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Jamie has been at it again.
Stomping punts all over the joint, making sure there is someone there to capture for our enjoyment.
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Jamie has been at it again.
Stomping punts all over the joint, making sure there is someone there to capture for our enjoyment.
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Red Bull have just dropped the first film in their new series, “Made In”, this time featuring Hawaii and more importantly, Mason Ho.
We thought we’d throw together a post, with the best of the web, to help nurse that hangover and get you moving into the day!
It’s always a great day when it’s spent listening to a Cut Snake mix. This #vssounds is perfect for the weekend and a few beers (or a case, vodka, whatever) in the sun.
Our best mates and house music aficionados, Cut Snake have just dropped a new mix to support their appearance at Splash House this weekend. It’s a sexy, groovy ride through the deeper ends of house and will get you dancing all the way into the weekend.
Globe have just released the trailer to Strange Rumblings In Shangri La, the new film by the always on point, Joe G. Shot over 2 years, the film documents the team as they scour the world searching for spots that you couldn’t even dream up after a bag of magic mushrooms. Year Zero was, in…
This video was made by Harrison Dancaster who usually shoots stills but doesn’t mind flicking the switch over to video mode to craft together sweet little edits like this one. You may remember a video he made from another trip down south with Brett Burcher and Scott ‘Whippet’ Dennis charging 10 feet slabs clocking up…
Desillusion Magazine have just dropped another brilliant short film, this time on Californian surfer, skater and motorbike enthusist, Troy Elmore.
Two short films have just dropped which are certainly worth your time. The subjects in each of the clips are from California and both share a left of centre, outcast type, personality. The films feature Malibu surfer, Dillon Perrillo and Ventura label, Iron & Resin and are shot and cut by Morgan…
Riley Blakeway has just dropped a new short film. The film explores the subject of creativity and is narrated by Warren Smith. Shot around Warren’s Downtown LA Warehouse, the film is an epic piece of cinematography and touches on a human trait that we all feel deeply.
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I had the opportunity to film Brian Bielmann and Dusty Payne over a week in Hawaii.
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Name: Ben Everden decentcrop.com http://decentcrop.tumblr.com Field: Social Media, and all things Digital How did you get into photography? It’s been a really long road. I was crazy for it in high school and used to ditch all my other classes to hang in the darkroom, I even used to teach some of the grades below…
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From the genius lens and vision of Kai Neville comes Epokhe’s External World (1.5): “Join us for another pilgrimage into the raw & uninhabited landscapes that have become a refuge for the EPØKHE creators. An external world of unearthly women, waves and industrial backdrops. The film takes a minimalistic approach inspired by the design and…
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Three clips, all worth your time, dig in…
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The dark ocean waves,
clashing amongst each other,
above the ocean floor
that dose not have a bother
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Name: Blake Peters Age: 28 Field: Surfboard Shaper Can you tell us a little about yourself? Background, where you’re from, etc Well I’ve lived on Sydney’s Northern Beaches my whole life, spending most of my time surfing around Mona Vale. My family roots are in sailing, running right back to my Great Grand Father who…
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We love a DIY attitude here at Velvet Sea. It’s what we were built on and live by. This clip by young south coast up-and-comer, Louis Gillick is pure DIY fun and those waves, wow.
Enjoy
There’s just something about the way Dillon Perillo surfs. In our opinion, he’s a modern day Tom Curren. The same smooth, drawn out lines, with a fresh twist. Anyway, enough talk, watch the clip and see for yourself. Short, sharp and punchy!
Enjoy
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Runamuk Visuals constantly, and consistently, pump out quality goods and this is no different. No bullshit, quality art and production from some absolute legends in the Australian surf and art community.
Enjoy
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Every time something by Mickey Smith drops, we drop everything and glue our eyeballs to the screen. This time it’s Hidden Lives with good friend and world class charger, Tom Lowe. Their work has always resonated with us at Velvet Sea, moody, sometimes dark productions that focus on film making just as much as the…
Name: Chris Sirney Instagram: @chrissirney Age: 30 Field: Photography (artist) Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Where are you from and what do you do? I would like to start off by saying a thank to Velvet Sea for doing this with me. I’m from Southern California and I live in Costa…
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One of Velvet Sea’s main contributors Luke Cheadle has landed in the US of A. Not just popping over for a leisurely holiday, but Cheads and his gilfriend intend to be in LA indefinitely. He has also been in contact with Mike Pagan. An extremely talented film maker that has been kind enough…
Field || Film Age || 22 Resides || Between Coffs and Byron Inspiration || Life, friends, music, good times and happiness. If your happy you’re inspired Years in the game || 6? Equipment Digital/Film || I shoot most surf stuff on a Canon 60d but my dad just got a Sony nex fs 700 which…
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Today we give you a fresh AM/PM and our first on a crew of artists, LA’ Division.
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Summer time in LA might not conjure up images of perfect waves but you’d be surprised what you can find. The Pagan brothers have been really impressing us of late, churning out edit after edit, with one brother in the water and the other behind the lens and in edit booth. This is their latest…
To use their words, “Nti Sheeto (Knee-sheet-o) is a surf film illustrating the contrast between the psychedelic and magical natural wonders of Indonesia with the surreal and demented trappings of it’s darker nighttime street culture.”. It’s superbly directed by Dion Agius and shot and cut by Blake Myers. If you haven’t seen this film yet,…
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This is beyond brilliant.
Redefining your typical surf clip.
Emphasising on the beauty of the ocean with the stylish flow of Asher Pacey.
Pleasure to watch.
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This weeks #vsweeklysounds comes from Sydney DJ duo LUSH, made up of Velvet Sea’s Luke Cheadle and good mate, Shawn Irving. The pair have been playing numerous gigs around Sydney as of late and are starting to make a name for themselves and their groove filled sets. “House, Not A Home.” is an epic mix…
Dive into this fresh edit by Dane Singleton featuring Matt King and Pama Davies.
Shot in two days and cut to the sounds of Iggy.
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Velvet Sea has just put the finishing touches on a new feature film to be released in the coming weeks.
Simple, no fuss, self explanatory title. Here are two clips, worlds apart both in theme, style and place of birth. One is from Australia, shot and cut by young South Coast film maker, Wade Carroll and features the talent of Ty Watson. The other is a tasty, left field, lookbook/campaign video for Dion Ochner from…
TOMBSTONERS by Toby Cregan featuring Matt King, with a cameo by Connor O’Leary.
This is worth your time, so dig in and enjoy.
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A collaboration with Velvet Sea and Kai Otton.
Odds and ends is the final film to come out of the Creative Destruction project. It’s “leftovers” but the quality of footage, not to mention the rawness, really blows you away.
Dive in and never forget how fucking awesome Runamuk Visuals and Wade Goodall are.
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Garrett’s two latest clips need to be seen.
Sick surf, sick surfing, sick music, and a sick edit. There just sick mental yewww
Check out the first of many monthly instalments by Andrew Mooney.
I’ve alway digged his style.
He does some hell punts but just wait for a month of big swell. Pulling back isn’t an option.
Here we have an ever-so-lovely post. We’re hoping it makes up for our missing Happy Monday this week. It was the long weekend after all and the hangovers were definitely on the “long” end of the spectrum. Anyway, on to the post. Alana Blanchard. What more do we need to say, really? Maybe the fact…
Riley Blakeway followed Chippa Wilson and Nathan Fletcher for 14 months and came up with this, somewhat, ‘mini movie’. 22 minutes long, jam packed with technical jumps and fucking huge pitts. What more could you ask for, really?
Thanks Riley and Analog.
Not much needs to be said about this. John is a freak. Watch and enjoy.
Here you have the Kustom Airstrike webisodes one & two. Stay tuned for the final two eps, it’s going to be looney!
Dion and Joe G are a good mix. Throw a wave pool with ramps, and some of Dubai’s sexiest sprouters and you have Electric Blue Heaven. Actual surf heaven.
Here are two clips that we like.
One Surfing, one Skating.
ENJOY
Wilko and Dom are ripping.
The charismatic pair dancing with themselves on some fun east coast waves.
You know they are having so much fun.
Instagram deleted our Instagram because of a couple of nipples. We will have another shortly. New website coming as well as surfing and girls. Exclusive VS girls.
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The Redbull/Target/Nike endorsed kid shreds. No two ways about it.
Happy Easter Monday
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Here we have “Strange Weekend”. It’s the finale to the Dirty Harry web saga. A sweet Californian feel, with a strange twist. We dig.
Directed by Matt Payne,
Luke Okay is a man of many faces and many talents. He designs, draws, paints, sprays, pastes, surfs and skates. Most of which he does better than anyone i’ve come across and he does it all with a smile and an attitude that will see him go further than he already is. Velvet Sea are…
Sam Bruton from Sydney takes pictures of people in there homes and puts them on this little space on the web.
Riley Blakeway’s new short film ‘A Portrait of Modern Youth’ is available to see in full, online. Check it out!
Travelling around NZ in camper van, zig zagging the island, drinking coffee, surfing, sleeping where ever the fuck you park, waking up and doing it all again. No time limit, 3 pals… It just goes on and on.
The 3rd annual Wills Joy Surf Memorial full of yew and saaaaa.
We raised $ 20, 000 for the Epilepsy Foundation this year!
A shark attack at Redhead beach just out of Newcastle has left Lenny, from Down-Under Tattoo, awfully injured. We feel for Lenny as fellow surfers and it’s something we all fear but never think it will happen to us. God bless Lenny and we all hope he has a speedy recovery. Lenny is quite the…
If you skate and have been to NYC you might know this park. We were in town recently for the launch of Mambo in the US. We found this nicely contoured slab of concrete after the manager of our hotel asked us to take (Mambo skater) Brad McDermott outside “to play” after he’d jumped a…
How much does this clip make you want to SURF!
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While I was putting together my recent videos in France, the crew spent plenty of time at a bar called Le Surfing.
On the other side of the bar was Nick Pumphrey, shaking away countless cocktails to help our confidence with the hornets.
The commotion cleared and the tour made their way across the arid spanish countryside to Supertubos.
I tagged along with Nick.
I had the chance to see how he operated behind the lens and sticky beaked at the results.
I really liked his style of photography so i decided to put this post together.
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Noa Deane has joined the surfing blogosphere. It’s a neat, simple layout. He’s young, good lookin’ (no homo) and the kid tears. Click on through check him out.
Part one of three Fiji Vignettes. Feat. Taj Burrow, Jay Davies, Chippa Wilson & Kelly Slater. Shot & Edited by Mr Dolphin Riley Blakeway. Stay tuned for part two and three. 🙂
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Jimmy Kinnaird lives in Bali, has a little puppy, drinks coffee and doesn’t where shirts. He is also a filmer and gosh he does a good job at it. Here are some clips he worked on for Deus Custom Motocycles Caangu Bali. Check there Bali Deus Blog right here folks. If ya cruisin’ in Bali…
Chopes has been fucking crazy the last few day’s. I think it’s safe to say those are some of the wildest sessions yesterday that’s ever been documented.
Be sure to check out the second clip down of the mini grom. Kanoa Igarashi Mini Freak.
A few weekends back, upon seeing the swell that was about to hit the east coast, VelvetSea decided it was time to get up off our arses and bail the big smoke. With an absence of filmers available and getting sick of the back and forth that was happening, we thought, fuck it, we’ll do it…
If you havn’t seen em’, well now is the time. Julian’s massive, almost made, 720 oop in his ‘Back To Bali’ clip. Kai Neville Studio’s ‘Lost Atlas Trailer’, Beren Hall’s ‘Lost Atlas Leftovers’ and last but not least Dane Reynolds’ 12 minute mini film, ‘Lost Interest’. Click the ||HERE|| to watch MarineLayerProductions Lost Interest.
The official autopsy released regarding Andy Irons’ death… THE NEW YORK TIMES THE IRONS FAMILY We have received the final autopsy and toxicology report filed in connection with Andy’s death on November 2nd, 2010, from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office in Forth Worth, TX. The family apologizes for the delay in the release of…
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Here is part one, and two, of Wade Goodall and Jake Donlen’s Creative Destruction, doco’d by VBS.TV‘s Hi-Shredability.
We didn’t know who Matt Payne was until we came across these two clips and to tell you the truth, we still don’t know too much. All we know is he’s based out of Newport, CA and that he creates nice edits based on surfer Jason Harris, in which he experiments with narrative and medium. It’s refreshing…
Here is the third instalment of Nicholas Damen’s mini series ‘One Day One Slay’. Here Nick features Jack Lynch, a blogger & a logger with style.
The photo’s you see below were taken during a helicopter shoot for Craig Anderson’s Innersection sometime last year.
Shaun Cansdell.
1 surf.
2 hours.
cut into 1 minute 46 seconds of shredding.
Thanks to Harry Triglone for a great little clip, stay tuned for a MEET: interview with Harry.
Mambo artist Shannon Graham paints a surfboard to be donated to the Ray of Hope fundraising campaign. Ray of Hope represents the philosophy of the Westmead Breast Cancer Institute that by providing the most innovative, specialist and professional care available today the BCI can offer early detection, accurate diagnosis and effective treatment to give each…
Field – Film maker Age – 18 Lives – Kirra on the Gold Coast with Mitch Coleborn but I’m from Whangamata New Zealand. Inspiration – Ryder Jones Years in the game – This is my first year. Equipment – Sony EX1 Projects (present) – Lost Atlas, A surf film im working on with Kai Neville.…
This is Kate Moss half naked… Oh and we missed our Happy Monday post due to, well, not being in a wi-fi zone. But, here are some videos that have flowed into cyber land. Stay tuned for the TV button on the website which should be up very soon. It will feature nothing but the…
Our good friend Nick Riley has recently jumped back in bed with his original sponsor Oneill. He started his surfing career with the wetsuit pioneers and it’s good to see him back with them. They’re a great fit and i’m sure it will be a relationship that will see them both grow old together. Sam…
If you grew up, or have been involved with, the Australian surfing community in the last 20 years then chances are Dean ‘Dingo’ Morrison was in your top 5 favourite surfers list. He was, and still is for that matter, one of the most influential surfers for Aussie groms for quite some time. A Day…
The 2nd Annual Wills Joy Memorial was, once again, a day filled with surf, smiles, friends and love. It is a day that we wait for all year, and a day to celebrate an amazing life. It was held at Queenscliff Beach, which was jam packed by 10am, and you would have been hard pressed…
Raen have one of the most talented and creative teams ever conceived. They also make some damn fine frames to cover those ocean beaten eyes of yours. This clip is made by one of their artists, Alex Kopps, and we like! Check out www.raenoptics.com for more…
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Dane Reynolds has recently injured himself and I think It’s almost ok to say “it’s about time”, well its not ok but you get our drift. Dane surfs harder than anyone on this planet and, quite frankly, its a bit of a surprise his body lasted this long. Unfortunately this means the fresh footage flowing from Marinelayerproductions…
Jay Grant’s a busy man. He has been in Hawaii filming for Billabong. He is also best friends and neighbours with Craig Anderson. About 3-4 years ago Craig bought a video camera worth about $3000, not so he himself could film, but to give to Jay to use for his own purposes. Next thing you…
Surfing World magazine have thrown down a very enticing competition for all you arty types out there. Paint or draw a surfer, any surfer, and win $2,000. Shit, this really makes me wish I picked up a pencil at a young age instead of watching He-man and play fighting with my mates in the back…
It’s almost common knowledge that most surfers spend around a year to film a section for a film. Many a surf thrown away with no clips to show because of over surfing for the camera. Well, preconceptions can now be squashed with this edit by Nick Damen from one surf with Ryan Callinan. It was…
22 year old Nick Riley has already experienced enough, so far, in his young life to pass himself off as a 60 year old man rocking on his chair with stories waiting to go for the grandkids. He has seen the world a couple of times over and has, almost certainly, ridden more waves than…
Daren Karen wants your help! Dan is a 20 year old surfer from the Northern Beaches of Sydney and he needs your mouse clicking hands to vote for him, once a day for the next week to put him on the hard slogging road that is the World Qualifying Series. Its a massive helping hand…
Duncan Mcnicol is a name you may not be familiar with. The way the surfing world is growing at the moment means there can be world class surfers, unsponsored world class surfers, at tiny beaches all over our country. Duncan is one of those surfers. Naturally talented on that piece of foam that we all…
Andy was laid to rest yesterday in his home town of Hanalei Bay on Kauai. This clip courtesy of Billabong is very touching, bringing a tear to our eye.
REST IN PARADISE Andy, you will never be forgotten.
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When the rain falls, the streets are empty,the skateparks are deserted and football fields are flooded. All there is to do is surf.
Sam Page takes us through a dark, mysterious look at the wet underworld of Manly. His surfing shines through.
“Into each life, some rain must fall”
We love Ryan. He’s a humble kid who always has a big smile on his face. He’s mellow as hell and is almost too easy to get along with. Personality aside, his surfing is out of this world. He has more flair and style than nearly anyone his age in the world. This lovely clip…
Like most young surfers competing on the junior series I was also sponsored by Billabong. A Winter/Summer pack at my doorstep, Bong sticker slapped on the nose, travelling domestically from team house to team house and then the big trip once a year to Hawaii, crammed into a house at Sunset Beach full of eager…
Here is episode 2 of our AM/PM feature with Craig Anderson. In this episode Craig talks on his final, DVD release, Innersection part, surfing with The Modern Collective and much more. Hit the play button, sit back and dive into Craig’s world for 6 minutes. x
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Today while most of us were staring at computer screens, or digging holes, Jack Freestone was busy getting pitted out of his mind and throwing down tweaked air reverses to win the Oakley World Junior in Bali and finally, Australia, we have a World Junior Champ… Well sort of. You see people, this year, if…
Here you go world! A brand new stand-up boardsports, and arts culture magazine focusing on the now, the tomorrow and the yesterday. This looks cool as shit and it’s good to see a couple of young guys doing something fresh. Issue one comes all wrapped up in a nice little package with a free zine,…
We like Ellis Ericson! He has been a busy little man logging and shredding on a shorty also ridin’ fixies around the northern beaches. This is part one and two of a three episode short film with etnies. Stay tuned for part three.
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Cheyenne Tozzi is arguably the hottest export Australia has ever produced. She moves with effortless grace and is second to none in front of the lens. Golden skin and eyes that scorch the soul. Here’s the footage from the Mambo Goddess summer campaign. Hearts will race and undoubtably break. Watch at your own peril. Filmed…
Kai Neville is at it again! The man who changed surfing with Modern Collective is behind the lens creating another Hi-Fi surf vid. It’s called LOST ATLAS and so far stars CRAIG ANDERSON, OWEN WRIGHT, DION AGIUS, JULIAN WILSON & YADIN NICOL. Everything Kai does oozes style, and his new film is no different. Once…
Welcome to Velvet Sea’s first feature video peeps. Ep 1. is Craig Anderson cruising around his hood chatting to us about what brought him here to OZ, why he doesn’t like contest surfing and what films he is working towards!
There are 3 episodes with this feature so stay tuned…
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Chippa Wilson and Riley Blakeway’s new project looks to be a doozy. These guys have been filming/surfing all over the globe at some rad places and by the looks of things, and the way people have been talking they’ve been loggin’ some epic clips too!
Check out their blog and movements here http://www.nowanalogmpp.com/
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B and C grade clips from a weekend with Mitch Coleborn and Michael Spencer up the coast.
Filmed by Nicholas Damen
Edit By Aaron Price
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Here’s a sexy little edit by Sam Page from a winter shorebreak session at Queenscliff a few weeks ago… VS