Experience otherness
Surf trips are as much about the expanse of sky and the stars as they are about the horizon, water, the ocean and the waves. They’re as much about eating as about riding waves, and as much about walking as driving.
Art
Drift @ howies – 21 November
Date for your diaries, folks – on Saturday 21 November Drift is taking over the howies store in Bristol for a day of surf-related entertainment.
Guillermo in Gijón
Drift blogger, Spanish castaway and fabulous photographer Guillermo Álvarez Pando has a selection of his work on display at Galería Mediadvanced in Gijón until 15 November. If you’re in the area, pop in and take a look.
Portfolio - Ollie Howe
The beauty of Drift is that everyone knows someone who knows someone who does something cool. I love it when I get one of those “You should check out…” emails, because it invariably leads to a few moments of eye-candy-fed escapism, and I feel it’s my duty to pass on the goodness.
The wonderful Switch-Foot returns
Did you enjoy Switch-Foot a few years ago? If so then you might want to keep a look out for Switch-Foot part two, which is currently making the rounds within the surf culture. Read the rest of this entry »
Agave art|board
Last week I had a visit, as they passed through Melbourne on a board-delivery errand to the Victorian coast, from Paul and Sage Joske… Father and son, teacher and pupil, friends.
The Beginning……
Art, observations, travel tales and surf shenanigans to come in future posts….
Making lines
I recently came across some gorgeous work from an artist who proves that you don’t have to be near the ocean to feel the stoke – meet the fabulous Collin Snyder, currently land-locked in Arizona.
Water technique
Painting in watercolour and riding a wave are activities connected within the same essence – making art with water. (Words by Luciano Burin – read this article in its original Portuguese on Luciano’s blog www.surfecult.blogspot.com)
S.M.A.S.H. @ Wallako
Wallako is a cool surf shop. And I mean cool in a good sense: it’s managed and tended by a nice crew of real surfers, and it specialises in beautifully handcrafted boards by some great shapers whose work was almost unavailable until now around here (DVS, Neal Purchase Jr., etc. ).
