Going to check out the Spacecraft All-Star sticker sheet release party on the 8th?

Before you go, come see the second best thing going on in Seattle. Visit Twilight Gallery for the First W3 Collective Opening April 8th 6-9pm.

James Haffner, one of our buddies over at Stratton Mountain School, sent us these amazing photos by Thomas Tikos taken on Saturday at the US Open Slope Course.

Commander Sullivan reporting from the dark and wet regions of Alaska. Since our last update we have spent an unearthly amount of time locked in our stationary living vessels. The Pan Pacific jet stream has taken aim directly at our crew and has barraged us with storm after storm. We have seen the stars come out a few times at night, but the clear skies are gone by the time we are set to depart in the helicopter at dawn.
The best chance we had for a flight mission was the morning after my rock and roll concert in the guide school at the Pioneer Bar, when, after going to bed at 3:30 a.m. with raining skies, dawn broke to clear skies for miles. There is some truth to the saying “drinking it blue,” especially here in Alaska. Someone must not have done their share of self-sacrifice, though. Justin Hostynek, the commander in charge of the video division, had opted out of the ceremonies that night, so maybe blame could be placed on him for the clouds rolling in as we approached the helipad. There’s no arguing with Mother Nature up here. You get what you get.
Avalanche conditions are now at an all-time high after a series of storms that packed copious amounts of precipitation and winds. So even if the sun does come out for 24 hours, intrepid is the soul that first sets foot on some of the bigger exposed slopes.
My sarcastic favorite of this past week was when Camera Technician Jake Price and I stood atop one of the funnest lines we had ever planted our flags on, 2 feet of pow, ready to rip it until the Video Squad leader forbade us to ride it so as to save it for the “real” riders. The lookdown on that one was one of the hardest ever to walk away from. At this point our tracks would have been well covered as there is most likely upward of 6 feet of snow on top of it. I will attach some visual proof of Jake looking down it so one might have a taste. Can I have some cheese with my whine?
During this earthlocked interim we have been keeping ourselves busy in various manners. Gigi has been having lots of arts and crafts time, building snowmen/women and doing lots of stop frame photography and Super 8 filming for the new movie he is working on with Jake Price. Jake Blauvelt has his femme-bot, Kristin (who is also working as a guide with one of the outfits), so we don’t see too much of them on the down days (wink , wink). The rest of us are just lonely Cosmonauts awaiting our next deployment and wishing that our femme-bots were here, too.
We recently had some communications with base and it appears we will be having some new arrivals by early this week from the European Sector and the Seattle Satellite. Officers Blair Habenicht, Wolfgang Nyvelt and Nicolas Muller should be arriving by Tuesday if the launch shuttle can penetrate the thick clouds of this viscious storm cycle.

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This morning we got this email from Spacecraft Astronaut Sky Siljeg:

Hi, just wanted to check in and let you know that I’m home again from Florida Bowl Riders this past weekend. Day one at a secret back yard bowl was super fun. Sunny out and really an amazing session.
Didn’t quite skate up to where I wanted to and took a 12th. I guess scores were super tight so over all I didn’t place too far out of 1st really score-wise, just lots of amazing skaters.

Day two at Kona. Looked like it was going to get rained out. I even went to the local movies to pass the time. Got the text that it was clearing up and they were drying the bowl. Left the show early and booked it for the bowl. Some serious skating always goes down at Kona. I love that bowl. Took 6th and felt like I really put out a good show. You would not believe the level bowl skating has come to. Getting into the top ten is really taking a lot. I placed 8th in the overall scores.

I feel lucky to get to even be in the bowl with some of these guys. Thank you for your support in getting me here.

After I came home I spoke at a celebration dinner for “Invest in Youth” for the YMCA. [It] was held in a huge, very full banquet room at the Everett Convention Center. [It] was all the heads of the Ymca, trustees, committee heads, etc. My talk was basically my story and what skating is to me. They put up a pretty cool picture that my mom shot at Kona. [It] was pretty cool to get a standing ovation from that group. My hope is to get more funds for programs at Mukilteo Skate Park and hopefully a roof over it at some point in the next year. I think they see what is possible through skating.

Sky attached some great pictures, too.

Seattle’s Electric Coffin will be presenting a double-feature on April 1st.

In the entryway will be “Cleaning Out the Coffin,” featuring “some awesome affordable art from several established artists throughout Seattle,” leading into the main show, a solo exhibition by Jose Rodriguez III.

The shows will be running from 6-10 pm on Thursday, April 1st–and will probably be surrounded by other outstanding First Thursday festivities. Electric Coffin Studio is located at 212 Alaskan Way S.

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This weekend is North by Northwest’s Strapless Weekend at Hurricane Ridge! Admission–$15 for one day or $20 for two–gets you a t-shirt and a raffle ticket. Olympic National Park is not charging for entrance.

Saturday includes a Park Jam at around noon, starting with a one-hour all skate jam, with the top 10 advancing to a half hour jam and the top 5 advancing to a half-hour final. First place gets $700. Also on Saturday: an evening indoor skate jam and a party at the Coo Coo’s Nest in Port Angeles with the T-Bagging Bandits.

Sunday includes the Baked Slalom around noon at the Port Angeles Speed Ditch with a $300 first-place prize, an end-of-the-day raffle, and (most likely) the Snowskate Powder Downhill.

Also, if you can get your triple “S” (Snow, Skate and Surf) all in on either day there’s a hat in it for you–and bring your hotel receipt, because they’ll be raffling off a free hotel room stay, too.

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Looking for something to do in Bellingham this Friday?

Funner Fest features DJ Ryan I and The Endorfins, plus art by Dylan Hart, Pat Kennedy, Norman Rogue, Nico Inzerella, Jenny Tofe and Jayme Wiseman. Bellingham has one of the tightest art scenes in the area–it should be a great event.

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Words cannot describe the fuzzy feeling I get inside watching this Aero ad.

Winner

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Spacecraft loves Kurtis in Reno for sending us some art with his sticker request. We are loading Kurtis up with stickers and hanging his art on our refrigerator.

Just a heads-up: if you send us art with your sticker requests, we’ll load you up with even more stickers.

We at Spacecraft like to snow skate from time to time. I think snow skating has still to reach its prime… many vision a lunch tray with grip tape and a little rail set up… back yard stuff for kids, right?… I guess it depends on how you look at it and what level you want to take it to.

I personally like the by-decks and being able to RIDE the mountain… The dudes that put on the Serpentine Massacre are of similar thought. These guys are pushing an underground movement that is likely to smear any stereotypes of snowskaters…

Riding the whole mountain on conditions that allow it can rejuvenate your love for the mountain and even act as a way to feel like a kid again… or it’s just another excuse to drink beer and get ideas for bad tattoos. Only you can decide, so, before you stereotype this “un-sport” as a novelty act, check out people who really RIDE snowskates. Your jaw will drop and you’ll become a groupie.

Check it out: Silver Fir at Snoqualmie Pass, WA : Sat March 20^th at Noon

Snow Skate

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Gianmarco Magnani’s portfolio, Silence Television, has started making its way around the Internet. He’s currently displaying and selling two series of prints: Riders & Villains and The Forgotten Monarchy.

Riders & Villains

The Forgotten Monarchy

You can check out more detailed pictures of the work here.

Magnani makes his prints on photo paper, but adds a protective film afterwards that gives the prints a matte tone. Individual prints are 100×100cm and a limited run of 10 copies; sets of four 40×40cm series prints are limited to 100 copies. I love both of these sets, but if anyone wants to get me The Forgotten Monarchy for my birthday, that’d be swell.

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Photo by Trevor Patterson | Japan

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Bellingham’s local music champions and bicycle MacGyvers over at Make.Shift (along with Mac n Mac Electric) have published a time-lapse video of the construction of their bicycle-power “Power Wheel” generator, narrated with handy notecards. Perfect for the bike enthusiast and electricity-needer on-the-go.

This is no wimpy generator, either–Make.Shift uses the bicycle to power shows in remote locations, like this one on a beach in Bellingham:

More photos of the “Power Wheel” are right over here at BuildStrong.

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Friday, April 2nd is Retro Fools Day at Stevens Pass, an event celebrating vintage boards and rad, retro gear. The older and cooler your stuff, the more time deductions you get off your runs. They’re giving out rewards for best time, best outfit, most radical, and more. A $5 suggested donation (or nothing at all) gets you into the downhill slalom race.

So you can plan your trip to Value Village/Goodwill/your grandparents’ garage, here’s some time deduction samples from the Stevens Pass website (although these aren’t set in stone):

Retro jacket: -1 sec

Retro pants: -1sec

One piece: -3sec

Pre 1995 board: -1sec

Pre 1995 skis: -1sec

Old boots: -3 sec

Monoski: -7sec

Post 1995 board: +4sec

Post 1995 ski: +4sec

I can only imagine what kind of time deduction you’d get for some legit 70’s or 80’s gear.

Our buddy Brian Chace gave us the heads-up on this Refresh/DIG edit for his BMX film, Skatepark 2, featuring Chris Martindale, Anthony Alex, Casey Zautke and Greg Tyloski. This is the last web edit of the film before the trailer comes out. We’re pretty stoked.

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Brooklyn-based artist collectives Faile and Bast have put together one of the coolest gallery shows I have ever seen–a day-glo arcade dubbed Deluxx Fluxx at Lazarides Gallery in London. It’s kind of like a normal arcade, if a normal arcade was one gigantic, black light-reactive collage. In addition to decking out old 80’s consoles, Faile and Bast plugged in original games (really, more like amazing art installations) with buddies Adapted and the Studio for Interactive Media. They even painted a Foosball table! Babelgum has this video, and Vimeo user Rockwell Kills has this one:

Deluxx Fluxx from Rockwell Kills on Vimeo.

If you find yourself in London within the next week or so, the show runs until March 27th (although some sources say it ends today. Oh well).

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El Niño has really been a bummer for the mountains in the Northwest this year, causing some astronauts to flee to Alaska in frustration. But a couple of our astronauts, Andy Bergin-Sperry and Nick Ennen, have found classic Northwest powder with a little patience, persistence, and hiking, says Liam Gallagher in this ESPN post. If you’re about to give up hope for this year’s powder, the included photo gallery will put a little anti-spring in your step.

The internship applicant bar just got raised this morning with a set of hand pulled posters. Carlee… well played.

Monster truck cat walker with freak’n missiles.

The Shakedown was a grassroots event that was started in the far away country of Canada. It has grown in popularity over the years and made its way to Washington’s Summit at Snoqualmie.

We were given an invite to come see some talented snow shredders leap off of a huge snow wedge and then navigate a rail set-up after landing that.

It was a cool scene at the Summit, with a steady crowd to cheer on the snowboard leapers.

Spacecraft stayed low key and lurked around checking out the action from the sidelines.

Congrats to Manuel Diaz and Megan Ginter from your friends at Spacecraft

The images below are a slice of the final day as seen through Spacecraft eyes.

For actual substance on the event, check out these links : Snowboarder | Transworld | ESPN |

Ryan Miller : The Clark Kent of the NW Spacecraft Rabbit and grower of the clear mustache.

Jen Tofe : NW ripper, animal lover and Spacecraft hat wearer

Manuel Diaz : Friend and super launcher… also got second place. Congrats!

Girls LOVE the Spacecraft Rabbit…” My Rabbit”…

Check out more pictures of the Ride Shakedown at Snoqualmie on our Facebook.

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If you’ve ever go to Bali, take your friend into a back alley cobra shop. Next talk your friend into drinking cobra blood. Try to get it on video. It’s some heavy metal shit.

Mike Basich, the professional powder hound seeker has paired up with GoPro and Clif Bar to bring to life a vehicle that Mike feels may change the way many of us travel to the snow. “I have been dreaming up this rig for awhile and with selling my Van to finish the film ‘Open Space‘,  I felt it was time to get my welder back out.” says mike.

This rig is going to suit every dream a snowboarder could ever wish for. Mike will be documenting the process of building this rig with his GoPro HD HERO cameras so you can build your own or learn how to film yourself GoPro style down a Alaska line this April at the King of the Hill on Thompson Pass, you’ll even get the chance to learn how to make your diesel run on grease.

“The Truck Project is another example of Mike’s creative vision and commitment to the DIY life

style, which is a perfect match since the GoPro products offers the DIY style of capturing your adventures and friends.”  Says Nicholas Woodman, CEO and president of GoPro.

Here is a sneakpeak at the unfinished rig.

The Non-blue blue prints of the truck

Under Construction

Inside the rig

The snowmobile isn't on it yet but bet you can imagine where it goes.

Keep a eye out for the final adventure to Alaska.

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The Seattle Greasebus is up and going! Spread the word and make sure to join us this next weekend (3/18-3/21) for the inaugural trips to the Summit and to Stevens Pass!

How it works:

The Greasebus service is first-come first-serve. For the spring of 2010 we’re offering trips to the mountains four days a week, pending at least 10 seats are sold. On the calendar (see link below) you can view how many riders are registered for any particular day by clicking on “Sign Up” in that date.

Schedule:

• Summit: Thursdays & Saturdays (leaves evo @ 8am, snocon at 830a)
• Stevens Pass: Fridays & Sundays (leaves evo @ 8am, snocon at 830a)

SIGN UP - Easy as 1-2-3

• STEP 1: Select a day on the calendar. (Take note of which mountain the bus is headed to.)
• STEP 2: Reserve your spot on the bus by filling in your mobile phone number.
• STEP 3: Use a credit card to pay using Paypal (no account required) for just $10!

Full details and info!!!

http://www.greasebus.com/seattle/

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Blog entry  number 1 :

Scott Sullivan (foreground), Jake Price, Gigi Ruf (seated)

Spacecraft Commander Scott Sullivan reporting from the outer reaches of the North American sector.   

     Traveling with the Absinthe Films crew we set up camp in Haines, Alaska.We were trying to escape the warmth that has plagued the Pacific NW winter  thanks to El Nino and  it looks like we suceeded. 

    However it is only February and the conditions are similiar to what we would normally find in late March early April.  It sounds like it has been a really warm winter up here as well, but luckily we can get high enough in our “whirlybirds” to get up to the goods. We are a tight  but productive unit consisting of Jake Blauvelt , Gigi Ruf, Absinthe’s filmer Justin Hostynek,Volcom’s Jake Price and myself. Short of being some kind of miracle we somehow arrived to find bluebird conditions for 5 days straight (rare in these parts). Excellent snow conditions,  stable avalanche conditions,  and a small crew made for some hyper productivity. 

      Jake Blauvelt is riding the new snowboard that was a collaboration between Ride and Spacecraft  called the High Life.  All tests of the board so far have proved positive.  Blauvelt is riding like an Alaskan vet Even though this is only his first time up in Alaska riding the giant exposed slopes and spines is new to him. Luckily he is following  in the tracks one of the great  masters, Gigi Ruf. Gigi has been riding in AK consistently for the better part of the last decade and his unique ability to be creative on such technical terrain is in a class of its own.  Both riders excel at freestyling in the natural terrain and I am happy to report that we have not built a single cheese wedge booter during the whole trip.  The jumps are as clear and free as a newborn babies conscience. 

     We are currently sitting thru our first extended bad weather period, its a great time for the crew to heal up and refresh a bit.  Today we took over the local radio station for 2 hours and the airwaves belonged to us.  Everyone took over the microphone controls at one point and dropped some classic cuts on the masses of Haines.  Yours truly played a brand new song on the air live and pumped up my concert that is going down  at the  infamous Pioneer Bar tonight,I’m anticipating it will go into the wee hours of the morning since the bars don’t close until 5 up here.   

      Reports from the snow gods are that we have received possibly several feet of snow so far out of this storm. I guess we will be saying goodbye to the snow stability that we have enjoyed thus far. We will most likely be tiptoeing around on some low angle slopes when the sun finally pops out again .  

Over and out…..

New 2011 Ride High Life

Jake Scoping with his trustee Highlife in hand

Blast Off

Make it happen.

Marco Zamora’s is an installation artist/printmaker/painter, who displays his fascination with bicycle culture with densely populated street scenes and Derek Albecks Print maker/painter/photographer who’s richly patterned works dominate. Both these artists have worked with Vans as well as exhibiting throughout the west coast.

Check out there exabition at the Fecal Face Dot Gallery, April 1st 2010, 6-9pm
Fecal Face Dot Gallery
66 Gough St. @Market
San Francisco, CA 94102
gallery@fecalface.com
415.255.6479

MARCO ZAMORA

MARCO ZAMORA

DEREK ALBECK

DEREK ALBECK

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It’s RIDE Shakedown Time!

Dont miss out on $35,000 in cash prizes!
March 12th and 13th @ Summit of Snoqualmie

Here’s the breakdown:

Friday, March 12th:

10:00 am, Amateur qualification

6:30 pm, Rail Jam

9:00 pm, Shakedown MFG After Party**

Saturday, March 13th:

12:00 pm, Snowboarder Mag autograph session

2:00 pm, RIDE Shakedown Semi-Finals

6:00 pm, Halftime Show (Skateboard)

8:00 pm, RIDE Shakedown Final

9:00 pm, Shakedown MFG After party**

**Ride Shakedown After Party:

March 12th/13th

@Hard Rock Cafe Seattle (116 Pike Street Seattle)

21+

Cover 10$ pre-sale/ 15$ at the door

9pm-2am

RIDE Shakedown!

RIDE Shakedown After Party!

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