“Those boys have some epic tales…” said Craig of his recent trip to the South Coast of Australia with Occy and Matt Hoy. Later this week we’ll dig into some of those tales and begin chronicaling the final few months before Craig releases his new film, Slow Dance, which will be released this summer.
Craig has literally criss-crossed the globe like six times making this flick, sometimes darting for a swell, sometimes hunkering down for weeks until there is a swell. Sometimes never getting a swell. During our recent trip to Australia I remember standing next to Craig at a bar and chatting. I then saw him again at the same bar three days later. “What have you been up to?” I asked.
“Well, I went to Tahiti for two days…just got back,” he chuckled. Sneaky two days in Tahiti and right back.
This most recent trip in Australia is one of the final installments and from the looks and sounds of it, there was no shortage of story time. Occy was filming Craig on a Handy Cam. Matt Hoy was sinking beers with Mick Lowe and the old boys were having a hell time reminiscing.
We’ll have more behind the scenes of Craig’s film later this week.
Craig Anderson and Occy, filming for Slow Dance, South Coast Collected Thoughts 041
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You don’t have a clue who Luke Davis really is. Neither did we. Collected Thoughts 038
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Creed McTaggart, Filming for This Is Us, a new What Youth Series Collected Thoughts 037
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On the set of What Youth and Reef’s new film Anything Sing Collected Thoughts 035
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Old Fashioned road trip down the South Coast of Australia Collected Thoughts 034
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Ben Nordberg and Curren Caples, Venice, California Collected Thoughts 033
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Craig Anderson Post-Flight nap on a cold California Day Collected Thoughts 032
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A What Youth Press Release Collected Thoughts 031
PHOTO: Screenshot from Pretty Sweet I think it’s the scene in the new skate video Pretty Sweet where they are spraying, toasting and blasting beer into the air. It’s snowing and it’s shot on RED, just a brilliant moment. Someone must have stomped a sick one. It’s unfiltered fuck it! Right there on the screen….
Dane and Gabriel in Hawaii Collected Thoughts 030
PHOTO: Chenoweth I’m trying to keep calm. I’m trying to carry on. But after doing some responsible drinking, I’m going to chime in. Since Friday, two maneuvers were pulled off that were crazy. One by Dane in competition — a turn that perfectly demonstrates his disregard for things like waves, surfboards and competitive strategy. The…
Craig Anderson, Changed ticket Collected Thoughts 029
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Day one in France with Dion Collected Thoughts 028
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