For your viewing and listening pleasure

[grazza]

At the risk of being a doting dad, I humbly submit this for your viewing and listening pleasure. I think it's a rather good little film. And stick around for the bonus bovine section.

http://stabmag.com/jed/Sam-Page-pro-sur ... 009-video/

[lessormore]

Thats excellent.Great shooting and editing.Thats a sick left at the start and hows that spin thing Dane does at the 9.30 mark!

[Karlos]

Pretty good bit of film-making there.

How's Dane's personal cap minder at 6.40? Now there's a job for the kids to aspire to.

[otway1949]

Sam relied on good shooting and music no cunning stunts to cover bad filming. Good chance for an alternate career, go Sam

[spook]

yeah it's a sweet vid. slick editing and music
the jbay footage is rad. a few years ago ASL released a vid called "no contest" - all the freeriding around the mexican search event. would love to see a similar vid of the jbay event from this year as the waves looked mental.
would also love to see some footage of curren surfing a bit further down the line at tubes

[mical]

That's what most surf films are missing today right there, that's a bloody great little movie.

I'd like to see more

I love watching people surf waves, not just repetitive punt after punt, snippet after snippet.

That first wave of Captain America's is just

[Buff_Brad]

Apart from the surfing......

excellent music.

[daryl]

aw hahhaha f#rk off

[Trev]

At the risk of being a doting dad, I humbly submit this for your viewing and listening pleasure. I think it's a rather good little film. And stick around for the bonus bovine section.

http://stabmag.com/jed/Sam-Page-pro-sur ... 009-video/

Well done. Most enjoyable. Sam's "eye" for a scene really makes the film.
Oh. And great surfing, too.

[munch]

that was bloody excellent and kudos to LA who pointed me at this thread And yep LA, Dane rips the bag mannn


p.s other that all the rff's - dh, ko (who will win peniche btw) and bm, my fave was the 1/3 wave shot of ks, bang, disappears, bang, disappears cool man

[Lucky Al]

munch is on drugs, and that music made feel like i was in a club at four in the morning out of my tree and there's muscly gay twins their eyes closed biceps flexing bopping around right in front of me although the dancefloor's otherwise empty and here they are crowding me into a corner and all i want to do is watch the surf vids on the tv over the bar.

[still here]

really nice feel to the vid . some better angles of J-Bay and nice to see some filming "up the line" at J Bay instead of straight on or down the line . More of that .

[LONGINUS]

Nice one Grazz, kind of like Koyanisquatsi / Phillip Glass does surfing, nice imagery. I didnt even have to see Rob Machado 'praying' in front of a camera in a temple in Bali or digging holes while wearing Hurley boardshorts in Sumbawa.

[grazza]

Funny you should say that.

When they're younger, you can never agree with your kid about music (or anything, actually).

Sam would play me something and I would tell how it was exactly the same as something I was listening to in 1970 or 80 and he would vehemently disagree even though much of the time it was not just similar it was actually the same song, just mixed up a bit.

As the generational divide thawed a little he did start to kind of sort of listen to a few of my oldie stuff and I would grudgingly admit that I kind of liked some of his stuff, and I would dig up mouldy forgotten classics that I thought would fit his emerging tastes, and he would turn me on to new things that I never would have heard otherwise. As his tastes shifted from hip hop and rap, which I didn't generally speaking get, to a kind of minimalist techno which I sort of did, it struck that what he was listening to was getting more and more Phillip Glass like. I played him some old Glass pieces, and he loved them. He still loved even when I showed him a photo of the octogenarian Glass, and he realised that they were created by someone way older even than me.

Chuffed beyond comprehension that he was actually listening appreciatively to something I said for the first time since he was four, I managed to track down and purchase for him a DVD of Koyaanisqatsi (no easy feat) which I remembered fondly from stoned nights at the much missed Valhalla cinema a few decades back. He loved it and it's strongly influenced his style. And it's let him produce something that is I think more authentic than the faux spirituality of the Rasta/Machado school.

[daryl]

Glad you cleared that up, didn't realize the music was artistic and as deliberately thought out, which is good!

[munch]

munch is on drugs, and that music made feel like i was in a club at four in the morning out of my tree and there's muscly gay twins their eyes closed biceps flexing bopping around right in front of me although the dancefloor's otherwise empty and here they are crowding me into a corner and all i want to do is watch the surf vids on the tv over the bar.

grazza you should take the above as a massive complement, as LA is referring to some of the bestests times of his life

[steve shearer]

[quote="grazza" And it's let him produce something that is I think more authentic than the faux spirituality of the Rasta/Machado school.[/quote]

Thats a mighty big call.
What makes you think watching and appreciating a movie makes someones spirituality more authentic?

I can't join the group hug here, I saw a fairly standard mood driven opening before an almost successful attempt at building pace and crescendo to a cafe-like soundtrack.

What did it say to me about pro surfing?
Nothing.
And thats a shame cause I reckon that Sam would be in a position to have a unique insight.

Sorry Graz but the world is full to the goog with pretty pictures cut to non-offensive music, there's no career path there.

First thing is having something to say, otherwise the americans and their gloriously saturated hero-everything 16 mill will bury you.

Take this how you want to, it's offered in an spirit of honest feedback.

Backslapping and pocket pissing is not what your kid needs.

[lessormore]

Backslapping and pocket pissing is not what your kid needs.

I humbly submit this for your viewing and listening pleasure.

No backslapping or pocketpissing here.I liked it.To quote Purri(god help me)"EOS"