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Monday, March 1st 2010

RSN - Wild Stallions Interview

Look for clips from Wild Stallions and other Meathead movies on RSN all winter long! 

If you're staying at a resort this season, there's a good chance you can tune into one of their 110 affiliates throughout the country to check out their rad programming.  Watch for Meathead footage on "Reel Thrills," "Extreme Scene," and "RSN Movie Nights." 

Visit RSN HERE

Sunday, February 21st 2010

The Dirty South Trip II

words and photos by Shea Flynn
originally appreared on his personal blog:  seamusp.blogspot.com

So I'm sitting here in the Meathead Films office in Williston, VT and realized it's been a little too long since I've updated my blog. My last two weeks were spent in the eastern region of the "dirty south," driving around with the meatsticks hitting urban rails and features. Needless to say, everyone is stoked to be done skiing for a couple days as it was a ridiculous 2 weeks.

The first few days after arriving in the nation's capital was spent carousing through the streets of Washington D.C. in hopes of good features to hit where monuments and memorials would be seen in the background.

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The crew next to the Potomac River

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Andy and Will gettin jazzed up

 

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Weird feature

 

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Jefferson Memorial

 

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Photographer Matt Stauble lining up the shot


Our nightly down time was spent at College Park where we refused to sleep, staying up regularly either going to frat parties or hanging with a crazy group of Stauble's girlfriends. After spending almost a week at the University of Maryland, Andy, Stauble and myself started to relapse on the fun college nights that we had been drifting away from due to our skiing and filming schedule. Shout out to PIKE president Matt Simon for hooking us up and showing us around town as well as Ariel, Lauren, Lindsay and Michelle for providing us with a sick place to chill at while we soiled the apartment air with dirty ski socks. Once we were done ducking and dodging numerous security guards and police officers in D.C., the crew and I headed to downtown Baltimore Maryland where we explored the streets of Oriole territory.

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Andy Peasley looking hella jazzed

 

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Head filmer Geoffrey Dahmer

 

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The city just doesn't have sh*t on lock yet

 

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Another view of the city


After getting work done in Baltimore, we kept heading north, stopping in York Pennsylvania where we hit a plethora of cool and unique looking features. Shout out to our guide Mike as well as head grounds manager Brandon! When we arrived in York, Andy and myself (who were the only athletes still skiing, due to Will leaving on injury) didn't think we were going to hold out for too long. To our surprise, we had a great group of people who helped us set up some really cool features inside a professional baseball stadium! A week and a half into our trip, we stumbled upon the Sovereign Bank Stadium, home of the York Revolution baseball team. It was here where we met up with Brandon Putman who not only allowed us to have free range in the stadium, but also turned on the mondo stadium lights so that we could film in a private-type setting! Ballerrr.

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Peasley getting after it

 

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A nice bomb drop in the heart of the Sovereign Bank outfield
 
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Wallride to drop, wud uuuuup


When we got done at the stadium, we finished out our trip skiing in York where our nights were spent jumping from Super 8's and Comfort Inn's that seemed glorious at the time, but in all reality were all pretty shady. Now the dirty south tour is officially over! Enough said, spread the word about this blog because I only have 3 followers, and 1 is my mom haha!

editor's note: this story originally appeared on Shea Flynn's blog. Follow all of the cheesin' at Cheesin' with Shea Flynn

Saturday, February 6th 2010

An Interview with Filmer: Shane McFalls

Shane is a long time cinematographer for Meatheads and he recently did a interview with the Snowtographers.com website.  Check it out:

http://snowtographers.com/2010/featured/featured-cinematographer-shane-mcfalls

 

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Thursday, February 4th 2010

Accolades for Wild Stallions

The Stallions received some great honors during the January awards season.  With all the hard work that was put in by both athletes and producers last season, everyone was psyched to be able to celebrate and see the East Coast recognized on the world stage.

Powder Video Awards

Nominated: "Best Jib" - for Will Wesson's bike rack switch-up follow cam

Nominated: "Movie Of The Year" - for the entertainment value, creativity, diversity and general awesomeness of Wild Stallions


Coldsmoke Awards

Winner: "Best Jib Movie" - for all the wierd urban and jib skiing done by Stallions



Meathead Films would like to thank Powder Magazine and the Coldsmoke organizers for their recognition and consideration.  Also, we want to thank all the athletes for the blood and sweat they put into the project and cinematographers (Ben Cormier, Shane McFalls) who put in a ton of effort to make Wild Stallions our best film to date!

Check out our pre-recorded acceptance speech for the Coldsmoke Awards: