Lights, camera… action!!
The Amstel Surfilm Festibal8 – 2010 (Donostia – San Sebastián, June 10-13) is ready to roll!!
The Amstel Surfilm Festibal8 – 2010 (Donostia – San Sebastián, June 10-13) is ready to roll!!
Finisterre has been busy forging links with the emerging Afghanistan Skatescene. Skateistan is Kabul’s first skateboarding school.
Our US crew have just published a gorgeous set of photos from NorCal designer/photographer/musician John Ryan. So if you fancy a change of scenery but can’t leave the office, do check it out.
I haven’t written this blog for weeks now, caught up in a variety of projects, articles, plots and schemes, whilst also becoming snagged on the snaggle-toothed edge of a writer’s block. I just couldn’t get motivated to sit down and write, and I’ve got plenty to be getting on with – an article for the Sunday Telegraph, a piece for a surf mag, some business plans… So what happened? What dragged me from the mire? What hauled me from my stupour? What prised me from my lethargy? Waves. Pure and simple, the waves returned.
Three jewellery ranges have been designed, created and delivered – it has been an incredibly busy season, meeting up with new-found designers, artists and buyers. As an artist and jeweller it was exciting and fascinating, but as a traveller and outdoor junkie it left me a bit parched. So instead of the usual chilled weekend at home pondering life in all its many permutations, I decided to go experience and explore them instead. After two months of solid designing it was time to fill my creative cup.
It looks like 2010 will be a good year for Spanish longboarders with a merry spirit. Not only the Longboard Festival de Salinas 2010 promises to get even bigger and better, but the A.C.L. might be back.
Those of you with a fish fetish take note: on Sunday 14 March, Currumbin Alley is THE place be as this year’s Alley Fish Fry will be in full swing. Come along and admire, covet, and generally find out more about some of the most fabulous incarnations of this fun little board…
Forget unreliable surf report websites, frozen webcams and gas guzzling hunts up and down the coastline - there’s a new way of checking the surf. Tweeting.
Carlos Burle: up front and personal
Carlos Burle on why big-wave riding is a playground for the few who have earned the privilege.
Comfortable isolation
Noosa Noseriding champ Christian Wach swaps so-Cal surf for the frozen waters of Nova Scotia.
The simple life
Alby Falzon talks to Jair Bortoleto about filmmaking, photography, and being surrounded by beauty.
Together we're stronger
An international cooperative of master craftsmen is advancing the ideals of sustainable surfing.
The joys of forward trim
Chris Preston chats to the best shaper you've never heard of, Tim Mason, about hulls and flex.
Ions: a breath of fresh air
Do the ions in sea air improve the health of surfers? Rhiannon Buck weighs up all the arguments.