Its been a bit of a challenge working on this project but I am really appreciative of all the work and support from the contributors who have helped make this project possible.
Big thanks to Brian Hockenstein and Mathieu Gibeault for all their time.
Happy Canada Day!
The Westbeach Classic Short from Lenny Rubenovitch on Vimeo.
Add comment | July 1st, 2009
I had a little BBQ on my Birthday in May, It was some good ol times.
Add comment | June 16th, 2009
Awhile back during the Grenade Games some locals organized a little “Dirt Bag Session” at the Squamish park. I finally came around to uploading some snaps I took. Enjoy.
Add comment | June 16th, 2009
Peep the vid on Push.ca
During the Grenade Games/WSSF I snuck away for a day to cover Alterna’s Private Shoot at Grouse Mountain and have put together a video for Push.ca
Add comment | June 5th, 2009
The Heritage Teaser from Lenny Rubenovitch on Vimeo.
The Heritage Project Teaser
an underexposed Agency Collaboration in association with Westbeach
Produced & Directed
Lenny Rubenovitch
Edited
Lenny Rubenovitch
Brian Hockenstein
Mathieu Gibeault
Motion Graphics
Mathieu Gibeault
Additional Motion Graphics
Brian Hockenstein
Archival Research
Lenny Rubenovitch
Dano Pendygrasse
Brian Hockenstein
Images
Dano Pendygrasse
Westbeach Archive
Eric Berger
Guy Motil
Lenny Rubenovitch
Video Archives
Murray Siple
-Cascadia 1997
-The Burning 1996
-Spun 1992
Hi 8 Archives
Chris Fulton
Virus - Westbeach Team Video 1992
Jon Boyer
-Scrapbook 1994
Alterna Action
Breaking Ground 2002
Principal Cinematography
Brian Hockenstein
Audio & FX
Pier-Luc Beaulieu
Additional Sound FX
Dj Praiz
Free Sound Project
Narration
Doug Trelevean
Narration Script
Lenny Rubenovitch
Steve Slen
Brian Hockenstein
Dave Rouleau
Thanks to:
Jon Cartwright, Mathieu Gibeault, Brian Hockenstein, Murray Siple, Dano Pendygrasse, Carlo Wein, Kyle Trelevean, Fred, my family, Sarah Desrosiers and to everyone who has supported this project and put up with me in the process.
To celebrate Westbeach’s 30th anniversary they have created “The Heritage Project”
Westbeach has hired Dano Pendygrasse to put together a photo-book and myself to produce a handful of webisodes. Below you can check out #1 which is a Teaser and sample of what is to come. The shorts to follow will cover the Westbeach Classic, Summer Camps, Fashion and another one on wherever the production takes my crew and I.
To accompany the Book and the Webisodes, Westbeach has put a Heritage blog online which will be continually releasing content over the Heritage project.
It has been an experience digging into the archives of snowboarding’s past, we have done a few interviews with some of Canada’s snowboard forefathers and Im looking forward to doing a handful more.
This Project has been a huge collaborative effort and I want to thank everyone who has helped to make it possible.
The teaser features a fair share of footage from some of Murray Siple’s snowboard films. If you are unfamiliar with Murray, he was one of the original Canadian Snowboard filmmakers at a time where there weren’t that many. Tragically he got into a car accident that paralyzed him from the waist down and he has not been able to make snowboard films since 96. But recently in 2008 he finished “Carts of Darkness“. Murray’s feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver.
It’s a sweet film and guess what, its free, online on the NFB website and is good quality. If you havent seen it, grab a beer enable fullscreen and sit back and enjoy. Its 59 mins long.
Add comment | April 19th, 2009
The Festival and mayhem is just about to kick off. I put together some snaps and info on the First annual Art barn Open for Push along with a story and some pics of the Skate and Deploy event.
I flew back home at the beginning of April to chill out with the folks and some friends and cover the Shakedown. I worked with Light box Films boys out of Quebec, We have put togtehr two videos, one on the 1st day which covers qualification and Railjam and the 2nd which covers the Push.ca halftime show, more qualifying and the finals.
Grenade Games is rolling into town and Ill be writing daily news posts for Push.ca.
Peep the content.
Add comment | April 19th, 2009
We been getting a ton of snow lately, it finally kicked into winter around here. A good crew of bros squeezed in two laps yesterday and Dj Lava snapped a nice little pic of myself.
Add comment | March 20th, 2009
This weekend I was over at Grouse for another fine event, this time it was the Roxy Chickadee jam. It was good times and nice to be snapping some pics for a change. The weather held out perfectly and the course looked fun. For a full gallery of images check out 33mag.com.
Add comment | March 3rd, 2009
Dave Kerr on Sunny Sunday from Lenny Rubenovitch on Vimeo.
Last Sunday we headed to the city for a little sun, we checked out Lonsdale Park and headed up to Seymour to try and catch the finals of YLG, we missed it but made it for some beers.
Add comment | February 27th, 2009
On Feb. 24th 2009, the 2nd annual Westbeach Chinese Downhill went down, this year attendance was almost double from last year. You would think almost too many people considering there was some heavy carnage and a bit of trampling at the top but everyone in attendance was in good spirits and there was only a bit of blood shed.
My dawg Josh Lapovsky took home the win, bringing home $500 cash, a Westbeach Texas micky and bragging rights of Creekside king for a year.
2nd Annual Westbeach Chinese Downhill from Lenny Rubenovitch on Vimeo.
Peep images and text on gnarcore and John Scarth’s blog for more info.
Add comment | February 26th, 2009
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