Brooke Geery

Snow

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
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Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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

Writing vs Editing

I have been trying to write this post for awhile now. Originally my angle was going to be if I thought I was a better writer or an editor, because it's very rare that someone is good at both. However, I decided that there was no way to write that honestly without sounding cocky while simultaneously writing an appropriate blog for my professional site that would not dissuade people from hiring me. So I've instead decided to instead to just talk about doing both and which I like more. Although I have been "the editor" of YoBeat since it started, the first 10-12 years included very little actual editing. But…
Read More

My, What a Busy Week!

Check out my full gallery of photos of this kid here. Today is culminating one of those weeks I feel like I've really outdone myself. In large part it is probably because I was out of town all last week so there was a good deal of catching up to be done.  It seems like I've been churning out an especially large amount of content, and what better way to create more content with it than to reblog it all! But when I actually sat down to find the stuff I've done this week, it turns out I'd only written two stories on YoBeat (the Art of the Board Hold…
Read More

Writing is Dead

Yesterday I was informed that writing was a dying art and I'd better learn Final Cut if I wanted to still have a job. That statement was followed up by, "Seriously, in 2010 they are going to stop teaching kids to read in school!" The latter may be a bit of an overstatement (considering that's 8 months away,) but there is definitely some truth to the fact that video is more powerful than writing on the Internet. I spent the day messing with Final Cut and ended up with enough knowledge to make a video look at least as good as I can with iMovie. Mostly though, I have twitter…
Read More

The History of YoBeat

One of my main professional projects is YoBeat.com. Just saying that sounds weird, given that I've been "doing" YoBeat since I was 15 years old, but these days, it is actually a large part of my day-to-day exsitence. I can't complain. It's amazing to have a project that I have full creative control over, people seem to like, and even makes me a (very) little bit of money. But the strangest part about concentrating on YoBeat is that students and aspiring extreme journalists have taken notice. I've done a few online interviews about it. There was the one on (apparently now defunct) Diablo Snow, before the actual relaunch. And then…
Read More

Chickens and Boardin

I love digital photography. Preston Strout recently told me I was the first person he ever saw with a digital camera, so it's not like this is a new thing for me, but now I can't even imagine shooting any other way. My four or so film cameras haven't so much as been picked up in years. But there's one thing that I still haven't really mastered with digital, and that's filing them in a way that I can easily find old photos when I need to. Ok, I have a lot more things to master than that, but I really suck at organiziation. Which brings me to the title…
Read More

Extra Funny Day

I have some days where I just can't put together a punchline. Today is not one of those days. I am doing a really amazing job at making fun of stuff and stealing funny jokes from others for my own benefit. Here's a quick run down. I received a Grenade Games press release this morning. Now I am not just going to post an ad for Monster and Grenade without some subtle shit talk. I killed it. A little bird forwarded me what may or may not be an inter office joke at Burton. It was funny, so I ran with it. I mean, my sense of humor doesn't lie,…
Read More

East Coast Super Post

I am officially home from a week on the East Coast, and I have returned on east coast time with whooping cough, but I am not mad. It was one of those trips where I actually appreciated the east coast, in spite of the cold and having to scrape my car, etc. Mostly it was due to three incredible snowboard events (one of which was not the US Open.) Most people seemed confused that I turned up at the World Quarters after not being at the Open the day before, but it seemed perfectly logical to me. First of all, watching the US Open on go211, complete with chatroom was…
Read More

Mormons and New Toys

After a year of digital elph filmmaking, I have finally upgraded to a real video camera. I invested in a Canon Vixia for the explicit purpose of shooting the Nikita 2010 Outerwear shoot in Utah. I was enlisted to make daily videos for the social media so this may have been overkill, but it seemed like a good excuse. Of course, it may have been wise to buy it more than a few days in advance and actually figure out how to use it and transfer the footage before showing up to do my job, but you know... I did get to Utah a few days early to meet up…
Read More

Spring!

It's awesome that this is my front yard right now but I am off to Salt Lake on Friday for the Nikita photoshoot (subscribe to my Youtube videos and don't miss a minute of it!) and then Vermont for the last week in March. I was informed today that not only will I get to enjoy the World Quarters, but Pat Moore's Back to the Boneyard at Waterville and Last Call at Loon if I am so inclined! Snowboarding has gone well this year (other than the fact I have gotten a lot worse at it) so I am exciting to finish the season with some fun east coast events.…
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