The Car Danchi NO.5 movie showing in Tokyo tomorrow night will be broad cast live on Ustream check it out.
Yes Warren Miller was a narrating genius. “Ski Country” from 1984!
It continues to amaze me how good reggae music sounds with Snowboard Powder riding visuals! Here is a great example from our “Danchi” friends in the EU. Rene Schnoller with a wicked part filled with powder shots from around the globe and a good selection from their trip to Hokkaido last season! Sweet!
I miss the classic narration from Mr. Warren. Still some pretty epic shots and I am interested to check the footage from India’s Gulmarg resort. Looks like they got it good!
This looks like a good event, unfortunately for me I have my own event on the same day same time so I won’t be able to make it. Check it out if you are in the Nakameguro area.
I was tipped on this fantastic article about Japan’s on going nuclear nightmare and the causes behind it. This is a super read from someone who truly knows Japan, its culture, history, and inner workings! You must read this.
Here is a short clipping to whet your appetite, follow the link to read the whole article.
Amakudari : Japan’s system of amakudari (literally, ‘descent from heaven’), in which bureaucrats retire from their ministries to take up lucrative positions in the companies they formerly ‘regulated,’ means that there is no real distinction between regulator and regulated in Japan. Indeed, it’s probably fair to say that certain powerful industries actually regulate the ministries that are tasked with regulating them. There is a simple reason for this, which anyone who has ever lived in Japan will immediately understand: in Japan, sempai is for life. Keep in mind that the retired bureaucrats who have become industry executives remain sempai to the younger bureaucrats who remain in the ministries (their former kohai). It is unthinkable that these kohai could effectively regulate their former sempai — for it would involve an inversion of one of the most fundamental relationships in Japanese life. Perhaps no industry is as rife with amakudari as the nuclear industry. Tepco is typical, with four company vice presidents between 1959 and 2010 coming from Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Commission, the main ministry tasked with overseeing the nuclear industry.
This is still a month away but thought I would get the info out early for the early planners!
One Films and Blueblood will be teaming up to create a booth at the Higashida Tomohiro live concert event in Tokyo October the 23rd! This is going to be a fun show and I am planning to be there. Will be selling copies of Car Danchi 5 and hope to display and sell some original photography. Check the fliers below for more details, spread the word!
The new Sweet Grass movie premiered in Tokyo today, I couldn’t make it there but I just checked out the teaser on Vimeo.com If you like beautiful cinematography, epic slow motion shots and cool acoustic music you have got to check out Sweet Grass and their new movie “Solitaire” Looks wicked! The makers of “Signatures” by the way.
SOLITAIRE: A Backcountry Skiing, Snowboarding, and Telemark Film from Sweetgrass Productions
In the high desert of South America, winter takes hold, devouring bleached bones and abandoned shacks. Into these most inhospitable of lands, a handful of drifters emerge from the whiteout, ready to cast their lot on forsaken peaks both merciless and magnificent. Venturing beyond the frontiers of most mountain films, Solitaire is backcountry skiing forged in the tradition of Western cinema. Born in the spires of Argentina’s legendary Las Lenas, a lonely two-year journey begins through an abandoned world, wandering the length of a continent from Peru’s Cordillera Blanca to Chilean Patagonia.
Lost in the winds of snowbound badlands and the blizzards of primordial forests; seen from a horse’s saddle and a paraglider’s wings; ridden on ski and board and Telemark…
Solitaire fuses western-inspired tales of backcountry gambles into landscapes never before visited on film.
Shot on location in: Las Lenas, Argentina; Portillo, Chile;
Nevados de Chillan, Chile; Patagonia, Chile; Bariloche, Argentina; Caviahue, Argentina; Huaraz, Peru; Iquitos, Peru; Uyuni, Bolivia; and Sajama, Bolivia.
We are leaving the cars behind this coming weekend and will be flying to Tokyo for a series of event and movie showing in the big still slightly radioactive town known as Tokyo.
Hope to meet up with some friends and fans please stop by and say hi at one of the showings! First up is this event on the 1st of October in the Kanda area.
Download pdf file below if you want to read in detail!
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