Nutcracker 2012

We were asked to film the Nutcracker 2012 this year in Homer, Alaska.  This project was filmed from 7 different angles, during 4 separate shows.  We cut and edit the 2 hour film in less then 16 hours from all angles to have ready for the following weekends shows and after party.  This has been a really fun and challenging project.  We do not have full movie online but if you would like to purchase a DVD, please contact josh@jgsconcepts.com.

We will have a small teaser/behind the scenes video online soon for digital download.

MSP "Superheroes of Stoke" Movie Premiere

JGS Concepts and Coast Magazine are hosting the Match Stick Productions Premiere at the Bear Tooth Theatre this year on November 29, 2012. After party to be held at Humpy's

MSP is proud to bring you the most eagerly awaited ski film of the last two decades. “SUPERHEROES OF STOKE” celebrates MSP’s heritage and 20 years of skiing progression, showcasing icons of the sport and honoring the moments that helped define modern freeskiing. This awe-inspiring new film takes a captivating look at the past, present, and future of freeskiing through comprehensive storytelling and engaging first-person perspectives from those who helped change the game. Throughout the film, MSP honors the heroes who have emerged over the years and pays tribute to the heroes who have been lost. “SUPERHEROES OF STOKE” showcases incredible new action from all corners of the globe, encompassing overhead powder at Chatter Creek, massive spine walls in Alaska’s Tordrillo Mountains, pillow lines and tree jibs in Japan, and massive man-made features at Whistler and Alyeska. 

Starring an elite class of superheroes, including: Mark Abma, James Heim, Ingrid Backstrom, Riley Leboe, Russ Henshaw, Eric Hjorleifson, Gus Kenworthy, Richard Permin, PK Hunder, Sean Pettit, Michelle Parker, Cody Townsend, Jacob Wester, Aidan Sheahan, Logan Pehota, Leo Ahrens, and Sam Anthamatten. Also featuring legendary cameos from earlier generations of the MSP universe: Shane McConkey, Seth Morrison, Wendy Fisher, JP Auclair, Mike Douglas, CR Johnson, Tanner Hall, Eric Pollard, Hugo Harrisson, Sarah Burke, and many more.

Ted's Express, new high speed quad @ Alyeska Resort

JGS Concepts is working with Alyeska Ski Resort during the 2012 | 2013 Winter season to create video episodes about the Resort.  This is the first episode we created for Alyeska about the all new High Speed quad chairlift that was installed over the 2012 Summer.

The 2012/13 Ski Season will feature a couple major upgrades to Alyeska Resort; most notably a new high-speed quad to replace Chair 4 as well as a trail widening and grading project at the base of Chair 6.

Alyeska is very excited about the new high-speed quad that will be replacing Chair 4. Ted's Express will be in the identical footprint of the old Chair 4 to minimize construction damage to the mountain. Ted's Express estimated trip time from base to top is 5 minutes, shaving about 10 minutes off per lap giving our skiers and riders more vertical for their buck. Skiers will gain 1,348 vertical feet in elevation over a 4,300-foot distance at a speed of 1,000 feet per minute.

More info at:
www.alyeskaresort.com
www.youtube.com/user/AlyeskaResort

Videography | Edit by JGS Concepts
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Music Copyrights:
Broke for Free
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Additional GoPro footage:
Duffy Daniels


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Crunch time, High Peaks Productions is wrapping up on color correction while JGS Concepts crunches on Alyeska Resort bike edit

Behind the Scenes of "Alaska Downhill Brigade"

Winner of the 2012 Alaska Adventure film festival 

Over the summer of 2012 the JGS crew went out to Alyeska Resort and also deep into the backcountry 5 hours north of Anchorage.   If you respect riding bikes and film, take just a few minutes out of your day and read below about the super dedicated people involved in this project that was 100% out of our own pockets.  This small video was shot at Alyeska Resort, in Girdwood AK.  We will be continuing to further this project with Alyeska and also in the deep backcountry of Alaska all winter and into next summer to bring you a full movie for "Alaska Downhill Brigade".  Huge thanks to everyone involved and Alyeska Resort for opening the mountain for a beautiful blue bird day of filming.  Expect to see much more in the near future from JGS Concepts and High Peaks Productions. Thanks and Enjoy-

Design: Kristopher Brons

JGS went out a few days prior and installed a 500' cable zip line rig for following the riders down the trail bobcat.  We attached a Canon 7D and Contour+ to the rig for filming each rider.  This rig is a very technical and touchy system but because of the engineering mind of Kris Brons we were able to design an almost flawless system. We are creating a behind the scenes video with this project to show how much work went into this out of pocket project. This project was the most organized shoot JGS has ever planned and we are excited about the outcome.  ABC and Fox news Alaska came out for the afternoon and interviewed us about the project and they will be doing a special feature on TV before the full release of the video.



Filmer | Photographer Info and links:

Below is a quick background on the people who helped make this project happen.  Without the knowledge and skill of the people involved these kinds of projects would never happen.  Take a second and check out some of the works from the below filmers, photographers and athletes.

Kristopher Brons is a pro snowboarder who coaches with Team BIG Alaska in the winters and also works directly with JGS Concepts with most everything we do. Kris is a huge part of JGS Concepts.  With Kris's engineering mind frame we are able to create our own custom built film equipment for a 1/4 of the cost.  He has helped design and construct most of the film equipment we used making this video.  Kris also has an open eye for getting the shots required in making a film.  Without having Kris on our team we would not be able to fully complete the projects we have completed with the style we try so hard for. In the future we will have another web page with some of our custom film equipment designs.  We will have how to videos along with equipment for sale that everyone will be able to afford.

Scott Dickerson is a professional photographer from Homer Alaska.  Scott has a beyond amazing background with photography and is a pleasure to work with.  Scott also owns and operates Surf Alaska out of Homer.  Take a few minutes to check out Scott's portfolio links below, it will be well worth your time. www.surfalaska.net www.scottdickerson.com

Dmitry Surnin is a filmer and editor based in Anchorage Alaska.  We have worked with Dmitry on a few projects over the last year.  Dmitry has a natural eye for getting the shot and has extensive knowledge about cameras and editing.  Dmitry did not only just help film this project but is working with us on creating the final product.  With his knowledge in editing and color correction this film will be one of the best created by JGS and Associates to date.

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Mikey Huff is a photographer | filmer based out of Anchorage, AK.  We have worked on many projects over the last couple years with Mikey. His attention for detail is amazing.  Mikey went out of his element of photography to help us shoot behind the scenes video on this project.  Without Mikey we would not have been able to capture a behind the scenes video with this project.  Check out some more of Mikey's work.
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This was the first time we have worked with Justin Frazier.  Seeing his style and final products blew us away.  Justin is a very driven photographer and filmer  We are excited to continue working with Justin in all our future projects.  If you would like to see more of Justin's work and see what drives him check out his website at: www.frazier-photo.com



Athletes | Riders:

Riley Doyle from Anchorage Alaska is a 16 year old rider who has been riding since 2008.  Riley started riding dirt jumpers at first and being influenced by Danny Macaskill started in the street scene as well.  Giant hooked him up with a 2012 STP dirt bike frame after cracking his original, so he began jumping much more.  He rides his bike just about everywhere and uses the lift access out at Alyeska Resort.  He has 3 bikes custom built exactly how he likes them.

Kevin Murphy moved to AK and started riding in the summer of 1999. Kevin has worked at bike shops over the years building his passion even stronger for the sport he loves.  Kevin also races mountain bikes and says he enjoys the mental and physical challenges that come with completing long distance endurance races. Kevin recently traveled to Bend, OR with his Giant Rep Paul LaCava to compete in a 100 mile mountain bike race.

Kyle Armbrust is a professional freestyle snowmobile athlete.  Part of Kyle's summers include staying in shape and training by mountain biking.  Kyle's ability's to freestyle in the professional snow machine world  show in his mountain biking ability's.

Brennon Berg is a 25 year old rider from Anchorage Alaska.  Brennon has been rider for two years.  He rides a specialized demo 7 and mainly rides single tracks, down hill, jumps, drops and gaps.  "The world is a playground and I try to make every possible piece of terrain something fun to hit"
 -Brennon Berg-

David Fozz also works at Alyeska Ski Resort on the trail crew.  Fozz took a fall while our shoot and broke his had pretty bad, ending up having surgery. We all hope for a speedy recovery so he can get back to what he loves sooner then later.

Sean Dunn grew up racing bmx in southern California. He moved to Lake Tahoe for nine years getting into downhill biking. Sean has lived in Alaska for the last four years, working and riding out at Alyeska Resort. Sean would like to thank Paul for hooking him up with his Kona bike and the girls at crash pads out of Oregon.

Jake Young is the man behind the scenes at Alyeska Resort who builds and designs the trails.  Without Jake and the trail crew, this project would have never happened. Jake got into downhill mountain biking about 12 years ago.  Back in the day he said he would  push his bike up to 6,000ft in south central Alaska just to ride. Jake worked in BC on the mountain bike trail crew before he moved back to Alaska to work with Alyeska building trails. This is Jake's third year on the Alyeska Trail Crew and is excited to see the whole project starting to take shape. We all would like to send out many thanks for his efforts and ideas for making the mountain bike trails at Alyeska happen and continue to grow.




 

Click Here for the full story behind this project in the making-------->  Alaska Dowhill Brigade

There has been well over 10,000 view in the last week of the small teaser JGS Concepts and High Peaks Productionsmade while shooting out at Alyeska Resort. If you have not seen the teaser yet check it out. Full video coming soon.

Check out the new teaser for Match Stick Productions 'Superheroes of Stoke'.  We have some shots in this years film.

Downhill Brigade | Alyeska 2012

Check out High Peaks Productions when you have a second.  They have been working with us to produce the Alaska Downhill Brigade Project.

Alyeska Ski Resort, Spring Carnival Weekend

JGS Concepts joined up with Alyeska Ski Resort to do some filming during Spring Carnival this year.  We brought out a film sled sponsored by Arctic Cat Snowmobiles and filmed in the half pipe and park friday and then filmed slush cup on Saturday.  Below are a few pictures we took while out at Alyeska.  Video to be posted soon.

Valdez, Alaska Trip

There is much to the story of what happened in Valdez, Alaska last week on our filming mission. This is webisode 1, we are working on a full story that is going to be published in the near future. Basically it involved a major Crevasse collapsing and thats all I'm going to say at this point. If you would like to follow the story stay posted here on JGSConcepts.com for more soon. This video is dedicated to Austin. Check out Valdez Heli-ski Guides for future shred missions. These guys and gals are top of the line people .

 

Below are also a few pictures to scope out of our film mission.  You can click any of the pictures to be directed to more.

Nelson and Brise found a gun randomly hanging out, so we decided to snap some photo's next to the JGS Film Sled, sponsored by Big Lake Arctic Cat

Valdez Heli-Ski Guides helping out in saving Austin from a near death experience.  Story soon.

Austin and part of the amazing crew who helped us.

Nick J Weicht showing us some skills while waiting for snow conditions to get better.

Pretty Faces, Part of an all girl ski movie

A few of us went out into the backcountry of Alaska for 5 days to find lines and work on some film projects for SheJumps.  We all left from Girdwood, AK and drove to Seward, AK for 2 days to search for safe and good snow conditions.  After spending two days flying and Snowmobiling in search with limited $$ we decided to head further north up into Turnigain and Whittier.   We successfully shot some good video footage and photo's for a portfolio and video teaser to show the upcoming project for she jumps.  We would like to thank all the sponsors and people who made this project happen over the last few days and plan to continue filming over the next year. Alaska Wild Guides  Big Lake Arctic Cat Auto Tats 907 Surplus Loken Construction R And E Auto Contour Alaska Snowmobile Salvage Alkota Avalon7 Stay posted for much more to come. If you would like to find out more about shejumps visit the web page @ www.shejumps.org You can click on the photo's to be directed to more:

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The Girls getting ready to take a line in Alaska

Lauren from Chugach Powder Guides teaching about Avalanche Training.  Lauren was our guide for the past 5 days.  

Arctic Man 2012

JGS Concepts organized an amazing team of riders and sponsors this year to head up into the Hoodoo Mountains once again to take on the 27th year of Arctic Man.  With the help of sponors and some professional riders we were able to make some big things happen.  Both Teams that raced did an amazing job and plan to go back again next year.  We will be producing some smaller teaser movies to show all that awesomeness that happened this year. For now here are a few pictures to show JGS and associates doing work. Click the photo's for more:

Lila Crowley and Kianna Putman take 3rd place in women's race division

Cody Barber racing in the Snow X

Lila Crowley waiting to pick up Kianna Putman at race hook up

Team Arctic Cat and JGS Concepts doing work.

Huge Thanks to all the sponsors who helped make this happen. Big Lake Arctic Cat Team Arctic Auto Tats 907 Surplus Loken Construction R And E Auto Contour Alaska Snowmobile Salvage Alkota Avalon7

We do have Arctic Man: The Movie for sale online.  If you are interested in purchasing the movie created by JGS Concepts and Unified Productions just click HERE

Alyeska Ski Resort, Chugach Open

The Chugach Open includes three days of competition. The high-level competition showcases Alyeska’s challenging double black diamond terrain with select venues typically not open to the general public. The terrain offers such features as steep cliffs, chutes and 2,500 feet of vertical with the ability to test the mettle of the most experienced freeriders. New this year! Top men and women ski and snowboard finishers will win a six-run Daily Package with Alaska Rendezvous Heli-Guides.Open to all disciples, division for 18 & older and juniors (ages 13 to 17).

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Hilltop Ski Area, Alaska | Teaser

Team BIG Alaska is about to go to nationals in Colorado. We have huge amounts of footage and have been going threw and organizing it all. This was from two nights ago at Hilltop Ski Area in Anchorage, AK. 

Cameras: Canon 7d, 5d and Contour+ [www.contour.com] Gear: kessler slider, JGS Concepts custom gear [for sale soon] Music: Alkota  [www.alkotabeats.com]

Team BIG Alaska updates

For more About Team BIG Alaska: CLICK HERE

Contour + Timelapse

 This small 30 second time-lapse was a test with the new Contour+ camera.  We are very impressed with the quality and different settings and have been using this camera over the last week filming multiple projects. This was the first time we tested the Contour+ with the time-lapse.  Stay tuned for much more www.contour.com Music by: Alkota [www.alkotabeats.com]

Alyeska Droppin Video Teaser

This is a small raw teaser of what is to come this spring from JGS Concepts. This is the view from the kessler slider and Canon 5D we were using. We had 3 filmers, one hiding in the trees, one on the chairlift above us, and the slider view which you are watching from. We also had the contour+ camera on 3 riders and also posted in the trees, hidden in different areas. This was a planned out film shoot at Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood Alaska. We have a few big edits that are being worked on this week. keep posted for more to come. Doing projects like this takes much planning and skilled riders along with a good audience to watch and show support. Show Some support and like us on Facebook Huge thanks to all and just a quick note, any of the colored wording above is a link so see how much work goes into making a video. Take a second and check out some of the links above JGS Concepts

 

Timelapse Set up

Hilltop Ski Area, Rail Jam

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Port Au Prince, Haiti Missions Trip

I just returned from Port au Prince, Haiti. I joined a group of guys and went down on a mission trip to help out for a week.   I will be adding many videos, photo's and blog postings over the next couple weeks. For now here is a bit of what is to come. CLICK either of the Photo's to be directed to more photo's from our trip.

I created this video for friends and family to watch and see some of what we did down in Haiti last week. I am working on another edit with much more story board and many other things that will go with this video but more in depth.

 

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0. The quake occurred Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The Haitian government reported that an estimated 316,000 people had died, 300,000 injured and 1,000,000 made homeless. It was also estimated 250,000 residences and 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed. Amongst the widespread devastation and damage throughout Port au Prince and elsewhere, vital infrastructure necessary to respond to the disaster was severely damaged or destroyed. This included all hospitals in the capital; air, sea, and land transport facilities; and communication systems. Roads were blocked with debris or the surfaces were broken. The deputy mayor of Leogane reported that 90% of the town’s buildings had been destroyed. In the nights following the earthquake, many people in Haiti slept in the streets, on pavements, in cars, or in makeshift shantytowns either because their houses had been destroyed, or they feared standing structures would not withstand aftershocks. Construction standards are very low in Haiti; the country has no building codes. Slow distribution of resources in the days after the earthquake resulted in major violence. There were also accounts of looters wounded or killed by vigilantes and neighborhoods that had constructed their own roadblock barricades. Port Au Prince’s morgues were quickly overwhelmed with tens of thousands of bodies having to be buried in mass graves. Many organizations such as Global Partners [who we went with] have dedicated themselves to help the relief project of Haiti for the last two years and continue to rebuild Haiti as we speak. I typed this up pretty quick so you can get a better idea if you had none about how bad it is still in Haiti. I will be starting a new web page dedicated to Missions, helping and how you can get involved if you would like. Thanks for watching and reading. Together we can make this world a better place for people in need.

Alyeska Ski Resort | Big Air

JGS Concepts makes behind the Scenes at 2012 Winter X Games

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2012 Winter X Games Photo's

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Nick J Weicht Climbing in Colorado

So I took the day and met up with Nick J Weicht in Vail, Colorado for some Rock and Ice Climbing. 

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Gregory Peck-USA Paralympic Ski Team

On January 16, 2012 Gregory Peck was made part of the United States Paralympic Ski Team.  Gregory would like to thank everyone involved in his hard work to become part of all of this.  Without the support from family and sponsors this would not have happened.  He would also like to give a huge shout out to God,  Greg says he could not have done any of this without his faith.

Greg will be updating his pages after the Winter X Games himself, but he is so busy with training and getting ready, we at JGS Concepts are helping out as much as we can.

Greg has been training hard just finishing up a great training session on January 13 & 14, and coaching others with what he has been so gifted with. 

Greg is gearing up for the 2012 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado.  He has been training, coaching and competing in events all winter long to be 100% ready for Winter X Games.

Greg has many other comps this winter he will be taking part of. One of the other big competitions is Arctic Man In Alaska.

Greg has a featured part in Arctic Man: The Movie.  Being only the second adaptive skier in Arctic Man Greg has made a huge impression in the main directors eyes and this year in April there is officially an adaptive race section being brought to Arctic Man.  The Movie is also being premiered in Alaska, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming. Oregon, and Colorado in February and March of 2012 before the 2012 Arctic Man Race.  For More information on Arctic Man: The Movie, visit www.jgsconcepts.com

Stay posted for much more to come.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for Greg, please email his manager with proposals. josh@jgsconcepts.com

Team BIG AK rider Logan Baston featured on SIMS.com

CLICK HERE to view Logans Profile on www.simsnow.com.

Arctic Man: The Movie interview by ABC & FOX news

JGS Concepts was interviewed today by ABC and Fox News about Arctic Man: The Movie. Here is a clip of the news that it played in... It starts at 3 minutes.

 

Freestyle Snowmachiner Kyle Armbrust featured in Arctic Man: The Movie

Professional Athlete Kyle Armbrust and his amazing freestyle snowmobile ability's are featured in the upcoming movie Arctic Man.  CLICK HERE to check out Kyle's Facebook page.

Kyle Armbrust will be making an appearance at the Anchorage, Alaska and Wasilla Alaska Premiere's to sign Autographs and posters.

Kyle is also working on some other very exciting projects I am unable to talk about right now but stay posted to Kyle's Facebook and JGS Concepts

Pow Day w/ Troy Murdough at Alyeska Ski Resort

Arctic Man: The Movie, Alaska Premiere dates

In April 2011, UNIFIED Productions and jgs concepts traveled north to Summit, Alaska from Bend, Oregon to film 2011 Arctic Man.  with footage from the discovery channel, national geographic, unified productions, and Jgs concepts, Arctic Man: The Movie will be an all-encompassing view into the world of Arctic Man, from the beginning of the event to the end, and everything in between.  The film will also include the history of Arctic Man, the Arctic Man Race, AMMC Hill Cross, SnoCross, Drag Race, and Freestyle Contest. The goal of the movie is to show all aspects from as many views as possible so that weather you are one of the lucky 13,000 people that make it to Arctic Man or you are not able to make it, you can watch and feel like you are there.  Sponsored by Polaris Snowmobiles, rock star, Vitamin water,the odem corporation, dekuyper, tesoro, Alaska National Guard, coors, Hot Chilly's, Unified production, Jgs concepts, alaska adventure media and many more.

Here is a link to the Teaser video:

Arctic man: the movie

MOVIE PREMIERES AND DVD RELEASE 

ANCHORAGE, AK- JANUARY 2012

FAIRBANKS, AK- JANUARY 2012

WASILLA, AK- JANUARY 2012

BEND, OR- FEBRUARY 2012

DVD RELEASE- JANUARY 2012

DVD'S WILL BE FOR SALE AT ALL PREMIERES, ITUNES,


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