Archive for Moving Pictures
December 4, 2007 at 12:31 am | Spongercity Contests, Moving Pictures News
Yeah, noteworthy it is: the Canary Island event just started today at El Confital (Gran Canaria). The wave rocks and we hope the swell is gonna pump for the event. Only Ben Player or Amaury Laverhne can still be crowned 2007 world champ. For more about the event, scores and happenings, log on the IBA site, they cover all events really well: IBAworldTour.com.
Also noteworthy for you aussies reading this: the ROAM movie premiere is on the 7th of Dec. at 7.30 pm (BBQ) and 8pm (Film Starts) – Nomad Warehouse, Showroom 31 / 200 Canterbury Rd Bayswater VIC 3153 (enter via Bayfield Rd) – It’s $10.00 per head. Chris James, Glen & Bryce Thurston will be there. For further details email: contact@nomad.com.au or visit www.nomad.com.au. ROAM will be officially released on December 10. Make sure you watch the teaser here.
Also available on the 10th of December is the “HOW TO” Dvd from the maker of Australian Made. It’s an instructional bodyboarding DVD narrated by some of the biggest names in the industry including Ryan Hardy, Nick & Simon Ormerod, Michael Honeybone, Michael Novy, Eppo. Tom Wilson & Nick Perry. “How To” covers everything you need to know from purchasing a bodyboard to completing a forward spin to developing your style. As well as being an instructional DVD there is plenty of unseen bodyboarding footage to keep you amped for the surf. Some of the sections featured on How To include how to complete a:
- Forward spin
- Reverse spin
- A roll
- Air roll spin
- Back-flip
- Air forward
- Air reverse
- Invert air
Check David’s site here: http://www.davidchildfilms.com/
Running time: 50mins
Rating: E (Exempt from classification)
Format: PAL
We’ll post the FACE dvd reviews this week end, for those who havent heard or watched the DVD yet.
November 24, 2007 at 7:47 pm | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
We talked about The Panic Button a while ago and posted links to their youtube teasers but now their website is eventually online, it looks sick and you’ll be able to watch the DVD teaser and download their podcast as well. We’ll add The Panic Button teaser on the Spongercity Podcast if we can. Check the website here.
November 7, 2007 at 1:04 am | Spongercity Magazines, Moving Pictures News
Riptide issue 160 is out. It says “Biggest issue ever” on the cover and jeez, yes, it’s sick and nice! Check it out.
We just got the brand new HELLO (luck squirrel club) teaser which is awesome. We’ll add it on the Podcast ASAP. While waiting for it, you can already watch it here. “This is a film that’s fun, colourful and if anything has too much personality. We want the viewer to be involved, we want them to walk away better for the experience. We didn’t sit on a beach shooting riders we had no relationship with, or paddled out and shot the same footage as 3 other film crews. We wanted to personalise this film so it had to be about the people, not purely about what happened in the water.”
Their DVD will be out in 1 or 2. Stay tuned, more news coming soon.
Last but not least, in the same vein as THE INSIDE but 13 years later, Scotty Carter’s new project with Mike Stewart called FIRE, which we talked about a while back, eventually has a teaser to watch. It’s here and it looks different and pretty interesting.
October 15, 2007 at 10:54 pm | Spongercity Industry, Magazines, Moving Pictures News
Movie premiere: Ozzie riders, beware, don’t freakin’ miss the Waldron Bros movie premiere for THERE IS NO I. Here is the premiere flyer. 3rd of Nov. : Note this down on your text books !
Industry news flash: Check the new CUSTOMX website that R.Crawford designed. New site, new boards, heaps of news and stuff to read on it. Good stuff.
Paper candy: Portuguese riders, beware, VERT mag issue 82 is out, it’s got a nice cover, as usual and heaps of stuff inside with a good design.
October 11, 2007 at 10:02 pm | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
Yeah, boogieboard vids have weird names nowadays hey ! The new Lucky Squirrel Club DVD is called HELLO and will be out summer ‘07 in Oz, which is winter ‘07 if you leave in nothern hemi of course. At the same time the boys from The Panic Button are working on their DVD called DRAW which seems to focus on massive freakin’ slabs as you’ll notice in their newest teaser here. We posted a news a while ago about their DVD with 2 more teasers here.
Maybe we talked about US HERE NOW also a while ago, i dont remember. Anyway, here’s the teaser here.
Note that TRANSFER is out this week also in Oz. It’s a NF Aus. project.
Don’t know if you noticed but this is one a the busiest year ever for bodyboarding videos. Just to name a few: Faces, Us Here Now, Transfer, Decade, Australian Made II, Insert Name Here, There is no I, Dot Dot Dash, PussyBoogers…
We’ll post the DECADE review this week end as well as the RING OF FIRE review (Californian video).
September 30, 2007 at 11:23 pm | Spongercity General, Moving Pictures, Photography News
This week we teamed up with Aussie Photographer Chris Gurney who sent us some of his West Oz shots and we uploaded a sweet little West Oz gallery here. Make sure to check Chris pics out coz they look niiiiice.
Last minute update: Insert Name Here _ teaser is now available on the Podcast for all subscribers out there. Just refresh your iTunes podcast thing and you’ll see that the Insert Name Here _ teaser will appear in the podcast clips list.
Oh by the way the Spongercity Podcast is now officially available on the iTunes store (yes it’s free). It will hopefully help more spongers get their dose of teasers and clips on their iPods to kill time at school and on flat days.
September 28, 2007 at 8:14 pm | Spongercity General, Moving Pictures News
Hey hey hey! Sorry for lagging, we’re currently developping some new stuff and got too busy developping instead of delivering fresh news here. We just heard that AGENT 18 was hitting the stores very very soon in Oz with a shitload of nice suits for Aussies out there. Check their new catalog here and start frothing! Control-click or Right-Click the link and save the pdf on your computer. I gotta get myself one of those zebra ones. Yewww.
Other than that we eventually got our hands on the latest INSERT NAME HERE teaser and made it available for download here on the Media page as well as the Movement Mag 19 teaser. Yeah, i know you’ve seen them on You”crappy”tube but the quality was bad and you couldn’t download them right ? So for those who asked us, yep go to the Media page and control-click / right-click on any video link you want to get the teaser – save target as…
For those who subscribe to the Spongercity Podcast the INSERT NAME HERE teaser will be available tomorrow. Anyway the downloadable version on the media page is iPod compatible so knock yourselves out and upload it manually on your iPod if you cant wait anymore.
The DECADE video review is coming super soon. For now all i gotta say is that the video was good, with good hardy stuff, dre & ross, hawaii, massive chopes, cool music, good editing… and awesome skipper stuff. Oh yeah, i gotta say it twice, skipper section rocks.
September 20, 2007 at 9:31 pm | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
If you’re in Europe you can now watch some of your favorite bodyboard DVDs (or any other sports by the way) for less than 3 euros on X-tremevideo.com. There’s only a few titles available at the moment because it just started but heaps of DVDs should be available with this VOD thing. We think that you can only pay in Euro currency but other than that the VOD system works anywhere in the world and on any computer & browser. Choose “bodyboard” on the VOD channel page and enjoy. ABC by Mickey Smith is available for 3 euros.
September 10, 2007 at 11:20 pm | Spongercity General, Moving Pictures News
David Child is releasing AUSTRALIAN MADE II this month and as David said, it’s gonna be packed with “unseen quality Australian gold”. David is also releasing a HOW TO dvd, featuring coaching by riders such as Ryan Hardy & Nick Ormerod. The film is aimed to appeal to all riders from first timers to the intermediate and advanced. Covering everything from buying your first board, wave knowledge, stretching to spins, back flips and perfecting you style. Release date is Nov the 12th.
The FACES dvd is now available by the way. Heaps of DVD reviews are coming on Spongercity.com with the DECADE review and a shitload of aussie vids.
Last minute update: RIPTIDE issue 159 is available, check it out here and also peep the cover here. On the Riptide site is says:
Here’s to new beginnings and fresh content. Of course, there’s all the usual departments you’ve come to expect from RT plus plenty, plenty more.
Oh, just one more thing while we’re on the topic of new beginnings and fresh content how insane is Max Arent’s first cover!
Fed up with Gold Coast crowds and the hustle and bustle of Surfers Paradise, Ryan Hardy, Liam O’Toole and young-gun Tommy Smith cleared the ditch between Oz and NZ earlier this year. They returned with tales of isolated kegs, brain-freezing temperatures and scenery straight out of ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
John Showell is arguably the best 21-year-old in the country right now; so why don’t we hear more of the young chap? Nick Lawrence (Riptide’s Ed) ventured to John’s hometown of Cronulla or ‘The Shire’ to find out more.
Although it almost seems like a lifetime since the 2007 Human Shark Island Challenge, RT takes you behind the scenes and profiles the experiences of the tight-knit crew (riders, judges and organisers) who are the lifeblood of the coveted Island event.
Want to win all of Benny Player’s gear? Then here’s your chance! Head to Riptide’s Forum for all the details on how win yourself his swanky set-up.
September 2, 2007 at 9:56 pm | Spongercity Moving Pictures News
After the release of the films “Denis” and “Leroy” the Waldron Bros were continually asked “can you name the next film after me?” and subsequently their new movie is titled “Insert Name Here ___,” and even comes with a texta so everyone can name it whatever the hell you want; Fred, Sally, Bob, Gertrude; you get the idea.
Showcasing shredders such as World Champ Jeff Hubbard, Queenslander’s Corey McLean and Joe Clarke. Other sections include all the usual pros and young rippers filmed in Queensland, Hawaii, the South Coast, Victoria, Western Australia, Bali, and Chile.
The DVD is out September 20.
Premiere Details coming soon.
Peep the screen caps we’ve got here. Screen cap one, two, three, four, five.
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