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The Full Length

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The Full Length This video is a huge reason as to why I wanted to start this blog. The incessant bombardment of short form visual and written media is admittedly intoxicating and it’s easy to trick oneself that you are consuming an incredible amount knowledge and inspiring content, but then the party ends and you’re left alone in the living room on a shabby couch in a house that you may or may not know the occupants listening to the incoherent ramblings of some guy with a lighter leash. But out of nowhere HUF drops a full length that, dare I say, is the best skateboard video to come out since Photosynthesis . The early Transworld influences are obvious so I’m not dismissing those videos but they always felt slightly disjointed due to the singular nature of filming for those projects. Like Photo, this is a team video and it shows. It sounds silly to say but this video quite literally made me feel better in all areas of my life. This feeling of, “Thank god we can still make art in skate
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Immersive Impressionism

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 Immersive Impressionism An Article I wrote for The Snowboarder’s Journal Issue 21.1 Impressionism is a style of art that developed during the mid-to-late 19th century in Paris. At its core is painting to endow the essence of both light and subject, interpreted in the moment and on the spot. Raw and impermanent, colors tend to transition loosely as new layers of paint are added to still-wet layers upon the canvas. The result is a painting that looks a lot like what we feel when experiencing life. We see a sunset and feel its warmth; we see a storm approaching and feel its strength.We place our own emotion within our everyday view of the outside world, as well as our depictions of it. The human eye sees the world at between 30 and 60 frames per second. When shooting a camera between 30 and 60 frames per second, a moving object will blur under most circumstances. Therefore, our eyes, all day, everyday, are taking in the world with a varied amount of motion blur. We naturally perceive our
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