From there they had me come out to a few events that fall while I was finishing school and offered me a full time job as soon as I was ready to jump into the real world after a few months of playing in Mammoth. I grabbed USC Ski Team star Chris Farro and met with GoPro athlete Tucker Perkins and we filmed ‘The Ski Movie’ for GoPro’s channel.
I was asked to come out to Hood in the summer about 6 months before the HD model was released to test out their new cameras and film/edit a ski promo for the launch. I guess GoPro picked up on what we did and were really stoked – they saw something valuable in what we were creating. I started making weekly videos and posting them to YouTube and our website. I hadn’t even heard of it, but we got a camera in the mail (standard def) and I was so psyched someone believed in us, I wanted to really give back. My good buddy Alex Clarey was an officer on the team a few years ago and met up with GoPro at the ASR convention in San Diego. I designed the website and I wanted content to put on it. In college I started making videos for our ski team to give us a little more exposure. That’s the ski industry side of things, got into the other side a little differently. Continued this to this day, having designed 43 different pairs of skis over the past 7 years. Bewildered, scared, and psyched I jumped into it and went to town. Anyway, got a call out of the blue from the owner of 4FRNT Skis asking if I’d want to design his pro-model line of skis for the following year. One painting was the top rated/top commented photo on the entire site for a few months.
I ended up posting pictures of the paintings on (popular social skiing website) a long time ago and they got pretty popular.
ABE KISLEVITZ FILELOUPE SERIES
I figured I’d give painting a try for the first time, so I painted a series of ski works – going for the photo-realism paintings of mountains, skiers off jumps, rails, etc. Senior year in high school I was in ‘Advanced Art’ where you pretty much run wild creating pieces of art however you want. Shay: How did you get your start in the industry, who or what opened up more opportunities for you?Ībe: Kind of a funny story, and slightly two-folded – I’ve jumped into the industry from two sides – largely completely separate. I helped run the USC Ski & Snowboard Team all through school, stepped in after my brother was president – that pretty much shaped every part of my college experience and beyond.
I can’t even begin to imagine where or what I might be had I not gotten into skiing. It dictated what friends I had through school, what girlfriends I ended up dating, what school I went to, what hobbies I got into, and eventually now what career path I’ve chosen. Eventually went to USC and studied mechanical engineering, but continued to dabble in the arts through my own endeavors.Ībe: Every major decision past 8th grade I feel like has been influenced by skiing in some way or another. Spent a lot of nights and weekends learning to write code, playing with editing software, learning Photoshop, Dreamweaver, 3D modeling, etc.
ABE KISLEVITZ FILELOUPE SOFTWARE
I had a lot of rad software to play with, with help from my older brother who was the computer whiz. Always had a passion for the arts growing up which took a turn into technology pretty early on. Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourselfĪbe: I’m 24 years old, grew up near Portland, Oregon skiing Hood through high school. Currently Riding: …skis? 4FRNTs of all types!Ĭurrently I am: In the office, editing GoPro commercials
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