Cover Artwork from Extra.Ordinary. by Joel Jah Raven

It’s official! The Premiere of our new flick is going down on October 15th at the Vogue Theatre in Fernie, BC! The show starts at 7:00 pm.

-Tickets are available from Commit Snow and Skate.

-It’s $5 a ticket so get them before they evaporate! Not to mention its $10 bucks at the door!

-DJs at the theatre to welcome people to the show

-Free schwaag compliments of Commit Snow and Skate, Surface Skis and Herd Headwear

-Afterparty at Bulldogs with The Yacht Club supplying the beats and Drink specials providing the grease to get the wheels rollin’!

It’s Doosie time folks! Let’s Get Extra.Ordinary!

Haven’t seen the teaser yet? Watch it here

I recently printed some black and white film that had been in my SLR for just under two years. Yep 36 photos in two years. I feel sorry for the camera I once used on a daily basis. Truth is, film is expensive and I don’t have access to a dark room any more to do my own printing. Getting a roll like this back sure makes me wish I did. I’ve called the blog post ” My Inspiration” because the people in these photos are who I live for everyday. They give me the strength and the passion to make the most of every minute of everyday. Sakura’s second birthday is just around the corner and as I look at the these photos that span her entire life to date  I can’t help but both smile and cry. Life is happening faster then you realize. Make the most of it. Enjoy every moment.

In March 2008 Island Lake Lodge in Fernie, BC held it’s first annual Photo Shoot-out. I was there and produced a follow up webcast of the event.  I had the opportunity to follow one of the teams around and ski awesome  spring snow myself. I even got in on some photo ops myself!

The team I shot over two days ended up winning the competition. The team included; Photographer Dave Silver and Athletes Thommy Westcott, Mark Butcher and Mac Williams.  Dave Silver took some great shots and I’ve featured my favorites

in a gallery below.

Check out the Shoot-out video here.

To see all of Dave’s photos from the competition and everything else he shoots check out his site davesilverphoto.com

and to see what Island Lake lodge is all about check out their webpage. islandlakeresorts.com

A big thanks to Joel Whalen for shooting with the other groups during the event capturing some great footy for the video!

I was going through tapes from the last couple of years hunting for footage of my darling Sakura and what should I come? Absolutely ridiculous material from the 2008 Fernie Demolition Derby. What a gongshow!  Pretty much the greasiest most disgusting display of smalltown madness. I love it and am so inspired I intend to cut a short of the day’s debauchery to post on the site within a couple days. Heck, this might be so fun I’ll have it done by tomorrow morning. If you were at the derby last year chances are you’ll be in this…..Mangled out of your tree.  Stayed tuned for this one, it’ll be a doosie!

When I moved to Fernie, BC in 2002 I had no plans to make it my home and certainly no idea I would one day meet my wife and raise children there ( Yep, Children! There is another on the way in March! )

7 years on I am still there, well kind of, I’m on a brief hiatus in Ontario to get some schooling done, but consider the family to be away from “Home”. I miss Fernie a lot these days. It’s that time of year. As the demolition derby approaches people start talking about the coming of winter. The stoke starts to build and everyone gets a little giddy. Nevermind that winter is still more then 90 sleeps away, the countdown begins. However, If you spend your summers in Fernie  you know it’s really the time to be in town!

Before leaving town in the spring I cut a little tribute to my friends and family in the town I call home and entitled it just that. “Home”. It’s been on the site for awhile now, but I thought it time to feature it and write some words about my favourite place. I also scanned a couple of old prints. They aren’t amazing photos, just some that brought  back some great memories for me.

Click here to watch “Home”

Enjoy!

I’m pretty sure Fernie Alpine Resort has just held it’s annual Full Throttle mountain bike event. It was around this time last year the first annual Full Throttle went down. I wish I’d been around this year. Unfortunately I’m Ontario bound for the time being. Luckily I was able to watch the highlight videos I cut of the 2008 event and reminisce about the Gnar!

You can too!

There are two videos. One was a same day cut of the Downhill highlight reel which was shown post race. It was meant to be a pre-roll to the video competition that was being held. Thanks to my wizardry with DVD burning though it ended up being the post-roll. The other cut is a post event wrap-up which has footage from the downhill, dual slalom and even some action the endurance race. If you missed them last summer, check them out here. If you saw them last summer no doubt you want to watch them again.

Here are the links to both.

downhill highlights

event wrap-up

Enjoy!

The working cover.

So, after nearly 40, 12 to 15 hr days, Extra.Ordinary is finished. A big thanks to Andre Nutini ( andrenutini.com ) for joining the team and helping us slay the beast. We are currently having the discs produced and they’ll be available in early September.

I’m currently setting up an online ordering system so you’ll be able to buy the discs right here from the site. If your keen to put your name on one right now, just drop me your info on our general inquiry page and I’ll get in touch when they are here and put a copy aside for you.

I hate the term ” Green” and we aren’t claiming to be heroes saving the planet here,  but for all you tree huggers, FYI – We are producing the DVD’s through a company which uses entirely eco – friendly materials such as recycled cardboard cases and earth friendly inks. If you were thinking you might buy one and were worried about the environmental effect hopefully I just eased you mind.

Want another reason you should buy a disc? I’ll give you two:)

1. Keeping in line with the “green” theme, we are donating to the enviro charity 1% to the planet. and 2. I had to take the entire summer off to make the movie and re-couping the production costs would be nice:) We’ll still be broke, but what the heck, life’s good and I got to teach my 2 year old the ins and outs of Final Cut Pro.

Check out the trailer for the flick again here. You can also get the low down about the film in the short form overview on the Action –  Services page here.  It’ll give you an insight into who’s in it and just what it’s all about.

Stay tuned for info on where to find the flick. We’ll have it dialed in a few days time.

Enjoy some photos from the winter. Here’s a selection of random stuff from from our 09′ season.

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Thanks!

Mike Berard is a writer, photographer and self proclaimed hedonist. He’s got a real way with words. Personally I can’t get enough! This retrospective on a poem he wrote in high school is pure gold. Read it! It’ll make you laugh your ass off and take you back to your glorious….or not so glorious high school days!

Check it out on Mike’s blog here

I’ve been rummaging around through old dusty hard drives and finding some real gems, which I am going to post over the coming weeks. Some classics from the early days of DBFilms. Some old teasers, and maybe even the full length version of Cold Lampin’! Plus, some of the better freeski reels from the last couple seasons and the Island lake Shoot out video from 2008 just to name a few!

Check out all the videos currently on rotation in my video player!