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Wait Until Spring, Noa.

You ever looked at the manuscripts the Paris Review posts of the featured author interviews they are doing that month? They are wrecked. Whole paragraphs slashed out, annotations by editors, and additions going perpendicular to the previous text--most of this material was done before track changes in Word, actual cut and paste. It always makes me feel like a worthless sot; like Sancho Panza without loyalty, or humor, or significance. I’m Arturo Bandini in my hotel room rewriting my favorite author, trying to get the rhythm. But no rhythm here; just mouse farts. The significance in posting unfinished works, like the manuscripts, is not to discourage--I assume that is a given--but expose the magnitude of the simplicity within a work of art. You speak of aesthetic appeal like it is term that holds no value, the confederate dollar of adjectives, yet this term holds great weight. The perspective of how to draw a line, or, the attempts one makes to create a perfect sequence of surf film. Editing, re-editing, shooting, location changes, wind, tide, swell direction, all important--again, a given. Noa Deane, the surfer from Oz, released the best surf film of the week--and it is just over two minutes. Why? The same deference the Paris Reviews receives on the release of author’s manuscripts: adoration of failure. Failure makes one human. It is the reason I watch ASP events online--the prospect of seeing perfection tested, and in the moment, fail, if only for a second. Noa is a boss. His arial acumen matches the best high flyers in surfing today. He is creative, experimental, and his prescient aesthetics match those of Kai Neville and Dane Reynolds. But, at times, we see in "4:3"’s series clips (a link to the website is in the source) heavy, uneven, surf boiling and rebounding around Noa. And it works. This type of surfing should not be left to the gag reel, or credits. I’m not saying it should be glorified either. Simply Appreciated. If surfing made its way to wave pools and perfect sets, then isn’t that industrial capital winning the battle of nature vs machine? How is the same, perfect wave, appealing to anybody? Acknowledge what is being shown. Watch the failure all feel at least once in their surf session. See the perfection among the imperfection. -CP

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