I was required to pull a new still for the film - thought I might as well share it here as well. I’m excited to say what this still was pulled for, but I’m unable to say just yet, a few more days and I’ll be able to write about it! In the meantime, thanks to everyone for the tremendous support lately - it is very motivating. 
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I was required to pull a new still for the film - thought I might as well share it here as well. I’m excited to say what this still was pulled for, but I’m unable to say just yet, a few more days and I’ll be able to write about it! In the meantime, thanks to everyone for the tremendous support lately - it is very motivating. 

This was taken around out 9th morning of our trip – we’re either on the far end of Washington or just getting into Idaho.

In the background you can half see a group of female bicyclists that we ran into several times up until Montana. They had a pretty inspiring mindset about traveling – and one of the women would later email me on the memories from her ride, saying:

“…It haunts me now like a dream that only exists in my head, separate from everything in my day to day ‘real’ life.”

I thought that was one of the most perfect and beautiful ways I’d ever heard a person describe the after effects of their trip.

This was still in Washington… probably only 3 or 4 days into the trip. It was a very beautiful area… big skies… endless evergreens… slow climbing hills. 

I remember when logging and tagging this footage - just how much we captured here… I have tons and tons of wide open shots, tons of close ups of everything from Larry… to evergreens… to chipmunks :) 

This day was a really long, slow climb for Larry – the hills just kept winding their way through the evergreens and after every turn, was another upward slope.

We pulled off the road after a while and walked around on a hill-side. Where we took this shot, and tons of other ones. We used all of our equipment on that hill: our Fx1 (with the 35kit), the Z1u, and Olivier’s 16mm.

It was a beautiful spot – and I hope to go back and sit there one day… just take in the view.

Archives : Originally posted June 11th, 2007

It’s 11:50 at night right now, I’m curled up in my tent, 3 miles outside of Republic, Washington. I’m pretty heavy-eyed at the moment, so this might be a somewhat short post.

I’m very excited to post the 1st sneak-peak raw interview of the trip. I met Jack Denson in Rockport and knew right away he was “one of those people” I’d love to talk with at several points during our way east (if he’s willing, of course). He’s got just a great personality, and he’s very relaxed on camera.

We lost him for a day after Marblemount, but drove past the bike shop in Winthrop and spotted him talking outside. Turned out he was spending the day at the KOA down the street and was happy to talk to us.

One thing to keep in mind is we didn’t have the “nice microphone” on the camera with the HDV35 kit, we ran the XLR into the wide, so this is a shot-gun mic mounted to the front of the FX1. We have the nice-nice sound on the other tape, which, if I had the time, I could have synced up the two. But I’m on the run, so that will have to wait.

I think the interview went great - I can’t wait to talk with Jack more, further down the road. Take a moment to check out his ‘Crazy Guy on a Bike’ page, also he’s helping to raise awareness for Wounded Warriors, so take a moment to support them in any way you can.

I would love to hear your thoughts or questions! Goodnight.

Archives : Originally posted June 9th, 2007