Did you make it down to Fremont for the First Friday Art Walk? If you didn’t make sure to come by evo through the month of June to check it out. This month the timesinfinity gallery at evo is featuring local artist Son Duong and Friday June 6 was the opening. Son is a local artist who does graphic design with Byerly Wakeboards as well as other industry brands such as Skullcandy . A lot of us here at evo were familiar with his work and were really excited to have him showing at evo. Also, for those of you unfamiliar with First Friday, it’s a reoccurring Art Walk in the Fremont district of Seattle where businesses feature new artist exhibits and open their doors to the community to debut them on the first Friday of each month. Go to www.fremontfirstfriday.com for more on the Fremont Art Walk!
For this month’s opening event the evening sun came out around 7pm as people started trickling in down the streets of Fremont to check out our latest artist Son Duong.
With a drink in hand, everyone enjoyed watching Son put some final touches on one of his pieces. Between painting, and chatting with peeps about his work, Son also brought his own line of tees and caps that will be available at evo for the rest of the month. While most attendees had been to the spot before, newcomers were overwhelmed by the large retail space that accompanies the timesinfinity gallery.A big thanks to all of you that made it to First Friday and for those that didn’t, we hope to see you on July 4th. I know it is the 4th of July but we have an amazing gallery for the month of July: original works by Shepard Fairey thanks to Gus Tarantino and his private collection. See on the 4th of July at 7:00pm!
Photo Cred: Tre D. (www.onetwotre.net)
Hunting Yeti Update
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HUNTING YETI SPRING UPDATE
By Ike Smith
Hello again friends, family, and supporters of Nimbus Independent’s “Hunting Yeti” project. This is your trusty correspondent Ike Smith with an update from the first month of shooting for Webisode 3.
The last half of April blessed the Northwest with steady snowfall at a lower than average elevation, so we all celebrated by skiing nearly everyday for two weeks. Chris and Pep were in Alaska filming for PBP, while the rest of the crew was in Oregon. Mt. Hood Ski Bowl was nice enough to let us come to the resort midweek for a private pow session, which produced the worlds smallest backflip session on the world’s smallest jump. Andy won the style award, with a perfect statue backflip, while I tried a double back off a jump that came up to my waist, receiving crash of the day. Once the skies started to clear, we hiked around the canyons and found some pretty cool snow formations. We were able to jump off, on, up to, and use them any which way we could. The filming hunt only lasted a day or two until the snow baked out, and with the inspiration of the “Duff Pirate” we decided to gear up for the first snow camping mission of the year.
After having such a good time in Oregon it was time to try out Washington, on a volcano that blew up in the last 30 years. The crew consisted of myself, Pollard, Mahre, Wiegand, and Felix Rioux. We took our snowmobiles with us, which made us think it would be a good idea to pull a trailer behind us. Mine was two snowboards with a plastic sled mounted on top, while Pollard and Wiegand tried the inflatable raft method. Let’s just say it took us over two hours to make it ten miles to the camp spot, and it wasn’t pretty. Once we got camp set up and ate dinner it was time to rest up for the next day. We woke up early and started to explore the mountain. It wasn’t long before finding a real nice left side hip. After some deliberation on the angle of the lip, we got it built and sessioned it for a while. It turned out to be one of the most fun jumps of the year. We decided to leave the next day, and fortunately, the ride out was much easier since all the beer was in our belly’s instead of on our backs. After a few days rest, it was time to head to Mammoth, California and meet up with Chris and Pep.
Chris, the big time local aside from my 4 year stint, got us in to hit Snowboarder Mag’s Superpark on the backside of the mountain. Since it was snowboard SP, we got to session with some crazy snowboarders. As usual Mammoth had some big hits pushed up; hips, step down, crazy three way gap, which all had real nice transitions. After a couple days back there, it was time to hit the Main Park, which had some awesome features as well. Chris, Pep, Eric, and Garrett Russell sessioned down a 10 foot section of a lift tower stuck straight up in the snow, with a 15 foot gap on and off. It was all fun and games until Pep went for a leap frog, and did a Kung Fujas straight into it. Unfortunately, the tower won. He toughed that one out as usual, while the rest of the crew got some good shots. Eric, Wiegand, and Garrett left that night to get the next camping mission lined up in Mt. Hood. Chris, Pep, Felix and I stayed behind and got to hit another amazing jump that Mammoth built on the backside. It was a bit windy, but the backdrop was beautiful and the boys got some more shots in the bag. As I write this, we’re on our way to meet up with the rest of the crew at the campsite tomorrow morning for what should be a great session on Mt. Hood, with the whole crew together for the first time this year! Could get crazy. Tune into Webisode 3 at rip.tv/nimbusindependent on June 15th and be sure to download the Hi-Def version!
Fremont First Fridays @ evo Timesinfinity art Gallery
Featuring: Mike Enen
May 2, 2008
evo's Timesinfinity Art Gallery was glad to open it's doors once again to Fremont First Fridays! We took a short break there but we were stoked to bring in artist and Pro Wakeboarder Mike Enen.
If you haven't seen the exhibit yet, definitely come check it out...it's pretty amazing stuff!
*Photos by: Tre Dauenhauer
HUNTING YETI SPRING UPDATE
By Ike Smith
Hello again friends, family, and supporters of Nimbus Independent’s “Hunting Yeti” project. This is your trusty correspondent Ike Smith with an update from the first month of shooting for Webisode 3.
The last half of April blessed the Northwest with steady snowfall at a lower than average elevation, so we all celebrated by skiing nearly everyday for two weeks. Chris and Pep were in Alaska filming for PBP, while the rest of the crew was in Oregon. Mt. Hood Ski Bowl was nice enough to let us come to the resort midweek for a private pow session, which produced the worlds smallest backflip session on the world’s smallest jump. Andy won the style award, with a perfect statue backflip, while I tried a double back off a jump that came up to my waist, receiving crash of the day. Once the skies started to clear, we hiked around the canyons and found some pretty cool snow formations. We were able to jump off, on, up to, and use them any which way we could. The filming hunt only lasted a day or two until the snow baked out, and with the inspiration of the “Duff Pirate” we decided to gear up for the first snow camping mission of the year.
After having such a good time in Oregon it was time to try out Washington, on a volcano that blew up in the last 30 years. The crew consisted of myself, Pollard, Mahre, Wiegand, and Felix Rioux. We took our snowmobiles with us, which made us think it would be a good idea to pull a trailer behind us. Mine was two snowboards with a plastic sled mounted on top, while Pollard and Wiegand tried the inflatable raft method. Let’s just say it took us over two hours to make it ten miles to the camp spot, and it wasn’t pretty. Once we got camp set up and ate dinner it was time to rest up for the next day. We woke up early and started to explore the mountain. It wasn’t long before finding a real nice left side hip. After some deliberation on the angle of the lip, we got it built and sessioned it for a while. It turned out to be one of the most fun jumps of the year. We decided to leave the next day, and fortunately, the ride out was much easier since all the beer was in our belly’s instead of on our backs. After a few days rest, it was time to head to Mammoth, California and meet up with Chris and Pep.
Chris, the big time local aside from my 4 year stint, got us in to hit Snowboarder Mag’s Superpark on the backside of the mountain. Since it was snowboard SP, we got to session with some crazy snowboarders. As usual Mammoth had some big hits pushed up; hips, step down, crazy three way gap, which all had real nice transitions. After a couple days back there, it was time to hit the Main Park, which had some awesome features as well. Chris, Pep, Eric, and Garrett Russell sessioned down a 10 foot section of a lift tower stuck straight up in the snow, with a 15 foot gap on and off. It was all fun and games until Pep went for a leap frog, and did a Kung Fujas straight into it. Unfortunately, the tower won. He toughed that one out as usual, while the rest of the crew got some good shots. Eric, Wiegand, and Garrett left that night to get the next camping mission lined up in Mt. Hood. Chris, Pep, Felix and I stayed behind and got to hit another amazing jump that Mammoth built on the backside. It was a bit windy, but the backdrop was beautiful and the boys got some more shots in the bag. As I write this, we’re on our way to meet up with the rest of the crew at the campsite tomorrow morning for what should be a great session on Mt. Hood, with the whole crew together for the first time this year! Could get crazy. Tune into Webisode 3 at rip.tv/nimbusindependent on June 15th and be sure to download the Hi-Def version!
evo Timesinfinity Art Gallery | Feat. Mike Enen
Fremont First Fridays @ evo Timesinfinity art Gallery
Featuring: Mike Enen
May 2, 2008
evo's Timesinfinity Art Gallery was glad to open it's doors once again to Fremont First Fridays! We took a short break there but we were stoked to bring in artist and Pro Wakeboarder Mike Enen.
For those of you who are not familiar, Mike is a talented Northwest's wakeboarder and is a key rider on Liquid Force's pro team. Mike is also a gifted artist whose work has been featured on Liquid Force's boards. Mikes work at first glance looks like detail line art or a drawing, but upon closer inspection you'll notice that there is something very unique about his work. Its an olde process called releif printing...check it out on Wikipedia!
If you haven't seen the exhibit yet, definitely come check it out...it's pretty amazing stuff!
*Photos by: Tre Dauenhauer
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