Fleet Floxes were on La Blogotheque’s Take Away Show awhile back doing my favoritist soundtrack song from my as-yet-unrealised epic surf-culture film that plays on loop inside my sunburnt grey matter: White Winter Hymnal. The video has two songs and starts with “Sun Giant” but “White Winter Hymnal” starts at the 3:40 mark, so fast forward for the good stuff, or just push play and let’r ride.
Also check them out doing Sun Giant and Blue Ridge Mountain
Ok, politics time is almost over. In less than two weeks we can all go back to ignoring our government, right?1 But for now we need to stay focused.
I don’t usually like posting videos too often, especially two videos in one post. But these two make compelling twin arguments. The thesis: changing the script from Yes, We Can! to Yes, We Did!
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Relatedly: I sent in my absentee ballot, this past week, for the state of New York. I voted! woo-hoo.
[via Ill Doctarinoo]
Reason #4080 to buy an iPhone/Touch: Brian Eno and Peter Chiver’s generative music composing app Bloom. amazing.
I was surfing the interwebs this morning and I happened upon Jamie’s posts about the making of a sick-ass low-budge surf video she and Jay worked on as a part of Alex Kopps’ one-day DIY Filmmaking class “Movie Making for the Broke”. Here’s the video in big quicktime glory.
Alex Kopps’ class was part of the Make Something series given by various artists that appear in Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers film. Jamie and Jay also went to Thomas Campbell’s class as well1.
If this doesn’t inspire you to create beautiful, low-budget, easily-accesible things, check your pulse.
I’ve been messing around with Thumber and some old surf videos I made a few years back. I like the mosaic-style. These would be super cool as printed posters. It seems that the longer the movie is, the smaller the frames get and the more abstract the mosaic becomes.
Peep the source videos: Saturday Morning Sliding and Sunday Log Rolling.
This was inspired by Brendan Dawes’ Cinema Redux project. I think I’ve linked to him before.
Jim Moriarty, CEO of Surfrider Foundation, has a new semi-annual videocast series called 5′10″1. The concept is to talk about 5 concepts in 10 minutes. Quick, simple and dialed in. The videocast format is a brilliant way for Jim to quickly update the masses on Surfrider’s focus and goals. Delivery of transparent information in a very quick and easy manner is the key here.
It’s great to see that Surfrider truly “gets” the power of the internets. I’m definitely inspired by Jim’s eloquence, focus and conceptual creativity2.
I never get tired of watching Kalle Carranza do his thing. Kalle is Mexico’s most famous surfer and famously laid-back and humble. Part of the Reef team, Kalle travels and surfs. I spotted him on Facebook, where he’s slowly dropping crumbs on his travels through Thailand, Cambodia, Loas, Vietnam and now he’s in China.
VBS.TV Celebrates Mexico All Month Long
VBS.TV has turned its sights towards Mexico in a month long programming tribute, accompany the Mexican language version of Vice:
Having spread our seed across the whole of the English Commonwealth and the continent of Europe (the good parts at least), this month Vice and VBS turn our sites southward for the launch of Vice Mexico. This is just the first baby-step in our planned conquest of Latin America in its entirety, but it is still a doozy of a start.
For the next four weeks, all the programming on VBS is if not Made In Mexico, at least Made By Mexicans. Or in some cases With Mexicans. There will be new Mexican episodes of Practice Space with the likes of Los Dynamite, Maria Daniela, Silverio, Jessy Bulbo, and Hong Kong Blood Opera; fresh editions of Art Talk! with Miguel Calderon, Yoshua Okon, and other luminaries of Mexico City’s incredible punk-art scene; and features on our favorite facets of Mexico’s insane-ass culture like the murder-tabloid industry (la Nota Roja) and their retirement home for aging sex workers (yes, they really have one of those).
And as a final treat in the pinata, we followed Richard Kern down to the capital for a special Mexico City installment of Shot By Kern. Be on the lookout for that, and be sure to check out the inaugural Mexican Issue of the magazine over on Viceland.com.
Most of the series seems to focus on the mex/us border towns and Mexico City, no rural coast stuff going on, I guess it doesn’t mesh with Vice’s urban hipster aesthetic. But lots of good content, so go check it out.
Mondays are always better with Feist and the muppets of Sesame Street. If this video doesn’t bring a smile to your face, you got entirely too much coal in your stocking when you were a kid. give yerself a big hug and a lollipop quickfast.
Happy Monday.
Lately, I’ve been dreaming about the surfing on display in this sequence, so smooth, I find myself stalking M.Caro’s Stubbie page on his Mandala site. The video gets played over and over in an infinite loop. In my mind’s eye I surf like this hombre, or at least I attempt to. Watch the video, then watch it again, paying extra attention to this guy’s footwork, it’s hypnotizing. Is that the flex fin giving him all that subtle carving movement (in the second shot) as he moves far on to the shoulder and then cuts back?
Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This is my story.