Calgary Torch relay Video
Trout, Swystun and I rolled through Calgary last week to put together a video for sympatico.ca on the Torch Relay Community Celebration. Check it out:
Add comment | January 24th, 2010
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Blackcomb Opening Day
For my third day on the hill, (damn I got to catch up) the plan was to shred Blackcomb for opening day but the crew and I headed up Whistler and it was so sweet we decided to not rush and enjoy the the fact that there was sunny skies, fresh pow and no one on the mountain.
We ended up heading over to Blackcomb and hitting up 7th Heaven, Whistler had better conditions but it was still sweet.
Add comment | December 4th, 2009
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Olympic Torch Relay Video -Halifax Stop
I was lucky enough to head to Halifax and take part of the Olympic Torch Relay on Nov. 18th., Mike Martinet and I covered our first stop of the Torch Relay for Sympatico.ca and Bell. I feel the first video went really well and I am looking forward to heading back to my home turf next week to cover the Montreal stop.
I was really looking forward to having some fresh Lobster but was pretty bummed when I realized we’d be working the whole time and wouldn’t have any time for a decent dinner. But after checking my bags at the airport I came across a huge tank of Lobsters and was able to fly some live ones home, so I picked up two Lobsters for Sarah and I. I ended up getting in pretty late but was able to feast around midnight, it was well worth the wait.
Add comment | December 3rd, 2009
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The Heritage Project “Summer Camps”
The Heritage Project “Summer Camps” from Lenny Rubenovitch on Vimeo.
Press Release:
Westbeach 30th Anniversary Heritage Project Video # 3 – “Summer Camps”
The Westbeach snowboarding brand’s 30th Anniversary Heritage Project is in full swing with this weeks commercial release of “Out West: Snowboarding, Westbeach, and a New Canadian Dream”, a soft cover book by Dano Pendygrasse.
This week the Heritage Video series continues with the 3rd video release “Summer Camps” by underexposed Agency Ltd. The video features historic glacier shrd footage,Camp of Champs tales, and shows the evolution of snowparks, fashion and the progression of snowboarding. Lenny Rubenovitch & Brian Hockenstein collaborated with different OG filmmakers/photogs that were supportive of the project, went deep into the vaults, and have been able to re-release historic footage and images chronicling the growth of our subculture.
New, never seen before interviews from shred veterans Kevin Sansalone, Kale Stephens, Chris Brown, JP Walker, Ken Achenbach, and others offer insight into what the summer shred is all about.
The Summer Glacier video can be seen at http://30.westbeach.com/ or http://vimeo.com/6827536, and can be downloaded to iPhone at http://tiny.cc/e5LGq. The video is also available for download from our FTP by request. Lastly, the book “Out West: Snowboarding, Westbeach, and a New Canadian Dream”, is now available for $14.95 at www.westbeach.com.
Add comment | September 30th, 2009
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The Heritage Project “Classic Short”
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.
For more info on Heritage Project go to http://30.westbeach.com/
Add comment | July 1st, 2009
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Birthday Pics
I had a little BBQ on my Birthday in May, It was some good ol times.
Add comment | June 16th, 2009
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Dirt bag Squamish Session Photos
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
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Behind the Scenes Video of an Alterna shoot at Grouse Mountain
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
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The Heritage Teaser
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
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Early April Content Misc. post
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
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