http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/ Out of the Blue en http://www.surferspath.com/ Copyright 2008 2008-06-12T08:52:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/musica-surfica-by-mick-sowry One minute we’re watching a handful of Australia’s most talented classical string players going off in a musty old Cheese Factory on quiet, rural King Island; next minute we’re watching Tom Carroll kook out sideways and men riding 16ft wood planks. And the classical violin playing is almost more radical than the surfing. Almost. To further complicate matters, almost all of the surfing in Musica Surfica is conducted without fins. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/musica-surfica-by-mick-sowry 2008-06-12T07:52:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/bra-boys A semi-crap novelist could make this up. It would make a barely believable, but quite good pulp thriller, with a slim chance of becoming a Hollywood C movie. Here’s the outline: Poor Australian suburb kids with drug-addicted single parent are saved by the loyalty and brotherhood of their surf crew, the Bra Boys. Two of the brothers become international surf stars – a ticket out of the ghetto – but they stay loyal to the gang, maintaining their heavy rep on the streets and beaches. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/bra-boys 2008-03-17T06:18:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/sipping-jetstreams-an-adventure-in-life This film looks beautiful. It is beautiful as a simple slice of planet Earth through the eyes of a couple of surfing artists. The colours are rich, the faces are rugged, and the waves look their best every time. Taylor Steele is way past the video-your-mates-at-the-beach stuff that made him famous in the early ’90s. Now he can afford to trip around the world with 16mm film cameras and shoot at places far off the beaten surf track. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/sipping-jetstreams-an-adventure-in-life 2007-08-02T14:17:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/chasing-the-lotus-the-lost-reels-of-weaver-and-wills Get it. They don’t come better than this for sheer depth of quality imagery, story, laughter and genuinely timeless surf tripping. If you ever wonder why surfing’s culture is so damn quirky and far out, this might offer some answers – one of them being that huge chunks of our collective identity were carved by quirky, far-out people, some of whom had real talent, brains, attitude and an impressive appetite for enjoying themselves – people like Greg Weaver (described in the film by The Surfer’s Journal’s Steve Pezman as the surfers’ "audiovisual poet laureate") and Spyder Wills. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/chasing-the-lotus-the-lost-reels-of-weaver-and-wills 2007-07-30T14:11:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surfers-code-12-simple-lessons-for-riding-through-life Some of us carry around a small credit-cardsized piece of plastic emblazoned with 1977 World Champion Shaun Tomson’s dozen commandments, titled 'A Surfer’s Code'. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surfers-code-12-simple-lessons-for-riding-through-life 2007-07-29T14:39:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/a-jack-mccoy-sextet Well, if you want to have fun – just pure, sophomoric, get-crazy surf-movie fun – no one delivers the goods like expat Americano Jack McCoy, who’s been a virtual Downunder movie machine lo these past 20-some years, cranking out one hardcore video (or dvd) after the other. Most of that time he’s been a hired documentarian for Billabong, who knew a good thing when it was staring them in the face. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/a-jack-mccoy-sextet 2007-07-27T14:26:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/natural-born-man-the-life-of-jack-johnson This rather dry and distant celebrity bio of surf/rock hero Jack Johnson lacks the intimacy that might be brought by someone closer to the subject and his core lifestyle (beach and surf). books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/natural-born-man-the-life-of-jack-johnson 2007-07-26T14:35:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/globe-wct-fiji Slater’s legs buckled in Tahiti, and the next stop on the 2006 pro tour was Tavarua Island – an innocuous speck of a Fijian island in 1983, an exotic and virgin surf destination in 1985, and now the home of a solidly-booked resort that plays host to the contest the pros have dubbed “the sickest event on the planet.” Maybe so. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/globe-wct-fiji 2007-07-25T14:30:01+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/reel-on-great-highway Keep an eye out for this captivating documentary, due in the autumn of 2006, about the little-known history of the San Francisco surf scene. Great Highway traces the roots of surfi ng in the Bay Area back to Ocean Beach and Pedro Point in Pacifica and features interviews withpioneers like Jack O’Neill, Fred Van Dyke, and Dick Keating, woven together with some classic archival footage. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/reel-on-great-highway 2007-06-15T12:46:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/perfect-waves One in the same genre as Drew Kampion’s seminal Book of Waves, this coffee table hardback is compiled by former Surfrider Europe Director and Vagues editor, Pierre Nouqueret. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/perfect-waves 2007-06-12T12:55:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/all-those-summers Here’s a delightful and soulful labor of love from a fine and informed quartet of surfers, focusing on surfi ng on Oahu and Maui in the 1960s, that twilight time of wave-riding innocence. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/all-those-summers 2007-06-10T12:52:01+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/new-swell With his uncluttered style and wry look on the craziness of a surfer’s life in modern South Africa, Byron Loker is reminiscent of a young, surfing, slightly-less-fucked-up Charles Bukowski. His work is modern-day South African Beat, easy to read, sharply observed, engaging, sad, but also very funny. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/new-swell 2007-06-02T12:28:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/sunken-forest-cd Sunken Forest ... like our consciousness, our ancient roots ... deep and rich, pulling images and emotions from a primal place that compels us with its pure familiarity. It’s in this voice, the intuitive way he touches the strings, the sense that all of it is an echo from some fundamental beyond. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/sunken-forest-cd 2007-05-27T12:41:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/50-ways-to-save-the-ocean David Helvarg left the surf ghetto of Ocean Beach, San Diego over 20 years ago to pursue a career as a freelance journalist. During that time he’s covered civil wars in Central America, unrest in Ireland, slaughter in Bosnia, and Operation Desert Storm. However, the war correspondent-turned-environmental journalist readily admits that his latest assignment is a pretty hairy one. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/50-ways-to-save-the-ocean 2007-05-17T12:24:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/waves-of-warning A prodigious blockbuster of a surf novel by Oxnard, California surfer Glenn Hening, Waves of Warning is an epic tale weaving together a full quiver of modern surf themes, dovetailing them into the set-and-setting of a neardistant 21st century and spinning them out towards some illuminating and profoundly frightening logical conclusions… with a few surprising twists along the way. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/waves-of-warning 2007-05-09T12:07:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/all-the-way-to-the-ocean A children’s book about storm drains and the importance of keeping them clean doesn’t sound like anyone’s choice at bedtime. But this little story written by Joel Harper – artist, writer, musician (brother of Ben, indeed) – and illustrated by artist, designer and teacher, Marg Spusta, cruises lightly around the urban, underground drainage system and into the wonderful world at the end of the outflow. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/all-the-way-to-the-ocean 2007-04-25T12:14:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/my-eyes-wont-dry A view inside the tube, or the outside world from within it, is the holy ghost at the heart of our addiction. It is the fleeting vision we chase through our surfing lives, both a place and a moment, where mystical things happen, time expands and boards are broken. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/my-eyes-wont-dry 2007-04-17T11:49:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/shapemakers In a low budget, home movie kind of way, Paul Kraus’ film, ShapeMakers is an important historical document. His informal, filmed interviews with some of the greatest shapers to have ever held a planer offer a fascinating glimpse into who these people are, what they do and how they do it. dvds http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/dvds/shapemakers 2007-04-09T11:56:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surf-movie-tonite Warshaw, Matt Diligent and prolific writer, editor, and surf historian; former pro surfer (ranked 43rd in the world in 1982), editor at Surfer magazine in the late 1980s, he moved to Berkeley in 1990, took a degree in history (Phi Beta Kappa), and eventually settled into a San Francisco neighborhood just two blocks from the pounding peaks of Ocean Beach. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surf-movie-tonite 2007-03-29T12:01:00+00:00 http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surfing-the-world It covers 80 spots total, about 10 from each region of the globe, which is divided into broad zones – USA and Hawaii, Central America and the Caribbean, Europe, Indian Ocean, etc. Those 10 spots are the ones you’d expect to see, so in Hawaii we have Pipeline and Sunset, and in California Rincon, Malibu and Blacks. books http://www.surferspath.com/out-of-the-blue/category/books/surfing-the-world 2007-03-15T14:25:00+00:00