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— The Endless Summer — That’s A Movie

Posted in Life, Movie Review on August 23rd, 2010 by – Be the first to comment

Now, I’m NOT a surfer although if you were to go back endlessummerin time to the late 80’s, you’d see me on a skateboard, and in the early 2000’s, you catch me on a Snowboard.

But this weekend I sat down and watched a historic cult classic that we’ve all heard of and most of us have never actually watched all the way through. Even if we didn’t know where the term came from, we’ve all heard the term… Endless Summer! (I don’t know, unless you’re young or sheltered). The term comes from this movie largely. It was one of the first high quality surf movies. It was filmed documentary style by a guy named Bruce Brown.

The movie itself follows two surfers — Mike Hynson and Robert August — as they travel around the globe surfing following the “Endless Summer”. Their first stops are in Africa to include Senegal and South Africa. They end up in Australia and New Zealand, and of course I’ve left alot out because I’m not going to ruin it for you. The sound is made up of narration. Brown speaks to what’s going on and throws in a good bit of humor to keep you watching. Some of the scenes are pretty interesting as in some of the scenes in Africa where no one has seen a surfer before and you get a sense of the excitement from the locals/natives. You also get a interesting sense of the times the movie was filmed (1966), such as when you see these surfers traveling by aircraft in black suits. That’s what they wore back then because airlines had dress codes. instead of looking as people do now when they fly, back then, they look like MIB (Men In Black).

I understand that Mr. Brown developed his cinematography style by filming and showing his footage to audiences while standing at a microphone and just talking his way through the movie. Obviously back then it was much easier to film the footage by itself than to record good sound (just as it is today). This movie was pivotal to the surf movie genre. Even today in surf, skate, and snowboarding movies, there is still no high quality sound for the same reasons when Endless Summer Was made… Although now, we use music to make the videos more interesting [Ahhh, now you get it].

Endless summer would lead to Endless Summer II nearly 30 years later [which I have not seen]. They actually stopped by some of the same locations again, only to find that they have been covered up or have conditions changed due to human development, including an area in South Africa where a perfect wave traveled for minutes down there beach. Granted, back then, many people surfed areas that were tiny by todays standards due to technology. Surfers no longer use big heavy long-boards as they did back in those days.

Now, I’m not sure I’d dig surfing too much but I know that watching the movie makes me want to try it once before I die.  Not on a big wave but maybe one that the little kids can hang with..  Like a 2-footer or something.  It seems kinda a’ight.

— Don’t Let Graphic Designers Make “Lost Cat” signs — Funny

Posted in Life, Mish Mash on July 19th, 2010 by – 5 Comments

You know I like funny things.  Here is a page I thought was kind of funny.  Some lady lost her cat and asked a friend to put together a lost cat poster for her.  Unfortunately, if you were to believe the story, the friend was a graphic designer.  And everyone knows you can’t get a graphic designer to put together a simple poster.  They always go off.  It would be like getting Ferrari to make a simple car… Not gonna happen!

But its funny all the same.  Hope you enjoy and I promise I won’t post anything like this in the future.  The only thing I would say is that if it were real, I like to think a graphic designer would be able to put together a better website.

Check out the page here (or click the picture).

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— The Drunkest Guy Ever — Nice!

Posted in Life, Mish Mash, Videos on July 16th, 2010 by – 1 Comment

This is one of those emails that was delivered to me in the office.  I thought it was hilarious so… I wanted to post it.  I don’t know who made it, don’t know where it was filmed.  I really don’t know where it came from.  From the obvious; it is security camera footage.  Enjoy!

It is way funny.  I don’t know if he’s the drunkest guy ever.  But its damn hilarious.  Its also funny how he tries walking out (without the beer) but can’t make it out the door and then accidentally grabs the bowl.  Even though this is a sad situation and we’re not supposed to be laughing at some dudes alcohol problem.  It is stunningly funny.  Or I’m a bastard!

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— Lindsay Lohan — Going To Jail — 90 Days

Posted in Life, Mish Mash, Videos on July 6th, 2010 by – Be the first to comment

Here we go again, Lindsay Lohan is going to jail… again.  She lindsaylohanjailphotohas had several cases of drugs and alcohol issues including a couple of DUIs.  She is a renowned party girl down in Hollywoodland.  She is another sad chapter in the book that is the child star.

She failed to fulfill her community service and classes that were required of her from her last DUI.  This time, the judge had no leniency towards her and she got pretty much the max.  Maybe she’ll actually be forced to deal with her circumstance and the reality of life. I’m sure the judge has had enough of her crap.. I’m sure it was lasered in the judges head that she missed her last hearing when she was “stuck” in Cannes at the film festival when she should have been in court.  There is no way LiLo’s looks were gonna save her from the wrath of the law this time.

The girl broke down upon hearing that she was gonna serve those 90 days in the big house.  Only to be followed up with 90 days of in-house treatment.  Good for her.  Hey, I still expect her to kill her self either on purpose or accidentally (as I wrote previously) but, hey, I can admit I was wrong… So far anyways!  I do wish her the best.

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— Breaking Bad Narcocorrido Song — Its Just That Kind Of Show

Posted in Life, Videos, art on July 2nd, 2010 by – 2 Comments

Okay okay I know,  This is the second Breaking Bad note I added in as many posts but here’s why.  I added the post below and have desperately been waiting for the next episode to air (on On-Demand anyway).  I’ve been thinking back and I remembered that Narcocorrido song that was on last season.  Narcocorrido (Drug ballads) are a type of music that tell the stories of  drug culture and cartels down Mexico way.  I thought it was very authentic (even thought I don’t speak Spanish) and searched the Youtube for it.  Its called Negro Y Azul, which even I know means Black and Blue. Here it is below:

I dig this video and this is the type of show it is.  You actually get the whole point of the show by watching the video. Narcocorrido is normally a touchy kind of music to play, but, its popular and as long as you aren’t disrespectful to any kingpins or cartels.

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