Aaron Lieber, the talented, young filmmaker behind the film The Pursuit is working on a new series of videos on Brett Simpson titled Simply Simpo. This is episode one.
[Link: Etnies.com]
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Surf legend Shaun Tomson and actress Tanna Frederick (interviewed here by Scott Bass) have launched a new fund raising organization “that campaigns globally to protect and restore the world’s oceans.” It’s called Project SOS, not to be confused with Project SOS (Strengthening Our Students) or Project SOS (Support our soldiers) or Project SOS (Support Open Source) or SOS (snowboard outreach society)
Project SOS is collaborating with a number of generous local and national sponsors including ZJ Boardinghouse, Quiksilver, Rocker Board Shop, Kreation Café, Charlie Palmer Restaurants and Natural Surf Technique. . . Surf participants will raise money by asking people to sponsor their commitment to surf non-stop during a five-hour shift. . . The event will be followed by a Gala with a live band, auction, cocktails, tapas, buffet dinner, a performance by Tom Curren and a celebrity “blue” carpet befitting Oceana. . . Celebrities Surfing the event include Michelle Rodriguez (”Lost”), David Chokachi (“Baywatch”) and World Champion of International Professional Surfing Peter “P.T.” Townend under Project SOS Surf Captain Frank Caronna.
The surf event is Sunday April 5, 2009 from 10 AM to 3 PM with a celebrity Gala event is Sunday night from 6 PM to 10 PM at Shuters on the Beach Ballroom in Santa Monica, California. Sounds like a great party for a good cause.
[Link: Project Save Our Surf via M&C]
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Last week the Volusia Couinty Council approved a surf contest for April at New Smyrna Beach, Florida’s shark infested waters. The sponsor? Jacksonville, Florida’s Landshark Lager.
Organizers say the Land Shark Spring Surfari Pro could attrack 2,000 visitors to the Ponce de Leon Inlet.
We’re not sure if this is funny, or dumb. According to the Orlando Sentinel April is peak shark bit month with “26 bites during the past decade that month.” Nice marketing hook.
[Link: Orlando Sentinel]
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Apocalyspe Now screenwriter and Big Wednesday screenwriter and director John Milius narrates Scott Bass and Ty Ponder’s Vietnam/surf doco Between The Lines (which comes out on DVD on April 15, 2009) CNN spoke to Milius about movies, writing great lines, and most importantly surfing.
“One of the most poignant things of the film is how many California surfers went to Vietnam, and how many didn’t come back,” said Milius, 64, who learned to surf while growing up in Southern California. . . “One of the reasons I put surfing in ‘Apocalypse Now’ was because I always thought Vietnam was a California war.”
Said as only a Californian can.
[Link: CNN.com]
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A group of surfers, backed by the Surfrider Foundation, has stopped plans by the Town of Palm Beach, Florida that would have dredged sand for “beach nourishment” and potentially ruined the surf break at Reach 8, according to a story in the New York Times.
Like other critics of beach nourishment, the surfers and their allies argued that unless replacement sand is well matched to the beach, which is hard to do, the sand causes problems, interfering with nesting sea turtles and small animals like sand fleas that form the bottom of beach and marine food webs.
Can you imagine Palm Beach with sand that doesn’t match? Us neither. Congrats on the win.
[Link: New York Times]
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After six long days of waiting the Quiksilver Pro fired back up again on Saturday (Australia) with a two-event day: morning at Duranbah, afternoon at Snapper Rocks.
Bede Durbidge and Joel Parkinson advanced, Danny Wills retired, and Dane Reynolds scored the first 10 of the content.
Looks like the surf is up for round three today. More after the jump or click here for Surfing Magazine coverage.
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Yes, we all watched it live online three months ago, but watching surfing on the web can make you forget what it looks like in high-definition. As a little reminder Fuel TV will be airing the 2008 Billabong Pipeline Masters starting Monday, March 9, 2009 and many more times during the month.
Follow the jump for all the details.
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Entrepreneur.com, not exactly known for its hard hitting business journalism, just profiled RVCA and founder PM Tenore. And despite the fashion industry chaos going on all around him, Tenore and his Costa Mesa fashion house seem to be doing just fine.
Its footprint may be growing, but it’s not seeking to grow out of its niche. “I like where we are right now: not too big and not too small. But we also want to try to be everywhere,” Tenore says. As part of its growth strategy, no additional accounts will be added to RVCA’s distribution in 2009. At present, the brand is sold in 600 accounts in the U.S. and distributed in 28 countries world wide.
We’ve from several small brands who are doing well. Guess its nice when the big guys are taking all the hits.
[Link: Entrepreneur.com]
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Thanks to tropical cyclone Hamish, Quiksilver Pro contest director Rod Broks is planning a possible venue move to Kirra, according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au.
Contest director Rod Brooks said plans were under way to move the primary contest site from Snapper Rocks to nearby Kirra should the massive swell eventuate. “If we are lucky and the swell comes the way (contest surf forecasters) expect it might, then we will be ready for it,” Brooks said yesterday. “It will be the first time back at Kirra for 12 years. The prospect is amazing, but I don’t want people’s expectations too built up. “At this stage it is a 50-50 chance.”
There are only five days left in the Quiksilver and Roxy Pro waiting periods. Come on, waves.
[Link: Goldcoast.com.au]
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A 19-year-old French surfer was reportedly paddling back to his boat when he was hit by a shark in the waters of New Caledonia in the south Pacific, according to a story on the Associated Press.
Police commander Alain Bouedo says the 19-year-old surfer was swimming back to his boat early Friday when the shark sank its jaws into his arm and leg, causing fatal injuries. . . . The young man was dead by the time doctors arrived.
A report in The Austrialian says:
The 19-year-old student’s arm was ripped off and his leg bitten when he was attacked “apparently by several sharks” while trying to get back onto a boat with his friend on Friday, police said.
[Link: Associated Press and The Australian]
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