Get filled with the soft notes of Kelly Slater!
Do you remember the hoopla, justified in my opinion, surrounding Kelly Slater’s art show in Venice Beach last week? The multimedia exhibition was an examination of the prevailing stench coming from the US Federal election and featured the work of artists Bruce Reynolds, Kevin Ancell and Todd Glaser.
Kelly, of course, believes that big business and government are poisoned by the machinations of unseen evil. The show was called “Apolitical Process: a vision by Kelly Slater” and was, he says, “an artistic journey through the chaotic and sometimes inflammatory 2016 election cycle. It is our aim to explore and expose the underlying truth, hypocrisy, danger, motivations, misinformation and effects of this process.”
Apolitical also pointed out the cruelty of keeping killer whales in captivity.
The noted broadcaster David Lee Scales attended the event for BeachGrit but found his gaze more on Kelly’s Gucci sneakers than the exhibition.
“The vast majority of the exhibit was Bruce Reynolds’ work; which was very uninteresting to me. It’s an attempt at a political statement, a commentary on the absurdity of the 2016 presidential campaign in the US. The works are essentially sculptures, made of found items with a lot cultural touchstones and corporate brand references. I don’t get it. I wasn’t provoked. It just simply didn’t compel me… Kelly arrived midway through the evening and was swarmed with fans trying to get iPhone photos. His silly shoes were the highlight of the evening for me.”
Unfortunately, Mr Scales missed the highlight of the show, which was Kelly’s extended version of the Bob Marley standard One Love. Fortunately, for you, me, the great movie director Michael Oblowitz snatched the jam on his phone.
And you can watch here!
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Can you imagine if HST was still alive and kicking, and if he decided to do a Fear & Loathing on the campagin trail 2016. The world needs more men like him.
You try singing it while trying your hardest (and failing) not to sing in a pastiche West Indian accent.
That dude is a rare bird or an alien. Serious! Happy he has a good heart..
Got me dancing. Then again, the sound of a raccoon fart will get me on my feet https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
“EXTENDED VERSION?!?” For fuck’s sake, no way I can take that.
Make America, Full of Surfers Who Are Extremely Successful in Surfing, Easy to Ridicule, and are Vastly Overconfident, Who Overestimate Their Abilities in Other Areas but are Probably Not Being Serious (Though Maybe) and Really Just Having Fun, Great Again