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Just Passing Thru Europe

Michael Clarke — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:35:50 +0000

Just Passing Thru follows Matt Walker and Tom Wallisch as they embark on a 1,783 mile journey throughout Western Europe. During their travels, these two individuals meet up with a variety of faces as they search for skiing in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Barcelona.

Shot on the Canon 7D with 28-135mm kit lens.

Canon 7D Test

Michael Clarke — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:39 +0000

I just picked up the newly released Canon 7D DSLR.

I’ll be using it to shoot Just Passing Thru Adventure 1.2, which starts this Thursday, October, 29th. Full details of the trip will be released in the near future on justpassingthru.tv

In the mean time, I shot a little test video at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s diving boards.

35mm Photo Collages

Michael Clarke — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:01:37 +0000

1010 Super Ski Sale

Michael Clarke — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:42:44 +0000

The 1010 Super Ski Sale is back! If you’re around Boulder, CO, stop by 1010 11th St. (corner of 11th and Euclid) between 12:00 and 5:00 on Sunday, October 18th to grab some gear for the coming season.

Jiberish Artist Meeting

Michael Clarke — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:50:53 +0000

Recently, many of the minds behind the Jiberish clothing group met at “The Block Building” of Denver to work out some ideas for the upcoming spring line.

Jiberish’s own, Pete Drago, goes over some ideas while the crew anxiously looks on.

Tom Wallisch was on site to give his two cents…

Blake Kimmel and MIchael Corianno go over some ideas…

Wallisch and Pete continue doing work on the upcoming line.

Shooting a new Jiberish team skater perhaps?

Some Photos

Michael Clarke — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:27:08 +0000

Right now I’m in a photo class at the University of Colorado at Boulder focusing on “Fine Art Photography.” My professor (Albert Chong) asked the class to create a series of photos focusing on the subject of beauty.

For my project I asked a series of three people what they considered to be beautiful. However moving away from the typical ideal of beauty, I was looking for something that would be considered only beautiful to these specific individuals.

In addition, I chose to work with photo collage, making each image by placing together over 300 layers in Photoshop. Here’s what I came up with:

Hathbanger

Michael Clarke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:21:41 +0000

I just recently put together the all new Hathbanger.com for my close friend Andrew Hathaway.

Be sure to stop by to grab some fresh new tracks from the mind of Hathbanger and friends.

35mm Installment #2: Freestyle.ch

Michael Clarke — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:28:10 +0000

Last September, I made a trip to Zurich, Switzerland to partake in Freestyle.ch. While I was rather unsuccessful in my competition endeavors, I managed to snap a few photos along the way.

Here’s an unknown skier navigating their way through the snow-covered, scaffolding structure of Freestyle.ch

The event venue was situated right on the shores of Lake Zurich. Here, a couple takes a break from the event to take in the view from a distant dock.

Apart from the event, I had some time to walk around the city and take in the sites. Here are two unknown city-goers, walking in unison.

I sat under this arch for some time, waiting for a passerby.

Freestyle.ch was an excellent time and I hope to attend the event once again this coming fall. Check back at justpassingthru.tv for some other photos I took during my trip to Icer Air in San Francisco.

35mm Installment #1: Dirt Biking

Michael Clarke — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:53:13 +0000

Hours upon hours have passed by as we work on assembling the footage of Just Passing Thru. There is little to be said about what we’re up to in terms of the project, so I’ve been trying to think of some other ways to get some stuff on the site. I have a few ideas in the works, and you should expect to see some fun things popping up from time to time here at justpassingthru.tv

Last fall I shot some photos with my 35mm film camera. Nothing too exciting, but I thought I’d throw a few separate installments of my photos up on the site.

This first batch of photos was taken at a dirt bike track just outside of Loveland, Colorado.

Here, Freeskier.com columnist Brian Schroy, flags the start of a race between a thirteen-year-old kid and my two friends, Willis Brown and Tyler Lawson. I’m pretty sure Willis and Tyler lost…

These two dudes are just living.

The track isn’t just for dirt bikers as there was some serious peddle biking going on.

Freeskier.com columnist Brian Schroy tells “A Whole of BS.”

This was my first time printing photos in the dark room. Looks like I mixed up which way the negative goes into the enlarger. I could have fixed it in photoshop but I’m not that motivated, sorry…

Anyway, that’s my first installment of 35mm prints. More to come in the future…