Something about this Great White Shark video from Pacific Palisades doesn’t look quite right. Is it the odd lighting? We’re no experts on video editing, we’re skeptical.
[Link: Fox 31]
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What’s the difference between a Billabong bikini fashion show and Design For Humanity fundraising event June 10, 2010 at Paramount Studios? Marketing. How do they make watching hot, nearly naked girls prance and strut on a runway feel good for the soul? Billabong Women’s Brand Director Candy Harris tells Tiffany Montgomery all about it in her interview on Shop-eat-surf.com.
I wanted to create an event that would help inspire young people to get involved with the world around them and hopefully motivate them to make a difference. When you’re young it’s easy to get the feeling that if you don’t have thousands of dollars to donate that your voice will get lost. . . The idea behind DFH was to showcase various non-profits in a non-traditional way. We didn’t want it to be a lecture, we wanted it to be all about creativity and celebrating the good work that is being done by these groups. And for $30 you are getting a live concert, fashion show and art show – and more importantly are being exposed to some amazing organizations.
. . . and of course rocket hot, nearly naked girls prancing and strutting on a runway.
[Link: Shop-eat-surf.com]
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[Editors’ Note: Thought we had this two years ago, but now we can’t seem to find it. Here it is again just for fun.]
Few surfers put up with more to get less than the surfers of Cleveland, Ohio. They actually paddle out in the somewhat suspect waters of Lake Erie whenever there are waves and they actually like it.
We know this because filmmakers Scott Ditzenberger, Darrin Mcdonald, and Kurt Vincent captured the essence of Midwest surfing in their film Out of Place: A Portrait of Surfing In Cleveland, Ohio.
Click here for the trailer. . . another reminder of how good many of us have it and how surfing improves
lives in the most unlikely of places.
[Link: Out Of Place via Asylum]
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Three years ago (May 24, 2007) the San Diego, California surf community was rocked when Emery Kauanui died after a fight with Seth Cravens a reported member of the Bird Rock Bandits.
Now, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune Kauanui is being remember with a “day of Aloha” today at Windansea Beach.
Kauanui’s family and friends plan have organized a daylong event at Windansea Beach in La Jolla that will culminate at dusk with a “surfboard candle lighting” ceremony. Organizers are calling it the first annual Memorial Day of Aloha. “We welcome everyone to join our ohana for a day of celebration,” a flyer produced for the event states. The event will be hosted by Kink Kukulele and will feature live music; food; wiki wacky ride, ukelele and keiki hula contests; as well as a raffle, with the winner taking home a trip to Hawaii.
Our thoughts continue to be with the Kauanui family. Click here for full coverage of the event in the La Jolla Light.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune and La Jolla Light]
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Hawaiian surf legend Marvin Foster was found dead on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 from what the medical examiners described as suicide, according to a story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Foster, 49, died from asphyxia due to hanging. . . Surfer Rusty Keaulana, who grew up with Foster, said this morning, “I’m still bummed about it. He was like my brother.” . . Keaulana described Foster as a fearless “goofy-foot” surfer who was the first to go left at Waimea Bay.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
[Link: Honolulu Star-Bulletin]
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Sam George’s documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf, has been getting much of the action attention in Cannes this year, however, it wasn’t the only surf film at the famous French Film Festival this year. Bjorn Ritchie Lob’s Keep Surfing, is one of them.
Sadly, it’s in German so we have no idea what they are saying. Nice boobs though.
[Link: The Wrap]
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Two reports submitted to the Shark Research Committee website in the last week suggest there may be a bit of increased shark action in the waters near San Diego.
On Thursday May 13, 2010 around 1:15 PM surfer Mary Baker was waiting for some waves a bit outside the lineup at La Jolla Shores when she say a fin turn and head toward her.
“I looked outside and about 100 feet from me I saw the large triangle black fin, about 18 inches high, heading my way,” Baker said. “I moved South and inside to get my friend out. I surf everyday and know the difference between marine animals. This was a large triangle fin heading straight at me. Not a dolphin, seal or a bird. It was a black large triangle fin.”
Four days early on May 9, 2010 at about 5 PM surfer Brian Monroe was out at Ocean Beach when he saw a shark acting aggressively near a Grey Whale.
“I saw a large dark grey dorsal fin, 18 – 24 inches high, and splashing directly next to a Grey Whale ( Eschrichtius robustus) that had its back elevated out of the water,” he said. “I quickly paddled to shore and observed what appeared to be two whales, one large and one small, being repeatedly pursued by a large dark grey dorsal fin traveling along the surface. The shark appeared to be acting in an aggressive manner.”
And then there is the Great White reportedly spotted at San Onofre near the power plant . . . sounds like a similar men in a gray suits, no?
[Link: Shark Research Committee via Surfline]
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Friends and family of NorCal big wave surfer and videographer Noel Robinson are gathering for a paddle out at 10 AM Saturday, May 15, 2010 at Goat Rock State Beach at the mouth of the Russian River, according to a story in the Press Democrat.
Robinson, 39, died in a surfing accident last Friday off Puerto Escondido, Mexico, his second home, though he roamed the world in search of the biggest swells with some of the sport’s most acclaimed practitioners. . . He was, friends said, a world-class barrel rider whose humility, humor and contagious smile made him friends wherever he went. . . “As a surfer and just a member of the Sonoma County community out here in west county, what I can tell you is that all of us are rocked by this,” said friend Jim Nevill of Bodega Bay, founder and director of Lifeskills, a wilderness program for teens and schools.
Everyone is invited and a “massive crowd” is expected.
[Link: Press Democrat]
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Alexander Klein’s film God Went Surfing with the Devil gets more well-deserved coverage on CNN today in a story titled Gaza surfers ride on wave of goodwill from Israel.
Dirt poor and mainly from refugee camps, they find joy riding waves, often on makeshift boards, in the green waters off Gaza’s beaches. . . Over the past few years, a number of groups, some based in Israel, have made it their business to try to help the Gaza surfers. . . Explore Corps and Jewish Surfing 4 Peace have sent surf boards and wetsuits to the 20 or so Palestinian wave riders, hoping to extend the hand of friendship across the bullet-pocked border.
We have to admit—a few hours in the surf can pretty much erase anything.
[Link: CNN]
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If you have an expo or tradeshow that relates to anything in action sports or fashion that could potentially bring more people to the ASR Show in San Diego, please call Andy Tompkins because ASR appears to be in a synergizing mood.
The most recent addition to Summer ASR (after Class@ASR and The Crossroads) is Scott Bass’ Sacred Craft surfboard expo, according to a release sent out today.
Action Sports Retailer (ASR) and Sacred Craft have agreed to stage the summer edition of the consumer surfboard expo bayside in San Diego during ASR. The one of a kind event debuts on Saturday and Sunday, August 14-15, 2010 running concurrently with ASR at the San Diego Convention Center.
Sure, why not. But you know who ASR should be really working on partnering with? Comic-Con. They’ve got real traffic. . . follow the jump for the entire release.
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