertising can impact females, especially young girls, and discuss the consequences of commodifying boardsports for women as "fashion" versus "a healthy and empowering activity." We'll look at the difference (if there is one) between how women and young girls are marketed and marketed to and we will also discuss sponsorship as a means to enculturate future generations. Finally, we'll break into small groups to brainstorm ideas on how to transform our respective sports then share these ideas with each other as a unified group before finishing.

Women in Boardsports welcomes this year the following speakers:

Deb Friedman- Action sports Global Brand manager from Nike 6.0 -she was the Global Director of Women's Marketing at Burton for 3 years -she is a great & inspiring public speaker http://business.transworld.net/16031/features/caught-on-tape-deb-friedman/ Anne-Flore Marxer -will be telling us about the changes she's been doing within the Women Freeride Worldtour

Jacqueline Fierle works for Nike in Switzerland -will be presenting the facts and statistics behind the female buying trends

Mimi Knoop- pro skateboarder- she does it all: Originally from the east coast, Mimi is a lifelong skateboarder and multi-media artist. With 5 X Games medals under her belt, Mimi is one of the top female vert/bowl skateboarders in the world. Lilian Muscutt- works for Xsportsister.com,

Kate Apanui- Martha Beck certified Life Coach Kate Apanui is a Martha Beck certified Life coach. She’s passionate about working with women who are ready to shine and step into their power in a way that creates magic and change in the world.  Her work is guided by the belief that when we bring our truth to the surface, we become deeply powerful. Kate is a New Zealander, currently living in France with her husband, daughter and bulldog. Kate will be talking about the power of non-verbal communication, true leadership, and looking at what nature has to teach us. Verbal language represents only about 10% of what we communicate - the rest is non-verbal. Kate will be demonstrating and talking about the how to’s of leading your own experience, by using the mind and body as a whole.

Cori Schumacher - an international, professional surfer from Cardiff, California. She refuses sponsorship in general, intentionally bucking a trend entrenched in her sport in order to have the freedom to speak her mind on issues considered anathema to speak out about in surfing. She has written various articles addressing these issues that have been published in The Inertia and The Guardian. Since 2009, she has been serving as a female longboard representative to the ASP and she can be found in such films as: The Road, Multiple Personalities, Sol Sirens and Ten Year's of Women's Longboarding. Cori supports organizations such as the Rell Sunn Education Fund, Women For Women International and Surf For Life, a non-profit organization that seeks to connect surfers and non-surfers alike with community service activities that will affect change at an international level. She is also an advocate for various issues including gender disparity, heterosexism and homophobia in sport. Anna-Maria Rugarli – sustainability VF - runs all sustainability/ corporate responsability related topics at VF corporation

Christine Waeber - bluesign technologies Along with her husband Peter, Christine Waeber was involved in setting up bluesign technologies. She is working amongst others as communication manager for bluesign since the foundation of the company in the year 2000. Studies in Economics in Switzerland and France. Furthermore studies and teaching in performing arts (dance/musical), physiological motion and fitness sports. Christine Waeber is actively involved in all forms of healthy living (nutrition, biota, clothing, sports activities, homeopathy etc.) since decades. Amongst other sports she is passionate snowboarder since more than 17 years. Sophie Friedel – Skateistan & Gorilla works with Skateistan. Skateistan, NGO in  Afghanistan- she is responsible for employing afghan and international staff, writing of contracts and regulations as well as payroll procedures and training of all staff. Also works with Gorilla Foundation, encouraging youth to think actively about global balance, connectedness,healthyeating and resource distribution.

Thank you for your interest... And if you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Daniela or Carmela, the organizers... daniela@popcorn.ch, Carmela Fleury <carmela@lesettes.com>

Dope Premier Whistler tonight at Garths

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, DOPE.tv, KING SNOW MAGAZINE, & GARFINKEL'S PRESENT THE PREMIER WHISTLER SCREENING OF:

D.O.P.E. II Trailer Teaser thing http://youtu.be/UWQndvCwWEU

Eh boarding video Starring: E-man Anderson-Alex Stathis-Kael HiLL-Tyler O'Grady-Layne Treeter & all our homies.

Supported by: STEPCHILD-NEFF-ASHBURY-32-

KINGSNOW-METHODMAG-ETNIES-LRG-GARFS-THE CIRCLE & of course FOOD PLUS.

**+KINGSNOW MAGAZINE ISSUE 3.2 RELEASE PARTY & AFTERPARTY w/BROCKLEBANK-EMAN &DJ ROB BAANKS

***ONE SHOW ONLY*** // DOORS 7:30PM // MOVIE STARTS 9PM // ADVANCED TICKETS $10@ THE CIRCLE & FOOD PLUS https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/316622_10150301920776510_628976509_8365168_1737344585_n.jpg

This Friday- All.I.CAN. World Premiere - Whistler, BC

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I would hate to be making a snow video this year. The bar has been set so high with all this new technology and heli budgets. Directors Dave Mossop and Eric Crosland and the Sherpas Cinema boys are one of those few crews raising the bar time and time again. Drama. The good kind.
There new video All.I.Can, is premiering this Friday in Whistler, at the Conference Center, with most of the athletes in attendance. Kye Petersen, Mark Abma, Eric Hjorleifson, JP Auclair, James Heim, Chris Rubens, Mike Douglas, Dana Flahr, Rory Bushfield, Ian McIntosh, Lynsey Dyer, Alexis Godbout, Matty Richard, Chad Sayers and more.
All.I.Can won the award for BEST DOCUMENTARY and MOST INNOVATIVE VISUAL FX at IF3 International Freeski Film Festival in Montreal.
Check out the teaser. Come check out the premiere and enjoy the ride.

Oh and come find me on the red carpet. I've somehow become 'that' photographer. Great way to meet people doing what I love. Thanks Malcolm for the job!

Photo Exhibit

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I'm having a photo exhibit in my home town, Calgary Alberta at the Elbow Park Community Center. Should be a blast.

Come share some drinks and good vibes on November 4th. Doors will be open from 6-11pm. All ages welcome, bring your parents, heck bring your dog. Well maybe not dogs but all humans are welcome.

Please be sure to bring a non perishable food item for the Food Bank to help those in need.

Thanks everyone for your support. RSVP on the facebook group if you can, here.

EVENT SPONSORS:

Molson Canadian, Red Bull and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly

About the Artist:

In our postmodern, image-driven milieu, even the most sensational scenes

can barely elicit a reaction. Yet, when the active elements of mystery and

humanity intersect, images can reach right out and touch us. It is with

passion and perception that Ashley Barker arrives at this intersection with

her photography. Formal training at the Western Academy Of Photography

and a grand sense of scale, born of her Alberta roots, inform her visual

perspective. An accomplished commercial artist at only 25, Barker's photos

are in demand with the world's foremost publishers of snowboarding, skiing

and action culture. She loves the mountains and works fervently to gain skill

and experience shooting in the alpine environment. And it is out there, far

from the manmade constructs of so-called civilization that her passion finds

expression.