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Shane McFalls Full Interview

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I recently Skyped it out with TC filmer/proficient “pseudonymous” (credit: Jon Hartley) BroBomb commenter Shane McFalls.  The edited version showed up on TGR a bit ago.  Now for all you literates, the full 2,197 words of wisdom from one of skiing’s three hipster filmmakers and recent Yoke Collection co-founder.  Shane raps on homophobic Greek landlords, corn mazes, Inspired, and gas station food buying strategies.

Brobomb: How did you meet Will and Andy?

Shane: I meet Erik when I was still in high school and he was skiing at my home mountain in Central New York.  He introduced me to Will and Andy. Once in college, Erik and I transferred to the same school (where we lived in an attic) so we could be closer to skiing in Vermont. Erik was the bridge from the crew at my mountain to the Bristol Mountain crew of Ahmet, Will, Andy and everyone else.  New York mountains seemed to build these tiny groups of people, and meeting outsiders from other mountains was always some kind of a big deal. So if my parents brought me to the other mountain near our house, who knows what I would be doing now.

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Monday Mashup

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I’m working on getting my Master’s degree in English, and as the joke goes, “I already speak English, what are they teaching?” Admittedly, these hyper-educated individuals get the big bucks to teach grown men and women to read. The challenge, of course, is that they have to teach reading in a way that we deem to be worth thousands of our dollars. As you might imagine, it takes some creativity.

One of their favorite techniques is to take seemingly unrelated books, stories, poems, etc. and force us to analyze their connections, conflicts, and interactions. I keep forking over the dollars, so I guess their strategy is working.

I’ve decided to test this idea on all of you fine readers in what I’m calling the Monday Mashup.

The theory is that putting anything in a new context will change the way you perceive it. Here are three popular snowsports webisodes. Two you’re likely to be very familiar with, and one will probably be new to most. Watch what you’ve got time for…then react your ass off! Or quietly contemplate the meaning of it all. Your choice.




A Few Words with Andy Parry: Fuel TV & TMZ

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The last time I remember non-contest coverage of skiing on cable TV was a profile of Tanner Hall that consisted primarily of him sitting on a motorcycle and blowing smoke at the camera. “What’s wrong with this nutbag?” was the most common reaction as I remember it.

The footage seems to be lost to the annals of time, so you’ll have to trust me that Traveling Circus would be a far better representation of skiing to the masses. We checked in with Andy Parry to discuss the possibilities of getting TC on Fuel TV.

 

 BB: How did the opportunity to film a pilot for Fuel come about? Did they approach you? Is it something you did on your own?

 Andy: Will and I went to SIA this year with Line and one day Jason and Josh (our boss, and TM) asked us to sit down with Jeff Harper and Gori. They run a production company in Winter Park CO called adrenaline garage, and do some work for Fuel.

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