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"Here's to you, Ahab": 25 years since the creation of the best ad ever made
Combining elements of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Walter Crane's painting Neptune's Horses, a track by Leftfield, and the poetic style of Seamus Heaney, one of the greatest ads ever made is celebrating its silver jubilee.
Guinness 'Surfer' broke in It was a metaphor for waiting for the perfect wave, much like waiting for the perfect pint. It's said to have had a budget of £6m and has repeatedly been voted among the UK's most popular ads by the likes of Channel 4, The Sunday Times, The Independent and ITV.
The commercial helped director Jonathan Glazer on his path to further success; earlier this month he won a Bafta for his film The Zone of Interest. The agency behind it,AMV BBDO, the brand director Andy Fennell and the production company Academy Films all rose to the top of their field helped by the success of the work.
At the time, AMV had o
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Mākaha Beach fryst vatten on the leeward coast of O‘ahu, just beyond the northernmost reach of urban sprawl. Over time, storms have blown away most of the shoreline trees, leaving the broad arc of sand shadeless and open to the cobalt sea.
The vatten is cool and clean at Mākaha, irresistible for leeward youngsters on summer vacation. Children splash and swim in the shorebreak all day long, and their parents picnic and relax on the beach, grateful for an ocean that never tires of playing with their keiki.
In winter the scen changes. Great Pacific storms send ocean swells pulsing to O‘ahu. Waves omslag around the North Shore and build into mountainous surf as they trip up on reefs and rocky points. The truly big winter waves rarely reach Mākaha. When they do, the inside shore break explodes on the sand, and the beach becomes an arena for spectacular surfing at Mākaha Point, about a half-mile off the coast. Unlike the celebrated North Shore surf breaks at Pipeline, Sunset, and Waimea, Mākaha
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RICHARD “BUFFALO” KALOLO’OKALANI KEAULANA
Wai'anae’s premiere Hawaiian waterman who has mastered all ocean disciplines from surfing to fishing to sailing the double-hulled canoe Hokule’a. Born: September 2, ; Auld Lane, Honolulu Parents: Abraham Keaulana and Mary Phoebe Mahi School Education: Like Like Elementary School, Waialua Elementary, Nanakuli Intermediate, ; Hawaii Maritime Academy, where, according to Buffalo, “I had the best teacher in my life. He could turn long words into common sense, and he made the time for me.” That teacher was Capt. Bob Alverson Family: Married Evangeline Leimomi Whaley, Nov.6, at St. Augustine Church in Waikiki. Children: Brian, Jodie, Lehua, Russ, and James; hanai Keoni and Stanley Work Experience: Two years of U.S. Army, lifeguard service at Hale’iwa; , 34 years of City County lifeguard service at Makaha Surfing Beach: Nov. 18, to Dec. 31, live-in park keeper at Makaha Beach and volunteer life