First of all, thanks Brian, this deck is sick.

Brian at Earthwing skates set me up with a killer new longboard built for speed and agility, and it sure lives up to that purpose. I have gone way faster on this thing just on mellow hills than I could on my old board on more aggressive hills. The result? Me scaring the crap out of myself and bailing hard every time I have ridden the board. I definitely need to build up some more speed skills to avoid those embarrassing crashes. One another note, when cruising at lower speeds and on flatter ground, this deck is effortless. It glides along with almost no pushing needed, and carves like a dream. The wider bear grizzly trucks combined with the concave deck surface make it super easy to initiate smooth accurate carving.

I have to say, this video is incredibly well shot. Every time we watch this one we are inspired to skate harder and design better.

Hopefully you will like it as much as we do, and if you are not a longboarder maybe it might inspire you to give it a try.

The craziest part, at least from my perspective, is that this whole video is shot using a digital SLR camera, not a video camera. The film was shot using the new Canon 7D, which blows me away. This is definitely going to be in the list of equipment we need to pick up.

This was the original logo that was sent to me by a good friend. I had offered to clean it up for him and get him a good copy to work with. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was going to be a lot harder, as the original wasn't scanned in or something nice like that. The original was done by another friend in Edmonton, who then took a picture of it with his camera and emailed to a friend in Regina. I didn't realize how low quality it really was until it was in my hands. This is what I ended up with:

What I thought was going to be a simple project, ended up taking quite a bit longer than originally anticipated. Overall though I'm pretty happy with the result, as was my friend. Instead of a grainy logo that would have been impossible to work with, they have something that can change colors like a chameleon.

That's all for now, got going to bore you with the technical details of what I did, just a basic logo-improvement using photoshop, but what I will do is tell you to go to their event if you're in Regina, July 10th/2010.

Stay fresh!

--T

We finally rolled out our new ad in the current June 2010 issue of ConcreteWave Magazine, and we hit the mark we were looking for.  The ad is meant to exhibit some of our talents, not particularly sell our services.  After all, what business does an ad talking about multimedia services have in a hardcore skate magazine?  None whatsoever!  The desired effect is to have readers stop at our full page ad and say "That looks rad, who the hell is DangerDynamite!?", and we are certain it will generate the response we are looking for.

Take a peek at the ad below...