A QUEST FOR ROCKER

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A conversation about board rocker with Ryan Burch.
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December 12, 2010.
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MIKEY LIKES IT

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Mike Guarino
AKA: Mikey G
Rockpiles
December 2010
Photo: Ellis
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ROLL OF THE DICE

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TEMPORAL COLLECTIONS... (film update #010)

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Temporal Collections...
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In the General Vicinity of...
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Burch's Hammer
5'6" Asymmetrical
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Frame grabs by RT from the forthcoming film.
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UGLY DUCKLING

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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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PERMA-GRIN...

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...is nothing to smile about.
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ANDY'S SWELL

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BE THERE, OR BE A GENDER SYMBOL...

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NERVOUS SYSTEM

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Southern California Synapse
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VEGETABLE FETISH

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BRUCE... 5'6" QUAD AT BACKDOOR

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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

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Picked up from Deeper Visions.
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THANKSGIVING, ALIENS & ANTIQUATED SYSTEMS

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Artifact of antiquated systems.
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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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Gavin "The Alien" Beschen. Effortless transportation:
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RT: If you could compare your surfing to any animal, what would it be?
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Gavin: Maybe a flying fish? That would be nice. They look really peaceful when they jump out of the water... and you never know they fly until they're in front of your face.
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BRUCE IRONS RIDES A SUB-5' KITE BOARD (and other boards) IN BOMBING MEX

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STORM LAST NIGHT

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Storm last night
Dead by morning
Clearing wind
Breathes new song
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DANE REYNOLDS & DEREK HYND

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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Here begins a fairly lengthy and pointless recount of a chain of encounters with Derek Hynd
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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"

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Lost in the Ether from Andrew Kidman on Vimeo.

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And new website.
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FIRST ANNUAL CANADIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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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)

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

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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

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LIKENESS

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HOW MANY INCHES DOES IT TAKE TO AROUSE PLEASURE?

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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More info here.
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STOKED & BROKE

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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

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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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