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.
Rerip
Wondering what to do with an old or broken surfboard? Rerip it! Rerip is an organization that strives to keep boards out of landfills. Founded by Meghan Dambacher and Lisa Carpenter—San Diego residents and avid surfers—and run by a team of volunteers, Rerip sets up drop off locations for people to leave unwanted boards, fins [...]
Happy Halloween
At the annual Blackie’s Halloween Costume Surf contest in Newport Beach, CA surfers are judged on their technique and costumes. For more great photos—and last-minute costume ideas—check out SolSpot Surf and the Guardian slideshow.
Buenos Dias
Sometimes surf shops come with a certain cliqueish ‘tude that can feel unwelcoming for non-tribe members. When I visited Buenos Dias—a new surf, art and vintage clothing store—in Montauk this summer, I was ready for some Ditch Plains ‘tude but instead met the sweetest people. Yaan Pessino, the surfer, photographer and vintage clothing collector who [...]
Waiting for Waves
EndlessBummerNyDotCom from Todd Stewart on Vimeo. I love this moody short by the NYC crew at Endless Bummer.
Surf Dog Contest
Can’t get enough of these surfing dogs images from the Surf City Surf Dog Contest that took place last month in Huntington Beach.
Aloha State High School Surfing
Kids used to cut school to go surfing, but now that Hawaii has made surfing an official high school sport they may not have to. Earlier this week Governor Neil Abercrombie said surfing will become a state-sanctioned sport in public schools starting as early as spring 2013.
London Surf Film Festival
I don’t typically think of this soggy city and surfing together, but after watching the teaser for next week’s London Surf/Film Festival, maybe I should. The festival, 13-15 October, is “a three day celebration of contemporary surf culture showcasing international surfing’s hottest releases, award winning documentaries, independent features and UK Premieres alongside the best short [...]
Baby on Board
Saw this custom board on Two Birds Fly and loved the story behind it: “Alex gets a custom every time he and his wife Talia have a baby. This is his second custom from us, the first was a Nat Russell / Michele Junod custom to commemorate the birth of his first daughter Sophie. This [...]
Mollusk Surf Shop
Here’s a cool profile on a nice little surf shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a window into the work of artist/owner, Chris Gentile, as well as his perspective on the NYC surf scene.
