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• Behind the Scenes of "The Ordinary Skier," the Award-Winning Movie About Seth Morrison

  

  Posted 6 months ago by Chasen Marshall

  You know the name Seth Morrison and you’ve likely seen the award-winning flick, “The Ordinary Skier,” which is all about his rise from Chicago to freeskier legend-status. But how about what it took to put the movie together? No? Here’s a sneak-peak of what was going on behind the lens from one of the skiers/filmers, Nathan Wallace.

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• New "Oakley Dispatch" Episode: Crew Scores Empty, Slabbing Barrels in Java

  

  Posted 6 months ago by Chasen Marshall

  “I would imagine it looks like Bali 30 years ago,” said Sebastian ‘Seabass’ Zietz upon arriving in Java. With so much less development, fewer motorbikes, and empty lineups than neighboring Bali, he might be right. In the eighth episode of the Oakley Dispatch Surf Webisode Series, Seabass, Danny Fuller, Dustin Barca and Eric Geiselman join up with Bali-transplant Lee Wilson and some other local talent in a four-day trip to Java, in hopes of discovering and capturing some of that Indo magic surf to themselves.

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• Youth Getting to Work in "Pretty Wise"

  

  Posted 7 months ago by Chasen Marshall

  Youth is wasted on the young, some say. Well, in “Pretty Wise,” the new film by People Films, it certainly appears like the crop of 11 rising stars (along with three veterans) are effectively putting their early years and blossoming talent to good use. Hitting the city streets from Quebec to Anchorage, the backcountry powder in Whistler and Montana, and then Austria, Mt. Baker, Japan and Mammoth, as well, along the way, the spotlight is shined on faces you’ve certainly seen but maybe not yet been able to identify. Theirs are names and faces you better get to know.

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