Strange days.
Only those currently living under rocks will be unaware that streaming entertainment giant Netflix has stumbled upon extra hard times. Subscription numbers are down, share prices along with them and critics are coming hard, claiming that the fall is likely karmic due the Hollywood-based company’s insistence on broadcasting anti-trans comedy specials.
Oh, I thought Dave Chappelle’s The Closer approached art and didn’t watch Ricky Gervais’ SuperNature though generally chuckle heartily at the British man’s not-holds-barred takes but I am not “the market” when it comes to such things. Don’t have a finely tuned sense of rage and am likely dumb.
Appropriate then, I suppose, that one thing I do not like, low-level competitive professional surfing, is being hailed as the potential savior of Netflix.
Currently number two in Germany, the series, as described by The Sydney Morning Herald, “focuses on a group of attractive, athletic teenagers who are passionately dedicated to a competitive discipline that requires intense physical and mental commitment.”
I have watched a bit, over my young daughter’s shoulder, and that low-level competitive professional surfing does take up a huge portion of the storyline. Heats, beach announcers, tense moments with bogged turns and close-out barrels for the win with meager beach crowds fist pumping over the hooter.
It is… as fine as watching 1000-level Brazilian QS events, I think, if those were ever to be streamed and I wonder if our World Surf League is pondering this gold mine or too busy trying to figure out how to put the upcoming El Salvador contest on many holds?
Remember when the WSL was going to make its mint from media?
Strange days.
Jessi Miley-Dyer.
I watched this for about 20 mins. They have cast real surfers who can actually surf. But I can’t see why they bothered making the surfing authentic, when nothing else is – the plot, the dialog, the acting, the direction are all crap. I’m sure a number two rating in Germany has Elo seething – so be interesting to see how WSL answers back.
Been accepting smaller commissions. Have an interesting pot brewing in Malibu with an actress eyeing a new future for her IG account. I can’t swim upstream anymore and she’s offering a paddle, kayak and downwind. She’s connected in ways I could never be, but I’m her legitimacy.
There is a surf photog locally that I’ve been working with for 15 years. He was shooting my project, but he moved to Bermuda to raise his family away from this mess. Tried wedding photogs, but they are trapped in their own minds. Resolved to shoot it myself, it’s a fixed medium if I could figure it out, but I finally see a revenue stream which will get me a gallery schedule. The art world social politics were more prevalent than I imagined, even with warm leads…. feel like I’m so close, just gotta figure out how to produce the same images.
I worked with a woman that shot my wife for a yoga catalogue when the concept first appeared to me and she shot it better the first two frames than anyone since. It was her first yoga shoot too and she nailed it to the tune of full time travel schedule. Wasn’t bummed at first, but I need her back.
Our common friend suggested a trip to Mexico to discuss, but a Cat 2 washed ashore wiping out his region and Barra with it. The photos will make you cry, CT is so lucky it’s not an event venue this season. Anyone going to Oaxaca had better rethink their plans. Devastating. Photos are horrific if you love point breaks.
Nobu BH comes to mind but there are better. Down in Costa Mesa there is a place called Shunka Sushi that offers three grades of Toro…it doesn’t get much better than that and I’ve never seen any of the HB meth heads in there
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I might review this, or has Jen See got the job?
EVERYONE especially beginners should go surf this spot in Hawaii called pipeline , it’s the best place to take your YouTube photogs and get the most Instagram followers ever!!!
Amid my recent sojourn, I have recently been spending some time in San Diego County and I’ve noticed a distinct ‘lack’ of Youth at any of the surf breaks, the parking lots all seem to be filled almost totally by yuppies, and quite a few senior age surfers.
PS
Drive through the parking lot at certain well know reef breaks and it is like totally devoid of any pre-teen or teenage Surfers. For all these millions and millions of surfers the Wsl claims, only about 20 guys out at another well known reef break. There were like 7 guys out Monday morning around 9 am with some smaller fun looking waves out.
True–strange days.
But maybe understandable. Surfing is about as rebellious today as vanilla ice cream, the lineup is filled with older dudes, their Moms and dads age, and a lot of dudes in their 50 and 60s.
I think thed rather go skateboard or surf the net with kids their own age.
FAR OUT SAM SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOUR TOTALLY BLOWING UP THESE SPOTS DO YOU WANT EVERYTHING RUINED FOR THE LOCALS?!?!
(edit: HA! Sam it was joke. You don’t have to edit the most obvious of obvious ‘spots’ out of a comment on BG.)
“…holding it…”
I see wot you done there.
You’re going to love the next batch of stickers.
Trans racial?
dish brother. any waves worth visiting for? secret spots, an island of note?
always kick myself landing to refuel…. one of these days gonna get off and have an adventure, but the call of Indo remains stronger than cultural diversity that may wait until ol Hip can’t surf anymore.
for what it’s worth, I trunked it for two hours last night on the full tide. water temps rose over 5 degrees, was not expecting to last more than twenty minutes and in lieu of a shower, chose a paddle. very pleasantly surprised how warm the ocean became.
for those climate change deniers, we used to trunk it from early May till nearly Thanksgiving.
last year was the month of August bleeding into a bit of September.
of course, the winds suck shit anyway and the sand has all but disappeared thanks to the historic drought.
reporting from hell, Hippy
We need Leo to put Mikey down again for good.
WSL will be planting umbrellas.
I won’t watch but I have no doubt that everyone surfing in it is a regular foot and a goofy foot.
In other Netflix news, Catch Surf rider Tyler Stanaland is in the latest Netflix real estate show. I know how much BG like real estate, netflix and ben gravy adjacent. Trifecta.
Fucken young cunts. Ruining everything.
Youve become a true Californian.
Dumb cunt/Space cadet.
Meteorologists script this.
Low Level Junior Surfing: The Beachgrit Commentariat Documentary. Episode 1: Chas at Kelly’s Pool. Subscribe to the MySpace streaming service for exclusive releases
Chas, I can think of no better person to provide an in depth review of each episode.
Maybe this guy
https://youtu.be/bp_x2y6R56c
I’ll give it a few more days then reach out to the WSL myself…
Reach around?
If that’s what it takes, I have no shame