Paul Morgan: A jolly good fellow
Thursday 09/10 17
"To be honest I'm just doing it for myself now. And I'm happy just doing it for myself. Since I had that injury I've really simplified my life."
Talking Heads
Bruce Channon: Wooden Surfboard Maker
Monday 11/08 3
"The 40kg redwood one takes a while to build up inertia, you turn around and start paddling and you don't go anywhere for 20 seconds."
Ex-Surfing World publisher Bruce Channon chats to blindboy about his new fascination with old materials.
Emiliano Cataldi: Surf Check From 1,000 Feet
Friday 01/08 60
"I sometimes take off just at the back of Lennox Head and do my surf check from a thousand feet up in the sky. Then as I keep flying I check all the beaches and see where all the banks are."
Ray Collins: Blue collar creativity
Wednesday 30/07 15
For the last seven years Ray Collins has straddled two ends of the civic spectrum. Three days a week he was working down a coal mine, the rest of the time he'd spend shooting high end surf photography. Something had to give.
Angie Takanami: Firing on both barrels
Monday 14/07 79
Angie Takanami is a Byron Bay-based travel writer, producer, and surfer who recently returned from a trip to Peru. Angie is now hoping to make a documentary about the environmental woes in Lobitos, one of Peru's great surfing towns.
Ben Brown: Poster boy for the deranged doodler
Tuesday 27/05 2
Artist, musician, surfer, and skater, Ben Brown slides easily from role to role. Yet it's his art that's taken him beyond the tabernacle of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Ben recently spoke to blindboy.
Darius Devas: Within the innermost limits
Tuesday 08/04 2
Darius Devas is a filmmaker from Melbourne via Byron Bay. His latest film, called Within, draws on many feelings that all lead back to one life-changing experience.
Matt Grainger and the Frothing Groms - Live at Long Reef!
Monday 10/03 0
A surf coach sceptic, Blindboy speaks with one of Sydney's best junior coaches, Matt Grainger, about his high performance coaching sessions. So is he now a convert to the coaching cause? Read on...
Sam Bleakley: Surfing, jazz, and travel
Friday 14/02 0
"I believe that anything can be analogous with anything if you are open-minded and creative about an outlook," so says UK author and longboarder, Sam Bleakley, who blends surfing, jazz, and culture into his written works.
Martyn Worthington: The art of the spray
Tuesday 11/02 8
Martyn Worthington is Australia's best known surfboard artist. He has produced countless images for thousands of surfers over several decades and is still going strong.
Martyn and Blindboy sat on the steps in the Clear Surfboard factory on Sydney's Northern Beaches and reminisced.
Tim Baker: Centurion of Surf!
Wednesday 29/01 34
"I feel like Australian surfing's cultural continuum had been severed in '56, when the surfers left the surf clubs. Surfers just disowned their elders and their previous culture and I don't think thats healthy for any culture. I think a lot of the drug casualties we've seen since have been as a result of that. Modern surf culture suffered from not having a continuous lineage."
Simon Phin: A challenge to the watermen - tandem
Tuesday 28/01 3
"We were at Wategos, it was perfect, small, hip high, shoulder high. I had all these unbelievably stunning girls come down the beach to tandem surf, and not one guy. Not one guy put up his hand."