. . . it was hard to even think about the movie, let alone sit down and edit hours of his footage from the winter. It wasn’t until Blake Paul sent me an email highlighting the fact that one of Aaron’s goals all season was to get everyone down to Chile and film a segment for the movie that I came to realize something that should have been so obvious. We had to head South and finish what he had started. Although we were physically missing the one person who really should have been on that trip I feel like he was actually with us more than ever. We’ll miss you A-ROB!
Manifest is the completion of the project and it’s well worth a watch.
Today (January 23, 2012) is the opening day of the Volcom Pipeline Pro waiting period, however, the waves are not cooperating and today has been called a “lei day.” In the meantime, check out this collection of Funtitled edits.
Everyone’s favorite WQS five-star event could fire up on Monday, January 23, 2012 as the Volcom Pipeline Pro waiting period starts. This year 112 surfers will charge Pipeline and Backdoor for a shot at $130,000 in prize money.
The surf at Pipeline has been on fire for the better part of January, and Surfline.com – the official forecaster of the 2012 Volcom Pipe Pro, is happy to report that there is plenty more surf to come. . . You can tune into www.volcompipepro.com to watch the live HD webcast of the event, see video warrior stats, up to the minute results, daily videos and more. iPhone users can also download the VolcoMobile iPhone App and stay up-to-date on the live webcast wherever you are, as well as purchase Volcom Pipe Pro Merch and access all features of the full website.
Salomon Snowboards has added a flexible heel loop to their bindings making them reportedly offer up much better board feel and a more natural flex while riding. It’s called ShadowFit.
Featuring a flexible heel loop for enhanced natural fit and flex with boot, Kevlar Quickwire for optimal strength, support and transmission, and a baseplate engineered for weight reduction and better board flex under foot. The result — a fully anatomical fit with unrivaled response and tweakability, in one ultra-light and comfortable package that allows your whole kit to flex as one.
Louif Paradis seems to like it. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Hurley will debut Craig Stecyk’s new short film Fin at the H Space Gallery in Costa Mesa, Callifornia.
FIN, the first installment in an evolutionary series of digital film shorts, details Stecyk’s method of working with a wide variety of personages in the southern California region and reflects the social and sonic landscapes in which these creators inhabit. People whose work has been documented so far include Von Dutch, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, Evel Knievel, Dave Sweet, Julian Ness, Tom Blake, Dale Velzy, Tyler Hatzikian, Scott Anderson, Mitch Abshere, Scotty Stopnick, Mike Ness, and Roland Sands. The featured soundtrack is also a nod to West Coast visionaries, with Social Distortion, Breakdown, Tommy Guerrero and Steve Alba and the Powerflex 5 contributing to the project.
Along with the film will be a series of four T-shirts featuring artwork and still photography created during the making of the film. The H Space Gallery is located at 1945 Placentia Ave, Costa Mesa, California. Follow the jump for the T-shirts and more info. [click to continue…]
Not that snowboarders need another reason to be distracted, but RED and Frends have teamed up on a Helmet with sound.
RED’s team favorite gets juiced up with the Frends music experience. Audio inspired and designed with the Air Band 180 Fit System, removable ear pads and internal padding for a lower profile fit—Make Frends with the Hi-Fi.
As the video suggests, Danny Davis thinks it’s a pretty nice set up. . . even for driving trucks.
We’ve been diving into all the new Youtube “channel” content lately to see what it’s all about. (Want to read more about Youtube’s somewhat skewed logic check out John Seabrook’s story Streaming Dreams in The New Yorker).
Livin’ Louie Vito is just one of the shows Red Bull is populating their channel with that, not surprisingly, promotes an energy drink sponsored athlete. If you hadn’t noticed yet, self-serving media is the new media.
The search for someone to host a fictional new extreme sporting show called The Gnar Zone has potential to be one of the funniest new webisodes on Youtube. Check it. . .
Now we know for sure that nothing will keep surfers out of the water. Not even a total and complete apocalypse it would appear. . . Apacalypse Later, Surf Now.
