The Firelake Post

Successful weekend was successful. To start it off, Garrett and I got up early to shoot some photos for an interview he's doing. We managed to get a couple gnarly flicks before Garrett had to head off to work and start fixing up a bike to race. Later on that day, myself and a couple of duders headed up to Firelake Skatepark in Anderson again to have an awesome session, and man we did.

It's always a treat when I get to see my super ninja blader bud Lane Shilling. Lane is a ninja, and I like ninjas so naturally, I like Lane. He's a busy dude so I don't get to shred with him as often as I like, but on this particular day, the stars aligned and I knew I had to document it. Here's a pic of Lane doing a rad Top Mistrial:

Also in attendance was my good pal Dustin Hinson all the way from Asheville. Dustin has popped up a couple times on the blog, but not nearly enough. With the two of us living in different cities and on completely different schedules, Dustin is also a dude I don't skate with near enough/film enough and since we were in that situation I felt like I had to capture the moment:

And of course, the sensae himself, Tim Taylor, a man that needs no introduction.
Not that it matters, but this is switch:

The cool thing about this Firelake Session is that I, along with everyone else mentioned above, compiled enough clips to make this edit...check it out!

Firelake Session from David on Vimeo.

After a long day of blading, I headed out to my friend Oli's house to celebrate his 21st bday, (happy birthday man!) and then headed back home to get some much needed sleep.

The next day, we cooked, we carved, we drank, and we ate. Our first annual, PCP (Pumpkin Carving Party) went off with a bang. It was nothing crazy...well except the Josh Amacher Luchadore sighting...that was admittedly awesome and strange:

Here is the man himself:


And then of course there was the rest of the night at the pumpkin carving party:





What a weekend.

So I have some work coming up for Mr. Olmstead's new project and that is going to keep me pretty busy but, in what little down time I'll have, I've got a Jon Cooley edit up on deck, so get ready for that.

Blading this weekend, holler.

My 2010 Reel

For all of those who are interested, this past year I started learning Cinema 4D and I've been trying to implement it into my everyday work, well the time has come for a new reel and its finally done:

Broadcast Reel 2010 from David on Vimeo.

I have a Frielake post with pictures and an edit in the works that will hopefully will be done this Friday, so stay tuned!

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New Thomas Martin Edit

Thomas and Jon have been stacking clips and annhilating Boone, NC on the regular for the past the couple months. When they came to town a couple weeks ago, they gave me a ridiculous amount of footage to edit, which I love. I think all in all I had about 12 mins of cut footage for Thomas' edit, and another 8 for Jon's, so I was really able to pick from the best of what they had to make a really sick profile.

So, I'm really happy to release this full length profile of the mountain dude, Thomas Martin, I think its definitely some of his best skating to date. Enjoy!

Thomas Martin 2010 Edit from David on Vimeo.

Next on deck is Jon Cooley, and I love this kid's skating. You probably haven't heard of him because he another one of our underground blade weapons that has been slaying for some time now but, in the coming months, I'm trying to change that. So get ready for some awesome content in the weeks/months to come because I have a couple of awesome dudes lined up for some edits.

Anywho, at the rate these dudes are getting footage, I wouldn't be surprised to see at least one more edit of them pop up before 2010 is out, if not more.

On a side note this is the first full HD edit I've made, so I guess this marks my first entry into the HD world...about 3 or 4 years late.

Blading this weekend, gimme a call.

Good Blade Days

A weekend full of blading and it was awesome.

The day started at about 12 or so with spot scouting with Tim until our day was cut short by my car dying on me :(

Luckily, Tucker came to the rescue, chilled with me until the tow truck arrived and drove me up to Fire Lake skatepark to skate with homies Juan and Nick. We had a really good session and I managed to grab a couple flicks of the homies:

Tucker stalled the top of the banana with this crazy switch fishbrain:


And Nick laced this really clean hippie clench:

We stopped skating around 10 and headed back home for some much needed rest.
Sunday panned out pretty much the same way with a lot of park skating and then a slice and brew to end out the night.

Also, about a week ago, Adam, Nick and I all went out and had a sick early morning session and got a couple of cool flicks:

Nick laced this Tru Mizou on a larger part of this awesome curve ledge with pink water:


I got a couple product shots of Adam and his fresh new Valos:

All in all, it has been an awesome weekend and I'm exhausted from all the skating, but I love that feeling and I can't wait to do it again next weekend.

Riley Hilsman

Let's start the week off right with a new edit from my mane Riley Hilsman. My dood is back in this neck of the woods and shredding harder than ever, make sure to check this edit out and keep your eyes open for a lot more of this dude.

Riley Hilsman 2010 Edit from David on Vimeo.