WHEN is an advert not an advert? Some surf movies are essentially adverts for brands which you pay them to watch? Why? Because it's entertaining with mind-blowing surfing. You know the deal.
Here's 13:57 minutes of super-HD, brain-expanding, surfing shot at 1000 frames per second (normal camera speed is 30 fps) featuring Dane Reynolds, Julian Wilson, Jeremy Flores and Kelly Slater in Mexico and Tahiti - this one really blurs the boundaries.
(This must be watched at the HD 720 setting)
So is it an advert or an innovative film short? What's the defining difference? I know I like it, and to quote a colleague, "the difference is when it's sick..."
Good surfing, not sure about all the homoerotic close ups of men running around beaches. And isn't it a bit frustrating watching 12 minutes of footage in slow motion? Reminds me of the Gorilla Grip videos of the late eighties.
Brilliant HD footage and awesome surfing but it's hardly "innovative" is it? We've all seen most of the filming techniques used in this loads of times elsewhere. Having said that, I really like the slo-mo and freeze frame sections in the Mexico bit where you can see the surfer's technique through a move.
Great video but isn't Cypher a wetsuit? I wonder if Kelly, Dane and Julian even have wetsuits? If they do, they probably put them on backwards half the time-Joke. For real though, where is the cold water love and/or does quicksilver even care about us rubber coated rippers?
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