Saw this photo of Slater coming out of the water at the Rip Curl Pro held down in Chile (in ridiculous surf). My eyes perked a bit regarding the images layed out on the bottom of his board, I’d recognized them from somewhere before but never really knew their origin. Kelly explains…
…on his way out of the water, this photo inspired a few letters from Surfline readers in the same vein.
After losing to Dingo yesterday, Kelly took time out to respond:
It’s my favorite images of the war…no, not really. It’s just a poster a friend of mine made to bring some awareness to what’s happening in iRaq and a funny play on iPods. Pop culture meets political awareness.
Bruce Gilbert, my traveling partner and one of my best friends, started doing posters with this image on them. His website is www.forkscrew.com/.It was originally made with numbers of troops and Iraqis killed to date but it’s far outdated and the numbers are way up there now — around 3500 US troops and between 700,000 and a million Iraqis killed since the beginning of the war!
Why is Paris Hilton going to a halfway house for three weeks bigger news than 500 Iraqis a day being killed in their own country everyday as well as lots of American troops? This is not to mention the injured, which is about ten times higher than the fatalities. It’s life-changing for so many people. A crime of humanity.
But wait…I’m off track. I just liked the way the colors looked, I guess. Yeah, that’s all.
–Kelly
Pretty bold for a professional athelete, and one at the very top of his sport no less, to put something like that on his equipment. You won’t see that at NASCAR.
Good for him but I gots to wonder why he’s still with Quicksilver with all the horrible corporate accusations against them???
Is is all bullshit?
Whatever became of them buying Kammies market???
Rumors of a “superstore” seemed ridiculous.
Anyone know the plans?
http://surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/kammies/
got my answer bout Kammies but really is Quick an ‘evil-doer’?
Here’s some great anti-war stuff…
http://www.zombietime.com/