Sundays Ep. 44 All City Showdown Chicago from peter w. on Vimeo.

Two, maybe three, months ago the Sundays crew signed up for Uprise's All City Showdown (ACSC).  Inspired from the Seattle contest of the same name.  How it works is you have a team of 3 skaters and one filmer and you get 8 hours to get clips.  At the end of the day, everyone turns in their raw footage and they make a video out of everyone's footy.  So, probably the most epic Chicago skate video was made over the span of 8 hours.  I think there were 29 teams (That might be high) in the contest this year.  Crew's came from Michigan, Ohio, Dax even flew in from Arizona for it.  Needless to say, Team Last Place (That was our team name) was in for some stiff competition.  Spoiler alert, we did not win.  We had a few clips in the final edit, which you can buy from Uprise.

So, this is my edit of our footage from that day.  I decided to forgo the GoPro and use a big boy camera for the day, I rented a Sony FS700 from the boys at Magnanimous Media and borrowed a slider from Mo.  Not going to lie, I was really pulling for Best Use of Books Found Under a Bridge or Most Dramatic Shot of Sweeping but to my dismay, neither of those are real categories.

No one on our team thought we would win but this is skateboarding, it's not about winning.  It's about the experience and getting rad...which, I think we did a pretty good job.

Thanks again Uprise. Also, big thanks to Team Last Place: Randy Korwin, Zach Martin, Bill Wiora, and Larry Dobson (Life Coach)

. . .uh, I don't know anymore.

So, I'm not too into the big name takeover in the skate shoe world (I know, I've owned a bunch of Nikes blah blah blah). I'd like to think I'm reformed or born again when it comes to supporting anything Skater owned/operated. However, the one thing I really appreciate with these bigger companies coming in is the time and money they put behind their videos (Hopefully, guys like Russell Houghten are making some money). It really gives these guys, the filmmakers, a great chance to do something different.  Don't get me wrong, I still love the gritty GX1000 series but the camera nerd in me loves to see new technology and techniques put to work.  This New Balance Numeric video, "A Place in the Sun," is a pretty great example of that.

I'm so confused...and hungry.

A Place in the Sun from New Balance Numeric on Vimeo.

. . .check this band out (3 Days at Pitchfork).

This past weekend, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to shoot the Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago for Goose Island/rEvolution.   The plan was to shoot everyday and post a recap by 10am the following morning. . .I needed to call in reinforcements on this one.  Mainly, super editor/handsome man Dan Marcus.  Dan signed on to work overnights editing each days footage (GB-age?, this isn't film).  Dan is a wizard, there are cuts in here that I would have never thought of!  So, armed with a Sony FS700 and some Canon glass we were off!  Oh yeah, it was about 100 degrees all weekend, rad.

Day 1 - The Beer

Goose Island @ Pitchfork Day 1 - 2013 from Goose Island Beer Co. on Vimeo.
Day 2 - The Music
Goose Island @ Pitchfork Day 2 - 2013 from Goose Island Beer Co. on Vimeo.
Day 3 - The Fest
Goose Island @ Pitchfork Day 3 - 2013 from Goose Island Beer Co. on Vimeo.
All three days. A look back on the entire weekend.
Pitchfork Music Festival from Goose Island Brewery from Goose Island Beer Co. on Vimeo.

I still haven't caught up on sleep.