GroupHome is a somewhat amorphous new filming project based loosely out of Salt Lake City. Shayne Metos will be filming the magic, and they’re planning releases as often as they remember to actually film what they do. I’ve even heard talk of a longer release at the end of the season, so keep those fingers crossed. The first edit came out of Windell’s a few weeks ago, and we hope to see more once the white stuff starts falling on a mountain near you.

Surface week. p: Ian Matteson

BroBomb: Shayne, you’re planning a new edit series under the name GroupHome for this season, let’s get the details out of the way first: Who are you and what’s your background?

Shayne: My name is Shayne Metos and I’m a designer and aspiring renaissance man from Salt Lake City, Utah. I love riding snow with my friends and random strangers.

Who is involved?

-Oh man, we have a whole grip of unsavory characters! The whole Brighton Lost Boys Crew (Eric Balken, Dimo Littig, Matt Heffernan, Eliel Hindert, Carston Oliver, Trever Wilson and tons more). A smattering of homies from the Surface Joystick family(Ian and Banks sometimes). Hopefully we get some collab filming in with some of our snowboard comrades a.k.a The Dinobots, Ash Christensen, Tony Pavlantos and all the other ninjas in-between. If all goes well some of our boys from north of the border (Joel Whalen, Rob Heule, and Max Hill) will make some cameos. Essentially, this is just a gathering of all the friends and accomplices made over the past years in a feeble attempt at showing what happens when we all get together.

Ian Wade on the skis, Ian Matteson on the camera.

Your first edit is footage from Windell’s, was the GroupHome idea born of many sleepless nights at summer camp?

-This name was born after drinking a few bottles of night train with Max and Ian at the surface flop house this July. The house had like 15 dudes crashing all over floors and in tents and the name GroupHome just kinda made sense there and beyond. As for the idea, I’ve wanted to show what I see on a daily basis for years but could never afford a legit camera. I finally got some funding this summer and just went for it. Oh and for the record, I’ve never been to summer camp.

When you all return to your respective homes after camp, how are you planning on getting everybody together to do work?

-Work gets done everyday whether there is a camera there or not. Basically I’m just holding the camera showing what we do. Most of the crew lives in Utah so it’s mainly just on me to stop skiing and press record.

Carston Oliver, fun gap. p: Shifty Shifrar

Do you have solid commitments from riders to do a certain amount of releases, or will this be a more impromptu series that features whoever is around at the time?

-It will be a bit impromptu but you will be seeing a variety of familiar faces whom appear from time to time depending on what we are out getting after.

Is there financial backing, or is this a DIY project?

-Definitely DIY, the Surface boys are a partner in crime, but I’m not getting shit from anybody but my own two hands at my two jobs.

Hard at work on logo placement. p: Ian Matteson

We’ve seen some different types of edit or webisode series pop up in the last couple seasons, where do you see GroupHome fitting in the mix?

-I see us fitting in like a turd fits into the meat loaf at Hometown Buffet. People will probably be disgusted and appalled but still eat it, but appreciate it 3 years from now because they finally realized how flavorless and boring Hometown buffet is and how bad their meatloaf sucked to begin with.

Do you have a vision for the type of skiing you want to capture? Will it be travel-based, park, urban shred?

-I want our webisodes to be a combination of all aspects of skiing depending on what there is to shred and where we choose to be on any given day.  We have an insane plethora of multi-talented of kids who go out in the day and slay big lines and head down to city to destroy urban at night. We love to ski and basically I’m just trying to take a creative angle on exposing what myself and my friends are passionate about.

Stairs! p: Ian Matteson

In the Windell’s edit your skiers are landing on that plywood stairs feature over and over, do you promise to make them land on real stairs when there’s real urban to be done?

-If they feel like that’s the way to the top I’m not stopping anybody.

When you emailed me, you said you want to bring the punk rock ethic to skiing…I think that’s a pretty foreign idea to a lot of the kids out shredding today. Explain what you mean.

-The idea of personal style, the beauty in basic human imperfection, and rawness has been trumped by a self-conscious world of neon tall tees, 10 switchups on a 5-foot box and blunt grabs for everyone.  What punk rock did in the later 70’s and 80’s was give kids a chance to rebel against the status quo and really learn to express themselves in a new and creative way. Saying this I just want to introduce a bit of that DIY go out and tear shit up idea into a scene dominated by one definition of creativity. I want all the walls to come down! The whole punk rock DIY don’t give two shits stay up all night wild attitude is alive in the snowboard world but I feel like the idea of an accepting open community is really lacking there. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the hierarchy of cool and worry more about what your wearing and what tricks you just can’t do instead of focusing on what’s really important. Ultimately I hope I can lend a hand in destroying all the pretense that exists in our world and bring people together under the common idea of having fun with their friends.  Finally in regard to what I’m choosing to show and create, I’m not opposed to idea of hip-hop, gangster music, and thuggery but freshness is only applicable when things haven’t been recycled 100,0000,000 times. I just want to make a product that doesn’t fit into the typical ski video mold and gives people a glimpse of something that is different, even if it is considered unpleasant and or disagreeable by the masses.

p: Jake Lawlor

Thanks for your time man, any parting words?

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Oh, and,

Haters keep on hating you keep life so fun and full of unexpected twists!

To anybody who just read my words: run wild! have fun! and why so serious?

Huge thanks to the Surf/Joy/Caus family, Mikey you the man!!!

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