After The Collective released SEASONS, the future of the award-winning mountain bike film-makers was up in the air. Co-founder Jaime Houssein was interested in pursuing other options as well as finishing up school, but much of the crew wanted to stick to the plan of making amazing bike films. The result, Anthill Films has risen from the dust with much of the original crew including Creative Director, Darcy Wittenberg, The first project is entitled “Follow Me… No One Rides Alone” and...
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I am new to videos, only having started shooting and editing videos this year. I have no aspirations to produce professional quality videos–my efforts are limited to short snippets uploaded to the web via Vimeo. During the ski season I became interested in point-of-view (POV) videos after having seen some fine efforts from a friend who, among other things, skied off the iconic Vancouver mountain landmarks known as the Lions. Until my recent interest in POV videos, I had been shooting videos with a Canon G10, then with a Panasonic Lumix FX-35. I started researching POV cameras. I wanted something simple, that could be operated without many controls, without wires and that was robust. Because I didn’t know whether...
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If you’ve been following the adventures of what BikeMag calls the Sh*tbike, you’ll appreciate this video of slopestyle magician, Cam McCaul taking it for a spin… literally. Cam is one of the most talented slopestyle riders of today. His segments in last year’s SEASONS from The Collective are still etched in the DVR of my mind. This poor bike has been given the beat-down from coast-to-coast, but now it was time to test it on a dirt jump built for an “opposite front flip” in Cam’s words. Check him out, putting the Sh*tbike through its paces at his personal training grounds in California:...
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Holy smokes… is this guy for real? Watching this Speed Riding footage taken from MSP’s latest film, CLAIM, is just mind-boggling.  I’ve seen snow-kiting and I’ve seen base jumping, but combining the two is absolutely amazing. The thought of simply being able to drop into these unreachable lines and swoop out to the next landing zone just seems crazy to me. With obviously solid skills, Antoine Montant, lays down some turns on steep, sketchy terrain, triggers an avie and swoops to safety. Pretty cool when he jibs the ridgeline, but then not so cool when he tumbles head-over-teakettle on a 50-degree slope entangled in his parachute. Yikes! Up until that point, you get caught thinking, “Wow, that looks completely safe”....
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Freedom. We all want it. We all deserve it – especially when it comes to riding our bikes. Freedom Riders, the latest high-definition mountain biking film from Jackson, WY-based KGB Productions and Gravnetic, will hold its world premiere on Saturday April 18, 2009 at the Sea Otter Classic at the Embassy Suites in Seaside, CA. from 7-9pm. The premiere will be screened at the IMBA California Benefit Party with proceeds to benefit the biking advocacy organization. Tickets cost $10 at the door and there will be a huge raffle featuring loads of killer prizes. IMBA, who’s mission is to create, enhance and protect great trail experience...
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It started with a simple instant message… check out this video. A little distraction never hurt.  He didn’t introduce it, just said, “Take the 5 minutes to watch this.”  Simple as that.  A quick click and I was mesmerized… dumbfounded… no, completely blown away at the quality of the cinematography  and skiing. As many of you are aware, FeedTheHabit.com has done their fair share of ski and bike film premieres over the years. We were the exclusive promoter of TGR’s ski films for nearly 10 years and have worked with The Collective for all three of their film premieres in the Salt Lake City area.  So, that said… I’ve seen a lot of ski and bike films and thi...
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The Shooter Chutes in the amazing North Cascades in Washingon State set the stage for Episode 2 of TGR Almost Live. This behind-the-scenes look at the filming of this year’s TGR film, “Re: Session” shows Sage Cattabriga-Alosa and Seth Morrison as they drop into these super-narrow and super-knarly chutes in the North Cascades. TGR’s Todd Jones films from a distant ridgeline while both Sage and Seth are dropped off by the North Cascades Heli Ski crew. They then proceed to drop into the Shooter Chutes with V.I.O. POV helmet cameras. The sphincter-tightening view from the skier’s perspective is awesome.  The only bummer is that they cut off just before Sage drops into the shoulder-width side chute… guess we’ve...
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Andrew Waldron is working hard to capture the essence of downhill mountain biking via HD video. His latest footage was shot during the 2009 Bootleg Canyon Downhill race held February 14-15, 2009–part of the MOB in Mojave event with Downhill, Super D and Dual Slalom disciplines. It’s a preview of a longer-length video that’s expected to be complete sometime in March. Definitely stoke-worthy, this preview shows off some of the great work that Andrew is doing behind the camera and mouse alike. The course is technical and rocky (yup, it’s a desert) and has been known to chew people up and spit them out. I’ve ridden the course, but not under race conditions, so I can appreciate the challenge...
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Billy Savage’s film Klunkerz extended its’ trail of accolades as it won the “Cycling Film of the Year” award at the first ever Competitor Film Festival, held in conjunction with the Seventeenth Annual Competitor Magazine Endurance Sports Awards. The star-studded event took place at the Nautilus Pavilion at Sea World in San Diego. The documentary film Klunkerz examines the genesis of the sport of mountain biking, tracing it’s origins to a small group of friends in Northern California’s Marin County in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. The film includes interviews with many of the sports’ pioneers and some of the more obscure characters that influenced them. From “Breaking Away” to...
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The weather the past couple of weeks here in Utah has been dominated by high pressure and sunshine with the inevitable heavy dose of inversion, our wintry foe. People have been skiing big lines across the Wasatch as the avalanche danger has dropped to “low”. And what of the snow? I’m sure most will agree that the snow quality hasn’t quite been the stuff we’re famous for. With traveling across the country the past two weeks I haven’t missed out on much but I do have a serious jones for skiing pow. Aside from the regular text message updates and voice messages from friends, I’ve been getting my fix by repeatedly watching ...
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