A smaller "Banzai Pipeline" and friendlier. After watching this video http://stabmag.com/an-intimate-restaurant-date-with-kelly-slater-2/ it also seemed like SL needed a more intimate surfing wave where the wave was right next to you allowing for some picturesque still shots and high water detail. I wanted to be able to capture the multiple water movements and directions in this wave - the water curling over, the water falling down (chandeliering), the mist spraying up from crashing, the water getting left behind in a mist because of it curling over, and the powerful shooting spray near closing, so "Empty Restaurants" was born. It also allowed me to refine the camera angles as well that my surfboard uses when surfing in a pipe so here it is... "Empty Restaurants" the accumulation of all LSD wave, water and surfboard techniques wrapped up in a few videos ;) hee hee! Have fun!
A typical ride on the Empty Restaurants
The Restaurant isn't really empty....
A view from a far...
Up close inside the tube
Before fixing the surfboard camera, and at the time
I was considering calling it "Fiji's Cloudbreak"
Also note this wave changes color on every rezz varying from blue to green
Banzai Pipeline is out! Currently only available at the Unhinged festival (http://www.unhingedsl.com) It's big, glassy, and foamy as promised! It isn't however the last wave...
Riding the barrel and getting spitooned out the end!
In SL you can dance inside the chandelier and won't die.. ;)
More playing with "death" lol
Even when you get crushed in SL, you are still alive!
The one is going to be *THE* one.. Big, glassy, hollow, foamy, steamy, fast rippin' left barrel 'o fun! The Chandelier needs more work and I think I might make the barrel either a little tighter or have it so that the barrel can be different sizes... haven't decided yet...For the moment though, here's a glimpse into what might be the final wave produced by LSD.
You can take a shower in here!
By some optical illusion or SecondLife anomaly, it seems like you can see the reflection of the splashing water before it lands at the base of the curl.
So while making the right handed barrel that Rayzza always wanted, I started using backdoor Banzai Pipeline as a reference for the wave shape. So here it is, Backdoor Pipe!!
