Comments on: Don’t Blame the Brands

By: Dean Tremore

Dean Tremore — Sun, 16 May 2010 02:37:36 +0000

Thanks I really needed this.

By: Purchase R&B

Purchase R&B — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:38:53 +0000

Anyone who dosent agree with probley have not read this whole blog through and thats truely ashame.

By: Craig Michaels

Craig Michaels — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:08:22 +0000

thanks !!! incredibly valuable post!

By: Jodi Bishard

Jodi Bishard — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:18:35 +0000

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By: Jim Buktu

Jim Buktu — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:05:15 +0000

So tell me how a pic of a mom holding a gun w/a five year old sucking her boob represents good journalism, JW. Of course good journalism should answer why, what, where, when and how - but I never called surfer or surfing good journalism either. They are serving a constituency which, like it or not, includes the soccer moms who subscribe for their kids and howl if the mag presents something that they deem overly gratuitous. I’m not comfortable w/either the moms or the kids dictating what’s good journalism either, that’s why I read the NYTimes. My point, in case it escaped you, was that it’s ridiculous to expect bleeding edge material from either ‘er or ‘ing. That’s not what they do. What they do is serve a demographic and keep the surf machine spinning.

By: JW

JW — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:00:36 +0000

What the hell did you just write Jim?

Yes, good good journalism shouldn’t answer the Why, What, Where, When, and How, instead the magazine should ask, “will this offend the children?”

Personally, I’m not comfortable with soccer moms dictating what’s good journalism.

By: Jim Buktu

Jim Buktu — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:05 +0000

You guys are funny. Perhaps the clueless hacks at Surfer or Surfing should start publishing photo essays featuring Alana Blanchard with Rob Machado suckling at her breast while she’s holding an AK-47 and smoking the last of Pete Davi’s meth stash. That’ll generate readers. Get freaking real. Sure there’s a market for that - but “er and ‘ing are just as beholden to what their advertisers want as their readers. Do you any of you avant-gardening douchebags have any idea how many parents subscribe to these mags for their kids? The mags pull in heaps of crap from irate parents if a Reef ad shows a millimeter too much waxed Brazilian ass.

Sure there’s a market for a surfing version of Defamer/TheDirty/TMZ/Vice and Gawker - and obviously Lewis has tapped into it - and …Lost well before Lewis. But you guys will be smoking Kool Menthols w/Satan before you see Vicemag gratuity in the mainstream pubs. Remember - Nothing’s Been Shocking for awhile now, so what’s the point? And finally, believe me, I know my buck a word editors are folding up shop. That’s why I”m going to found my own version of PostSurf. It’ll be an aggregator of all the best posts from surf BB’s around the world. My mission will be to alternately riddle the stinking corpses of my idols with bullets of scorn while raging against the machine that feeds me while continuously sucking the neverending hard-on I generate with my own viagara dosed ego.

By: Mungo Park

Mungo Park — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:18:00 +0000

Blameless?

A Ferrari surfboard for $5000 (only 499 made! buy 10!)
http://www.bkrw.com/flash/ferrari-surfboard-limited-edition.html
Odds on it’s made by Surftech or some other popout factory overseas for $10?

By: Blasphemy Rottmouth

Blasphemy Rottmouth — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:26:37 +0000

@Yeah,

Fuck Bourdieu and PostModernism. Al that crap collapsed in on itself a decade ago. Get hip: it’s back to Virlio and hypermodernism.

Chris Cote is just a self-deluding actor in a dromological nightmare of auto-erasure in a fascist climate of resource acquisition in a technocratic consumerist house of mirrors. His narcissism radiates through his illusion of self expression as practiced on his body, in order to inhabit an ever more rarified space for simulated reproduction of labour.

The result? Skanks go for it big time, as they respond to the symbols of self-selected identity within a range of possible signifiers. Hence: not everything goes - it’s a consumerist options grid, and only serves to distract them from their own self-alienation as both actors and field in the hypersped (hence, dromological) clusterfuck these morons call culture.

Skip cultural studies - culture is just the bowfront of the industrial consumerist machine and its political wing, the military.

By: meatwad

meatwad — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:10:05 +0000

Vice is on big brothers nuts, they were doing that shit in 1991 in the quise of a skate mag.