From Patagonia comes this love letter to The Surfer’s Journal as they head into their 20th year of publication. It’s an inspiring effort and the surfing world is all the richer thanks to Steve and Debee Pezman. Yvon Chouinard tells it like it is when he says TSJ is the best publication on the planet, bar none. Great clip.
Read MoreThis is brilliant, a Kurderoy.tv classic: How to make your own organic surf wax! This guy, Roy Stewart, claims his wife invented this very recipe back in 1998 in the comments and gives a bit of back story:
We started with the beeswax and coconut oil combination, and searched for quite a while before coming up with the tree resin additive for cold water. The breakthrough came when we found an old book ( from around 1900 ) of industrial recipes, there were ski wax recipes in there for climbing wax, designed to make skis grip in the snow. The recipes used pine resin. That was the clue.
Can’t wait to try this one out.
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In this third installment of The Surfer’s Journal initiative POV Shorts II, Chris Malloy draws a portrait of master surf filmmaker Bruce Brown so charming it’ll have you grinning for hours. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go revisit The Endless Summer…
Read MoreBruce Brown aw-shucks his way through every interview he’s ever sat for. He leaves it for others to list his accomplishments and influence. If you’ve read the Bruce features in TSJ, you know the bullet points: Oscar-nominated director of The Endless Summer; commercial sword fisherman; pillar of the apocryphal Dana Point Mafia. And, like a tagline from a Dos Equis commercial, Steve McQueen was his desert racing wingman.
For this episode of POV, filmmaker Chris Malloy—no slouch himself in the surf-and-turf arts—sits a spell with the legendary lensman. Discussion turns quickly from the predictable and into the details of early bootstraps surf filmmaking.
#1; A touch of Phil Edwards and Miki Dora—Bill’s pure jazz, and so smooth. He hit unanticipated notes of action never seen in his time and was a pioneer in the transition from the longboard to the shortboard.
#9; Traditional, modern, and fun to watch. He’s awkward but agile. He’s taken all the moves from Dora and Edwards, and the mentoring of Young and Takayama, making his own original fluid style. The modern longboard guru.
The 10 most photogenic surfers according to Art Brewer. Great little listing of true style icons and great photography to match by one of the best lensmen surfing has ever seen. The Tudor shot is my favourite; all Edwards. Here’s the list in full:
Via Surfer Magazine. And while you’re at it, check out The top 10 power surfers according to Taylor Knox!
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Tales from the tube was a comic insert into an issue of Surfer Magazine in 1972 featuring epic cartoonists Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson to name a few. The cover is of course by the inimitable Rick Griffin and has been a favourite for a long time, but I’ve never seen the full comic until now.
Check out Rick Griffin’s TALE FROM THE TUBE!
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Another Day in the life of Wayne Lynch is one of five short films in a series called POV Shorts II, commissioned by The Surfer’s Journal. Directed by the talented Cyrus Sutton, it’s a melancholic revisit of the grandfather of vertical surfing.
The other filmmakers in the series include Chris Malloy, Tyler Manson and Andrew Kidman. How’s that for talent pool! The shorts will be released over the course of the summer.
Wayne Lynch is a surfing legend, blazing individualistic pathways in both the performance and the lifestyle. Ascending during a time of great change and experimentation, Wayne took up the mantle personally, redefining what a surfboard should look like and how it should be ridden. Much of this innovation done outside of surfing’s athletic or institutional complexes.
In this two-part portrait, filmmaker Cyrus Sutton provides a window into Lynch’s new life. With a nod to Jack McCoy’s Tubular Swells, Another Day in the Life, is crafted with ultra-fine cinematography and a spare and modernist feel. The viewer is transported back to the Wayne Lynch they grew up idolizing, while making current those admirations and anchoring them in the reality of human mortality.
Via The Surfer’s Journal (photo by Andrew Kidman)
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After Andy Iron’s death last year, Outside Magazine published the excellent article Last drop by Brad Melekian, that tried to piece together the complexities of not only the tragic passing of a top athlete but the sub-culture that allowed it to happen.
A couple of days ago the investigative follow-up article Crashing down was published on Outside Online and it’s a mandatory read.
Read MoreBehind surfing’s wall of silence, managers, sponsors, and the sport’s governing body knew Andy Irons had a problem. Now some of them are finally ready to talk about it.
Cyrus Sutton’s Under the sun is premiering in a few days on The Surf Network and is looking sweet as a nut! With a killer cast, a compelling narrative and an online world premiere showing over two days, there’s no reason to miss it! Tickets ($8) on sale now.
Byron Bay and the Gold Coast are two seemingly opposite Australian surf towns. But beneath the surface they are inextricably linked to a multi-billion dollar industry which thrives on the commodification of the surfing lifestyle. With their populations swelling, resources draining, and housing prices going through the roof, where do these two towns go from here? Where does surfing go from here?
Under the Sun is a 16mm documentary shot in Byron Bay and the Gold Coast and features incredible surfing from Dave Rastovich, Beau Young, Nat Young and a handful of others as it explores the roots of commercialism that are now so entrenched in surf culture. Be prepared for a dark and compelling narrative amidst beautiful imagery and a kick ass custom soundtrack.
Featuring: Dave Rastovich, Nat Young, Beau Young, Rabbit Bartholomew, Dean Morrison, Mick Fanning, Albe Falzon, Kelly Slater
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