Get amped!
I am a horrible film maker. Nothing I do is right or works or is good or decent. Still, I dream and continue to make movies because I have spent a lifetime dreaming in movies. From Tarantino to Coppola to Raimi to Soderbergh to Kubrick to Bart Layton. Have you seen American Animals? Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.
Anyhow, just two days ago the film Trouble about the iconic Lisa Andersen won the viewers’ choice award at the Florida Surf Film Festival. An honor that warms my heart because I have spent over two years agonizing over it, because the Florida Surf Film Festival is the best of its sort on earth and because it came from the viewers. BeachGrit has taught me, and taught me well, that the only people of any value are the people.
Fuck the damned know-it-alls.
Anyhow, I made another movie a lifetime ago called Who is JOB. I could write a novel about the process, about the genius editor Dayten Likness, about the unbridled ability of Jamie O’Brien but I’ll save that for another time. Swell is headed toward Oahu’s North Shore right now and someone posted in the comments the Pipeline section from Who is JOB a few days ago.
Taking a walk down memory lane, I decided right away that I only wanted Pipeline footage in that forever long bit. No Backdoor. No Off the Wall. No nothing but Pipeline. I don’t know that anyone had ever done that or that anyone has ever done that. Probably for good reason but here it is again because swell is headed toward Oahu’s North Shore.
Bon appetit!
![Who is j. O. B. - jamie o'brien - pipeline - full part [hd]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-JXCYB2TzDs/0.jpg "Watch: A Full Jamie O'Brien Surfing Pipeline Section Because The North Shore Gonna Light Up Soon! 1")
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I’ll go further and say its often annoying when you don’t see the surfer paddle in. The first time I noticed this was an old 1972 movie called “In Natural Flow”. For some reason, some waves of Rabbit showed him aggressively paddling into waves. I thought it was really cool. It seems to go back to the beginning of film making to not show paddling in.
Wait, I thought you only sat on the couch (that your wife paid for) in your house (that your wife paid for), taking pot shots at surf web sites???
Also, when and where are we gonna be able to see ‘Trouble’?
I am a big fan of the Butthole Surfers‘ version of this Song .
fucking sick I love the paddle shots and take offs, that’s what gets me hard.
Also great song choice with The Sword.
So you’re the asshole who gave Jamie his ego induced boner huh
You made Who is JOB? I was pleasantly surprised by that one. I watched it right after the Kai Neville film (Lost Atlas?) and was stoked to see connected maneuvers and barrels after what felt like 40 minutes of just air reverses and lifestyle shots. I was surely drunk for both viewings though so I better rewatch.
Chas knows I reckon this is an awesome movie. Chas posted it so he could read me lauding & stroking his pride.
No wonder he rides a softboard for his Jackass stuff – it is so boring to watch that guy.
You won’t be sad!
Congratulations! You’ve shown such fearlessness in the face of adversity.
But have you seen American Animals?
No. But after watching that Trailer I’m gonna find the time to.