From Santa Monica Close Up:
"Santa Monica Police Officers from the Safety Task Force clean-up an abandoned homeless encampment at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, August 8, 2022. Some of the abandoned items were bolt cutters, bike tires and a knife. The person in the other encampment was issued a warning for camping in public places."
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Venice Boardwalk Gladiator Arena is active again this morning pic.twitter.com/Fhc96CfChr
— Save Venice (@SaveVenice1) August 9, 2022
Five Summer Stories debuted to a full house at the 3,000-seat Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on March 24, 1972. The audience hooted, stomped, and screamed from the opening frame to the intermission, then started over again with the second reel. Eve Babitz, covering the premiere for Rolling Stone, reported that the level of energy overshadowed her past experiences at major rock concerts.
It’s been called the finest surf film ever made. When Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman’s iconic surf film Five Summer Stories premiered in 1972, it took the surfing world by storm. The film’s unusual format – a montage of five-plus exciting, controversial and beautiful vignettes or stories – perfectly captured a fractured era in which an explosion of creativity and revolutionary change was shaking down the old order, taking the sport of surfing into new and unknown territory. With its groundbreaking use of super slow-motion surf cinematography, Five Summer Stories took the surf film genre to a new artistic level, inspiring a generation as it depicted the pure, innocent joy of surfing as symbolic of humankind’s best possibilities.
Now, in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, Greg has edited a new version with ten stories instead of the original five. Digitally re-mastered and with a new digital soundtrack featuring the music of Honk and the Beach Boys, this truly is the best version of this classic film.
Featuring 35 surfers! Including Gerry Lopez, David Nuuhiwa, Eddie Aikau, Jeff Hakman, Corky Carroll, Buttons Kaluhiokalani, Dru Harrison, Shaun Tomson, Margo Godfrey Oberg, Lynne Boyer, Billy Hamilton, Sammy Hawk, Herbie Fletcher, Rory Russell, and many more.
On August 25th, Laemmle Monica Film Center will host a screening of the film.
The screening starts at 7:30PM and has 135 minute runtime (includes a 15 minute intermission).
To buy tickets and for more info, Click Here
In his fascinating new memoir, Five Hundred Summer Stories, Greg shares his personal journey as an artist, self-made filmmaker, father and entrepreneur at the head of MacGillivray Freeman Films, the only documentary production company to gross $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. It is also a story about MacGillivray’s deep commitment to family, to conservation and to raising awareness about the importance of protecting our natural heritage for generations to come. Greg’s compelling stories of adventure, filmmaking, love, loss, inspiration and determination give readers a front seat to an extraordinary life — and, just like his IMAX movies, make you feel as if you are there.
The book is avaliable for pre-order on Amazon
From Santa Monica Close Up:
"The 46th Annual Festival of the Chariots parades down Main Street in Santa Monica and Venice on Sunday, August 7, 2022."
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So here's the whole deal on Malibu's Andy Lyon smashing a kid's surfboard drama.
A video with the text "The Angriest Man In Surfing" get posted to Tik Tok, showing a surfer dropping in on a "kid", and burning him. The video then cuts to the argument on the beach where the Angriest Man throws a huge rock onto the kid's surfboad putting a large gash in it. Angriest Man then throws the kid's board out into the water. The video shows the kid going to retrieve his board and shows the damage done to it.
Here is the full video:
After this video was posted, it went somewhat viral.
People were pretty quick to point out who the Angriest Man is.
Several people on Tik Tok, Instagram, and websites where the video was shared, like Reddit, were not only revealing that the surfer was Andy Lyons, they also started posting his Instagram info, which led to a lot of people attacking him via comments to his instageam account.
Andy responded to some of the comments defending his actions:
It didn't stop there, several people on websites discussing the video went as far as to post all his personal information, including addresses and phone numbers, as well as his employer's info. People were spammng his employer's email and social media accounts about Andy. And they were encouraging others to spam as well.
One unknown individual created accounts on Instagram and online, going after Andy with a vengance, posting Andy's person info and encouraging others to go after him and his employer.
"After hearing from locals who are familiar with Andy, it is apparent that this is not an isolated incident. Andy has a reputation for behaving aggressively while surfing, and seems to be under the impression that because he is an OLD local, he has the right to behave this way." is what the person stated.
"We believe that Andy should be held accountable for his actions, and feel that this needs to be brought to the attention of the wider community, as well as the surfing community as a whole, to show that this sort of behavior is not acceptable."
After awhile Andy made his Instagram account private, but wanted to make amends for his actions. Here is his DMs with person who runs the Anti-Andy Instagram:
On Monday morning, Andy's employer posted to their Instagram: "Thank you to the Malibu community for bringing this to our attention." Along with the image below saying that they "parted ways" with Andy:
The kid from the video is still unknown. The person behind the Anti-Andy Instagram account is trying to identify him.
r One source has said the "kid" appears to be in his mid-20s or older, and that he was not being the most innocent of people prior to the filmed incident.
On Monday afternoon, the person running the Anti-Andy Instagram stated: "Andy's friends have been in contact with the person who originally posted the video and threatened and intimidated them. They also claim to have been in contact with the kid in the video, who apparently apologised to Andy for the inconvenience."
A GoFundMe has been set up for the Mar Vista lady whose house was destroyed when that horrible person, actress Anne Heche speed away from one hit-n-run and crashed into the house setting it on fire..
Help Lynne Mishele after Devastating Fire Loss
Lynne lives with her beautiful pups Bree and Rueban, and tortoise Marley in the Mar Vista home that was destroyed this week by a car driving into the home at a high rate of speed, catching the house on fire. Lynne and her family very narrowly escaped physical harm, and for that we are very, very grateful. The home, however, was completely burned - with 59 firefighters taking 65 minutes to extinguish the flames - and immediately red-tagged by the LAFD, necessitating that Lynne leave the place she loves. Even more distressing is that Lynne lost her entire lifetime of possessions, mementos, all equipment for her business including her laptop and iPad, all of her clothing and basic necessities, and all household items. With firefighters' help, she was able to pull a few damaged sentimental belongings from the wreckage. Everything else is gone. *images below*
A kind and generous person, Lynne is always first to offer help to others. Today we are asking the community to come together and help Lynne start over. Please, please join us - 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser are going directly to Lynne Mishele.
Help Lynne Mishele after Devastating Fire Loss
Lynne lives with her beautiful pups Bree and Rueban, and tortoise Marley in the Mar Vista home that was destroyed this week by a car driving into the home at a high rate of speed, catching the house on fire. Lynne and her family very narrowly escaped physical harm, and for that we are very, very grateful. The home, however, was completely burned - with 59 firefighters taking 65 minutes to extinguish the flames - and immediately red-tagged by the LAFD, necessitating that Lynne leave the place she loves. Even more distressing is that Lynne lost her entire lifetime of possessions, mementos, all equipment for her business including her laptop and iPad, all of her clothing and basic necessities, and all household items. With firefighters' help, she was able to pull a few damaged sentimental belongings from the wreckage. Everything else is gone. *images below*
A kind and generous person, Lynne is always first to offer help to others. Today we are asking the community to come together and help Lynne start over. Please, please join us - 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser are going directly to Lynne Mishele.
From Santa Monica Close Up:
"Skateboarder jumps over a car at the Venice Skate Park on Friday, August 5, 2022. The interactive Art instalation was installed by DFACE. DFACE is an English multimedia street artist who uses spray paint, stickers, posters, and stencils."
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