Kendall spends a big part of his life on the road, on a couch, in a bus stop, in seat 38b… whatever, wherever, it’slife out of a suitcase… He’s spent most of the year rollin’ with Joel, covering what may be the biggest year of his career…
Since arriving in Hawaii there hasn’t been much going on in the water, so a lot of time has been spent just hangin about. By the looks of Laurie’s love for his remote chopper the fever is setting in…
Here’s a clip Kenny slapped together from the early days of the Hawaii season. Enjoy
Just a few hours after I heckled Kendall for not flowing any shit for the site, I see he has pumped out this li’l clip of Joel’s first day in Hawaii… Worth a watch
Kenny shot the aftermath of Micks win in France. Here’s his words and video on it a few weeks late. At least he’s consistent
”All the boys gathered at cafe de paris after Mick won. Everyone was drinking giraffes, things are all time, its like you have your own mini keg at your table, but you can see it disappearing… Shit got outta hand and someone brought up the idea have sprint races down the main drag… Turns out Kelso (micks photographer) can run like a fuckin balinese dog on fire running for the kuta lake. for a guy weighing in a 120 kg’s he’s doin well… and dingo …. well he just got nude… ” KO
One of the boys is turning 30… Ol’ long tooth Watson… Hes the Freckly prick on the right
30′s a big deal… For most its time to settle down, for Ryan Watson the term doesn’t exist… He is pure carnage… At the same time he’s one of my very best mates and just happens to be one of the finest surfers the Sunshine Coast has ever produced… He doned the volcom stone for years as a grom and had Handley boards piled in the garage, but after a run of problems with his nimbly ol’ kneebones his surf career was all but done… Not before he gave the likes of TB, Joel, Fanning, O’Rafferty and so on a good run for their money… But things up here on the Sunny Coast were a lot different back then… The Sunshine Coast was ‘too far north’ and I guess forgotten to the proffessional world of surfing… Fuck! times have changed ay!… Wade, Mitch, Brades, Julian, Lee, Sedz, Campbell and a heap of new lil freaks are bouncing outta the woodwork like termites…
Anyhow way off track… After building a healthy link with Taylor from Chilli surfboards I asked the inevitable ‘How bout a free board mate?’…
Thats when 2 things out of the ordinary took place… 1 for Taylor… 1 for me… Firstly Taylor was just about to mention some contra deals, ie a free craft for RV!… The other strange thing was the board I was hoping to score wasnt for myself but for Ryza’s 30th present…
Bonza!
We were on the same page… It arrived in bublewraped bliss in 2 days… Today she got a solid coat of paint… Im not giving Ryza a free stick without vandalizing the thing with a bit of RV rekko… He gets the thing today… I plan on shootin his reaction, he hasnt had a new board in over 12 years…
Im callin tears… I’ll be off it if not…
Tune in for the next installment of ‘A BOARD FOR THE BATTLERS’
if youre plannin on a new craft click on the lil chilli logo to your right… Theyll spear you in the right direction!… Cheers Chilli
Kendall spends some serious time behind the lens. In this time he has learnt a few tricks, most on a proffessional level some on a another… His latest is gettin crew to pose for a photo while he shoots footage with the video function of his still shot… I havent had the time to trawl through all of his stuff so here is the first one I found of Vasa ‘steelin’ in Hawaii… More to come
I spend a lot of time editing… In most cases its a matter of trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit… But when a pile of Kenny’s tapes land on my desk or a harddrive arrives in the post the salad is already made it justs need some dressing…
Here is a collection of his best work… edited by himself.
Hawaii can get messy… When there is a swell its game on for crew like Jarrod Tallman, as a cameraman he spends majority of his day standing on the beach… But when the swell dies, its time to enjoy yourself… This is the Tallmanator mid bender…
Kendall O’Brien is a big part of Runamuk Visuals… A good chunk of the content that gets thrown up here is fresh from his lens… Video & stills… He globetrotts around the world doing what he lives for… He has woken up in hundreds of different beds, bars and bus stops, the address on his license currently reads: QF 21 36A Economy, his passport is the rankest piece of shit I have ever seen, It looks like he soaks it in soup each night, how it allows him to enter foreign countries I have no idea, He’s that bloke who always ends up sitting next to the only rig on the plane… The guy is a myth… If he was to share all of his stories you could make a film on his life, but he keeps his cards close to his chest… Most of the time…
He is kickin’ back in Barbados with TJ, Sterling and Torrey Meister as I type… Actually, i’m talking to him on Skype as I write this post… the last line he wrote was ‘Me and TJ have been hangin’ with true rasta cunts’… They’re not having much luck in the water but have been havin a good time on land… Anyhow enough pumpin up the tyres… This is a new section of the site now known as ‘Life O’Brien’… Here are the first official shots from RVLO in Barbados.
Probably the worst clip thats ever been posted on runamukvisuals.com… But beggars cant be choosers… The Big day out was weeks ago, the footage is crumby and stretched, I slapped it together in a rush and it shows… However some people are amused and entertained by these sort of clips and good on ‘em ’cause we’d be fucked without ya’s…
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