Disney is churning out its first “original novel” based on the hit TV show Hannah Montana. The 247-page hardcover book is titled Rock the Waves and features Miley longing for a “hunky” Australian surfer.
The Breakpoint Surf Series is coming to Malibu which, of course, means the appearance of its top star, hunky Talen Wright. Before Miley can convey her daydream of meeting the Australian surfer, it becomes a potential reality with the announcement that Hannah Montana has been asked to perform at a big concert at the end of the two-week contest.
A Gold Coast Australia Billabong retail store was robbed by a man wielding a syringe, according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au.
The man allegedly held the Ashmore Billabong store employee at syringe point on Saturday morning before taking an unknown amount of clothing and leaving.
Durwin Keg, 41, of Maroubra Beach, Australia was surfing Cellito beach on the north coast of New South Wales when he saw something dark beneath him, according to a story in the Herald Sun.
“Straight away I knew it was a shark. He was just sitting under there watching me. . . I knew it was after me,” he said. “I started moving and I could see him going behind me.” Moments later it struck with all its force into Mr Keg’s board. . . .Screaming to his mates to get out of the surf, he began wildly throwing punches at the shark which eventually moved off.
Keg was surprised that he escaped completely unscathed. Maybe that whole “punch ’em in the nose” thing really does work.
Greg MacGillivray, one half of the famous MacGillivray-Freeman IMAX movie team is reportedly working on a documentary film that will explore 50 years of surfing in Hollywood film with a special focus on all the trouble John Milius had making Big Wednesday, according to a story in Variety.
It’s really about how Hollywood’s superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that,” MacGillivray said. . . . The yet-to-be-titled documentary includes Thomas Edison’s 1906 Hawaiian surfing footage and excerpts from numerous other surfing films, plus interviews with Kathy Kohner (the real-life Gidget), surfers such as Greg Noll and Mickey Munoz along with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino.
Sounds like something Ben Marcus was talking about five years ago. . .
As if there aren’t enough sites professing to know what size waves are going to be hitting our favorite breaks tomorrow, it looks like Transworld Surf is jumping in as well.
Bonnier Corp (Transworld Media’s parent company) is currently looking for “a part-time surf forecaster to work remotely to create daily surf reports,” for “an industry leading and established surf media company,” according to a job posting.
Applicants must be familiar with the sport of surfing and its culture. Responsibilities include checking publicly available government information and various other sources, analyzing and interpreting this information and breaking it down into easy-to-understand written surf reports for approximately ten US regions. . . Position is a part-time remote position the will require approximately three hours a day.
Well, they have the guy who built Wave Watch for ASG on the payroll so why not have him build another one? Wonder what they’ll call this one: Transworld Surf Watch?
A snowboarder named Wetzler discovers an entirely new board sport while on vacation in Hawaii, in this post on A Good Read.
The people (I call them “waterboarders”) paddle their boards out to the surf lying on top them (the good ones duck under the waves) where they wait for a wave to come. When a wave does come they paddle like crazy to get in just the right spot and when the wave breaks it forms a slope steep enough to propel them along and allow them to stand up on the board. Voila! It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen. Snowboarding on the ocean. Except better!
Yep, snowboarding on the ocean. . .and he’s even got four reasons why he thinks this new sport will catch on.
On a trip back to the US after playing Korea with Metallica, Tool’s Adam Jones was in the Honolulu airport when he felt a tap on his shoulder according to an interview in Guitar World’s April 20, 2009 issue.
After we landed, I was getting my luggage and I felt this tap on my shoulder. It was Kirk [Hammett, Metallica’s guitarist], and he said, ‘Are you the guitarist in Tool? I love your band. Would you like to come to dinner?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah!'” . . . “He lent me a long board and took me out to this spot where all the old-timers surf. I’m from California, so I’ve never had to paddle 30 minutes anywhere. [laughs] And you have to go out real far in Waikiki to catch the good waves. My arms were getting so tired, and I was so worried I was gonna look like a pussy!”
We all know the feeling Adam, we just never talk about it.
Notice all the rad surfing by gnarly surfers in this savage surf clip? Oh wait, no surfing? Whoops, guess this clip is all about fashion. Say it ain’t so Joe. . .
Disney is churning out its first “original novel” based on the hit TV show Hannah Montana. The 247-page hardcover book is titled Rock the Waves and features Miley longing for a “hunky” Australian surfer.
