Framelines:niche media and identity of the board-riding community

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Framelinesniche media and identity of the
board-riding community

• A broken-down look at the experience of surfing,
  skating, and snowboarding and the fairytales that
  tie the lifestyle to its participants through
  media.

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Introduction
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The Board-sports Story
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Being a Boarder

• Part I

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Using Tools
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Flow
A state of immersion, happiness a mix between
contemplation and action.
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Embodying Culture
Embodying Culture Board-riding creates lived
bodies for participants. Bodies come to be
symbols of cultural status.
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They Are Technicians
A primal tendency of human expression and utility
based in body and using simple tools.
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Knowing People
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The Board-riders Club
At once male dominated but accepting of female
presence. At once global and local. (exotic
travel, localism)
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In the Lineup
The essential boarder space
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Having (or not) Things
If you took away all the sponsors, all the
photogs (photographers), all the competition
glory, I mean there would still be skateboarding
and surfing. Yeah, it would be just the same to
me. Probably better. -Edward Bleakley
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Growing Up Groms
Growing Up Groms
Helping groms is about self-achievement. The
thing that makes groms important to me is that it
brings this lifestyle from start to finish. -Mr.
Mckevlin, of Mckevlins surf shop.
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The Search
Described by everything that goes into finding
the dream glide. Describes a way of life
characteristic of the boarder.
Surf is where you find it.
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Reel Life

• Part II

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Sessions, Sections, and Xtras
Sessions, Sections, and Xtras
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The Board-riding Aesthetic
Imagery and aestheticization of thrill-seeking
creates shared associations, interests, and
sensitivities. Especially for ideas about the
sublime, self-transcendence, and personal and
bodily feelings.
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Scenes and Being Seen
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In Still Frames
Symbolism and reality.
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Nearly obsessive documentary making of a creative
way of life surrounding board-riding.
Documenting Life
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Conclusions
Conclusions
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intersection of folklore and life boarder
meta-narratives

• fluid exchanges of cultural capital niche media
  and identity of the board-riding community

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Thanks for watching
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Whether on water, pavement, or fluffy white
powder, the history of surfing, skateboarding,
and snowboarding is a landscape filled with
rugged personalities, exotic locales, wild
innovation, and most of all the united dream of
becoming one with the oceans, streets, and
mountains. -Jaime Brisick
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The whole reason for me to make films was to be
part of something bigger than me, so people I
loved could watch what I love to do and somehow
feel a part of it.-Cable, 22. snowboarder,
skater, surfer, filmmaker.
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I always loved watching the surf movies, when I
was a kid because it gave me better ideas for
tricks and stuff. I would see something I hadnt
tried before and I could like, do one more trick
or something. I always thought if I busted an
air or something, like do Gerry Lopezs style in
the movies, then I could get all the girls to
like me in the fifth grade. -Rick Davies
(retired. oldest surfer in the lineup, early
Californian surfer/board shaper)
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• Of all the things that I think about skating, the
  number one best part is when I forget about what
  I was thinking about and the sounds drift away,
  and I dont feel any muscles moving, I just feel
  like Im floating.
• -Dane Richards

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• Success to me in surfing is just pushing your
  limits, you know like doing what youre thinking
  about. Say youre thinking about doing some
  crazy knee grab 360 air, thats like something
  that youre going for. Its a progression, you
  know youre trying to push the limits of what
  youre abilities are.
• - Cory Lopez (competition surfer)

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• I dont watch the movies, I just do it.
• -Tallulah
• I think all the magazines are so corporate, and
  most of the films too. They all have the same
  people in them. I just skate with my friends.
  
• - Kyle

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• You know, when you are riding your longboard I
  bet you just picture waves the whole time thats
  what I do. Anyway, youve seen people snowboard
  in pictures enough Im sure you could just try it
  and figure it out, you know. Its all the same
  idea of power and will balanced out, of you and
  what youre riding on.
• -Tanner Bleakley

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Of all the the things that I think about skating,
the number one best part is when I forget about
what I was thinking about and the sounds drift
away, and I dont feel any muscles moving, I just
feel like Im floating. -Dane Richards

• I could probably ride with 75 of my board as
  long as it was my favorite board and the waves
  were perfect and kept up for a while. Same
  reason I could surf by the moon too. Its all
  feedback you know, and when you concentrate you
  can just feel your way on waves. -AJ Nichols

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You can recognize a boarder so easy. Its an
instant connection. It truly is something that
connects people everywhere on the most tenuous
little idea that you both ride a little piece of
equipment. Really strange, right? But then
again I can sure talk about it with anyone and
have a good time. -Isaiah Mead
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Let my people go surfing. -motto/memoir book
title of Patagonias owner and founder Yvon
Chouinard