RECENT WORK: CYCLE WORLD: HIGH PLAINS DRIFTIN'

Two and a half minutes riding around in the dirt.

Last month I mentioned this project we filmed for our boys at Cycle World. Last week it became the video that everyone in the motorcycle industry was talking about.

We're pretty happy with how it turned out and more importantly everyone over at Cycle World seems genuinely pumped about it. Shout out to Alpinestars and Ducati for throwing it on their Facebook pages and everyone who helped blow it up on Twitter. Cyc World said the vid got some major traffic over the weekend.

This was a pretty epic shoot - Dudek, the rider, actually blew a tire during the shoot which caused some delays while it got patched and then made filming the bike jumping scenes a bit more nerve wrecking. Also Matt and Ryan drove the 4Runner up a mountain to get the one super wide shot and then they almost got it stuck trying to drive back down over some boulders. There happened to be a few random ATVers out at the lakebed in the background while we were filming so Matt had to digitally remove them from a few shots in post-production.

Thanks to Jeff Allen and Dudek for having us out there. Shout out to Scott and Sean from 4120 for the epic aerial shots. It's cool to look around online and see the response to this - in fact Matt and I were chatting at lunch today about possibly putting out a behind-the-scenes vid from this shoot. Could be cool - we'll see...

NEWPORT TO MONTEREY

Took a little trip up the coast with Ducati a couple weeks ago.

We filmed a group of Ducati Monster owners traveling from Newport Beach up to Monterey for the Annual Quail Hill Motorcycle Gathering.

We stopped at Ducati Santa Barbara and grabbed lunch with our boy Carlin Dunne at Enterprise Fish Company. We don't eat a lot of seafood but the Mud Pie was excellent. Thanks Carlin.

The hills of Santa Ynez Valley. #Ducatilife

Random zebras off the side of the road near San Simeon.

Stopped at Nepenthe for lunch near Big Sur and then all the riders got to do a few parade laps at Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey.

It was a good trip, great weather, really nice group of Monster owners who we traveled and hung out with for a few days. Got some cool shots of the group riding through some nice scenery. The Quail Lodge meetup was cool - a ton of really unique vintage bikes. Not a bad way to spend the weekend.

Launching another new bike vid on here in a couple days. NoBizPlan is coming back, no really, I promise...

STAPLE SNEAK PEEK

Started working on a new project last week along with our boy jeffstaple.

Jeff was in LA and we were able to link up and film a few things with him.

We're not really allowed to say too much about it for now but it'll be in the works for the next few months and we're excited that it's underway and all starting to come together.

Nothing makes you feel like you don't own enough sneakers quite like hanging out with jeff for a day. He had some fresh Puma Pigeons on, of course.

Anyway, really need to get back to blogging and distributed bootlegged rap music on here soon. That'll hopefully happen shortly, stay tuned.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who came by the office last week for our Open House and had pizza and watched the Celtics game with us. More, much bigger and crazier office events to come. Also shout out to everyone over at Imprint lab and InterTrend for throwing a killer event last Friday.

Last but not least, the first 2 series are wrapped and the Leaderboard has been updated. Enjoy your weekend, we're heading up to Monterey in the morning with Ducati for a few days so don't spoil any of the NBA games this weekend for me - I'm recording them :)