It didn’t really have a name so I went with Cam does most of the skating in it and didn’t really have a purpose other than rad stuff that was sitting in my hard drives collecting dust so now it’s a video for nzwakeboard.com.

This was very shortly before the Quake City Rumblers almost caused a multi-car crash after avoiding the near miss the video to come soon will tell the story.

I’ve been playing around with this little piece of code,

<?php
  $tag = preg_replace('/^ +/','',wp_title('',false));
  $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
  query_posts("paged=$paged&tag=$tag");         
  ?>

it took way too long to find and learn how to use but I’ve got it on NZwakeboard in the riders pages such as Josho’s, That find’s any tagged post and brings them in on a page with the same name, it can be done in easier ways by using tag templates but I’ve got another project in mind that I think it could really help with. But that’s waiting on more than one thing to fall into place before I can get it sorted, till then I’m gonna keep playing with the code and seeing if I can use it better.

The home town still has a few new places to find fun and cursing a round with Cam for a week we found some, we went back to some old ones and in the end we got some shots for NZwakeboard.com.

In the middle of the grom comp I was shooting from NZwakeboard.com we managed to get demo set in.

It turns out my computer doesn’t really like creating 3D text in photoshop so this took a while to go from concept to completion and after a whole number of different tries to give the text the effect I ended up going with Repousse tool and as quite often happens the final image is quite different to the initial concept but I’m happy so if you can make it get on down, Facebook event here.

Altho the new GoPro is amazing in pretty much compared to the old one in pretty much every sense, there is something cool about being around when the HeroHD changed action sports photography and video, some for good, some for bad. They had major limitations and when pushed would sometime give out these crazy blurred, morphed and weird images that you had no idea about until then were “developed” on your computer, kinda like film. The Hero2 is soo fast it pretty much always gets a clean shot. I’m gonna miss some of these mistakes.

Ep 4 of the series but the first of my work to be on Airtime, it was one two day mission to shoot and a whole lot more than that to edit but I’m really happy with my first efforts of a TV show and hopefully I can continue to push them to bigger and better things, A massive thanks to everyone that helped me to do this, Josh O for riding, Liam Hall for filming and editing, the Wanaka crew for driving jet skis all night and helping out, the rail garden crew for building such an epic spot, Robett and the Airtime crew for making the project happen & Chloe for putting up with me while I’m stressing out about pretty much everything.