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Slide Show in LA

Well, I wrote this post about how people (read: you) should go check out this slide show I'm involved in, along with a bunch of talented sports photographers, or rather photographers who make pictures of sports. But then I checked the link and it looks like the slide show night is completely booked or sold out or too cool. The slide show will be supporting a gallery show at the Annenberg Space for Photography featuring the work of two legendary photographers, Walter Iooss and Neil Leifer, who have captured some of the most important moments in mainstream sport over the past million years or so (sorry, no time to double check that fact). Anyhoooo, Iooss is one of those guys who crosses with ease from making amazing portraits to capturing real action images with an eye for the extraordinary convergence of great talent and great light and great location that is so hard to come by. He's someone I've always looked up to and been inspired by and it's an honor just to be able to mention his name here.

Anyway, Micah Abrams has checked out the show and told me it is amazing, so either get to the Annenberg Space for Photography (2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10, LA) early on the 11th of February and tell someone at the door how important you are. Or just go check out the print show sometime before March 7th.

Here is the LINK for info.

And here are a couple of frames from my slide show.

Mark Abma at Chatter Creek Lodge, Canadaaaa.

Simon Dumont in Trysil, Norway and at Riley Poor's apartment in Long Beach, CA.

Laurent-Nicolas Paquin in Houghton, Michigan.

I think this guy's name is Shaun White. He's pretty good at X Games.

Simon Dumont at Mammoth Mountain, California.

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Published.

Pretty sweet seeing work in print.

Shane, Powder Magazine (I'm not gonna link 'cause they have a lame autoplay video feature that scares me whenever I forget and go to their website...)

That's a bad screen shot, so here's the real file.

Shane McConkey and Shane Szocs, Vashon, WA during K2 Skis advertising shoot. (Freeskier Magazine)

PK Hunder, Trysil, Norway during JOSS. (Powder Magazine)

Simon Dumont, Mammoth Mountain, CA. (Cover of Transitions Movie, by Riley Poor)

SImon Dumont, Mammoth Mountain, CA. (Freeskier Magazine)

SImon Dumont, Trysil, Norway during JOSS. (Cover of Poorboyz Productions Every Day is a Saturday)

Buyer's Guide for Freeskier Magazine.

60 Hour Roadtrip. Part II. People(s).

Peter.

Craig.

Jake.

Michael.

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60 Hour Roadtrip. Part I. Places.

There.

Halfway.

Back.

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Vacation.

I'm on vakay in Oregon. We saw the sun the first day, and it just came back out on day five so I'm gonna go hang on the beach.

Finally saw the opener to the Shane McConkey story in Outside Magazine this month. You can also read the story here.

Family.

Dad.

Sunset, first night. Geographical marker.

Sunset, first night #2.

Sunset, first night #3.

Birds.

Parents' friends, Joel and Karen in bright fog.

Evacuation route.

Grass.

Sea Lion overlook.

Niece Emily with Sea Lions.

Beach.

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Torstein Horgmo

Snowboard Magazine, 2009.

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Wow.

Last 48 hours are a full blur.

I wrote this at sometime during the evening:

At some point yesterday evening, while it was still light out, it snowed in Are Sweden. I was working on my slide show for the Jon Olsson SuperSession ski/photo/video contest, so despite not sleeping since 8 am yesterday, I didn't notice until after sunrise today. I'm currently writing this blog at 6 AM here in Sweden as my show exports. I had an hour of panic while Final Cut stopped working, a huge learning curve as I'd never used Final Cut before noon yesterday, tragedy as part of our crew came home from the bar with the news that their close friend Wallace from Aspen had died while snowboarding. Fuck, that will overwhelm my general artistic dissatisfaction and make me happy to just be creating something—I'm so happy and wired right now.

All that was a part of the craziness. And after a two hour nap I spent the whole day alternately telling myself all was fine and stressing about better shots I left out of the show and all the other technical difficulties. Damian, Colby and I grabbed an early dinner, where I basically laughed my ass off at two of the best dudes I know, then we were driven to the show. On stage, in front of so many people I was getting ready to be super nervous when I was told our show was first. It played before I could even stress. Then, shit all the other shows went off. Lots of comedy (Peter and Colby especially) and a really fucking well done movie courtesy of Simon, Riley and Blake. A long drawn out judging left me super nervous, but in the end, our team—Sammy Carlson, Dom Janiszewski, and myself—we're judged at the top.

I'll say again that this contest is so amazing because I just wanted to do a great job and push everyone else to do their best. I would have been happy finishing last since I tried my hardest. Anyway, I'm delirious and haven't slept and am not going to edit this. Here is my slideshow and portion of the Team Sammy presentation.

Thanks again to everyone here! I mean it, everyone. Peter and Colby and the boys are giving me a tour of Stockholm for the next two nights, but I can't wait to get home to Brooklyn either. Peace. -Nate.

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In Print: Snowboard Magazine

The most recent bit of my work in print: Kits on Location in Snowboard Magazine. I blogged about the shoot back then, but here's the finished product.

Oh, and here's a link to a profile of me. Shameless self-promotion, boo-yah. (Obvs its almost two very long years old so there's some out of date information.)