About Me


WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY?!

My name is Daniel Panzone. I'm 25, live in Riverside Ca. I am the Production Manager of SMG "Source Media Group" which is a production and design firm in southern CA. I shoot freelance stuff for Monster Energy, Ride, Red Bull, Fit ect ect, you get the point and of course, Vital!

What's your favorite type of riding and why?
Park, Street and Dirt

What are some of your favorite spots?
Pala Pipes, Chino 2 Right Hand Hip, Mission Valley Y

What is your dream spot?
Iala Skateparks right hand hip

Who are your favorite riders?
Friends and anyone who's down to have fun.

You obviously shoot video so whats in your camera bag bag?
Panasonic HPX 170
Focus Enhancments Firestore FS-100
2 x 32 GB P@ E series cards
Audio-Technica 897 Shot gun
Sachtler cine 7 +7 Tripod
Senhieser Wireless lav/plug
Kuala softy for shot gun
Rohde 15' Boom w/ internal cabling
Senhieser MD46 hyper cardiod handheld x 2
Redrock Micro Matte Box with ND Filters
Bogen Telescoping mono-pod
Cannon XL 214 Super 8mm Film Camera
Canon EOS 5D MKII with 24-105mm kit lens
Ogio Ty Evans Video Backpack to carry it all

So you shoot a lot but do you do much editing? If so are you Mac or PC?
I am a Mac lover and will be till I drop dead and then some. Come on I have the apple symbol under my favorite companies!

Whats your setup for post production cosist of?
Mac Pro 2.66 Quad 5gb ram dual optic drives 4TB of internal storage
2.53 Mac Book Pro (for travel)
GTECH mini drive 100GB (for travel)
Dual 23" Cinema displays
iPhone 3g(s) completely hacked whats Carlson got now haha
GTECH external Raid hard drive 500GB
Contour Shuttle Mouse
Graphire tablet
Lazyboy Recliner(beats the desk chair by a long shot)

When I'm not riding, I like to:
Work....Shoot, Edit, travel, spend time with my girlfriend and friends

Girls think I:
Have pretty eyes....weird huh?

My parents think BMX is:
THE DEVIL. I'm not kidding.

Mode(s) of Trasportaion?
1999 Toyota 4Runner for road trips and camping and such
2004 Dodge SRT-4 for doing 160mph and out running the cops on trips to vegas!!

What is something you would change about BMX?
The Industry paying professionals to do their jobs!!!!! Web content is just as, if not more valuable than print in this day and age, websites make money from adverts, the advertisers make money from the websites traffic and kids buying there product, so why is it so hard for the rider and creative guys to make a living?

Do you shoot photos or video? If yes, why?
I do it all!!

What makes you learn new tricks?
frustration

How many songs on your iPod?
a shit load

Videos

Favorite Companies

Latest Blog Entries

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George Ramirez + Gap = Wow
wait till you see the clip this photo was taken for!!

JJ Anderwald shot the sequence.

More Stuff Coming Up!!
So Vital's going to be getting some good videos soon. Everything from how to install cranks, to big set trail vids and other random goodness, so stay tuned!!
I have a new iPhone and Carlson and Losey don't haha
iPhone review for those who think they want one

The line to start was ridiculous. Waited 5 hours before I was able to go home yeah 5 hours even without the drive time added in. The white one looks poorly designed. White chrome and 2 different shades of black i.e. screen and faceplate nothing matches or even complements the other. The plastic back DOES feel cheap to me, Apple is know for it's amazing industrial style of design and they just threw it out the window on this phone, it feels like any other cheap plastic handset now. The slim ends make the thing way harder to hold when typing in portrait due to the lack of flat surface areas on the back. The screen has a cooler 7200k color to it now with all the red and or yellow in the glass which I'm not fond of but thats just a personal opinion not a big deal. However the operation and use of the phone is a big deal, it dropped the very first call I got and then went into a finiky state with no signal at all. It gets lousy reception at my house and takes forever to switch from 3g to edge and has repeatedly dropped calls made and calls received. It's like being on t-mobile all over again. Everyone seems to think the speaker phone operation is better but it sounds the same to me. The GUI is super slow, try typing in a password for say your email you can sit and watch he specified text as it gets turned into the dots used to protect what your typing. Typing in general is less responsive as well its bad when you have to wait for the thing to catch up with you. Scrolling and tapping are sluggish compared to the old one and the resolution of the screen seems worse. And of course all the people raving about the price are either ill informed or stupid, it's the same as the original the price of your service jumped 10 dollars a month to compensate for it remember. $240 over two years with taxes put on top of that we are now paying more than before! To top all this off I use .mac/mobile me as a preview source for clients approving our companies work and it was down for two days and the clients are pissed haha. With that said I LIKE the speed of the web, the app store kicks ass, and we can get music from the itunes store while out and about which is cool o me. So thats the vent haha take for what you want. I personally have been an Apple only guy for life, had em in grade school, jr high, high school, collage, used em personally and now run a business with them and this may be the first time i have been disappointed.
Our Love Jam
The Our Love Jam was about as succsesful as could have been imagined, Mike helped raise over a grand in cash to help offset the cost of keeping the park lit at night, Congrats to everyone for making the jam so cool because it was for all who showed up. And I have to give extra special thanks to my crew of cameramen. Lee Sherman, Peacock, Larry, Valdy, and anyone else who was a human tripod thank you so much.

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  • Vital BMX member Van Sant
    Van Sant Posted:

    6/16/2008 12:26 AM

    hey buddy how goes it?

  • Vital BMX member Eric Hough
    Eric Hough Posted:

    10/11/2007 4:20 PM

    Sick edit Dan! Thank you.

  • Vital BMX member Alex Auerbach
    Alex Auerbach Posted:

    9/11/2007 8:02 AM

    werd, I may have to get up on that it sounds pretty good. Whens the LBC edit going up?

  • Vital BMX member Alex Auerbach
    Alex Auerbach Posted:

    9/10/2007 3:48 PM

    haha I don't even know what NAB is, what is it? and i'll be at interbike for sure!