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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWRZrupLrI
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 [...]
I was really excited when I told you about Fluid Earth Bio-Plastic fins a while back, but now they have a longboard fin box available. Check it here.
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 [...]
Words and photos copyright Captain Liz Clark.
Got a note from Liz today from her satellite email. Here’s an excerpt from that email, about a storm she was in. Liz is currently somewhere near Christmas Island and going strong. Look forward to another update from her in our summer issue. She’s such [...]
Our Ed and Chief, Ian, has a knack for scoring old longboard surfboards off of Craig’s List for near nothing. I don’t know how he does it, but somehow, Ian will invariably end up with yet another half destroyed vintage longboard. So, the other night, Ian comes over to [...]
A study and accompanying map published in today’s Science illustrate, literally, the impact of human behavior on the world’s oceans.
Lead scientist Ben Halpern and his colleagues composed 17 models of the earth, each representing the damage caused by a specific human behavior like fishing or pollution, then merged them to show the cumulative global effect. [...]