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Surfer Miki Dora - “… If you took James Dean’s cool, Muhammad Ali’s poetics, Harry Houdini’s slipperiness, James Bond’s jet-setting, George Carlin’s irony and Kwai Chang Caine’s Zen, and rolled them into one man with a longboard under his arm, you’d come up with something like Miki Dora, surfing’s mythical antihero, otherwise known as the Black Knight of Malibu…. His surfboard was his magic carpet and his wits were his wings, and from the late ’60s up until his death in 2002, excepting a couple brief prison stints, Dora lived the Endless Summer lifestyle, defining what it means to be a surfer ….”
The Fantastic Plastic Machine (Crown International, 1969). One Sheet (27” X 41”). Surfing Documentary. Starring Skip Frye, Mike Purpus, Steve Bigler, Mickey Munoz. Directed by Eric and Lowell Blum.