Category Archives: Review
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Netflix brought us this moody, mostly black and white meditation on surfing by Patrick Trefz. Thread starts with a collaboration between Joel Tudor and photographer Michael Halsband and then sort of meanders from La Cote Basque to Africa, Hawaii and … Continue reading
Children of the Sun
Children of the Sun is a beautiful Kodachrome document of the surfing scene in New Zealand from 1965-1967. Most of the surfing is at NZ hotspots like Piha, Raglan and Shipwrecks, but there’s also great footage from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Feature, New Zealand, North Island, Queensland, Review, South Island, Video
Tagged 1967, Australia, longboards, New Zealand
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The Mystic
The Mystic falls somewhere between high art and blue wallpaper. This 2004 DVD by Bill Ballard’s Billygoat Productions was two and a half years in the making. Ballard and his crew lugged their 16 and 35mm film cameras all over … Continue reading
Riding Waves
Cyrus Sutton found inspiration for his debut film in his backyard. As a kid surfing at Seal Beach and growing up in Long Beach, California, he looked up to surfers like Rob Machado and Joel Tudor. So when he went … Continue reading
Surf Nazis Ride Again
Last week’s New Yorker had an excellent article by George Packer about Dresden and how history is revised. For those of you who haven’t read Slaughterhouse-Five, Dresden is a Medieval city in eastern Germany’s Elbe River valley, that was burned … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Feature, News, Review
Tagged dresden, hitler's surf trip, slaughterhouse five
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Second to None
“The best surfers on the planet, surfing the best waves on the planet,” is how the DVD Second to None bills itself. That terse description is not only accurate, but emblematic of the aesthetic of Second to None. There’s almost … Continue reading
Peru Surfing Travel Guide
This attractive 2002 guide to surfing Peru’s Pacific coast is comprehensive and well illustrated with over 300 photos. Matias Guzman and Felix Bracco assembled this bi-lingual guidebook and it has a real local flavor. Spot descriptions are filled in with … Continue reading
Shrink
In a suitably Canadian fashion, Shrink is low-key about some pretty heavy surf. This short video is little more than promotion piece for Sepp and Raph Bruhwiler, but it is also a beautiful document about surfing Canada’s wild west, Vancouver … Continue reading
Wave-Finder’s Central America
This compact guidebook (measuring less than 5 X 3.5 inches) provides detailed information on the better known spots in Central America. It covers Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in clear, well-written prose. This guide to Central America … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean, Central America, Feature, Guidebook, Pacific, Review
Tagged centro, costa rica, guidebook, surf
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Young Guns 3
Quiksilver rounds up the latest batch of team surfers for this promotional video. Presumably following the formula of Young Guns 1 and YG2 (haven’t seen them, so I couldn’t tell you) Quik packs the young reps off to locations like … Continue reading