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Feb 15

Skiing Needs a Jeremy Lin

By Jon Hartley6 Comments

I watched about ten minutes of this year’s X-Games. In that ten minutes I noticed that not only is skiing second fiddle to Shaun White’s pants snowboarding, but we’re also behind those guys who do backflips on snowmobiles on the popularity bus.

What we need is our very own Jeremy Lin. Not a 6’3” Taiwanese-Chinese-American exactly, but that could work, too. What I’m saying is that we need a safely packaged (read: Christian) but racially unexpected hero to emerge. An evangelical-Inuit Tom Wallisch, perhaps?

On this one, I agree completely with Floyd Mayweather. Jeremy Lin is (Asian) unexpected (and Christian) and is therefore a media darling, and we need some of that magic in skiing.

So to wrap this up, if skiing is ever going to get top billing at the X-Games or waaaaaaaay more importantly, the Olympics, we’re going to need a little unlikely racial flavor. So somebody get down to Argentina, or post up at Ski Dubai, or just find the next Nicky Adams. (I don’t know Nicky’s religious affiliation, but just imagine a black-Canadian-Christian!) Nobody wants to see a white kid do more flippies than the white kid before him anymore.

Someone get this man a John 3:16 diecut

For those of you who can still stomach NS…does anybody come to mind? Is there some racially unexpected up-and-comer posting edits that are “ill” and “fresh” and “posi-vibes” and all?

So now that I’ve boosted BroBomb’s Baidu ratings. Have a nice day.

Sep 30

Knifeshow Forums and Vid Contests

By Jon HartleyNo Comments

Skier vs. snowboarder hate is something best left to Disney movies, and the dudes over at Knife Show Inc prove that there’s some good stuff coming out of the sideways camp. They’ve added a forum to their site that is largely dedicated to providing advice on After Effects and other video related software and technology. I really like the idea of a film group making a forum intended to help people learn and improve on their art form.

In addition to dishing out advice, they’re holding video contests in the forums. They seem pretty informal, but it’s a hell of an opportunity to get your edit exposed to a different audience than it might if you simply put it on NS. Their last contest was based solely on editing and they specifically said that quality of riding doesn’t matter. I like that because the next great ski or snowboard filmer probably isn’t the sickest rider on the hill and he/she doesn’t need to be either.

We’re planning on bringing some edits to BroBomb once winter starts rolling, so I’m sure we’ll be taking advantage of some Knife Show advice.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with their work, this is my personal favorite: