Posts Tagged ‘surf film’

The Tyler Warren Experiments

Posted on March 24th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep

After watching the trailer for The Tyler Warren Experiments I bet you will want to grab your board and go surfing…

Words from the films website; “From the makers of “One California Day” and “Natural Expressions” comes a new feature length surf film documenting the evolution of a surfer and his craft.

Drawing from 50 years of design inspiration, “The Tyler Warren Experiments” explores Tyler’s surfing, influences, and interest in board design through collaboration with a number of today’s most respected craftsmen.

Shot on location in Australia, California, Indonesia, Mexico, and Morocco, the film features (in alphabetical order): The Campbell Brothers, Manuel Caro, Chris Christenson, Skip Frye, Josh Hall, Devon Howard, Terry Martin, Dave Rastovich, Joel Tudor, Christian Wach, and more.”

The film is due to be released mid-summer 2012.

http://www.thetylerwarrenexperiments.com/main.html

Uncommon Ideals

Posted on March 4th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep

Uncommon Ideals is simply a stunning and breathtaking piece of work; an inspired combination of images and music, with Dan Crockett’s poem read by Jeff Hordley adding gravitas.

Uncommon Ideals was selected as the winner of the 2011 Shorties award at last years London Surf Film Festival.

The first breath is a beauty;
Whispering of the north like a kiss
Gilded hammer come tapping
Licking the dun dunes
Sweeping the tawny sea
A chill fist come rapping
At the doors of you,
of me

Bay burn the first
Runners of the dawn train
Ripples, creeping in beneath castles
Under dismantled factories
Between oak groins tar black
Onto reefs of hell
And fain the eyes that track
This first building of
the swell

A copper peak like running snuff
Bang, bang, bang
From the north she pours
Stirring the remaining cod
Sister wind swung south
Waking the Farne-bound seals
And met by land she roars
Dipped in sepia,
flayed bister
Delight for uncommon ideals

Used by permission of Dan Crockett – http://www.danielcrockett.co.uk/. From Dan’s website on the poem Uncommon Ideals; “A poem I wrote was used to frame Uncommon Ideals, a short film about surfing in the North Sea. It ended up going viral with 85,000 views on Vimeo. The text of the poem… it’s about craving things everyone else would think were mad.”

Uncommon Ideals a film by Chris McClean and Mark Waters. Released 25 August 2011.

The Doggerland Chronicles – http://thedoggerlandchronicles.blogspot.com/

Apocalypse Later, Surf Now

Posted on January 18th, 2012 in inkydeep by inkydeep

Most weekday mornings over breakfast I catch up on the surf related news and tweet about those items I think may be of interest to those who follow inkydeep on Twitter. Every now and again I find something that really stands out. The Daily Mail’s website today carried an article with a title that demanded to be looked at – “’Apocalypse Later, Surf Now’: Surfers ride out the end of the world in latest video to sweep the web”.

From the Daily Mail; “With the Mayan calendar counting down to the end of the world, plenty of us might wonder where we’d like to be on doomsday.

Imagined through the eyes of a fearless surfer, the scenario set the scene for an eerie video that’s sweeping the web.

Shot in Sunset Point, Los Angeles, ‘Apocalypse Later, Surf Now’, created with footage from a GoPro camera, uses visual effects to bring the world to a fiery end on the waves.

Set to a moody track called ‘The Whales’ by The Mermen, the two-minute clip opens with a dark scene as a surfer paddles through calm waters toward a cluster of oil rigs rising from the water like locusts.”

The full Daily Mail article can be read here.

Manufacturing Stoke – a surf film

Posted on December 1st, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

In 2009 the surf artist Ben Cook created a print design called The Toxic Paradox; resembling a pressed flower, surfboards form the petals, with wetsuits the centre. On his website Ben provides the following for the design; “The issue of toxic plastic surfboards and petrochemical derived rubber wetsuits in the marine environment goes against surfing’s ‘green’ image. It is this ‘toxic paradox’ that inspired this piece of work – a flower head made from collaged surfboards and wetsuits.”

From our blog – the littoral drifter

The surf film Manufacturing Stoke explores this paradox and the thorny issue of sustainability in surfing.

The trailer starts with a surfer reminding us that “Surfers are as blessed as any body on the planet, in terms of the things they get to see, the things they get to do”. We are then also reminded (and maybe for some informed) of the environmental impact of our sport; the materials used for much of what we wear to surf, use to surf and surf on are environmentally toxic.

We are happy to promote this surf movie because not only does it challenge us to think of our choices as surfers but also how we as inkydeep operate; how to be as ethically and environmentally sound as possible.

Released in May 2011 the film can be downloaded through thesurfnetwork.com.

Manufacturing Stoke – http://www.manufacturingstoke.com/

Additional reading; From the Mother Nature Network, “Eco-friendly surfing: Coming soon to a beach near you?” – http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/eco-friendly-surfing-coming-soon-to-a-beach-near-you

Wind Moon Tide

Posted on August 13th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

A little bit of surf history; this surf film trailer of 8 minutes and 33 seconds features Kye Fitzgerald surfing big Bells Beach on a 6’5” pin tail. Here is a surfer with wonderful skill carrying out beautiful functional manoeuvres; bottom turns, cut backs, top turns all demonstrated with a soulful style not often seen.

From the creators of the film; “During the epic World Tour event at Bells in 81 a massive swell hit the Torquay Surf Coast. Making the 81 Bells event one of the most memorable in history, because of the waves, and of course, the turning point of Simon winning the event on one of the first Thrusters.

Before Simon made the final and eventually winning, he had to start his charge against Bobby Owens surfing Nick Carroll’s board shaped by Terry Fitzgerald. Bobby was under gunned at the event like most of the surfers there at the time, so Nicks board was his alternative, handed to him by Terry himself. The heat went down and is regarded as one of the best heats surfed by Bobby and Simon, and, the first man on man heat the world tour judges had to judge – Single Fin V Thruster .

Bobby was never going to beat Simon on that day , Simon was on Fire. But Bobby did go on to win the Trials and was regarded as one of the best surfers at the event, powering on Nicks 6’5 Pin Tail.

Today the 6’5″ pin tail has resurfaced, and, under the arm of Kye Fitzgerald, Terry’s eldest son, rode another massive Bells Beach Swell”

Uploaded by http://www.youtube.com/user/RaisedByWolvesVision 8 April 2010.

In search of a deeper meaning

Posted on July 30th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

Having enjoyed Jaimal Yogis book Saltwater Buddha (a surfer’s quest to find Zen on the sea), I was delighted to recently discover that a film based on the book is now being made. The film is currently shown as in pre-production. Here’s the film’s promotional trailer;

Below is a short documentary about Saltwater Buddha;

Gidget – America’s Mermaid

Posted on May 29th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

This week on the website truthdig.com a great article by Deanne Stillman entitled ‘America’s Mermaid’ was posted – http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/americas_mermaid_20110524/. It is a reminder of a key piece of surf history; the story of Gidget and the role that both the book and the hit movie played in exposing thousands of people to surfing and surf culture.

In 1956 Kathy Kohner (Kohner-Zuckerman since 1964) started surfing. She was only 15 but hung out with surfers such as Miki Dora, Mike Doyle and Micky Munoz. The surfers at Malibu gave her the nickname “Gidget” (girl plus midget and you get Gidget). Her father Frederick, a Hollywood screenwriter wrote the novel Gidget in 1957 and a hit movie version was released in 1959.

16 Year old surfer Kathy “Gidget” Kohner, Malibu, circa 1957

As Matt Warshaw puts it in his History of Surfing; “Kathy “Gidget” Kohner went from an unknown fifteen-year-old Malibu mascot to the subject of a hit movie, which in turn put an entire generation of new surfers in the water – most of whom decided to hate Gidget as a surf-Eden destroyer until they later came to love it as a memento of their beachgoing youth.”

Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman aka Gidget

In Deanne Stillman’s article she writes “The great Kahoona,” the Gidget character says in the novella, “showed me the first time how to get on my knees, to push the shoulders up and slide the body back—to spring to your feet quickly, putting them a foot apart and under you in one motion. That’s quite tricky. But then, surf-riding is not playing Monopoly, and the more I got the knack of it, the more I was crazy about it and the more I was crazy about it, the harder I worked at it.” This is one of the best descriptions of surfing I have come across …”

The topic of Gidget is interesting for followers of surf culture on many levels, not least how – in such a macho world as surfing – did a short female surfer become so popular?

Gidget – The novel

Further reading; The Washing Post. September 2005; In Malibu, Gidget’s Up – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091600693.html

The Surfer – a short film

Posted on May 14th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

A short film about an obsession many of us will be familiar with… Shot as a documentary style comedy we follow ‘Michael’ a 41 year old accountant from the Midlands who takes up surfing in response to a mid-life crisis.

The Surfer was written and directed by Dominic Coleman. Dominic also plays the lead role of ‘Michael’. The film was created as part of the 2008-2009 Digishorts production scheme with support from Screen West Midlands and The UK film Council.

From The Surfers Path website March 2011; “A comedian and actor by trade, Coleman explains that creating this cringe-making character, wasn’t actually that difficult for him: I started surfing about five years ago and as a landlocked, middle-aged weekend warrior I didn’t have to look too far for inspiration for the character of ‘Michael’.

My family all appear playing themselves, again they didn’t have to do too much acting! I also pulled in a few favours from friends like Adrian at Fluid Juice and a few Bantham (Sth Devon) locals who all gave up a bit of time to help out.

The inspiration for the character did actually come from a guy I met at Bantham. His wife and young daughter were lugging his SUP across the car park as he was chatting boards with another sweeper. He had a brand new T5 that he’d converted. I just thought he was a very funny guy and one of the ‘new’ breed of mid-life escapists who’d been drawn to the sea. (Again much like myself I have to add.)

Since I had the opportunity, and some money from the film council, I thought I’d like to make a film about something I love. My background, work-wise, is predominantly tv comedy so I just set out trying to find a way to marry the two together.”

http://www.screenwm.co.uk

Surf film ingredients…

Posted on January 19th, 2011 in inkydeep by inkydeep

I love short surf films like Wind + Rain, I guess it is because it captures a surfing experience I can relate to… waves that I could see myself dropping into, cold water, too much neoprene and grey skies. Well shot and with a good piece of backing music completes the surf film package.