It’s been snowing like crazy here so there really hasn’t been any biking done lately. About a week ago I posted the snow bike video and promised another one soon. Unfortunately I haven’t gotten back out to the bike shop to ride it yet, and therefore there’s no new snow bike video yet. However me and Stuart Kennedy made a snow scooter the other day out of an old razor. The thing is pretty sketchy but also pretty fun. We headed up to Quilchena today with my brother and made a little video out of it. I’m not sure if this is completely terrible or not, but it’s some kind of content. Hit the jump for a picture and the video.

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Mark Matthews sent over a mixtape he made. Lots of fun tracks and I’ve had it play through a few times. Listen to it after the jump.

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Our friend Stuart Kennedy has been teaching at Arts Umbrella for the past year or so helping out with their photo programs and a bunch of other good stuff. Tonight is the opening of the Arts Umbrella Instructors show and he’ll have some work to show at it. Check out the show tonight if you’re in the Granville Island area.

Date: December 27th - January 4th
Location: Old Bridge Studio & Gallery (On Railspur Alley in Granville Island)

Merry Xmas everyone. Or whatever you may celebrate! I think I might keep this theme forever…

edit: No more xmas theme, happy boxing day.

I just wanted to direct your attention for a minute to a new feature that Brian came up with for the site. It’s a little microblog in addition to our regular stuff. Over there on the right side of the page, above “Categories” there’s a link that says “[+] Mini Updates!”. If you click that a little piece of magic appears and you’ll be able to keep up to date with us. So far Brian Park, Riley McMaster, Colin Bridges and myself have been updating it with every useless thing that happens to us. There will probably be more additions to the list so keep checking back to find out when we play scrabble or put iPods in the washing machine.

So as most people in probably know it’s been snowing like crazy in Vancouver lately. This pretty much means no bike riding, however it does mean lots of snow biking. Over the last week Mark and Jason built a pretty damn awesome snow bike out of whatever they could find at the shop, and today we got to take it out for a spin. This video is pretty much just us getting used to it as once we got the hang of it it was too dark to film. We’ll definitely be taking it out for another session soon and I’ll be sure to get some footage of some epic carves and jumps later this week. Hit the jump for the video of our snow day with Jason, Mark, Ainsley and myself, as well as some pictures of the bike.

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Peter recently asked me to re-create the Gnarwhale logo for him in Illustrator so that he could try using his works cutter. Hit the jump to check out what he came up with, or hit up the new Downloads Page to grab a PDF or EPS of the file Peter used.

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Kyle Stark just put together the final trailer for the Team Dilly video titled (They don’t think it be like it is, but) It Do. I’ve been helping Riley film some clips for this so it’s cool to see some of them in here! Hit the jump for the video.

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I made a mashup called Ishmael Goes to France and Germany, and then I used an iPod Touch to control Ableton Live to play it. Video and mp3 after the jump.

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This is pretty much essential viewing for anyone who hasn’t seen it: the Powers of Ten video by Charles and Ray Eames. I hadn’t watched this in awhile and decided to see if it was up on vimeo. I found the original version from 1977 with it’s classic narration, as well as a version with with a new score commissioned by the northwest film forum composed by scientific american. Hit the jump to check out the videos.

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