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Nathan Oldy sent in his latest trailer for Seaworthy the other day. That officially makes it trailer week at 70, and I for one am stoked we’ll soon have three new films (with TCs The Present) out to stoke us on every aspect of surfing, from logs to fish to planks of wood.

You can spy the first Seaworthy trailer here.

If a trailer’s job is to tease you into wanting to see the movie, this one does it’s job. Impeccable nose riding, a few underwater shots from the sesh with Christianson Christenson and the boys in Typhoon lagoon, and way too short. Just one thing though… what’s the band and name of the song?

UPDATE: Mikey says the song is “Osaka Loop Line” by Discovery and points to a version of the Trailer in HD. Also, I just noticed, the guy getting pitted in the middle of the trailer, is riding an alia.

I love the cinematography in this trailer. The filmmaker is headed to Austrailia to film more and he’s got footage of typhoon lagoon with Chris Christenson and others, underwater. I’m going to stop posting and beg him for that clip right now.

Small adventures is a short film about the artist Ryan Heywood created by Nathan Oldfield (Lines From A Poem and the upcoming Seaworthy).

Poached from the fine blog, nereukinesis.

UPDATED WITH RANT:
Does anyone actually believe Bob McNight when he says, “It wasn’t that the surf industry did anything wrong, it’s just that there are so many more poeple in the water today…”?

I’ve stayed away from rants against commercialism for the most part. I like that we have warmer wetsuits, I like the fact that some of us get paid to push surfing as far as it goes. But this quote pisses me off. This quote makes it apparent that Bob McKnight thinks you have the IQ of a patch of rotting kelp.

Hey BOB, why does Quiksilver sponsor surf schools? A: To GROW it’s consumer base. Hey BOB, why does Quiksilver create viral videos geared towards non surfers? A: To make surfing look cooler and GROW it’s consumer base. What happens while you are making surfing look cooler to the masses (the marketing equivalent of naming a secret spot) and poping new surfers out of camps? A: Our lineups GROW.

Hey BOB, newsflash: You are the crowd problem, but I think you know that. Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Its also every other publicly owned surf company who’s sole mission has changed from scoring uncrowded waves to making more money for the shareholders. I can take the crowded lineups though. It sucks, but I can take it. What I can’t take is your bullshit.

Because there isn’t enough footage languishing in the black hole that eats surf films, I’d like to drop some rumors on you. Thomas Campbell is working on a new flick, Alex Kopps is working on an all Hull surf film with Dan Malloy, Knost, and others.

From the ‘exists’ but ‘not currently released’ category, Patagonia’s Sea Legs isn’t going to be the complete surf movie I was hoping for. Apparently its only slated to be a 15 minute short documenting a Mentawais trip and is to be given out for free at retail. Don’t fret though, Chris Malloy is reportedly working on a new and very secretive effort.

The good news? Thread is making it’s way south from it’s LA premiere, One California Day has seen the light of day in Europe and will premiere stateside on July 7th in El Segundo. You’ve probably got a lucky wedding to go to though. Anyone know what’s going on with Hydrodynamica?

Oh, and Point Break 2 is real.

The Invasion From Planet C is aptly named. It’s a C grade movie, with C grade acting and I loved every minute of it. Never-mind that some of the acting is painful (though not as painful as any line delivered in Campaign 2) and that you have a few friends that longboard with similar abilities as the two aliens in question. Surfing and acting isn’t the point of this groundbreaking film.

The point is to subversively release a message to the surfing public. The message? Surfing wasn’t started by the Polynesians, Hawaiians or the Peruvians. Surfing was brought to earth by aliens through the intergalactic mining of stoke. Rather than choosing a preachy docudrama format, the filmmakers have slyly chosen get their message out through the “fictitious” story of Gnar Gnar and Casanova. These two aliens arrive on earth in an effort to save Planet C from a devastating lack of stoke, by mining it on Earth with 10 foot stoke collection pods.

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Patrick Trez shoots just about every kind of surf photography going. Action, lineups, lifestyle you name it, he does it. He also makes films, which brings us to one of his latest offerings: a surf movie called Thread. (thanks PR)

UPDATE: You know what would be really cool? Linking the freaking movie ->THREADS.

Photos: Josh Kimball

Under The Sun update #4 more photos in the erBB thread.