floordiving

Saw this video over on JustPassingThru. If I can make facial expressions like the guy in this video...sign me the hell up

sunday on the town

filmed by me

A Natural High from Jack Byers on Vimeo.

sunday afternoon

first os kickflip

FINALLY

2 runs on claremont canyon rd

This is not me, and for that I am happy because this scared the shit out of me just to watch. Patrick Rizzo and Noah Sakamoto are certifiably insane...

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

A Film by: Ari Marcopoulos
Director of Photography: Colin Blackshear
Producer: Neville Wakefield

Queerman, Monster Mash, Zoomacroom...

The first Harry Potter movie is on TV right now. I wonder what kind of drugs J.K. Rowling had access to? But back to the point, the quidditch scene reminded me of Wizard People, Dear Reader. In short, WPDR is an alternative audiotrack to the movie version of Sorcerers stone. It's a pretty lengthy undertaking, I myself haven't even watched it in its entirety, but here's the quidditch scene, or should I say the "Cribbage Match". I'm not a fan of Harry Potter at all, as I think it's giving false hope to kids everywhere. If you live in a cupboard under the stairs, owls will not begin peppering your house with letters to take you away to a magical wizard university. Chances are you're going to continue being confined to a cupboard under the stairs, and most likely develop a psycho-social problem in your later years stemming from your years in said cupboard. But not really...

this is what music videos looked like in 1967

holy HELL

WHAT?! so sick

this is 10 times as rare as a meet and greet luncheon with bigfoot and a dodo bird...get some
ratatat and animal collective-Mirando

Here's the original song without Animal Collective in case that's your thing too

good sunny day music

I think I posted this song a few months ago but it's much better to listen to on the ONE sunny day we get in over a week. Time to break in my new longboard

2 ortiz joints

all my life i just wanted to be a gangstaaa
first song is fire, but I think Joell Ortiz looks like Frank from It's Always Sunny. i'm not the biggest Ortiz fan but he works in these 2 songs. second song is sick, the sampled beat is from the "Leyendecker" by Battles, also a great band.

no matter how hard I try

I cannot stop finding new music. It creeps up on me when I least expect it. It's not a huge deal though...you know, since I like music and all. Without further ado, I give you Black Moth Super Rainbow. Go ahead, push play. It starts off a little slow, but the synth is satisfyingly retro. Just like Salvia, stuff starts to get really interesting about one minute in...

and speaking of the flaming lips...

flaming lips does white stripes: shit is fire

comin at ya

I've been bumping this song non-stop for the past 2 days, it's a sneak peak track from the upcoming G&E collab between Eligh of Living Legends, and The Grouch, 2 guys doin it big out of cali at the moment. The song sounds like it samples The Flaming Lips' In the Morning of the Magicians, which I wholeheartedly approve of. Enjoy:

some skiing related business

First of all, Rest In Peace Shane McConkey. You will be sorely missed by the entire ski community. Shane played an instrumental role in shaping freeskiing into what it is today. I'm sure Shane went just the way he wanted to go, as anyone could tell you, Shane lived to ski just as much as he skied to live. The cliffs and blower pow in heaven have met their match in Shane, and he will remain a cover shot for the sport of skiing forever. RIP

Next up on the chopping block, a speedy end to the winter season. Spring was the name of the game ever since mid February. It seems as though old man winter couldn't quite stand up to the warming breaths of mother nature waking up, a bit prematurely might I add, from a deep slumber. So for all those action sport fans out there, here's a little dose of mountain dew for ya.

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Was that not enough? I didn't think so, it was a very hasty winter after all. Well Matthew Milewski, the head honcho and creative guru behind the Moving Mixtapes, is still in the midst of a very busy winter. From filming wannabes like Tommy Shimko and Dan Cardon, to lapping with the likes of LJ Strenio, MM's 08/09 offering is shaping up to be a choice cut of meat. For now, just point your browswer over to MatthewMilewskidotcom until the new MM site drops. Might I add that the forthcoming of a new website from the creative heads up in Burlington is sure to bring all sorts of e-goodies. And now, in the tradition of the fair city of Dallas and the infamous Debbie, Moving Mixtapes does Toggenburg. Be sure to click the HQ button to hear my voice crack in High Def!

...realized my hatred for school buses

I like to drive, and since I commute to school, it's something I end up doing quite a bit. But I don't like school buses. Unfortunately my departure from school is typically synchronized perfectly with the release dozens of yellow bastards of the road. I've never liked school buses. I abandoned them as a means of transportation as quickly as possibe. 4th grade found me walking over a mile to school, leaving almost 40 minutes before I had to arrive, simply to avoid riding school buses. I figured that if I no longer rode buses, they would disappear from my life, except for the punctual nightmare of bus drills. Boy was I wrong. School buses are any drivers' nightmare. Try to tell me that you've never muttered a single profanity while sitting behind a school bus offloading an unending stream of kids. Do it, you wont! And then there's the little kindergartner that's halfway through the door of his house when he remembers he left his GI joe or Blackberry in his seat and goes tearing after the bus in tears. The superfluous blinking dancing stop signs stand up on the side of the bus, telling you to WAIT, there's children on board this vehicle, sir! Since I hate school buses, the drivers can't quite escape my wrath either. They bill themselves as protectors of the children; any error committed on their part can be conveniently covered up by saying "it was some other reckless driver....I was just trying to protect the children!" That's bull-honkey. Go into the town drinking hole on any school night and watch these "protectors of children" talk about the little bastard they wrote up for swearing on the bus.
If any one of these protectors of the children may be having a bad day, like I recently experienced, they can gain complete satisfaction from their total ability to FUCK with other people on the road and get away with it. As I pulled into the left lane to get around a bus of screaming bambinos, the bus driver checked her mirror, saw me, and then threw her turn signal on and also began vying for the left lane. I honked my horn, and she retorted with her air horns, then pointed towards the back of the bus as if to say, "SIR, there are children on board this vehicle, show some damn RESTRAINT!" So I slowed down but never relinquished my position in the left lane. After about a mile, Pricky the bus driver popped on the right turn signal and returned to the right lane. Were it not for bus drivers' handy habit of writing down license plate numbers, each kid on the left side of the bus would have learned a new hand signal or two.

Disclaimer: as many of you may realize, my blog is pretty offensive. I am not apologetic about this in the least. Instead I would ask all offended parties to seriously consider whether they are offended by who I talk about (in this case busdrivers/buses) or how I talk about them. It is not my wish to offend those who aren't deserving, so If you're a bus driver and youre reading this, unless you like to fuck with people on the road like colleague did today, don't feel offended!

I don't hate all busdrivers though:

weekend update

Skied all morning working on a few new tricks that Ive been wanting to experiment with. After a long session with ample afterbang of course, I headed into the city in search of rails with my good pal Mike. We had set our sights on a steep 35 foot down on the SU campus, but upon arrival noticed there was a car parked directly in line with the bottom of the rail. Being as steep as it was, Mike and I would have come out of the rail with a good bit of speed and would have most likely transferred that speed to the car via a collision. Instead we set up a smaller line above the down rail. When I put my boots back on, my shins had become too sore to ski so I filmed mike for a while instead. Here is what came of the day:

slam dunk! from Jack Byers on Vimeo.

The Bloody Olive

This little christmas present popped up in my youtube subscriptions this morning. With more twists and turns than a mountain road, it becomes somewhat predictable and doesn't necessarily leave you guessing what will happen next, but how it will happen. The way the story develops reminds me of playing war as a kid. One of your friends would "shoot" you point blank but due to an unseen technicality that you brought out of thin air, you'd be up and fighting right away. Thats what allowed us hours of make believe play, it was all improv. Enjoy

hityawitdis

Its been a minute since I've put up some good tunes to bump. Three of my favorites at the moment:
Ratatat- Shempi

Aesop Rock- Pigs (hidden track) Art by Jeremy Fish whose portfolio can be found by clicking here, but not here

The first two songs aren't a very good representation of my recent mainstream gangster rap binge.
straight from Chris Bradshaw's segment in Familia, this year's Technine flick, here's "Big Dreams" by The Game.



Booyakasha
-Jack

4x4 Drip Drop Trailer

what the...

4x4 Drip Drop Team Video Trailer from Rat Tail Vimeo Page on Vimeo.

"..Now do Brando.."

I like embedding youtube videos. The fact of the matter is, youtube is a revolution. Ten years ago I would have had to find myself in the film vault of 30 Rockefeller to find a video like this. I can say with confidence that we are on the edge of an explosion of creativity in the media. With so many obscure videos available to the public, it's hard not to find inspiration for whatever. So without further ado, here is the late John Belushi's audition/screen test for Saturday Night Live.

Fight Test

Just sat down to make some revisions on a few papers and start cracking on a written final when the amount of work I have to do in the next few weeks really hit me. Fuck this time of the year to say the least.

 Itunes was on party shuffle and brought up Fight Test by the flaming lips. Song couldn't have come at a better time, so I thought I'd share it for anyone whose feeling as bogged down with work as I was. May the vibes be with you.