Props to Hidehiko for coming through with the goods once again.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Green Bible
This is a Jaded Company update. Abby and Jeremey produced this video for Harper One to market the Green Bible. Jeremey Lavoi directed, shot, and edited. Abby Berendt produced, directed, and edited. Joey Rabier shot and set up the studio. Thom Blythe served on the field crew, created the motion graphics, and starred in. Abby also coordinated the whole project, including the website, which was designed by our friend Mr. Erik Jessen.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Mini Ramp Massacre
Skate Nintendo
Click the image and head to Skate Perception for a rad video concept.
Then do me a favor and digg it, because I think it has digg written all over it.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Keep A Breast: Shot in the Pit (Boobies)
When:
Saturday, Oct 25., 2008
8:00pm
Where:
San Francisco: October 25th at 8 pm
The Barrel House
80 Tehama Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Performances by Tommy Guerrero & the Get Rad 6, DJ Epcot and DJ Sosean
Keep-A-Breast is a non-profit dedicated to ending breast cancer. Their official mission is:
"...to help eradicate breast cancer by exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support. Through art events, educational programs and fundraising efforts, we seek to increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well-being."
Their most popular campaign involves the breast casting of art, music, and action sports celebrities. Yes that's right. Plaster casting the breasts of female surfers, skaters, artists, and musicians. After the casts dry, they're painted and auctioned off on Ebay. 
Since that campaign has done so well, they've branched out launching... "the Music for Awareness program earlier this year, challenging musicians and promoters to step out of the box and make a difference through benefit concerts supporting the Keep A Breast Foundation’s youth outreach efforts. This program provides bands with a unique way to inspire fans and increase breast cancer awareness and prevention."
"Shot in the Pit" is a showcase of photographs taken by Erin Caruso at Vans Warped Tour. Caruso "has donated over 45 images to the Keep A Breast Foundation. Unite the United will facilitate an online auction of images from the exhibition alongside music memorabilia and celebrity breast casts including Katy Perry beginning November 26. 100% of the proceeds generated from the touring exhibition and the online auction will be donated to the Keep A Breast Foundation’s youth awareness and outreach efforts."
This is definitely a worthy cause. So come out and support it. RSVP HERE! And if you're not in San Francisco, the show is touring around so check out an event near you.
Los Angeles: November 5th at 7 pm
The Key Club
9039 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 274-5800
Tickets $8.00 at the door or advance sale
Performances by Good Old War, Love You Moon, I And The Universe and AM Vibe
New York City: November 11th at 6 pm
Angels & Kings
500 East 11th St (between Ave A & Ave B)
New York, NY 10009
(212) 254-4090
Performances by DJs Rob Hitt, Erica Dagley and Prince Terrance
Irvine: December 4th 6pm - 11pm
Fox Head, Inc.
1621 Alton Parkway
Irvine, CA 92606
Performances by The Feelings Mutual (ex- Hot Like A Robot), DJ Blackass & Special Secret Guests
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tyler Trick Tip from the Archives
That was some TeamJaded lagniappe that I found yesterday while searching through old footage for my new reel. It was produced as a trick tips pilot for the Yahoo! Current project. Unfortunately that project tanked before this piece made it to air. I guess it's probably better that way, Tyler didn't need to be on national television lower thirded as Sweat Dog.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Youtube Takedown of John McCain
John McCain sent a letter to Youtube asking for special treatment after they took down some of his campaign videos. The videos contained news footage, so Youtube removed them at the request of the copyright holders.
McCain claims the clips qualify as fair use, and they might. The problem is that Youtube's policy is to remove questionable videos without review, if requested to do so by the copyright holder. Then the Uploader must battle Youtube to prove fair use, which is a difficult process that doesn't always favor free speech.
However, Youtube behaves this way to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that McCain not only voted for, but went on record to support. Now he thinks the law shouldn't apply to him. In plain English, he's actually suggesting that Youtube bend the rules for Politicians.
If you've ever worked in the media, or for that matter had your videos stripped from Youtube, then you know copyright issues are bothersome and complicated. More often than not material is left out to avoid tedious clearance processes or worse, lawsuit. These decisions are almost always based on a cost benefit analysis of what the material is worth in potential legal fees, rather than its value to the public discourse.
Of course it would be ridiculous to say all copyright issues come down to that, but I think the paragraph above is close to McCain's position. The way that I read his letter it sounds like he's arguing that he needs to show the news footage to comment on it, and thus convey his message. I understand where he's coming from, and would actually tend to agree with him on that point. Our copyright laws are in desperate need of overhaul. If Mr. McCain wanted to support that overhaul, I'd have a lot more sympathy for his plight.
Instead, it's clear that he sees no problem deleting Joe the Uploader's videos to comply with draconian copyright laws. He simply wants to make sure that the elite aren't subjected to the same ridiculous rules as the rest of us.
Youtube rejected his request.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Almost Made It
I had to repost that. Sorry.
There was so much going on in San Fran this weekend. Open Studios. DocFest. Hood Games. Hella Hella NorCal in Ripon. Oh and lot of wedding stuff for Abby and I.
So we didn't make it out to much, but I did check out Hood Games for a little while with my friends Tyler and John. The place was packed with kids, which made me happy because community skate parks don't survive without support. From the state of the ramps it looked like the park wasn't quite finished, but that didn't stop the kids from ripping it up. After about fifteen minutes of watching them swarm like bees we decided to take the session to downtown Oakland, which was totally deserted.
In other skate community news, Abby and I tried to stop by the San Francisco Skate Association event at Golden Gate Park on Sunday, but it turns out that the event is next weekend. Whoops.
If you're in the city drop by and check it out.
I started the day out at Potrero Del Sol where I slammed doing a kick turn. Awesome. Time to edit my new reel.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Skate Collection
Adams' Brothers Skateboard Collection from Brock Gomez on Vimeo.
This is another video from TBC Party!. Thanks for the heads up Jon. That is a lot of boards. Those guys should challenge the Skatopia board museum to a battle.
Sarah Palin, not down for skateboarding
...I found an article about Sarah Palin giving Wasilla skaters the run around when they tried to get a public park built ten years ago.
She told them Wasilla couldn't afford it and then they found out she was planning a multi-million dollar hockey complex. So they formed a committee and attended city council meetings until she agreed to match funds with them if they raised a certain amount of cash. When they raised the money she backed out of the deal.
Skaters don't know how to give up, so they kept going to city council meetings and bothering Sarah Palin until she finally caved in. Ten years later, the skatepark is still going strong. And there's a video about it on youtube:
...good small town values.
Friday, October 17, 2008
As Described
TeamJaded friend and supporter Jim Horsfield has a new project: asdescribed.net.
He describes it as:
"A sometimes redundant blog site which kicks into action when and if i do something that may vaguely be interesting to someone else.. covering audio visual shenanigans and VJ/film/video production."
Sounds familiar. At the moment he's on a two week tour with The Bays & The Heritage Orchestra in the U.K. It looks and sounds like an interesting gig:
"The premise of the show is that the Bays never rehearse/practice and jam and create their set live in front of an audience. This is somewhat easy to do(!!) as the 4 members of the bays (Andy, Chris, Simon and Jamie) have played together in this way for nearly 10 years."
Definitely worth checking out.
Skateparks SF
I just got back from a brief session at Potrero Del Sol. When I say a brief session, I mean that I literally rolled over every obstacle in the street course one time and then skated back to my car. It was nine in the morning and there were too many people there for me to have the experience I wanted, ie solitary. With that said it got me thinking about skate parks in general, I surfed the web, and stumbled on the San Francisco Skateboarding Association. I think I heard about these guys before Abby and I left for our the trip, now I'm thinking I should get involved. It seems like they're doing positive things for Skateboarding and San Francisco.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Thizzle
Random hits to TeamJaded overwhelmingly come from people google searching "Mac Dre." When you do that a picture of Mac Dre pops up in Google Images that tracks back to our site. (We took that picture from somewhere else and used it as an element in an Austin Blog from the Make It Happen trip.)
With that said, now I'm going to pander to our many "fans" looking for Mac Dre.
Thizzle Dance
Get Stupid Remix
Mac Dre Website.
Mac Dre's Wikipedia Page.
Mac Dre Myspace.
SF Gate article about his death.
Last words, bring back the headstone! And Hope Perkins, paint me that portrait PLEASE!
State of the Mental Economy
Willful ignorance is bigger problem than our economic woes, because without an informed citizenry we can’t make good decisions about our leaders, about the kinds of things that should be taught in school, or about how to manage our money.
When I watched that video I wanted to believe it was a mocumentary… On the other hand, I’ve been to rural Ohio so I guess it’s not that hard to believe.
Wake up people. Do you really want to be on television saying Obama is a Muslim, when clearly one of the biggest “scandals” of the season was about his Christian church leader? America is operating on brain level zero.
The bottom line is that our country is mentally segregated. Lefties on the coasts and in the cities. Right Wingers in the countryside and the suburbs. This sort of segregation is making for awkward elections, a crumbling economy, embarrassing foreign policy, and corporate rape of the globe. If we all congregate to communities that reinforce our beliefs, we all become blind fanatics.
And I'm guilty of it. I grew up in Southern Louisiana, which has its left wingers, but is overwhelmingly lunatic fringe, creationist, right wing. Then I fled to San Francisco, which supposedly has a right wing hiding somewhere, but is overwhelmingly lunatic fringe, left wing. ...Which I love, I do, but after living here a few years I have to say that I miss the arguments.
It sounds crazy I know, but when you discuss an opposing point of view with someone your brain starts working. You have to defend your position so you have to think about it. You have to use reason. You might even learn something and change your mind.
Now I'm arguing with the television and it's not a great conversationalist. Now I'm arguing with this culture of ignorance through my obscure blog that's getting through to nobody, and that is ridiculous.
The people in this video are making decisions about how we should run our country based on information that is hilariously false, and easily proved wrong. They're also basing their decisions on racism, which is deeply rooted in this culture of mental isolationism. I want to make fun of these people, but we have to be better than this. We have to mingle.
What passes for political logic can't be that Sarah Palin is full of the Holy Spirit, even if they did exorcise the witches.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Hood Games
Looks like Hella Hella isn't the only thing going on this weekend. Oakland's Town Park skatepark is open and hosting a Hood Games contest sponsored by Satori, and possibly featuring the 7th Annual Living Word Festival, can't really tell by the flyer.
Here's a video by Tresreyes82 that I found on youtube that tells you all you need to know about Town Park.
Hood Games is a worthy project that directs kids toward positive activities like skateboarding. They did a great job getting Town Park built so go out and support the cause.
I'll leave you with a video produced by Ben Galland, about an old Hood Games event in S.F.
Be there. 11AM De Fremery Park, 18th @ Adeline, Oakland, California.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monty Python's John Cleese on Sarah Palin video
Monty Python and Faulty Towers John Cleese on Sarah Palin. Let humor be the cure. I hope this video brings those crazy republican lynch mobs to their senses. Oh wait, they don't watch Monty Python. More preaching to the choir then. Hooray.
What does this have to do with TeamJaded? Well, I cut this video for Seesmic. So even though my name is no where on it, I'd like to point out... if I may... that I crafted this in edit... from raw footage... with no script. And even though that's no great accomplishment like curing cancer or something, I wish my name was on it.
Top ten on digg with 126,000 Youtube hits as of this post and climbing, the name association could have been good for TeamJaded. (Youtube description anyone?)
With that said, this piece is also my farewell to Seesmic. Unfortunately, it's a farewell that most Seesmic users won't notice. Dean, the user who set up this shoot called me the invisible power behind Seesmic production. Flattering, but invisible doesn't help Jaded out too much. So that is my one regret, otherwise I'm totally psyched about moving on.
Seesmic cut "shows" to focus on their web product. I think they made a smart decision. I enjoyed my time there. I learned a lot about the business side of internet, and a lot about video compression, but I was ready to go.
Now I'm gainfully unemployed, or as I like to think about it, free.
Free to pursue Jaded Multimedia after the wedding. ...which is what I've been aching to do since Abby and I got back to San Francisco in January.
Stay tuned things are finally getting interesting.
Credits for the John Cleese video:
Producer: Dean Whitbread
Talent: Vinvin
Shooter: Whit Scott
Preditor: Jeremey Lavoi
Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Boiling the Fall
I love Boil the Ocean. If you're a skate lifer like myself, that blog really connects. I just got into it recently after shamelessly scanning the TeamJaded FeedBurner for incoming links, and I noticed that they had posted one of our Brooklyn Banks photos. Thanks Boil the Ocean guy, whoever you are. Good stuff mang.
TBC Party! Video
teaser trailer for tbcparty flick from jon rogers on Vimeo.
Our homie Jon Rogers in Baton Rouge, LA sent this TBC Party trailer to us via myspace. Thought I'd post it and show some love.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Goofy Vs. Regular 2008 Footage
I didn't go down to Lake Forest this year for GVR, but Hidehiko did. You can download his video here. Give it a second it's about 58 megs.
(10/10/08 Added youtube embed)
For the full winners list head to SkateDaily.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
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