A week’s worth of storms have passed and just as the 72 hour post-rain window is about to open a new storm looms on the horizon. What’s a surfer to do to stave off the cabin-fever, the wave-shakes? Watch movies. Along with watching Picaresque twice, I watched a new one called Lines From A Poem. …
Have you even been out on your longboard and having the best day, the kind of day where you catch every wave you go for and get every ounce of stoke out of each ride? And then you think, “Man, I am taking this to the edge. I wonder how far I can push this.”…
Seaworthy is a recent surfing film by Nathan Oldfield that I watched on TV. Oldfield is the creator of Lines From A Poem which I have not yet seen, but heard positive things about. Right off the bat, I dug the poster. I know the addage says not to judge a book by it’s cover…but…
Continuing on my movie review path, while I was ill, I also watched Hanging Five, another of my The Surf Network downloads. Hanging Five profiles the lives, work and experiences of five artists who also happen to be surfers. Though this movie does show plenty of surfing, it might be wrong to call this a…
The Perch was one of the first films that caught my eye when I first started cruising The Surf Network. I liked the artwork and I always like watching noseriding. But The Perch did not deliver for me. That is not to say there wasn’t plenty of noseriding, there was. The description reads “A flowing,…
One California Day comes from the dudes who gave us Singlefin: yellow. One California Day is a look at different bits of Californian coast, “capturing the California surfing experience through the surfers who live it.” One thing that makes this film great is that it explores time, personalities, locales and history in the context of…