Paul Sharp: Shark in a bus!
Sunday 12/01 0
"The shark is five metres long, he's stuffed and his name is Frankie. My father caught him in a 3.5 metre dinghy when I was about four years old."
Talking Heads
Gra Murdoch: Riding a White Horse
Thursday 19/12 44
He rode into town on a proud, white stallion, but he was no stranger to these parts. Hell no, Gra Murdoch has worked in the surf media for over a quarter of a century. He's a grizzled veteran on the cemetery side of forty, and he's also the man at the helm of publishing nonpareil, White Horses.
Dion Atkinson: Seven years and seven days
Thursday 05/12 18
After seven years of tenacious competition, South Australia's Dion Atkinson is oh-so-close to realising his ambition. Atkinson sits in 30th position and technically inside the cut-off for next year's WCT. However, there's one more contest on the 'CT calendar - the Pipe Masters - and a reshuffle of lower ranked surfers could see Dion on the wrong side of the ribbon.
Jim Banks: An evening with an enduring legend
Thursday 28/11 17
From a Cronulla grommet to a Top 16 professional, an acclaimed designer and shaper, and the ultimate explorer of the Indonesian Archipelago, there is not much in surfing that he has not experienced.
Wayne Lynch: Back In The spotlight
Monday 25/11 22
"I wouldn’t say that I’m cynical. I say things how I see them. There has been a lot of conjecture about me, a lot of half myths, so one of the reasons I agreed to do the film was to break down those perceptions."
Campbell Wilson: On homosexuality and challenging surfing's status quo
Wednesday 20/11 17
"Film is a powerful medium for expression, challenging status quo and having a voice. This film is important for the one-tenth of the community that is gay and for those that are struggling with finding their place in the world, when surfing is also a part of that world."
Jock Serong: New media, old medium
Thursday 14/11 6
"We don't see ourselves as competing with the surf magazines. The audience who we're trying to talk to are the people who feel a strong connection to the ocean. Some of them obviously are going to be surfers, but more widely they could be people who fall under all sorts of groupings."
Dion Agius: On hipsters, Krautrock, and cameras
Tuesday 05/11 6
I like shooting with my Polaroid land camera, then taking a photo of the Polaroid with my Rolleiflex. I then develop that film, enlarge it in the darkroom and shoot the print with my 7D, email the file directly to my iPhone 5 via bluetooth, create negative space using Whitagram and upload to my Instagram.
Nick Carroll on Tom Carroll and the book he had to write
Wednesday 30/10 9
"What would you do? You've got a brother, are you gonna fuck him over for your own journalistic ambitions? What would you do..?"
Brett Herring: Staying true to the cause
Monday 28/10 16
When your older brother is acclaimed as one of the most talented surfers of his generation and the pundits proclaim you to have equal ability, a pro surfing career seems inevitable. Brett Herring walked away from that to follow a different path. It has been a long and varied journey and it is very far from finished.
Garry Loveridge: Australia's Most Successful Shaper?
Wednesday 23/10 5
Garry Loveridge is a remarkably obscure figure in the surfboard industry. For nearly forty years he's operated from his NSW Central Coast base, quietly shaping boards for the hardcore local crew, yet he's also the designer of one of the most popular surfboard models in recent history.
Matt Warshaw: "I'm a fuckin' curator!"
Monday 21/10 3
Matt Warshaw has written a number of big books and he's just finished building an awfully big website - The Encyclopedia of Surfing online. In the EOS, Warshaw applied his prodigious surfing knowledge to a browsable online repository, and in so doing he's become a curator of sorts. Or, as he puts it, "a fuckin' curator!"