No wonder the cinematography and visual effects are phenomenal.
STANCE doesn’t have the level of testosterone that most boarder flicks do. Not because it isn’t a diesel film but because it’s comprised of all ladies! It involves beautiful aerials, fine shots, curvy mountains, and sexy music, which is everything I’ve ever wanted in a snowboard film.
“By combining forces with the industry’s best brands and riders our aim is not only to create the most innovative female snowboarding film to date, but to start a larger initiative to push snowboarding’s creative and cinematic boundaries. With Jmills Ent as an avenue for professional athletes and media artists to express themselves to their full potential, new ground can be covered. STANCE will be a platform that shredders, core and recreational alike, are excited to take part in. You know your STANCE — now come take a look at ours.”
With Stan Evans producing and Jeremy Miller directing, no wonder the cinematography and visual effects are phenomenal. The hues and perspectives were legitimately out of this world. Mad props to all the smooth ladies featured in STANCE, including Gretchen Bleiler, Hana Beaman, Jamie Anderson, Kimmy Fasani, Lisa Filzmoser, Jenny Jones, Torah Bright, Raewyn Reid, Molly Aguirre, and Gabi Viteri.
I suggest checking out the 32 minute full feature far below. If you don’t have time, then the trailer is right here:
Don’t forget to admire: 13:05 where Molly Aguirre jumps a fence into backside 90° spin to a tree bonk to finish full 360°. 18:22 where Torah Bright does a cab 540° for her fresh sesh in the pipe.
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My favorite scene is at 7:46, where your first angle is watching through construction tubes as Kimmy Fasani’s legs walk past the opposite end. The next shot is the same angle, but of Kimmy hitting the kicker to jump onto the tube you’re looking through. Then you see her 50-50 it and dismount with a backside 180.
What do you think of the snowfall overlay effect, my snowboarder amigo?
Generations is a film about the consequences of climate change and shows you what you can do to make a difference.
At first I was angered by the overly simplistic and obvious suggestions provided by the subjects in Generations: A Skiers’ and Snowboarders’ Perspective on Climate Change. If you are reading this blog, on the internet, with a computer that you own or use because you are part of the affluent portion of the world, then you know global climate change is occurring. You therefore must know a handful of lifestyle modifications that can affect change, which were also proposed in Generations. After sitting here and wanting to berate The North Face, Teton Gravity Research, Protect Our Winters, and Clif Bar for their minimal approach to inciting action for climate stabilization, I urged myself to step back to analyze the focus and purpose of this short film.
Generations was narrated by Greg Stump, and the featured athletes were JeremyJones, Ingrid Backstrom, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Seth Morrison, Dash Longe, Dylan Hood, and Erik Roner.
TGR gives a nice little intro to their film on the Generations mini-site. They state that “within the span of a lifetime, one can observe the planet’s changing climate. Skiers, snowboarders, farmers and climatologists across the world are experiencing the effects of climate change. Ski areas in the Northeast United States are witnessing shorter winters. California’s farmlands are experiencing water shortages. Europe’s glaciers are receding at alarming rates. Generations is a film about the consequences of climate change and shows you what you can do to make a difference.” Check it out and let me know what you think!
Sitting and pondering the positives after 17 minutes of information that people who have the funds to ski and snowboard should already know, I found myself thinking of human nature. In being selfish creatures, while at the same time needing and feeding the establishment that we live day to day, humans will only evolve if the way in which we redefine ourselves is for our own good.
It’s plain and simple. For those of us who love to glide on powder, here’s the moral of the Generations story: if you don’t affect change within your own lives, thinking and acting differently, then soon enough you won’t be able to ski or ride snow unless you spend thousands of dollars per run, and you eventually will not be able to afford store-bought food. Any food from markets or restos. And I don’t think you know how to grow and harvest your own grain, or how to start a fire to sanitize the rabbit you just caught, skinned, and gutted.
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That last one probably seemed exaggerated, but extremes make people react. So react to my words and save the world!
What is your contribution to healing planet earth, my snowboarder amigo?
I would have been tweeting each and every flawlessly executed aerial as well as the wipeouts.
Kelly Clark and Shaun White both landed first place spots at the Copper leg of the Grand Prix Tour yesterday. If you have been paying attention to the lead up and to the qualifiers, you must have known.
If you can throw down crazy with steez I’m on your side.
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It evolved into a company as a grassroots type of thing.
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