Perceptible - The Works of Tim Pierce

Poster for my first exhibition, Perceptible. Spread it everywhere! All are welcome.

It is with great pleasure that I announce I am holding a Tim Pierce multimedia exhibition titled Perceptible in just under two weeks time. The exhibition will be held at the Depot Art Space Gallery in Devonport, Auckland from April 11-23rd and you are all invited.

The Exhibition opening is on Sat April 11th at 2pm, so come and mingle for the afternoon/evening. The exhibition is a celebration of New Zealands beauty, talent and action sports culture. There will be several large pieces of my photography work, along with my high definition video work projected onto a wall. All photography pieces are for sale, so get in quick. Postcards for the exhibition are being distributed tomorow, if you would like one simply email me your address. ( tim at zerosandones.co.nz ) A huge thanks to my sponsors, NZsnowboard.com, Burton, Gravis, The Northface, Spoke & Manual. The exhibition statement is as follows.

Perceptible - The works of Tim Pierce

Perceptible is a multi media exhibition, displaying a wide range of works from New Zealand photographer and film maker Tim Pierce.
Originally from Wanaka, Tim has spent his life travelling New Zealand and abroad documenting action sports and their associated cultures.
From this stems Perceptible, a series of innovative and artistically rich images that capture New Zealand's top snowboard, mountain bike, and BMX talent, whilst showcasing Aotearoa’s beauty through eerie dramatic moods, unique textures, shapes and pure images.
Resonant in visual magnitude, the pieces evoke strong perceptions and connotations of outdoor adventure and culture through the mind and senses.
Screenings of high definition video projects will also play throughout the two week exhibition, illustrating Tim’s diversity in the world of film.
Be sure you attend to celebrate New Zealand’s beauty and talented sporting culture as seen through the lens of our country’s leading action sport photographer.

Hyundai Longboard Port Waikato Video

Heres a little tease of the final round of the Hyundai Pro Longboard tour at Port Waikato. Make sure you tune into Maroi TV to see the show.

Summer of Surfing Final'e

I have just returned from Port Waikato where the final round of the Hyundai Pro Longboard tour was held.

This summer has seen me follow the entire circuit with NZGreenroom Productions, filming a television documentary, DVD, and web updates. Its been an eye opener and completely different to my usual line of work. Huge thanks to Chris Kirkham, Reglan Low, Richard Reid, Trinitiy Ludlow and ofcourse Hyundai!

Four shows will be airing on Maori TV at 9:30 on Thursday nights, repeats will also be played at different times. ( First show aired March 26th ) The DVD will be distributed on the front of NZ surfing mags, and the quicktimes are all over the net. So go get into it and follow NZ longboarding.

To wrap it, heres a few snaps from Port Waikato.

Shooting travel sequences with the Hyundai Santa Fe has been fun, co ordinating shoots on public roads and confronting alot of traffic! We shot this bridge over the Waikato.

The Santa Fe makes great time accross the Harbour Bridge when someone forgot a camera bag.

Trinity, Richard and Regan watch the Documentarys first episode.

The view from our house at Port Waikato. Book a batch is amazing!

Petrol Pump, myself, Ginger Beer & the Waikato at high tide.

Setting up for prize giving. Michael Burling took home the win, and won the Santa Fe, how ever no one expected him to break into tears. Hah!

Hyundai know how to throw down a party. More fireworks than Wanaka at new years. Great times. Cheers!

Sccchhhhhppoookkkeeee.

Kelly Mcgarry Upside downer.

With the launch of Manual Magazines new website comes the launch of Spoke Magazines new website - www.spokemagazine.com . These two publications come straight outa firstfloor and are undoubtedly some of the best action sports magazines in the world, produced right here in Aotearoa. The two new sites are gonna be busting with regularly updated content.

Two words. Book Mark - www.spokemagazine.com

ABC X Manual @ Loaded March 27

Thats right folks, tomorow night in Wellington there is going to be an amazing skate photography exhibition featuring all of New Zealands best skate photographers. David Read, Kevin Francis, Mark Barber, Simeon Patience & Caleb Smith. No doubt it will be hammers, so get there and check it out.

Also its pretty much old news, but I guess I havn't blogged it yet. Manual have dropped a new site and are in the game of who can post the best computer content. Its looking slick and is so far very interesting. Jake Mein & David Read posting up a storm.

www.manualmagazine.com

Notorious Trailer

Truth be told the greatest rapper of all time. I'm actually going to go see this.

Wanaka ' Build The Park Jam' Video

Build The Park Jam #1 from trubmx on Vimeo.

Heres a video from the first Wanaka ' Build The Park Jam' . I must say it makes me a tad home sick! Looks like a stunner of a day and fun park shredding. Word.

Zeros&Ones Identity Revamp

With Zeros&Ones almost completing its first year of business, I felt it was time to properly revamp the company for 2009. I was lucky enough to use the very talented Laura Shalcrass from Chomp Design in Queenstown to design the following logo and visual identity. I highly recommend her to anyone needing graphics or illustrations designed! Very professional, fast and effecient.

The result is a nice clean logo which you will see popping up all over the show, along with the visual identity pictured below it. The name of the company derives from the fact that any digital picture is composed of a series of zeros and ones. The ampersand within the main logo is made of 0s & 01s, and in the visual interpretation the ampersand is spewing the numbers everywhere. All of our work revolves around this, and we're geeks at heart.

Lindsay Horner is currently working on some motion graphics which you will be seeing at the start and end of this years productions. More updates on Zeros&Ones 2009 Programming shortly.

Big City Life Part 2

City life is ticking along swell. Theres some exciting projects on the horizon. Heres some snaps from around the show.

1 Giant Leap Trailer

Facebook lead me to this trailer for '1 Giant Leap'. This looks like a truly incredible project done on a small budget. Perfect.

Summer of Surfing TV show 1 - March 26th 9PM

The first show of the Hyundai 'Summer of Surfing' TV show is airing on Thursday 26th March at 9:30pm on Maori Television. I have been filming for this show all summer. Show one contains the shortboard nationals at Piha. Get to a screen and check it out! Spread the word.

'V' Monster Truck breaking down video

'V' Monster Truck Breaks Down. from Zeros&Ones on Vimeo.

I've been holding onto this little gem for a while now. Some of you may have seen the 'V' ad, with a V Monster Truck being 'radio controlled' on television. This ad was shot just accross the road from my old house ( my old house appears in the background of the ad, BGPS!). I couldnt help but get my camera out when I was doing the dishes to film this. What you don't see in the ad is the rear axel of the Monster Truck breaking. The truck then sat in the field over night watched by security guards. Expensive ad!

Stefan Lantschner Video.

Heres a rad clip of Stefan Lantschner filmed in San Diego over a month. Super creative lines.

Big City Life.

Big city life snap shots day 1.

SnowParkNZ Scales back operations for 2009

Chris Blinkhorne snatches a front3 off a rubble Park at SnowPark last year.

Shit the bed, this is pretty harsh news. SnowParkNZ is scaling back for 2009, no seasons pass's will be sold. Definitely a real sign of the economic crush on our little industry down here in NZ. This will effect alot of people. Below is the press release.

In light of the current world economic situation, Snow Park NZ will be scaling back our operations for the 2009 winter.

“This is a temporary measure to ensure that the Park remains financially viable and can continue to operate through this very tough time. We have some great industry support and really value the hard work put in by so many over the past 8 years. We are considering all options moving forward,"- said Lee.” Snow Park General Manager, Sam Lee.

The resort will offer day passes this season but as part of the restructuring will not be selling season passes. Snow Park will be taking a hard look at our operational model in efforts to maintain those features that are most popular with our loyal riders. In the long term we have every intention of keeping our plans for expansion alive and will continue to source the additional capital needed to do so.

"We are all affected by the global economic recession, as a family operation, we realise that we must take action now to ensure that our 84 years of history in the Cardrona Valley is preserved. These are difficult times, we are optimistic about the future, but must be realistic about the present. " Sam Lee, General Manager.

We will be releasing more information soon with definitive plans for the 2009 winter.

For more information please contact Sam Lee at: samlee@snowparknz.com or phone +64 21 779 933

Roadtripping.

I'm now set up in Auckland with my internet life line cleany inserted, what a backlog. I'll be based here until winter brings me back to Wanaka for an exciting season. Last Wednesday Regan Low and I made the mission to Auckland in an epic one day drive which sore many amusing discussions arise. We then headed to Whangamata for the weekend to film a round of the Hyundai Pro Longboard tour. Heres a few snap shots to document the trip, with many large portions missing.

A brisk Lake Tekapo, it was snowing on the Lindis Pass.

We stopped in Christchurch to see our editor of the Longboard TV show, Trinity Ludlow. The Documentry is shaping up nicely in the dungeon.

What gets you through 24 hours of driving? Coffee. Regan looks pleasant at Kaikora.

We also stopped briefly in Kaikora at surfwatch
If you ever need a place to sleep in Kaikora go there. Its amazingly beautiful.

Blenheim and stormy clouds.

The Interislander looking calm. How ever our trip involved 7-8m swells. I enjoyed the company of a bung eyed transexual maori man who was getting drunk whilst I tryed to hold down my chicken drumb sticks.

Fast forward to traveling from Auckland to Whangamata and we find our selves scoping a spot for shooting a travel sequence in the Hyundai Longboard Show. Richard and Regan check out a sweet little river.

Dolly Bridge Car Travel Set up at river.

Camera Operator Richard Reid gets the barbie ready.

Trinity Ludlow sets up the edit suite on site.

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Lyndon Kennings rescue from D.I.C - Whangamata Beach.

Whangamata Comp Site.

Surfing New Zealands iconic family. Kennings Family I.V set up.

Mr & Mrs Melville.

Just before I left Wanaka I had the privilege of photographing John & Sophie Melvilles wedding. It was the first wedding I have attended and photographed and was an amazing experience! I have gotten to know John and Sophie over the years through the snow industry as John is responsible for Development Snowparks. They are two amazing people and I look forward to more time with them in the future. The wedding was held at Release, followed by a dinner at Missys. Two great venues for events. Heres just a handful of the 400 odd images that document the day. Enjoy.