Archive for September, 2009
Sep
14
Posted under
fly fishing news by Will Benson
Lets have some fun…The picture is of Andy Mill and some dude eyeballing one of Will’s not so best casts. I wonder what he is saying? Help us figure it out. Click on the gallery, save the original file, run it through your favorite image editor, and fill in the blank. Then email it to shitcast@worldangling.com with the subject line “shitcast”. The best quote winner will be announced if anyone actually plays. Winner gets nothing, unless someone has something to give the winner, then they’ll get that.
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The forth annual Drake Magazine Video Awards concluded the other night with SLAM sharing the “Best Fishing Video” with our friend R.A.Beattie’s video: Dank. We opened the show to tremendous fan fare as the crowd held on to every clip. The emotion climaxed when the audience reeled back as I slammed my face into the casting platform on the south side of the Marquesas. Yes that was me, Yes it hurt, but No, that’s not real blood. There were some really great films this year as the quality seems to be getting better and better. Noticeably absent was Felt Soul Media, as new-commers On The Fly took home the honors of “Best Overall” for their film Once In Blue Moon. I believe that Mikey Weir and Brian O’keefe were also in the winners circle for “Best Story” and “Best Cinematography”. I might be wrong however as Tom Bie made good on his promise of free beer. I was pretty pumped and they were going down fast while I watched from the Scott Fly Rods section on the upper level. Obviously, I want to thank the other film makers for their efforts in getting their videos together for the show. This event would not be possible without artists like yourselves putting in an amazing amount of time and hard work to make it happen. Similarly, many thanks to Cloudveil, Yellow Dog, Scott, Smith, Scholler, SA, Hatch and New Belgium for sponsoring this event. I also want to thank Oakley for hooking us up with some new shades, and Craig C. at Vanstaal for being the coolest dude ever and hooking us up with his badass reels. But most of all, I want to thank The Drake, our loyal fans, and those who showed up, for being really, really loud when our film was playing! All in all, it was great to get out to Denver and see everyone again. We will be looking forward to the Fly Fishing Film Tour early next year, and some much needed time off in the southern hemisphere.
Sep
03
Posted under
fly fishing news by Dave Teper
We are so f*&cking excited to show our new video SLAM to the masses. We will be releasing it at the Drake Magazine Video Awards at Cervantes Ballroom, 2637 Welton St. Denver, CO, on September 10th at 8:00pm. Admission to the show is free, as well as the beer. We will be web releasing the movie the same time on our home page. We tried to pass the bandwidth off to vimeo, so hopefully the servers will be able to handle the traffic. we are expecting like 500,000,000,000 views that night:) In the meantime, we are going to tease you with a password protected video file. We don’t even know the password, so there is no chance of seeing it until the release, sorry:) Thanks for the support.
If you missed it here is the write up:
In case you didn’t already know, saltwater fly fishing here in South Florida is a contact sport! And our latest film, SLAM, will let you feel it about as much as you’d feel a whack in the face! Filmed in our back yards here in Key West, the Everglades and the Bahamas during the 2009 season, SLAM focuses on all the major species we target: Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, Redfish and Snook. This film portrays the most important aspects of Saltwater fly fishing. Beginning with what it looks like when you first see them coming in, to the adrenaline rush you feel when you hook up, to the heartbreak of watching them get away, and finally, the joy of releasing them to swim free. There’s no waxing poetic about the meaning of it all, we’ll let you figure that out for yourself, we just bring the goods and showcase the coolest fish in the world. We don’t have a big budget, or a helicopter, just an incredible natural resource, and a passion for what we do. For all of you out there that get it, and want more, WorldANGLING gives you SLAM!
Sep
03
Posted under
fly fishing news by Dave Teper
I can’t believe its September already. WTF happened to August? Oh yeah, I know. On August 7 I sat down in front of my computer, after sitting in front of my computer for 6 weeks editing Slam, and decided to rebuild our site from scratch. I wanted to include things like our Drum project, some facebook link-through B/S, iTunes files for a bunch of our movies, and whatnot. I knew what I was in for, and gave my friend “Santa” a call, bought like 55 cases of Mountain Dew, 5000 vitamin I’s (for the lcd headaches), and settled in for the long haul. Will helped by dealing with all the text, which I still haven’t read a word of yet, and Jeff cooked dinner so I wouldn’t starve. I can count the times on 2 hands that I left the house in the past month, and only once did I go fishing. I’m over it! This is what we came up with. We hope it works out for whatever it’s worth, and apologize up front for any bugs/errors. The only issue at the time I wrote this is the iTunes file for the FFFT2008 movie is a crap render, and will get fixed shortly. If you find any bugs, could you let us know?
