I’ve worked with most of the photographers who entered Whistler Blackcomb’s Deep Winter Photo Challenge and like and respect them all. So I wasn’t going to vote in the People’s Choice for Deep Winter. I hate giving my email to enter random contests. Everyone put on amazing shows. I was happy that Robin O’Neill won,…
Category: whistler
Deep Winter VI, the recap
UPDATE Jan 17, Robin O’Neill’s winning show: Robin O’Neill – Deep Winter 2012 Winning Slideshow from Robin O'Neill on Vimeo. On timing. (In which we argue that Deep Winter 2012 was a display of both exquisitely good and bad timing.) Deep Winter Photo Challenge returned last night, the cultural highlight of the New Year. It couldn’t…
Last night for Whistler’s Late Night Alternatives?
On Friday night, I ducked away early from a Christmas cocktail party, sucked my breath in at the cold, and hiked over to Muni Hall to present a seminar on media relations to the last ever class of interns to take LUNA’s remarkable Community Event Coordination training certificate program. LUNA’s CEC certificate is a perfect…
Skiing The Edge – presenting the best feature ski writing of 2011
Skiing The Edge is now available for download on amazon.com and via iTunes. Deploy today’s coffee budget in favour of story! Just $3.99. In July, Dave Fonda invited me to judge awards recognising the best feature ski writing of the year. I said yes because: he promised me a coffee mug, he also promised there…
Confessions of a Hypewriter, part 2
Kokanee Crankworx dropped their promo video this week. The best mountain bike athletes in the world know that when gravity beckons, you simply say, yes mistress. I’m coming. Untitled from Crankworx on Vimeo. It’s funny, but when I wrote that copy, the voice in my head was a woman. Gravity. As played by Carla Bruni….
Sustainable tourism is… frog pose
Have been thinking a lot lately about holding space, about opening, and the discomfort that comes leading up to release. (And about how overdue I am for my next appointment with the yoga mat.) So dug out this piece I wrote last year in response to an online call for contributions on “sustainable tourism” for…
Artist Scott Dickson in 3 Words: Pretty Awesome Talent.
I interviewed Scott Dickson by email last week for an artist profile for the Kokanee Crankworx Event Guide. Dickson’s art brings a vibrant and vivid energy to the 2011 event poster – it’s a refreshing alternative to the photo-heavy approach that event posters often resort to. Sometimes the freeride world with its gladiator vibe and…
Whistler Mountain Bike Park Opening Day means Crankworx is 53 days away
I recently pulled the dusty old hypewriter from the back of the closet, where it was languishing in semi-retirement, to crank out some verbiage for service as boilerplate and taglines for a somewhat large and kickass mountain bike festival known as the Kokanee Crankworx. (I thought I’d reformed my ways and sworn off hyperbole forever, but…
Confessions of a copywriter : a Bike ad for Tourism Whistler
Some days you discover that the bike rider and the copywriter are one and the same: just a girl in search of flow.
What would you blow off to ride? Confession-time.
The first time I rode A River Runs Through It (fist-pump! Cleared the bridge! Husband pushed his bike across… ), I should really have been somewhere else. I had blown off the second half of the Slow Food Cycle, an event I had organised, to switch the road cruiser for a squishy bike and go…
Lisa Richardson Bylines 