Monday, May 31, 2010
Somethings heavy is happening under Guatemala City...
What the hell is a sinkhole...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/01/storm-agatha-hole-guatemala
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The age old NBA battle
Lakers v Celtics - head to head for the 12th time in NBA finals history.
Article - Lakers, Celtics ready for latest chapter in age-old rivalry
Game 1 is this Friday 11am - best seat is the Sports Bar at Star City
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Welcome to Brick City Trailer
Teaser to our 2009 Indo tour. The sun was definitely out - 10 lads, 1 boat, 240 Bintangs, unlimited pop, Lombok, Sumbawa and epic waves
Drama at the Young Directors Awards
Drama Queen - 2010 Entry
Born to create drama - 2009 Entry
Couple of entries to the Young Directors Awards. 2010 shortlist comes out in a few weeks
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Story of Film, Television & Digital Culture
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Your standard night in Adelaide
1 x Massive Greek mixed platter
10 x Coopers pale ales
2 x bottles of the Barrosa's finest - Rockford Basket Press Shiraz
4 x top shelf scotches
2 x Jugs of Coopers Dark Ale
1 x guitar pick, dog tag necklace
2 x tickets to Sounds After Dark
South Head Roughwater
Ben Buckler from the water
Me doing some tow-ins inside the heads. It was actually breaking about 3ft just around from Camp Cove
Huge day on the water on Sunday. Manned the IRB for a few of the tama lads doing the 13km Bondi to Watsons Bay Roughwater Swim. Sure was rough, the weekends swell was still hanging around adding some intensity to the swim. We set off on the IRB from Tama at 8am navigating the 5ft sets that were hammering the beach - eventually launching off the back of this monster getting some big airtime. Pre race was an amazing view, mid ocean just off Ben Buckler. About 100 craft filled the water from 30ft crusiers to support board paddlers.
It took the guys about 5hrs to do the swim - bloooody big effort. Hats off to them, couldnt imagine doing anything for 5 hours straight.
Southern slabbing
Waves were firing down the South Coast on the weekend. After a pretty detailed check around Sussex, Cudmirrah reef was calling. The shady overcast weather didn't look too inviting at 7am, but with 24 degrees in the water it was like a spa - just a 6ft+ spa. Bombs were pushing down the beach, with a huge inside section. You could make it about half the time, but the other half the thing would just close out. You'd either be drilled into the sand, or hit the section and be hanging mid air above dry sand. Had about 2 hours on this break with just the 2 off us on it, all the while seeing the reef about 300m away just getting bigger and bigger. Agreeing on the huge paddle we put some speed on to get there - every wave was a mamoth barrel that would spit out into the channel. Getting there we realised how big it was - no word of a lie, 8ft+ things with a girthy lip on it. Scored some of the bigger barrels I've laid into in a fair while. You'd be so deep in it and need to race pretty hard to avoid getting hammered. Wave of the day had to be this 6ft nugget - a late drop had me so deep, glassy face drawing water off to bottom until reef popped up. Still mid barrel, I didn't think I was going to make it, until I was spat out into the channel to sounds of a few guys hooting.Took a step back on some of the bigger sets rolling through - some pushing on 10ft were drawing so hard off this reef, then out of no-where a surfer would drop in and be deep in a stand up barrel. Pretty crazy to watch! It was getting on 3.5hrs we were out there, then the southery hit and blew it apart. Kind of a good thing, we were cramping up bigtime!
Session 2 we headed down to Bawley Point knowing full well that with any wind/ swell direction, somewhere in this place would be pumping. A check at Guilo's looked okay, but 10 guys didn't really appeal. Kept looking south until we got to No Toes - the swell was still building and the bombie was starting to break about 100m out. Again we had the break to ourselves for a while. Some pretty sizey sets were having their way with the bombie. Anything bigger than 8ft was getting too fast - we left that up to the lads towing in. Another 3hr session took a toll on the bodus, had to get some food badly before I died.
Next day the swell was a bit more east and had put on another couple of feet. We checked Sommerset at the crack of dawn, but like alot of the place it was too big and wasn't holding. We left and trekked up the coast to Werrie beach just south of Kiama. Pretty incredible area, huge green hills met the glassy lines pushing through the point. Fun and fast, it was a little smaller than the rest of the area - still 5ft+. Few more people out being a Saturday, but we scored some solid waves, couple of barrels in shore, and some heavy close outs. Ryan got a few massive ones, which he was pretty damn stoked with.
Had no real desire to head back to Sydney, but with the winds picking up, we thought our time could be better spent getting a little pissy. Shorty after, Tequila made its way to the party.
Up There - the origin of outdoor advertising
An amazing doco about the craft of large scale hand painted advertising. A concept by Mother New York for Stella Artois, the film tells the story of these painters and their quest to keep their art alive.
"Capturing a trade that is equal parts artistic precision and and grueling labor, the film presents a painting tradition pre-dating modern advertising. A craft that today finds itself dangling precariously on the brink of extinction"
The trailer
The entire 3 week process, start to end
Up There - the documentary
Room for one more in that hot tub?
Ads from Canadian adult-entertainment network Amour. Scenes from hopeless audition readings play to the fact no-ones watching these for the acting...
A time lapse of the volcano no-one can pronounce
Some amazing footage of the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull from the beginning of May. All shot with a Canon 5D. I want one bad!
(via @phon)
Mentawian Aquabumping
Tropical slabs and Samoan crabs
Trent Mitchell has pulled together an epic album from recent Riptide trip to Samoa.
Skateboard Shreds - Stop motion vid
German filmaker Tilles Singer has released a pretty crazy stop motion animation using a heap of skate photos on cardboard cutouts. Really detailed movement.