July 09

Cyrus Saatsaz of The Extreme Scene had a chat from the other coast on his live radio show with Lance about all things Donk and the East coast scene.  Have a listen below.

June 09 “Take 2″

Lance (and the show) get front page press about the “Surfer’s Ear” three part episode we did ( Ep9. Have a read Ear-herald.

June 09

The Coast also did a great article about our recent Film festival adventures.  Read it HERE

May 09 “Take 2″

The Chronicle Herald (Nova Scotian local paper) just did a great article on the show.

Have a read SD Brothers Chronicle Herald

May 09

Booyeah!

The awesome organizers at SurfFilm Festibal 2009 in Spain asked us to submit something to their film festival this year.

So we cut a special episode we hadn’t released yet, got Spanish subtitles and sent it off.

Go see the special episode HERE.

We hope to actually go and be part of the festival but we need to land some sponsorships to help fund things so if you know a company who would be a good fit drop us a line at prod[at]dacanesurfshop.com to talk about sponsorship packages.

Heeeehawww in Spanish!

Radio Interview by Ryan Heise From CKDU FM (Dalhousie Radio)

The most recent Press Release

Below is a PDF download link:

Brothers Create Online Video Show that Surfs the Web

For Immediate Release March 5, 2009

Halifax, NS – Entrepreneurial brothers Craig and Lance Moore are co-creating a show marrying their passions – online video and surfing. Surf Donkey, produced in Halifax by Spider Video, is an internet-based show profiling Nova Scotia’s unique cold-water surf culture peppered with sibling jibes and guest interviews.

Even though they share a love of surfing, Craig and Lance live very different lives. Craig, owner of Spider Video, graduated from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he focused on film and video production and is married with three children.

Lance lives the life of a surfer. He operates his store, Dacane Surf Shop on Blowers Street and travels around the world to exotic locations. He is well known for his passion for Nova Scotia surfing and colourful array of friends, some of them celebrities.

Craig understands online video drives much more than entertainment value. “In six months Surf Donkey has doubled traffic to the Dacane Surf Shop website, racked up over 850,000 hits and recently cracked 50,000 views of the show.” He adds, “With over ten billion videos watched online monthly, that’s a lot of eyeballs viewing products.”

Sibling dynamic is a strong foundation for the show and fuels much of the dialogue within each “webisode”. Craig is quick to point out that it was he who started surfing first. In sibling fashion, Lance ribs Craig for his lack of surfing over the past ten years.

Response to the show has been positive so far. A surfer for over 16 years, Lance feels he well represents target Surf Donkey viewers saying, “People are always asking me when the next webisode is coming out,” and adds, “I was confident our target audience would like the concept as we give them what I would want to see in a surfing show.”

Surf Donkey launched in the summer of 2008 and now has a fan base around the world in countries including the United States, Australia, Britain, Germany, Norway and across Canada. The latest and tenth show, “Sub Zero” features Lance providing winter surfing tips while heading to the beach to surf in minus 15 degrees Celsius temperatures.

To view Surf Donkey go to www.surfdonkey.ca. All 10 webisodes are posted on this site along with show notes, viewer comments and an online merchandise store.

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For more information contact:
Craig Moore, Spider Video Lance Moore, Dacane Surf Shop
(902) 221-2122 (902) 221-7823
craig@spidervideo.tv info@dacanesurfshop.com
www.spidervideo.tv www.dacanesurfshop.com

SurfDonkey Media Release Mar 2009

Mar 09

Proof Tom Curren was here:

Photo credit to Yassine Ouhilal

FEB 09

Lance is obviously out of commission for a bit so we have Craig in the water once so far and maybe again in a week or so.  Coming wayyyyyyyy out of retirement.  But as usual we have a few archived episodes to roll out and some dryland fun too.

A shout out to our Ontario/Great Lake surf fans as they have a photo contest on the go with some SurfDonkey merch as one of the prizes as we’re going to do some judging for it too.  Lake surfing….now that is hardcore, find surf where you can stuff.  Thanks to the Origin Surf crew and their peeps.

DEC 08

The Donks in a online vid competition

So we dropped SurfDonkey in a online video competition site at SurfReel. Drop in, sign up and throw up a “Stoked” vote for us. Might mean a few bucks and help fund a trip to Nova Scotia’s hardcore north shore…Cape Breton.

Go see! SurfReel