Hey look: another movie about stoned surfers. Starring stoned actor Matthew McConaughey and his stoned celebrity friends. Here’s what New York Magazine has to say about it:
Really, though, this looks less like a movie and more like a ploy to have someone else foot the weed bill for a summer (thanks, Anchor Bay!); he and his friends (including Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson) appear to be doing pretty much all the things you assume they do when cameras aren’t rolling (it’s unclear if any of them knew they were acting in a film). Even so, to a daydreaming employee in an East Coast office governed by an Orwellian mandatory shirt-wearing ordinance, this actually sort of looks like stupid, Netflixable fun.
The South African Weekend Postwould like us all to know that after “a string of celebrity relationships behind him, including busty Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson, it seems Billabong Pro champion Kelly Slater has settled for the girl next door,” with Roxy girl Kalani Miller.
Down-to-earth Miller, 20, who is a Roxy women‘s surfwear ambassador, is definitely a refreshing change from other big name celebs Slater has been involved with like Anderson, supermodel Gisele Bundchen and movie actresses Cameron Diaz and Kirsten Dunst.
She’s always been our idea of what a model surfer should be: strong, tough, smart, and a rockin’ surfer. Now, it looks like the LA Times has discovered that there is more to Erica Hosseini “than meets the eye.”
As a player on the surfing scene, Hosseini has become part of the $7.5-billion surfing apparel industry — dominated by brands such as Quiksilver, Roxy, Hurley and O’Neill — which sells the lifestyle and vibe surrounding surfing just as aggressively as the sport itself. The appeal is based in no small part on women like Hosseini, who represent the fun, breezy and stylish aspects of the wave-riding lifestyle. . . “I love modeling,” Hosseini says. “My sponsors have been able to advertise me in not just a surf-action kind of way but also in a more all-around way,” she says, “and I’ve benefited from that. I’m super grateful.”
Aaron Leiber has had a lot going on lately. He graduated from college, traveled around the world twice, and more recently has been holed up in his room in Seal Beach, California spending 16 hours a day editing his new film The Pursuit.
The film (which will be available on Blu-Ray HD disks in October) features: Brett Simpson, Jordy Smith, Ricky Basnett, Pat Gudaskas, Dusty Payne, Dede SuryanaTravis Mellem, Nathanial Curran, Torrey Meister, and many more in locations from Australia to Nicaragua.
If the trailer is any indication, this film is going to blow minds. It drops September 2 at the Laguna Theater. Click the link for all the details.
Garret Lisi, that frighteningly smart, unemployed surfer/snowboarder physicist who got so much play in January 2008 for maybe having solved the ultimate physics problem with his “Theory of Everything” was profiled in this week’s issue of The New Yorker.
Click the link to read the abstract, or buy the magazine for the whole story. It’s the one with cartoon of Barack Obama on the cover dressed as a Muslim.
The stories surrounding the Taiwanese fishing vessel Ho Tsai Fa No.18 (which looks not unlike the pirate ship from The Life Aquatic) are getting stranger and stranger as the days roll on, according to WAtoday.com.
Police have described the vessel as a crime scene, confirming its captain may have been murdered. Taiwanese investigators have arrived in Bali to carry out their own inquiry. . . . A flotilla of small fishing boats failed to refloat the 35-metre fishing vessel yesterday and Thursday. It is believed surfing companies [Rip Curl?] and the boat’s owner paid cash to local officials to hire a powerful tugboat, but it never appeared.
Click the link for the rest of this continuing story.
Hamilton this year joined the board of directors of San Diego-based H2O Audio, which makes products that waterproof digital audio players, such as iPod . . . . He’s done motivational speeches for companies and is releasing a fitness manual, Force of Nature: Laird Hamilton’s Handbook for Peak Living, in November. He also buys, develops and sells real estate in Hawaii and is developing property on Maui and Kauai. . . . And it appears he could already be headed for a business wipeout. In spring, Laird launched a clothing line called Wonderwall sold at retailer Steve & Barry’s, where most clothes sell for about $10. The retailer, though, filed for bankruptcy protection last week, and its future is murky.
Click the link for the rest of the surfer-as-businessman story.
Shaun Tomson’s autobiographical surf film Bustin’ Down The Door (narrated by Edward Norton) hits three theaters in Southern California and one theatre in Honolulu next week.
Shaun will be present at each of these screenings and other stars from the movie including Mark Richards, Ian Cairns, Rabbit Bartholomew and Peter Townend will be in attendance for some of them as well.
Following the February Transworld Business site relaunch, TransWorld Surf has redesigned their website and pushed it up on the free WordPress MUplatform. Web 2.0 has arrived and it looks even busier than it did before.
Cruise around the site and then let us know what you think. We’ll do the same.
On July 26-27, 2008 the best skimboarders in the world will slide down to Laguna Beach, California’s Aliso Beach Park for the Victoria Skimboard World Championships.
“With professional and amateur athletes from all over the globe (Chile, Japan, Australia, etc.) battling for the coveted title of ‘World’s Best,’ the two-day action over the weekend will be intense,” said Trigg Garner, general manager of Victoria Skimboards.
We just thought you’d like to know. Check the waves right here.
