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  • 17 years ago
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Staring : Rasta, Dick Van Staalen, The Fitzgeralds, Steve Cooney, Damon Harvey, Asher Pacey, Timmy Turner, Travis Potter, Brett Schwartz, Albert Falzon, Chris Brock, Marcus Aboody, Beau Young, Nat Young, Sketch Holiday, Neal Purchase Junior, Andrew Kidman, Dave Kelly, Joe Larkin, The Duke, Kyuss King, Mat Mchugh…

Music : Andrew Kidman, Band of Frequencies, Nicko, Afro Dizzi Act, Milton Brown, Birds from Windy Hill, Will Corner, The beautiful Girls.

REVIEW:

I find it hard to escape the feeling that there is a bit of a movement, a quiet revolution even, afoot in the surfing world. Surfers, I reckon, are beginning to reclaim their culture, after years of having it dominated by surf industry marketing material. All those ads, posters, billboards, free dvds, contests, webcasts and signature model boardshorts have been cramming the space that would otherwise be occupied by what we might call surf culture, even art. With enormous budgets, the best photographers and film makers and all star sponsored teams at their disposal, the surf companies have left little room for the humble, independent surf artists to ply their trade – like pine forests dropping their needles and smothering all other new life. But no marketing budget can buy that elusive thing called mood, or collective consciousness, those subtle, unheralded shifts in direction that grip surfing from time to time.

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