Iconoclasts Episode with Eddie Vedder

sponger wrote:

Is that the one with Laird Hamilton?

One thing you might find interesting is how EV kept using his poetic powers to express and encapsulate what Laird Hamilton does. Instead of using up the show's time to talk about himself, EV instead spent almost the whole episode devoting himself to turning Laird's life into a form of artistic expression.

There is a scene when Ed and Laird are watching the waves and Ed goes something like, "You know I was thinking that when you're out there surfing those big waves, what you're doing is giving those waves scale."

It's obvious that Laird is a person who is more focused on physical achievement as opposed to intellectual prowess. Not to say that the guy is dumb, but in comparison to Ed's linguistically creative mechanisms, there isn't a comparison.

And so what Ed did was probably communicate Laird's thoughts in a way they've never before been communicated. I remember thinking what an honor that must be to have one's own actions and thoghts conveyed through the eyes of someone like Ed.