Bantam Cruiserboards
The first ever skateboards was invented in California by surfers who tried to bring surfing to land. By adding small wheels to a wooden board they sort of simulated the feeling of standing on a surfboard catching a wave, but on land. Globe has now gone back to that time and created a line of [...]
Flotsam & Jetsam
Pam Longobardi creates art with plastic objects collected on beaches. Her work reveals just how big our oceans’ plastic problem has become.
The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
Listening to this song in the dead of winter comes close to being immersed in surf waters.
Carl Ekström / Slice of Life
A short but nice introduction of surf board builder Carl Ekstrom. The man behind the asymmetrical surfboard and other unconventional designs.
Thor Jonsson
I’m completely hooked on the still image. When I see a surf movie I always want to press the pause button. In the ocean everything is in constant motion—myself, the wave, the surfer, the light. Surfing is never static, it is all about movement, even so, we (or at least I) can never remember a [...]
Teahupoo WHOA!
Biggest Teahupoo Ever by Chris Bryan by PayeTaChatte From Wikipedia: Teahupoʻo (pronounced cho-po) is a world-renowned surfing location off the South West of the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia, southern Pacific Ocean. It is known for its heavy, glassy waves, often reaching 2 to 3 m (7 to 10 ft) and higher. It is the site of the annual Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition, part of the World [...]
Mary Heilmann, Winter Surf, San Francisco
“Each of my paintings can be seen as an autobiographical marker, a cue, by which I evoke a moment from my past, or my projected future, each a charm to conjure a mental reality and to give it physical form.” — Mary Heilmann
Tipping Barrels
Follow surfers Arran and Reid Jackson on a trip into the Great Bear Rainforest on the Pacific coast of Canada, one of few untouched forests of the world and an area threatened by the oil industry. Learn more at pacificwild.org
Nosara in NYT’s Top 2012 Destinations
Now that the New York Times has included Nosara in their top 45 “Places to go in 2012” the word is out about the sleepy little surf town we know and love. What will this mean for Nosara? Will the beloved Guiones break start to look like choreographed chaos in Rincón featured in Surfer’s Journal‘s Symphony of [...]
Come Hell or High Water
Trailer for the new body surf movie by Keith Malloy released through Woodshed Films. Like the man in the video says: It’s definitely different than board surfing.
New Year’s Resolutions (for surfers)
Good advice! From a post last year by Zach Weisberg of Inertia.com. 1. Surf at sunrise whenever possible. There’s no better way to start a day. Period. 2. Give someone a wave. Don’t get me wrong, we’re all looking out for number one in the water, but on rare occasions when a stranger gifts a wave to [...]
Voguing
It takes one a few days to feel Nosaran. One either watches the surfers or is the one surfing, as was described to us when we first started to shuffle our feet along the bottom of the ocean floor to pop-up ourselves as well as the stingrays. Both activities occupy time, and at the end [...]
El Mar, Mi Alma
This is a preview for a film about surfing in Chile. It makes me really want to go there and I love the music! -”You have to respect the sea.”
Anicka Yi, Fins
I am interested in connections between materials and materialism, states of perishability and their relationship to meaning and value, consumerist digestion and cultural metabolism, smuggling, stomachs as biological metaphor, molecular gastronomy, scent, the fragrance industry as memory machine, commodification of creativity, public relations as medium, and post-humanist theory with it’s sociopolitical implications for the body, [...]
Water, Water Everywhere
PHANTOM WATER EDIT on Vimeo. Amazing footage by Australian cinematographer, Chris Bryan.
Illya Kagan in Costa Rica
Once again, I found a site not far from home. The surfboards on the beach along with the palm covered beach shack and the lone palm make for a good entrance into the painting.
BARBS DOLED
There are many things that run deep in still waters. In the Pacific, things run even deeper and one is advised when one is spending time in the surf to shuffle their feet as you move across the ocean floor. Adhering to this logic is a purposeful measure against being barbed by a stingray. Rays [...]
Floatation Wetsuit
Now this is awesome. In 2010 big wave surfer Shane Dorian took the worst wipeout of his life whilst surfing Mavericks, California. After almost drowning he came up with the idea to incorporate an air bladder into a wetsuit. Shane contacted Billabong and straight away they started working on the life saving device. The suit [...]
Stevie Gee & The Dusty Wolf
Stevie Gee is an artist/designer who is inspired by skate and surf culture. Among his work you’ll find a lot of custom made surf boards and skateboards but this particular piece was inspired by the Beach Boys song “Feel Flows”.
Illya Kagan in Costa Rica
As I get out of the water from surfing (a little beat up, and well washed by the surf), this is the view that greets me. I always find the view down the beach and over the waves a little more intense having been out in the water… Maybe the adrenaline has something to do [...]
“Humans are not the center of the universe”
Eco surfboard from the surfboard-shaper De La Uz in Euskadi, Spain. Created with the Danish designer Emil Kozak. Isn’t it beautiful?
Garrett McNamara rides 90 foot wave
Yesterday, Hawaiin surfer Garrett McNamara broke the world record for the largest wave ever surfed.
Uncommon Ideals
Uncommon Ideals, by Chris McClean and Mark Waters, captures the experience of surfing the cold waves of the North Sea. Beautifully shot and based around a poem by Daniel Crocket it was awarded Shortie of the Year at this years London Surf Film Festival.
