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Introducing Jeremy Pavia

February 21, 2012

Some of you who have been paying attention to The Union for a while now may have caught on to some of my subtle hints of some changes coming to the site. 2011 was a great year and I wanted to start 2012 off proper with some changes that I think will feature all of the new original content better.
We launched the new photogallery last week and there will be a few new additions to the site in the next week or two additional to the gallery that I think you will like.
I’m also stoked to announce the first of two new contributors to The Union. After Jeremy Pavia spent a number of years at BMX Plus!, he recently decided to part ways to pursue some of his personal goals. Some how, I managed to convince him to spend some of his newly acquired free time contributing here! Expect a weekly section from him starting tomorrow!
We have a fresh interview with Jeremy to introduce you to him and to find out what he plans on bringing to the site after the jump. After you check that out, check out some of his photo work in this brand new PHOTOGALLERY! Check it!
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Fundraiser: Catty Woods Benefit Film

February 19, 2012

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The legendary Catty Woods in Pennsylvania are one of BMX’s true treasures. Each year, they need to lease the land and pay insurance to keep the trails alive. The Union will be donating 100% of the money generated from this video to help cover their annual expenses but doing this will require a lot of support from the BMX community.

Tom Camby produced this 14 minute video featuring some older footage from Catty and POSH for you to enjoy. After you have watched it, share the link to it on your Facebook wall, share it on Twitter, share it on your favorite forum. Hell, tell your grandma to check it out. The more views this video gets, the more it will allow us to donate to keeping these trails alive. Just think, you are donating by simply pushing play or copying and pasting the link somewhere. Easy as that! Couldn’t be any easier. Note: You don’t have to watch the whole video for it to count!

Copy and paste this link you your Facebook / Twitter / wherever. You can also find the embed code on there for those of you with a website!

LINK: http://bmxunion.bnqt.com/videos/detail/The-Union-Catty-Woods-Benefit-Edit/1460428839001.html

If you want to make a tax deductable monetary donation, please visit this link – http://pawoods.com/donate/

You can find out more about the trails by checking out PAWoods.com.

Thank you for your support!

Updated Videos Page

January 27, 2012

We’ve been starting to make some of the tweaks that you will be seeing with the site over the course of the next few weeks. They won’t be anything too drastic, just some stuff to help clean up the site a little better and open up some new opportunities.
The first change is that we have dropped a video player into the site. So now, instead of having to shoot you over to the old BNQT page, you can get all of the Original videos that premiered on the site in the past by going to the Videos page. There’s also a link up top in the navigation bar.

Also, for 2012, I’m looking to get a few regular contributors from around the world involved with the site. Whether that’s video contributors, photographers or writers, the site has been growing and I want to give the people who are producing high quality work a place to showcase it and get paid for it. If you are interested in joining the crew, get ahold of me. Please have samples of your videos, photos and / or writing work ready to preview.

The new year is looking to be a good one.

Review: The Year of 2011

December 28, 2011

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Well, would you look at that… 2011 is almost over. Where the hell did the year go? If there’s one thing I’ve come to realize is that the older you get, the faster the world turns. I’m not saying I’m old by any means, just after riding for nearly 12 years, the days fly by faster and faster and I’ve come to accept that as long as I keep riding, I’ll keep having good memories that I can look back on by the end of the year. I just went through my photos and selected out a few that stood out to me from the year. Due to life taking over, I didn’t get the chance to travel nearly as much as I would have liked, but I still managed to do a few cool things. Let’s take a peek…
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The Union Hits 1,000,000 Pageviews

August 17, 2011

Well, The Union hit a milestone the other day and I didn’t even realize it until now. It took a few years (Since September of 2007) to reach 1,000,000 page views but it has happened. Real psyched to hit that number. I’d like to say thanks to everyone who has checked out and supported the site over all the years. Hopefully the next million is just as good.

The Union – Quick Clips: Wyatt Kreel

June 5, 2011

Yesterday was HOT here in Minnesota. Wyatt Kreel and I got a real chill session in at the skatepark since the motivation to ride street or anything else really wasn’t there. I ended up pulling out the camera for a few clips. Nothing too crazy.

The Union – Sunday Session

May 22, 2011

(Make sure you watch it in HD for a little better quality)

I picked up a Canon 60D and I wanted to start figuring out all the settings and what not for filming with it. Wyatt Kreel, Conrad Heppner and myself had a session this morning and I ended up filming a bunch of clips. When I actually had time to ride and get a few clips of myself, the thunderstorm rolled in. Bummer. I’ve been playing with the editing/exporting settings a bit and I think I figured out why this came out blurry/not full quality. Sorry about that. Expect the next one to come out cleaner.

Turn it up to 720p. After I changed up some settings in Premiere Pro, I tossed some of the scrap clips into the timeline and exported them different. A little closer to the quality I was aiming for.

State of The Union

March 9, 2011

The Union

As you can see, the site has changed. The design has been freshened up, and the direction of the site will, in a sense, be changing up starting today as well. Back in 2007, BMXunion was started with no real intension on it going anywhere beyond a college project. In 2011, The Union is becoming a full-time project that will focus on the BMX industry…
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