Arbitrarily Pear!

Huzzah! I just checked. We haven’t posted anything since March 14th. But why would we have? Those guys that still live up in Whistler don’t film or do anything other than ride by themselves in the park and sit at Mogul’s for hours on end waxing intellectual and judging every single passerby. Oh, except… once a year, every year, on a magical weekend up in the small remote forest town of Whistler, Robjn Taylor dusts off his life camera to make a run at the 72 hour Film Festival. A lovely little film festival hosted by all kinds of do-good companies with slogans like, “If this were a communist country, we wouldn’t have events like these!” Give it up for democracy, kids! Because if this were a communist country, you wouldn’t have websites like this! … That post once every few months… If that.

To each according to his needs, from each according to his ability! Now I bring you a video for the people, by the people! Arbitrarily Pear!

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Arbitrary that the pear is red? Perhaps!
Mikee

P.S. Oh yeah… It also won the festival.

B-Day, Seriously

The other day was Robjn’s birthday. So in celebration of himself, he paid our filmer a little extra gravy on the side, unbeknownst to us, to only film him. While pretending to carry on filming, he would stop recording whenever any of us were riding. Sadly, kids, we were all performing magnificent feats never before maneuvered on a snowboard. But I guess now you’ll never know. When confronted about this, Robjn didn’t even deny it, but instead claimed, “Well, yeah, it’s my birthday.” Because that’s the kind of guy he is.

Touche, Robjn. Touche!

Time Well Wasted Intro

Oh hey! Robjn here…

So last June, Kevin and the Sandbox crew hired me to direct this intro to their current movie “Time Well Wasted”. Maybe you’ve seen this concept used before and maybe you haven’t, but you definitely haven’t seen it used this exhaustively and to such a dynamic extent and with a shirtless Geeves. Filming took up the entire month and everyone involved pulled their shit together like when you’re driving home after a few drinks and (suddenly!) you end up face to face with an Officer of the Law at a roadblock or, perhaps, the scene of your accident.

Either way, it was recently awarded “Best Video Opener” by the kind and good looking people of Future Snowboard Magazine. Since there are no credits for it, here’s a quick rundown:

Produced by Sandbox Films (Kevin Sansalone)
Directed by me (Robjn Taylor)
Edited by Clayton Larsen
Technical Assistance by Brian Hockenstein
Some Invaluable Help from Eric Weber, Johnny Fats, Matthew Morgan, all the riders (obviously), and friends.

The song is called Birdsong, and it’s performed by The Golden Dogs.

Enjoy and so forth!
Robjn.

Also: Higher quality Quicktime file available when you click this.

I Have Mitosing Cells

In our spirited yet slack effort to post a full archive of our old videos, I have dug up I Have Mitosing Cells, a Robjn Taylor original.

Shoulda Been Gone!

There was a comment on Evan and Scott’s video Sherry, Baby! asking what all the songs were… So I put together a YouTube track listing. Yeah, it’s almost 2008 so this sort of thing is fairly easy. I will note although their video is currently labeled “Sherry”, and not “Sherrie” (as the Steve Perry song), they may want to rethink their careers in Rock History; But who knows, maybe that blondie’s name was Sherry, not Sherrie, and the sound just fit. And now I carry on!

Here we are… In order of appearance.

Oh Sherrie - Steve Perry
I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls
Easy Lover - Phil Collins
Your Love - The Outfield
Africa - Toto
Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac
Heat of the Moment - Asia
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Sister Christian - Night Ranger

“Steve, what about the battle to the death between good and evil?”

To Make Waffles

Here we have another entry of Robjn’s into the Whistler 72 Hour Film Festival, “To Make Waffles”. Which year, I can’t be certain. You see — we drink a lot, and can’t afford to remember silly things like dates, or people’s names, or family member’s birthdays. All I can remember is that I didn’t go to support Robjn when this was being aired at the festival… because I had better things to do; and I don’t know about where you’re from, but in North America, they charge by the hour.

To Make Waffles!

Good Things

And here’s another archived video. Sorry, still no new ones — although very soon I’m sure. Whistler has been open for a bit, and the city mountains in Vancouver just opened up. Either way, here’s another one to hold place for the next little bit… This was from the spring… I don’t know when; Whenever I was riding that 53 signal. 3 years? I can live with that. It’s Me, Rusty, Robjn, and friends snowboarding up in the Whistler park, spring time. Hooray.