Be-mag Issue 22: Grass Roots

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In the final days of work on his new film Barely Dead, Doug Urquhart is leading a hectic life. He is trying to balance being a full-time college student with being a one-man production crew and...

Grass Roots - An inside look at Barely Dead, Doug Urquhart and the making of rolling history

By: Cole Wood

In the final days of work on his new film Barely Dead, Doug Urquhart is leading a hectic life. He is trying to balance being a full-time college student with being a one-man production crew and now, in the final stages of editing, he is almost out of hard drive space on his computer.

He has two terabytes worth of storage spread out over five hard drives, an enormous amount for most people, but now he has less than five total gigabytes left and the movie is not yet finished. He doesn't have the money to buy another hard drive, all of his credit cards were maxed out making the film, so his only option is to delete whatever he absolutely doesn't need to make space on his computer.

Things like this wouldn't be much of a problem for even the smallest production companies but Misled Media, the alter-ego for Doug's video production company, is made up of himself and a rotating list of friends who help out with his videos. For the most part, Misled Media is Doug Urquhart.

The lack of storage space on his computer is just one of the many hurdles he has had to overcome in producing his fifth film. With Barely Dead, Doug is trying to raise the bar that he set with last year’s hit, Black Market. Instead of just making your average skate video, he created a documentary that tells the story of our young sport's history.

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April 01st, 2008 @ 09:07 - by villapro

doug you de man! BD is one of the vids that will last in time,bd, words and brain feear gone are timeless vids

March 28th, 2008 @ 12:22 - by avichai_from_israel

I'll chip in for a hard drive...

March 28th, 2008 @ 06:06 - by macgowan1987

Doug is THE KING ! The one man army ! the both films (BM and BD) were SMASHING ! I hope he will continue to make ground breaking videos! His videos change the entire looking of rollerblading in the people`s eyes!

March 26th, 2008 @ 20:46 - by nate123 nate123