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Lifestyle, Culture, Zeitgeist
Tricia Shantz’s book Neverland shows why Byron Bay from 1965 to 1973 may have been the best time and place to be a surfer.
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Undercurrents
“The Cheap Seat”, or the appropriately subtitled, “Boil Dodging at Cortes in a Grand Fashion”, defends the controversial actions of Captain Ron Hart in placing his craft, the 72’ Jet-propelled Catamaran seemingly dangerously close to the surfing playground at Cortes Bank in January 2004. The Field report, “Across Oz for Life”, describes Jimmy McMillan’s effort to raise funds to support the Balinese victims of Sari Club terrorist bombing. Academia’s, “Haolier Than Thou”, describes intriguing research by archeologist, Terry Jones and linguist, Kathryn Klar, as to the influence Polynesian mariners on the inhabitants of Chile’s and California’s coastal natives, as well as other Pacific Islanders. Library’s, “An Island Unto Itself”, is a review of a book by Caroline Unger on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island. The Screening Room gives a positive review of Sean Collins’ Surfline DVD Series’ “Lesson Accomplished: A Day of Surfology 101”
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The Politics of Paint
A look into the travel and surfing adventures that inform David Molesky’s representational kitsch: “To illustrate the dark pull of the wave from a unique survival story, David tells of how he and a buddy escaped being held on a pirate vessel while hunting surf in Indonesia.”
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The Last Surfboard Tree
The ancients used the wood to make their olos, amas and such. Today only a few natural stands of Wiliwili trees remain on Oahu. Its whereabouts are a closely guarded secret, fraught with political complications, but that might just be for the better.
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Undercurrents
Promotes surfboard design called The Picklefork, Farrington Chariots bike rack trailers, Bud Browne's Cavalcade of Surf, the unfortunate development of Cotton's plateau overlooking Trestles, and the video Liquid Thunder at Jaws, Hawaii. Also, advertising the books Point Conception to Mexico by David Powdrell, Joyrides by Chris Aherns, and order information for Photo: Grannis. Various other promotions along with Steve Pezman's words to subscribers on previous/upcoming pieces and current events in the Surfing Around section.
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