One of my final products will be an article. my article will be based in different interviews that my partner and I will complete. What I like about this article is that they include in a proper way the cutes from the interview, they make them sound interesting and they get the important parts. The author of the article also makes it sound more general, like if all of the surfers thought that way. I don't know if that's right but it helps him get to his point.
Trick Or Treat
Crash The Coast Concludes On All Hallows Eve
by Zach Weisberg
The luminous jackolantern grins at me. He’s thinking what I’m thinking:
“I can’t believe we just pulled this off.”
It’s fitting too – the way SURFER’s Crash The Coast Trip has concluded, because Halloween marks a transition period into the cold with an eerie celeb
ration - and in our case where the surf culture skips along as a mystery.
The surfers in New Hampshire warned us about Maine. They said, “This is kind of the end of the rainbow here. Once you start heading north the surfers become few and far between. It goes from ten miles between exits to twenty miles between exits.”
Ross Kunkel, Cinnamon Rainbows Employee said, “Those guys will come down from North Maine and grab a new board and wetsuit and we won’t see them again for another year.”
We had to get to the bottom of this.
We didn’t make it to that sketchy part of Maine they were talking about, but we did find a committed crew of surfers to show us around the area surrounding Higgins Beach and Portland.
“I think the strangeness is based around the fact that it’s incredibly empty,” says Northeast Firewire Rep, Chris Cary. “A lot of it has to do with the fact that the surf community in New Hampshire is so tight-knit that the further north you go in Maine the stranger the people are because you might run into a surfer up north who’s never s
urfed with more than three people.”
Sounds like a dream. But what I think might be the weirdest thing about Maine surfers is their authenticity. It’s refreshingly jarring, and exactly what our seafaring tribe needs.
“I like it here in the sense that you don’t get a lot of egos,” says Carey. “You can go out anywhere pretty much and feel comfortable…You might not be able to pick a surfer out of a crowd here, because surfers here don’t really care about the gear – they just want to surf.”
It’s like we had found what we were searching for. Nevermind the lack of industry - only once we got as far from a conventional surf town as we could imagin
e, did we really find one. Considering it was a freezing Halloween night, and the candy was spilling from the doorsteps – we had nothing left to do but celebrate.
There was only one costume to do it in, too: Dumb and Dumber's Harry and Lloyd. After all, we scrounged from Latino South Beach, FL to the blistering cold of Portland, Maine, and got lost fifty times along the way.
But according to this map, we only went six inches.
Thanks to all of our gracious hosts and sponsors, and people who kept u
p with our journey along the way, We trekked for 17 days without spending a dime on a hotel room. East Coast surfers dropped everything at a moment’s notice and welcomed us into their homes and told us their stories. For that we are grateful.
Look for the full feature in an upcoming issue of SURFER Magazine, and something tells me we’ll be back here soon.
#2 (PiCtUrEs!!)The second part of my final product will be two or three pictures that I will take in our many visits to the beach.
-What I like of this picture is that it gives an idea of how dirty the water can be and we still don't do anything about it, we just live with it. And what a want to do in one of my pictures is to promote this. People thinking about how real the polluted water is in our environment. So basically what I like about this picture is the message that it has.
- In this picture you can see a clean beach, and want to project the idea of what we want too. And of course I will include surfers in at least one of my pictures, and they are probably will be in the water not just walking. But the sky, the sand and the clean water look so good together
- I also want to show to how bad the diseases that you can get in polluted water are.
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