Some rare footage of myself, courtesy of Nik Aksamit, gapping a sweet waterfall in Little Cloud Bowl on July 4th in honor of those sweet blankets we gave the Native Indians when Will Smith conquered this territory from aliens all those years ago.
Both he and I spent a good majority of today flexing our muscles in front of girls in bikinis while preparing to ski into this at faster than rad speed. Thanks for sitting behind the camera on this one buddy.
Garageband Punk sponsored Spring Skiing.
High-Res: jakecast.com/helmetcast/helmetCast25.m4v
Date: The Past -> June 26, 2011
Location: Snowbird, Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT & Sugarhouse $ Theater
Featuring: Myself (Jake Kirshner), Nik Aksamit, Kyle Wehmanen & Carston Oliver
(w/ a 2 second cameo by Kenjiro Matsuo & Marcus Tofanelli)
Two quick clips of playing around with a final cup/after effects plugin that uses a rather rad algorithm to make up frames allowing you to slow down clips to a disgustingly high level allowing me all the functionality of a phantom/red camera without the $50k price tag.
Why am I explaining this to you? Based on my recent viewing of an unnamed red bull athlete’s self edit (which was quite good), this effect is poised to blow up and soon every video I watch on the web will undoubtably be 800% longer to unnecessary slowdown.
Hence why I am posting this now. E-proof I was in on it at the ground floor.
I’ve made soldering-induced bronchitis look good in cotton since 2011
Nik “real Math starts at 5000-level classes and above” Aksamit
Just remember when you are using you are setting your camera’s aperture and slowing down video footage of your fixie bike’s spokes to a nausea-inducing amount that
being a nerd is not:
-anything to do with an SLR camera
-using the gaussian blur in photoshop
-putting a custom skin or boot-rom on your android phone
-using the phrase ‘open-source’, while not actually knowing what it means
-using ubuntu
-knowing how to fix your aunt’s email client
-html or javascript
-or whatever else you think is so rad and 1337 that you feel entitled to wear oversized dorky glasses
being a nerd is (and will always be):
-writing undocumented nested recursive functions in assembly code
Liked it better when being geek was not something people claimed,
Jake
[audio: http://www.jakecast.com/wp-music/whereismymind.mp3|titles=Where is My Mind (Pixies cover)|artists=Christopher Voss]
Last week the earth was shaken to its core by a massive magnitude mishap that was followed shortly thereafter by a tsunami of sadness…
…I am of course talking about the departure of Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller from Engadget team and the disbanding of one of the greatest podcasts known to man. A show that has gotten me through many programming binges and bouts of lab-induced insanity.
In their honor, I followed in proper jcdc fashion with this pre-airtime proclamation on top of a odd variation of Snowbird’s Death Chute that I am dubbing, the EGP Air.
…and some other stuff
Nik goes upside down and cuckoo on his, ‘gad two, double as a single’
Escaping my filming post.
Kyle with a very standard 3 off Silver Fox’s standard air.
Funzoville Air. Awesome as long as you avoid the bushes and rocks.
Also. Sorry to anyone that may have been offended by my blunt intro. Feel free to donate to the relief effort in my name. Japan is rad. Kenjiro lives there and they make a lot of cool tech stuff, despite the fact Subaru Factory in Gunma is refusing to send me a wiring diagram in English of their kookie climate controls.
Now I gotta learn to solder in Japanese…
Jake
Corporate America has once again intruded on my artistic rights, this time with an unnamed University in Utah wishing to use footage of my raw power for marketing purposes, demanding that the music I use in my videos contain no profanity.
What?! Stifle my creative genius, I say? But alas, while my integrity remains great, my desire for money, women, fortune and fame is far greater and so I acquiesce.
Here is HelmetCast #24, re-edited with enough indie rock to make all the hipster girls swoon.
And while this video was still my creation, it has now become the second saddest thing to occur in the blogosphere this week…
Jake