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good bye

RV — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:30:53 +0000

I turn this computer off with relief and a smile, its been the bane of my existence for almost a month, the thing owns me, Runamuk Visuals is nothing without it and it knows it. Creative Destruction chapter 4 begins the second I walk out the door. We will chase waves around California in a Motorhome bigger than my house, we roll with good friends and a few new faces. Droid is one, I like his surfing, I like his ways. The others crew I dont know much of, im lazy, I dont watch enough video or read enough shit… Good people have said good things about our chapter 4 team. Hopefully we bag enough clips to entertain the viewers, a project like this, is in the hands of mother nature, we love her, but she can sure be a bitch… If we get skunked I dont think we will be able to find a trawler in time…

Regardless, the journey to Burningman will happen, the thought scares me… I hope it will entertain you.

Something will drop on these pages every day while we are gone… I did a month worth of posts yesterday, commitment right? fuck it, its just poached shit, but you only come here when you’re bored, right?… There should be something to momentarily end your boredom each day, if not there is some fine looking ladies to make you realize…’Its never gonna happen to me’

Surf

RV — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:18:35 +0000

Surfing is simple, its the beauty of it.

If you just take a good look at what it is you represent it can all fall into place. None moreso than the latest clips and campaigns from 2 of the Surf Industry’s originals. My hat comes off to the brains and hands that made these clips come together…

WE’RE BACK

RV — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:23:19 +0000

What a nightmare the last few days were. Somewhere in amongst the matrix of our little site, some autobot, spam, douche had dropped in some ‘malicious’ code, which was then deemed by the goons at Google as suspicious, and seeing Google now owns the world, they pulled our site down. But the little guys prevailed. Big thanks to Lock Munday again, and our mate Ed at Quality Peoples

WEEKEND LINKS

RV — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:20:18 +0000

Fuck is a word that sums up my last few weeks better than any other. Whoever said ‘swearing’ is a sign of lacking intelligence was a deadbone, sometimes swear words just work. Billy Connolly said something like this ‘If you smack your thumb with a hammer, you cant just say ‘oh, fideldy dee I just wacked my thumb with a hammer, you say FUCK!’… Anyhow excuse the reminiscing, I spend way to much of my life thinking about things that are behind me, its kind of a curse. The past few weeks have been full of 12-14 hour days, Creative Destruction chapter 2 is out the door and for the first time in a long time im kinda proud of what we achieved, not for any other reason than it really had a purpose, surf films have forever been surfing, music and pretty images, and they are fucking great, i grew up watching that shit every morning, but I am pumped to think that hopefully we have created 15 minutes that is entertaining for both surfers and your average punter whilst helping out the strange world we live in. Along with CD ch2, the John Butler trio Documentary is about to walk out the door as we speak and I am over the moon about that… Blah blah blah

Here is a few links to some sites that have showed us some love, so hopefully we can send some people to their sites. Enjoy

Global warning

RV — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:04:04 +0000

I just got this sent to me… Interesting?

”For all of you out there across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named “Climate Change” or “Global Warming”, there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process. But it is my duty to pass it on to you anyway.

Are you sitting down?

Okay, here’s the bombshell. The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, in it’s first week of spewing volcanic ash, NEGATED EVERY EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God, in it’s first week, has added greenhouse gas emissions to the earth’s atmosphere estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme government regulations proposed for annual reductions in the U.S. Cap & Trade bill and all the other countries’ combined efforts. Ponder that statement for just a moment.

I know, I know…. (have yourself a group hug right now)…. it’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up until midnight to finish your kid’s “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of Yosemite, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs …well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the first week.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in the first week has totally erased every effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon dioxide (CO2). And, those hundreds of thousands of American jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses… you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating American jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now.

I’m so sorry. And I do wish that there was some kind of a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the brush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about two months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next two years.

So, grab a Coke, give the world a hug, and have nice day! This same sort of atmospheric contamination by CO2 emissions from volcanoes has been going on now for the last 4.6 billion years since the earth was born. And you can’t do a damned thing about it.”

Negative as hell, but interesting nontheless… I might go burn some shit

Gripe

RV — Sun, 09 May 2010 07:08:42 +0000

D.I.Y bbq’s, mowers, whipper snippers, tv cabinets, tables, chairs can get fucked… ‘Do it yourself’ is great in ‘Life’ but in a box it sux. In the process of becoming an adult I have had to buy shit for my house. By the time I have finally built it I wanna smash it… Being a kid was way better

Situational Music

RV — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:09:26 +0000

”For us at the event, however, we face modern Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. Offspring’s greatest hits. And we come face to face with the fact that we will never, ever “be your butterfly, sugar baby.”

Travis Ferre & Dane Reynolds talk about the lack of decent tunes at CT’s.

like totes def

RV — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:57:32 +0000

If you love to read but hate to pay, try this… LIKE TOTES DEF

those days were ours…

RV — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:39:19 +0000

I lost my dad awhile back… It still hurts… But amongst the memories and photo’s I have, It’s dad’s music that takes me back… The music my dad played shaped my childhood, at 10 years old my walkman was Talking Heads, my mates – Gunners… Music cant be matched by any other ‘thing’ in the world… Not sex, not surfing, food, coffee, drugs or laughter… Some come close, but music takes cake… Although, right now i’d trade music for some sleep, But my brain aint gonna broker the deal… So here I sit, eyeballs blazed below heavy lids, coffee swirlin, the sun almost… I sit here listening to the music that takes me back to the bench seat of my dads Kingswood… The smell of yesterday’s towels, dad’s second hand smoke, Max’s dog breath… The Feeling of crisp winter mornings, peeling on wet wetties, cold concrete to sand… Brings back the sound of us, Dad and me laughing as we run down the track, laughing ’cause we were about to surf, surf together… The day was ours before the world had ever known…

I miss ya dad… I’m doin’ what I can with what you gave me.

one month on the moon

RV — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:55:47 +0000

One month on the moon just came to a finish in front of me… It’s dope.

For me a film can be anything it wants to be, worst thing you can do is try and reflect the things you have seen recently, it happens too often, a replica of another film is never gonna be good… Destined to stink… But when you hit a project like Mooney and Jimmy, the options are open… I dug the fact that I had no idea what to expect, It hooked me from word go, there was no way my brain could see what was comin next, for a surf film thats something unique… Its usually more music, more surfing… They went for a story and told it well, quirky as shit, I haven’t got so much entertainment from a surf flick in a longtime… The art direction is neat and tidy and not overcooked, the action is entertainment, the music is punk… Its the best thing to come strapped to a magazine since doped youth… Worth your time and your coin.

Well done Mooney and Jimmy… Ka’peesh