Malakye.com, the action sports job site that is difficult to pronounce and even more difficult to spell has an interview with Shop-Eat-Surf.com founder Tiffany Montgomery in their Industry Profile section. Here’s a little bit of the story behind the site:
The site started as an experiment. Given the cutbacks at newspapers and in journalism in general, I thought there was room for a news site. Originally, I planned to write about the business of retail, the business of restaurants and the business of the surf industry based in Orange County – basically, what I covered in my last reporting beat at the paper. That’s why the site has a strange name. . . . The surf and larger action sports industry was so responsive from the get go, I quickly dropped the other topics. And, I liked the stories in the surf industry the best. I still am amazed that this group of people with basically no business experience was able to build a globally influential industry by following their passion.
Ms. Montgomery is obviously an avid and skilled reporter who keeps very close tabs on what goes on behind Orange County’s Velcro Curtain. The site is updated hourly and is a much needed source for industry news. She does it all so politely and professionally, however, that we rarely find anything compelling to read.
Looks like the makers of The Skateboard Mag, the finest quality skateboarding magazine in print, are getting saddled up for more regular rides through the social media frontier via Twitter.
Apparently, the those who couldn’t wait for the sequel to Bam Margera’s Haggard: The Movie, only need to wait six more days as Minghags: The Movie is premieres March 8, 2009 at Philadelphia’s Backseat Film Festival, according to a blurb in the Philadelphia Daily News. Here’s what we can all look forward to:
Trailer trash rockers Lenny (BAM MARGERA) and Ponce (BRANDON DICAMILLO) have vowed revenge, on billionaire scum-bag Rut Ru (also BRANDON DICAMILLO) and his bloated sidekick Dominick (DAVE “LORD” BOTTARO) who have heisted Ponce’s cool invention, the Garbage Juicer! . . . and just when you thought the plot couldn’t be any more contrived, the triteness increases as Lenny and Rut Ru up the ante, culminating in cameos by JIMMY POP and EVIL JARED of the BLOODHOUND GANG, DON VITO, RAKE YOHN, “COMPTON ASS” TERRY KENNEDY, THE DUDESONS, PHIL AND APRIL MARGERA, BRANDON NOVAK, GINA LYNN, JESS MARGERA, CHAD GINSBURG, RYAN GEE, JOE FRANTZ, and a slew of B-listers from the CKY videos!
We’re just sorry we can’t be there to see it in person.
We met Dirk Vogal, Daniel Schmid, and Jürgen Blumleiu (the guys responsible for Made For Skate; The Illustrated History of Skateboard Footwear) at The Berrics last night. They’d just finished a book singing at HUF LA. And when we said we were bummed we missed it they told us about this signing on March 7, 2009 at the Skatelab in Simi Valley.
Made For Skate is required for any skate book collection. And you can pick up the Mike V. issue of skatebook while you’re there.
Three years ago Jeff Seymour, of Carlsbad, California wanted to help out the troops. So he started a program called “Magazines and Movies for the Troops.” With donated magazines and movies from Transworld Media and many other Southern California souces Seymour hoped to spread a little love from home, according to a story in the San Diego City Beat.
Now it looks like most of those donations ended up getting dumped straight into a San Diego landfill. According to the paper a supervisor at the Miramar landfill witnessed “a group of Marines dump as many as six pallets full of the donations—magazines, books, DVDs and hygiene products, packed in boxes plainly marked “For Our Troops in Iraq”—into the landfill last summer.”
“Transworld Media donated thousands of magazines, most of them so new they still hadn’t hit the stands yet,” he says. “They donated cases of beanies—like those skullcaps that kids wear—worth about $20 apiece. I asked them, ‘Do you think the troops will wear these?’ And they replied, ‘Hey, do you know how cold it gets over there?’
Guess, we’ll never know. For the rest of the Marine Corp FUBAR follow the jump.
In the grand tradition of morally-ambiguous, surf-lust inspired schemes, I’m launching this site: PostSurf – A place for myself and other Surf Culture iconoclasts to mull over the act, after the act is finished. . . . This site is based on a blind faith that there are many other surfers out there who are dissatisfied with the current state of the surf media. . . . I’m trying to make things better (or much, much worse depending upon your perspective).
Good, honest, insightful, funny writing about surfing is always in short supply and chances are that Postsurf.com will occasionally contain some. That’s why we’ve added the site to our Surf Links and our RSS feeds. Check it out.
A Fly In The Champagne’s producer/ interviewer/ narrator Selema Masekela (and special guest) discussing Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, the rivalry, the film, and the surf trip that made it all happen.
The Kelly Slater vs. Andy Irons documentary A Fly In The Champagne premiered tonight (February 19, 2009) at the Legendary La Paloma Theater in Encinitas, California during two packed-house showings.
Through back and forth interviews with Andy and Kelly, the film breaks down the story behind what many consider the greatest rivalry in modern surfing. In a story in the Sydney Morning Herald former ASP President Rabbit Bartholomew spoke of the rivalry and its effect on the entire tour: “Kelly came back but AI was killing it,” Bartholomew says. “The next three years, they just went hammer and tong. They took it to a whole other level and the rest of the tour went with them.”
Kelly wouldn’t disagree. “People don’t get pushed by nothing,” Slater says in the opening moments of the film. “Competitively in sports you get to see what people are made of when they really get pushed with their back to the wall.”
Hearing about what both surfers went through to put the other up against the wall and seeing how much they both hate losing had the audience laughing out loud. Even when Andy and Kelly went on the “bury the hatchet” surf trip together (which is the focus of the movie) they still ended up jocking each other for waves. But at least they were reportedly talking and hanging out together (not that we saw much of that in the film), and that was a big step forward in their relationship.
One thing we couldn’t help feeling bummed about as the movie ended was how much we’re going to miss Andy Irons on the WCT tour this year. Not that we have anything against Taj, Mick, Jordy, or Bede. We just enjoy the drama and emotion that Andy brings to surfing and selfishly hope that this year off will bring him back to the tour better than ever.
While on a shred trip to the continent Transworld Snowboarding scribe Jennifer Sherowski ran into a little pain on a train in Madrid, Spain and was relieved of her camera and some other stuff, according to a post on her blog.
We make our move to get off, and suddenly swarthy guy shoves me hard from behind and before I have time to turn around and be all, “What the fuck?!” I’m on the platform and the doors are closing behind me. And that seedy motherfucker is on the other side of those doors getting carried off by the train to the next stop—with my camera and whatnot in his hot little hands.
The guy is lucky those doors closed when they did, because he obviously didn’t know who he was messing with. That’s all we’re saying.
So what ever happened to Fall Line Films’ founder Jerry Dugan, one of the guys responsible for some of the most iconographic snowboard films of the 90s (Western Front, Critical Condition, Riders on the Storm, Roadkill)? According to a story in the Reno News & Review he is still running FLF Films.
Today, FLF Films does a variety of projects from advertising for big-name clients to documentary films to art pieces and music videos. The permanent staff at FLF Films is fairly small, considering some of the projects they take on. Dugan almost always does his own camera work even on larger-scale projects—he directs and composes the shots and the look of everything. . . The size and scope of the projects vary. Over the past summer, the company shot a series of commercials for Disney’s Hannah Montana. The commercials were shot in Reno, and they daily had about 50 people on the set, including stylists, clients and extra camera operators.
Oddly, this story left out any mention of Dugan’s days in the Reno “private entertainment” industry, but we’re glad Jerry (pictured right with Erika Frick) is doing well.
Malakye.com, the action sports job site that is difficult to pronounce and even more difficult to spell has an interview with Shop-Eat-Surf.com founder Tiffany Montgomery in their Industry Profile section. Here’s a little bit of the story behind the site:
