by The Editors on September 28, 2008
Famous brother and filmmaker Chris Malloy apparently had better things to do this weekend than to attend the world premiere of his newest film One Track Mind (like work on his next film 180 South). That did not, however, keep hundreds of people from lining up outside the Patagonia Store in Cardiff, California last night for the film’s two showings (the line for the second showing stacked up all the way to The Office).
One Track Mind takes a look at the world of progressive contest surfing through the minds and wave riding of current, former, and potentially future ASP champs like Rabbit Bartholomew, Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Taj Burrow, Rob Machado, Mick Fanning, Jon Jon Florence, Jordy Smith, Sunny Garcia, Dane Renolds, Kolohe Andino, and others.
Rather than the usual artsy, hippie, trip-out “Malloy” film, One Track Mind is a clean, concise documentary that could easily be a 2008 update to the classic 1990 Bill Delaney film Surfers: The Movie.
In interviews the surfers explain what it’s like to try to be the best in the world and how each generation builds on the past to push progression forward. The interviews are interspersed with amazingly tight action sequences that almost become boring in their brilliance.
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by The Editors on September 24, 2008
Snowboard filmers should think twice before shooting on Forest Service land without the proper permits, according to a situation outlined in a Brent Gardner-Smith story in the Aspen Daily News.
On April 4, 2008 Aspen snowboarder Wallace Westfeldt landed on a rock and died while riding for a Futuristic Films cinematographer who was shooting “a promotional film” in Tonar Bowl out of bounds at near Highlands.
During a Forest Service investigation of the tragic accident it was found that Futuristic Films had no permit to film on Forest Service land outside of the resort. The information resulted in three citations: Brendan Kiernan and cinematographer Frank Pickell of Futuristic Films were cited for “conducting an unauthorized work activity on National Forest lands” and Aspen Ski Company’s Director of Brand Development Steve Metcalf was charged with “aiding and abetting.”
The three men each paid a $525 fine in July and the Forest Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office consider the case closed.
The way the situation played out is much messier than this and well worth a read for anyone who has ever filmed or thought of filming a snowboard movie on Forest Service land. As usual, it’s all good until something bad happens.
[Link: Aspen Daily News]
by The Editors on September 19, 2008
Former professional snowboarder Peter Line is an genuine oddity in a way rarely seen in action sports. He is a true original who is completely and utterly on his own program.
To better share thoughts and images from his seriously skewed mind he is now blogging on his first-ever website Peetard.com. There you can get a peek into his thoughts and images and view bits of genius like this:
Today I drew a picture of Rachael Ray. But, I wanted the art to focus more on her tennis-ball boobs than on her bubbly personality. So I drew her head up-side-down and turned her smile into a frown.
Our point, exactly.
[Link: Peetard.com via Forum Snowboards]
by The Editors on September 19, 2008
Newcastle, the latest in what seems like a string of gay surf movies coming out, is premiering in its Australian namesake city on October 29.
The film is a the coming-of-age story about three young surfer brothers growing up in Australia, according to a story in The Hearld.
While rising surf star Jesse chases waves and girls and battles his resentful older brother, a former surfing champion, misfit Fergus develops a crush on one of Jesse’s macho mates.
The film was written and directed by American Dan Castle who says he “wove aspects of his own experiences as a surf-mad teen into his Newcastle script.” In a humorous twist of irony, the film is being distributed by actor Mel Gibson’s company Icon Film Distribution.
[Link: The Hearld]
by The Editors on September 9, 2008
Today, Vital Media Network President Brad McDonald announced that while their BMX and MX sites are doing well, they have decided to put their skateboarding site on ice saying:
We’re putting Vital Skate on indefinite hiatus. After two years, we just couldn’t get the traffic and advertising where it needed to be. To everyone who supported the site – thanks!
While McDonald and Todd Toth’s roots in BMX (along with the edit and photo skills of Mark Losey) helped take Vital BMX to the top in traffic, the group never did get traction in the skateboarding market. As we know, that industry is pretty tight about who it supports and does not support. Apparently, they were not backing Vital.
[Link: Vital Media Network]
by The Editors on September 4, 2008
We came in ready to have a little laugh at Fuel TV‘s expense about having a media panel with no media people on it, but Fuel’s John Stouffer surprised us.
Sure, Fuel TV’s General Manager CJ Olivares was on the panel (as he is every year), but also upfront were several other action sports media people: TransWorld Business Publisher Rob Campbell, The Surfer Group Publisher Rick Irons, and Vans marketing guy Doug Palladini.
The stated point of the discussion was how the Internet is changing action sports media. With the exception of Palladini, however, all the panelists were from old media companies who happen to have websites. No one from any of the emerging online action sports media businesses like loopd, Seshn, Sportnet, Go211, or Bnqt were even represented on the panel. Add to the fact that Vans spends millions of dollars with the other three panelists and it ended up like little more than a one-sided scuffle about advertising.
One of most pointed comments came from the audience when Ransu Salovaara the CEO of online ad network Sportsyndicator.com said:
The readers have already abondonded the magazines. The people are already online but the industry is supporting the magazines. The marketing directors are about two years behind the rest of the world. . . . The magazines are not supported by readers anymore, they are supported by the industry.
As might be imagined the entire panel disagreed.
by The Editors on September 4, 2008
For the next couple days we’re going to be at the annual fall ASR Show in San Diego. While we’re there we’ll be updating the site with stories and photos. For up-to-the-minute info check out our twitter feed. We’ll be stacking it to the ceiling with industry cordwood.
Follow us on twitter and we’ll overload you with useless info, mindless babel, and occasionally a dose of some worthwhile information. Click it to follow: http://twitter.com/boardistan.
by The Editors on September 3, 2008
It must be nice having an intern managing editor. That’s how Yobeat.com is getting all the new content like this solid interview with TransWorld Snowboarding filmer Joe Carlino.
I was really into photography when I was in high school, and then my senior year I did an internship at this wedding video company, from there I got really into it. After high school I moved to Burlington to “take a year off” from school. I got ahold of this guys Todd Franzen at 411 video mag and started submitting footage to them. Later that winter I got my first shot in a video, it was an opener of Chris Acker doing a big wood rail in VT. Like I said, after that winter I moved to Bear and while I was driving out there my mom saw on their website Bear Mtn. was looking for someone to do web movies. Brad Farmer (from Future Snowboardmag) was the marketing guy at the time, and I just kept bothering him till he gave me the job.
Read it all, he’s cool. His movie These Days will not be bad. It would be almost impossible.
[Link: Yobeat]
by The Editors on September 3, 2008
We’ve always heard that the number one money-maker for aging pop stars is always the “Christmas Album.” Guess the same goes for aging Jackasses. On December 2, 2008 Bam Margera along with Warner Home Video will be releasing Bam Margera Presents: Where the #$&% is Santa? as a direct to video product. Here’s how they describe it:
Superstar skateboarder and prankster Bam Margera grabs Christmas by the bells and pushes it over the edge! Bam and his band of hardcore hooligans take a riotous, rowdy road trip to the Arctic Circle to bring home Santa Claus as a Christmas surprise for Bam’s wife Missy. With stops on the way to visit their favorite head-banging metal bands, and with a pair of Finnish bad boys as their unruly guides, Bam and the guys wreak gut-busting chaos wherever they go. This hilarious, gross-’em-out feature includes insane antics, a rockin’ soundtrack, and the wickedest yuletide skate-jam EVER.
Hmm, wonder why this wasn’t released in theaters?
[Link: BusinessWire]
by The Editors on September 2, 2008
Famous brother and filmmaker Chris Malloy apparently had better things to do this weekend than to attend the world premiere of his newest film One Track Mind (like work on his next film 180 South). That did not, however, keep hundreds of people from lining up outside the Patagonia Store in Cardiff, California last night for the film’s two showings (the line for the second showing stacked up all the way to The Office).
