Crossword clues for surfer
surfer
- Site seer?
- Search engine devotee
- One who might be crest-fallen?
- One visiting websites
- One riding on the crest of a wave?
- One participating in a new Summer Olympics sport in 2021
- One often seen in curls
- One might hang ten
- One in a barrel, perhaps
- Man over board?
- Expert on a board
- Browser user
- Banzai Pipeline user
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surfer \Surf"er\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The surf duck. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955, agent noun from surf (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who rides a surfboard. 2 A person who surfs the Internet. 3 A duck, the surf scoter (''Melanitta perspicillata'').
WordNet
n. someone who engages in surfboarding [syn: surfboarder]
Wikipedia
Surfer is a 2001 EP by NOFX.
The record was released on Fat Mike's record label, Fat Wreck Chords. The methodology for writing and recording the songs was much the same as the band's Fuck the Kids EP. Fat Mike wrote all of the songs in a limited amount of time, claiming to have only given himself ten minutes to finish each one, and did not teach the songs to the rest of the band until the day of recording. The EP was recorded in two full-day sessions, making it one of the band's fastest-completed EP or album recording, second to Fuck the Kids which was recorded and mixed in a day and a half.
The EP was later included on the second disc of 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, but with one track omitted ("Three Shits to the Wind") in order to preserve something unique about the original 7" release.
The album cover and lyric sheet was inspired by Bad Religion's 1988 record Suffer. Another reference to Suffer is etched into the vinyl: "THE MASSES OF HUMANITY HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO SURF," as opposed to ""THE MASSES OF HUMANITY HAVE ALWAYS HAD TO SUFFER" which is etched on the Bad Religion album. The artwork of the lyrics being written on a wall was also replicated for Surfer.
The record is 13 minutes in length. The first 500 copies were pressed on blue vinyl, while subsequent pressings were released on black vinyl.
Surfer is a critically acclaimed integrated advertising campaign launched in 1999 by Diageo to promote Guinness-brand draught stout in the United Kingdom. The cornerstone of the campaign is a television commercial, originally 60 seconds long, which centred on a Polynesian surfer successfully taking on a gigantic wave. Shot in Hawaii over a nine-day period and directed by Jonathan Glazer, the piece went on to win more awards than any other commercial in 1999 ( Clio Awards, D&AD Awards, Cannes Lions), and in 2002 was voted the "Best ad of all time" in a poll conducted by Channel 4 and The Sunday Times.
The plot centers on a group of surfers, waiting for the perfect wave. As it arrives, the crashing 'white horses' turn into actual horses. One by one, a surfer 'crashes out', leaving only one, who manages to conquer the wave. The others join him as they celebrate on the shore.
The advert was inspired by Walter Crane's 1893 painting "Neptune's Horses". The text also draws inspiration from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, including the line "Ahab says, 'I don't care who you are, here's to your dream.'" (which does not actually appear in the novel).
The music track in the advert was created by British band Leftfield and eventually this formed the basis of their track " Phat Planet" which appears on their 1999 album Rhythm and Stealth. Its use in the advertisement lead to the song appearing on several compilation albums of music from advertisements including Classic Ads (2002), I Love TV Ads (2004) and Guinness 250: Music from the TV Ads (2009).
An extended 90-second version is available on the 2005 DVD The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer.
In November 2009, The Independent named the advertisement, alongside several other advertisements in the campaign, amongst the "greatest advertising of all time".
A surfer takes part in the sport of surfing.
Surfer may also refer to:
- Surfer (EP), a 2001 EP by NOFX
- Surfer (advertisement), an advertising campaign to promote Guinness-brand draught stout
- Surfer (magazine), an American surfing culture magazine
Usage examples of "surfer".
Langdon rocketed downward, on the edge of a billowing shroud of light, feeling like a surfer trying to outrun a thousand-foot tidal wave.
The big surfer had a heavy antique frag rifle cradled in his arms, Tres hefted her blaster left-handed to make room for the Kalashnikov solid-load in her right.
The traffic was bumper-to-bumper on Alii Drive, jammed up by a crowd of thugs who had swarmed onto the road to stomp the driver of a motorcycle that had gone out of control and plowed into a gang of surfers.
It was a Baby-G this time--the new one--and when you pressed the backlight button, a little surfer came up on one of the displays.
I snap my right leg back around frontwards, get down in a squat like a tubing surfer, and careen along two feet from the car doors like a little cannonball.
Short of being a professional surfer or a bong test pilot for the Rastafarian air force, Kona thought he had found the perfect job.
The story reported a terrible wipeout by celebrity surfer Cooley Claymore, known to his fans as Cool.
Bill and the surfers made at androids were sometimes mistaken for comments about the owners.
Eventually the surfers succeeded in getting the motorcycle maniacs kicked off the beach permanently.
If a surfer visits sites which deal with aberrant sex and nuclear physics in the same session - what to make of it?
Were they among the surfers and post-hippies she was passing on the street?
There was quite a mix of people here post-hippies, high-tech start-up folks, transients, surfers, college kids.
She was a quick study, enthusiastic about catching the surfers on film as they raced toward shore, great plumes of spray behind them.
When a comet strike in the Pacific sends a tsunami rolling toward the coast of California, surfers grab their boards and head out to surf the big one.
Today, surfers who surf the World Wide Web as well as the waves can read up-to-date satellite and ocean buoy data about waves hundreds of miles from their beaches.