I’d hate to be a surf reporter out in Rio right now covering the Billabong Rio Pro. It must be a nightmare what with the sun, sand, bikinis at every turn and the Worlds best surfers. I’d much prefer being in a hot office with a broken fridge, incessant phone ringing and never ending deadlines, [...]
Archive for Taj Burrow
Taj Burrow and Big Yellow Duck
Creative Destruction have clearly got bored of making surf films and decided to go for the abstract. In this video they film one of the crew dressed up as a yellow duck scaring kids and dogs on the streets of New York. Is it art? Is it a post modern statement on the virtues of [...]
Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow, Mark Matthews Video Excellence
Itching for more video excellence from 10 x ASP World Champion Kelly Slater? No? You sure cause that kind of messes up the point of this post? Um, I’m just going to brazenly pretend you didn’t say no. Roll up, roll up, have your daily cravings satiated with this video of Kelly Slater, Taj Burrow [...]
Fight The Power – Surfers Taj Burrow, Damien Hobgood, Pat Gudauskas Vs. Public Enemy
The worst written, longest blog post title in history was cobbled together to highlight the fact Taj Burrow, Damien Hobgood and Pat Gudauskas are co-opting the Public Enemy message to fight the powers that be. They surfed J-Bay and Port Elizabeth to show the World what incredible spots these are and just how sucky it [...]
Taj Burrow Vs Beth Ditto
Taj Burrow learnt all his moves from me, it’s a little known fact but I’m just putting it out there. He also learnt how to make compelling surf footage work to the sounds of Beth Ditto as this totally unedited all live action video demonstrates. As that sniper said in Saving Private Ryan “Opum, Mind [...]
The Continuing Adventures of Creative Destruction – Ch 6 #3
Passing up perfect barrels. Pushing each other to extremes at every set. Mitch Parkinson talking too much. One of the best trips ever. Dusty Payne, Taj Burrow. The most amazing continous tubes. Everyone seeming propper happy… Yeah well apart from yours truly. Watch this video to experience equal amounts of empathic joy and equal ‘I [...]
