Brooke Geery

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.…
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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…
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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…
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Chickita is a wrap!

I just said I wasn't writing any more about this event, so if you are really interested, you can read one of the three stories I already wrote. One on YoBeat, one on Snowboarder.com and the press release which should be popping up as soon as Kelly sends it out. I was set to stay thru Tuesday but crappy weather and general laziness prompted me to change my ticket for tonight. Now I am sitting in Reno poaching the internet (thanks Robbie!) and waiting to head home. Good times all around.
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Behind the Scenes at the Nikita Chickita

Magalie Dubois. Geery photo. It wouldn’t be right for me to just write a story about the Nikita Chickita and gush about how great it is and how much fun everyone had. You see, I have been helping to put on this event for the past two seasons, and in the biz, I believe they call that a “conflict of interest."  So instead, this account of the event will be what you couldn’t see but I know -- the behind the scenes action at the Nikita Chickita. First off you may ask, why would you try to put on an event against the Dew Tour, The Arctic Challenge and the…
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Totally Extreme Weekend

John Webster photo. I will miss you this year worst enemy. Boo for real jobs. I am all packed up and waiting for my airport shuttle (thanks Nate!) so I can head down to Mammoth for the Nikita Chickita this weekend. I am a little bummed I am missing the Holy Oly, but Nick has assembled a crew of two photographers, a filmer and himself, so I think it's covered! Hopefully they don't get in each other's shots. And if Chikita is anything like last year, it will be a good time as well. This year I was less involved with the planning of Chickita, but I still helped with…
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