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1. Pop culture meets Political Awareness. Thx Kelly | LiveTheLife.Tv | Jeffreys Bay Surf Travel | South Africa Property | Surf Shop | Web 2.0 Media | on 28 Oct 2007 at 6:17 pm

   [...] I found a great post with a picture of the board here [...]

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1. heyoo the jingle wrote:

   thats freakin awesome, i want one

   Posted 06 Jan 2007 at 1:28 am ¶

2. Jeff wrote:

   The juxtaposition between him, the surfboard style and the room he’s in keeps me looking. Is he in his moms place proud of his new board? Not that thats bad… its just is that how his pad is styled? The lamp, chair and drapes got me. Am I losing focus on the main point? Sorry.

   Posted 06 Jan 2007 at 3:54 am ¶

3. iancr wrote:

   Jeff, my money is that this is a high end hotel on an island somewhere. Just a hunch, but that’s what I’m gonna guess.

   ian

   Posted 07 Jan 2007 at 10:13 am ¶

4. Brad wrote:

   I saw this image on one of his boards in a magazine
   recently and had to ask myself, “who does Kelly Slater
   think he is?” No matter what your political stripe, to
   put something like that on your board is downright
   fucking lame, offensive, and pointless way protest
   something you are against. For one, what message does
   that send to the troops fighting Bush’s silly war?
   That the best surfer in the world is mocking the risks
   they are put in by their government…its not their
   fault they are in Iraq.

   Is Kelly trying to raise Iraq war awareness? The
   celebrity thing of raising awareness in this fashion
   (wearing shirts that day “Darfur” or in Kelly’s case,
   his boards.) really bugs me. I mean, what is Kelly
   doing other than putting images of something he knows
   nothing about(nor I) as his contribution to an
   anti-effort. In fact, the photo of him walking is in
   fact a “walking contradiction”…in his hand is a
   polyester surfboard, on his body is neoprene wetsuit.
   Does his acknowledge the fact that these two things
   rely on petro-chemicals to be manufactured??? Does his
   think those things, or any of his sponsor’s product
   grow on trees. He flies on planes all over the world
   that are powered on the stuff people are being killed
   over. He is a model of over-consumption!!!His
   contribution…a iPod themed painting??? A least Bono
   made an iPod.

   I’m sorry, Kelly’s attempt as activism here is quite
   hypocritical and shortsighted? Funny thing is, is that
   he is capable of influencing a large population and
   cant come up with anything better than an airbrush and
   facts found on any Michael Moore blog.

   Kelly seems to have good intentions here but the road
   to hell is lined with them. He recently played in the
   AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach (golf) near where I live.
   In the past years, I’ve read so much about Kelly’s
   desire to preserve and protect our planet. What a
   green guy, no? Then why doesn’t a guy like Kelly
   research the Pebble Beach Company and find out it’s
   owner (Dirty Harry!!!) and his chums, want to chop
   down another 15,000 trees for an exclusive/private
   golf course and more single family unit luxury
   homes??? Once again, he could do something such as
   boycott a company that aims to maim our planet and
   visibly NOT enter the tournament…what does he do?
   Well, play ball.

   Maybe Kelly really sums it up best with his singing
   off quote and shows where his interests really lie…(Recent Surfline.com article about the aforementioned airbrushes)
   “But wait…I’m off track. I just liked the way the
   colors looked, I guess. Yeah, that’s all.”

   The Iraq war is a polarizing and difficult organism
   that is not to be taken lightly. I wish people like
   Kelly, who has the power to make change, would get
   serious and do something…not just sit back and mock
   events that are shaping our future.

   I saw Kelly & this airbrush again
   in Arica, Chile and couldn’t believe a guy like that would
   travel around the world with a board like that. Wait,
   Florida (Kelly’s home state) IS a Bush state. You can take the boy out of
   Dade county…

   Posted 27 Jun 2007 at 7:53 pm ¶

5. Brian wrote:

   Give the guy a break he is trying to make a statement, and I think it is a good one. How’s this: He’s from Brevard county, when he left Florida it wasn’t “Bush” country, I take offense to that. So lets talk about you for a second you live in California there is alot of polution there, do you drive to work if you do I’ll bet your thinking well I need to work, then so does he. you seem to follow Slater so you might surf and I’ll bet that you have the same type of polyester board and neoprene wetsuit it’s cold in the water in California isn’t it? By the way you allowed your home state to elect the Terminator, not much you could have done, but, I bet you tried didn’t you? Lay off of Kelly and lay off of Florida at least we don’t have an Austrian ass grabbin’ Nazi as a governor.

   Posted 28 Jun 2007 at 3:35 pm ¶

6. ian wrote:

   yo i dig that surfboard its soooooo sick i would get one of those on my board any day, I’m with you Kel Kel

   Posted 19 Jul 2007 at 11:59 pm ¶

7. Stephanie wrote:

   Im totally with you brad. this board makes me sick. i used to have a lot of respect for kelly slater, hes a great surfer, but to use his abilities to hurt our troops like that is absolutely disgusting. the fact that he surfs with that bored in competitions around the world is ridiculous. way to bash your country in front of hundreds of other nations.

   Posted 25 Aug 2007 at 1:10 pm ¶

8. Sean wrote:

   I’m interested by what Brad (and then Stephanie commenting on Brad’s post) wrote. As with most people who are blindly commited to following the administration over the cliff without pausing for a second to question whether it’s a worthwhile sacrifice, they look at anything that does posit that question as an attack on freedom itself. Is there ever a recognition that the freedom they beleive in so blindly is the freedom to do exactly that: to question our leaders. Everything we have, everything we believe in, everything we fight to defend comes down to that simple thing. In this country, truly the first of it’s kind in the history of the world, it is not only our right to question our leaders, it is our duty as citizens. What Kelly is doing by placing those images on his board, is doing exactly that in the manner that celeberties have always done: pointing the cameras that are focused on them towards things they believe in.

   As to the comment about hurting our troops, Stephanie might pause to consider that what they (the troops) are out there fighting for is Kelly’s right to make that statement. Without that one right, that one responsability, there is no reason for us to be fighting. Without it, we are a hollow democracy, a democracy in name only.

   Of course, to those still at this late hour following the presidents lead, that might not be such a bad thing. This freedom thing is a messy business.

   Posted 10 Sep 2007 at 12:06 pm ¶

9. jay wrote:

   sean, of course what you say is, technically, correct. Fighting for freedom, does include freedom of speech. However, there are things that can be said (under this freedom) that are not helpful. As a soldier who has spent much time overseas, most of my soldiers are not concerned freedom of speech, they just know what upsets them. Kelly has taken a more creative approach to his protest. While he and Forkscrew clearly don’t know what is going on in Iraq, they do know how they feel and what they support. They artwork is not inacuarate, it just doesn’t tell the whole story.

   Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 6:14 pm ¶

10. matt wrote:

    hey whats up…well when i got back from iraq i was thinking about doin something just like that on the bottom of my board…my friend told me that kelly did it but i didnt believe him…so i checked it out, now i cant do that….thanks a lot …ill find something else….late

    Posted 10 Dec 2007 at 5:16 am ¶

11. michael wrote:

    brad is a one way street sign.
    leave kelly alone youdick! pebble beach has nothing to do with his surfboard you jerko!
    pebble beach and monterey needs to be built up all of you live way to crowded in your stupid fake rich world…im sure you have golfed there jerk brad..i hate what you said in your statement that makes kelly look bad f off you idot

    Posted 10 Feb 2009 at 9:23 pm ¶

12. bob inglis wrote:

    kelly needs to drop the guitar and pick up the bagpipes. war images on surfboards is bagpipe-music.

    Posted 05 Dec 2011 at 11:09 am ¶

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