Mountain Bike Project

Yep, you guessed it. I'm doing another mountain bike film project for my major media project in my final and third year at the University of Cumbria. It makes sense, in that I enjoy shooting mountain bike footage and the majority of inspiration has been collected from mountain bike films. Lately this has been follow me, great music great mountain biking.

Anyway, below are a few quick snaps I managed to take whilst shooting the first part of this project. The weather was extremely against me with lots of fog and damp drizzle.

Expedition Film from Easter 2010

Whilst taking a break from uni work, I stumbled upon our video from our Finland expedition. It made me reminisce about how awesome this experience was even though whilst there I didn't really think this. Beautiful country, cool people. Enjoy!

Finland 2010 from Dom Bush on Vimeo.

Gorillaz Featuring Daley - Doncamatic

I know this isn't really outdoor related, but it's a tune that's definitely motivating me to run. Enjoy!

Inspiration

This year, I have quite a lot of opportunity, within my university work, to do pretty much anything I want in terms of a dissertation and, the cream on the cake, my main media project. I'm really excited about this as it really reminds me of the times I was in school studying art and photography at a-level, where I also got free reign over my projects. I know this is hard in terms of time management but I know I enjoy the process once the ball starts rolling. When the creativity flows and I'm trying something new.

Over the past few weeks, I've been collecting some inspiration for my main media project. It's about mountain biking and how it allows us to explore and have freedom.

Here are a few of those inspirations:

[scattered flurries] from felt soul media on Vimeo.

FREE RANGE TURKEY_dispatch #2 from camp4 collective on Vimeo.

Way Back Home from hyungseuck JUNG on Vimeo.

Even though these aren't all to do with mountain biking, I feel they're shot beautifully and that's something I'd like to take forwards in my own work.