by The Editors on May 27, 2014
The Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival is looking for a few good films to help them kick off their inaugural event on September 24 – 26, 2014. They are inviting independent filmmakers from all over the world to submit their work to the inaugural annual event.
Taking place September 24th to the 26th, 2014, the Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival aims to increase independent surf filmmakers’ exposure to one of the world’s largest audiences of surfers and industry professionals, as well as foster the exchange of stories, ideas and perspectives among the surf community. . . This year’s jury panel will include 3-time Mavericks competition winner Darryl “Flea” Virostko; professional big wave surfer Tyler Fox; skateboarding legend and action sports industry veteran Judi Oyama; surfboard shaper Michel Junod; and surfer/shaper/musician Ashley Lloyd Thompson. Titles of Best Feature, Best Short, Best Cinematography, and Best Soundtrack will be awarded by the jury panel. There will also be a Viewers’ Choice title awarded.
If you know of a film that should be included or just want more information on the film festival, please follow the jump won’t you? [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 23, 2014
The entire fashion world is based on clever carbon copy cloning. Big business lets the little brands do all the work and then when something starts trending they roll in and knock it off. Now, that’s what LA based micro label Echo Park Surf Squad is accusing our least favorite action sports mall retailer PacSun of doing.
Today (May 23, 2014), PacSun launched their new Golden State of Mind advertising campaign which features a slew of images of waves Photoshopped into photos of iconic locations where waves shouldn’t be. According to a post on Reddit this adding waves to photos is something EPSS has been doing for over a year. Above is photo evidence: top photo is EPSS’s original. Bottom photo is a PacSun knock off.
Here’s what EPSS says:
We’ve been a brand with integrity, sewing and making our clothes from scratch in Los Angeles since early 2012 and slowly building. It started off as a joke, us photoshopping a wave in Echo Park Lake and we just laughed. My friend and co-founder have been posting photos like this regularly on our Instagram account since then. . . Cut to May 23rd, 2014 (today) and I wake up to a bunch of emails saying Pac Sun lifted our entire campaign, our entire theme for themselves. . . Please help us get the awareness out there and know that NONE of your creative ideas are sacred.
We feel for EPSS, but also aren’t missing the irony of their complaints when most of their products are based on borrowed art/logos (Santa Cruz Skateboards, Powell, Suicidal Tendencies, Huntington Beach, etc. . . ) That doesn’t excuse PacSun’s “creative team” from blatantly ripping them off, but remember, PacSun’s highly paid marketing and design professionals are on deadline and under pressure. They can’t be expected to come up with their own ideas. That would be much too time consuming and in teen fashion it’s all about speed.
[Link: Reddit]
by The Editors on May 23, 2014
. . . about Thunder’s 149 IIs. Yes he does. And Mikey Taylor is going to show you a few things right here. See, we all learned something already. Educational films work like that.
[Link: Thunder Trucks]
by The Editors on May 22, 2014
Belief skate shop keeps things rolling in Queens and here’s a little taste of what they have on the upward for Spring 2014. This edit was shot by and edited by Sean Colello and features: Rick Castaneda, Dennis Miron, Joseph Gil, Karim Callender, Victor Reyes, Alejandro Batista, and Jamel Marshall. Looks all good from here.
[Link: Belief]
by The Editors on May 21, 2014
Sage Erickson made the 2014 Maxim Hot 100 list of women who men would apparently most like to mate with. She snuck in at number 87 right behind some sitcom star named Victoria Justice. Maxim came up a little short on Sage’s bio, however. Here it is in its entirety:
Top-ranked pro surfer Sage Erickson is far from you’re ordinary, everyday beach bunnie.
Yes, she is. Sage looks great as usual, but we were stumped by one thing: is she wearing nude panty hose or did the Maxim artists just go overboard Photoshopping her right leg? We’re guessing the later. Other than that, dive in. Lana Del Rey is number 82.
[Link: Maxim]
by The Editors on May 21, 2014
And the 2014 Oakley Surf Shop challenge Hawai’i addition goes to T&C Surf.
The T&C Surf squad – comprised of Kekoa Bacalso, Dustin Cuizon, Travis Hashimoto and Kalei Umoto – will be heading to the Oakley Surf Shop Challenge National Championships later this year at a secret Central American spot. They got to the victor’s podium with power surfing with Kekoa “Bam” Bacalso leading the charge. . . “Man, the waves were firing all day,” said Bam. “It was an incoming swell, the tide changed and there was a couple of mental ones!”
For the official word from GrindMedia, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on May 20, 2014
Christian Hosoi has taken his iconic Hammerhead skateboard design and transformed it into a surfboard with a little help from the heads at the UNIV Work Shop, in Encinitas, California. Here’s how they tell it:
The collaboration was born in 2013 and then Christian came down to our UNIV Work Shop in Encinitas, California and the first Hammerhead surfboard was shaped. The original is 5’5” by 22” and is true to scale to the skateboard dimensions. With a hulled-out nose, deep single to double concave, sharp rail and four-fin setup, the Hammerhead is designed for high performance surfing and flow.
Looks like a big skateboard for the waves, right? For the official word from UNIV, follow the jump.
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by The Editors on May 20, 2014
When company founders leave, those who remain are forced to come to terms with exactly who the company is and what it is supposed to be. This can be made even more difficult when the company is purchased by a huge, international company and managers there begin wondering what their new brand has planned for the future. Oakley seems to be in that position right now.
Since founder Jim Jannard sold the company in 2007 it seems Oakley has been struggling for some kind of path forward. Their sports eyewear continues to sell well, but recently they’ve launched nothing in the way of innovative products.
This edit titled A Story of Disruption narrated by James T. Kirk Kevin Spacey is a reminder of all the “disruptive” innovative things Oakley has done. The idea is probably to suggest to all of us that a company with such an innovative past will continue to creative innovative products in the future. Sadly, there is nothing in the film to suggest there are any such products on the horizon. Only the promise that people with a space age home office must be able to come up with something that will make a “new and better future.” Guess we’ll just wait and see. . .
by The Editors on May 19, 2014
Adam Contoret, a standup paddler who is apparently tired of paddling, has equipped himself with a couple handheld jet engines and used them to propel himself across Chasewater Lake in Staffordshire, England. In this edit Doug Foden give the jets a little run. Wonder what happens when he falls into the water with those jet engines? Are they ruined for life? Could get kind of expensive.
[Link: The Daily Mail]
by The Editors on May 19, 2014
Boston Celtics managing partner Wyc Grousbeck, left, stands with venture capitalist Bob Higgins, center, and team co-owner Mark Wan.
When Rob Dyrdek discovered he had “maxed out on. . . resources” for his Street League Skateboarding franchise, he did what businessmen have been doing for years: he looked for some new money. He found it in the form of $4 to $5 million dollars from Causeway Media Partners. They’ve owned the Boston Celtics since 2002 and they’re looking to expand into other sports, according to a story in the Telegram.
”Skateboarding’s not a very expensive sport to pick up. It doesn’t require you be a part of a team,” said Causeway co-founder Mark Wan, who is also a part-owner in the Celtics and the San Francisco 49ers. ”That’s one of the goals of street league is to make this really accessible.”
See, if Dyrdek can get enough people flowing money into his project now then he’ll be able to make a big exit later while things are still on the up. That’s how business works. For the rest of the story, click the link.
[Link: Telegram]
