Maxim Bespaly is doing it for Animal and Skavenger over in Russia through Raen Shop. Check out his latest edit of him throwing down a ton of real good riding at an indoor park. So smooth.
Gabe Brook’s 49″ Bunnyhop at Simple Session
Here’s a look at that wild 49″ bunnyhop Gabe Brooks pulled during the Simple Session last weekend. That’s some serious pop!
DIG – At Home With Bruno Hoffmann
Head over to the DIG site to check out a photogallery with some unseen photos from his Too Much Too Young interview that ran in issue 87!
Product: Stolen – 2012 Score Complete
“The 2012 Stolen Score is a strong and lightweight bike for any type of riding. Take this bike to the streets, your local park, or even trails. Watch this video to take a glimpse of what it has to offer. For more information head over to stolenbmx.com/score. The 2012 Score is available now from all Stolen BMX dealers.
Camera:Nikon D7000
Song: Red Sparowes- The Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began To MArk The Horizon”
AF-100 Visual Sample
Terrell Gordy has been using the Panasonic AF-100 camera for a little while now and decided to put a bunch of the footage he compiled together with this review. Looks like you can get some amazing footage out of it.
“Over the course of the past few months I have been fortunate enough to have Texas Media Systems here in Austin supply me with a Panasonic AF-100(AF) to shoot with. While the AF is definitely not the end all be all of the large sensor cameras. It might be, in my opinion, one of the best bang for your buck large sensor camera to date. Without going over all the technical specs, that you can easily find if so desired, this camera really does fix most of the serious problems I’ve had with the HDSLR movement.
While for the majority of my filming needs is handled by a Panasonic P2 HPX-170, I find that the AF not only easily matches up well in color reproduction it also seamlessly fits into my workflow. Originally I had my reservations about the AVCHD codec, but between extensive use of the AF and the HMC-150 pretty much any and all concerns have vanished. For what the codec is and does I think it is very robust and handles the compression well. The only time I’ve really ever observed the codec break was when I really pushed the footage in post. Which I’m sure would have been solved with use of an external recorder.
On paper I thought that the smaller sensor size was going to be a real deal breaker. I’ve had a Canon 7D now for a few years and I can honestly say when I am in the field shooting, I can’t really tell the difference in focal length on lenses between the two. It really is such a small difference between APS-C/S35 and M4/3 that unless your looking at charts it’s negligible in my eyes. Would I like the sensor to be a little bigger? Sure, why not. Does it bother me? Not really.
I do wish the camera body was a bit smaller all the way around. Most of my work involves the camera traveling in a backpack, which most aren’t really deep enough. Any size and weight I can save traveling through airports really goes a long way. The camera’s not a horrible size, it’s just a little tall. Other than the height, the camera does travel really well. Much like my HPX-170 it’s easy to pull out throw a lens on and get to shooting within a short period.
Speaking of lenses I’ve had the chance to use a variety of SLR lenses on the camera. From Nikon to Canon and even a couple of the Olympus Zuiko F/2.0. They all look and work great. My only real gripe is I wish there was a better adapter for Canon glass, but even that seems to have a 3rd party fix in the near future. I haven’t had the chance to use any PL glass with the camera yet.
Overall I feel that the AF is a great camera. I have and will continue to recommend it to anyone looking to move on from the HDSLR form factor. My transition was seamless when coming from the HPX and HMC cameras and my work never seemed to missed a beat. Are there a couple things the camera is missing I would like to see in the future? Absolutely, but at what cost? That I’m not sure about. I’d love to have a AVC-Intra 10 bit P2 version one day (AF-250?). Until then I will most likely continue to use the AF whenever possible, and most likely really enjoy using it.
The video is mostly footage that has already been used, is left over from various projects or just B-roll that I enjoyed, but never really had a home for.
Head over to texasmediasystems.com for more info and to purchase the AF-100 as well as any other camera and production needs you may have. I can’t speak more highly of those guys.” -Terrell Gordy
Music:
Play By Numbers
“Error”
Nigel Sylvester: Get Sylvester – Teaser 1
This looks pretty interesting…
“Get Sylvester, the new series from Nigel Sylvester and Network A, presents the world of the professional BMX athlete as only he can show it. Get Sylvester traces Nigel’s New York City roots while keeping tabs on his jet set life as one of the premier riders in the BMX industry. From the streets in Queens where he learned to ride to globetrotting around the world to his dealings with his sponsors. Get his whole story from his perspective. Get Sylvester.” – Network A
Night Sesh At The Park
“I wanted to go filming for a long time already in the month of March and in the beginning of March, Johannes asked me if I would like to come round and film at the skatepark. Was stoked on that for sure, but on that day it didn’t happen though because a few workers did not come to stay over the night for us to mess about and have fun.
Despite that on Friday the 16th till the early hours of Saturday the 17th we went down there again.
Kusti drove me there and stayed over the night with us as well. Thank you bro, was good to have you there over the night for sure! Lots of fun )
Once we arrived, finished our burgers and went down to business: filming shred fest of a sesh! Eki (Erik Orgo) destroyed the park that night with clean and creative riding. Johannes and Taavi showed quite a few of tech tricks as well. Other riders, Erik, Silver, Sten and Sebastian also pulled some gnarly tricks and lines.
Filming lines is hard but once you get it filmed, it is so rewarding and looks radiculous. It’s always great to be among friends who are into the activities that you are stoked on as well.
Thank you Johannes for inviting me to film and to Evelin Järve for lending the card 😉
Hope you guys will enjoy this banger video!” – Dmitri Shushuyev
Subrosa – Simple Session Commercial
Subrosa dropped this commercial during the Simple Session’s live broadcast this past weekend. They got a bunch of requests to get it uploaded to Vimeo to watch it again, so here it is! Enjoy!
Filmed and edited by Ryan Chadwick