547 - Logan Dulien
Surf Splendor
David Lee Scales
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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In today's show Snapt filmmaker Logan Dulien shares the details of how he spearheaded the effort to take down the crime syndicate who was targeting SoCal surfers, reveals the wild earnings from his heyday as a tour manager, and discusses the importance of curating a surf film in the modern era of immediacy. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Our good buddy Justin Jay had Stacey Peralta on his podcast this week. |
| 0:09.5 | People didn't take skateboarding seriously, but where I lived in the neighborhood I lived in, |
| 0:15.3 | we did take it really seriously, but we didn't call ourselves skateboarders because there was no such |
| 0:20.4 | thing as a skateboarder back then. What we were was surfers, but we were't call ourselves skateboarders because there was no such thing as a skateboarder back then. |
| 0:21.6 | What we were was surfers, but we were surfers who wanted to surf on the sidewalk. |
| 0:26.6 | We wanted to serve as much as we could, but we couldn't spend all day at the beach. |
| 0:30.6 | And the whole purpose of being a good skateboarder was to be a better surfer. |
| 0:34.6 | So we were surfers who rode skateboards, but we were not skateboarders. |
| 0:39.2 | And I say that not because we didn't feel we weren't, but because there was just no such thing as |
| 0:43.8 | being a skateboarder back then. |
| 0:45.5 | That's an excerpt from The Plug with Justin Jay featuring Stacey Peralta this week. |
| 0:51.3 | You can find The Plug with Justin Jay wherever you're listening to this episode. |
| 0:55.7 | Just search The Plug with Justin Jay and enjoy. |
| 1:26.2 | Thank you. What has happened to the high-fi feature-length surf flick? |
| 1:34.3 | The original Endless Summer created a springboard that would catalyze surfing's popularity and mainstream culture's awareness of it. But once the industry was established, the quote, surf porn style of film was the medium that could keep pace with the rapid growth of adequately showcasing how quickly |
| 1:45.6 | technical surfing was advancing. And it's impossible for me to identify whether the popularity of |
| 1:52.0 | these films is what drew me into surfing in the mid-90s or if I just happened to discover surfing |
| 1:57.7 | at a time of explosive growth for the sport. |
| 2:01.2 | But either way, these films brought the intensity of surfing to life. |
| 2:05.7 | In the magazine, surfing looked serene, at times heroic, but not until Taylor Steele's |
| 2:11.7 | focus, Herbie Fletcher's Wave Warriors, loss what's really going on, was I able to really appreciate the speed, |
| 2:20.4 | the raw power, and the true intensity of both the ocean and the surfers. But fast forward 30 years, |
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