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Last Hope

LAST HOPE
Last Hope is a series of sixteen original short films compiled by Andrew Kidman (Glass Love/ Litmus) and Spunk Records.
Andrew Kidman chose six of his favourite surfing filmmakers to create short films that were inspired by the sea. The filmmakers include Albert Falzon (Morning Of The Earth), Jon Frank (Litmus), Monty Webber, Michele Lockwood (Kids) and American underground surf filmmakers Patrick Trefz (Thread) and Richard Kenvin (Hydrodynamica).
Kidman also provides four special cuts of his own. The filmmakers created their short films to music that includes Smog, Sufjan Stevens, Mogwai, My Morning Jacket, Dirty Three, Holly Throsby, Vetiver, Bonnie Prince Billy and The Brown Birds From Windy Hill.

REVIEW coming soon but ..... i've watched it three times in 4 days
;)

Many Folk love

The concept of the Perfect wave
personally make it warpy and sectioning
and i'll be in Val halla .

What?

spotted this photo on shipworm & gribble



New York City
Motorcycle with Carver Racks
and an Al Byrne thruster!

The Seedling

Being a Movie about Log Riding this film ran the gauntlet of being another Artsier than art Longboarding movie shot entirely on 16mm with to many flash fade outs and Cliche Quotes.. fortuitously all of the pitfalls were avoided and the Seedling is a great film that will cause many to question the performance long board and its manoeuvrings .

Director Thomas Cambell and the assembled crew of Devon Howard, Joel Tudor, Seitaro Nakamura, Erik Sommer, Kassia Meador, Dane Peterson, Josh Farberow, Jimmy Gamboa and honorable sliders Skip Frye and Donald Takayama justify their stylings and prefered craft.

Shot on location in Mexico, France, California, Hawaii, New York and the Canary Islands.

A Great kicking back or pre surf film for those days when getting out the nose rider is what is going on!

Rating:4.5/5
Running time: 85 minutes

DVD Special Features:

• Joel Tudor Sliver of Quiver 2004
• Xtra Hexico - Gamboa Goes Nuts
• Xtra Bu-nana Session
• The Lost Sidewalk Surfer Drawings of Evan Hecox
• Andy Davis Sausapitas Mural
• T.Moe Art Junk 1997-2002
• New Seedling - Alex Knost Has First Art Show
• New Sprout Trailer
• Ear Eye Data Poop Trailer
• Plus 20 shorts and trailers by twenty friends.

Photos are a dilemma

i inevitably just ride the wave
cos i'm not the analysis type
then i see a photo of me on a wave
and think
"what was i trying to do?"

Levitating Roach Kook

Love this shot !
The Electraglide is holding its line while i ride the Foam.

CENTER FIN POSITION

CENTER FIN POSITION

The position of the center fin can vary from surfer to surfer. I have included a basic guide from the Cambell brothers. This is not etched in stone. Please feel free to experiment.
A few general rules are:

1. If you are having trouble finishing out turns and cutbacks, or are not getting up and down the face quickly enough, you should move your fin up approximately 1/8'' to 1/4''.
2. If you are digging rails, or catching rails in the front 18'' to 24'' during cutbacks, you should move your fin back approximately 1/8'' to 1/4''.
3. The leading edge of the the center fin usually ends up about even with the trailing edge (at the base) of the of side fins, plus or minus 1/4''.

Please understand that these are basic guidelines, and are relative to where you stand on your board, and if you are standing in the right spot according to your style and the type of board you are riding.

• Contemporary Shortboards:
  • 6'' fin -- 5 1/2'' to 5 3/4'' from the tail, 6 1/2'' fin -- 5 3/4'' from the tail, 7'' fin -- 5 3/4'' to 6'' from the tail. On boards over 7'0'' fin may be moved up as desired.
• Eggs:
  • 6'' fin -- 5 1/2'' to 5 3/4'' from the tail. 6 1/2'' fin -- 5 3/4'' from the tail. 7'' fin -- 5 3/4'' to 6'' from the tail. On eggs over 7'2'' fin may be moved up as desired.
  
  Just a thought!
  

The Comp c+

Has been stuck on the Racks
and the Electraglide has been gliding all over the show.

Busting down the door

I Loved the book by Tim Baker
even though i never really condoned the idea the 'bronzed aussies'
being as revolutionary as they'd like us to remember .
As a film i've got to admit personally the "Dogtown Doco" formula
is past its use by date and can detract if the story is not really that over the top.
so overall this was a okay way to blow 90min on a crappy winters day but i'm positive i wont watch it again.
Rating ; 2/5
Broken leg ? or love rewritten history ?

3 years of Blogging

Miki Dora all for a few perfect waves

Legends are made over centuries because time needs to erode the facts.

Dora is rapidly losing the romantic mysticism of the years before his death when little was documented and few had spoken of their encounters.
Then with stecyk and pezman penning an authorised "story" (note the word 'story')
all was well with the icon.
until David Rensin came along
Wow
what a disturbing read
some of us surfers sure are twisted gems
I won't Comment on Miki Cos in my opinion its impossible for anyone to know another or even to do much more than bastardize an impression of how a persons view of reality really worked.

So i'll just review the story as told by many ,
the first chapter of this book was a thesaurus of words
and i thought i was going to rue my purchase
but soon enough the book came together
and to read first hand accounts of the "legend" was great.

However i was left wondering if with all the attention
that surfers who have popularized surfing are getting at the moment
if i will ever read a book of a surfer who just
lived the life for the joy of living the life...
or maybe that is the Real Myth.

Rating : 3.5/5
well worth hunting down for its kiwi connection alone.

Got to get on it

Looks Good

No One out

Yew Winter Rocks!

Cover ups

The Original tattoo aged so in with the new !

What the Fuck were her Parents thinking

Because nothing says “I want to lose my virginity ”
like a giant hot pink satin labia
hangin’ off the front of your dress.
Am I right?

Guatemala

My only Tattoo from overseas and quite possibly my best.