some filler about living in san fran and stuff, but some neat shots of him building and good insight into his vision too.
(it doesn’t really get going until after the first minute if your’e in a hurry)
Thanks for sharing this- anything about Danny is great to see. He’s just a neat human, talented, doing something well, and totally unpretentious, without a speck of attitude. More power to him.
As an aside, cultural-commentary time- the style this video uses has gotten to be so totally cliched! I wonder who started it? Andrew Kidman maybe? You can just tick off the features- the fake film scratches, the solar flares (indoors, no less), the obsessive close ups slowly scanning across random objects, the vague, morose (and lousy) instrumental background music. All that’s missing is the seagrass blowing in the wind.
And if the images and editing represent a point of view, what sort of creature it would be, snuffling along after poor Danny? Something very stoned, for starters…
Danny Hess makes good boards and has a distinct style of his own…but I grow a bit tired of the endless roll out of such videos with the slow-mo footage , the constant mood music in the background , the deep philosophic dialogue and the slick production to create the mystic persona thing…would love to see a straight doco of Danny , just showing what he does …he doesn’t need that other bullshit.
Egg-zactly.
Our surfing culture is rich, but there’s a line of self-mythologizng that’s getting crossed more and more. Dogtown and the Z-boys is a good example.
Real people and the things they do are interesting enough without dipping everything in pseudo-profundity.
egg-zactly x 2
…hipster ia…seems that you guys have not enough hipsterness.
I really like the front of the shop, real cool.
I don’t know. Hipsteria or whatever yah want to call it is kind of a SF thing. Always has been as long as i’ve been alive. Would some other format capture accurately the culture of building boards in SF? Don’t know myself. Just wondering. I do know it is WAY different than southern California. My only critique is it didn’t show any surfing. ANyone notice how thick his fins were? Mike
Shinto rasp featured prominently. One of my favorite tools.
I have a theory about artistic expression in the US. Before maybe 1990, there had been a precentage of adults (that was steadily shrinking) who had never smoked weed. Media had traditionally been created to communicate to them.
Since the 60s, that percentage had been steadily shrinking. And around the beginning of the 90s, practically every adult had experienced, or still was, getting high.
And now, in 2014, everyone and (literally) their grandpa understands trippiness, repetitive zone-out whateverness, fragmented images, and all popular media is built on these new signifiers.
If you’re old enough to have been there, imagine it’s 1975, and you’re being shown an evening of 2014 television commercials, or able to listen to a bit of 2014 pop music. You’d think it was the most spaced-out gibberish you’ve ever seen or heard.
The weed has won. The world is high.
Have you got any diagrams to go with that theory?
(just kidding)
http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/Water-v8.gif
I had a jealous view point of his boards until I had to repair one. After dinged it was never nearly the same as the new board. With that price tag…
In Australia we have an affliction similar to Hipsteria. Known as Hype-steria,
Its generally confined to otherwise fit young men but they all suffer from a delusional belief that whatever’s currently hyped, is best.
40 year old single fins are prized possessions but brand new versions totally unlike the originals are more expensive.