A beautifully intimate ten-minute short as snatched by best friend Jason "Mini" Blanchard…
In this intimate portrait of a surfer suddenly back in the game, we see Dane Reynolds preparing for a trip to the Mentawai Islands.
He is captured at his barn-style house in Carpinteria, California, the one he shares with his girl Courtney and their son Sammy Boo and their triumvirate of dogs (Pam, Boogie and Truffle) and in moments reminiscent of the nineties film Kelly Slater in Black and White he is asked what he has for breakfast and ponders such weighty questions as whether or not to eat before a flight thereby negating the need to eat the airline’s own food.
The trouble is, Dane shrieks, the one time he ate before a flight the food served was so good he had to eat it! Absurd!
There’s a little surf in this short, although not enough if it’s surf you’re coming for, and it finishes with wise counsel from its maker Jason “Mini” Blanchard.
Mini: Have a good trip… rip
Dane: I’ll try.
Mini: All you have to do is rip.
Dane: That’s what I’ll do then.
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Pam is easily the best part of this whole experience. More Pam!
Don’t forget to get a Pam Day Planner as well – more Pam, that’s all.
thought provoking.