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Starring: Donald Takayama, Joel Tudor, Bonga Perkins Locations: California, Hawaii, Australia , New York Music: blues, classical and Hawaiian music |
 In a nutshell, Adrift is a worthwhile little video, not so much for its fairly decent collection of longboard action footage ranging from small wave antics to Pipe tubes which features Donald Takayama, Joel Tudor, Bonga Perkins and other top artists of the day (in California, Hawaii, Australia and New York), but for its slick packaging, editing, imaginative sound track and over all panache. This is a chicken salad folks but in this case, presentation is everything and the meat is the backup. Finally, here's someone who understands that surfing goes great over blues, classical and Hawaiian music.Traditional surf movie fare only in the sense that it's loosely documentarty, a drift is an opiate-paced glimpse into the world of (for lack of a more effective term) soul surfing. I don't think the cliché meter went off once in this baby (i.e. underwater opening shot, sappy slapstick, rock'n'roll/big wave scoring, etc). It has a signature all its own, and that's a tough trick to pull in a first offering. While the waveriding alone is worth the price of admission, rewind on the interstitial segment intros: a still-life Duke portrait and a spinning wax platter; a time lapse of Australian clouds; a hyper-blue spinning cocktail that morphs into a hyper-blue spinning Pipeline tube (further frame-by-frame scansion will doubtless yield hidden messages) ... all scene stealing stage-setters for the best longboarding we've seen, bar none. Surfwise, it's Bonga at an Outer Island, Russ and Buff at home, and J.T. as smooth as you like in 0-10' waves from New York to Pipeline. |
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