The digital surfboard
Wednesday 10/12 14
The best kind of data mining is yet to be exploited.
Machine shaped
Wednesday 10/12 71
They're two of Margaret River’s most respected and influential shapers who’ve fulfilled the requirements of more local surfers than anyone. So if Al Bean and Marty Littlewood don’t have a problem with shaping machines, perhaps you shouldn’t either.
Pipe freesurfs
Tuesday 09/12 0
The waiting period of the Pipe Masters has begun and the spotlight has intensified on the world's most famous wave.
Matt Dunbar rattled off these shots on the first day of the waiting period.
'Found At Sea' by Ray Collins
Tuesday 09/12 8
For the most part surfers are absent in Found At Sea. Where a surfer is in frame they're either a reference point for scale or they're subsumed within the scene. In Ray's world the surfer must share equal billing with the wave, the sky, the light...
Kelly Slater, Master of Masters - video
Monday 08/12 5
"There are six-dozen chambers of death between here and another Masters victory for Slater. He will need to bend or break a few laws physics to make it happen. More is required now, at age 42, than at any other time in his career."
Leaving the bridge: Captain Andrew Rigby
Monday 08/12 14
After a decade surfing some of the most remote waves on Earth, Captain Andrew Rigby is weighing anchor and heading for shore. Swellnet speaks to the Captain - soon to be ex-Captain - of the PNG Explorer.
