Brooke Geery

Media

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More

Blog Wars!

I have recently found myself engaged in a blog battle with photographer Bryan Soderlind. It all started because of a review I wrote about the highly-anticipated wakeskate video Fun Boots! In an attempt to spice things up, I opted to take the angle of how I made my boyfriend wait for action while I watched it, in order to illustrate how excited I was to see this movie. Bear, as he's known in the biz, decided to take my moment of vulnerability and run with it, posting this blog on his site. If you don't want to read, basically he said that I shouldn't ruin the mystique of lusting after…
Read More

Remember the radio?

Lately I have been listening to a lot of talk radio. Portland has an awesome AM station that boardcasts Air America and other liberal and awesome shows. As it turns out, it's more interesting than the 6 gigs of music on my iPod. So that, combined with the fact I have been really opinionated lately, prompted me to say yes when I was invited to be on the radio myself. Cyrus has actually been trying to get me to come on the Extreme Scene in SF for awhile, and Saturday night, it finally happened. If you want to listen to what I had to say, you can do so here.…
Read More

In A Perfect World…

It's sort of entertaining to me that every time I write a post urging freelancers to get paid for their writing or photography, it gets people riled up. There was the 6 page hate thread on the message boards, and the latest post about it indirectly encouraged much discussion on other blogs after some personal interaction between the mags and the contributors (weird, right?) So why is getting paid for services rendered such a hot button issue these days? Well, I figure it has to be that society doesn't see value in writing or shooting action sports. These jobs are so great, we should be begging to do them for…
Read More

The End of Print, Not the End of Quality

I have been trying to get an interview done for alliancewakeskate.com for awhile now. Unfortunately, the person I am having one of my writers interview, was born before the 80's and doesn't seem to understand the concept of web. He just keeps asking "will it go in the magazine" instead of just answering the questions for a site that is checked by pretty much every wakeskater in the world, and will be seen by more eyes, and by more people who actually care, at that. Wakeskating is it's own animal, it's small, no-budget, etc etc. But my employer and I are investing all we can into producing quality content for…
Read More

Blogging is Ruining my Life

Not only is blog the worst, and most ridiculous word in the English language (yep, it's acceptable in Scrabble), but I am obsessed. Like, more obsessed than I am with online scrabble (and as I've already made one reference in this post, you can see that's a lot.) Friday I went up to Mt. Hood with no intention of journalising in any way. I didn't even bring my camera. I was going to just ride for fun, because it's the holidays, and I don't feel like anyone who is paying cares about homey shred sessions. As it turned out, Friday was pretty much the best conditions I've ever ridden at…
Read More

In the future, we will all be famous to 15 people

The Internet is fucked. I’ve just decided that it’s a lost cause. Of course the problem is pretty soon it will be all that’s left in media, so if any writers, photographers or filmers hope to have jobs in the future, it’s time to have some standards. As the purveyor of multiple low-to-no budget boutique websites, I hate to say this, but stop giving your content away! This weekend I had a videographer send me a video for possible publication on AWS. I checked it out and emailed him back saying I would love to use it and would like to get additional assets to make it really strong. Of…
Read More

Blogging the shit out of things

I've taken to saying "I am going to blog this shit out of this" no matter what I am doing, because for some reason I now have like 15 blogs on different subjects going. There's this one, of course, and then Alliancewakeskate.com, Futuresnowboarding.com and Yobeat (which let's be honest, probably isn't getting updated anytime soon.) All this blogging makes me tired, although I do enjoy that I get to tell everyone my thoughts and sometimes I get paid for it. I just posted my first snowboard-related story in a few weeks on Future. Actually, yesterday I took Jared riding for the first time this season. The snow was sticky and…
Read More