Nick Carroll on Tom Carroll and the book he had to write
Wednesday 30/10 9
"What would you do? You've got a brother, are you gonna fuck him over for your own journalistic ambitions? What would you do..?"
Talking Heads
Brett Herring: Staying true to the cause
Monday 28/10 16
When your older brother is acclaimed as one of the most talented surfers of his generation and the pundits proclaim you to have equal ability, a pro surfing career seems inevitable. Brett Herring walked away from that to follow a different path. It has been a long and varied journey and it is very far from finished.
Garry Loveridge: Australia's Most Successful Shaper?
Wednesday 23/10 5
Garry Loveridge is a remarkably obscure figure in the surfboard industry. For nearly forty years he's operated from his NSW Central Coast base, quietly shaping boards for the hardcore local crew, yet he's also the designer of one of the most popular surfboard models in recent history.
Matt Warshaw: "I'm a fuckin' curator!"
Monday 21/10 3
Matt Warshaw has written a number of big books and he's just finished building an awfully big website - The Encyclopedia of Surfing online. In the EOS, Warshaw applied his prodigious surfing knowledge to a browsable online repository, and in so doing he's become a curator of sorts. Or, as he puts it, "a fuckin' curator!"