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King Gizzard, Indonesian Kickers And A Purple Surfboard

Letty Mortensen’s colourful tropical travel diary.

cinema // Feb 28, 2018
Words by stab
Reading Time: < 1 minute

There are a number of reasons why, among the pile of various clips and news leads circulating surfing’s digital galaxy, we decided to share Letty Mortensen’s latest edit.

Firstly King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Melbourne’s psych-overlords, provide the head spinning soundtrack. It’d be hard to find a number from the outfit that wouldn’t weave smoothly with any half-decent surf edit. 

Apparently Letty Mortensen embarked on the four week tropical strike only after realising he had a bunch of coin locked away with Rusty under ‘Travel Fund’. Stab approves his use of these funds. Plus what would an edit be without a decent backstory?

Filmer, director and editor, Tyler Bell, has a production aesthetic that melts with pleasing hues and nostalgic grain.

And lastly, Mr Mortensen threads choc tubes and leaps out of Indonesian bowls with aplomb – and that’s what really gets us going!

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