What's Happening?
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Uploaded by curiousgabe on Apr 3, 2008
Curious Gabe interviews artist/filmmaker Alex Kopps who reveals why he embroidered the basic laws of partying onto a couch pillow.
Gabe also chats with surfers who make art, artists who surf, skaters who make music, humans who simply dig creativity and countless variables of the equation all mingled together while gorging on the available smorgasbord of eye and ear candy at The Happening in Sydney, Australia.
This traveling two-part audio-visual feast featured a select group of artists and photographers exhibiting work based in contemporary beach and street cultures followed by music performances with Matt Costa, Jack Johnson, Will Conner, David Rastovich and Andrew Kidman. The resulting cultural mix was pure bliss for aficionados of art and surfing such as Roxy guy Randy Hild. "I believe artists and surfers share the same soul," proverbialized Hild. "The search for meaning, the same desire to capture life one moment at a time."
Next stop for The Happening world tour will be Tokyo, Japan on April 11, 2008 at Laforet Museum Harajuku. The affair will begin at 5pm and feature work by artists and photographers including Wolfgang Bloch, Thomas Campbell, Jeff Canham, Joe Curren, Harry Daily, Andy Davis, Yusuke Hanai, Alex Knost, Alex Kopps, Naki, Randy Noborikwa, Scott Soens, Mark Sutherland, Koji Toyoda, Tyler Warren, Alex Weinstein, Rip Zinger and more.
Also on tap for the evening will be music performances by Mason Jennings, Matt Costa and possibly more special musical guests. Film screenings will include Sliding Liberia, the award-winning film by Britton Caillouette, Nicholai Lidow and Dave Homcy that follows four young surfers as they travel through the war-torn West African nation of Liberia in search of perfect waves. Also showing will be a preview of Thomas Campbell's new film The Present. The Malloys will be showing a preview of their upcoming film One Track Mind offering a glimpse into the headspace of surfing's elite group of A-list shredders. Also screening will be Displacement, a preview of Alex Kopps' upcoming tour de force art house surf flick.
This segment filmed by Sierra Sullivan, Pete Matthews, Ben Raymond and Andrew Kidman. Still photography by Greg Nagel. The featured song is Heads by Will Conner.
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Kidman is the original. The rest are wack imitators.
mortonred 1 year ago
he was with that t shirt on london concert 02/07/08 haha
hes the best
juninhojudo 3 years ago
What's the song in the background?
nameisfreddy 3 years ago