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.
The Brits seem way ahead of the game in terms of electronic publications. Check out Drift an online surf rag and Tweaker a skate version. Both are beautiful to look at with worthy indepth content. So good, I almost wish they did print versions…
From the fine folks who brought us Pure Sweet Hell (see Seen & Read, Issue 2 for our review), comes their next installment of pure bike-loving film:
Every luscious shot in this film exudes love of the bicycle. It follows the workers of Santa Cruz Bicycles, from the factory to the trails, streets and track.
The [...]
Our spring issue just went to print this morning, keep an eye out for it soon. Here is one of our reviews from the seen and read section this issue.
West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origin of Belief
Steven Kotler
After paddling back out to the lineup in Indonesia following a serious wipeout that dragged him [...]
In the upcoming issue of Wend, on stands May 22, I review Brian Eustis’s film, Mekong: Exploring the Mother of Waters. I spoke with Ryan today and found out that the film was recently accepted into the Telluride Mountain Film Festival, aka Mountainfilm in Telluride.
Congratulations Brian!
Photo courtesy David Potter, Stoke Films. (Casanova and Gnar Gnar a wee bit lost on the search for stoke.)
Planet C has run out of stoke. Uncle Blork has sent two of his most trusted envoys to earth to scour the earth’s point breaks—by surfing them, the envoys are able to energize their boards with stoke [...]
Filmed by Bike in Portland has made the final selections for this year’s festival. 19 films and they are giving away an Electra Amsterdam. If you are in P-town, go see it, otherwise get the DVD.
There is one bicycle race that even the mention of its title makes most roadies cringe. It is the Paris-Roubaix, and it is because of the cobbles. Cycling careers have been made and destroyed during what many consider to be the world’s toughest bike race. Scott Coady’s latest film, called Cobbles Baby! isn’t really a [...]
In 1992, Eugene Buchanan, publisher and editor of Paddler magazine, traveled with three friends to the former Soviet Union, joined up with a group of Latvian paddlers they’d never met and ran one of the hardest, most dangerous rivers in Russia, the Bashkaus. A few years later, NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) used the Bashkaus [...]
Bend to Baja is the ultimate scrapbook of adventure travel documenting a massive roadtrip in search of surf and climbing spots all over the North America. Oh, and it’s the story of a truck, converted to run on biofuels. The book itself is a unique design, full of original art and photography that reads like [...]