Blower Book Review @ The Sideways Guide!

BLOWER: Snowboarding Inside Out A Book by Jeff Curtes with Jared Eberhardt & Eric Kotch, and includes a short film by Jon Boyer...
Review by The Chraveler / Submit your Park Here!

BLOWER. Snowboarding inside out. This book blows. But in a good way, like when you're out on the pond in a dinghy with your girlhy, and the wind, yeah the wind, blows you nicely across that pond.

BLOWER is a book about snowboarding, snow, and the lifestyle that surrounds. It is a visual feast for the eyes, like Old Country Buffet for snowboarders. It is also a tactile experience, as several of the pages in BLOWER are embossed, including the cover, which is a nice feature to keep your grip when KY wrestling or running fast with this book.

BLOWER is a collage of photography, artwork, video grabs, Burton catalogs from the past decade or so, and a extra-special, super-neato, my favorito section: SHAVEMART! Shavemart will have you laughing your ass off...

But wait! That's not all! BLOWER also comes complete with a special DVD by Jon Boyer, which holds within its ones and zeros a short, cooly-styled film divvied up into montaged sections about weather, travel, and action snowboarding. The soundtrack, by Hiroshi Fujiwara and Will Mimnaugh, features a reoccuring track of melancholy piano music reminscent of the film "Road to Perdition," which is best listened to in the morning with a cup of coffee and a binger inside of ya.

Hell, this short 15ish minute film will make your whole day, and fuel the stork, I mean stoke. BLOWER makes a handsome addition to your coffee table, bookshelf, or toilet tank.

Blower originally retailed for like 60 or 70 bucks U.S., but I picked it up for like thirteen cuz its a few years old now...but you definitely get 70 bucks worth of multimedic charge with this pile of paper...

BLOWER: Snowboarding Inside Out A Book by Jeff Curtes with Jared Eberhardt & Eric Kotch, and includes a short film by Jon Boyer... Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions; Book & DVD edition (January 15, 2002) ISBN: 1861542194