S T A N D I N G W a V e s
another late night at the Grotto.
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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE FILM CREW OF Valley HigH
IN 1927, Harvard sociologist Elton Mayo made room.” All-night poker games and sweeping out For the producers of Valley High, this year-
a surprising discovery: Recognition and a sense couch surfers and stray dogs also ate into the book is touched with the same bittersweet nos-
of belonging are more important in determining crew’s filmmaking efforts. talgia preserved in the typeset memories of high
productivity than the conditions in which a person Stylized like a high school yearbook, the mov- school. The Grotto was sold at summer’s end
works. Mayo’s name isn’t one often heard at the ie’s segments were edited by the featured pad- and the crew and their equipment tossed out
take-out, but the boys at Bottoms Up Kayaking dlers themselves, including Patrick Camblin, Ty- like graduating seniors.
would have to agree that he was on to something. ler Curtis, Louise Urwin and Anthony Yap. “The Look for Valley High this spring at bottomsup-
For Tyler Fox, Dave Nieuwenhuis and Blake structure of the film allows for a lot of diverse foot-
kayaking.com. —Lauren Watson
Mahoney, paddlers who have spent much of the age and personal style,” says Fox.
last decade in the Ottawa Valley and on her riv-
ers, it was their passionately unconventional—
and often uncomfortable—lifestyle that inspired
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them to produce a whitewater paddling film. “We
wanted to share the incredible places and things
kayaking has taken us and allowed us to do,”
says Fox.
Running with Scissors
The crew took up residence last summer with
By Jeff JacKSon
a half-dozen other devoted paddlers in Forest-
ers Falls’ descriptively named Grotto to work on
River knives—everybody has one, along with stories of them getting snagged,
their project. Few producers would envision this
falling onto a lap or being used recklessly. They’re dangerous tools, and in
crumbling, century-old farmhouse-turned-gen-
most cases are in untrained hands.
eral store as an ideal editing studio. The perva-
Scissors, or more precisely trauma shears, are the preferred choice for rescue
sive odour of stale beer, evasive telephone and
professionals. Based on years of field experience, shears have been found to perform
internet service and invasive stream of uninvited
better and cause fewer injuries than knives. Rescue Canada instructor Matt Cuccaro recommends
house guests (man and beast) were not exactly
shears to his students, “They are safer and in many cases they just make more sense.” Indeed, shears
conducive to creative concentration.
are starting to catch on in river guide and paddling circles. Shears can be holster-mounted on your
“There were a lot of distractions,” laughs Fox.
PFD, are affordably priced at $4, difficult to kill yourself with and superior to knives at cutting. They can
“We would often return from a day of filming to
plow through PFDs, neoprene and zippers, and their V shape finds rope. No more swinging a blade or
find cars lined up onto our neighbour’s lawn, the
sawing underwater at a moving rope, and no more accidentally severed digits or arteries.
beer fridge empty and 15 people in our living
Shears do have one downside…they don’t spread peanut butter.
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