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Profile: Eric Gulbransen

When I was a kid I wanted to be a fire engine when I grew up. I had it all figured out when life was simple. Now that I'm growing up not many simple things are left. At my core there is still family, responsibility, and then passion - just like I was still twelve. I used to say I was lucky to have such a wonderful wife as Tracy Gulbransen, but the more I think about it luck had nothing to do with it. I used to beat the steering wheel in my van to a pulp each night I failed to approach her.. It took me two months from the first time I saw her, to finally gather the courage. My poor van... We married in 2003, and every day since then has been like floating over a warm summer field of strawberries glistening in the sun?

I don't know. Luck is good I think, but it only gets you so far, so long. The rest is up to character. And while I have been told many times that I am a character, I haven't heard as many times that I have character. But I'm definitely a determined little bugger - this page alone took me hours to create because after all I am a carpenter, not a web developer. But it's done, right? That says something.

"Never surrender" is a theme I live by. This is honorable I think, but I'm not 100% sure this isn't just a sign that sometimes even the simplest things are a struggle for me. Maybe my honorable theme was born by default?

I build things for a living. I work with almost anything. Each day starts with a vision, and ends with an accomplishment. It's a great job I have, but it's not where my heart is. Would spending hours on your back in someone's cold damp crawl space while spiders crawl in your ears keep you captivated for 20 years? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Since the beginning of time I have been called the "creative one." Born the fourth of five boys, I was the one who inherited my father's father's ability to paint on canvas things that make people wonder. This is great I think - except for one problem.. I hate sitting in front of a canvas. So am I screwed? Relax... Look two paragraphs up. While it is true, I am a work in progress, I actually find comfort in this. Life is always changing, for everyone, and I am not afraid of change.

But I am a little afraid of Tracy!



It's been a very natural process, my move toward capturing and creating images. I am completely visual. Our still camera gear goes with me everywhere. While I do understand it's the story that makes a photograph great, I also appreciate beautiful images that move, and that have sound. Enter, videography. And while I am admittedly a few cards short of a full deck, I do also appreciate quality. Enter, high definition videography. Yes I know already - what it takes to fund the back end of shooting, editing, and delivering HD video is enough to break someone's back. Relax.. I already broke my back in 1999 and I don't plan on doing that again.

How did I break my back you ask? Well that's a story for an entirely different web site - GoTagTeam.com. We've been in the heat of battles on racetracks across America for two decades now. Sound like a completely different life? Well it was racing, actually, which eventually lead us here - to videography. Life is one hell of a ride.







Eric "GoGo" Gulbransen
racing to one of many championship winning victories on board of one of Ducati's ever potent superbikes -
the 2005 999R