WARBLES

TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #017: Lord Board, Casper, Asymmetricals)

2012-01-28T02:27:00.000-08:00

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Footage of Ryan Burch on Lord Board, Casper and Asymmetricals from the forthcoming film "Temporal Collections..." will be shown at the Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future exhibition, opening tonight:
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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REMEMBER THE FUTURE (Pacific Standard Time)

2012-01-25T15:26:00.000-08:00

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HYDRODYNAMICA: REMEMBER THE FUTURE
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A participating Pacific Standard Time exhibition.
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Opening Reception
Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Space 4 Art / Loft 9
325 15th Street
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(click flyer for details)
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13 DAYS APART

2012-01-18T10:02:00.001-08:00

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3am

2012-01-09T03:31:00.000-08:00

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TIDE CHANGE

2012-01-03T01:00:00.001-08:00

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YES

2011-12-26T09:17:00.000-08:00

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"i have a heart and i have bones and muscle and skin and eyes and teeth. i have emotions. sometimes i act according to emotions. sometimes i think and make a conscious decision. i usually do that. in fact i usually think too much. sorta neurotic. i make mistakes, and i deal with them. i have fears and i have anxiety and i have insecurities and i have vices which i often give in to. social situations enhance all of these qualities. i could probably use some discipline, and lots of things bum me out, but generally i'm happy, and i enjoy making other people happy. sometimes all it takes is a smile. sometimes it takes a lot more than that. i try to be honest. especially with myself. i know that i'm fortunate. i'm sitting here and i have a pulse and i can breath and i hear birds outside and the buzz of the freeway and the suns about to set and it's a friday. that's fortune. i also know that i'm fortunate in many other ways. three brands support me and enable me to surf every day and travel and eat and have a house to live in. in return i represent their company in a positive way. i feel like i do a decent job. but that's obviously up for debate. surfing is my passion in life. i always think about how lucky we are that there's even an ocean, and its not too hot or too turbulent and it's not made of acid that burns our skin off. and how lucky is it that the land tapers into the ocean in just the right way so that when lumps of energy approach from a thousand miles away they gently rise up and crash at just the perfect speed so that we can wave our little arms and match their speed and hang at the crest weightless for just a second before sliding down the face. free to ride it in any way you please. and there's not just one of them. there's tons of them. they keep coming. all different sizes shapes and speeds. everyday they're different. endless joy."
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excerpt from dane's declaration of independence
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NEW FLICK FROM OZZIE WRIGHT & JIMMY JAMES KINNAIRD

2011-12-07T16:33:00.000-08:00

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Click to Watch/Download: VALLEY OF SCUM by Ozzy Wrong & Jimmy James Kinnaird
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COMING OF AGELESS • howling

2011-11-23T09:15:00.000-08:00

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BEACH, OCEAN & GENERATIONS

2011-11-04T11:18:00.000-07:00

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One of the impressive things about Johnny Abegg is his ongoing desire to tap numerous points in the arch of being human. Whether it's humorous ("_____"), introspective (Two Weeks), or heart-felt:
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Kobe and the Sea : Ben Shewry from Johnny Abegg Films on Vimeo.

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Always great to see a film that can elicit all the love for the beach and ocean that surfing brings without featuring any surfing in it... A deeper, more fundamental role that the beach plays in the lives of generations. Thanks Johnny.
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COMING OF AGELESS • alex droid dane knost • oaxaca nomachocaca

2011-10-28T08:57:00.000-07:00

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GOOD WAVES

2011-10-14T16:59:00.001-07:00

2011-09-17T01:44:00.000-07:00

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MULCH

2011-09-08T17:43:00.000-07:00

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SHELLEPHANTITIS

2011-08-30T11:40:00.001-07:00

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Shellephantitis (Proper medical term: Shellephantiasis) is a serious disease. If not treated in a timely manner, it may lead to severe complications ending in a surgery. In most cases, the abnormal symptoms caused by the condition also make the patient face social boycott leading to much psychological turmoil. If you know a person with early symptoms of Shellephantitis, get immediate medical attention.
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #016)

2011-08-22T14:14:00.000-07:00

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June 21st, Burch was sanding the quiver he shaped and glassed for the Indian Ocean trip I'd be meeting him and Lucas Dirkse on. Weird boards don't look weird anymore, but one did look a little funny. Maybe it wasn't weird enough: The 7'2" yellow one. Sanding done and dust just blown off, Burch asked me what I thought of it. I laughed and referred to it as the Banana Chaser. He laughed too and said he might leave it home. Our attention then turned to another of the fresh sanded boards that pleased our eyes most.
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I phoned Burch the day before their June 24th flight. He test sessioned the quiver in small surf at his local. The eye pleaser was a no go. The Banana showed promise. It was in the board bag.
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A few days after my July 11th arrival, Burch decided to get a proper feel for the 7'2" before taking it into larger swell. It was unreal. A skateboard under his feet— Nothing like you'd expect from a 7'+ board.
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After only a handful of waves the session ended when the Banana buckled. We wanted to fix it to keep filming on it... But things don't always go as planned at the jungle's edge.
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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COMING OF AGELESS • dusty and gavin tube amnesia • CHAPTER ••/••

2011-08-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

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COMING OF AGELESS • dusty and gavin tube amnesia • CHAPTER •/••

2011-07-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

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HIGHWAY WORKER IS THE NEW POSTAL

2011-07-01T02:54:00.000-07:00

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SHADOW OF...

2011-06-27T20:47:00.001-07:00

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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #015)

2011-06-24T00:02:00.001-07:00

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Ryan Burch
Finishing board for June/July in the Jungle.
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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HER FIRST SEA STAR

2011-06-19T12:40:00.000-07:00

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SNAKE (Part III: Skinned)

2011-06-14T00:23:00.001-07:00

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SNAKE (Part II: Skinning)

2011-06-11T10:19:00.001-07:00

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B&W photos: Blain V.

SNAKE (Part I: Found)

2011-06-10T08:04:00.000-07:00

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SECRET PASSAGE TO MALIBU

2011-06-09T01:38:00.001-07:00

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From the sidewalk where I stood....
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I looked more closely I saw over the portal a bright shield, on which, it seemed to me, there was something written....
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...letters dancing and then disappearing, returning and vanishing once more....
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But wait, at last I succeeded in catching several words on end. They were:
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MAGIC THEATER
ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY

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I tried to open the door, but the heavy old latch would not stir. The display too was over. It had suddenly ceased, sadly convinced of its uselessness. I took a few steps back, landing deep into the mud, but no more letters came. The display was over. For a long time I stood waiting in the mud but in vain.
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Then, when I had given up and gone back to the alley, a few colored letters were dropped here and there, reflected on the asphalt in front of me. I read:
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FOR MADMEN ONLY!

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My feet were wet and I was chilled to the bone. Nevertheless I stood waiting. Nothing more. But while I waited, thinking how prettily the letters had danced in their ghostly fashion over the damp wall and the black sheen of the asphalt, a fragment of my former thoughts came suddenly to my mind; the similarity to the track of shining gold which suddenly vanishes and cannot be found.
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—STEPPENWOLF (Hermann Hesse)
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MOBILE MAN TERRARIUM

2011-06-08T01:35:00.000-07:00

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CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR

2011-06-07T02:30:00.000-07:00

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BURCH OUTLINES

2011-06-06T09:09:00.001-07:00

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SURVIVAL MODE (Lesson from a Cactus)

2011-06-03T08:05:00.000-07:00

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STOKE THAT FIRE RK!

2011-06-02T07:58:00.000-07:00

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Richard Kenvin preparing to hit the hay.
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ANDY TAKES ONE HOME

2011-06-01T20:24:00.000-07:00

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Andy about to walk with a Tyler Warren Bar of Soap from from Loft9. More boards available here...
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FEED THE BEAR

2011-05-31T18:38:00.000-07:00

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Sensitive White Male likes to party at Tyler Warren's Loft9 show last Saturday.
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BEACHBOUND

2011-05-27T09:20:00.000-07:00

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THANK YOU SUN, THANK YOU WIND, THANK YOU ASS...

2011-05-25T11:22:00.000-07:00

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THANK YOU SUN, THANK YOU WIND, THANK YOU ASS... from R.T. on Vimeo.

by Ryan Thomas
song improvisation by Isla Thomas

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THIS IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE

2011-05-20T12:37:00.000-07:00

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PASSING THROUGH

2011-05-17T14:38:00.000-07:00

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"I LIKE TO WATCH MY FRIENDS GET BARRELED"

2011-05-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

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"He was definitely somebody overlooked in the scope of professional surfing or whatever lame bullshit that it is, but.... When everybody else would just paddle one way and sets were comin' that... shit... I don't even know how big, but just so big, like, the best guys in the world just curling and then Sion just being right there at the peak, and just straight into it... not even trippin" —NATHAN FLETCHER
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"He literally wanted the world's biggest wave, and he would say that to you and look you dead in the eye and it was almost chilling" —DAVE WASSEL
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"There's guys who charge that are just absolute assholes, and as a human I don't really have much respect for them. On the other hand, Si, his game out of the water was ten times what it was in the water. And... I have to say, I always viewed his relationship with his family as, like, a model for myself one day, how I'd want to raise a family.... You could tell he just really loved being a father.... He was a man amongst boys. To be perfectly honest, out here on the North Shore... there's a lot of boys out here. There's not a lot of real men who step up to responsibility.... He was a great family man and he charged harder than anyone." —MARK HEALEY
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"I like to watch my friends get barreled, and that's pretty much my highlight, is watch my friends get barreled and that's what makes me want to get barreled too." —SION MILOSKY
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SOMETIMES DEAD OF WINTER DOES NOT END WITH SPRING

2011-05-10T11:53:00.001-07:00

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FACES OF RENO

2011-05-09T09:56:00.000-07:00

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"FACES OF RENO"
Reno Abellira portraits as they were about to be framed for the "Remember the Future" show last March.
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WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

2011-05-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

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CONTRADICTORY, MARXIST, MYSTIC, CATHOLIC & ATHEIST

2011-04-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

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2011-04-24T16:40:00.000-07:00

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time is an ocean but it ends at the shore...
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MUTANTS LARGE & SMALL WITH BRUCE IRONS & HIS COUSIN JD

2011-04-05T08:24:00.000-07:00

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CHRIS DORSEY MEMORIAL PADDLE OUT

2011-03-25T04:52:00.000-07:00

.(photo: Chris and one of his yorkies, Pigpen, at 33, October 1990)
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Memorial Service & Paddle Out
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Bolsa Chica State Beach
Tower 25 (aka: 33)
Sunday
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REMEMBER THE FUTURE

2011-03-23T09:57:00.001-07:00

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HEARTBREAKING

2011-03-20T10:01:00.000-07:00

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March Sixteenth

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If you wish to donate to the Sion Milosky Family Fund click here.
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PORTRAIT: CHRIS DORSEY (Rest In Peace 3/3/2011)

2011-03-04T08:25:00.000-08:00

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Chris. August 1, 2010.
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CHRIS DORSEY
(January 4, 19?? - March 3, 2011)

dog lover
surfer
board shaper
airbrusher
fisherman
fishing rod builder
grateful dead aficionado
roofer
drinker
smoker
with an affinity for baja/mex

crude joker
with an aptitude for calling marine species by their latin names

the groms called him captain caveman

a soft naive side some took advantage of
a rough dark side some couldn't handle altogether
those that recognized his pure heart
that pulsed and shone through cracks in polluted layers of weathered years
will forever miss the uninhibited knee slappin' laughter of
a friend
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god rest his soul

love,
Ryan

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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #014)

2011-02-14T11:23:00.000-08:00

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Temporal Collections...
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In the General Vicinity of...
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RT: "What keeps you young?"
Derek Hynd: "...and being just as happy to fall."
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #013)

2011-02-08T09:06:00.000-08:00

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Richard Kenvin
5'8" Carl Ekstrom Hydroflex Asymmetrical
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Frame grabs above by RT from the forthcoming film.
Video of Burch feeling out goofy oriented version of same board here.
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #012)

2011-02-02T08:40:00.001-08:00

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Atypical Thrusting
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #011)

2011-02-01T15:25:00.000-08:00

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Liddle Death
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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CALM APPROACH (Gavin's Thoughts about Pipeline)

2011-01-26T08:52:00.000-08:00

Some of Gavin Beschen's thoughts about Pipe/Backdoor:
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More Pipe surfers thoughts here.
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CLIMBING OUT OF THE SHADOWS

2011-01-13T19:36:00.001-08:00

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CREEPY COLTRANE

2011-01-09T10:52:00.000-08:00

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Swung by Shipworm & Gribble and found the Gavin Beschen section of the film Creepy Fingers, I directed & cut in 2006, reset to an Alice Coltrane track. Alice is one of my faves so I couldn't be more pleased:
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GAVIN & BARNEY'S SPACE ADVENTURE

2011-01-07T10:58:00.000-08:00

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PLANETS ALIGN

2011-01-06T00:25:00.001-08:00

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TOOBS

2011-01-03T23:07:00.000-08:00

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The swell that hit the North Shore only a day or two after "Andy's Swell":
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A QUEST FOR ROCKER

2010-12-21T10:29:00.001-08:00

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A conversation about board rocker with Ryan Burch.
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MIKEY LIKES IT

2010-12-20T21:23:00.000-08:00

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Rockpiles
December 2010
Photo: Ellis
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ROLL OF THE DICE

2010-12-18T16:05:00.000-08:00

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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #010)

2010-12-17T10:33:00.001-08:00

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5'6" Asymmetrical
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UGLY DUCKLING

2010-12-16T08:37:00.001-08:00

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December 12, 2010. 5'6" Sledge Hammer:
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Looks like the sub-5' Finishing Hammer has been shaped.
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2010-12-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

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PERMA-GRIN...

2010-12-13T14:56:00.000-08:00

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ANDY'S SWELL

2010-12-11T09:35:00.000-08:00

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BE THERE, OR BE A GENDER SYMBOL...

2010-12-09T22:43:00.000-08:00

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NERVOUS SYSTEM

2010-12-06T21:16:00.000-08:00

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VEGETABLE FETISH

2010-12-05T15:33:00.001-08:00

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BRUCE... 5'6" QUAD AT BACKDOOR

2010-11-29T15:53:00.000-08:00

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Bruce... His thoughts on quads, shootin' the shit with Mike Stewart about conditions, and taking licks at the sandbar dredger on his 5'6" quad, given to him by Nathan Fletcher, before paddling it over to Backdoor Pipe:
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LA PLANÉTE SAUVAGE

2010-11-27T16:12:00.000-08:00

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THANKSGIVING, ALIENS & ANTIQUATED SYSTEMS

2010-11-25T09:05:00.000-08:00

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"They are people just like us from within our own solar system, except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders, because, I mean, each man is a leader, I mean, each man, because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house and transport themselves equally and with no effort."
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BRUCE IRONS RIDES A SUB-5' KITE BOARD (and other boards) IN BOMBING MEX

2010-11-10T11:54:00.000-08:00

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STORM LAST NIGHT

2010-11-08T14:22:00.000-08:00

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DANE REYNOLDS & DEREK HYND

2010-10-24T15:50:00.000-07:00

Everybody's probably already seen this, but it's worthy of syndicating for anyone that hasn't. Marine Layer post by Dane Reynolds on October 23, 2010:
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i was packing my surfboards in my back yard prior to leaving for jbay when i recieved Surfer Magazine's big issue in the mail. the cover says "DEREK HYND: will dane reynolds ever reach his full potential?" i skimmed through the magazine and got to the Derek Hynd article where he uses a cake that is incredibly hard to cook as an analogy for my surfing career. i guess i'm out of the oven; and its sink or swim. problem is it's based purely on competitive success which makes it one dimensional and in my mind, dated. i was also confused that somebody i've never met made these judgments without bothering to talk to me yet he got several quotes from kelly slater.
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Day 1. J.Bay. i'm sittin on the couch. a guy walks in and takes a look at a couple boards. grabs one and leaves. "was that Derek Hynd?" "Yeah we gave him a ride from the airport" "shit, he just wrote a strange article on me... i never met him" "well i'm sure he's still out there if you wanna say hello?" "nah" I got too nervous.
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Day 2. J.Bay. Stephen (Belly as everyone knows him. Kelly's permanent board caddy) runs into Derek at the local glass shop "Ooh Dane wasn't too happy about the article you wrote" i imagine Stephen was joking cause i wasn't really mad but Derek goes "Oh, Dane Kealoha?" and talks about Dane Kealoha for 5 minutes. in fact i think he was still talking about Dane Kealoha when they left.
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Day 3. J.Bay. Pulling out of a parking spot heading to the market. i'm sitting in the back seat on the right side with my window down. As we are backing out Derek Hynd is suddenly walking 1 foot from my window and his speed perfectly matches ours. my initial reaction was to look away."Dane, right?" i couldn't talk for a second cause of shock or something.. "uh yeah…. hi" "Did you want to have a chat?" i didn't know what to say so i paused. so he continued: "That was you right?....... Shoutin in the wilderness last night?" "absolutely not!" i don't know why i replied with such conviction. "oh…. ok." we pull forward he keeps walking.
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Through mutual friends Tom Wegener sent a finless board called 'the Tuna' to me in J-bay. it was laying on the top of my boardbag. I had just left for market and my friend was sitting on the couch. Derek Hynd walks in. 'The Tuna' the first thing he sees so he picks it up. he lulls over it for a second then "So It's Begun…" is all he says.
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Day 4. J.Bay. I've watched heats all day. even surfed one myself. sun's goin down. final heats over. i'm sittin in the contest area drinking a beer and watching when i see someone skirting across the supertubes section on an insider with decidedly stange style. crouched low with arms up high. he loses an edge slides sideways catches his line rides through a shallow tube then projects off the bottom into the lip sliding sideways… after watching everyone try to outdo each other surfing exactly same way this is exciting stuff! he catches two or three more waves. One of them he drops in on a young kid and falls. on his final one he gets two extreme sliding high lines before it runs off. its too dark to paddle back out.
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Day 5. J.Bay. They run round two but i'm not in it. tides comin up. i start thinking about Tubes, a section down the point with a small barrel and a short wall. nothing makes more sense than a maiden voyage on the Tuna. i suit up and run down the beach north of the contest area 'Derek Hynd!" "Derek Hynd!" Fellow competitors are heckling me. The bright redness of the Tuna looked pretty while in the house but now it's blindingly bright. cameramen are snapping pictures. i feel like running back but instead i jump off the rocks as quick as i can. i look in and see several cameramen have set up on the beach. so embarrassing. i catch several waves. normally i stand up go down the face push off the bottom my board responds and i go forward. this board doesn't do that. one by one the photographers pack up and leave. i look up at Derek Hynds house. Maybe he's watching. Like, in one of the high windows sitting there with a cup of tea… or no, whiskey. watching through a telescope. Like an old one a pirate would use. and maybe he's smoking a cigar or something. suddenly i'm trying to prove something. i wanna show him the cake ain't gonna collapse. crouching low, arms up, high lines, slides, tubes. If he were watching he mighta cracked a smile.
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I run up the beach and people are cheering. Jordy's about 20 yards ahead of me he's just won his heat and the crowd is loving it. As i pass the cheers turn to heckles and i remember i'm carrying a bright red finless Tuna. For some reason it's not as embarrassing as earlier. -DANE
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NEW KIDMAN FILM: "LOST IN THE ETHER"

2010-10-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

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FIRST ANNUAL CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL

2010-09-24T23:32:00.001-07:00

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The First Annual Canadian Film Festival. September 30 - October 2, 2010.
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Really Stoked that "BS!" is screening along with these other films:
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Stoked & Broke
Fiberglass & Megapixels
Musica Surfica
180º South
Breaking Ice
Searching for Michael Peterson
Westsiders
Idiosyncrasies
Eddie's Day Movie
Power of Three
and other selected shorts
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A big shout out to Ricardo! Thanks for everything!!!
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #009)

2010-09-14T10:07:00.000-07:00

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Temporal Collections...
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In the General Vicinity of...
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Air Born
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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LAST HOPE PERFORMANCE

2010-09-13T08:41:00.000-07:00

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Filmed at the Brisbane Powerhouse, August 25, 2010:
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Last Hope Performance Brisbane Powerhouse 25 August 2010 from Andrew Kidman on Vimeo.

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Live Score by The Windy Hills, Holly Throsby & Machine Translations. Performed to Last Hope - a series of sixteen short films created by Andrew Kidman and Aaron Curnow/Spunk Records. Films made by Monty Webber, Richard Kenvin, Albert Falzon, Jon Frank, Michele Lockwood, Patrick Trefz and Andrew Kidman.
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MODIFY

2010-09-11T09:56:00.001-07:00

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LIKENESS

2010-09-10T08:57:00.001-07:00

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HOW MANY INCHES DOES IT TAKE TO AROUSE PLEASURE?

2010-09-09T08:38:00.000-07:00

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Approximately 10-12" runners on a sandbar in 6" of water. Actually... just getting wet can be enough, waves or not. But 10-12" can now, dare I say... induce frothing? Thanks to Pranaglider who's been letting me borrow his mat since July.
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THE MAN

2010-09-07T09:29:00.000-07:00

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Tirelessly supportive of others, refreshing sense of humor... not enough good words can be said about Kirk Gee. In it for the love of surfing and people. (photo from after hours Festivus 9).
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AFTER HOURS FESTIVUS 9

2010-09-03T10:33:00.000-07:00

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In the Hydrodynamica Loft a few weeks ago... AM hours... after every last party goer has left the night's Festivus 9 gathering...
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Patrick Trefz and Richard Kenvin late night looseness.
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RK, a monitor looping a shot from Idiosyncrasies of him laying a collection of boards out in the loft's paring lot, and some of that collection in the racks.
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Kirk Gee, Trefz & RK joking around and discussing Idiosyncrasies which was the main feature projected in the parking lot that night:
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This Saturday evening Richard is opening the Hydrodynamica Loft doors to anyone that wants to check out what's going on with the Hydrodynamica project.
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TORTILLA CHIP

2010-09-02T10:53:00.000-07:00

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Video by Ariel Willeford of Derek Dunfee riding his Alaia on a fun day in Mexico...
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Derek Dunfee 6'0 Alaia Mexico from Derek Dunfee on Vimeo.

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GIGI TONIGHT...

2010-09-01T00:18:00.000-07:00

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STOKED & BROKE

2010-08-29T16:05:00.000-07:00

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Saw STOKED & BROKE at its Long Beach, CA premiere a week ago. It's an ingenious film that seamlessly elicits both laughter and stirring emotions... really fresh.
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Stoked & Broke Teaser from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

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Upcoming theatrical showings:
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Encinitas, CA • 9/9/2010
Newport Beach, CA • 9/16
San Diego, CA • 9/18
New York, NY • 9/24-26
Halifax, Nova Scotia • 9/30-10/2
San Francisco, CA • 10/6
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Detailed info here.
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OCTOPUS' GARDEN

2010-08-23T15:34:00.000-07:00

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Lukas Dirkse and his mother, Geraldine, relaxing at Richard Kenvin's down town San Diego loft a few hours before Festivus 9 on August 14, 2010.
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"TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS..." Trailer #2

2010-08-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

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"Temporal Collections...
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In the General Vicinity of Inner & Outer Space"
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"TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS..." & "PORTRAIT: CHRIS DORSEY"

2010-08-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

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A 3.5 minute peek into unseen footage from the forthcoming film
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WHAT REALLY CONSTITUTES A 'HI-PERFORMANCE' SURFBOARD?

2010-08-06T10:46:00.000-07:00

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Two excerpts from the short film document Tweakin' on Boards with Ryan Burch were recently featured on Drift Mag accompanied by a few words I wrote. Here is the complete writing the words were taken from along with the film excerpts:

TWEAKIN' ON BOARDS WITH RYAN BURCH
Words by Ryan Thomas
July 10, 2010

“Burch isn’t content living vicariously through the media and complaining everything's already been done. He needs to FEEL history for himself. If you look back at the time line of surfing, every significant breakthrough has come from this mindset." —Cyrus Sutton

Tweakin’ on Boards with Ryan Burch was shot in 2009. Seems like a second ago. Seems like forever ago. Reality is… it doesn’t matter. Both Cyrus Sutton and Matt Shuster had been telling me about Ryan Burch until, one day in early Spring, I met him in Encinitas, California for a surf and to talk about boards on his side yard as Shuster manned the video camera. Burch’s sessions in Tweakin’ on his self shaped finless “Wrongald McDonald” board and the sub-5-foot Hydrodynamica “White Pony” Simmons-Fish were filmed that day. I bought the second “White Pony” from Richard Kenvin the Summer of ’08, and brought it with me for Burch to try (The same board was later borrowed by Tyler Warren for eight months and inspired the “Bars of Soap” he’s been recently shaping). Prior to this Burch had looked at Bob Simmons’ boards at the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente. He was aware of Richard and his Simmons inspired Hydrodynamica surf film and boards, but they’d neither met, nor had Burch ever ridden one of the Hydrodynamica boards. It wasn’t long before I passed along Burch’s phone number to Richard and the surfing that has taken place as a result of their friendship is not only mind blowing, but also surf history in the making.

Anyone who’s been paying attention to film projects in the works like Richard’s Hydrodynamica and Cyrus’ Stoked and Broke will tell you: Tweakin’ falls short of where Burch is at now. True. Tweakin’ predates Burch’s future-primitive exploits on the rudimentary looking, finless, rectangular plan shaped, square railed, flexible, un-glassed pieces of closed-cell foam now referred to as Lord Boards. Burch’s sessions in Tweakin’ on the Sauritch Thruster, Wegener Alaias, self shaped Twin Keel Fish, and self shaped 5’7” finless Planing Stubby (with single-fin box option) were all filmed on occasions from Winter through Summer. Burch’s 5’7” finless Planing Stub, the last board he’s seen riding in Tweakin’, is the board he was riding most frequently right before he chopped the nose and tail ends off a closed-cell foam blank, that Autumn, and decided to take the rectangular chunk of foam for a slightly pessimistic surf— only to surprise even himself of its potential and immediately turn Lucas Dirkse and Eric Snortum on to it.
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“I’m in my 40th year of surfing in San Diego and I've been through every stage of jaded disillusionment with the place. Ryan is like an antidote for all that stuff. He's a muse and an inspiration. When he's surfing his foam chunks I'd rather be on the beach filming him... he's so fun to watch. I don't think I'll ever see that kind of spontaneous outburst of creativity in surfing again in my life.” —Richard Kenvin
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Frame grabs of Burch from the forthcoming film: Temporal Collections... In the General Vicinity of Inner & Outer Space

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Tweakin’ is a simple document of a young open mind on its way to new places— all without loosing sight of the validity of the Thruster. Upon his recent return from a trip to Central America, I asked Burch, “What’d ya ride most down there?” His reply… “Shortboard Thruster, Asymmetrical Keel/Quad and Lord Board.” In another recent conversation he and I were laughing about “hi-performance” being a term most commonly used in reference to shortboard Thrusters. It happens, it just comes out of the mouth that way for ease of conversation. It even slips from Burch’s tongue in Tweakin’. We were laughing about the ambiguity of that term. What really constitutes a hi-performance surfboard? The least of hasty generalizations would be: A hi-performance surfboard is whatever board best helps an individual to surf/perform as he/she wishes. Surfing, after all, at its best is an experience of personal freedom, not an activity bogged down and mastered by rigid doctrine. The following are two excerpts from an important period of Burch’s evolving experience:
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EXCERPT #1 from TWEAKIN' on BOARDS with RYAN BURCH from R.T. on Vimeo.

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EXCERPT #2 from TWEAKIN' on BOARDS with RYAN BURCH from R.T. on Vimeo.

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THE ULTIMATE REALITY OF THINGS

2010-08-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

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La Jolla, California back alley.
Monday, August 2, 2010.
Burch, Tyler, Taylor, Lucas and Geraldine hanging out while
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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #008)

2010-07-27T09:58:00.000-07:00

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Temporal Collections...
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Irregular foundations.
Ryan Burch on self shaped
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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Brand new Korduroy.tv video about Burch's asym-boards here.
And an article here.
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SUMMER LOVIN' IN OUR GOLDEN STATE'S CAPITAL CITY

2010-07-25T13:40:00.000-07:00

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"The Sacto Smile" by Zach Hill (featuring members of No Age):
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ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

2010-07-17T14:48:00.002-07:00

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RANDOM STOP

2010-07-16T10:26:00.000-07:00

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MAHATMA GREENOUGH

2010-07-14T15:45:00.001-07:00

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OCEAN

2010-07-06T13:24:00.000-07:00

Good Cause: Available July 6th on iTunes, proceeds from the U.S. sale of Pearl Jam's music video "Amongst the Waves" will benefit Conservation International's Ocean Campaign.

Or watch it free here.

Also... Pearl Jam is currently working closely with Gulf Restoration Network to help support the recovery and mitigation efforts in this region. www.gulffuture.org
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LIVE FREE OR DIE

2010-07-04T15:23:00.001-07:00

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...AGO

2010-06-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

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AGO from R.T. on Vimeo.

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