Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Magoo - you're correct about JK and surfing - although I think the story was that the rights to his Outside article about an American surfer killed at a break called "Jaws" had been purchased by Tom Hanks. I just picked up Jon latest book about religious murders in Utah for my summer-holiday-reading-in-a-tent-by-headlamp enjoyment.
The doc Riding Giants is directed by Stacy Peralta who also directed the skateboard documentry "Dogtown and Z-Boys". Dogtown was incredible and by all accounts Riding Giants outshines it. Peralta is quite a story himself, one of the first skateboard millionaires he helped build the Powell/Peralta skateboard empire where he got his start in filmmaking with Powell Team skate movies including the classic, "Animal Chin", which introduced the world to young guy named Tony Hawk.
He walked away from his job at Powell a few years back to pursue film, directed some commercials and music videos and eventually released Dogtown.
The doc Riding Giants is directed by Stacy Peralta who also directed the skateboard documentry "Dogtown and Z-Boys". Dogtown was incredible and by all accounts Riding Giants outshines it. Peralta is quite a story himself, one of the first skateboard millionaires he helped build the Powell/Peralta skateboard empire where he got his start in filmmaking with Powell Team skate movies including the classic, "Animal Chin", which introduced the world to young guy named Tony Hawk.
He walked away from his job at Powell a few years back to pursue film, directed some commercials and music videos and eventually released Dogtown.
