M O R E I N S P I R A T I O N

As you know I've been watching alot of skateboarding videos lately in order to study the techniques, camera angles and other forms of inventive flare thrust upon them by their creator. I have recently stumbled accross some really creative stuff that the people at DVS have been producing. Unlike most bodyboard movies they choose to utilize copious amounts of practical creativity rather than relying on hours behind a Macbook, slaving away on Final Cut Pro to generate a feel of innovation. What I like most about these videos is that their shots are concise, angles are different and they went to the effort of building structures, generated a specific lighting and skated insanely.

Here's the extended version, which I feel is better than the original.

And Here is the behind the scenes, I like this more than the original and the extended version because it really gives a deeper understanding to how much effort went into creating the video and portreys what the director was thinking and visualising when making his vision come to life.

T O N I G H T A L I V E

One of my best mates Matty Best has so much musical talent he had to join yet another band just to be able to express it all. His new outlet goes by the name of "TONIGHT ALIVE" and are a pretty fresh new sound, many have labelled them as a mix between Paramore and Jesus. Matty is quite the Lady Killer and as much as his groupies are keen to get their mits on a piece of "The Buzz" he is well and truely whipped, sorry ladies. I have just realised that very few people read this blog and the chances of a female readng this blog is slim to none, so perhaps I should be saying sorry to the select few of the gay community out there that read this, if any. So check them out, they are touring with a few bands soon, I think they are even doing a couple of gigs with shortstack for all you punk rawkers out there.

Click here to check out their myspace