July 14, 2010

Catching up with Vanderham

Thomas Vanderham has a big presence in ‘Follow Me’ the 2010 feature film by Anthill.  Thomas joined Matt Hunter for a rip in the bike park at Sun Peaks resort near Kamloops, he hosted Sam Hill for a DH tour on the classic North Shore trails and he wowed us with a progressive look at lines within a line in the Whistler Bike Park riding with Brendan Fairclough. 

June 24, 2010

Kurt Sorge Interview

Last week Kurt Sorge, Geoff Gulevich, Jordie Lunn and Graham Agassiz dropped by the Anthill office on their way up to Whistler.  Since we were just putting the finishing touches on Kurt’s rider profile for Follow Me, we thought it might be cool to ask him a few questions to go with it.  Here’s what Sorge had to say for himself… plus a few shots that Sterling Lorence captured during the filming of Follow Me.  Enjoy.

June 1, 2010

Gee and Stevie in Queenstown - Follow Me Retrospective

In only a few hours, I was catching an early morning flight with the crew and Stevie Smith to meet Gee Atherton and our host Caleb Smith of Spoke magazine in Queenstown, New Zealand. I was excited.

May 30, 2010

The Best Place You've Never Heard Of

It is late November 2009 and the Anthill crew is heading towards Northern Baja California, Mexico. Our destination is a place called Punta San Carlos...

April 30, 2010

Feeling a bit Overwhelmed

The first few notes of the opening credits filled the room and I felt a huge wave of relief rush through my whole body.

April 5, 2010

Tickets to World Premiere of Follow Me On Sale

Get your tickets online now to be one of the first to see Follow Me at the World Premiere in Monterey.

March 21, 2010

Follow Me... Everywhere? Contest Highlights

After 5 weeks and thousands of entries we've got a winner for the Follow Me... Everywhere? Contest. Here's some of the crew's favorite shots. Thanks to everyone who entered and voted!

January 6, 2010

The Shore

Sam doesn’t like coffee. He likes Monster energy drink. F-yeah I think to myself, this guy means business, game on.

November 12, 2009

Whistler Q & A

We were sitting around the creative table back in early spring 2009 during pre production planning asking ourselves, ‘What are we going to do next in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park?

October 29, 2009

Dedication

Much to the dismay of his wife, Kurt’s buddy Brad, has literally turned his backyard into the ultimate playground for mountain bikers.

August 28, 2009

All You Can Eat

As if BC didn’t have enough sick riding already, we’re blessed with a network of heavy-hitting bike parks to give us all the descending we can handle.

July 20, 2009

Bike Pirate Brings Down Humanity

The idea behind the “Follow Me” mantra is a positive one – it’s all about leading the charge down a new trail, sharing what you know, getting a posse of riders fired up to drop in.