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(Right to Left) Re-enactment actors Sevan Boosinger, Tristan Verduga, and Alex Boosinger stand ready to invent the skateboard.
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The scooter gang and the director (Right to Left) Re-enactment actors Alex Boosinger, Sevan Boosinger, Jeff Roe (Director) and Tristan Verduga stand ready to invent the skateboard.
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Test flight. Director of Stuntwood Jeff Roe test the stunt pads used for the opening sequence of Stuntwood: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Skateboard.
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Re-enactment actor Alex Boosinger gets familiar with the stunt pads used in the opening sequence of Stuntwood: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Skateboard.
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(Right to Left) Re-enactment actors Tristan Verduga, Sevan Boosinger, and Alex Boosinger get familiar with old technology.
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Alex Boosinger takes direction for his close-up. From the opening sequence of Stuntwood: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Skateboard.
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Director of Photography Kara Stephens and Director Jeff Roe size up a dolly shot from the opening sequence of Stuntwood: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Skateboard.
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Director of Photography Kara Stephens prepares to shoot a tracking shot from the back of the director?s car.
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"Boy these thing are tall..." Director Jeff Roe admires the scale of the maple somewhere in the forests of Wisconsin.
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A Chainsaw sits idle on the stump of a fallen maple tree somewhere in the forests of Wisconsin.
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Director of Photography Kara Stephens gets the shot among a stand of trees deep in the Wisconsin forests.
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PS Stix owner/president Paul Schmitt (right) and Great Lakes Veneer log procurement manager Brian Halverson (2nd from right) discuss forest management as DP Kara Stephens and camera operator Carl Ratajski (left) look on.
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PS Stix owner/president Paul Schmitt (left) and Great Lakes Veneer log procurement manager Christopher Mueller (right) discuss tree growth deep in the Wisconsin forests.
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Father and son logging team Reinhard Miller (left) and Jeff Miller (right) stand among the days work before the logs are sent off to the mill.
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Paul Schmitt sits in the remains of a fallen maple tree deep in the forests of Wisconsin.
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Camera operator Carl Ratajski overlooks the log yard at Great Lakes Veneer.
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Cooking the logs. Maple trees sit in the large water vats used to cook the logs prior to milling.
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Director Jeff Roe (left) and Paul Schmitt (left) discuss the next move on the floor of Great Lakes Veneer.
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Dyed veneer sits on a palette at Great Lakes Veneer ready to be shipped to skateboard manufactures around the world.
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Dyed veneer sits on a palette at Great Lakes Veneer ready to be shipped to skateboard manufactures around the world.
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"Describe this object to me..." Dave Kazmierczak, sitting among palettes of dyed veneer, describes the skateboard as Jeff Roe and Kara Stephens look on.
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Ryan Sheckler (left) weighs in at the Sole Technology Institute as camera operator Anne Etheridge (2nd from left) director Jeff Roe (2nd from right) and director of photography Kara Stephens (right) size up the shot.
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The crew looks on at the Sole Technology Institute.
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PS Stix owner/president Paul Schmitt (a.k.a. Professor Schmitt) with his product that he has spent years refining.
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PS Stix owner/president Paul Schmitt (a.k.a. Professor Schmitt) with sizing the quality of work coming out of the factory in Costa Mesa, California.
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It all for you – the rider. PS Stix owner/president Paul Schmitt (a.k.a. Professor Schmitt) presents a quality product made in his factory in Costa Mesa, California.
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Getting the shot at PS Stix. One of the many dolly shots done at PS Stix.
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Veneer going into the presses at PS Stix.
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A PS Stix employee drills the holes in a stack of five skateboards.
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Rounding the edges. A PS Stix employee rounds the edges of a deck on the router used at the Costa Mesa, California facility.
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A PS Stix employee sands the edges smooth on a deck on its way to the paint booth.
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Stacks of sanded decks wait for their turn in the paint booth. The PS Stix factory turns out about a half million decks per year.
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Bruno Passos sets up with a back-side air at the home of Bob Burnquist, in Vista, California.
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Bruno Passos ollies the channel at the home of Bob Burnquist, while Kara Stephens and Jeff Roe shoot from below.
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Bruno Passos does a font-side 50/50 at the home of Bob Burnquist, while Kara Stephens and Jeff Roe shoot from below.
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Kristian Svitak numbers the newest additions to his deck collection, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Kristian Svitak and director Jeff Roe stand along side Svitaks' deck collection housed in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Kristian Svitak lays out his deck collection, which spanned five house lengths, as a time lapse camera looks on.
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A detail of Kristian Svitaks deck collection in Cleveland, Ohio. The deck in the center is infamous Fountain and Vine deck. This deck was the board Kristian made the front-side blunt down the hubba ledge after loosing his teeth on the same legde.
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