Brooke Geery

The shot of the shot of the shot

People are constantly telling me how they want to write for Yobeat. Usually I will pass them off to Nick who is either best or worst editor ever, and we never hear from them again. But when Timbro, who is known as "the funny one"in our circle, started pitching ideas to me, I decided to manage him myself. Today he made his YoBeat debut with a great interview with (recently laid off) snowboard designer, Dave Appel. But this weekend the real Timbro saga will begin. Inspired by Best Week Ever, it's going to be hilarious and to give you a taste of what to expect, here is the photo shoot…
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Who Says Bugz and Starter Jackets Aren’t Cool?

I went snowboarding on Friday and had an epifany of sorts. It could have just been that warm, sunny days in the middle of January bring out the kooks, but most snowboarders are not cool. Now that I am focusing a bit more energy on YoBeat I want to figure out how to make it unique, but also have mass appeal. As it stands right now we are failing miserably. It seems like you have two options in something such as the snowboard media: Appeal to the core while alienating the masses, or appeal to the masses and alienate the core. Obviously it seems the later would be more appealing…
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I Hate Flash

One of my fun weekly tasks with Alliance Wakeskate is to update our Myspace profile with the Monday Cover of the week. It's basically the only time I go on Myspace anymore because it is so yesterday in the world of (anti)social networking. They obviously know that and are attempting to combat it with tons of new features. Which brings me to my point. Today when I signed on to upload the photo, I found a completely new flash-based photo upload system showing all the random crap on my desktop. Guess what. It didn't work. I had to go back to the old upload system, still flash based, but a…
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