Taylor Steele Surfing Results
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Taylor Steele, Albee Layer and an over-sized checkA well deserved celebratory sw..d out like some of social media cat-and-mouse game, with filmmaker
Taylor Steele dropping cryptic digital hints as he traveled from his adopted hom..lebeard it appears you're running late," he said in a voicemail to
Taylor Steele, "get your ass over to me friend Albee's house." In the end, Tayl
..The arrival of Taylor Steele's Innersection comp (and their 1st place $100,000 prize money) sure put a firecracker up a lot of the world's lesser known "soul" surfers' asses to get their video act tog
Taylor Steele's Innersection comp (and their 1st place $100,000 prize money) sure put a firecracker up a lot of the world's lesser known "soul" surfers' asses to get their video act together and start producing fi
..resentations of global surf culture. The old town of San Sebastián, and the Teatro Principal that dates to early 1900's, has been home to filmmakers such as Jack McCoy, Andrew Kidman, Patrick Trefz,
Taylor Steele, Chris Malloy and many others that have visited us to present their latest productions. Environmental issues, photography exhibitions, performances, live music in our night festival, we are all about
..s and building a level playing field was harder than it sounded. Now, thanks to a couple of free-thinking publications in Australia, we could see a new generation of self-made superstars after all.
Taylor Steele made the first leap into this realm with Innersection, a user-based contest that decided which handful of surfers would make his latest blockbuster surf film. While this opened the door to any surfer
..ons of global surf culture. The old town of San Sebastián, and the Teatro Principal that dates to early 1900´s, has been home to filmmakers such as Jack McCoy, Andrew Kidman, Patrick Trefz,
Taylor Steele, Chris Malloy and many others that have visited us to present their latest productions. Best Film Award 2011 - Lost in the Ether by Andrew Kidman. Environmental issues, photography exhibitions, per
..L Below are a few random iPhone snapshots from the trip thus far. Benji Weatherley has shaped himself close to a hundred surfboards in his career, even riding them in his sections in the infamous
Taylor Steele Campaign movies. Here, he passes along his knowledge to an eager Dylan Graves, working on shape number 3. The surf hasn't been amazing everyday, and some serious golf bouts have been going down
..He's one of my oldest friends." That's super cute and all, but they'd just be two more undiscovered island boys if it wasn't for the power of this thing called "the Internet": both surfers blew up on
Taylor Steele's Innersection project (Meola won the first $100k and Albee's a solid contender for this year's prize); they tandem-post a blog site together (meolalayerproductions.com); and now, they're launching t
..ble swell, they believe the audience will understand exactly what it looks like to have a 30-foot wave approaching. He doesn't have a blog, doesn't release webisodes, doesn't star in
Taylor Steele flicks anymore. Yet he travels the world, scoring in every way imaginable. The cameras must be rolling. So where's the pudding? Quiksilver recently decided to give us a little peak under the re
..He doesn't have a blog, doesn't release webisodes, doesn't star in Taylor Steele flicks anymore. Yet he travels the world, scoring in every way imaginable. The cameras must be rolling. So
Taylor Steele flicks anymore. Yet he travels the world, scoring in every way imaginable. The cameras must be rolling. So where's the pudding? Quiksilver recently decided to give us a little peak under the re
..ble swell, they believe the audience will understand exactly what it looks like to have a 30-foot wave approaching. He doesn't have a blog, doesn't release webisodes, doesn't star in
Taylor Steele flicks anymore. Yet he travels the world, scoring in every way imaginable. The cameras must be rolling. So where's the pudding? Quiksilver recently decided to give us a little peak under the re
.. Tracksmag.com caught up with Tom got a quick Q and A. Tracks:
Taylor Steele's use of M & M's So Long Ago was the first a lot of us heard o..s a song for Blink that got a spot on a lot of surf videos, mostly
Taylor Steele's surf videos, where he was putting our band along with the bigges..ing and skate boarding community. How did the relationship with
Taylor Steele come about? We knew Taylor from the area that we grew up in, Sa
..has only one European ambassador, but he's a rad one. That'll be the Basque Country's footloose Kepa Acero. Other ambassadors include Derek Hynd, John Moore, Rusty Long, Ryan Heywood, Steve Sherman,
Taylor Steele, Sandow Birk, Jesse Faen and Joel Patterson, who have all been contributing to blogs on the newly launched website. While not yet available to buy online or in stores across Europe, you can now chec
.. 17, 2012) - The Surfrider Foundation announced this week that it has teamed up with Hawaii's Torrey Meister to try and win this year's Innersection film competition. Created by acclaimed filmmaker
Taylor Steele, Innersection is a groundbreaking platform for surfers and filmmakers to capture the latest progressions in surfing and showcase them in unique video segments. The best submissions are consolidated i
..ed the grainy VHS tapes of Lost Enterprise's classics Whats Really Goin On (and Wrong), they will be hoisting the American flag together for the ISA World Games. At a time when Kelly Slater and
Taylor Steele where pushing a contrived, clean-cut, guitar-playing, all-smiles sort of image to the surf public, Lost just turned the camera on and pressed 'record'. The antics that ensued were as entertai
.. house today. An occasion tunnel for the lucky few. Photo Nate Smith Benji's house quickly became a rotational doorway for travelling surfers to come and go, hangout, have a beer, leave boards. "
Taylor Steele used to live in a van right near my place and Jack Johnson used to live a few doors up. Jack and I would get up early to walk to school and go and bang on the walls of Taylor's van to wake him up and
.., and Come Hell or High Water. GrindTV selection: Lost Atlas. The all-star cast pushes the progression of aerial surfing to new levels. Kai Neville continues to follow in the footsteps of his mentor
Taylor Steele. Always a fan favorite is the Worst Wipeout category. This year's nominees include Kohl Christensen (Surprise Excitement Party), Evan Faulks (Surprise Excitement Party), Nathan Fletcher (Teahup
.., and Come Hell or High Water. GrindTV selection: Lost Atlas. The all-star cast pushes the progression of aerial surfing to new levels. Kai Neville continues to follow in the footsteps of his mentor
Taylor Steele. Always a fan favorite is the Worst Wipeout category. This year's nominees include Kohl Christensen (Surprise Excitement Party), Evan Faulks (Surprise Excitement Party), Nathan Fletcher (Teahup
.. in waves. I was getting burned out, but it's been cool coming back in and seeing all this come together. This is an inspiring project. [Note: Johnny's been editing together the collected sections of
Taylor Steele's Innersection project.] What do you take away seeing the pool of young filmmaker projects that create Innersection? I think it's such a great initiative. It's great to empower indie filmmakers to ha
..Surf-smut-peddler Taylor Steele gave the surf world a good shake last year, debuting his new concept/contest/video INNERSECTION. A user-generated video part contest that attracted everyone from Kelly
Taylor Steele gave the surf world a good shake last year, debuting his new concept/contest/video INNERSECTION. A user-generated video part contest that attracted everyone from Kelly Slater to that kid down the str
.. SHERM: So this is Shane Dorian around 1993. He's at Taylor Steele's mom and dad's house in Solana Beach. And Taylor called me up and was all, "Shane's over here, have you ever met Shane Dorian?" And
Taylor Steele's mom and dad's house in Solana Beach. And Taylor called me up and was all, "Shane's over here, have you ever met Shane Dorian?" And I hadn't, but I knew who he was, so I went over, met him right qui
..ve movie back-catalogue to a new audience. Poor Specimen is the production house of surf filmmaker
Taylor Steele, who says "I'm really excited to bring all of the movies we've created over the years together in o..lms" stated Steele. "We're excited to have Poor Specimen on CHNL," said John Wander, CEO of CHNL. "
Taylor Steele represents the pinnacle of surf films and their selection of CHNL as the exclusive online venue fo
..se top surfers in the mix of sections. Not to mention the top filmmakers, who get to work with the big-name surfers. We're evolving. Return tomorrow for the final installment, and we learn what plans
Taylor Steele and Nathan Myers have for Innersection. [Hint: They're diversifying their portfolio]
.. Three years ago SURFING magazine editor Nathan Myers approached filmmaker Taylor Steele with an idea for evolving his annual high-performance surf movies into an online, user-generated, voter-
Taylor Steele with an idea for evolving his annual high-performance surf movies into an online, user-generated, voter-decided short film surf contest. The result was Innersection. [http://www.innersection.tv] In i
..crowd favorite with the second installment of Clash of the Legends: Momentum Generation Edition. Reef has invited Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Ross Williams, and Kalani Robb, all influential members of
Taylor Steele's breakthrough film Momentum, to take a crack at the $20,000 prize purse. The four competitors will surf three 30-minute heats and compete in a final round prior to the Men's Reef Hawaiian Pro final
..hom to feature first? After flicking through Tracks' Galactik issue, that decision was made for us when we spotted Hawaiian Ross Williams in a Reef advertisement. An original member of filmmaker,
Taylor Steele's Momentum generation, the 5'11" natural footer, Williams, has a rich surfing history and was white-hot in the nineties - literally. His trademark new-romantic blonde hairdo was seen lighting up line
.. know what it looked like but I was just trying to change stuff and mix it up." CJ is no stranger to the air, as one of the leaders of the aerial movement back in the Momentum II era (back when
Taylor Steele still made surf videos). World champion in 2001 and perennial title contender, CJ is among the bunch of surfers on tour that are in danger of becoming out-dated. (Note that Kelly Slater is not human
..new Sight + Sound II movie dominating the flat screen, Del Moro rocks his one-man show ’til the grand opening is grand closed. Then he rushes home to pack for Alaska, where he's meeting up with
Taylor Steele's transpacific swell-chase project. After that, he's kayaking down the California coast with Rasta's S4C Transparent Sea project, where he'll surely be creating plenty more liquid art on the run. "T
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Taylor Steele's Innersection is finally showing clear signs of evolving into the shred-fest-meets-film-festival it always shouldacoulda been. Want proof? Check out any of these five sections with focused momentum
..activists and media-ists in a month-long awareness campaign to serve as part of his upcoming movie. In India, I witnessed one of the purest, most expressive solo sessions of my life on a new wave for
Taylor Steele's Castles in the Sky. And in the Mentawais, I saw him hand-shape a driftwood alaia, then do tow-ats on it with Taj, Parko and Andy. Whatever's he doing, Rasta is for real. But, damn, it seems like
..nited States in the 1990 World Amateur Championships in Japan, finishing fourth while his highly touted teammate, Kelly Slater, finished fifth. In the early '90s, with a little help from his friend
Taylor Steele, maker of a progressive surf video titled Momentum, Knox became known as a key player in a group of fins-free heavy-hitters known as the New School-Slater, Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Shane Beschen an
..’s no better way to do that than watching fast-cut, strung-together people eating shit while surfing. When did the wipeout section become too lame for surf videos? I know it wasn’t just a
Taylor Steele thing. Kevin Welsh used to include similarly brilliant segments. Seemed like most videos used to have one, actually. Where are people stashing all the good flails from the world's best (and worst) su
..s year. It's put together by Absinthe Films who have a reputation as the best in the game. Imagine
Taylor Steele in a beanie and a puffy parka and you'll get the idea: big riders, big budgets, big action, catchy ..h a reggae version of Willie Nelson's "Still is Still Moving To Me" my surprise favorite. Like with
Taylor Steele's progressive surf films prestige goes to the rider who scores the final section. Nowhere's honors
.. Timmy in Iceland circa 2007, filming with Taylor Steele and honing his music by night. Photo: Myers
Taylor Steele and honing his music by night. Photo: Myers A few years back, I was in Iceland with Timmy ..n in your frozen ass), Timmy would burrow away in his room with Dan working on music for the movie (
Taylor Steele's Castles in the Sky). I wanted to hear them playing, but they were all locked away up there. I'd s
..d in it, which is pretty cool I think. And there are plenty of good waves on tour. It definitely pisses me off that I'm not in videos and don't get invited on trips and shit. I'm not gonna go down to
Taylor Steele and [beg]. I just kind of got a manager, so hopefully that will help get me into that kind of stuff. Growing up you're watching the guys on tour going mad and having a hell time. Then you get there a
..g secured the third winner place in the winter round of voting for
Taylor Steele's Innersection competition. A hugely stoked Tim announced this..eubs is pretty shocked, its just dawned on us how big this is. Its
Taylor Steele, It's the whole world... One injury and we are stuffed. Could be a.. Jordan. It doesn't get bigger for both of us than a Poor Specimen
Taylor Steele production. A1Surf: I understand you're short on kit right no
..c broke the mold last year when he earned little known Uruguayan soul-surfer Marco Giorgi a spot on
Taylor Steele's Innersection project (beating out Kelly Slater and Joel Parkinson's sections in the same ..really like it. I was really lucky that me and Marco Giorgi got the chance to get in a film made by
Taylor Steele with so many good surfers and directors in it. I was really happy to be a part of it. Tell us abou
..c broke the mold last year when he earned little known Uruguayan soul-surfer Marco Giorgi a spot on
Taylor Steele's Innersection project (beating out Kelly Slater and Joel Parkinson's sections in the same round), ..really like it. I was really lucky that me and Marco Giorgi got the chance to get in a film made by
Taylor Steele with so many good surfers and directors in it. I was really happy to be a part of it. Tell us about
..g buddy (http://meolalayerproductions.com/) Albee Layer is absolutely crushing the opening round of
Taylor Steele's DIY surf section contest. "Elliot Leboe filmed Meola's part last year," explains Taylor Steele, "..of Taylor Steele's DIY surf section contest. "Elliot Leboe filmed Meola's part last year," explains
Taylor Steele, "so he already had a good idea of what works in this format. He showed us an early version of Albe
..The event will be held at the Fairways Hotel in Porthcawl and is a Taylor Steele Movie Night, so will naturally features some films, plus a surf memoribilia auction, live band and a raffle. Tickets
Taylor Steele Movie Night, so will naturally features some films, plus a surf memoribilia auction, live band and a raffle. Tickets are just £5 and will be available to buy from this Saturday (14 May), but w
