‘Colors of Coincidence’ is a monograph of Wolfgang Bloch’s art, designed by the venerable David Carson and with text by Mike Stice. Expectations are always going to be high since David Carson and Wolfgang Bloch are two of the most influential creatives around.
An evening of surf-related short films by independent makers showing the rich variety in British surf culture went off in style down at Falmouth’s Tremough Campus Student Union earlier this November, while a frigid northerly wind blew a hoolie outside.
September sessions here in Cornwall are normally the best of the year, but this year the surf was pretty dire. But just when it seemed like it was going to be one of the worst autumns I can remember, October turned up with the goods.
In the commercial and industrialised operation that global surfboard production has become, the value of people and community have largely been lost. Recently we had the opportunity to chat to Malcolm Campbell, the creator of the Bonzer (a Drift feature is on its way), about his views on the globalisation of the surfboard industry. Words: Steve Croft & Mark Sankey, photos: Alexa Poppe.
Let me take you back to early Spring 2002, if my memory serves me correctly… I had timed a day off work to coincide with a good swell, but when the day and the swell arrived, so did the inevitable wind screaming out of the southwest.
Southwest France is famous for its late Indian summers – long hot days, surfing in boardies, morning offshores, early autumn swells and evenings spent sipping red wine – making it the perfect destination for a camping trip.
I recently caught up with the habitually calm and collected Neil Halstead for a Sunday-morning surf check.
I have just read the latest blog post by Mark Dickinson (of the Cell) and all I can say is - I concur.
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Mark Sankey
Mark can't decide if he is a carpenter pretending to be a writer or a writer pretending to be a carpenter, but he loves to explore all aspects of the surfing coin through his ramblings. He likes nothing more than getting feral out on the open road.
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