Be-mag Issue 28: Making of the Cover

Tags: alex schneider, be-mag, bjoern bassner, cover, issue 28, jochen smuda, tim wolff

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We wanted to make a print article out of this. Unfortunately Josh Waggoner's accident gave us something more important to print. We hope that you enjoy this little insight into how the cover for the 3rd photo issue was made...

I’m not sure if it was the super tasty Mexican food and the lemon juiced Beck’s at Martin’s (Ucon) birthday party, that inspired us to do this shot. Maybe it was the special creative aura created by Tim Wolff (Rollunity.de), Björn Bassner (Rollunity.de), Martin Fussenegger (Defcon 4, UCON) and Jochen “Sporty Spice” Smuda (UCON), just to name a few.

We wanted to come up with something really different this time, something that hasn’t been seen in rollerblading photography. After seeking for an appropriate spot for some time we came across this gap in a run down industry building. Thanks to modern high-technology aka MMS I sent Jochen a photo of the spot and he agreed to jump it. Thus we made our way to a hardware store and got all the needed ingredients.

With 150 € less money in our pockets but 20 litres of paint we headed back home where Tim cut out the Be-mag logo. It was already 10 pm when we arrived at the spot and in the darkness of the night we started to mess up the place. Luckily we were 5 people and everybody was more than anxious to get to it. Perfectly prepared, Lara, Sacha, Björn and Tim started painting the whole spot white while I set up the flashes. After Tim had set up the polystyrene Be-mag logo Jochen arrived in superstar fashion with his girlfriend. After warming up a little bit he was set and ready to go for it.

- Alex Schneider

Ps: Most of you will wonder how we shot the spot, I’ll just tell you this much: Photoshop had it’s fair share but I won’t tell you more as not to ruin the magic for you.

I want to thank Lara, Alexandra, Tim, Björn, Sascha and Jochen for all the fun and action!

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Comments

June 11th, 2008 @ 06:18 - by Pancho Pancho

Why not making a small edit of it?
i mean whould be great
see some different then 4 minutes only tricks...
and i bed you guys we having loads of fun wich makes an edit nice to watch

June 09th, 2008 @ 16:01 - by Stuff Stuff

Sascha, i fixed this.

Stuff

June 08th, 2008 @ 15:40 - by cal cal

that's nice
that would be better if you post more stuff on the msgboard

June 08th, 2008 @ 14:17 - by RollinOnRemz03

At least post some before and after pictures or something. This 'Behind the photoshoot' stuff be-mag and One is doing at the moment is fucking ridicilous, show us how you did - or keep it to yourselfs. The whole 'we'll show you how we did - well, almost - naaah not really' is just stupid.

June 08th, 2008 @ 00:19 - by james w james w