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Bunker Spreckels Book Trailer
For my birthday a last year I bought myself the Bunker Spreckels book from Mollusk NYC. Insane surfer, interesting character and back-story, great interview and even better photos (mostly shot by the great Art Brewer). I never knew there was a trailer for the book until today. Hopefully one day they’ll make a movie about this guy …
Product Description
The libertine: The wild, brief life of a surfing legend and international playboy
The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949-1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: The stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, martial arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27.
Born Adolph B. Spreckels III, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, Bunker became a famous surfer as a teenager, but after his inheritance came along, he began to slip into a life of pomp and excess where surfing took a back seat to drugs, sex, and wild road trips. So remarkable was his lifestyle that he created an alter-ego who invited photographers and documentarians to trail him, piecing together a tell-all epic of his own rise to fame and fortune. Before the project, known as “The Player”, could be completed, Spreckels suddenly died.
From the Publisher
Thirty years later, photographer Art Brewer and writer/photojournalist C. R. Stecyk III (of Dogtown and Z-Boys fame) have come together to make this book, which traces the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Bunker Spreckels. Brewer was a close friend of Spreckels and his personal photographer throughout the last decade of his life, traveling with him from Hawaii to Los Angeles to South Africa. His images of Spreckels, both on the waves and on land, chronicle Spreckels’s metamorphosis from hippie surfer to international playboy, while Stecyk’s extensive taped interview of Spreckels, completed just three months before his death, provides a rare first-person perspective on his decadent life.
Rise Above Plastics, Barreled by Plastic Bags
A great new ad campaign in the San Francisco area to cut down on plastic bags … Created by http://www.SaveTheBay.org
New Yorker, Balaram Stack Racks Three 10’s in NSSA Easterns, Sebastian Inlet, FL
[WORDS & PHOTOS BY KEN HORTON, icunphotos.com]
Lightning in a Bottle
To see lightning strike is an amazing coincidence of being in the
right place at the right time. At the NSSA Easterns, I saw lightning
strike. Not once, not twice, but three times.
Lightning being a 10.0 surfing score. And the same surfer, Balaram Stack,
scored all three. The first occurance was on Saturday during an open
heat. I shot the sequence but I saw nothing but water. Sure he came out
of the tube. But was it really a 10.0?
The next time was the following day. I was in a position to photograph
him during the experience. Once again, a 10.0. This time I agreed with the
judges.
I asked Balaram to pose for two pictures. One with 10 fingers extended,
and one with his arms crossed (a Roman numeral 10).
A half hour later, he went out in the Air Show competition and scored his
third 10.0 of the competition.
I wanted to ask him to pose again: this time with his 10 toes,
10 fingers and arms crossed.
But I didn’t press my luck. He still had one heat left, and how many times
can you go back to the well?
Well done, Balaram!
Balaram Gallery from the event here …
The New York Fish Frye Date is Set
May 17th 2009, Lincoln Blvd, Long Beach, NY
9 am onward
http://newyorkfishfry.blogspot.com/
Blog Radar: “thegoods life,” The Hobgood Brother’s Blog
If you are or aren’t into pro tour surfing check out the Hobgood brother’s blog. Personally when I don’t have the opportunity to shoot surf events I couldn’t care less about pro surfers or who won what contest, but my buddy told me to check out their blog and I’m glad I did. ‘The Goods’ have some neat little in-between contest clips with rough edits, good music, and of course some great surfing. They even have a link to a blog with all their favorite music tracks to keep you from asking yourself “where can I find that song?” Without taking themselves too seriously they keep the blog fun and constantly updated to stay in-touch with their fans. From their attitudes, their professionalism, their outstanding surfing ability, their special events, their store, their blog, and their tweets, these guys really embrace the whole pro surfer thing in a great way that makes them seem very accessible to their fans. It’s no doubt that these guys are very good for pro surfing and are positive role models for the groms coming up not only out of Central Florida, but the rest of the world as well.
thegood life blog
the goods hype machine music tracks
Jeremy Koreski
Jeremy Koreski is one of my favorite photographers. The water images he creates in Western Canada are nothing less than iconic. I don’t consider myself a “good” photographer. A matter of fact, I don’t even consider myself a “photographer” at all b/c I have so much to learn about cameras, light, and shooting before I can validate and be comfortable with the technically-creative title that “photographer” is. Work like Jeremy’s really keeps me inspired and motivated to hopefully one day be able to create an iconic image or two myself. But for now, studying photos like Jeremy’s makes me feel that the title, “I’m a Photo Hack,” will remain on my business card for quite some time. To never know the best shooter I can possibly be means that I’ll always keep trying to be better. Jeremy’s images make me want to be better and make me want to learn and know more about what I’m doing. Thanks Jeremy for doing what you do, and doing it so well. Your photos are simply amazing …
Check Jeremy Koreski’s portfolio …
The 2nd Annual New York Surf Film Festival [2009] Screening Panel is Set
The New York Surf Film Festival was a great success in it’s first year, so much so that it gained international acclaim and notoriety. Don’t miss it this Fall, as it’s a great time to be in New York. The weather is always nice, the water is warm, and it’s that time of the year that we tend to get lucky with a tropical storm or two. I almost missed the entire festival last year b/c i was putting in 8-hour days in the water. I cut one of my days short to go home to take a nap and get myself into Tribecca to catch the festivities and I’m glad I made the one night.
Click here to see the 2009 NYSFF Panel
Write-up in the latest Surfer’s Path [Issue 70 Feb/Mar 2009] …
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