Ric O’ Barry spent ten years of his life helping to build up the dolphin entertainment industry, most notably capturing and training the aquatic stars of 60’s TV show Flipper. His tired eyes and weary demeanour are testament to the 35 years he has spent trying to tear that same industry down.
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Late nights! The Spanish do not sleep much. The first night of the festival the BBQ started at 10pm and the movies followed running into to the next morning.
Mr B, whose fourth film, ‘21 Days Later’, is out this month on DVD, chats to Christiaan Bailey about his work, trying to extract money from the surf industry, and the British surf film scene…
howies ran the dolectures last year and we had some great speakers present. Alistair Mcintosh was one of them, he aint no surfer but he got the laws changed in Scotland regarding land rights (including beach access) his was one of the truly great talks of the weeekend.
‘Searching for Michael Peterson’ (accompanied by director Jolyon Hoff) kicks off its UK tour tonight with a screening in London, followed by dates in Brighton, Poole, St Davids, Bristol, Bude & Newquay. (Photo by Peter Crawford)
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It might not be surfing, but we like it. From wild swimming and performance poetry to ukuleles, Clare Howdle goes in search of Cornwall’s cultural side at the Port Eliot Festival 2009.
Check out the trailer for Cyrus Sutton’s new film, ‘Tom’s Creation Plantation’, described as “half surf film/half shaping tutorial”…
Grant Newby, organiser of the phenomenally successful Alley Fish Fry on Australia’s Gold Cost, has added another event to his calendar with the launch of a Wooden Surfboard Day at Currumbin Alley on Sunday 9th August.
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Having lived and surfed on the east coast, I still hold a torch that glows for the place. So when I watched Ollie Banks’s ‘Nine Hundred Miles’, it was a slide down memory lanes, as certain folk and standout spots came flooding back.
Indonesia and the promise of constant swell was where I left you last. For me this trip was indeed a learning curve… that quickly developed into a circle… a circle which resembled my washing machine drum on a spin cycle!!
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I wrote a small blog back in April about the impending release of Jaimal Yogis’ book ‘Saltwater Buddha’. My advance reader’s copy is weathered and worn, having spent many a day in the sun and rain, but the point being – it stuck with me!
Anyway, I managed to grab five minutes with Jaimal in order to seduce you all into buying a copy…
Hailed as this year’s hippest festival, Port Eliot is just around the corner and I’m heading to the stately home to see just how a weekend of books, comedy, music and eccentricity fits into Cornwall’s cultural landscape.
Four - yes FOUR - of the world’s best shapers will be visiting North Devon this summer as part of Tiki’s International Shaper Tour 2009.
What is this wonderful, droning idiotic repetition of a tune? Why, it must be Jeff Lewis & The Junkyard tuning up and starting their set in the bowels of the boat they call “Thekla” this Monday night in Bristol.
Jason Baffa, the creator of ‘Single Fin: Yellow’ and ‘One California Day’ offers us a personal insight into his surf film work, goals, influences, aspirations and offers poignant advice to aspiring film makers, within the context of the wider surf film genre. (Photos by Devon Howard)
‘Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables’ is the new film from Steve Cleveland (the man behind ‘Another State of Mind’), but is it any good?
We are committed to helping getting the SAS message across to as many folks as possible so here’s a little film we made that we hope will get more of us to help them out.
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Australian Xavier Rudd is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has a strong connection with environmentalism and the rights of Aborigines. His inspiration comes as much from the ocean as the land.
Incubus front man Mike Einziger has recently collaborated with Hollywood’s hottest film score composer Danny Elfman on an unusual new project.
Music is Ben Harper’s passion but he’s also an avid surfer, with a great belief in the creative power of the ocean. Drift asked the man who counts the Malloy brothers, Eddie Vedder and Jack Johnson among his friends whether surfers make a good audience…
