Review 
Riding Waves(0)
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 to make his first film (at the precocious age of 19), he recruited local heroes [...]
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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 to the ground on the night of February 13, 1945 by 2600 tons of high [...]
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 no dialog, no explanations, no interviews and spotty identification of the surfers and waves they’re [...]
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 bits of Peruvian history, regional tips and things to see and do away from [...]