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India Press Store - Taylor Steele Presents SIPPING JETSTREAMS Surfing DVD
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List Price: $34.95
Our Price: $20.47
Your Save: $ 14.48 ( 41% )
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Manufacturer: Studio 411
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Binding: Misc.
Brand: studio 411
Feature: Sipping Jetstreams is travel meets surf meets art in Taylor Steeles high-budget opus.
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Label: Studio 411
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Sipping Jetstreams is travel meets surf meets art in Taylor Steeles high-budget opus.
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Summary: Tasty
Comment: What I like in a surf flic.....where the waves and the scenery are the stars, This is the way more surf movies should be made. But here's a warning! If you consider Point Break and/or Blue Crush to be surf movies then this isn't for you, but if that's the case the only surfing that you have ever done is with a channel changer;)
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Summary: Wind Swell
Comment: Beautifully filmed cutaway scenes of different locales are the strong points of this film.
The weak points are an awful lot of junky wind swell surf scenes, that seem to have had all the colour over saturated for effect.
Not a great film, lovely travel shots , weak surf content, over priced.
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Summary: Sipping Heaven
Comment: "Sipping Jetstreams" embodies the fantasy of every surfer - the surf trip.
With stunningly beautiful cinematography, the film chronicles pro surfers in line-ups across the world, as well as the people who inhabit each specific part of the globe. Much of the non-surfing footage is of subject matter usually captured in photos - sunsets and sunrises, locals sitting and smiling, flowers blooming, and the like - but instead of feeling that Taylor Steele missed the entire point of video, I found myself in love with each of the places the surfers travel. In a surprising twist on the typical surf film - which usually has at least some monologues by surfers, talking about the line-up or psyche - "SJ" is completely dialog free save for an introduction about the appeal of travel. That being said, the movie plays almost like a 36-minute long music video, featuring some of the best music and footage synchronization that I've ever seen in a surf movie - or music video, for that matter.
However, those looking for a more straightforward surf video (a la "Billabong - Frothing" or "Absolute Mexico", etc.) will be disappointed, since the film is by my estimates half surf footage, half about the locals. If I had one serious beef with the film (and this is nitpicking, at best), it's that some of the waves that are surfed are marginal at best: Egypt, and part of the Japan trip. It was almost as if they had filmed there just for the scenery shots, then said "well, we're here, get in the water!"
My favorite part? In a surreal sequence, a blonde shaggy-haired skateboarder (he's probably famous) manuals down a Cuban street as 1960s-era Cuban cars drive past, set to the Buena Vista Social Club. I found myself fascinated by the contradictions, and somewhat alarmed as he kept skating and clearly startled several Cuban drivers coming around corners (do they not dislike us enough already?!) But in a nice shot later on, we see the same skater watching as kids shred with his board, and later him laughing with two Cuban kids on some steps. (The Jamaican sessions were also good, too - I like a little reggae with my surf.)
Without a doubt, this is a film I will be watching over again - just not as much for the surf, as for the surf escapism.
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Summary: Sipping is awesome
Comment: This is a work of art. Like the Mona Lisa of surf movies. The cinematography is amazing, the locations are rare and exclusive, and the waves and surfers are from a dream. My favorite thing overall is the music. You cannot beat the soundtrack for this DVD. One of the bands is The Album Leaf.
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Summary: Lush, vivid cinematography
Comment: I first heard mention of this film a year and a half ago, in a "preview" blurb in some magazine in a waiting room. Suffice to say I was thrilled to finally get my copy. I was expecting something along the lines of Step Into Liquid, so it took me about 20 minutes to really get into it. If you're a fan of Baraka, or any of the Qatsi films, you'll probably enjoy this film, but the lack of narration, commentary, or dialogue might put some viewers off. If you can look past that, though, it becomes a photo-documentary (to music) about our relationship with nature and with each other. I can't say I fell in love with the soundtrack right away, but nevertheless it warrants a solid 5-star rating. Despite all odds the directors succeed brilliantly, conveying beauty, the human connection, and even humor, and everything I felt was "missing" could be found in the Bonus features (director commentary, behind the scenes, etc).
Point of interest: The segment in Cuba is particularly demonstrative of the perfect juxtaposition of music and imagery.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Unlike past films by Taylor Steele, surfing's premiere film producer, Sipping Jetstreams is anything but the norm. With a sense of natural whit and an eye for beauty, this romantic surf novel unfolds throughout the worlds most untouched destinations with today's best surfers, period.
Teamed with famed TW Surf Photographer Dustin Humphrey, Sipping journeys uncharted routes from Egypt to Greece, Italy to the Caribbean, Cuba to Japan all the while capturing the happenings and personalities of today's most sought after athletes in a never before seen platform.
Sipping Jetstreams will be one of the best films of the decade, if not ever.
Athletes Include: Kelly Slater, Andy Irons, Dane Reynolds, Bruce Irons, Rizal Tangjung, Benji Weatherly, Shane Dorian and many, many more.
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