Sunday, September 22, 2013
Ryan Burch + Rabbitsfoot
Rabbitsfoot + Ryan Burch Section - Almost Cut My Hair from Ryan Lovelace on Vimeo.
Burch's session from Almost Cut My Hair...thought it may be of interest to some ;)
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Almost Cut My Hair Now Online!
Download it or stream it, any way you want it. thats the way you need it! She's available for streaming rental or the full-monty download...the time is now!
Get it via the radical link below:
Thursday, July 18, 2013
#ShapetasticVoyage2013
#shapetasticvoyage2013 Ryan Lovelace at Kipusurfboards from Ryan Lovelace on Vimeo.
A little ditty from my time in Italy this past June!In the two weeks in Viterbo, all the boards in the video and then about double that were shaped and glassed - hectic and heavy but beyond rewarding and a total joy to experience a new place and such a welcoming and enthusiastic crew!
Friday, June 28, 2013
Surfer Clipz
Gotta say I was hesitant to actually believe that they'd publish something like this, but damn I'm proud they did! Dylan Gordon contacted me and said he had a short he wanted to make sure Surfer so I said sure...He came out and filmed/essentially lived with me at the shop for 4 days and what came out is a really great glimpse into what's happening on a daily basis. Its hard to ever feel like real personality or honesty is coming through in any video, but when I saw this for the first time the other day it blew me away. He nailed it and I couldn't be happier with how Dylan put this together, and I'm truly humbled and flattered by the whole of it...Couldn't be more pleased and I'm still in a little bit of shock :)
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Premiere Night Like WHOA
Wow I'm glad that's off my chest...
Holding Almost Cut My Hair back from everyone I know for the past few months has been both fantastically fun and painfully hard; even the guys IN the movie hadn't seen it before last night, what a pleasure it was to share that with everyone at last!
The turnout was insane. Every time the lobby seemed to mellow out, and new pilgrimage of stoked souls would turn the corner outside and march through the doors...humbling is a good word for the majority of what I'm feeling at the moment. We packed the theater pretty darn good, with barely any open seats on the ground, my 'no hippies' rule was pretty obviously disregarded...The crowd definitely ran the gamut and completely filled out the Santa Barbara surf scene as well as I've ever seen it. Kinda like every lineup and art show I've been in the for the last 9 years slammed into one room...well, then ad in the crew from New Jersey, the one from Seattle and all the cats from the San Diego area that showed up as well!
What I really wanted to say before the movie on stage, where I totally lost all of my words looking over the crowd, was what the title means to me. If you're familiar with the song, you likely get it. David Crosby wrote Almost Cut My Hair as somewhat of an anthem for himself and his attitude to life. The song has guided the hardest decisions I've had to make in my life, both professionally and personally. So when I was well into making my movie with no title, I started editing footage of Mr.Tevor Gordon...the most moving images I've seen of him to date, shot by one Michael Kew, and I threw over it the song I wanted to listen to...Almost Cut My hair. Shivers went down my spine and I knew without a doubt that I had just nailed the most meaningful section of the movie to me, as well as the title...The opening lines alone spell it all out for me so clearly:
Its so easy in life to bend what you think is the way to live your life, to cut yourself short and do what you think everyone wants you to do. The entire story of the resin dot on my boards comes from that thought path, as well as the decision to hand shape everything while nobody else seems to have enough pride to do the work, as does my break from Point Concept, as does every time I'm faced with a heavy decision in life.. I just have to remember that its most definitely not going to be the easy road, but its the only way I want to do it, and its the only way that I'll be proud at the end of the day.
I can't thank everyone enough for the overwhelming show of excitement and support, the hoots, hollers, whistles, drunken slurrs and cat calls were everything I could have ever asked for in sharing that with all of you! My measure of success was in all of your responses during the movie and I could never say, after last night, that I could ever have asked for anything more...You all are amazing, and leave me feeling like I can do just about anything my little heart desires, as long as I stay true to my own vision of surfing and all of my curiosities, hold my line, and never 'cut my hair'.
Holding Almost Cut My Hair back from everyone I know for the past few months has been both fantastically fun and painfully hard; even the guys IN the movie hadn't seen it before last night, what a pleasure it was to share that with everyone at last!
The turnout was insane. Every time the lobby seemed to mellow out, and new pilgrimage of stoked souls would turn the corner outside and march through the doors...humbling is a good word for the majority of what I'm feeling at the moment. We packed the theater pretty darn good, with barely any open seats on the ground, my 'no hippies' rule was pretty obviously disregarded...The crowd definitely ran the gamut and completely filled out the Santa Barbara surf scene as well as I've ever seen it. Kinda like every lineup and art show I've been in the for the last 9 years slammed into one room...well, then ad in the crew from New Jersey, the one from Seattle and all the cats from the San Diego area that showed up as well!
What I really wanted to say before the movie on stage, where I totally lost all of my words looking over the crowd, was what the title means to me. If you're familiar with the song, you likely get it. David Crosby wrote Almost Cut My Hair as somewhat of an anthem for himself and his attitude to life. The song has guided the hardest decisions I've had to make in my life, both professionally and personally. So when I was well into making my movie with no title, I started editing footage of Mr.Tevor Gordon...the most moving images I've seen of him to date, shot by one Michael Kew, and I threw over it the song I wanted to listen to...Almost Cut My hair. Shivers went down my spine and I knew without a doubt that I had just nailed the most meaningful section of the movie to me, as well as the title...The opening lines alone spell it all out for me so clearly:
Almost Cut My Hair
Happened just other day
It's getting kinda long
I coulda said it was in my way
But I didn't, and I wonder why
....
Its so easy in life to bend what you think is the way to live your life, to cut yourself short and do what you think everyone wants you to do. The entire story of the resin dot on my boards comes from that thought path, as well as the decision to hand shape everything while nobody else seems to have enough pride to do the work, as does my break from Point Concept, as does every time I'm faced with a heavy decision in life.. I just have to remember that its most definitely not going to be the easy road, but its the only way I want to do it, and its the only way that I'll be proud at the end of the day.
I can't thank everyone enough for the overwhelming show of excitement and support, the hoots, hollers, whistles, drunken slurrs and cat calls were everything I could have ever asked for in sharing that with all of you! My measure of success was in all of your responses during the movie and I could never say, after last night, that I could ever have asked for anything more...You all are amazing, and leave me feeling like I can do just about anything my little heart desires, as long as I stay true to my own vision of surfing and all of my curiosities, hold my line, and never 'cut my hair'.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Premiere Date and Time - BINGO!
That should just about explain it!
Art on this here poster by Ciro Bicudo.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
3 2 1
I've been working on a wee collage kind of thing at www.AlmostCutMyHairFilm.tumblr.com for the flick, lots of good stuff going on around it and we're just about wrapped up and ready to rock!
Info coming soon on that front, but in the meantime I've got a pile of new boards heading to Down The Line surf shop in Cornwall, UK so any interested parties over that way should connect with them, 'cause I guarantee you 6 v.bowls won't last too long!
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In other international news, I'll be heading back to Europe for my annual shaping jaunt in June; the best contact if interested in a custom order is Wallako Surf Shop in France. Orders for my Italian leg of the trip are booked to the max and I can't wait to get over there and get crackin'!
Monday, March 25, 2013
Down the Rabbitsfoot Hole
A guy I admire quite a lot for his pure enthusiasm and interest, Ryan Burch, giving the current iteration of the RabbitsFoot a test this past weekend.
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