a “day in the life” of many: here and now

local NY surfer leif engstrom and film/editor etan blatt of the NYsea collective will be apart of a feature film, along side some of the worlds best surfers and filmers, documenting each surfers journey on the same day to catch a swell. the film premieres june 20, 2012 (international surf day) on innersection.

PRODUCED BY Taylor Steele
DIRECTED BY Nathan Myers
MUSICAL SCORE by MT WARNING, with original songs by Kelly Slater, Angus Stone, Ozzy Wright, Dave Rastovich, Andy Six String, Wolf & Cub and Years Around the Sun
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Bali Strickland, Ryan Heywood, Peter King, Jeremy Koreski, Chris Searl, Taylor Bonin, Etan Blatt, Andy Elliott, Sean Gilhooley, Roger Valesco, Loic Wirth, Ryan Perry, Isaac Zoller, Saul Garcia, Tim Boydell, Elliott Leboe, Saul Garcia, Mike Nulty, Darren McCagh, Wyatt Davies, and Gerhard Englebrecht
SURFING BY Kelly Slater, Dave Rastovich, Stephanie Gilmore, Ozzy Wright, Rob Machado, Alex Gray, Jay Davies, Alex Knost, Matt Meola, Albee Layer, Peter Devries, Leif Engstrom, Reubyn Ash, Gabriel Villaran, Cristobol de Col, Andrew Serrano, Junior Faria, Garut Widiarta, Dede Suryana, Grant Baker, Paul Patterson, Jack Robinson, Lauren Lindsey Hill, Gilbert Brown, Conner Coffin, Brad Gerlach, Dane Guadauskas and Reef MacIntosh.
ART BY Libre by jr

CATEGORIES: clips, surf-skate

les lalannes at paul kasmin

paul kasmin has been found of the lalanne(s) for quite some time, he even published a book of pictures he took when visiting their studios. these days he’s presenting a show which looks like a sort of retrospective since there is works from the 60’s as well as more recent ones. witty and beautiful as always by pp.

CATEGORIES: art

julian assange pissed off: rotten swedish meatballs for sale

“what does the u.s. have to do with a swedish extradition process?” assange asked. “why is it that me, a non-profit free speech activist, is subject to a $360,000 bail? why is it that i am kept under electronic house arrest when i have not even been charged in any country, when i have never been a fugitive?” well the answer mr. assange, is that you revealed the truth.  and not “all” of the truth is generally required.

if you don’t know much about this start reading yourself, but here’s a TV guide version of this tragedy. wikileaks founder julian assange finally lost his uk supreme court fight against extradition to sweden to face accusations of sex offenses (apparently having consensual sex in sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment for a minimum of two years for rape). some of the claims were filed by anna ardin, an accuser with alleged CIA ties. ardin had worked with “las damas de blanco” a feminist anti-castro group in cuba backed by the CIA. apparently ardin had slept with assange on more than one occassion and after the last one had thrown a party in assange’s honour at her flat after the alleged ‘crime’ and tweeted to her followers that she is with, “the world’s coolest smartest people.” somehow, she turned on him afterwards. ardin also happens to be the author of a 7-step guide on legal revenge of cheating boyfriends. the plot thickens. whatever it was, the CIA or the jealousy we could actually understand both. what we can’t understand is sweden? the assange case was originally thrown out of the court by one judge for lack of evidence, months later another “lay judge” (lay judges are appointed in sweden because of their political affiliations to adjudicate in criminal proceedings and have no formal legal training), this lay judge suddenly reopened the case and issued a warrant for assange (all of this as clinton and the rest of world powers were condemning wikileaks). now what has resulted in england is also expected, but of all places sweden? we saw the nords as the pillars of true democracy without the for-sale sign. it appears sweden is no longer any different than the rest. they best take good care of him, we will need people like that. by jm (george orwell’s niece)

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