WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY?!

My name is Daniel Panzone. I'm 23, live in Riverside Ca. and have been riding for about 10 years and still manage to suck a lot. run the Soucre Media Group. SMG is a independent production company. Our diverse group of contributors have been involved in nearly every facet of media composition from sponsorship videos to print ads to full fledge commercials, and nearly everthing in between. To check out some of our BMX related projects we have been involved with see the videos page here at Vital or log on to the iTunes music store and download some of our podcasts. Don't worry their free.

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

What are some of your favorite spots?
Pala Pipes, Woodward (West that is), Home ave, Baldy, Iala, Jurupa, Sixth street Mission Valley Y

What trick haunts you?
Barspins eeewww!!!

What is your dream spot?
A office/warehouse with edit suites in the front for production purposes and a pile of ramps in the back just for fun!!

Who are your favorite riders?
My friends. I really could care less how good you are, if your rude, mean, full of yourself or a dick in any way you suck. Fortunatly I have met a lot of riders and there is only a few that fall into that category, so everyone else falls into the favorites list

You obviously shoot video so whats in your equipment bag?
Sony PD-170
Sony DSR VX2100
Century .3x Death lens (fisheye)
Century .6x wide angle
Audio-Technica 897 Shot gun
Audio Technica 815 shotguns x 2
Senhieser Wireless lav/plug
Kuala softy for shot guns
Rohde 15' Boom w/ internal cabling
Senhieser MD46 hyper cardiod handheld x 2
PSC Preamp/3 channel mixer
Schactler DV4 Fluid Head Tripod
Bogen Telescoping mono-pod
Firestore 40GB DTE hard drive
Cannon XL 214 Super 8mm Film Camera
Sony Cybershot 8.1 megapixel point and shoot
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 3TB of internal storage
G4 Power Book (for travel)
GTECH mini drive 100GB (for travel)
23" Cinema display
iPhone 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 have you seen the Water Boy, yeah i'ts that bad. haha

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!! Blyther you didn't read that

What is something you would change about BMX?
The Industry Paying professionals to do their jobs! Not just as far as riders go but let some of the younger gereration into the buisness aspect of the industry already, jeez!!!!

Do you shoot photos or video? If yes, why?
See earlier questions, you will find your answer young grasshopper

What makes you learn new tricks?
My friends pushing me to do crap I would't consider in a million years if they didn't have their foot up my ass.

How many songs on your iPod?
7500, and about 30 videos all produced by the Source Media Group!!!