The Bird of Dreams.

Here’s the video
http://vimeo.com/28143662

When we first received a call from Epic Planks it was asking if any of the athletes in our film “Out of the Shadows” were without ski sponsors. While most already had them, a few did not. I put forth their names and contacts. Epic Planks chose Alex Blais, a long time Blackcomb local who can be seen at the lunch tables beneath Glacier lodge nearly every day. He shreds, is super stoked, and a ridiculously funny guy with some of the most absurd one liners you’ve ever heard. Besides for the communication with Alex I expected that to be the last of hearing from Epic Planks for a while. They were a small start up company. The skis shipped to Alex looked great and he raved about them. I was ecstatically surprised when Epic Planks called to offer Dendrite Studios the opportunity to film a week long heli trip just north and east of our backyard at TLH Heliskiing.

Alex Blais sending it at TLH on the Epic Planks Crop Duster.

Alex Blais of course came along with Epic Planks athletes Danny Arnold, a young up and coming jibber from Michigan, and Jon Whelan, a young shred head from Nelson, BC. Epic Planks owners Bill Wanrooy and Brian VanDenBrand graced us with their awesome presence. Nic and I were pretty stoked to meet those two guys and are happy to report that both of them were like little groms in expectations of the trip. When the owners of a ski company are that stoked you know the skis are built with passion and determination. We rounded out the trip with two of our favourite skiers from the Dendrite stable, Maxim Arsenault and Matt Elliott. Both of whom are incredibly strong skiers, love the sport as pure as one can, filled with stoke, and are simply rad human beings. For all these great people to come together on, for many, their first heli trip, was exceptional. We tip our hats to Bill and Brian for putting this trip together, childhood dreams were about to be fulfilled.

The Crew below one of countless beauties.

TLH heliskiing is in Gold Bridge, BC. We rolled up to the lodge, luxury living at its finest, everyone exchanged smirks of, “Can you believe we are here right now?” We gorged ourselves on fine dining for breakfast and dinner. Lunches were packed with nutrients to eat in the field. Hot snacks were ready when we got back and the end of each day.

First course of many at dinner.

The bartenders kept the spirits flowing and foosball, pool table, ping pong, and the hot tub were all frequented. Simply put the time before and after skiing was as good as it gets, but really that isn’t what matters. What matters is what those childhood dreams visualized. The heli approaching, staring out the window as you fly by so many of the most beautiful peaks you can imagine, the nervous anticipation of landing, jumping out into the snow with the whir of the blades overhead, the heli taking off right over your head, exchanging shakas, fist bumps, and yells and laughter as the heli pulls away, and finally skiing the most incredible runs of your life. Those were my dreams from the age of 12 on onward, and TLH manifested them into real life.

Jon Whelan was not dreaming.

One of the dreaded fears of heliskiing is the down day. Up in AK you hear stories of the slow roast. Two weeks of amusing yourself as the storm rages and the bird won’t fly. I was pleasantly suprised that at TLH because of there alpine and treed terrain down days are very rare. There needs to be extremely high winds for the heli to not fly. It was dumping our first day and we flew through the storm to ski deep tree runs. When the skies cleared later in the trip we ventured into the alpine where big AK style spine lines roll onto glaciers as far as the eye can see. Every type of skiing that exists in the mind’s eye is here at TLH with the massive terrain they have available. Ten lifetimes worth of lines, many of which are on the official Dendrite hit-list if we ever get the chance to go back to TLH. I’ll let the video do the rest of the talking, but if you haven’t been heliskiing drop everything and make it happen, and consider TLH as the spot to go. Our minds were blown and I am desperately trying to figure out how to make it happen again! Bucket list item checked.

Danny Arnold far, far away from Michigan.

Thanks to everyone at TLH! Our lead guide Greg Johnson and the rest of the guides for opening the goods and keeping it safe, the chef, the staff, pilot Steve, and the rest of the pilots. Everyone and everything was incredible!

Pilot Steve would do a little hike for some turns while we did a lap. Our kind of heli pilot.

Enjoy the edit…winter is coming sooner then you think and dreams never die!

TLH Dreaming…

-Athan

View a piece of art inspired by playing and exploring the mountains right here… and share it far and wide with your friends.

To celebrate we are dropping the price on DVD’s of our debut film from $27.95 down to $19.99! Go get your copy of the award winning Out of the Shadows in our store…

Parallels is a short film that explores parallel moments that we experience when we play in the mountains. Whether you are skiing or snowboarding, lift, sled, or foot access, we all seek the mountains and the pow for the same reasons. From making fresh tracks on the way up and down to our mountain lifestyles, we do the same things but in a different way.

This video was shot for the Telus ski and snowboard festival event, Intersection, sponsored by Drift Innovation. Unfortunately we did not win the event, but we did get our creative vision to a massive audience as we seek to push the conventional sports film world.

In recap of the event, I do not know even where to begin. For 7 days, Athan and I spent 20 hours per day shooting and editing. There was no downtime, that was when we got to sleep. 2 hours here, 2 hours there, then up to go touring. We kept the pace high throughout the whole production process and with 280 hours of work in it, Parallels is the end result of that hard work. I speak for myself, but I’m sure Athan would be on the same page, that after 7 days of the most intense work ever, I felt like a complete zombie. A state I had never ventured into, not through two degrees and 6 years of university did I ever get so worked from relentless work. An experience to remember.

It was a great experience to shoot in this event and kudos to Voleurz for taking the win.

Please spread and share the film with many.

-Nic

The requirements we are working under:
April 12 – 19 10am to 10am
30 seconds must be inbounds WB
30 seconds must be park
75% must be on snow
total length is 5-7minutes and music rights are a must

That’s all the info to give out at the moment and in just over a week from now we’ll post our show online. Oh ya, the prize, we are working towards a grand prize of $15k…pretty damn good for the first year of existence for this event. We are stoked to get after it in a big way

-Nic

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

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

We have been busy. Recovering from a sleepless year of making, releasing, and promoting this little film we made titled “Out of the Shadows.” It’s funny, once the film is shot, edited, color corrected, sound mixed, too many other tasks to count, and the final stamp of approval is given, the work has only just begun.

We had sold out premieres all over the globe with a few more coming up here in the next couple of months. “Out of the Shadows” was an official selection of many film festivals: Freshtival, IF3, Danish Adventure Film Festival, Up There Film Festival, Steamboat Mountain Film Festival, North Bend Mountain Film Festival, with more coming. We won Best Big Mountain Film at IF3 and were nominated for Best POV at the Powder Video Awards.

Here are some new clips to wet the appetite. Head over to the video page to check them out. The mini-teaser and part of Turpin’s segment have been out for a while, and our newest clip is our crash reel, because everyone loves a good crash segment! 90% of these crashes are not in the film, even though we purposely kept a lot of crashes in the film because that is a part of skiing and every skier crashes. If you don’t crash you are not skiing hard enough! So check it out and watch and laugh and cry at the boys making mistakes. Thankfully no one was hurt during the making of this clip.

If you haven’t purchased the film yet do we have permission to ask what are you thinking? This is the most affordable professional ski film ever released – get yours now for a pay what you want rate or get a dvd for your collection if you already purchased a download. Head over to the store to get inspired before you embark on your next skiing adventure.

Our skier Brett Crabtree teaches the people on how to negotiate a triple drop from our trip to Selkirk Wilderness Skiing last year over at Skiing Magazine. Go check it out here…

Thank you and hopefully everyone is skiing gratuitous amounts of pow right now!

-Athan and Nic

Intro – Summer’s Gone, by Golopapas

Brett Crabtree – Song 1: Gravity Taste Test, by Devices Disguised
-Song 2: Nail ‘em Up, by Current Swell

Chris Turpin – EEUOUAA (TheClapSong), by Chewy Chocolate Cookies

Max Arsenault – Heats Rising, by Los Furios

Ian Watson – JYD, by Espionage

Dave Gheriani /Adam Topshee/Alex Blais – So Heavy, by Black Pistol Fire

Athan Merrick/Jake Cohn – Simon Says Instrumental, by BoomBaptist

Matt Elliott – Matt Elliott’s home jam session

Little C – Signature, and Run to the Devil, by Entropik

Dave Treadway – Marmalade, by Sea of Bees

Jon Larsson – New City Anthem, by Sex with Strangers

Eliel Hinder – Be My Television, by The Racoons

Matty GT – June Bug, by Little Foot Long Foot

PY Leblanc – Air 6 (Mr. Clean Remix), by Luke Atencio and remix by Mr. Clean (Colin Smith)

Outro – Organ Inc, by Phontaine

Thanks

-nic and athan

- HD Download- Pay what you want rate, minimum of $1.99

-iPod/SD Download – Pay what you want rate, minimum of $1.99

-DVD-Limited run of only 500 – $27.95

-tshirts and hand knit toques/beanies as well

Help support us by spreading the word of the online downloads and the low cost.  We want everyone to get a copy, and for the price of a beer, there’s no reason why not.

We also thank you for your patience and apologize about the long delay. Everything is done legally, professionally, and correctly and that took a lot more delays and hurdles than we ever could have anticipated. We are wiser for it!

Here is the link to the store – http://dendrite.myshopify.com/

Thank you very much,

-Nic and Athan

-Dendrite

The movie will be for sale in 2 major formats:

1) Online Downloads – the full film will be available for download at a ‘PAY WHAT YOU WANT’ rate. We have a minimum on that rate of $1.99. At the price of a beer or a coffee, you can’t not afford to pick this movie up!! All of the funds go directly to helping the filmmakers pay off this film and generate funds to be able to produce their second film, which already has a developed concept prepared.

We will have 2 formats for downloading: HD (high definition), SD/IPOD (standard definition for older computers + for your ipods, itouchs, ipads, other portable media devices, etc.)

2) DVDs – We have only printed a Limited run of DVDs for Out of the Shadows. We want to encourage the online purchasing to decrease the overall waste, and as such only 500 DVDs will be available for purchase. These are $27.95. The DVDs and cases are made locally in Vancouver, BC. They are made with 100% post-consumer recycled chipboard stock, soya based inks, waterless printing technology and 100% wind power. We want to minimize our impact on the environment and as such, these are as plastic free as possible.

I’ll keep things updated here as we near the 1st, but hopefully that day many people will be having a movie night at home.

-Nic

Note: all prices are subject to HST and shipping.

Montreal. New city for Dendrite.

IF3 was a blur. Late nights of parties, long days of watching numerous awesome ski flicks!

During the final evening of the festival, the Newschoolers Awards were given out. We were extremely stoked to be awarded ‘Best Big Mountain Movie’ in the Open category. The nominees were: our movie, MSP’s The Way I See it, and PBP’s Revolver. To beat out MSP and PoorBoyz who both have some rather large budgets and our film shot and produced out of our pockets, feels pretty damn good.

Pleasantly surprised and uber stoked!

We are super thankful to even be nominated in the same realm as these two juggernauts. MSP’s film was amazing, with plenty of humor and as they always do, amazing cinematography.
Poorboyz’ Revolver was incredible as well. These companies have been inspirations for us. So to be considered amongst peers is an amazing feeling.

The venue for the madness.

We also want to give a shout out to our favorite film of the fest “Azadi” by B4Apres. We spent a lot of time hanging with Anthony Bonello and his documentary was a beautiful portrayal of the people and hardships of Kashmir and how skiing, as it brings joy to us skiers, can bring a new light to the locals.

We are ready for more and the next couple of projects are brewing. Look for “Out of the Shadows” to be available soon right here on dendritestudios.com. We appreciate the patience in getting our film out to the masses. It is almost here!

see ya
-nic

Now, here is a lesson to everyone, well maybe just some, or maybe just us. I arrived at Athan’s house in Vancouver last night at 11pm. We had set our wake up alarms for 5:15am. I woke up and my watch said 5:20am. After getting dressed, I woke Athan up, and he too looked at his clock and saw 5:20. After some breakfast we walked 10 blocks to the skytrain station. Hmm, weird. The skytrain had big sliding doors over the entrance…it was closed. This prompted a relook at the old wrist clock, and to my shock it was 3:00am. We had both actually woken up around 2:30am and read the 2′s as 5′s and had both fully thought it was 5:30 when we woke. So we headed back to Athan’s house, slept 2 more hours, then back to the skytrain at the proper time.

Lesson of the story a 2 is not a 5.

Head over to Zapiks.com and Zapiks.fr to see our trailer and to vote for us for the IF3 Best Teaser Award….voting on both sites counts.

off to YUL.
-nic

Dendrite Studios Presents the “Out of the Shadows” official, always updating tour schedule!

Whistler, BC – World Premiere – Aug. 9th 2010 – SOLD OUT

Vancouver, BC – Vancity Premiere – Aug. 27th, 2010 – SOLD OUT

Montreal, Canada – IF3 Pro Category – Friday Sept. 17th, 2010. 4:45pm – Cinema Imperial. if3.ca for more info and tickets.

Salt Lake City, Utah – University of Utah and the Utah Freeskier Society – Sept. 28th, 2010. Doors at 6. Show at 7:30. – Fine Arts Auditorium at the U of U.

Calgary, AB – Freshtival – Oct. 14th, 2010. 6:40pm – Uptown Theatre. freshsports.ca/freshtival for more info.

Brunswick, Maine – Bowdoin College – Oct. 14th, 2010. 8pm – Visual Arts Center Kresge Auditorium.

Vancouver, BC – UBC – Oct. 22nd, 2010. Doors at 6pm. Show at 7pm – Frederic Wood Theatre.

Traverse City, Michigan – Oct. 23rd, 2010 – Inside Out Gallery – 7pm. epicplanks.com for more info and tickets.

Seattle, WA – Oct. 26th, 2010. 8pm. EastLake Zoo Tavern – Benefit for NWAC! THIS RAISED $1600 FOR NWAC!!!

Revelstoke, BC – Oct. 28th, 2010 – Village Idiot Pub – Benefit for Revy Jr. Freeride Team!

Hanover, NH – Dartmouth College and the Winter Sports Club – Nov. 3rd, 2010. 7pm. Collis Commonground.

Sofia, Bulgaria – Nov. 5th, 2010. 19:30 local time. Vlaikova Cinema – Organized by Tribe: Freeski Internet Media.

Nelson, BC – Nov 6th, 2010. Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm. Capitol Theatre – Benefit for Avalanche Awareness Beyond the Boundaries Society for youth avy education! For tickets and info go to http://www.capitoltheatre.bc.ca/

Santa Fe, NM – Nov. 7th, 2010. 7:40pm. The Screen at Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly College of Santa Fe). Put on by whiteroomskis.com

Golden, BC – Nov. 12th, 2010. 9pm. Rockwater Bar and Grill. Tickets at the door.

Whistler, BC – Nov. 15th, 2010. 6:30pm. Rainbow Theatre, Whistler Conference Center. Benefit for the Whistler Community Services Society!

Victoria, BC- Nov 18th (thursday).  Doors open at 6:30pm, movie around 7ish, at Club 9one9 at the Strathcona Hotel, downtown.  Also, Absinthe’s film Nowhere will also be showing.  Put on by Mount Washington Ski Resort.

Vancouver, BC – IF3 Travelling Show – Nov. 20th, 2010 – Vogue Theatre downtown. 2:30 pm.

Steamboat Springs, CO – Steamboat Mountain Film Festival – Nov. 20th, 2010 – Ghost Ranch Saloon. 7pm. $5 at the door.

Waterloo, Ontario -Nov 25th, 2010. Princess Twin Theatre. Ticket cans be purchased at the theatre box office.

Grand Rapids, Michigan – Nov. 26th, 2010 – Fifth Third Ballpark (Pepsi Club). epicplanks.com for more info.

Chicago, IL – Dec. 4th, 2010 – 7pm. Martyrs. http://www.martyrslive.com/

England – Nov. or Dec.

Copenhagen, Denmark – Danish Adventure Film Festival – Dec. 2nd-5th, 2010. adventurefilmfestival.dk/ for more info.

North Bend, WA – North Bend Mountain Film Festival – Dec. 6th, 2010. northbendtheatre.com/ for more info.

Schaumburg, IL – REI – Jan 15th, 2011 – 2pm.

We will constantly be updating this list with more shows and detailed info as it becomes available. We are working hard, but can’t quit our day jobs yet! Have to pay the bills! Also if you want a show in your hometown contact us and organize one. It’s a fun and easy way to make some cash for yourself or donate to a charity.

This show will take place during Crankworx, the largest mountain biking festival of the year, and is sure to fill up quickly, so keep posted!

Thanks
-Nicolas and Athan.

Music is by BoomBaptist of Archivist Records.
Track is Albert Jones Lost My Love.
myspace.com/boombaptist
archivistrecords.com

To see Cheddar’s full segment look for the debut full length release from Dendrite Studios coming soon.
dendritestudios.com

Oh and by the way…he won.

Why is this a great fit besides the fact that every skier knows an epic day is not complete without the apres brew? Because Russell is BC brewed and is all natural with no preservatives. Maybe its placebo, but once I figured that out the beer really did taste cleaner. When I have other beers they taste a bit chemically now. Maybe I’m biased. Regardless, congrats to Russell for recently taking home two bronze medals at the World Beer Cup in Chicago for their beers: Russell IP’eh! and Russell Wee Angry Scotch Ale. After a look through the list I’m pretty sure they are the only BC brewery to bring home some medals. Strong work boys!

Nic and my alma mater has a wonderful club called UBC ski and board. This club is also reknowned for throwing ridiculous parties. So for us it was a no brainer, let’s influence our exact market share by giving them lots and lots of beer. Welcome to the party.

All photos are courtesy of Hamish Baxter.

I think this was how everyone was seeing things by the end of the night.

Ah the joys of carefree university.

This UBC ski and board club party was a formal. Apparently I made the giant mistake of never attending a formal while in university, because well, I thought they were lame. Why should I attend a university formal you might ask? Because girls outnumbered guys three to one.

What?

My lovely girlfriend helped me pour beer as I tried to figure out this mystical error in my ways. I said to her, “I don’t understand. I never went to a uni party with this good of odds.” “Girls like to dress up Athan.” Damn. What was I thinking back then?

Ya you.

As the Russell beer continued to flow my girlfriend eventually said, “If you’re a single guy here tonight and you don’t get laid…” I’ll leave the rest of statement blank. But you get the idea.

There's one guy in this pic. Enough said.

The guy in this pic is Ian Brown. He's el presidente of the club. Needless to say he had a good time.

Russell Beer makes you defy gravity.

This is Morgan. He's the treasurer. He also got the title of drinking the most beer that night while still keeping it together.

Thanks Russell for providing great moments like these!

Right to left. Dendrite athlete and club member/student Eliel Hindert, Samantha Wong who helped pour beer and keeps the guy to the right, Dendrite head Athan Merrick honest.

The girl on the right had a minumum of 4 beers by that point in the night. My guess is it was many more.

We saw a lot of this going on. Where were all the guys?

4 ladies. zero dudes.

Same caption as the last one, + 2, eh?

Everyone by the end of the night looked like they had been hit by the tornado of fun!

Two ladies in the back by the beer. What more can a guy ask for?

Number 1 Dendrite!

Thank you Russell for the shifty times.

So what’s the moral of this story?

If you are a single male in university make sure you go to formals. If you go to UBC, join the UBC ski and board club, you won’t regret it. Make sure you find the Russell kegs and the UBC ski and board club at the beach this Thursday on campus. If you are in high school and want to ski during college, come to UBC. If you want skiing stoke stay tuned to Dendrite Studios. If you need a fresh brew buy yourself some Russell beer. And always keep the good times rolling and living the dream!

All photos by Hamish Baxter.

-Athan

The machines and the lodge at SWS.

Why had we never heard of them? Well, pretty much ever since their inception, SWS has had a waiting list hundreds of people long. In the last few years with the economy not looking so positive, the waiting list has vanished and they have finally began a marketing push. Needless to say everyone at Dendrite Studios would be very suprised if that waiting list doesn’t start up again. All those people who suggested SWS were right. Damn right.

Fuel up. You'll be riding pow all day!

The crew consisted of Dendrite Studios heads Athan Merrick and Nicolas Teichrob, as well as athletes Chris Turpin, Eliel Hindert, Brett Crabtree, and Maxim Arsenault. The boys were amped to get after it.

The athletes are hungry.

Welcome to the Selkirks. Meadow Creek to be exact. On a normal year the town would be buried in snow and guests would take the cat right from town to the lodge. This year the town is dry and we drove in cars almost all the way to the lodge. As we arrived to the lodge we noticed the high freezing levels (which was expected based on reports). Welcome to El Nino. We could see the anxious looks on our athletes’ faces, while the guides assured us even though it is one of the worst snow years ever for the operation there is plenty of pow to be had.

No snow in a couple weeks? High freezing levels? You'll still ski pow. Eliel Hindert does just that.

And pow we feasted upon. Selkirk’s terrain is unmatched. They have the classic trees and pillows of every cat op in BC, but they also have spectacular alpine terrain. There are faces in every direction. Since this is an El Nino year with high freezing levels and hard sun we mostly stuck to North faces. It hadn’t really snowed in weeks but the pow was deep, plentiful, and light. Was it over the head blower? No. We had a hard time fathoming how much better the trip could get. Many times between gigantic smiles and laughter all of us said, “Can you imagine if we had blower pow on this trip?” With stoke levels at an all time high, it is hard to imagine life getting any better.

Right to the top with a cat? Ya, that's right.

The guides assured us that 95% of the time it is better. Speaking of guides hats off to Kevin and Scott who kept up with our antics and brought us to the goods safely and effectively. Those two guys are top notch and a blast to ski with.

Those are some cool dudes. Our guides Kevin and Scott eating dinner and keeping the good times rolling.

Turpin kept everyone entertained with rope swing antics and a different vision.

Chris Turpin is from a different planet. But we like that here at Dendrite Studios.

Crabtree became known as Stomptree.

Brett Stomptree...er I mean Crabtree.

Eliel continued to push the envelope.

Eliel Hindert giggling like a school girl. We love that laugh!

Maxim just did what he always does, fast and big.

Maxim Arsenault giving er!

The boys worked up a hunger feasting upon Selkirk’s delights, which brings us to food.

Fresh OJ at breakfast. Yes please.

Wow. We are all ski bums. We eat things like PB and J, and ramen, and free soup crackers from ski areas. We had never eaten so much food in our lives. Giant hot and fresh breakfasts with things like dill omelettes, eggs benedict, pancakes, and bacon. Lunch is eaten in the cat so you don’t miss any skiing time with two different types of giant sandwiches. Ruebens and seafood one day and Ham and Turkey the next. Veggies, fruit, fresh baked cookies, and the special Selkirk tea complete the mid day feast. Just when you thought you were full you get back to the lodge and appetizers are served with Thai soup and lamb kebobs with tzatziki and spanikopita. By the time the ski clothes are off and a quick hot tub rests those tired muscles, dinner is served. Steaks one night and seafood pasta another. Always with fresh salads. Awesome veggies and bread and desert. Needless to say no one ever left the dining room hungry or unhappy. Many thanks to the kitchen staff for working hard to keep hungry skiers immensely happy.

Dinner doesn't get much better.

Besides all these great things the best thing about Selkirk is the vibe. You are home, among family. The dining room has a few big communal tables where everyone mixes and mingles and stories from the day are shared. We never sat next to the same person. After dinner the small bar becomes a hang out place where the ping pong table and the pool table light up. The couches are full and people are stoked. And when the staff rallies everyone for a game of the famous Selkirk Crud, make sure you participate. It is ridiculously fun. Only a pool table, the cue ball, the number thirteen, and everyone in pure chaotic fun.

That face means they really like the famous tea in their hands. Can we get the recipe?

Stay tuned for the Selkirk Wilderness Skiing edition of Dendrite Studios’ Perspectives web clip series and many, many thanks to all of the guests and the staff at Selkirk for one of the most amazing weeks any of us have ever had!

Forest can drive a cat like no other. He's the man.

All photos taken by Nicolas Teichrob

indiSlider on a tripod. Pan and tilt. Or mount with tripod head on top of slider with accessory.

The indiSlider. Why spend valuable time on set setting up track and a dolly when you can get beautiful, smooth, tracking shots in mere minutes with a simple slider? Every sliding shot you’ll see in Perspectives clips and in the finished film was done with our indiSlider. Put it on the ground or mount it on a tripod, hang it in the ceiling. Why spend thousands of dollars on competitors offerings when you can start sliding your camera at a mere 99 bucks at indiSystems?

indislider at Selkirk Wilderness Skiing before a big boom!

The indi (compact shoulder rig) isn’t listed on the product page yet but a similar offering is available in the indiRailsPro DSLR line. The compact rig folds into itself to fit in a small box and is a beautiful shoulder rig with endless options for configuring it to body size. Having used other shoulder rigs like Cavisions and RedRock’s the little detail I like most about this unit is the small arm with a padded bracket that rests against your chest. Now you have 3 areas of support for smoother handheld shots and less fatigue in the long run. Trust me. Even supporting a lightweight DSLR rig for a whole day on set can put the strain on the back when only your hands and your shoulder take the weight. Call Tim. Hopefully he has more of these in stock, because it is a very sweet little unit that hopefully will be up on his website soon. If not you can’t go wrong with his current shoulder rigs.

indi (name not yet released compact shoulder rig)

The best thing about these products is they cost a fraction of the competitors offerings. More indiSystem product reviews coming soon.

That handle at the top is a nice add on for ground level shots. Details folks.

Cheers!

- Athan

peace
-Nic

Enjoy!

-Nicolas
Dendrite Studios.

To check out the gallery head over to the photo section at : Tracks Photo Gallery

Adios.

Athan

This Perspectives is presented by Pointofviewcameras.ca. Without their assistance we would not have these fun shots. Visit our video page to see Perspectives 1-3.

Skiing is by Jake Cohn and Athan Merrick.

Music is courtesy of BoomBaptist and Archivist Records. The track is called “Drumatic.”

Cheers!

-Athan

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