Smoking The Pipe in my home resort Ounasvaara, Finland
Just to put the facts straight all at once there isn't one half pipe in
Finland that could compete with pipes from the States, Japan or
Europe. Our resorts are still slacking with this shit!
I guess the biggest reason is that if you wanna ride a good pipe,
the resort has to have a descent budget to be able to keep it in good shape
during the season.
Well anyway, I got a call from my filmer friend Miikka Niemi asking me
about this shoot that he wanted to do with smoke machines in the pipe!
I was like, hell yeah! That sounds like a fun thing to do but right
after that I started to think that where could we find a pipe that
would actually be rideable.
My home resort is called Ounasvaara and Miikka was talking with them
about this idea and people at the resort were totally down to hook us up!
Well the pipe ended up being not the best but we sure had a good time
doing this little clip for you! This season we are planning to do
something similar but in better conditions.
Thanks for Miikka Niemi , Anssi Jokiranta and Jussi Leinonen for
making this session happen!
Miikka also wanted to tell you that:
For me it's always important to think of something new to do and shoot.
This time it was the moment to try out smoke machines.It was a lot of work
carrying all that stuff around but in the end it worked quite well. I like the
feeling you get when it's all dark and you shoot with lights.
It's kind of planning a movie set and shooting snowboarding in it.
Our plan is to do this thing again this year. Wait to see what we come up with!
Here's the video:
No moro!