Now that Go Pro owns the world of action sports, and any shredder with a selfie stick or a mouth-held Hero 4 can be an online action star, why bother hiring helicopters and cameramen to shoot an old-fashioned surf movie?
The newly released surf epic follows rising surf star John John Florence as he cuts his way across 50-foot swells off remote shores in Africa, Brazil, and Tahiti. The 23-year-old Hawaii native starred in the roughly $2 million film, which was a partnership with Brain Farm, a production company that is the Lucas Films of action sports filmmaking. Florence and his crew spent three years, broke about 70 surfboards, and employed as many as three high-tech 4K RED cameras (cost: $50,000 each) in a day … More
Northwest Video Scrapbooks’ most anticipated series starts off with a look at some of the early descents on the Little White Salmon River at a time when whitewater kayaking was making its biggest progression.
The full chapter can be seen in Northwest Video Scrapbook #7 with a fifteen year jump to the 2008 season which gives a glimpse into the overall changes in the river & growth of creek boating on the best day run anywhere!