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top, he steps out of the car barefooted, grabs his skateboard and bombs the hill at top speed. Going so fast, he flies off the road into mid-air, and through Spinn'in Wheels logo. The film includes surfing and skateboard greats, like Rabbit
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installation plays host to art openings, premieres and surf extravaganzas of all types at the groundbreaking museum. The installation also features the work of Brett
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In 1976, Lamb created a psychedelic animation sequence for the feature film documentary Spinn'in Wheels, by Chris
Carmichael. The title sequence includes a blond-haired guy blazing a joint, while snaking up a mountain road in his yellow Porsche (modeled after Chris Carmichael's own Porsche). At the
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and beach scenes set against the backdrop of one of
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features an aerial maneuver where the surfer rides up the face of the wave, into the air, and lands back on the wave to continue surfing. This maneuver was pure imagination at the time, and is now a standard trick in the world surf community.
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was a limited edition hard cover, published independently by Big Buick Press. The book tells the story behind the film, the animators, the music and the artist, Tom Waits.
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