A Daydream Revisited (Remisted)

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

I’ve decided to alter/remaster some albums, tracks and films that have usually already been released.
 Just felt I could give them a different kinda feel, sound and or look…

I import the video/audio files into the dvaw(s).

Visuals I sometimes grade, edit, add effects to or alter in other ways.
The audio is sometimes remastered.

Evolution, 1969

For the remist I changed the title to, A Daydream Revisited.

Feeling tired when commencing this remist, yet feeling that it would be good to do so, I first decided to do nothing, or next to nothing and simply find music for the remist soundtrack. I ended up using two and a half of my own albums; A Daydream Revisited, Night Trip and Backroads, Pts. I – V.

I did add some paintings to the piece, during the track Mona, including works by Picasso, Manet, Hokusai, Monet, Martin Sharp and the cover of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Also a still of Miranda (Anne Lambert) from Picnic At Hanging Rock.

I also used a film negative effect a couple of times and inserted the last image of the remist – a rasterised surfboard.

I felt that the title A Daydream Revisited suited the piece for the same reason that it suits the album. What the title is about is the revisiting of something, a calling, that one once loved, but that as one has become more sensible and serious, pragmatic, has been consigned in one’s mind to the rubbish bin of; simply a daydream.
So it’s about revisting that calling, that desire to do something, or be part of something, take a journey, and the realisation that it is not a daydream.

I myself know what it’s like to have a calling, an artistic calling, and then down the track walk away from it, later to be brought back, to revisit it.

I can’t speak for the surfers in this film, Wayne, Nat, George or any of the others.
But what I do know is that this film catches the moment when the three individuals mentioned were feeling that surfing was not a sport or passtime, but rather a journey, voyage, safari, art, through an ever changing glass landscape. One whose changes and vistas, trails, rainbow spectrums and surrealistic qualities are not of this world, or rather are, but are also a look in on other worlds, other things; even the things of Elohim, of Shamayim.

Wayne Lynch and Nat Young let go competative contests for a few years from 1970, Wayne from ’70 – 75. Some of this time Wayne was in hiding from a Vietnam draft call (albeit continuing to move around, sometimes visting Byron Bay etc).

Nat Young moved to Byron Bay with his wife, surfing, living sometimes on little money, a place in the bush etc, like Lynch he continued to surf, going into another space or place with it.

George Greenough was also looking for different ways to go, both in his life and re surfing. He was innovative, creating different boards and other craft. He was the first to look to tuna fish fins for inspiration re board fins, in the early ‘60s. On this basis he developed fins that were narrower and more agile for the board than the chunky lumps proceeding them; this marked a turning point for the surfboard fin. The first board he designed was known as the spoon, a round-nosed surfboard which one knelt on. This means that one has more space to travel the wave, or in other words that one can be more inside or along only the wave at times (this can also good for surfing short waves). His second board was nicknamed the velo – a reference to velocity. He also at times surfed and surfs using an air mattress, again for a different experience with the wave.

Wayne was the first surfer to manoeuvre or go up and down the wave constantly, rather than just along it.