RedBull NightShift Featuring Jordy Smith and Friends Goes Down in Camps Bay with Flying Success!

Jordy Smith was chilling in Cape Town for a while in January enjoying the summer vibes before heading out to begin the 2011 WCT. Seeing as he finished off last year 2nd in the world to the 10-time Champion Phenom known a Kelly Slater, RedBull decided to give him a little treat for having such a bad-ass year. And thus gave birth to the RedBull NightShift held in Camps Bay on the 9th of Jan, 2011. Jordy along with seven of his good friends had a blast in the dark, literally. Boosting Airs into the evening using tons of floodlights; they had Jet-Skies pulling and whipping them into knee high shore-break.

I don't think anyone could have anticipated the huge turnout for this inaugural event. Smith's surf buddies who joined him in the water were: Craig Anderson, Damien Fahrenfort, Ricky Basnett, Travis Logie, Rudy Palmboom Jr, Warwick Wright and Royden Bryson. I shot a few med-format portraits of Jordy prior to the event and a few images before the sun and light were gone. After sunset I shot a few video clips that I will be editing together into something good. Here is a bit of what went down...

'Some-Ting To Peep' Vol. 4

A little bit of Land & a little bit of Water...

Expressions Book One: South Africa - Durban Launch Event Slide Show Feature On TheBombSurf

Over Dec. I was in Durban for 2 weeks doing promotion for my book. While up there I had a killer launch event at Unit11, here is the link to a slide show feature with photos from the event... Enjoy-

http://www.thebombsurf.com/thebombsurfslideshows/553/expressions-book-one-south-africa-durban-launch-event

Secret City Project - Expressions Book Interview

Chris and Shannon picked me up in their Red 'Free Taxi' ride to do an interview while giving me a lift to a local gallery, I needed to drop off some work for this 75.co.za Exhibition I was in later that week. Here are a few images we shot during the whole mission as well as a link to the video interview on their site.

http://secretcityproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/jareds-taxi-ride.html

One Down For The Books - Happy, Happy and A Blogging Good Year!

Born from a need to showcase and document the growing creative lifestyle surrounding myself, my passions, and the people I interact with...

Thus gave birth to the blog...

And,

One year later to the day...

I have joined the ranks of Self-Proclaimed 'Interweb' Gurus posting about anything and everything I consider 'Uber-Hip'

But, I will do my best not to be a 'Dick-Head Hipster' in addition to keeping this blog as honest and real as possible...

(If you have not seen the 'Dick-Head Hipster' You-Tube video clip do yourself a favor and check it out and have a good laugh, here is the link-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I)

It has been a wild and manic 365 days to put it lightly...

With the biggest thing being the South African release of my 1st book

- Expressions Book One South Africa

So what is in store for 2011 you ask...

Who Knows?

A Plethora of untold wonder and creativity

Although you will be sure to hear something from me this year bubbling up from the cut like peroxide....

Until next time,

Safe-