I am watching with true fascination the events unfolding before our eyes. Gone are the days where you would hear about the latest war events from your favorite TV channel. These days you can follow @operation_anon on twitter calling you to “battle”, battle being downloading LOIC from sourgeforce.net and botnet DDOS attacking Mastercard, Visa and the like.
Only a mere thousand of an alleged 260k cables being under the possesion of wikileaks has been released. So far so good, nothing too major – maybe only king Abdullah (of Saudi Arabia) asking the US to go on war with Iran. The spasmodic panic reactions from Governments and Corporations alike are quite worrying. As is the zeal with which Assange is being pursued by the swedish government over the rape case.
I can now say I’ve seen it all. Supreme skateboards now produces nunchucks. Who is supreme?
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The winner Olympics are just over. Working with Kaos and sharing an office with &.Inc’s Kris Hansson obviously we get very involved with winter Olympics stuff.
I come from Greece. I mean there’s snow and everything but it’s true, snowsports is not Greece’s main attraction. I mean when people go “LIKE OMG IZ THERE SNOZ IN GREECE?” might not be as far from the truth as I’d want to admit. I’ve always been missing that spark to be inspired, not only just me but really all Greeks, by the winter Olympics.
Enter Alana Blanchard. In case you have been living under a stone for the past five years, she is a WCT sufer (finished 13th last year) and ranked 5th in the Surfer Magazine poll awards. Now I don’t generally agree with the generic descriptions on people’s personal promotion websites, but this is pretty damn accurate.
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Usually when posting here I try to provide some insight with my writing. Today it’s not about that, it is just about posting incredibly amazing videos. And by amazing I mean looking death in the eye and barely escaping. It’s one of those days.
Lately I’ve been finding myself getting more and more interested in articles and journalists that go off the beaten track and say things that are not too pc.
Now that I’m having a second thought about it possibly everybody likes them and that’s why we know who guys like Perez Hilton or our action sports’ very own Lewis Samuels is.
Well, some time ago I stumbled upon this guide on the mustachio. I’ve been meaning to write something about that ever since and know its not very recent but you know what? It’s a timeless gem that will be worth writing about until the day that snow turns purple.
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Here at Kaos we are really devastated by the loss of MJ.
Nah, just kidding we are not really devastated, slight sad not devastated and anyway we had a small chat about him passing away. Enough with being polite though.
Speaking for myself I will remember him as a very special man.
And by special man, I mean black gone white/sleeping in an oxygen tent/children lovin’/ hip swingin/neverland ownin/ creepy/ crazy talented/sad and weird dude. He also had some good tracks. And by good I mean friggin amazing. Of course all those things contributed into making him an icon, the king of pop. Don’t worry this is not an obituary, you’re having plenty of those in the press right now.
Without any further ado, allow me to remind you of this legendary Skate Mental’s skateboard picturing Micheal Jackson and E.T. and reading Alien vs Predator. Behold, the graphic of all graphics.
Props to Kris for reminding me.
You ask: Now who the f**k is Lewis Samuels?
He answers: Simple; I’m a rabid, hyper-knowledgeable surf fan who isn’t shy about telling it like it is. Or at least how I see it. I have access to pretty much the same data you do, except I actually waste my time looking at every bit of it.
I answer: He’s that dude that got hired by surfline; or even better convinced Surfline to offer him a salary in exchange for his ASP world tour surfer power rankings. He later on got fired because his writing was too critical of Surfline’s policies of content moderation (a.k.a. they would not allow him to talk shit about surfers that were sponsored by Surfline’s advertisers).
After getting fired he went on and started posting his “unfiltered thoughts on surf culture” on his blog, postsurf.com.
Simply put he is the Perez Hilton of the surfing world. Well no, he’s even more than that. Imagine a Jewish, surfer, Da-Hui hated and pursuied writer and you’ve got the picture.
His voice offers a new perspective to the corporate, Hawaii ruled world of modern surfing- and its absolutely hilarious.
Please, do yourselves a favour and check postsurf.com.
Or if you are not yet convinced, here is what he has to say about Joel Parkinson following his two wins and early exit at BillabongPro Tahiti.
“Joel Parkinson can find solace in recent history. Like Joel, Slater started last year with two wins, only to fall early at Chopes. Fortunately for Slater, all the other contenders fell early, too. Same story this year, as Parko’s real rivals (Mick, CJ, and Kelly) dropped the ball. Instead, two more toothless quasi-contenders emerged from the shadows – Taj Burrow and Bobby Martinez. Only trouble is, Parko is not Kelly Slater. So there’s no guarantee he’ll win the next one. Preserving a big lead is mostly a mental game. The rest of Parko’s year might play out like a teenager on mushrooms taking a phone call from their grandparents. The internal monologue running like this: “Don’t freak out man, don’t freak out. Just act normal, do what you’d usually do… wait, what do I usually do? What does being normal even mean?? Why am I talking to myself? Am I saying this out loud? Am I licking the phone? Why am I licking the phone? Are my pants wet? Did I pee on myself? I can’t tell if they’re wet or not. OH SHIT! I forgot how to breathe, I forgot how to BREATHE!”
