Photo: Scenic Shot of the Day

Went on a nice hike near the end of the day with Mike White which was followed by one of the best runs of the day. Mike was also telling me about a indoor ski facility that's going up in Ogden that should be open by the new year he hopes. I hope so too!

Happenings: Photos

I was talking about my friend Sunn earlier, Sunn Kim that is. I first met Sunn on the field at my school playing tackle football during lunch in something like seventh grade. I thought he was a year older than me cause he was much bigger then me at the time, regardless we became good friends and he's a rad guy. Now he's schooling at Walla Walla Washington, and has began to persue his interest in sports photography so when he came to town a shot me a text (when IM was out of town) about shooting something I couldn't have been more excited. Sunn is a fun-loving, easy going, all in all nice guy so it was nice to have him accompany me to this rail spot. We were there for well over an hour doing rail tricks to a concrete bank of a landing. Super fun time with the exception of a few scary falls from kristie and a head banger at the end from myself it was a completely productive day. Even got some HD shit (NBD)!!

Happenings: Rail Time

Met up with a friend that got back in town and wanted to do some shooting while he was out here. So i met up with kristie to go to a wicked rail spot some friends from Variety Pack had hit last year, it looked like a cool feature so I wanted to check it out for myself. We got some stuff done while we were there, and kristie proved she is hard as nails. Here are the iPhone photos of the day..

Live Life 2

Sunn

Surface made a Zine!

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VOTE IAN!!!

Matteson that is..

Ian is a long time friend, and he is up against Robbie Sell, he submitted a photo from a trip we took to see the sun tunnels in some hard to find place in Utah. Jordan Omohundro, and Jon Spiris came along. We drove through a small town picked up some beers, and made jokes of the odd things they sold at the gas station. Once we found the tunnels Jordan began to skate and had a few good falls before he successfully GTSed.

The shot that Ian took is now up against a photo Robbie Sell took over the winter. HERE they are..

VOTE IAN!!

what a trip

Ski Journey

The 2007/2008 season was a strange and amazing time. It started in Guardsman at the bone zone riding all sorts of rails getting some tricks and having fun with buddies from Variety Pack. Once it started snowing in the city i was eager to get at it. So i did and ended up breaking my arm and getting in a cast for 8 weeks which was a big drag, and I don't really remember what I did during that time.. which might let you in on what i was really doing during that time. Anyhow once my arm healed up I had a new street team to ride with. Paco Garcia and Eric Strand (who are my two favorite Euro riders) came crashing in Salt Lake and on my couch, so we hit the streets and I showed them some Utah classics like cottonwood heights, rail gardens, the dimple dell rails, also we went out and found new things to get on. That was rad. Then they left and I lost my street team for the most part. But my buddy Mike White kept it real and we explored some of Ogden's back alleys and up to the cement buildings up Little cottonwood which we made a nice wallride out of. Once snow started melting in the city it was time to hit jumps at park city and rails in Brighton. All of that was fun until I tore the knee up and the rest is history I guess. So anyways Jeremiah Langston stuck with me most of the season filming our happenings. He just whipped up this edit to an Animal Collective song called Grass. It's does a good job showing how my ski year went.


Ian Wade 2008 Ski Journey from Jeremiah Langston on Vimeo.

Snow in the City

was a really nice surprise this morning. Unfortunately i was determined to finish painting my room, so i did. Also put up a coat hook, and a shelf from a piece of a door Mouse gave me about a year ago that i was happy to get some use out of it.

I was listening to KRCL and was lucky to catch the song Anarchy on an album called The Past Didn't go Anywhere. The album is a collection of recordings of Utah Phillips's telling stories at shows with music put to it by Ani DiFranco. The album has some really captivating, thought provoking songs throughout. Check it.

TOMS

Toms is doing a cool campaign for the holiday season. Watch the video..

Trax

I was on my way to foothill and thought I would save my legs a bit and hop on trax to get to "church" with Corbett, Brett, Alex, and Corrin. I put my bike next to the machine that spews out tickets then picked the seat closest to my bike, picked up where I left off in The First and Third by Neil Cassady while I waited a strong odor filled my nose, and after a few pages I looked around only to find a present from the night before someone left the commuters of Salt Lake. It was probably a wild Saturday night for somebody..

News

It's hard to get the shot sometimes. However i managed to get this one of Kosmo (with a K) a few days ago.


Talking about a few days ago my buddies at Surface hooked me up with some SWEEET skis. Jordan, Thayne, and I went up to Alta wednesday/thursday to check out the new Live Life 2s. They're a super fun ski you can take pretty much anywhere, i haven't run into any problems.. as soon as i figured my bindings out.. eff that by the way.



The first of many Surface Shred Days @ Brighton happened today, someone jokingly (I think) said that everyday was Surface day at Brighton.. maybe someday that'll be true.. someday. til then it's baggy and tight, gypsy and G, gangsta and emo, whatever and whatever.

Autumn Garage

Has been killing it lately,

With art from D/D and poles from Anthony Boronowski there's no better way.

Girl fight + Dance music

DON RIMINI - OHOW? from Alex Nebout on Vimeo.

Life in Books: 1

Divert your eyes from the television and into a book.

Life in Boxes: 1

My buddy Sam and I just moved into a house in So. Salt lake, an area I was initially pretty weary about but regardless I bucked up and moved in. Here is my life in boxes..

Happenings:

Another fun day at Brighton even though it seems like the storms keep skipping past the wasatch mtns. There's nothing like taking laps with your friends. It can make the most blah day at the mountain fun as hell. Ian Matteson updated his photoblog with a bunch of photos from the day so go look at them. Along with the goodtimes today i watch a really good documentary on Justice at my buddy Jeffs (Hot Noise) and it really showed how rowdy those dudes get.

more pictures from the day..


also

Video: Old times

I found this video lying around in my desk it's from summer of 2005 when i spent a month in NZ with Amy and Lyndon Sheehan. It was a great time and this short little video does it very little justice.
anyhow enjoy the star fade..

I dunno why but the video brings a big smile to my face whenever i watch it..

ian

Brighton: Photo

Went up friday with Ian Matteson himself. here's a shot i like a lot. check his bbblog for more...

Burgers

Got some burger with some buddies. More good times biking, brett almost got hit by a car. Bikers beware, drivers be aware.


Ian Matteson flashing his pearly whites

Happenings: Bike

Biking in the wind is one of my least favorite ways to ride my bike, and it was a windy day today. I don't mind riding in rain or snow but wind kills me. I hopped on my bike anyways to check on Bigs and Cash my sister Helens boston terriers. Picked up some stuff along the way (handlebars) and it turned out pretty good. despite the wind.


Getting the dogs hyped

my bicycle



vinyl (buddy holly, johnny cash,roxy music, nat king cole)

Happenings: Skis!

Surface has been working on a new line up of skis for 08/09 and the first pairs of the Live Life's showed up a few days ago. They look super fun 179 will be money in the park, not to mention all over the mountain. Raised up in the tips and tails to float... Here's Rob!

Stickers

Skied Brighton. Made Stickers. Going to Bond, James Bond.

Youtube

thanks

Beirut - After the Curtain

Opening: Brighton

TandS Edit

This is from last season. Good early season days put together in 2 minutes of extreme shit. sorta.

Tease

The Surface Ski Collab. is making a movie this year. There will be a few web episodes and then a full movie at the end of the year. Here is a teaser that Will King made, he'll be the brains behind the movie so you can look forward to some good stuff through the year.

surface ski collaboration from wille on Vimeo.

The movie will feature all the Surface cats: Jordan Seldin, Paco Garcia, Blake Nyman, Banks Gilberti, Kevin Malone, Landis Tanaka, Josh Bishop, Kristee Giles, Jeff Keisel, and myself.

Thanks,

Ian

Happenings: Ian Wade

Winter was good

But I got hurt and was out for eight months (as of last week)

So I read and stuff while in recovery (long ass time), but once that was over I saw some concerts and partied with friends. Summer started off great you could say.



I had to carry my buddy Brett to the car that night. maybe not I'm not sure..


Then my sister, Sam, and myself traveled a 15 hours to see Girl Talk and a whole mess of great bands like Fleet Foxes, Chromeo, DeVotchKa, U.S.E., Vampire Weekend, and a lot more that I can't remember.. I'm rambling.. (thanks Shelby White for the photos above/below)

go here for Girl Talk
http://74.124.198.47/illegal-art.net/__girl__talk___feed__the__anima.ls___/


Here is a picture of Sam being badass next to this robot we met.


Anyhow. I ran into some bad luck and my bicycle got stolen and got the opportunity to build a new one, which was sweet until i met Sean and we started getting in trouble with cars, first when a car turned into me minutes after the picture above was taken, and second when Sean's Blazer got smashed into by a race car driver that got lost and ended up in our Sean's bumper..

Got to hang out with these two a lot which was nice.

I scored this sweet new bike free from that accident I mentioned. So it wasn't all bad..


Brighton is opening soon. real soon. Obama is our president. Things are great. Booyah!