When I’m not Wending my way, or even when I am, I publish a little literay non-ficition zine called Foulweather. This issue is a socio-political history of The Beach in popular culture… or something like that… It comes with a cool post apocalyptic surf poster. You might like it.
Skateboard journo, Alex Klein is making a film about Palestinian and Israeli surfers called “God Went Surfing With The Devil.” He’s keeping a great photo blog about the experience over at God Went Surfing for you to check out and get inspired.
Dave Rastovich is an eco-warrior and a huge proponent of twin fin fish style surfboards. Hence, this tasty looking fin from Futures. Slash it up for the cause.
Future Fins gets nominated for “Accessory Product” of the year
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 24 March, 2008:
Product of the Year: The Dave Rastovich/Sea Shepherd Vector Keel fin; The Rasta [...]
So I agreed to camera duty yesterday on a Wend outing to Mt Hood. Here’s Wend Ed Ian giving me faceful of powder for my efforts. Thanks bro.
Stiv showing some nice form with this abstract slash.
Brian, styling through the epic conditions.
You may have noticed one of Andy Hughes‘ photographs in the ‘Greenery’ section of the latest Wend. Andy has been making huge wave in the photography world recently by photographing all manner of refuse that wash up on the world’s beaches. His book ‘Dominant Wave Theory’ is the result of spending the last decade photographing [...]
That’s how surf scribe Craig Stecyk describes mat-surfing. I’ve been intrigued by this form of surfing for quite some time. Firstly, I’m always looking for a new wave to slide around on waves. Secondly, my home state of Oregon is also the home of Dale Solomonson, one of the eccentric pioneers of surf mats [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0eru45CK5Y
A young African boy finds a body board while fleeing rebels in his war torn country and becomes Liberia’s first surfer. A Political Science PHD who is also an amputee, is traveling around the country, trying to hide his prosthetic leg because there are so many local amputees in need of prosthetics. The two are [...]
At Stiv’s request here is an olden but golden photo of Chet Childress putting some final use to a soon to be destroyed, transitional swimming hole, in the form of a backside smithgrind.
Taken from Nichols and Charnoski’s “Northwest” documentary, that has some footage of the last days of this Asbury Park pool.
A talented skateboarder, snowboarder and aspiring filmmaker happened upon a group of homeless can collectors in his North Vancouver neighborhood and decided to make a documentary about them. There is nothing unusual about someone making a film about people living on the fringe of society but then you realize what these people do for kicks [...]
These banks are replicas of the King City banks, a legendary Oregon skate spot that was never meant to be skated and now defunct… Once again Dreamland Skateparks pushes the boundaries of cutting edge skatepark design by incorporating inspiration from unintentional historical skate spots. Photo by Jeff Petersen