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Italy’s hardly a land renowned for its surf culture, but as Derek Hynd comes to find out, that may just be its saving grace. In fact, it may be the saving grace for all of us.


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The Undercurrents regard the following: A possible comeback for the breakthrough material from the '40s & 50s along with a few balsa sources and their contact information, Juan Rodriguez building wooden fins that are glass-on or removable, Pezman's thoughts against people's efforts to make surfing an Olympic sport, promoting the Bob Simmons Memorial album "Surfer's Mood," promoting surf reports now available by fax and computer via Wavefax, Surfax, and Gold Coast Weather, a sailing cat will take six guests to Costa Rica in Spring of 1996, contact information provided, John Gunnin's two-week tour to Peru combining surfing with cultural experiences, promoting Chris Ahrens' guide for the traveling surfer, information regarding Pat Curren along with various pieces of surf industry news, brief obituary for Fred Windisch recognizing his contributions making surf films, an opportunity to obtain 16mm prints of Jepsen's earliest films, contact information provided, Goodrich promoting David Fetherston's new book featuring historical ads, cartoons, vehicles and related artworks, promoting the locally run Tahiti Hoe, and their decorative oceanic canoe steering paddles, surf stationary from 1938 submitted by collector, Howard Wallace, early surf memorabilia from Bob Beaver, a collage of surf graphics submitted by Don Balch, and lastly Steve Pezman's closing remarks on this issue's New Zealand article, Bud Browne's accomplished life, Rob Gilley's photo portfolio, and Matt Warshaw's Pipe Masters' piece along with other featured articles from Volume Four, Number Four.

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The line between rock star and surf star was significantly thinner in the 1960s and 70s, made even more so by common positioning in underground culture, subversive lifestyling, and psychedelia. For George Greenough and Pink Floyd, these crossover pools of interest ultimately ended in a creative collaboration, a film known as Echoes. Here’s the backstory of how Greenough’s disembodied portraits from deep inside the tube came to be paired with the band’s instrumentals.

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The Bob Cooper Story

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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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With hundreds of Mexico trips under his belt, Mark Dillinger definitely remembers Mexico. Enjoy his inspirational artwork and take a journey Baja way.
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