The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe (Trailer)
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Watch: Triptych, Starring Mick Fanning the Freesurfer
Proof that even if he d never surfed a single heat, Mick Fanning would still be a legend.
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“There’s so many different Fanning eras, and I felt like we could follow his journey through the last 25 or 30 years purely based on his surfing and the look of that time,” Vaughan Blakey told Sean Doherty in an interview about his mission to condense two decades of Mick Fanning freesurfing highlights, including Shagga’s classic footy, into one flashy, 11-minute short movie,
Triptych. “But my favorite era is happening right now. I don’t think he’s ever surfed better, which is trippy. The only other person I can really think of who got better and better and better the further they got into their surfing life was Curren… That level of understanding and mastery that’s from another dimension.”
Coming Soon: Triptych Two Decades With Mick Fanning
An interview with filmmaker Vaughan Blakey about his new, sprawling edit
Photo: Ryan Miller
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In some ways, it feels like Mick Fanning has been around forever. He won his first major tour event in a previous millennium, aged just 17, coming from nowhere. In the years since there have been several distinct Fanning eras. Snowy-haired, rubber-limbed little ratbag. Founding member of the Cooly Kids. Minister for Good Times on Tour. Hard-ass, clinical world champ. Australian surfing icon. The bloke who almost got taken by a shark on live TV. But when you condense Mick’s career down to an 11-minute edit, you might feel it’s also gone past in the blink of an eye. Vaughan Blakey, who’s been there pretty much every step of the way, had the job of pulling together
You Don’t Mock the Gods
The Story Behind Tom Curren s Offbeat New Search Vid
Sean Doherty
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“Curren’s in Mexico?”
Concomitant with any Curren project, this one began with an air of mystery. This wasn’t so much a search for Tom Curren. Nobody knew he’d even gone.
Two unmarked hard drives of footage turned up in the mail late last year at Rip Curl. Tom Curren, it turns out, had disappeared down to Mexico halfway through last year, shortly before the pandemic closed the border. He’d stayed in Mexico for three months with good friend, Buggs Arico who owns a joint at Salina Cruz. Australian filmer, Andy Potts had tagged along with cameras but no real plan to shoot anything. With the pandemic spreading through Mexico, shortly after they arrived the
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