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The Final Frontier

 adventures

8 min. read

issue n°summer 24

Kawaptain’s log, star date 2013.6. His mission : to embark on skiing’s frontier, using a secret weapon of nylon and strings in an attempt to ski the face and…


Ski Sauvage in the wild West

 adventures

2 min. read

issue n°spring 24

Cover shot @Jason Hummel. Michael “Bird” Shaffer, the jubilant skier and cheerful Black Crows ambassador from the early days, gives us his account of…


Attitude of gratitude

 perspectives

10 min. read

issue n°summer 22

Michael “Bird” Shaffer is a crow at heart. A couch squatter in Chamonix since the 90s, he’s skied l’Envers du Plan during a full moon with…


fall for wednesday
a one day window | bird

 adventures

3:00 min. read

issue n°autumn 21

There I was caught in a kawnumdrum. Freshly back to the States from Chamonix and way too long summer: all of a sudden skiing was upon us. Try as I might to ignore…


birdsongs | Volume 2 | Bird
welcome to blackcrows music and conversation

 conversations

1:00 min. read

issue n°spring 2021

Don’t you know about the Bird? Skier, wingman, and rock n’ roll star (in his next life) Michael Anthony Shaffer. Sit down for a podcast with AK crow…


Wild Wallabys – part 2

 videos

02:32 min. read

issue n°autumn 2019

Michael “Bird” Shaffer went to sink a little one in the Cascades Range, way North into Washington State. A line which he had studied from the sky (see part 1)…


Stay connected

 videos

02:47 min. read

issue n°autumn 2019

Michael “Bird” Shaffer portrays his digital mask in this video shot last Winter with co-director Alexander Bosco in their fiefdom of the North Cascades. A tribute…


Stay connected – The poem

 perspectives

01:30 min. read

issue n°autumn 2019

Each of us watches over the untamable creatures of our minds. However, occasionally, they escape. It can be like bad drugs. Sucked into the cyber vacuum, trying…


Tokyo desire express

 perspectives

01:00 min. read

issue n°autumn 2019

This poem from Bird was found in a lost digital file, a friendly correspondence under way to oblivion. Now it unveils for the blackmail. She wore red. Her eyes dancing…


Birdthday

 perspectives

00:30 min. read

issue n°spring 2019

It’s been time since you appeared. It was before all this interconnected bullshit Leopard tail and mobile payphone A step aside and a need for a rush No one…

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