Showing posts with label Covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covers. Show all posts
August Cover Volume 2 2007
How weird is blogging? I mean the idea of Riders was to have a magazine based website that offered a free avenue for viewers and contributors to have easy access to reading and participating in a home grown magazine. This blog style was actually an idea thrown together by Nic Reeves (aka Phoam). It means that any contributor you see in the side bar actually has access to publish their own stories, tips or pictures as they see fit, without the intervention of an editor. It also mean that like this issue the cover is made and the stories are live as they happen.
The cover is a hint of things to come. More photos of quality with both a fair representation of more than just the surfing world. Its like a rebirth of the magazine. The side bar also contains links to other news from other sites which mean riders will bring you the latest as it happens.
In this Issue
- Readers get a chance to Design the September Cover
- RidersAnonymous and friends go to Samoa
- Go behind the scenes of the Snow Industry - The life of a buyer
- We discuss the reasons why people live the city life
- And are you still searching for waves or carparks.
- Why do Auckland Surfers suck at surfing?
July Cover Volume2 Issue 7
This cover meant nothing at the time of creation. I thought it was a good photo of a sick wave and needed a little attention. I later was told that the new cover looked sick and the more I looked at it the more I liked it. I then had a thought to try send it in to a mag, the response I got was awesome and I do believe this one photo may be a turning point.
December Issue 12 Volume 1
This cover was taken two days befor e th issue went live. We were going to run the body board cover. Of you look closely at the covers you will notice a different range of stories between the two covers. thanks to a mishap some of the original content was missing and some of the stories I wanted to run never turned up on my laptop.
Both images were worthy of this months cover but at the end of the day the body board image was old and was being rehashed for this issue. The shot of Gumby forward flipping of the Snojam structure has so much colour and life it just needed to be posted
We are also starting to experiment with movies now too so if you have been filming some surf action send your mini vids to editor@ridersanonymous.co.nz Lets see if we can make RA TV
November Cover Volume 1 Issue 11
This issue contains stories surrounding the Vodafone Surf Sessions. I wanted to use one of the action shots to do a cover similar to those the magazines would put out. I thought I had the chosen cover with this shot below of Mick Fanning. My brother and I debated on which shot to use, but then I gave in and went with the Andy Irons Shot.
Originally it was going to look like this but it just seemed a bit grey for a cover image . I was also struggling to find a good font and and grab statement for the cover . I was playing with the hue when I had the thought of the blood cover come to mind.
Out came the red again but as we had used it before it was time for something new. I played with a duplicate image of Andy to bring him brighter and forward in the image and then darken the background. While doing this and playing with the hue again I found a colour filter switch. Playing with this, I found the Crayon yellow background which gave the cover the final terrifying look of a horror movie. Saturday at Piha was nuts, 6-8 foot and maxing out, yet all the surfers charged. There were some good wipeouts which lead me to 'surfers to the Slaughter.
October Cover Volume 1 Issue 10
Hey kiddies, here it is at last. The latest October issue of Riders Anonymous 10 days late. My computer was playing games with my pshycy so I sent it into the shop for repair.
In this issue I managed to get a couple of awesome days down south with Jordy from Ohakune and Nana Nathan from Oratia. We scored an epic bluebird day at Oly
mpus but the snow never released for us to fully enjoy the expansive terrain on offer there. We ended up sessioning some kickers outside the top lodge.
The cover image was taken by myself and features Jordy just releasing the tail mid flight.
These last three images I have posted where taken on the first Monday of the school holidays. They feature 
Kyle (USA) Ketchup (Japanese girl with very long name and Nathan (Feet). Each of them showing there own personal style. These were my favourite pictures in this issue. I stood in the park on a glorious day for 2 hours and shot everyone who hit the big tables or the rails. There were over two hundred photos by the time I had finished.
September Cover Volume1 Issue 9
This cover is an accident that almost didn't come about. After shooting of the Patiki Rocks at Piha I almost deleted this image. The sun was directly in my sight when I shot this, and I couldn't filter it in Photoshop. I then was playing around with the image and hit the wrong button which turned the image into a blood red, dark feel. I loved the image and played with the thought of it being a cover. I posted it as a signature on the forum and then I got the comments I was looking for. Within a week I had pulled the image as comments came flooding in to use it for a cover.
This is issue is by far the most complete issue thus far, making it the best. Inside this issue are articles from people all over the world and images from both the mountain and the ocean. The article headed 'How Big is it?' is my best and most fun piece of writing. I loved putting a sartircal twist upon such an important topic in surfing around the world. The picture below was posted but was too small to read what it said so feel free to answer this question in the comments box below.
Just a final note: This is me, attacking a cornice out in the Glacier at Turoa. I dropped higher up and bottom turned before unleashing this big hack into the lip. I love this shot it reminds me of the retro images from the early ninties. NZ Surfing Magazine had the exact opposite of this shot on their cover. The guy was surfing in boardshorts and was a goofy footer on his frontside. The captured pose of the surfer is exactly the same, facial expressions and all.
August Cover Volume 1 Issue 8
August rolled around quickly and yeilded some new suprises. One of which was a guy called Steve who emailed me with a couple of shots that his girlfriend had taken of him while in Bali and Telluride. Steve had no idea who I was but as son as I saw the photos I recognised him as a mate from the past. I emailed him back and he gave me permissin to use any photo I wanted so I immediatley picked this coffin box as the next Cover.
In the same month I morphed a picture of B-rad Buckle surfing n the Piha Bar. He saw the sequence and contacted me. We met up with a coffee and chatted about things surfers talk about and then swapped photos. This was one of the best issues we had put together for photos and had a god 50/50 split of surf and snow images.
July Cover Volume1 Issue 7
Winter had arrived and it was time too step up to the plate with more snow in our background than ever before for this time of the year. Tommo Troy sent me this pic and a few more of him that Riki Reinfield had taken end of the season before. I had seen them on another mates computer and had been asking to use them for some time. Riki agreed and I had the next cover. Using other published magazines for inspiration I used matching coulours for the text which is now standard at Riders Anonymous.
Editors Words- If you haven't done so yet please take time to read this quick story, I thought it was quite funny and it managed to offend most people who frequent each mountain. I am a Maori and can still see the funny side of a racist joke (because it is a joke) but people are so patriotic to their own mountains.
June Cover Volume 1 Issue 6
Nathan May had come to me at work with this idea he had to travel around the North Island in search of skate bowls to ride witha bunch of mates packed intoa small car. It sounded like a great idea and I was stoked when he said he wanted to put an article together for me. I have mates tell me every week they have an idea for a article but I never get anything. So when I saw Nathan next and he said the trip was good and the photos came out sick, I thought I would be making some bullocks up about a trip I wasn't on. But no, Nana came through with the goods andhis photography stepped up to a new level. I rewarded his effort by using one of his images for the cover. Cheers Nathan keep up the good work.
May Cover Volume 1 Issue 5
Another cover donated by James crow, funny it's a shot of him pressing the June battleship. This Cover set the standard for all the covers that followed. We changed the font of the title to Brie Light, which gave the whole magazine a cleaner easier look. Opening the issue you were greated with the new set format of the magazine. The new look was met with hesitation at first but then happy acceptance with a much easier faster way to navigate through the issue. This move took Riders Anonymous to a whole new level of professional imagery. This issue also contained more editorials that delivered info and facts about products and industry talk. Another step closer to being a magazine for the readers.
April Cover Volume 1 Issue 4
The X-Files issue was an exciting issue to put together. I asked Nic Reeves the artist behind Phoam Arts if she would contribute to Riders Anonymous by designing a cover for the April issue, she jumped at the chance to give it a shot. I worked hard with my brother Kori and Web Master James to try and put together a whole new concept. Ideas were flowing left, right and centre.
When you give different people the same breif, it's funny how much of a difference each persons interpretations are. Infact that is what made this issue so special. All of us had our own image of X File, so the final product was an awsome colaberation of 5 imaginitive people. The cover really topped of the issue and when I recieved it I was blown away. Good Job Nic you did Riders Anonymous Proud
March Cover Volume 1 Issue 3
The March issue was full of firsts. It was the first time we had decided to try themeing each issue starting with this 'the dirt issue'. It was also the the first cover not chosen by myself the editor and put in the hands of James Crow the nutty web master. Being James, I knew he would do something quite fresh and new for Riders Anonymous. What he came up with was perfect to the brief I gave him. It would probably never be used ina sports edition magazine but it could make a mag like Vice. The issue also saw the First bike story making us a truly rider orientated magazine. This issue also saw the first contributions from Surfscab and he has now become a regular contributor and we look forward to this summer when I am sure he will voice his opion about surf law.
February Cover Volume 1 Issue 2
Two photos blended into one cover. I was sent the photo of Nick Recordon hitting the Snowpark Battleship one morning and could see it as the cover straight away. Dave Recordon was the photographer and captured not only the action but also a great moody background. While I was in Raglan picking my nephew up for christmas I managed to grab a couple of photos at Manu bay. Morehu paddled out and then I snapped this shot which seem to blend perfectly in with nicks image. Both pictures were going to be used for covers and then only a week before the 2nd issue went live I merged the two photos and as a result the final cover looked sick!
January Cover Volume 1 Issue 1
The first cover of Riders Anonymous featured this photo of Matariki's taken from a look out above Daniels Reef. Matariki took about 15 photos this day and then went for a surf. The waves were a solid size on the sets and the rights had a great drop. It's amazing to think how this wave is known as a right to so many people and left to so many others. This is one of the best A-frame reefs around Auckland and on its day one of the best reefs in the North Island, shame about the crowds in summer though.
This photo was probably the best cover to start a new magazine with, it has everything a surfers wants; size, holowness, and clean blue glassy water.
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