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Pierouettes

By Rachel | Published: July 15, 2010

We got up early to catch morning light and glass from an elevated perspective provided by the St. Augustine Pier. Chris tested out his new log from Scott Anderson, Nick’s board ran into a piling, Jacob surfed in his skivvies, fun was had by all.

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Latest videographs

By Rachel | Published: July 10, 2010

The Hands Across the Sand event was started to gather support against offshore drilling. Given the climate after the oil spill, participation grew a great deal from the first event in February (check out Lauren’s video from then).

Also, this is an absurd celebration of Independence Day, explosions and the insanity of the beach on that weekend.

Finally, my friends found tar balls on our beach the other day. Pretty sad…Lauren has been doing some good documentation of it over at merseabeaucoup. Her video:

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Down with OCP

By Rachel | Published: June 9, 2010

Chris Tincher puts together a most excellent surfing and skating oriented website/blog. Oldest City Productions has photos and videos from various contributors centered around St. Augustine (The oldest continuously inhabited european settlement…aka the oldest city). My favorite part though, is Chris’s writing. He’s super opinionated and endlessly entertaining.

The other week I filmed with him and a few other crew. I can’t even approach his wordsmithing so I’ll just quote:

Fiberglass Runways Host a Mustache Fashion Show

A few of the Oldest City’s die hard toe curling fanatics have gotten their mitts on some custom aquatic sidewalks handcrafted by the Dirtona Dwellers of The Peninsula Holding Company. Last Saturday offered up some sectiony little salt water speed bumps so we here at the production company took to the atlantic (before BP ruins it for everyone) and slid our brains out. Great boards are even radder when they are made by good friends, and fitted with one of a kind fins crafted from broken skate decks. Personally, for me, the Peninsula Holding Company lamp tail slider is the go to noseriding vessel for summer time log jams. During this little gem Surf Station’s Rachel Bardin captured some sliding by Matt Fotte on his Chad Doyle shaped “Mustache Rider”.

In another sector of the surfing spectrum, here’s some rip shredding and wipe outs filmed few weeks ago.

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Surfing, work and cognitive dissonance

By rachel | Published: May 25, 2010

I work on a lot of videos and rarely post them here. These are a few videos I’ve done for Surf Station since my return. They are culturally significant, intellectually stimulating and deeply important. By that I mean they depict humans riding ripples in the sea on strange objects like over-sized sandals and longboards.

On a lighter note, check out this visual guide to cognitive biases.

Also, try a search for “oil spill” in google. Consider that the top result is an ad from BP. Straight from the horse’s mouth.

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Custodians of the Sea

By Rachel | Published: October 2, 2009

Today I tried stand up paddle boarding with Lauren for day two of 31 Days/31 Ways. It has gained a lot of popularity recently but is not the most respected activity in the surfing spectrum. It’s easy to make fun of things like this until you’ve tried it and made a complete fool of yourself. Suffice it to say that standing up on a relatively unstable surface having your hands occupied with a paddle is challenge enough. Add to that maintaining balance while catching a wave and you’ve got a pretty humbling but hilarious experience. We spent rest of the day making this loverly video for your viewing pleasure.

See more at Mer Sea Beaucoup

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