SEOTY: Keanu Miller Delivers His Carcass Unto Death Pits in ‘BLIP’
South Oz for Breakfast, Shippies for Dessert, ACL for Afterparty.
Keanu Miller is a 24-year old tube ox who grew up in a land girt by slabs. Wollongong. Attended Bulli High. Then Illawarra Sports. Was a Sandon Point Boardrider. Flirted with the Q briefly. Now serves as a local lifeguard, “which is perfect. Work 10–5. Surf before or after. Just save up coin to chase waves in winter.”
He’s cut his teeth on the most vicious patches of rock and reef in NSW, and done the Rock hop to Hawaii every year for the past ten years.
When I ask about his local sample of surf culture, he responds: “Some of the cunts that grew up around here are just madmen, aye. The boogs and that are so tapped, they don’t really give a fuck about anything except getting right up it on the piss and sending their carcasses into death pits, which is so sick.”
His new SEOTY entry, Blip, started with a South Oz strike mission and ended as a nine-minute edit — 80% of which is Keanu standing tall in organ-rearranging water spirals, sourced from Hawaii, South Oz, Shippies, and his own backyard.
Of the aforementioned locations, South Oz ranks highest on Keanu’s flogging list: “Just ’cause if something goes wrong — even minor — you’re five hours from any help. That’s the sketchiest part. And sharks.” South Australia has had seven attacks and four deaths in twenty months, btw.
Noted.
He rides Stretch boards — bulletproof ones — glassed by Corey at Glass Hut in Wollongong. The yellow board he gets his ender on he’s had for over three years, taken to Hawaii three times, and it still hasn’t snapped. “It’s beat to shit, but it won’t die,” he says. Kinda like Keanu himself.
Blip has no storyline and no fancy post-production. It’s just an honest edit from a legendary bloke from Bulli with a hard head, a good crew, and undeniable slab shamaniship stitched together into one of SEOTY’s rawest entries.
“Fishin’, divin’, surfin’… drinkin’ piss. Let’s go.”
