Runman Films was the combo of Morgan Runyon
(Run) and Ray Klein (Man). They made three films, Runman, Runman 2
and Runman 69. Ray also made a short to go with the Bruce Movie in
2002.
MOVIE: SICK, INSANE AND DUMB!
By Rory Parker
Let's swing back in time to the world of Morgan
Runyon's and Ray Klein's Runman 2…
There are two surf videos that had a huge impact on my
young life, yet are nearly impossible to find copies of
nowadays. My favorite was Voluptuous, that hour’s long
collection of insane rippage, with some sick weirdness springled
throughout.
Danny Way had a surf part in it (and dude killed it by late 90’s
standards.) There was Chris Taloa shredding on his stand-up boog, a
pre face tattoo Joe Crimo doing pop shuvits, some hot young thing
deep throating a banana, and the soundtrack was comprised of the
very best punk rock music my pubescent mind could imagine. My
only copy eventually ended up dead, murdered by countless VCR
rewinds.
Then there was the Runman.Such awesome
punk rock degeneracy, I loved ’em all. Runman 69 was
my fave, closely followed by Runman 2. I
haven’t been able to watch any of them in years, so I was delighted
to find a quick google search this morning turned up some copies
online. Still no 69, but the first and second
installments are up on youtube for all to enjoy.
I’d feel bad about linking to it, if it were available for sale.
But it isn’t, (click here).
Enjoy while you can, I’m sure it’s gonna get hit with a DMCA
request shortly.
Wanton violence erupts on Southern California's
beaches.
We at BeachGrit take the issue of surf localism
very seriously and, as such, have reported on each and every turn
of the Bay Boys saga. “Boy” may confuse the reader due the
“middle-aged” nature of the “gang” that “terrorizes” Southern
California’s Lunada Bay but the fear they strike into the heart is
very real.
Recently, a British journalist was teased when he tried to surf
(read his terrifying account here). And even
more recently, one 56-year-old surfer told another 66-year-old
surfer to “Get out of the water.”
According to the Daily Breeze:
Just before 7 a.m. on July 31 a 56-year-old surfer called
police to the 700 block of Paseo del Mar in Bluff Cove to report
alleged harassment from a 66-year-old surfer who told him to get
out of the water, said Sgt. Tony Gonzalez. The man said he feared
retaliation on his car parked above the beach.
When officers arrived, the alleged heckler told police the
caller actually was the aggressor and pointed to a group of fellow
surfers to back his claims.
Officers took down the man’s information and returned to the
blufftop to inspect the caller’s car, finding no damage, Gonzalez
said.
But about an hour later, the victim called again to report
that his flip-flops were stolen from the beach while he was surfing
and his vehicle had been kicked with muddy footprints.
You read it right. His flip-flops were stolen and his vehicle
kicked with muddy footprints. It’s hard to think of such wanton
violence in relation to our meditative art but such is our fallen
world. Read the rest of the story here if you have the
stomach.
Wayne Deane, yeah Noa’s pops, ain’t one to mess
around…
If you came of age, like I did, on Queensland’s
Gold Coast, when the surname Deane comes up, you don’t
automatically think of boy wonder Noa.
You think of Wayne. The shaper. The minimalist surfer owning the
sets on any swell of note that swings around Point Danger. One of
the tough, old-school men.
Respect? Yeah, he got.
When Ballina, an hour south, started turning into some kinda bad
remake of Jaws, with Great White attacks and sightings of
20-footers common, Wayne said what was on a lot of surfers’
minds.
A shark hits someone? Shoot ‘em.
After surfer Craig Ison was hit by a White at Evans Head
last week, Wayne told the Gold Coast Bulletin (who thought
I’d ever quote the Bulletin!), “They should’ve killed that shark.
That’s what happens when a dog bites a kid, they euthanise the
dog… I wouldn’t go surfing down there (Northern NSW) unless
there was a drone hovering over my head keeping watch.”
According to the GCB, “Mr Deane said sharks were coming close
the beaches in such large numbers and it was only a matter of time
before another attack. ‘I just think something needs to be done,”
he said. ‘It doesn’t matter whether they are being protected, human
life is being lost and life is being maimed.’”
The Gold Coast, as the story points out has had drum-lines in
place in 1962, and you want to know how many fatal
attacks that’ve happened in 53 years? This little stretch of
coast with the most dense surf population in the world and one
that’ll surf, quite literally, at night? Take a guess. Twenty? A
dozen?
The land of crushed skulls, or whatever, has never
looked so beautiful!
Have you never been? You should remedy! But while searching for
air fares, open up another window and watch this lovely footage
from Ashley Gasper. The prettiest corner of the world? Excluding
Nusa Dua lot S 6, probably.
Buy an original Aichner transparency! Get the king
back in the drink!
Scott Aichner is a Ventura-based bodyboarder with a
wrestler’s neck, torso and hams. He is also, or at least
was, maybe still is, more on that soon, one of surfing’s great
exponents of the wide-angle water shot.
In the early to mid-2000s, Ike based himself on Oahu, never
missing a swell at Off the Wall, and when that season passed, would
walk the camino trail to Puerto Escondido. Ike was Surfer
magazine’s prized staffer and his images filled 80 magazine covers
across the world.
A thinker, Ike even came up with a dual-camera device able to
shoot a 270-degree angle. But, like a lot of surf
photographers, Ike quit the game when print mags began their
inevitable contraction as surf co’s moved to cheaper, more
effective advertising online.
“The mags were shrinking rapidly,” he says. “This was in 2009
and selling print ads was becoming harder. I also wanted to surf
when the waves were good.”
Ike says he always had this “little guilty dude on my shoulder
whispering, ‘You should really be shooting not surfing.”
Lately, however, the old itch is back.
“I miss the hunt and the score, when you and the surfer realise
you just nailed it.”
But it ain’t stills this time. Ike wants to shoot motion. Slow
motion. Using the vaguely accessibly ($25,000) RED cams developed
by Oakley founder Jim Jannard.
And so, in the words of Ike, he’s selling “30 of my most-prized
images to raise enough dollars to buy a high-speed movie camera.
Get a housing built and jump back in the water.”
Ike says it’s like “selling a little bit of your soul, Yeah, it
stings.”
He’s posting one image a day on ebay. “Opening bids are $US1400
for the main image. The image is an 8 x 12″ print with the original
slide mounted below, lit with a battery-powered LED light box
behind. The matte is 16 x 16 and the total frame size is 19.5 x
19.5″. I wanted to produce one-of-a-kind surf art.”
What thrills him so about slow-mo that he’s willing to give up a
crucial slice of his body of work?
“It’s where I started before stills. I was always fascinated by
Jack McCoy’s films. The watery wide-angle slow-mo’s just captured
me. The ability to expand time in the barrel from one second to 20
seconds or more. Back then, I bought a high-speed 16mm camera, had
a housing built and moved to Hawaii. Then I gave stills a go and
had a couple of covers in my first North Shore season. I was
hooked! But I love motion!”
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