Wednesday night POP followed Ben Willick, GNU team rider Alex Kutaysov and Burton teamster Chris Eacott on a wild chase around the outer suburbs of Melbourne on an all night hand rail photo shoot. With an amazing rig of studio strobe lighting for Liam Kaska’s camera, petrol generators for Jan Snarski’s video camera, a trailer full of snow and a drop in ramp for the guys all that could stop us were the police … 3 car loads of them in fact …
Well, luckily for us, Victoria has some of the coolest policemen around. All it took was a flash of the ivory and some friendly banter and they were more than happy to direct traffic away from our landing and turn their lights off so as not to mess with our camera equipment! I’m not joking, thats what went down! All the while with generators roaring in the background and bodies rolling down the stairs.
Whilst everyone had trouble getting enough speed for the higher than waist high rail, it was country Victorian hero Ben Willick that was the only one able to land his saftey trick; a frontside boardslide. Alex Kutaysov gave it everything he had (which meant a switch front blunt 270 out) but he’s legs gave out before he could get it in the bag. Eacott probably needed a wax and a base grind because he was having speed issue all night.
Now you all know I’m not retarded and of course I’m holding the shots from the night for the 4th issue of POP. So have a look at the following photo journal.
It’s dark but here’s POP’s mobile rig and the setup. The noise is the generators.
Snow. If you know of this place, keep it quite. It’s a gold mine!
Jan with a ‘barra full of fun.
That’s the drop in ramp crammed into the trailer.
Alex Kutaysov, Chris Eacott and Aaron Maxwell working on the drop in.
A trailer full of landing.
Project Media filmer Jan Snarski getting the angles on J-Lo (his name is actually Jarred Osborne… So I’m told..) and Johnsy.
Photogee Liam Kaska lighting that shit up!
Chris Eacott.
Down the barrel of the camera lenes angle.
‘A.T.R’, ‘The Russian’ or Alex Kutaysov.
