Brian Deegan & Jeremy Stenberg Unplugged
It was an atypical day in Southern California. It had just rained and Brian Deegan’s Temecula backyard was mushy, terrible riding conditions.
It was an atypical day in Southern California. It had just rained and Brian Deegan’s Temecula backyard was mushy, terrible riding conditions.
I certainly didn’t envision intrigue or buried treasure when we were hired by Allied Waste Services to produce a video about their Otay facility south of San Diego.
San Diego with its white sandy beaches, world-class waves and long summer season, is a surfer’s paradise where consistent reports of “Great surf, Dude!” (or “Dudette!”) are music to a bodyboarder’s ears.
How did a San Diego video production crew meet the magical Nina Hartley? Back in the mid-1980’s, we used to travel to Las Vegas to attend the VSDA (Video Software Dealer Association) shows, to pedal our wares. We had produced a handful of special-interest videos including some that were the first of their genre.
By 1985, Mark Schulze and I were already making waves in the burgeoning home video market. Together, we had produced several innovative VHS titles—many of them the first of their kind.