Out Of Place Eco-Friendly DVD Available!!

I am really excited to announce that the Eco-Friendly DVD produced in partnership with Homage Clothing is now available from our website!

BUY DVD HERE!

In Jamie Yanak’s Perspective

There is a scene in Out Of Place that takes place in Jamie Yanak’s dark room.   Jamie, Camel cigarette dangling from his mouth, is shown printing  a photograph of Vince Labbe surfing.  It is one of my favorite moments in the film.  Jamie’s eloquent voice over captures so many feelings I have about the whole lake surfing experience.  Jamie says, and I am paraphrasing here, that the surfers are interesting in their own right, beyond the fact that they surf in a lake.  He says they are a band of misfits and outsiders, like himself.  That maybe that is why he is drawn to them.

Jamie was introduced to the Cleveland surf scene while on a photo assignment.  I think it might have been for the Associated Press.  After the assignment ended he continued shooting the surfers on his own time.  The next thing he knew he had an amazing collection of Lake Erie surf photographs, and  Furthermore, he ended up learning to surf and became a beloved member of the close-knit crew.   As he says in the film: now they are his best friends.

Jamie has been shooting a lot of pictures lately and posting many of them on his blogs and Flickr account. A few months ago Jamie began publishing an awesome Cleveland surf blog, The Sewer Pipe, named after the famous Edgewater Beach break that sits precariously close to a sewage run-off pipe.  The banner image on the site features one of my all time favorite lake surfing photographs and is worth a visit alone.   The blog is often hilarious and perfectly captures Jamie’s north eastern Ohio perspective (Yanak is a Parma boy born and raised!).

Enjoy these sites!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamieyanak/

http://thesewerpipe.blogspot.com/

And say hi to Jamie for me if you see him on the beach with his Nikon.

-Kurt

Thankfulness

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” – Garrison Keillor

On the eve of the ‘season of thanks’ we wanted to thank you dear followers.  Thanks go to  every person who has supported us in any way throughout this journey.  

We promise to continue loving this life as much as we can.

And please remember,  the Out Of Place DVD is available for purchase from our site here: http://tinyurl.com/2a5ho36

Now go:
- drink good coffee
- catch a wave
- hang with friends
- drink good beer
- tell surfing stories
- watch an amazing movie
- grow a beard
- listen to good music
- act a fool

Sincerely,
Out of Place movie crew.