A year full of surfing – The best surfers around the world show their skills.
2013: The year of the Barrel
The Barrel is a year-long surf project announced in April, 2013. Professional and amateur surfers, photographers and videographers around the world have the possibility to showcase their passion: Barrel surfing. It is all about their skills, creativity and love to the waves. There will be a monthly episode of the finest places of earth with surfing at its best, called “Monthly Grid”. The greatest clips will be awarded with prizes, like iON Cameras.
Harrington (project director), who has been shooting surf and snow around the globe for more than 20 years with more than 150 magazine covers to his name, has brought together an international line-up of iconic surfers to participate in the iON The Barrel Movie, slated for November release. These include Reef McIntosh, Jamie Mitchell, Rusty Long, Ken “Skindog” Collins, Marty Paradisis, Peter Hayes, Justin “Jughead” Allport, Laurie Towner and a host of others.
“We’ll be on a hunt for barrels all year from Hawaii to Tahiti, up to Indonesia and down to Tasmania. The movie will track our journey and take audiences inside these beautiful, majestic waves” said Harrington.
The first clip (Teaser) is now available.
Stay tuned for the upcoming “Monthly Grids”.
The Barrel 2013
Event: The Barrel 2013 – Teaser
Location: World wide
Date: January.2013 – November.2013
Description:
4 April 2013 – iON Worldwide and Carlton Dry today announced a year-long surf project celebrating surfers’ collective passion for seeking out and riding barreling waves, where the water is hollow where the wave breaks. The Barrel surf project will showcase the vision of barrels as shot and shared by professional and amateur surfers, photographers and videographers to win monthly prizes.
Harrington, who has been shooting surf and snow around the globe for more than 20 years with more than 150 magazine covers to his name, has brought together an international line-up of iconic surfers: Reef McIntosh, Jamie Mitchell, Rusty Long, Ken “Skindog” Collins, Marty Paradisis, Peter Hayes, Justin “Jughead” Allport, Laurie Towner and a host of others.
