Local filmmaker Chris Kas just finished work on his short film, "Good News" and wouldn't you know it if the Source Weekly played a starring role. Well, actually one of our boxes was the star, not us.
So someone at Fuel TV is really liking Bend. In the recent installment of "Snowboard Diaries," a documentary style show that follows some of the best riders in the world through a winter season, they tail Hampus Mosesson, and Jacob Wilhelmson as they film for their new production company Actionhorse Films.
Check out Bend's Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV's "Firsthand," a series that profiles the lives of athletes from all sorts of fun sports.
With this uncharacteristically warm and mild weather in town and wet at best conditions up in the mountains, my attentions have been slightly diverted. Trying to stay constructive, I focused my energy on some summer sport fun and construct a new riverboard.
As promised, here’s some video of Hillstomp at the Domino Room on Saturday night. Sorry for the shaky camera work, but all of the dancing hooligans you’ll see on in the video kept bumping into me.
On Saturday night, Empty Space Orchestra pretty much destroyed the Domino Room stage (not literally) with a freakishly tight set before Portland' Hillstomp further decimated said stage with their own killer set. Here's video of Empty Space at its best.
Our review of the Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe show from last week won’t be in the paper for another few days, but we couldn’t wait any longer to get this to you. Here’s some video of Keller rapping about the importance of getting up early for a day of snowboarding.
Tyler Spencer and a prized didjTyler Spencer was only 15 when he stumbled across a metal tube in his
parents' basement and happened to blow into it, creating a unique
resonating sound. While the tube was actually a piece of exercise
equipment, Spencer's father told him about an Australian Aboriginal
instrument called the didjeridu. Spencer began scouring reference books
and other materials, eventually creating his own out of a pine log for
a school project. Fast forward 15 years and Spencer now makes and plays
this ancient instrument for a living, having even gone to Australia's
Northern Territory and studied under the highly respected Aboriginal
elder Djalu Gurruwiwi. Based out of his home on Bend's east side with a
recording studio just off of the workshop where he creates his
instruments, Spencer is bringing ancient Australian traditions to
Central Oregon and he's doing it with style.
"I make very high-quality didjs for people very serious about playing …
it's kind of my duty to pass on my experience and what I've learned,"
he says.
Throughout much of the day yesterday the sky was spitting out snow, much of it mixed with rain, but up on Mt. Bachelor it was dumping.
This morning, the Blender caught wind that Mt. Bachelor (read about their off-season changes in this week's feature article) had released a video celebrating it's 50th anniversary so we clicked on over to YouTube and thought we'd share it with you.
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