Here’s the trailer for Keith Malloy’s upcoming body surfing film, Come hell or high water, featuring legends Mark Cunningham and Mike Stewart as well as well-known sliders Belinda Baggs and Chris Malloy.
It’s about taking a breath, and kicking your feet, in the big blue sea come hell or high water.
Come hell or high water will be released by Woodshed Films in the near future.
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Absolutely stunning photography by Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro. More after the jump.
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Another Day in the life of Wayne Lynch is one of five short films in a series called POV Shorts II, commissioned by The Surfer’s Journal. Directed by the talented Cyrus Sutton, it’s a melancholic revisit of the grandfather of vertical surfing.
The other filmmakers in the series include Chris Malloy, Tyler Manson and Andrew Kidman. How’s that for talent pool! The shorts will be released over the course of the summer.
Wayne Lynch is a surfing legend, blazing individualistic pathways in both the performance and the lifestyle. Ascending during a time of great change and experimentation, Wayne took up the mantle personally, redefining what a surfboard should look like and how it should be ridden. Much of this innovation done outside of surfing’s athletic or institutional complexes.
In this two-part portrait, filmmaker Cyrus Sutton provides a window into Lynch’s new life. With a nod to Jack McCoy’s Tubular Swells, Another Day in the Life, is crafted with ultra-fine cinematography and a spare and modernist feel. The viewer is transported back to the Wayne Lynch they grew up idolizing, while making current those admirations and anchoring them in the reality of human mortality.
Via The Surfer’s Journal (photo by Andrew Kidman)
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Get-N-Classic Volume 1, Vans first surf film featuring a stellar cast including Joel Tudor, Nathan Fletcher, Pat, Tanner and Dane Gudauskas, John, Ivan and Nathan Florence, Dylan Graves, Alex Knost, Andrew Doheny, Kalani Chapman and Jason “Ratboy” Collins, is as of today available in its entirety as a free download. That’s right, start your engines!
Volume 1 captures this unique juncture in surf history and chronicles the travels of the Vans Surf Team as they have crossed the globe in search of surf and adventure.
Get-N-Classic Volume 1 is filmed and edited by Graham Nash and Regan Ritchie. The entire film is available as a free download at vanssurf.com/getnclassic
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After Andy Iron’s death last year, Outside Magazine published the excellent article Last drop by Brad Melekian, that tried to piece together the complexities of not only the tragic passing of a top athlete but the sub-culture that allowed it to happen.
A couple of days ago the investigative follow-up article Crashing down was published on Outside Online and it’s a mandatory read.
Read MoreBehind surfing’s wall of silence, managers, sponsors, and the sport’s governing body knew Andy Irons had a problem. Now some of them are finally ready to talk about it.
Stab Magazine has posted the full interview with Bruce Irons, as well as more of those insane flare shots by Jason Kenworthy and Brian Bielmann. Well worth a read. More photos after the jump.
Read MoreRVCA house photographer Jack Coleman is about to release his new film Polyester, starring Alex Knost.
SO Alex and I have named the upcoming surf film featuring his playful surf approach, it will be called Polyester! Almost a year in the making the film is just about wrapped and the soundtrack is being layed out as I type this update. Super excited to get this one out there! Im planning on releasing it beginning/middle of August 2011. yewwwww!
Any day now!
Via Jack Coleman
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Asako Narahashi’s Half asleep half awake in the water series is a beautifully realised study in the two worlds we as surfers float in and out of.
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Cyrus Sutton’s Under the sun is premiering in a few days on The Surf Network and is looking sweet as a nut! With a killer cast, a compelling narrative and an online world premiere showing over two days, there’s no reason to miss it! Tickets ($8) on sale now.
Byron Bay and the Gold Coast are two seemingly opposite Australian surf towns. But beneath the surface they are inextricably linked to a multi-billion dollar industry which thrives on the commodification of the surfing lifestyle. With their populations swelling, resources draining, and housing prices going through the roof, where do these two towns go from here? Where does surfing go from here?
Under the Sun is a 16mm documentary shot in Byron Bay and the Gold Coast and features incredible surfing from Dave Rastovich, Beau Young, Nat Young and a handful of others as it explores the roots of commercialism that are now so entrenched in surf culture. Be prepared for a dark and compelling narrative amidst beautiful imagery and a kick ass custom soundtrack.
Featuring: Dave Rastovich, Nat Young, Beau Young, Rabbit Bartholomew, Dean Morrison, Mick Fanning, Albe Falzon, Kelly Slater
Via Korduroy.tv
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Looks like a ton of fun! The clip above is Ozzie Wright trying it out at Bungan beach.
Read MoreThe Seaglass Project Tuna, a finless Alaia-style surfboard from Global Surf Industries (GSI), has been announced the winner of a prestigious Australian International Design Award (AIDA), receiving the Design Award™ for design excellence. After a record number of entries, the 2011 Presentation Ceremony took place on Friday, 22nd of July in Melbourne. 2011 also marked the inaugural year of the AIDA under the custodianship of Good Design Australia.
Hawaiians have been riding “alaias” – traditional finless craft – for centuries. Bringing his experience to GSI is alaia enthusiast and 2009 Surfer Magazine board shaper of the year Tom Wegener. Tom first shocked the surfing community in 2005 with claims that the ancients, with their thin, finless wooden boards, were far more advanced than we ever thought possible. The “Tuna” is an extension of ancient surfing, designed with the perfect blend of flex, rail and bottom contours, and combined with modern materials to increase flotation.