I was just turned onto a new site that has a ski film with a prett gnarly politcal message. Should ski or snowboard films have a message or should it just be straight action?
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I was just turned onto a new site that has a ski film with a prett gnarly politcal message. Should ski or snowboard films have a message or should it just be straight action?
generally, no, I'd prefer not to think too much about politics when watching ski porn.
but if a film maker has the desire to make his whole piece political in some way, he has the right to do so.
I think Random AK Hippie settles this debate. :wink:
No. If you want to hear political rambling, go to a Michael Franti show. Ski films should be about skiing.
Gnarly is good I just wonder if George bush and Osama bin ladden burning in a car is something that should be in a ski film. I got a good kick out of it but just curious what others response to this message in a ski flick would be?
Not sure if the film will have this much in it but it looks like the trailer to www.thelevitationproject.com new movie has the entire team shooting and blowing up George bush and Osama bin ladden.
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Originally Posted by BLOOD SWEAT STEEL
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The guy makes the movie he wants to make.
You either buy a ticket or you don't.
Pretty fucking simple.
Without a climate conducive to the production of snow, there will BE no skiing...So, inherently, any documentation about the joys of winter recreation is, by definition, a political call to action against global warming.
Or it is just a hedonistic ski film.
Which view would you be proud to have held, (if) all the evidence is pointing towards the extiction of the sport in any sustainable fashion?
Just something to think about as you look at a green St. Anton.
Never hurt anyone to think.
You can put whatever you want into your ski film... but if you put politics in your ski film I sure as hell am not going to want to watch it
Global warming warnings in the ski film? You will be preaching to (and annoying) the choir
everyone thinks george bush should die....well deep down you should but should a ski/snowboard team exicute him in a burning car for the trailer of a film.
www.thelevitationproject.com watch and judge for your self
There doesn't have to be even one word said...merely by celebrating winter sports, you are sending a message that we need to think about the sport's future.
Unless you are brain dead, of course.
Fair enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Summit
that's how it works.
Sure, why not. Not the smartest thing to do when you are hoping for maximum exposure of your product but hey, it is their money to blow.
if you have a audience maybe it is right to express your voice even if its in a ski or snowboard film. The average age of the people that are your viewers are in the voting years. Maybe if the whole ski or snow crowd voted we might of not ended up with that retard in office?
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Originally Posted by iceman
I remember in stumps 1989 film (forett which one) he came out pretty strong anti war. I think its one thing to be totally anti bush and quite another to make a film thats promoting peace through skiing.
??? Apparently it hurts like hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by rideit
I dont think they are really doing anything other than doing a "saturday night live" type kick off to their first film. It is pretty funny to see Bush sucking off Osama and paryting with all their oil money at a gas station. World peace is a whole other ball game or era of ski film.
Spammer.
the trolls are out tonight, and the board is dangling from their hooks. how epicski of you!
This is total spam but its pretty damn good...give that bastard what he deserves. Do they have a ski movie or is this it?
Why the strange resemblance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vubibZWq1zs
Allow me to save the rest of you all 15 minutes of your life by summarizing this "ski" film trailerQuote:
Originally Posted by guesswho1
SCENE 1:
Two dudes in osama and W masks run around the playground being best pals for a couple of minutes, then W dude gives Osama mask a hummer
SCENE 2
Osama and W skateboard over to go to a 711 and rap at the gas pump while taking wads of cash from the same dude over and over
SCENE 3
Osama and W get in a limo with ugly hookers, flashing their cash, until weird people in gas masks with shotguns throw out the hookers and kidnap W and Osama
SCENE 4 Soundtrack = Slayer - Raining Blood
Gasmask-Shotgun guys drive out to the desert and shooting the hell out of some sign on a chainlink fence. Osama and W (who transforms into the devil) escape and run away
SCENE 5
Osama and W carjak some dude in the city and then proceed to drive out to the desert and their car stalls right in front of the Shotgun/Gas mask dudes
SCENE 6
Shotgun/gasmask dude jumps on the hood and spraypaints a W then the circle/slash no sympbol over it on the windshield. Thhen they pour gas on the car and light it on fire... dancing ensues.
Scene 7
2 minutes of some skiing shots intercut with snowboard/urban jibbing, skateboarding, some guy smoking pot, some people partying in a club, and some guys drinking beer.. then some dude yells "all over your face bitch"
CREDITS
3 minutes of credits with some guy on rollerskates
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OK can I have that 15 minutes of life back? How the FUCK does that qualify as a ski trailer?
The fifteen minutes wasn't that bad. Found humor in the trailer or what ever it was. Good site and easy to navigate through. The photos were the best part of the site.....
Still spam but quality spam if there is such a thing. Politics should stay out of skiing.
Curious how many first time posters there are in these threads. :rolleyes:
fox news
I'm saw this on the not so fox news.http://www.infowars.com/articles/sci...is_natural.htm
Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity
Drudge Report | January 31, 2007
Two powerful new books say today's global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March.
Singer and Avery note that most of the earth's recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth's last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites.
Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth's temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth's temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can't accurately register cloud effects.
The Chilling Stars relates how Svensmark's team mimicked the chemistry of earth's atmosphere, by putting realistic mixtures of atmospheric gases into a large reaction chamber, with ultraviolet light as a stand-in for the sun. When they turned on the UV, microscopic droplets—cloud seeds—started floating through the chamber.
“We were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons [generated by cosmic rays] do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei,” says Svensmark.
The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun's irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth's temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth's atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms.
Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how.
WTF??? Al Gore is way smarter that these guys.
You are the biggest JONG on this board.
Get a clue
I was in Boise and saw Al Gore he told me so.I came all the way from Ola Valley.I grow marijuana outdoors, no greenhouse,in the central Idaho mountains .ALL YEAR!!!!!
I started last year and got the kilz no problem.4/20 on 12/21,3/21,6/21 and 9 /21.
Outdoors Only.
Big Ups to Al.
Only a retard would spend all that time and money making a good ski flick, and then add in some of their own political garbage. Because no matter what your beliefs are, right or wrong, your eliminating half your potential audience in this country. And as stated above, you might even have a chance at turning away part of the half you were counting on in the first place.
And it would take a serious retard to put it in a trailer, or ask about it in a forum.
That being said, they have the right to make whatever they want. Just dont expect to have much money next yr to make another one.
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Originally Posted by BLOOD SWEAT STEEL
ACTUALLY! I was thinking about this today!
I want to make a film about a young man/or woman who happens to be a skier/snowrider that goes to war for the USA! and perhaps as GWB would want it.........."never come home"
The Eulogy would include a Micheal Franti music bed of "time to go home" & a taped/filmed final run before they are leaving to a headlong massacre....:(
never fight them!
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Originally Posted by Trackhead
hey Trackhead I've watched you grow up here, but holy shit!
5,300+ posts! holy shit!!!!
nice man!:D
You weren't "just turned onto" a new site. The "@thelevitationproject" email address is a dead giveaway.Quote:
Originally Posted by guesswho1
I don't mind the spam, but don't try to be sneaky about it.
And you share an IP address with sexpanther and double d's rule. This definitely qualifies as "not cool."
hahahahahahahaha TheSuit p0wn3d you like theh n00bs you are
split, kook!
and they have spammed here before... and acted like complete morons before... http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=36736
I thnk their theory is that even bad publicity is still publicity. Let's let their threads die.
Yeah they pulled this same spam shit a year or so ago, but I don't think the levitation project ever really got off the ground (shameless pun).
Wow. The Spelling Bee champ makes an excellent point here. :wink: Promoting peace - peace in living, peace with nature and peace with your soul is the real point of why we do what we do in the first place. AKPM is right on here.Quote:
Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey
I think you guys are lame for not just coming on here as yourselves. Why be weirdo production company lurkers. Just ask people what they think of your shit.