by The Editors on December 8, 2011
Never thought about surfing Beautiful British Columbia Canada? Watch Ben Gulliver’s new film Tipping Barrels and you just might change your mind.
‘Tipping Barrels’ is a unique combination of surfing and environmental journalism that follows surfers Arran and Reid Jackson on a trip into the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, where they learn more about the region and the issues confronting it.
It’s got surfing, hippies, bears, and camping. What more could you ask for?
[Link: Documentary.net]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
Kevin Pearce is continuing to make remarkable progress from his life-changing, traumatic brain injury slam in the Park City half pipe on December 31, 2009. And, according to a story in the New York Times, Pearce is finally ready to shred again.
He plans to ride Tuesday afternoon at Breckenridge, Colo., surrounded by friends in the snowboarding community and anyone else who wants to tag along. . . “I want to get everybody to come and ride with me,” Pearce said in a phone interview.
We hope this goes well. We’re guessing his frends will have his back the whole way down.
[Link: New York Times]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
686 is looking for a few good designers for this year’s Reclaim Project.
Have you always dreamed about being a designer? Do you live for snowboarding fashion? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then we want YOU to enter the second annual RECLAIM PROJECT, being held this year in the US and Europe at two separate and well-known tradeshows.
The three winning designers will win a trip to the SIA Show to compete on the show floor by creating a jacket out of reclaimed materials from the 686 factory. Click here for all the details or follow the jump for more. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
ASP Women’s World number two Sally Fitzgibbons drops her top and covers up with her hands for a saucy Stab Magazine photo shoot which appears in the Issue #53, according to a story in the Illawarra Mercury.
Stab Magazine editor Derek Rielly said such shoots were a sought-after rite of passage for female pro surfers because the magazine had a history of showing them in a “glamorous way”.
Apparently, no matter how talented a woman is, the world’s only real interest is in seeing her all dolled up and ready to reproduce.
[Link: Stab Mag via Illawarra Mercury]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
The gaming sites are all charged up over a tweet Tony Hawk sent out to followers on December 6, 2011. It went a little like this:
I’ll be announcing the upcoming release of something new on Sat; the same day as the Spike Video Game Awards. Coincidence? I think not.
G4TV think this means Tony Hawk is going to breathe new life into his struggling video game franchise saying:
“Gamers haven’t seen much of the Tony Hawk series lately, and we’re probably all okay with that. The last Hawk game was Ride, a noble, yet poorly conceived, effort that put gamers on a wheel-less skateboard peripheral (and, more frequently, on their posteriors).”
If you’re into this sort of thing maybe you should check out the Video Game Awards on Spike TV this weekend.
[Link: G4TV]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
And now for all to see: The Helgason’s full-length, rock hard, caffeinated high fructose corn sweetened snowboarding film: Sexual Snowboarding. The letter S will be in frame while this video is rolling.
[Link: The Helgasons via Snowbroader]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
It may not be the year end title decider like it has been in the past, but the Billabong Pipe Masters In Memory of Andy Irons is going to blast off this morning at 10 AM PST (8 AM HST) in some bangingly overhead surf. Vans’ Doug Palladini has even taken to the Facebook airwaves to remind people:
If you only watch two days of surfing online this year make them tomorrow [Thursday] and Friday. The Billabong Pipe Masters will start at 8AM Hawaiian time with a ginormous 10′-15′ NW swell. I just spoke with Randy Rarick as he watched a 10-foot bomb decimate the line-up. It’s on…
Matty Wilkinson and Marcus Hickman will kick of the event in Round 1 Heat 1. Other heats to look for include Bruce Irons in Heat 4, Dane Reynolds in Heat 8 and Kolohe Andino wildcarding it against Laurie Towner in Heat 9. Follow the jump for the today’s heat line-ups. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
by The Editors on December 8, 2011
On Friday, December 9, 2011 lift tickets at Mammoth Mountain will be free (if you sign up for MY Mammoth). Not a bad trade for giving the mountain access to your personal information. Then if you round into Saturday, it will be like having two days at half price. Or, if you book lodging at $199 a night you’ll get two lift tickets included. Kind of a lot of think about, right? Stop thinking. Ride free.
[Link: Mammoth Mountain]
by The Editors on December 7, 2011
The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography documentary will be premiering next month at the Sundance Film Festival and though it’s not his first trip though the cold streets of Park City, Stacy Peralta still seems honestly enthusiastic about the whole game, according to an interview with Colin Bane on ESPN.com/Action.
Even though this is my fourth time, it’s just as exciting as my first time. Sundance is important to me because I’m not a big fish. I’m a small fish in the world of filmmaking and it’s really, really difficult to get attention for independent films and documentary films. When you get accepted into Sundance knowing that 10,000 other films from all over the world were trying to get into this festival at the same time, and yours got selected, it gives a certain cachet and importance to your film. It gives your film a blessing, in a sense. Instantly, here’s all this attention on your little film and it gives you a chance.
We’re just looking forward to seeing the boys back together one more time.
[Link: ESPN.com/Action]
