Tag: surfer

• Endless Cannibalization of Authenticity, Cease

  

  Bruce Brown’s 1966 The Endless Summer(TES) presented an alternative narrative to the shenanigans of the many beach/surfy lifestyle movies that erupted from Hollywood after Gidget emerged to much fanfare in 1958. In TES, there are no post-surf bonfire orgies, no frustrating hetero-love triangles that finally resolve in dramatic Hollywood fashion, and certainly no surfing ladies…

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  May 7, 2013

  Deconstructing Surfing, environment, Environmental Justice, Feminism, History, Surfing

  ambassadorship, ASP, association of surfing professionals, Big Surfing, branding, consumerism, Cori Schumacher, Feminism, SIMA, sponsorship, surf brands, surf industry, surfer, surfing, Ted Endo

• strange imperialism and neoliberal ethos of the Surf Industrial Complex

  Image: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net “Surfing is good for the world.” -Fernando Aguerre When I decided to boycott the women’s longboard championship in China last year, I received an email from the then ASP World Tour CEO, Brodie Carr, who suggested that I “proactively go there [China] as an ambassador of a sport that possesses…

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  January 19, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, asp world tour, brodie carr, China, Cori Schumacher, Duke, duke kahanamoku, Fernando Aguerre, isa, longboarding championship, Richard Grellman, sri lanka, surf imperialism, surf neoliberalism, surfer, surfing, WHK Group, Women on waves