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hi everybody,
here it is - the official announcement! tickets for scenery 2 go on sale tuesday at iland skateboards and snowboards. they're 5 bucks. the video is 95% done and the release date as well as product manufacturing are all set. i don't even know where to start. please feel free to post comments and questions to this thread and i'll answer em right away.

scenery 2 is a two year effort by well over 100 people to document skateboarding and snowboarding on the island. a sprawling skateboard adventure, we tried to hit as many spots in cbrm as we could, taking advantage of the stock goods as well as venturing to new parts of the island. we were lucky to meet awesome people all over cape breton who love skating just as much as we do.

we went on five road trips which took us to places like port hawkesbury, cheticamp, baddeck, antigonish, halifax, moncton and charlottetown. we met awesome people everywhere and always had our boards at the ready. never far from my trusty generator, we lit up the gorgeous concrete parks in moncton and charlottetown, going till 4 and 5 in the morning. hell, steve leblanc drove from north sydney to moncton on a whim at 10pm one night to meet us for a road trip. seven capers with skateboards far away from home hoping for some dry weather is the stuff that memories are made of. we met awesome people on the messageboard who offered us places to stay every time we were away from the home turf.

we slept in my car in cheticamp after skating the port hawkesbury park till dawn in august 2003. we awoke to people from margaree dropping off a manual pad because they heard guys from sydney were coming filming.

i got back into snowboarding this season and went hard filming at the hill. i had the pleasure of meeting stew varley and jon chew, two stand up guys that are ridiculously good riders. it was also great to see tons of familiar faces from skating at the hill. the snowboard footage is beautiful and some of the most filmic imagery i've been able to capture yet.

i still love the first scenery video although it has its share of technical and artistic problems. but i set out to make a skate video in under a year with no experience. now i have a gl2, a death lens and a video under my belt and this is waht i came up with.

the skateboarders have stepped up their game in every respect. old schoolers and little kids are all busting. craig davis is home from a 5 year skate/snow adventure in bc. guys from the first video have reappeared to take their game up a notch, and newcomers like max hanson are tearing it apart. chew and stew have a sequence of so many rodeos, 900's and backflip variations that your head will be left spinning. dennis mccormick nails gaps and giant technical lines like nothing. steve macintyre completely reworked his style. i recovered from acl reconstruction to somehow end up with a full part. george pink is pure technical. the montage parts were put togehter from 600 tricks and i'm not talking about curb ollies. zach macphee nails a kickflip over the schwartz 9 like nothing, snowboarders like ned english and steve jones go huge - then you got cats like dan cameron who basically live to skate. this shows in the footage. you can watch a guy like george timbury skate so burly it's pure northside. dj dauphney from new waterford kickflipped oil drop - a gap i previously thought would never even get ollied. brad lotherington rips everything apart. steve leblanc skates fast and hard and doesn't mind getting his truck dirty to get us to a spot. i could talk about these guys for hours - their skating and riding is inspiring.

this is a cblocals/i-land production.. i originally set out to do this myself, but it ended up that all the guys in the video that had parts were on the iland team. i've known darcy campbell for around 10 years and he is co-producing the video and his help has been amazing. i got love for all the shops around here, but darcy and i-land have been really great to me. they understand what this video means to me and got involved in a way that made it so much better without changing the concept one bit.

i don't know how to thank the people involved. stevie mac was there on all the road trips.. george timbury can fix anything and his dad always made sure the car was in working order before a trip.. ned english has mad generator fixing skills.. chew's mom showed up for a mission with lemonade and granola bars. stu's mom dropped by with a wheelbarrow to help us shovel snow.. jeff in moncton and jamie in charlottetown thanks for the places to stay.. justin mattie in phk you're sick dude.. all of the cheticamp guys and the dudes that are coming down from pleasant bay it just blows my mind.. all my roomates at 20 warne have been incredible to me and matty o'connor even made it out on two road trips.. jacqueline you're a killer friend thanks for listening to me ramble about the video all the time.. anthony cooper has helped me tons with differnet video editing and shooting techniques - he's the guy that does the videos in halifax and he's always on msn to listen to my video woes. sean macgillivray is doing a ridiculous amount of work to make the foldout booklet for this video something special.. steve wadden donated a bunch of totally pro photography work.. mike collins and nick you guys rule.. all the glace bay guys i'm sorry i didn't make it out but i got some tight shots of nathan susin representin. props to everybody in pei and moncton you guys rule!

people have donated music and even recorded just for this video. i think the soundtrack is a step up from the first video, especially in terms of production value. i'm glad i got some of that old school 4 track stuff in the first video, but this time i decided to go with all studio stuff and it's going to make a difference. i'm also stoked we have bands from pei halifax moncton and newfoundland on this. not to mention a shitload of cb material.

i love skateboarding with all of my heart and i hope you guys check out this vid on the 28th.

harry





brad lotherington back boardslides the rail at schwartz


this stupid quarter pipe took about 20 man hours to build haha


craig davis lines up the fatima rail in sydney river


dennis mccormick crooks down a barricade at the charlottetown park. tighter than the pants that bind him!!!!


everybody is sick of oil drop ollies. dj throws down a kickflip.


george pink adds a chicken salad grab to a kickflip in pei. or is it roast beef?


george timbury does a lazy front flip in george's river


george was the only person to do this rail. you can see kids from all over the highlands taking it all in. one last salute sound checks off camera for bah sa rock 2003


i love fakie stalls. this one is from a late night generator mission in charlottetown.


stu varley does a textbook 900


chew escapes the slushbowl unscathed


simultaneous backflip and rodeo just as the sun's going down


building a runway


chew's folks showed up and chilled with us for a bit and his mom brought lemonade and granola bars. check out dorise with the rope tow and craiger's just taking it all in.


libby with his homemade scenery deck. this shot is taken on top of ferris' hill


libby chillin on the pei ferry on the way back from a successful weekend road trip


hector sets up for a darkslide in cheticamp - steve macintyre ripped his pants to shreds while the one last salute drummer chills with some wabos pizza. what a day.


dennis matty and steve on the way over to pei.


stuck in moncton in the rain - matty and steve toss coins and i'm figuring i may as well get *something* on tape!!


nick sets up for a bs 5050


backside flip over a shopping cart. KIG!!!!!!


pat macneil pushes towards the foundation gap - cody macinnis and craig davis wait for their turn to go.


libby loves the crooks. this shot taken on top of the water resevoir on ferris' hill. check out the lights of north sydney town below and the glow of sydney on the horizon.


steve mac manuals the flats in halifax

here is the tracklist. it's subject to change as several parts of the video are still being edited. but the following is a really safe bet:

fitz ambrose - underground like i am now
sick kookies - knockin
the ditchpigs - strychnine
jimmy swift band - commotion
i was a spy - you go ahead and eat that apple
after school special - celena's song
one day late - impatient but never on time
yellow - for your sake
art damage - (i don't have the title name of this track yet)
squatters - empty bottles
classified - fifth element
great plains - halogen
one last salute - chumbalai
lighthouse choir - fishing boat skeletons (have to double check the name of this track)
violent theory - the kryptonian way
colleen powers - t-shirt song
hugh alex macdonald - my first love song
pulse - audiotrack 7
windom earle - angry (i THINK this is the track i'm going to use)

I've probly asked before about advance tickets for shows but what time does iland close and do they stay open later one night of the week (thursday?) like the other stores on charolette street

i might not make it over till friday due to work

james,
they're open 11-6 monday to saturday. they used to stay open on thursday but i don't believe they still do.

i'll have to see what i can do about more places carrying tickets because i'm sure there are more people out there who can't easily make it to iland. i'll hold a ticket for ya and see what i can do to resolve the issue for others.

thanks!
harry

i want to get down to business with these screen grabs. this video is coming along better than i ever could have imagined and i want you guys to check out some more of the shots we got home and on the road:

phil rossetti (sp check) backside melons a tabletop during the 2004 season. him and boss taped their own part using a single chip cam.


george timbury frustrated in baddeck


brad lotherington throws down a switch pstg


craig davis frontside boardslides a rail at SAD church in the shipyard


george ollies libby's bronco in baddeck


stu varley backflip melons and i'm standing directly under him.


dj dauphney landed this bs alleyoop flip on the bolts


second angle shot of dennis doing a 12 set in coal harbour at auburn high


this shot is from a line that dennis did perfectly six times. it was hard to choose which one to put in the video


check out dennis behind the tree.. sketchiest gap ever.


scotty rushton does a back board to front board at the rail park at ben eoin


tyrell is a champ and he snowboards too


zach macphee cleanly kickflips the schwartz 9


charlottetown local chandler cameron nailed this backside lipslide first shot


allen finney crooks the sydney mines ledge


this is me getting my fs 3 indies locked down this winter!


moncton local matt lane with a textbook blunt to fakie at the moncton park's volcano. smooooooth landing.


chew does a 30 foot backside melon. you can see the shadow of my cam and fisheye in the bottom right.


nick finney with a bolted backside flip in pei


me and libby set the generator up last fall and had a night/rain session at the nw park.


up and comer max hanson kickflips the ortho 8 on george st


steve macintyre pops a large ollie



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This is gonna be sick. Once again, just want to emphasize how excited I am.

i saw a little bit the other day. the quality is ridiculous. the footage is ridiculous. the quality of the music is ridiculous. get tickets.

I'll be able to get to iland if its open till 6. I was thinking they closed at 5 which would make it close when I get off at 4:30.

INDEED GOOD LUCK WITH THIS HARRY GONNA BE DOPE>Matt

I am so so so so sad that this is on a Tuesday... there's no way I can get back home from Halifax without missing goddamn midterms and school! I can't believeeeeeeeee I'm not gonna be at the premiere!

a van-load of us from the highlands have really gotta get over there for this. The planning begins.

looking good harry, it's too bad I can't make it down from truro for the premier. Hopefully I'll be able to get my mitts on a copy on DVD somehow, anyway man, congrats again on what looks like a job very well done.

hi guys,
the tickets went on sale at i-land for the 6pm and 7pm showings. $5

i hope you guys pick one up - i know a lot of you don't skate but this is going to be rad vid, any money raised is going back into local skateboarding and i think it will be cool to see a local soundtrack put to some hard skating and snowboarding (for the second time even!). i want to pack these theatres and get people stoked and get these skaters as pumped as possible.

i remember the first scenery premiere at stoked 2002 and it was awesome seeing everybody together like that. i was so stoked to do that and i hope we can bring people the same way at the theatres.

if possible have cash handy because the boys at the shop tell me it's a problem to do debit because of their inventory tracking system.

peaceeeeeee
harry

the theatre is 300 capasity pershow? are you only selling 300 and if enough extra tickets are sold having the second show (would you really have a second screening for 5 people?) or are there 600 tickets and when we buy the ticket we can pick which showing out just 600 tikets, first come first serve for the first showing?...if you can understand that

there are tickets available for the 6pm show at iland. there are also tickets for the 7pm show. the tickets are different. each show will have a 300 capacity.

the people in the video have been invited to both showings. tickets are first come first served but i'm doing everything i can to make both showings the exact same so that people at the second one don't feel like they're stuck with the shitty end of the stick.

if we had a 500 person theatre life would be easier and then i would just do the one showing. the double showing is my solution to the 300 person limit.

i'm hoping this is the best approach.

harry