Mutate Now

Welcome to the mut8 department.

Snowboard season has officially started here in California and for the mutants behind mut8.org
To help YOU get pumped, Standard Snowboards has a pile of new vids streaming straight into your bedroom/office/locker room/hotel room/etc..

Start with this one:
Snow Park Technologies & Tahoe Backcountry

After the 1st break, stand in front of your computer screen and get [...]

I love the Bayview/Hunter’s Point area of San Francisco. It’s a mix of industrial warehouses, residential neighborhoods, waterfront property, a shipyard and a naval base. Oh yeah, and a totally toxic, seismically-active superfund site. Assembly members Ammiano and Ma along with Senator Yee, wrote a letter to SF Mayor Gavin Newsome, encouraging [...]

In Spring 2009, I bought my first truck – a 1988 Toyota 4Runner. I’d wanted a truck since high school, but never found the right one at the right time. I tempered my lust with tour buses, a Mercedes Benz, even 2 boats before finding the *perfect* truck. At long last, my [...]

Standard Films make great snowboard videos that will really get you psyched to hit the mountain. Watch Kazuhiro “Kazu” Kokubo from Japan tear it up his 1st time visiting Lake Tahoe.

Reuters has reporters everywhere. Even in the virtual world of Second Life.

The online tool that has taught me most about journalism in the new millennium is, without a doubt, News University.
The News U training program is a project of The Poynter Institute and features more than 65 online courses – most of them FREE! Anyone can enroll and start taking classes immediately. There’s no [...]

I fell in love with Kirkwood last season and I can’t wait until they open again this season!  Since this is my first post in the Snow section of the new website, I thought I’d just share some photos I took on the mountain early Spring 2008:

Click on photo to start the slideshow:

  
The photos can [...]

Bloggers and pro journalists alike can benefit from many online resources that encourage high journalistic standards.  Bloggers can learn about ethics and pro standards, while professionals can stay current with the rapidly changing industry.  I started out as a blogger, but I quickly realized that I needed more info about the “proper” way to do [...]