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Best Jobs 2007
Nine Reasons to Buy the Malloy Brothers a Beer (cont.)

Malloy Brothers
Keith in Indonesia,2005 (Tom Servais)

6. THEY COULD MAKE YOU A STAR
The Malloys started shooting movies in 1999, when Chris and then-unknown musician Jack Johnson borrowed $100,000 from Bob Hurley and—along with Keith, Dan, and others—started surfing and filming around the planet. They named themselves the Moonshine Conspiracy.

Chris calls their projects "home movies." And they are, featuring scenes from a trip to their ancestral Ireland or shots of friends hand-making guitars. Their first film, 1999's Thicker Than Water, shot on 16mm, felt like a return to an earlier era of subtle, wide-angle surfer storytelling—albeit injected with doses of some of the best wave riding ever captured on celluloid. It also sparked Jack Johnson's career—the soundtrack was an underground hit. They've released four more films, involving such co-conspirators as Kelly Slater, Eddie Vedder, and Ben Harper.

"Thicker Than Water swung the pendulum back to the right brain," says Surfer magazine editor Chris Mauro. "It was a monumental shift."

Malloy Brothers
Keith with Raph Bruhwiler in British Columbia, 2006 (Jeremy Koreski)

7. THEY MIGHT TELL THE SUPERMODELS STORY
Usually, they hate to talk about it. In 2001, the brothers appeared in a Vogue shoot on the North Shore. "We didn't try to be in that," insists Chris. "We met the photographer at a benefit for an elementary school. He asked if we wanted to spend the next day rolling around in the sand with supermodels. Dan was single. Keith was single. The surf was flat. Who doesn't want to wrestle with supermodels?"

For the Malloys, the answer really does depend on the surf. In 1996, Dan modeled for Ralph Lauren for a few days in New York. But when they asked him to continue on to Florida, a swell was hitting the California coast. He went home.

All three brothers are over six feet and chiseled and surf like demigods. Are they just interchangeable?

Complementary is more like it. Chris, who does most of the talking, tells me about a time all three showed up at a local break and saw a guy they'd had a fight with out in the lineup. "So," he says, "I was thinking about how to logically explain my actions, Dan was worried about how the guy felt, and Keith just said, 'Fuck him, get in the water.' "




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