This Week’s Kickstarters Worth Supporting

We’re calling it officailly acceptable in the snowboard community to use crowdsourcing to get your project made (It’s ART!) Well, that is if you can reach your goal. Many have tried, while others have failed miserably. But in a lot of ways it’s probably the best thing that could have happened to snowboard filmmaking – keeping the corporate sponsorhip bs at bay, while still having the funds to make a movie worth watching.  Plus, if it gets funded, there must be an audience.

Anyway, enough pontificating. We get hit up about kickstarters all the time and after much debate whether to ignore them all or only post the ones we like, we realized, the latter sounds way more fun.

So first kickstarter up is Brendon Hupp’s project End Search. Sean Genovese actually already caught up with Brendon for the straight dirt on the project and tells you why and what they need to make it happen on the DWD blog:

If you fancy yourself a DIY’er in the snowboard video world, you should take some influence from Brendon Hupp. Raised on the JB Deuce and early Think Thank style of filming with digital cameras in a time when most snowboard movies were still striving to use 16mm film; and impacted deeply by the first Kids Know and Video Grass projects, Brendon soon picked up a camera of his own and started filming his own, Bear Cubbin’, videos along with Mike Morgan in Anchorage Alaska.

Since those early videos, Brendon’s taken a hiatus from being in control of his own snowboard video projects in favour of filming for two Think Thank projects and the DWD Team Video, but has simultaneously been building an arsenal of VX1000 video cameras, shooting with point and shoot film cameras, and posting to his tumbler, turned website, MagicHourMoves.com. The kid is always on the grind… but it’s easy to say that Brendon has not put out the best video part you will see from him… this is because when the person organizing, filming, and editing a video project, is also trying to be in the project, often times their time in front of the camera is sacrificed for their devotion to the project as a whole and spent hitting record for whomever else might be trying to squeeze the last bit of daylight out of Geno-hour.

Last season Brendon decided to come out of his video creating retirement and begin a new project called End Search. Heading into it’s second year of filming, he’s aiming to avoid any sponsor pollution or unsaid sponsor obligations with this project by trying to raise the funds needed to finish it independently and by pre-selling copies and merchandise via http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/516705189/end-search.

While Hupp’s best video, and video part, is currently in the works, check out this short interview with him below, then link to the End Search kickstarter to learn more about the project and we’ll do our best to keep you up to date with Magic-Hour-Mondays dropping here and on MagicHourMoves.com all winter long. … oh yeah, and it was his Bday, yesterday!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/516705189/end-search #EndSearch #MagicHourMoves
#BrendonHupp #HacksawHupp

DWD blog Interview.

So yeah, we say, hook those boys up and they will guarantee a movie you will enjoy watching, which is what you’re after when you pay for a video, right? Plus, they’ll really enjoy getting out of Alaska in the winter when it’s just dark, all the time.

And for the girls, Outta the Kitchen is fixing to make all sorts of content through out the season, proving we snowboarders are all fun, fearless females and maybe inspiring some younger girls in the process! Sort of like the opposite of Too Hard. Given the history of girls crowd funding success though, we think they’ve got a pretty good shot at making some cool stuff happen.

Learn more here. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shred-betties-fundraiser-for-outta-the-kitchen

Now don’t think this is the lot of them. There are many other snowboard video projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Sadly some, like this one from the bang show went unfunded months ago. 🙁

Hell, we should all chip in a couple bucks and get them to their $666 goal cause that shit looks funny. Maybe Maxwell will put it back on line…

The moral of the story is, if the Internet is giving out free money in any form, you’d be stupid not to exploit this to get your passion project funded. Then it’s up to the people to decide if anyone even cares. Or your parents to donate your goal. Whatever.