Goose Bumps

Goose Bumps is a short film made for the good people  of Switzerland. It sensationalizes my life over the past few months as I traveled regularly between Switzerland and Portugal with there respective climates. In reality I was often colder in Portugal without the luxury of indoor floor heating and double glazed window's. The surf, however, is well represented.

R.

Young, Ginger and Free

I talked about about being impressed by people brave enough and intelligent enough to express freedom…

 

 

 

Freedom

Dystopia

I heard from somewhere that gentle birds sing about freedom, and wild birds fly. I like to sing, in the car, or the sea. Sometimes with big groups of people, in a pub or a church. And I'm infatuated with freedom, utterly impressed by the People I see express it. People brave enough and intelligent enough to be themselves, even for just a moment. That's what my father said to me once and I have to think of Dorian Grey, Hieronymus Bosch or Dane Reynolds. I don't know if that puts me in the gentle bird category. I suspect it's more of a spectrum, and we're all lined up like pigeons on the power line.

We talked allot about freedom me and dad, and we're both searching for it in our own ways - in writing, art, relationships and surfing. As an artist my dad has refined his search. Challenging himself to remain free through the painstaking process of putting paint on canvas. The results speak for themselves, In the hearts of the audience and the words of the critics. R





Roger Mortimer - my father
http://www.rogermortimer.com/

Bluebell

Maui Snares the Sun

"Fear is in my future
and regrets in my past
but you, you are my angel.... forever"

I don't know what Gony had in mind when he chose this song - Actually he's sitting next to me right now, and reckons that fear is in his future, because he's going to Hawaii tomorrow = ). We're sitting on the couch, both totally exhausted after a week of perfect waves. Check out the footage on his website, there's a few clips of me at the end.

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Surf Trippen

Right now I'm 'surf trippen' with my buddy Mathyas. 'Surf trippen' is all about getting up early, surfing, chilling in cafe's, driving to good tunes and drinking beer right? Well we set out to do just that, and also document it to make a cool, arty (in the fashionable sense of the word) video with heaps of close ups, slow mo's and time lapses. But here's the catch… we're spending so much time collecting and processing the footage, that the only beer we're drinking is the one we use to get 'the shot'. So it's much less the classic 'surf trip', and more a couple of boys getting super excited about good lighting, soft bokeh's (apparently that's japanese for the off focus points in photographs) and fish eye lenses. It's not what either of us expected, but it's a great trip none the less. It's like stepping out of life and watching it behind the scenes, like an anthropologist documenting himself. Does being focused on capturing moments in life through a lens, mean I'm missing out on actually living these moments? It's not how i'd always like to live, but the joy I get from a good clip of a beer at sunset, is comparable to the joy I get from an actual beer at sunset after a day of actual surfing… for now = ).

All photo's  Mathyas - video coming soon.

R

Feast your eyes on this cocktail of beauty

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R.ASH?

Me and this guy practically share the same name. If you read it on a contest board it looks like this
R.ASH (for him)
R.AISH (for me)
We've had heats together and people get confused, like I'd get a message from mum saying congratulations after he'd just beaten me. I don't mind though because check it out, http://www.reubynash.com he's one of the most progressive and technical surfers in the world right now.