ZERO DEGREES – a West Coast winter culture film

I am very happy to finally be able to release this video. This project culminates my feelings towards winter living in the Coast Mountains, and living by the ocean. Two and a half years ago I made the move to the Sunshine Coast. This move has taken my mindset, spun it around and has changed the way I value different outdoor pursuits. Don’t get me wrong, nothing is like a powder day, getting faceshots all day long, but something about living by the ocean and with mountain bike trails in my back yard that has decreased my need for those powder runs. The pull of the ocean, the energy contained in it, the weather generated because of it, the wildlife, the surf, everything about the ocean pulls me to it.

During the month of February I shot this art piece for the Kootenay Mountain Culture / Arc’teryx Multimedia challenge. 4 invited teams created shows containing various artistic mediums. I was stoked to take home the win at this event, but I’m more stoked to get this visual stimuli out to the masses. I chose to do most of my work with photos and video, along with a bit of painting (helped by the rain), as well as a lot of audio work. I worked for 26 days straight…straight, and now I’m enjoying a break.

here’s the vid:

-The ocean is where it begins and where it will always return
-Vapour, liquid, solid, liquid, vapour
-Mountains sprout upwards and extend their roots deep into the frigid ocean below
-The continuously chaotic dance with zero degrees, blankets us with snow, violently rips it off, and pulses our swollen streams
-Winter in the Coast Mountains flows to a different beat
-That is why we are where we are

Thank you to Backcountry.com, Bluehouse Skis, GoalZero, and Smith Optics for their support. These companies believed in the project and you should go support them.

More of my photo work, although somewhat older, can be seen on my photo site Nicolas Teichrob Photography

At Dendrite we have a trip planned in one week to TLH heli, which should be rad. Joining us will be Matt Elliott, Alex Blais, Max Arsenault, as well as a crew from EpicPlanks.com, and the Kashmir documenting master, Anthony Bonello.

Ciao and enjoy the show
-Nicolas

Tags: art, bike, british columbia, culture, dendrite studios, film, lifestyle, nicolas teichrob, ocean, photography, rain, skiing, snow, surfing, video, weather, west coast, winter
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Coldsmoke Powder Fest project update

So, finally some time for an update. This month has been crazy, fun, but crazy. I’ve managed to shoot many things I’ve thought up in the past, and seeing those ideas take animated form is pretty rad.

For the past month I have been working on a multimedia show for the Kootenay ColdSmoke Powder Fest in Nelson, BC. Arc’teryx is the host again for this multimedia event and I am very thankful that companies like them exist, helping to provide us with an excuse to spend a lot of time working on a tightly edited creative project. The festival and dinner evening take place this Saturday in Nelson and is sure to be a killer time. Anyways, here’s a summery of the past month

26 days shooting
25,000 photos/videos/timelapse stills kept
40+ timelapses
26 nights with less sleep than desired
1 remixed track by Mr. Clean
1 concussion
1 wrecked shoulder
deep pow, loam, and surf
sun, rain, wind, snow
1 awesome flight
1 awesome supporting company (Smith Optics)
800+ GB of memory used
1 person ready for a break.

Next week I’ll be posting my show for all to see. I’m pretty stoked on it, and hope you will be too. In addition, I’ll be editing up a little video showcasing the amnesiac state I was in after my concussion, as captured by Dylan Dunkerton of The Coastal Crew

Now it is off to Nelson with a handful of exported files to make sure one of them works properly on their non-Mac system…who the heck runs a PC these days anyways?

-Nic

Tags: arcteryx, bike. coast mountains, coldsmoke powder fest, competition, dendrite studios, film, kootenay, nelson, nicolas teichrob, photography, short, ski film, skiing, surf, update
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Deep Summer

So some cool news on the photography front for me. I received an invite to the Deep Summer Photo Challenge, held Aug 7-11 in Whistler, BC. This is a major mountain biking photography event that puts 5 pro photograhers and 1 wildcard (determined via Pinkbike.com) on the mountains for 3 days (Aug 7-9) and then they have to make a slideshow of their images.

I have competed in a couple of these before, most recently, the Deep Winter Photo Challenge. The lineup this year for Deep Summer is probably the heaviest hitting lineup possible for this event. Jordan Manley, Sterling Lorence, Sven Martin and Paul Morrison. I am very stoked and honored to get an invite amongst this elite crowd and it will be awesome to get my imagery out to the mountain biking community in this format. The Coastal Crew (Curtain, Dungee and Norbs) will be riding with me and the 3 days of shooting will surely be epic times of nugs, fun, and hopefully some laugh attacks via Norbs.

On the final day of shooting (Aug 9), I will have to cut things a bit early to attend Dendrite’s World premiere of Out of the Shadows. Ticketing info for that will come shortly, as well as details on our Vancouver show. Here are some mountain biking shots that haven’t seen public eyes yet, nor are being held by mags.  To check out more go here: nicolasteichrob.com

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-nic

Tags: crankworx, deep summer, dendrite studios, mountain biking photography, nicolas teichrob, out of the shadows, photo challenge, photo comp, photography, premiere, ski film, world premiere
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Salt Lake update from the airport

Here is a quick little update as I sit in the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The awards party for the Salt Lake Shootout went down last night and I walked away with $1k and 1st place in the ‘city lifestyle’ category.  The winning shot was an image of young gun ripper (only 16 years old) Leo Ahrens.  Leo was super keen on getting some lifestyles and I am stoked we found the stadium because as soon as we went in, i knew the shot would be rad.  In addition, I got 2nd and 3rd in a number of categories (mountain lifestyle, big mountain, powder).  It was a great contest and I have a lot of cool shots to get off to the mags.

A big thanks to Adam Barker for running this and to all the athletes I worked with during the week.  All the photogs killed it and it made for a pretty stacked show of images for the judges.  -Julian Carr, Michele Manning, Leo Ahrens, Carston Oliver, Parker Cook, Todd Ligare, Josh Van Jura, and Jesse Hall
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Leo Ahrens just chillin

-Nicolas

Tags: dendrite, film skiing, nicolas teichrob, photography, salt lake shootout, utah
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Day 1 of the Salt Lake Shootout

Today was the first day of the Ski Salt Lake Shootout. I was fortunate enough to shoot at Alta today and was able to shoot some big lines in the sun on probably our only blubird day of the event. I was shooting with Julian Carr and Todd Ligare. Both these guys just crush it out on the hill. The showed me the zones to get the shots and they were great to work with. After some editing tonight, I feel like I have a decent start to the event with a few shots in many of the 5 categories (we submit 3 images for: Big mountain, powder, air, mountain lifestyle, and city lifestyle). The snow was good, the light was good, everything was good…except for the lack of my skis. My ski bag didn’t make it on my flight, so I skied today on borrowed skis from Sam Elias…brand new Black Diamond Zealots, and the Alta ski shop borrowed me some poles for the day. My ski bag arrived sometime during the day today and I am stoked tomorrow get on my Lhasa Pows with duller edges and a more buttery feel. Here are some shots from day 1 that won’t be making the final cut.

Todd and Julian heading up in the morning

Todd getting ready to slay a big line

Julian and the bluebird pow

Julian- Discrete headwear- check it!

Todd from across the way

Julian at the end of the day

Todd trying to work last light before patrol gave us the boot.

Tags: alta, dendrite studios, julian carr, nicolas teichrob, photography, powder, salt lake shootout, todd ligare, utah
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Heading to Utah

So here I sit in my brother’s suite in Vancouver, making sure I have everything dialed and ready to go for my trip to Utah. As previously announced, I am participating in the Ski Salt Lake Shootout over the next week as a photographer. This will be my first time to Utah and skiing outside of BC or WA. I’m stoked to get some solid time shooting photos after having been focused on filming. Filming, by the way, is going great and Athan and I bagged some nice lines with great light over the past week. I’ll be updating the blog throughout the week as things progress and will get some visuals up for your viewing.

peace
-Nic

Tags: dendrite studios, event, nicolas teichrob, photography, powder, salt lake, ski, skiing
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Perspectives #3 – Behind the Scenes of Deep Winter

Perspectives #3 is a now online. It is a behind the scenes look at Day 1 of the Deep Winter Photo Challenge, held in Whistler in early January, 2010. Dendrite co-founder Nicolas Teichrob was one of the invited photographers and took home 3rd place behind Paul Morrison and Jordan Manley. Athan Merrick came along during the first day to record some of the skiing that went down.

Skiers: Matty Richard and Matt Elliott

To see this and the first two Perspectives clips, head over to the videos page or view just the 3rd one below.

Enjoy!
-Nicolas Teichrob

Tags: Athan Merrick, deep winter photo challenge, dendrite studios, freeskiing, matt elliot, matty richard, nicolas teichrob, perspectives, photography, skiing, whistler
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Deep Winter Photo Challenge 2010 wrap up

So last week I spent the majority of my time shooting or editing photos.  I was an invited photographer for the 2010 Deep Winter Photo Challenge put on by Whistler Blackcomb.  I was stoked to get an invite and worked hard to make sure I represented my style of photography.  I had so much fun over the 4 days of the event and despite some stresses, I’d do it again any time I have the chance.  I took home 3rd place, $1000, and most importantly, I was able to present my style of photography to a large audience.  Unfortunately, the sound techs were not on the ball during the event and the sound for my show (which ran first) was way too quiet.  Hopefully I can get the show online and you can crank the sound in the comfort of your own home.

I shot with Matty Richard and Matt Elliot, both Rossignol riders and both rippers.  My game plan was to use my creativity as a way to shoot every single action shot in a different way.  I utilized a few techniques I’ve practiced while shooting mountain biking and others that I tried for the first time and they worked great.  A bunch of these unique shots will have to remain off line until printed in the magazine, but here is a sample of some of shots from the event.  Stay posted for Perspectives #3 which will provide a behind the scenes look at  Day 1 of the event.  Thanks to Matty and Matt for skiing hard the whole time and getting up early and staying up later to get the lifestyle images I was after.  Dylan Dunkerton also came up to Whistler to help with some editing…although his computer crapped out Wednesday morning but we managed to run final cut on another comp. thanks for the help Dyl, and thanks to Stevo for constructing the music from scratch.

peace
-nicolas teichrob

Tags: blackcomb, deep winter photo challenge, dylan dunkerton, matt elliot, matty richard, nicolas teichrob, photo competition, photography, ski photos, whistler
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Behind the scenes of Perspectives clip #1

The first Perspectives web clip, ‘Winter Prep.’, was shot exclusively in Roberts Creek, BC. Dylan Dunkerton of Coastal Crew Productions was on hand to help out shooting and editing the web clip and we are thankful for his involvement. There were a few major items that needed to be built before the ski season began this year. These included a sled trailer to get gear out into sled zones, a lightweight portable slider, and some skis needed be mounted.

Athan Merrick came out to the coast to finish up his sled trailer and get his skis mounted, while I worked on designing and building the lightweight slider. The slider went through many prototype phases and the final result is lightweight and incorporates some fun machining shown in this clip.

December has shot past us and we are full on ready to capture some great images in 2010. Jan 1 was spent packing and getting ready with all my gear for the Deep Winter photo challenge. It was a great day of just relaxing and checking the mental checklists, with a bit of surfing and beach fire in there as well. I am currently up in Whistler and we begin shooting on tomorrow, the 4th. Stoked to have a lot of fun this week working with Matty Richard and Matt Elliot. Stay tuned to Dendrite Studios in a few weeks to see a behind the scenes look into the photo competition.

Happy New Year from all of us at Dendrite Studios, and enjoy the show for those of you who make it out to Deep Winter.

-Nicolas
Get creative.

Tags: behind the scenes, deep winter photo competition, dendrite studios, nicolas teichrob, photography
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