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Pro Spotlights Over The Years

By Transworld
Tue, Apr 22 2008 12:00 am | 0 Comments

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<p>Tim Reyes<br>November 2001--We bought a Slip-N-Slide that had a "tube" you slid through. Then we set it up in Steve Sherman's back yard where Timmy got tubed.

<p>Timmy Curran<br>September 2003--Marc Hostetter made Timmy a set of angel wings and shot him in infrared. Timmy couldn't stay long for the shoot 'cause he had the runs, for real.

<p>Taj Burrow<br>April 2000--This Pro Spotlight introduced Taj to America. Steve Sherman cut up his own leather jacket, styled Taj, and shot him in a junkyard in Hawaii.

<p>Ozzie Wright<br>April 2001--At this time, most people hated Ozzie, we loved him--now everybody loves him. We used Ozzie's art as his opening shot.

<p>Nathan Fletcher<br>December 2004--Nathan has always been a dark figure. No shot has portrayed that better than this image, shot by Pete Taras.

<p>Mick Fanning<br>October 2002--Our Associate Art Director at the time was named Chato. He painted this life-like painting of Mick Fanning getting ready to spar--Mick saw it and loved it.

<p>Archy<br>March 2005--Jason Reposar absolutely nailed this moment of Archy, the caption says it all.

<p>Joel Parkinson<br>June 2003--Another painting, another associate art director. John Paul King painted Parko. Three months later he presented it to Parko in Hawaii who to this day has it up on his wall at home.

<p>Jay Larson<br>September 1999--In the theme of the Silver Surfer, Aleeda made Jay a silver suit, Marc Hostetter painted the rest of him. The spread was run using silver metallic ink.

<p>Gavin Beschen<br>June 2001--The Alien. We rigged an E.T. set up and shot the Alien communicating with his home planet. Then we took him to breakfast.

<p>Dan Malloy<br>December 1999--Dan was an angel, so we tried to darken up his image by calling this article "The Dark Side Of Dan Malloy." This photo was shot by Steve Sherman and digitally manipulated by Marc Hostetter.

<p>Damien Hobgood<br>December 2001--We had six life-sized cardboard cutouts made of Damien doing various poses, then took him to random places like a Padres game, an elevator, the window of a surf shop, etc. This was a mockery of the world of "surf market

<p>Cory Lopez<br>October 1999--Steve Sherman flew all the way to Cory's house in Florida for one day. He made Cory climb out of the mud behind his house, and the mudman was born.

<p>Brett Simpson<br>October 2003--At first we thought it would be fruity to take Brett to a flower field, but Pete Taras made it work, with the help of a tiny bit of art.

<p>Betet Merta<br>August 2003--Bali was a pretty foreign place at this point. Our main man at the time, Dustin Humphrey, told us about this kid named Betet--this shot sold us on him.

<p>Benji Weatherley<br>December 2002--Benji is game for anything so we had him dress up in a suit and come jump around for us in our photo studio. Pete Taras shot this sequence of Benji being Benji.

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