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Wali Kam!
Jess Ponting travels to Papua New Guinea and discovers the indigenous people evolved from surfing on wooden "splinter" boards to making their own boards after the introduction of modern surf technology by a traveling Australian pilot. They discover another community of surfers off the surfing map using no commercial surf products. All the boards were handmade from wood. Fin attachments and shape enhancements followed with the introduction in the 1980s of a surf magazine helped propel surfboard design.
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Cold weather and extreme conditions await you in the western canadian coastline. Think Orcas and freezing water, endless fog but a relative unkown frontier for a handful of hearty surfers.Surfing the Eastern Canadian coastline, be sure to wear your thickest wetsuit. Want to join the polar bear club? You are in the right place. Why go? Perfect unspoiled beaches and pristine waves but still 31 degree water. The closest surfer 1,000 miles away, care to surf a near perfect coastline? Take comfort in knowing you only have Sharks, Orcas, and freezing weather to contend with. If interestred Eastern Canada might be for you.
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Extended Subversions
A gallery of abstraction and actuality from the set of Thomas Campbell’s Yi-Wo.
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