Category Archives: Nick UnderwoodThis one’s for Yosep.I won’t comment on the lack of updates. Whoops. Anywho, yada, yada, yada, I’m in Michigan now – here are some photos from Detroit and the upper regions of the state. (Click to proceed to the galleries)  Abandoned Detroit  Upper Michigan  Life on the road – ain’t so toughSo, as you know, I spent a good part of the summer bouncing around the Appalachians and the Eastern Seaboard in the ol’ XVan. From hanging out in the mountains near Bryson and Sylva in North carolina, to playing around on rivers like the Nantahala and Nolichucky, to biking at spots like Tsali and Snowshoe, to hauling a massive fake rock from New York to Atlanta, to hitting all the seaside towns from Maryland to North Carolina, sampling their beach bars all along the way, I covered over 7,000 miles in just a couple months. It was awesome, and it looked something like this: Hurricane Irene Caldera Jetty, Costa Rica Before we get onto the matter of the Hurricane, currently a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida, a quick update on the results of the Costa Rica trip. 12 hours before we actually left, all of managed to talk ourselves into going on a hunt for beautiful waves in a beautiful place. That night visions of epic swells and deep barrels danced in our heads – as that is what we expected to find in that little Latin American paradise. While are expectations were far from met, let alone, exceeded, we still did what we could to make the most of it. Me behind the camera, sweltering on the hot beaches, and the Matt Bender and Mike Cao out on their boards, we traveled up and down the coast, trying out different breaks here and there. I am currently working on a little segment called The Costa Rica Experiment with the footage we compiled on the trip. Hopefully later next week I will have that ready for you bored, yet anxious eyes. At the moment, I’m all packed up and ready to go on another hunt. This time much closer to home. As Irene makes here way up the eastern seaboard, so will will we. The first stop, Miami. Following in the wake of this Category 3 beast, or expectations are even higher than for Costa Rica – likely partially so in response to the results from Costa Rica itself. Possibly the best conditions on Florida’s Atlantic coast should provide us with some pretty beefy clips. Sta tuned. Team Scum Homegrown Video Contest EntryA friend of mine, Joe Barkley, has a friend that runs the shop known as Team Scum (seen at http://teamscum.com/). Team Scum puts on a video contest in the fall called Homegrown. I re-cut some of the footage of Joe and Tommy Yon at the NOC store wave on the Nantahala as an entry for the contest. Check it out below. Much needed update and a new fancy pants gallery!Ok, so it’s been a while since I updated this thing here. I’m back down in Florida – resetting and looking for some ways to make some money. The first longterm run in the XVan is complete, and all-in-all, I would say it was a huge success. I met so many awesome people, and got to do so many awesome things. I cranked out several videos, pulled a 5000 lb, 32 foot trailer from upstate New York, and even got called the devil once (in a good way). The XVan held up to it all, and I grew very fond of living out of it and being in a new place virtually every night. A few stats about the first run:
I’m going to stick around Florida for a month or two, and then head out again. North and then west will be the directions taken on the next run, gradually working my way to Vail, Colorado, where I will winter. Yes, I will be wintering in Vail. I like saying that. In the meantime, please enjoy my new and improved fancy pants gallery, showing off my works:
Over the next few weeks I will also be producing a handfull of new videos, so keep them eyes peeled. They will include my own submission to the Octane Academy (to be hilarious, I’m sure), an entry for a kayak video contest and maybe even some soothing sunset shots backed by a little Enya. TTFN. First full segment completed – Matt Bender wipeout, Waimea Bay, January 11, 2010I’ve been filming with Matt Bender in New Smyrna Beach for a few weeks, but we just weren’t getting the kind of waves that he wanted or the kind of surfing that he is capable of. Anxious to produce a real story, we set out on creating a greatest wipeout segment to submit to Surflinefor their greatest wipeouts series. Matt had a few old clips from the wipeout, so we sat down and did some interview work and stitched this whole guy together. We will submit to Surfline soon, and possibly some other sites. Enjoy. |
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