BLATT!

W/E = Seattle

Aaron — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:18:17 +0000

5:59 on Friday there were no such thing as weekend plans for Aaron… But 6 o’clock rolled around and my mind was set on tripping up to Seattle. I kicked it with my pal Audi Drury, and he showed me all the city had to offer… Soccer games, fish markets, locks on the river, and bear sized dogs – check it!:

Pikes Place was the first stop... insane market, open every day, all year... if you're in Seattle this is the spot for...

Fish!

Veggies!

and suuuuper hot peppers...

Audi took me to check out the Locks - I've cruised through some locks in my day, but these things always impress me - Regardless of the tide, there's a big difference in water level from the Ocean and Seattle's freshwater port due to man made damming.. There was a pretty dramatic difference when we were there - leaving this boat in the Argosy fleet (called "Seattle Good Times III) about 18 feet below the water level in the harbor when returning to port...

No worries though... pull'er in, close the locks, let gravity pump in the freshwater from the harbor side and Kabaaam, this vessel is on its way... Good solution to the damn dam issue...

Underwater however, another issue remains... Salmon swimming up-stream to lay their eggs can't cruise through the dam, and the locks are not suited for this problem... Man made fish ladders allow the Salmon a means of carrying out their business. This setup let people see the fish up close and personal as they move through the concrete replacement to natural rapids... I don't know too much about this situation but something tells me that the Salmon kinda got a raw deal here...

Seattle Sounders game was up next...

Qwest Field contains about 50,000 seats surrounding the "X-Box 360 Pitch" - which is a fancy name for a good old fashioned soccer field...

Audi was stoked to score some tickets to the game - heck yeah!

The game was crazy, the fans were sooo crazy! Everyone stood the whole time while yelling and screaming profanities for the majority of the match... high energy would be an understatement, and in the final minutes of the game the sounders dropped in for a winning goal - the crowd went wild (photos above...)!

Seattle has a flippin' awesome sculpture park... there's babies learning to walk everywhere you look in this town! Crazy!

They've also got a Space Needle!

Wouldn't be a trip to Seattle without seeing my main man moose! He's lost 30 pounds but he's still flippin' huge!

Let sleeping dogs lie, just let 'em lie - they never tell the truth anyway... -TB.... Moose and Sophie sleep the afternoons away...

Wicked sweet trip to Seattle – big thanks to Audi and his crew!

Until next time -

Night at the Museum…

Aaron — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:07:01 +0000

Portland’s OMSI has been holding ‘21 plus’ OMSI after dark events at their science museum off and on for the past year. With all kinds of people cruising down to the museum looking for all kinds of learning/getting wasted combos, there was truly something for everyone. From dinosaur bones to drink specials, OMSI after dark is the jumpoff! Check it!:

This 'hands on' ecological model shows children how a dam can effect wildlife on a river. At OMSI after dark, it showed adults how the installation of giant beers can effect wildlife on a river...

With the help of a green screen, Danbo forcasted Oregon's weather...

Nick Lipton had more important things to take care of... Elderly OMSI employees?

Einstein exhibit is flippin' awesome though...

Einstein's documents... genious texts in german, and in cursive... not much to make sense of, but pretty amazing to see none-the-less...

Our crew trying to decipher Einsteins work...

Seriously couldn't keep Nick away from the babes... kid's sketchy.

Mary and Dan running from Samson...

From here, things went south… OMSI closed up for the night, and we cruised to the bars… Never before has such a smooth transfer from Museum to Bars gone down…

If you’re in the Portland area, the last Wednesday night of every month = museum party… check it out!

That’s it!

-A

Vote Think Thank in ‘010

Aaron — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:55:39 +0000

Seriously, go to snowboardermag.com vote Think Thank right about now! (vote here!)

TT!

http://fresh.snowboardermag.com/feature/superpark-showdown-think-thank-vs-helgasons-com/

that’s all -

Portfolio Revamp!

Aaron — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:39:19 +0000

For the last month I’ve been working to re-up my portfolio – it seems like I get into this project around this time every year, I suppose it’s in the hopes to make bigger moves during the coming winter season.. Either way this new edition holds a bunch of new gallery snaps, along with some re-visited and re-edited photos from the past – check it! http://www.adblatt.com/ -

New home page...

Along with some new gallery title pages

Some brand new photos..

..and some new edits on the previous batch of photos...

Check the website out for the rest!

www.adblatt.com

-A

PL ‘96

Aaron — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:42:54 +0000

Youtube gem… Peter Line circa ‘96, holy mackerel! I’m not going to ramble about how ’sick’ this is, or how much ’stoke’ I got out of it, because you can check it, right about here:

Peter is the man.

Until next time -

TWS x SS

Aaron — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:59:36 +0000

Adam Hawes and I tag teamed an interview with Scotty Stevens – it’s up on the Transworld Snow site right about here! If you read that last line too fast, you may have thought that I said that AH and I tag teamed Scott Stevens. Not the case. But seriously check out his interview, Scott’s got insane boardin’ game, he’s a good dude, and he’s got dance moves for days…

I have some photos in there alongside Joel Frasier’s snaps, hell I even have a ’sequence’ in there… And Scott’s videos are pretty fricken’ stellar as well -

check it: http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000129873/featuresobf/scottestevens/

That’s all -

Hood’s a Wrap!

Aaron — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:21:37 +0000

Well, everything comes to an end, and not so surprisingly, this summer followed that pattern and has wrapped up. Holy mackerel, Hood was awesome, and shooting for High Cascade was all time, again! Research shows that there are many summers forecasted far into the future, so there is no need to bum out – and hell, fall is awesome, so is winter, and spring is usually pretty darn good too!

Out of the 14,898 photos in my summer catalog, I chose the following two for this post as kind of ‘bookends’ to the summer. In between the ‘melt-out’ illustrated in these two photos of Hood’s cindercone, was one hell of a good time, yep!

: The Cindercone in early June…

(Insert ‘one hell of a good time’ here)

: …and again in late August.

And that’s it!

-A

Dew Tour: PDX

Aaron — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:05:44 +0000

Cruised down to Portland to check out the Dew Tour this past weekend – Mary and Nicole hooked up some fancy passes and we got ‘floor seats’ and all the Dew we could handle! EXTREMO

Below are some snaps from the scene – it was super fun to shoot around at an event and not have a shot list or anything… such a party! Most of this stuff was just shot with a fixed 50 on my 5D (except for a few fishier shots)… easy cruisin’ with that setup!

Check it!:

Shaun White... Kid blasts, gotta give it to him..

These girls could care less about Shaun though.... if she didn't have sunnies, this girl woulda had Sheckler sign her eyes...

Jamie Bestwick... BMXing his way to the top of the podium...

...and claiming it with some horns...

Speaking of claiming - here's a quick claiming re-cap... PLG n' Shuan running some heavy claim game, however with three hard spotlights shining down on him, Redbull's Daniel Dhers took the cake when it came to dramatic Dew Tour fist pumps...

Moto high jump, two winners, two fist pumps! It should be noted that both were sort of 'half assed' equaling out to one full fledged fist pumped...

Jumping motorcycles is so insane though, I shot this with no jump in the frame and it makes no sense that he is 50 feet in the air... so crazy to watch...

There's all kinds of wild jobs that people have to make an event like this happen on... this girl climbs down from the ceiling to shine lights on the action... good view for sure!

These guys have the task of 'raising the bar' for the moto high jump actoin...

plenty of people are on the scene to make sure everything goes as planned - looks kinda stressful...

And finally... 'the shirt canon guy' - taunting the crowd before rocketing Mt. Dew shirts high above their heads...

That’s a wrap for the PDX Summer Dew Tour stop… soo fun to check out the whole scene! Thanks again to Mary and Nicole for lacing up the passes!

well, until next time!

JP/JJ/JS/SC Ad

Aaron — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:31:02 +0000

Most of the ads for High Cascade are shot with some on hill action, or at one of our skateparks… When Preston (Boss Man) called with a new idea, JP, Jeremy, Joey Sexton, Simon C. and I headed to the lake, and got weird with it – super fun shoot, won’t give too much away.. but here are some snaps:

The crew had a 'solid' capsize for sure...

I stayed dry with a pair of borrowed waders n' boots... they got a bunch of pond scum on 'em...

Simon? Not so waterproof...

JP n' Joe watching Preston's i-phone video re-cap of the shoot, after-the-fact...

For more on the shoot check out Jeremy’s website: TRJJ!

Later -

Emptied the Fridge…

Aaron — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:33:23 +0000

Just finished up the last roll of film that I had in the refrigerator this summer – Glad it survived through the summer with a house full of new roomates…. “Blatt’s got his own personal stash of butter? Fuji Butter?” But seriously I’m still loving that Fujichrome E6 100 – go pick some up!

Mamiya 645 + Robot...

Can’t wait to process this stuff… plenty of boardin’ action + off hill chillin on those rolls…. I’ll keep ya posted!

-a