The Snoboard Shop & The Camp of Champions present "Nature of The Beast" 1992 Ken Achenbach скачать в хорошем качестве

The Snoboard Shop & The Camp of Champions present "Nature of The Beast" 1992 Ken Achenbach

About Nature of The Beast In the spring of 1992, while I was scriptwriting at Adventurescope for a Warren Miller movie, I replied to Jacques Reasseau who was Warren Miller's producer on the video if I was still thinking about making my movie, and if I had a title. "I'm calling it "Fear of a Flat Planet" and my second movie will be called "It Takes A Nation Of Ski Patrols" I replied. So dumb. Next thing you know Jacques has taken the title as his own. It pissed me off so much I quit. With a week left in the season I took the Snoboard Shop team to Mike Wiegele Heliskiing. I'd bought a Canon L1, that let me attach my Canon SLR lenses on it and was basically pulling it out of the box as I climbed in the helicopter with the Warren Miller crew that was also filming at the time. Dave Heath, Warren Miller's cinematographer was laughing not laughing as I climbed into the heli, "Man, I bust my ass for years as a ski cinematographer to finally reach the pinnacle, shooting for Warren Miller at Mike Wiegele's and a bunch of snowboarders turn up pulling a camera out of a box and start filming. I must be doing it wrong" I was doing it wrong too. I snapped the leg off the tripod the second run. So if you're wondering why the heli section is so shaky, that's why. A long lens on two legs is about as bad as it gets. With $1500 in heli time, I shot the whole section in 3 days. Followed by filming all summer at The Camp of Champions on Blackcomb, where luckily 1992 was the most progressive summer ever. Every day the sport changed. The daily battles between Brushie and the newly arrived Terje was insane. Brushie and all the other pros at COC would drop in for a run, Terje would then drop in and do the same run bigger. Or switch. Or one foot. It was the most incredible take down and ego crush I've ever seen. It was so insane that Dano Pendygrasse who was a rider for the Snoboard Shop got a used camera and with his first roll of film he ever shot, got a cover of a magazine. That's a good way to jump start a careeer. He got a lot of iconic shots that summer. Mark Gallup got a cover of Mark Morriset from the Wiegeles's part, I got a cover of Rob Morrow, and a cover from COC. There were more iconic photos shot that summer than you'd believe. It was my favourite summer in the 28 years I did The Camp of Champions. I didn't know until 30 years later that this movie had the first ever halfpipe section until Rob Kingwill (99 US OPEN Pipe Champ) and Seth Wescott (2 Time Olympic Boardercross Gold Medalist) told me how it had inspired them. After that we rented a motorhome and did a week or so in NZ and a week or so in Australia. In NZ we ran into the Fall Line crew and stole Shawn Farmer, Jane Mauser and Nick Perata for a few runs. I'm still haunted by the air Don Schwartz sent deep of the cliff and(23:47:21) into the bowl. He went so much bigger than planned because he hit a rock on the in run and had to point it in from way further back than he'd planned. When we went up the lift for the next run, his landing point didn't even make sense it was so far out into the middle of the bowl. Easily a 100 -150 feet further everyone else's landing. Ridiculous! In Australia we started at Thredbo, who kicked us out after a day for jibbing and asked us why we "couldn't be f'in normal," so we we went to Falls Creek where I'd snowboarded for a season in 1983 and hit all my favourite spots including the rock where I'd been the first person to do a 540. Of course we hit that again! In a classic bit of timing we caught Public Enemy and Ice-T playing in Sydney while on the trip. With that, Nature of The Beast was done filming. A week of VHS to VHS editing to get the rough edit and then two weeks in a professional editing studio in Calgary to git 'er done. One of my favourite memories is when the editor I hired to do the pro edit, asked while we were editing the Camp of Champions section, "Who's the guy in the Quiksilver shirt? Is he the teacher?" The only answer I could give was, "Yeah pretty much. That's Terje Haakonson" We edited the video to the music instead of the other way around. We laid down the audio over the full 3/4" of the master tape instead of just the 1/8" on the edge as was the norm. It let us have incredible sound compared to the usual soundtrack quality of the day in snowboard and ski movies. When we held the premiere at a sold out Republik Night Club in Calgary at the end of October in 1992 the quality of the sound left the other film companies jealous. Adventurescope never even realized the titles were a joke on Public Enemy's two albums Fear of A Black Planet and It takes A Nation of Millions that had inspired me. I didn't realize how amazing it was to sell 8000 copies of this video until Mack Dawg told me a dozen years later, "Dude, that's incredible!" What would have been more incredible would have been getting paid for all those sales. That's another story and why my 2nd video ended up being called "FREE" Ken