Da Pierre Blog

Ken is going to the WRC.

2010-01-06T07:28:00.000-08:00

He´ll be the first American to race in the WRC and since Subaru aren´t involved with the WRC anymore he´ll be driving a Ford.

Read press release and other things here:
http://www.monsterworldrallyteam.com

New 2009 highlight clip with Ken Block

2010-01-04T09:10:00.000-08:00

I´ve made some highlight clips (2006 and 2007 among others) for Ken before and enjoyed it as well as shooting some of his driving. He´s opened up a lot of doors/eyes for rally in America. Mostly through his viral videos. Using a skate/snow marketing in an industry who wouldn´t know what Facebook is if it hit them in face hasn´t hurt his reputation. Some still argue that he´s not a good driver compared to the WRC people and yes sure Solberg might be a better rally driver but Ken has never claimed to be better than him.
If you know that WRC use a completely different race technique (with recce) compared to the American rally circuit you´d know better than comparing the two. And since Ken has friends / staff in the video / photo / video department and thinks along lines the other rally people don´t he´s created a great outlet for his ideas, online videos.. How you can hate on someone who drifts his car around an airport ate call him a bad driver caise the video is editing I have no idea. I do know that a lot of people are morons, and I guess that´s the answer.

Anywho.. here´s Ken´s 2009 highlights. Made by Josh Martelli at Mad Media, enjoy.

If you haven´t seen Ken on Top Gear, check it out here:

I watched this documentary the other day.

2010-01-03T16:46:00.000-08:00

It´s about 9/11 and it was pretty damn good.

If you have any interest in knowing how complicated and corrupt that terrorist attack was you should watch this.
If you don´t care then move along to Facebook.

Unfortunately I could only find it in 12 parts on Youtube. Here´s the first one.
The events of 9/11 were tragic, but the aftermath even more tragic. It´s really mindblowing how a government can get away with such poor governing. It´s so sad.

If you don´t want to educate yourself by watching the whole (110-120 min) documentary. Here´s a short trailer:

More about the director and the Loose Change film series, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_Change_(film)

Travis jumped a car 270 feet.

2010-01-01T18:14:00.000-08:00

Ken had somewhat of a record with his jump that was 100 feet shorter. Ken did it for a Discovery Channel show called Stunt Junkies (hosted by some major tools).

I could go shoot Ken´s jump due to Discovery Channel but he handed me a little dv tape with a bro cam angle and short interview. I uploaded the clip and it had 1 million views in no time. Now it has almost 15 million + a few million on other uploads.. Youtube power.

Here´s Travis´jump:

I know Ken had plans on doing some bag ass jumps, we´ve tried a few times but been turned town by weather etc. I´m sure he´ll beat Travis´ soon.

Some things that can make 2010 a better year.

2009-12-31T06:11:00.000-08:00

More of this:

And less of this:

Saw Avatar.

2009-12-30T17:00:00.000-08:00

In case you don´t know what I´m talking about here´s the trailer:

I liked it. I didn´t know what to expect. If they would have toned down the Hollywood stuff like last sec explosions and stuff it would have gotten 8/10. But a solid 7/10, fo sho. I wouldn´t want to watch it in VLC though.

The story was good. The effects were too much.

I suspect the US Army aren´t too thrilled over the portrayal of soldiers in the movie, but I don´t feel it´s exaggerated to say that if you recruited money hungry American soldiers this could be what you end up with. Easy to manipulate and little free will.

The natives on the other hand are more like free spirited surfers, kind of.

For another great fairy tale, here´s a 5 min clip on how Family Guy tackles the Bible fairy tale:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/16253

Todd turned 40.

2009-12-29T18:45:00.000-08:00

The infamous Todd Brandt Richards turned 40 yesterday.

He´s been ripping the board of snow for a living since the mid 80´s and he´s an inspiration for still being an active shredder and not being old at heart.

Hope you had a great birthday at the Pannakin.

Here´s some words by Todd:
http://www.yobeat.com/2009/03/11/hump-day-with-todd-richards

Clip from Riksgränsen.

2009-12-26T17:16:00.000-08:00

Riksgränsen is about 5 hours north of where I grew up and I´ve been there almost every year since 1994 when the legendary 55DSL contest happened.

Here´s a sweet clip from the Pirates film collective. Enjoy.

http://www.pirate-movie-production.com/podcast

Short interview with Greg Hunt.

2009-12-26T16:59:00.000-08:00

This is probably the most painful clip I´ve ever seen.

2009-12-26T16:28:00.001-08:00

This could´ve been a segment in a DC movie.

2009-12-24T05:55:00.000-08:00

I thought about doing a teaser or intro to a DC movie to this song.
Imagine Iikka cutting down the tree, Lauri making egg nog, Devun decorating and Biittner cooking food at the Mtn Lab.. in custom ugly sweaters by DC (,aybe even a limited run!)

But that didn´t happen and will probably never happen. But the idea still lives on in my imagination.

We could also host a Sundance Film Festival party there.. with similar theme.. oh well..

The original is pretty sick though, enjoy:

22 min with Noah Salasnek.

2009-12-22T09:05:00.000-08:00

This is insane. Great snowboard history!!

New Ken Block clip.

2009-12-21T15:36:00.000-08:00

Well it´s a remix of the original Gymkhana 2 video.

Ken gave the footage to some dudes who get very weird in After Effects. Here´s 5 minutes of remixed Gymkhana clips:

The new privacy settings on Facebook can have serious consequences.

2009-12-21T14:20:00.001-08:00

You might want to go over them..

Torsteins run from the Dew Tour yesterday.

2009-12-21T14:10:00.000-08:00

He got like 5th or something yesterday with this run. It was a little sketchier but he had to go last and the light was horrible by then.
I´m not a fan of contests, especially when the fucking commentators can´t call the tricks. It´s so embarrassing, stupid tools.

But here´s what Torstein can do in a run:

And yes, Chas is pretty competitive.

Please watch this 3.5 min short film.

2009-12-20T16:27:00.000-08:00

I saw this last year at the Gothenburg film festival and had read about it but didn´t know what to expect.

Now everyone can see it.

3.5 min of good filmmaking, involving skateboarding, church, slow mo and 35mm film. Not lame.

There´s no embedding option so here´s the link:
http://svtplay.se/v/1819947/kortfilm_i_svt/en_skateboardakares_dagdrom

You can watch a behind the scenes video here:
http://www.transition.se/news.aspx?id=5060

New creative 30 sec clip from DVS.

2009-12-20T13:51:00.000-08:00

Check it out here:
http://www.dvsshoes.com/skateandcreate/commercial.html

Boaring with Bjorn, Marius, Dirksen and co.

2009-12-18T01:32:00.000-08:00

A backcountry hut, guns, booze and a dozen dudes. Goes like this:

Cops, piles of shit. Especially American ones.

2009-12-17T14:33:00.000-08:00

Portland skaters get beaten by cops:

Seattle cops beat down a teenage girl. Fuck cops. I hope they grind their teeth of until they hit the gums.

This is nice.

2009-12-16T06:01:00.001-08:00

Projection on Buildings from NuFormer Digital Media on Vimeo.

My new gig in front of the camera.

2009-12-15T15:42:00.000-08:00

Makia is a clothing brand from Finland. One of the founders is Joni Malmi who´s one of the first pro´s I started filming with.

The Makia creative dude Totti took photographer Kimmo with him and then they travelled around the world in 28 days and shot over 30 people ( I think) wearing Makia stuff for their upcoming catalogue. Why? Probably because they love hassling with over weight bags and sleep in coach seats on smelly planes, or maybe not.

Photo by Kimmo Syväri.

So they chose me to be one of the models. As usual I was having a bad hair day, but who cares?

Here´s a sneak peek of some of the clothing / people.
http://www.transition.se/news.aspx?id=5031

Check out Makia´s stuff here:
http://www.makiaclothing.com

New snow season at VBS.

2009-12-15T14:25:00.000-08:00

Here´s the first clip of this seasons "Powder & Rails".

It´s a 30 min documentary about / with Shawn Farmer. I really liked it.

Here´s a lo fi version of the Carroll clip.

2009-12-14T05:11:00.000-08:00

Like I mentioned earlier I´d been thinking about doing something like Carroll´s clip for a while, but might never do now.

Here´s a very lo fi version of one of the two shots I had in mind.

Found a clip I made on Youtube.

2009-12-13T04:45:00.000-08:00

Well not really. I made the clip for DC´s Mtn Lab movie in 2005 and I haven´t seen any clips from that movie with more than 100.000 views or something.
But this clip, which someone raped and put horrible (unless you are a Volcom stoner) jazz tunes to has 730.00 views. Incredible.
Kind of funny how at least 730.000 people have seen this clip, but only about 200.000 has seen the original version ( including 100.000 Youtube views).

Why change the song? Why put it the effort? And why this it have 730.000 views? 73 views would make more sense.
I read the comments and people like it..

Gees, no wonder I´m unemployed. I obviously don´t know what´s good anymore.... kidding, I do.

People are such morons.
What´s up with every other comment on clips on Youtube being "What´s the song?"
Fucking morons, in 90% of the cases it´s spelled out at the start or the end of the clip. The other 10% of the time it´s in the description. Fuck people, grow a fucking brain.
And I worry about changing an edit to another song until I get an ulcer.. then I spend 20 hours re-editing and always feel like I raped the original version. And then this dude completely lays down a new tune on it in 10 sec and people love it?!

And to the hundreds of thousands who think the dude who uploaded this clip made it, are you that stupid? I guess so.. I can´t wait for the lizards from V to come and eat this sorry excuse for a species. As long as they eat the stupid ones first. Then the ones who doesn´t believe us humans are an evolving species. Then they can eat me.

Here´s the original version, for those of you who care (not my upload):

So why do I care? I just have very little faith in humanity and people on Youtube. It´s scary.
Am I bitter? Not really. Just sucks to see something you made get raped. Since people still like the raped version it makes me think why me, the riders, the brands and the musicians involved in creating the original piece even bother.

Here are some of the 600 comments:

mellowest fucking music ever...fits perfictally to the vid!

the song fits teh video perfectly

the best video with the best musi i have ever seen. man it makes me so relaksed.

sick video and the music was pretty tight to go along with this video, didn't mind it. It was actually pretty good music..sweet video

fuckin sick. Its gonna be a kick ass season. too fuckin stoked. I'm watchin this shit all day every day

did u guys learn those tricks by yourself???? or did u take leasons???

love the music

sweet video AND sweet music

sick song so chill

Awesome jumps and flips!!!

yo wats the name of the song?!?

this video with its music represents what snowboarding is about - just one of the best videos on youtube !!!! AWESOME !!!!

awesome! great music, much respect dudes

whats the song called?

What kind of boards are they all riding?

Nice video. Great song.

this video is great!
where can i download this song? :$ :)

im so sad i cant find the sone on itunes :(

by far the best freestyle snowboarding video on youtube.

Great job off the video guys i really like it :)

hey whats the name of the song ? And where was the video made ?

whats the name of the music track used in this video?

Awesome...looks soooo difficult to do....so cool. I just wish somebody would give the name of the tune!!!!!!!!!!!!!

exellent music made by japanees trip hop master ! if you need music for your video you can checks on my label

Whats the name of the song under the video?

This.. Is one of the best videos I've ever watched!

one of the dopest snowboard vids i ever saw!!! incredible riders, fuckin stylish tricks, cool musik!!!!

amazing video!
and how is the song caled?

great video and perfect music!

OMG.
Im a skier but i have to say this is one sweet video. The music makes it so good and some of the photography ooooooooo Fiiinnnneee.

what is this song called ? ( : so dope !

Great Video! Getting me pumped for winter and the music is perfect.

this video is sick, I like how it has backcountry, park, and crazy ass random freestyle tricks that mesh super good with the mellow music. sick video

SIIIIIIICK video, can anyone tell me the song please??

awsome!!!
Could anyone tell me the name of the song plese:)

this song is F-R-E-S-H

hey, what song artist is this?

wicked video and really sweet music.
what music is this???

what mt is this? it loooks familiar

Great vid!
well chosen song!

travis parker??? thought it was barker

great vid, love the track too.

one the best 5 minutes i spend on youtube
amazing

the music is sick dude, up the culture level, Vid is one of the best. Front flip at beginning was perfect

Guys these guys are epik, so really I love rock to man but it was actually pretty cool what they did with the music, props to them.

nice track, who is it by?.... bit like bonobo!

whati is this song ????

For anybody who's interested, I'm making a video this year. Might not turn out as good as this one though. Anybody who wants to see themselves in a video can send one in.

Love the video, love their skills, love the music... Id give ten stars if I could!

what song is this, its actually really good =P

really good. what is the name of song..?!

whats the name of the song please ?!

What's the song's name??

were is that filmed

The Music couldn't Be better!
Nice Choice!
Nice Jazz!!!!

who is artist of these song ?

really nice video and awsome music, relaxing too travis parker is the man!

Just watched the last part in the Max Schaaf VBS series.

2009-12-13T01:39:00.000-08:00

It was a really good series.

Here´s the 4th and last part. But feel free to check out the first three too.

I love VBS.