Our favorite annual book club meeting is back with “Loser Lap”, a sequel to last years, “Townie”. Take a seat, grab your maple syrup, and enjoy Parrish Isaacs’ latest offering as he channels the reality of an East Coast winter. Not always pretty, but an ever-elusive snowpack sends Savannah Shinske, Jake Gaudet, John Garoutte, Evan Sheridan, Jack Szkutak, and new addition, Ezra Racine, wandering around, from Maryland to Quebec and everywhere in between, in pursuit of a clip that emotes. Safe to say they accomplished that goal.
This film is grounded on a type of snowboarding that feeds into a sense of adventure to explore your surroundings—with an equally important sense of camaraderie that acts as the gas to the fire, keeping them moving. After watching, it seems like this cohesiveness is only something you can attain when you film together for the better part of half a decade (cue the SD SoVT videos). It’s always fun to watch the evolution of this group, and this might not be a goodbye, but it sure as hell is a see you later.
Congrats guys…
Love,
Torment
Directed by: Parrish Issacs
Featuring: Savannah Shinske, Ezra Racine, Jake Gaudet, John Garoutte, Evan Sheridan, and Jack Szkutak
Additionally Featuring: Lily Calabrese, Levi Gunzburg, and Forest Bailey
Presented by: Ride Snowboards
Words by Parrish Isaacs
Photos by Savannah Shinske and Ezra Racine
A Note From The Director
This video picks up right where the last one left off
In all the magical places with all the special people
I think that in our lives, we can get tired of things
When we get tired of things, we look for newness
we look for new experiences, new places, new people, new things
almost as if the ones we have now aren’t quite cutting it
I’ve always wondered like, why we do that
what are we even looking for?
A lot of the time what we’re looking for isn’t actually anything new at all
we’re looking for a reminder of a formative experience,
a very special experience
that made us who we are today
When lose touch of these important formative experiences, what is sold to us sometimes,
is to look for something new
a new place, a new thing, a new person,
as if this will somehow open up a new world
for us to find ourselves again
But we’re doing this because we're afraid.
We’re looking for that feeling,
from that experience, that place, that person, that shaped us sometime in the past
that thing We identify with so deeply that it scares us
The illusion is that somehow through this yearning for newness,
whenever we find this vague new thing we’re yearning for
We will be able to shape ourselves again
into a new person
Into a new version of ourselves maybe we’re not so scared of
When we feel lost in ourselves
when we feel like we need something new
It's maybe not always best to find something very new,
sometimes maybe
we can look deeper into what is familiar
we can revisit these memories and experiences that are so special to us
and maybe that will bring us the reminder of what shaped us, maybe that will be the familiar feeling we are yearning for
That's what this video is about
it's a look back into what we have been doing for what feels like forever, in a lot of the same places, but
some new ones too.
with a lot of the same people,
but some new ones too
It's about us growing up together
thanks for checking it out :)