Site Re-design

The Redshift Pictures website is currently being re-designed to reflect projects currently in development. We apologize for the delay in updates.

Sleigh Sessions 2009 set to roll down Broadway, NYC!

On December 18th, 2009, a group of skateboarding Santas, elves, and reindeer will skate down Broadway from Columbus Circle to the Lower East Side in Manhattan for the 2nd annual "Sleigh Sessions."

Times Square, 2008

Participants are required to dress up in Christmas-themed costumes, and are asked to bring a small toy for donation to charity. The group will meet at Columbus Circle at 8 PM for an 8:30 departure. The route will take the Santi through Times Square and Union Square, where the team will stop at the Kids R Us, which contains the company's NY drop-off site for toy donations. The route then continues down Broadway, turning left and heading along St. Marks Avenue, followed by a right turn at Avenue A, finishing at 2nd Street and Avenue A.
Sleigh Sessions is also accepting donations of skateboards, surfboards and snowboards for donation to Stoked, a 501 (c)(3) organization that provides mentoring to inner-city youth through, surf, skate, and snowboarding instruction.
See the video from Sleigh Sessions 2008

Broadway Bomb 2007 Results

The Video Highlights and Recap are here. Though the race was rain-delayed until Sunday, the crowd was large and spirits were high. Thanks to Ian and Fred for organizing another great day for the NY area Longboarding community. Hear from the top finishers about all the action.

This Year's Broadway Race

Saturday, October 27th, High-Noon, this year's Broadway Bomb race will be kicking off from the usual starting point, 110th and Broadway. As always, the race route runs 8 1/2 miles down Broadway, ending at the famed bronze bull, by the sountern tip of Manhattan.
The race continues to grow each year, and a big turnout is expected. Look for prizes for the top finishers, as well as a good time and a few celebrity sightings.
For those in town the night before, there is a Halloween costume run down Broadway, meeting at Colombus Circle, Friday night at 9 PM. This is a fun run, not a race. Wear your costume. It is recommended that you avoid plastic and rubber masks that obscure a large percentage of your vision. Similarly, all-black costumes like, say, a ninja, are also discouraged.
The Redshift Pictures production team will be there to gather footage for race coverage and a recap of the weekend's events.

'Manhattan Kiwis' in post-production

Nick continues to burnish is Gaffer resume, having recently completed production on this short film. Working closely with Director/Writer Luke Mayes and DP Marc Gamboa, this trio injected high production value in to the Guerilla-style film shoot. Working quickly while adding texture and depth with creative lighting and dramatic camera use, everyone involved pulled strings and favors to create this fast-moving short film. As Luke and Marc head toward the sound mix and final cut, Nick and Redshift alumn Steve Dempsey (who also served as Co-Producer on the film) are starting to put together the trailer, which will be online soon. More info and screen-shots are availible now on the projects page.

Gaffing 'Homeland,' a nyc independent feature film

Redshift Pictures' President Nick Catania recently wrapped production as Gaffer on "Homeland," an independent feature film shot in and around NYC. This story-driven picture was Produced and Directed by Michael Eldridge and his Barataria Productions. The story was penned by Brad Rothschild; and produced in partnership with Bigfoot Productions, who joined the effort to realize this ambitious project. Look for updates and screening info here and on the Barataria Productions websites.

Actually downloading the Style Sessions Podcast

Style Sessions Trailer Podcast v2 has arrived!
The trailer is ready for download and promises not to bugger your computer. The problem was remedied by zipping the file, thereby complying with browser code. But enough tech-talk, here's how we got it to work:
-Click on the Style Sessions Trailer Podcast link. (Here or on the Projects page, which also contains the podcast, Board's Eye View Podcast.)
-The file will download and unzip (if you have the software; you should, it's free) on your desktop.
-Move the file to where you want it stored on your hard drive.
-In ITunes, click File>Add to Library.
-Drag the Trailer from your library to your Ipod Video.
-Enjoy and share.
There will be more podcasts coming, so stay tuned.

Not downloading the ipod video

Appy-polly-logies for jumping the gun on new technology vis-a-vis the ipod video. As asked, visitors to this site who tried to download the Style Sessions trailer in ipod format reported back on the results. The reports were, um, let's say, less than stellar. Apparently there were a range of problems; from 'nothing happened' to 'it crashed my computer.' No one reported that the mission was a success. (If anyone did experience success with the ipod download, please send us an email; include what type of computer, operating system, and web browser worked. This will help to isolate the problems.)
Redshift Pictures is going back to the drawing board, with attention to hammering out the issues associated with different platforms and web browsers. For now, the trailer is still viewable as a web stream, located in our sidebar. Once the problem is licked, the trailer will be back, with podcasts of other NYC skating sessions to follow.
Thanks you for your patience and assistance in spreading the faith.

The Stoked Mentoring fundraiser party is coming

Join the NY skating & surfing community Tuesday, February 7th for the Stoked Mentoring fundraiser.
The party will be held at Bed NY, 530 West 27th Street, 6th floor. All proceeds from the event and silent auction will go to Stoked Mentoring, to further their mission of developing "successful teens with opportunity, knowledge, experience and determination" through action sports, mentoring and coaching.
More info on the event and Stoked Mentoring's mission and fundraiser.

Downloading the Style Sessions ipod video

After much ado, the ipod video download mystery has been licked. (In a sense.) Here's how you can place the Style Sessions trailer on vour Video Ipod:
-Click on the download the ipod video trailer link.
-Don't be alarmed when your browser opens a new window loaded with gibberish text. Allow the page to completely load. It is a moderate-sized file and will take a few seconds, check your status bar.
-Close the browser window when it is done.
-Check your desktop (or wherever you have your computer set to put downloads) for a file called "style sessions trailer.m4v" and double-click the file icon.
-This will open up itunes and place the file in your library. It may also start playing in your itunes video window.
-Drag the file from your library into your ipod's "videos" folder.
-If it doesn't work, email us with a troubleshooting report, so we can tweak the problem.
-Lather, rinse, repeat.