This thing is ready to roll… It sits on the cover of the latest edition of Waves mag… Where else do surf vidsgo thesedays?… Covermount DVD’s are the nemessis of a freelance filmmaker… Gone are the days of selling your vid… Now you have to sell your soul to show the world your latest flick… Whinge, fuckin Whinge… I’m part of the process now so fuck it… This Vid ‘NUTZ NARRA‘ is haggardly disgusting… Just the way we like it… It’s punk at the start, it’s punk at the finish… Its punk ‘atchyamum.
The haggard, pacey tunes you hear in this track come courtesy of ‘ANGRY KID’ one fine punk outfit…
‘They shoulda been on the cover of Maximum Rock’n'Roll’
check em out at www.myspace.com/angrykid before they eat ya face
…RATTY…HAGGARD…MESSY… NOISEY… Were the words I wrote on the whiteboard when I began the edit…
I looked back at where my head was at fresh out of highschool and the music that used to get me amped for a surf… PUNK… the faster, the louder, the better… PUNK became the basis of NUTZ NARRA.
The section below ‘A DAY TO REMEMBER’ was the day of days of the event… The music comes fresh from the Goldcoast streets… Gutter to Gutter… ‘NEIGHBOURHOOD SWINE’ are the power you will hear in this section… If you live on the goldy and wonder why your dog wont stop howling, well this 4 piece band are to blame… They have been stripping the paint off venues across the Goldcoast for months on end… With still a couple of em in highschool I hate to think what these swines have in store for next year… But it’s gonna be a sight to see and some sounds to hear. ENJOY!
To hear more of the Swines go to www.myspace.com/swinepunx
Early this year I directed and edited ‘Alive in Tahiti’ . The movie focused on 10 days with Donavon in Tahiti… Family, Friends, Music, Surfing, all the things that put a smile on Donavon’s face. The project meant a lot to me… I lost my dad to cancer weeks prior to beginning the project. This movie became the only thing that could get me up to face the day… My dad was my best mate…
The movie had its ups and downs… I kicked over a harddrive and lost the lot… 1000GB of HD had to be recaptured… HD is good to look at, but it’s a c#@!… Kinda like Paris Hilton… There was a few other hiccups, but its a beautiful movie so i’ll focus on the positives…
I spoke to Donavon over the phone a few times, we spoke about the ‘look and feel’ of the movie… ‘Cosmic‘ was what he was after… Cosmic became my goal.
What Donavon said to me at the end of the project was one of the finest gestures i’ve ever been given…
‘Hey Jake, I’m cool if you want to tribute this movie to your dad‘… I almost teared up. My dad was one of the most unique and talented surfers in Noosa… One of the good old boys of Ti- Tree. I had told Donavon how I used to watch ‘Searching for Tom Curren’ and the ‘Pink Floyd live in concert’ movie religiously with my dad as a kid… I kept those 2 films in mind the entire time I worked on this project.
Below is the ‘friends’ section from the film. The movie is now available to buy. If you would like to purchase a copy you can do so at-
http://www.billabong.com/donavon/
A massive thanks to Thai Neave ( Producer/ Co- Director / Concept ), Mike Calvino ( Producer / Concept ) and Bali Strickland ( Principle Videographer ) for making this possible. Enjoy
Below is the original trailer for the film. A few may of seen this in an earlier post but for those who haven’t ….enjoy…
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Passion Pop was the first film I made for Billabong… It all most killed me… It was the first chance I was given to make a film that was going to get seen by more than the boys up home… It’s old news now, but I often get asked what are the codes for the ‘vault’?… The secret sections are bits and pieces of what went down behind the scenes, there is some funny gear in there… heres all you need to unlock them.
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