Yarrrgentina

So, this past summer I spent a month down in Argentina hiking around and skiing with the guys from Sweetgrass Productions for their new film, "Los Andes."

I finally managed to take a look at the small amount of POV footage that I collected myself on the trip and make a micro edit out of it.  For some reason I only remembered to both charge and turn on my camera a couple of times during the trip... I know it's not much and it's a little late, but hopefully it is somewhat entertaining, and only mildly dizzying. Enjoy!



A Taste of Argentina from Carston Oliver on Vimeo.


Thanks go out to the whole crew I went down there with and all the friends I met along the way.  It was truly an incredible experience, and I hope to go back soon.  A couple photos from the trip can be seen in a small gallery over on Skiing Mag

Photo by Michael Brown

City Bikin'

I have started to filter through the piles of random GoPro footage that I have accumulated over the last year, and make some mini edits from it, simply to satisfy occasional boredom and brush up my video editing skills (or lack there-of).  Here is a little compilation of many of the random hits, jumps, ledges, etc. that tend to distract and entertain me while I am running errands or otherwise biking around town.

Group Home

I'm going to be involved in a cool, low pressure, collaborative video project with a bunch of friends this winter under the title, GroupHome.  The whole thing is being spearheaded by Shayne Metos, and he just had a little interview on BroBomb to introduce the project. check it

http://brobomb.com/2010/09/meet-grouphome/#more-2089

 Oh, and here's his little edit that started it all... It was made on a trip that Shayne took up to Hood with the Surface/Joystick boys earlier this summer.


GroupHome Does Windells from Shayne Metos on Vimeo.

Hi There Interwebz

I didn't really think that I would ever actually start blogging, as I'm not sure who would really be that interested, but here I am.  We'll see where this goes, and hopefully it will provide some sort of entertainment for somebody out there.

I guess I'll start it out with a photo shot by Steve Lloyd that ran as a full spread in Bike Magazine's most recent issue, the Photo Annual.  It's old news to some, but I was in the southern hemisphere when the issue was released, so I just saw it for the first time last week.

Strong work behind the lens by Steve Lloyd, all I had to do was wait for the sun to come out, then ride this spine.