Endless
This little film involving Rob Machado appeared today. It’s part of a series by photographer & filmmaker Marcus Gaab, for his forthcoming magazine, Endless - something I’m definitely going to be...
View ArticleThe Originals
Lost reels found covered in dust are the best reels: Dave Otto captured all this early Shipsterns footage and then promptly put it in the bottom drawer and forgot about it. In his opinion, this is...
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A cautionary surf trip tale
“Shit we’ve been robbed”. The phrase uttered by one of our crew when the realisation dawned on us that our car had been broken into and we had been royally done over. Picture the scene…four Brit...
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The Cruel & Curious Sea
Just a few teaser examples, below, of the work to be seen at our Cruel & Curious Sea pop-up art and photography exhibition here in North Cornwall, UK, in conjunction with the National Trust, and in...
View ArticleThe Bird
For the Cruel & Curious show I wanted to make a short film. Jack Bessant had a great piece of music that was really fitting, and I had some sequences from last winter that suited both Jack’s tune...
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Encyclopedia of Surfing
An authoritative, multi-thousand-entry Encyclopedia of Surfing launched online today. Compiled by Matt Warshaw, a former Surfer magazine editor and author of three books: Maverick’s, The History of...
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Dirtbox Guitars
Tipping a hat to the original ‘cigar box’ guitars, cobbled together by slave workers on Southern US plantations in the early 1800s, Cornwall’s Dirtbox Guitars have sought to continue a tradition of...
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Prono Paradiso
Prono Paradiso “The ancient Polynesians recognised differing forms of riding waves… from lying on small boards, to standing on 16 foot Olo boards, to surfing with nothing more than ones own body! One...
View ArticleBella Vita
I fell in love with Italy on my very first visit. Life seems just ‘more’ there. Every village and town seems to have a fascinating back story, the food and wine is literally life changing and the...
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Whale Submarine
Getting to know Richard Braham. Aka, Whale Submarine. Words. Images. Richard Braham Where did you grow-up? I grew up in the Midlands, originally in the west and then my folks up and moved over to the...
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Onde Nostre.
Onde Nostre Meaning ‘Our Waves’, Onde Nostre is a film project capturing the little known italian surf scene. The guys behind the camera, are four friends, made up of documentary filmmakers and...
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Turned on to trash
I’ll give it 2 minutes. Could you? We all love being turned on, don’t we? I certainly do. It’s what H9 is all about. Sharing the things we love, that we hope you’ll love too. Well… if I may, I have an...
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California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties
Take the talented zeitgeist photography of Dick Metz, and add in words from climbing/surfing/business guru Yvon Chouinard, and you’re going to have a pretty solid and good looking book. Truth be told,...
View ArticleWinter Wedges
There are now a fair few short films kicking around the tinterweb of the aquatic fun had by surfy folk in the now infamous recent swell’s. This gentle and atmospheric film shot in Cornwall by Sam...
View ArticleGetting a wedgie, Brighton style
I’m a stand-up surfer predominately, although I do have a surf mat in the boot of the car for those days when its super small and clean. However like many of us, my first experience of ‘wave sliding’...
View ArticleDrone On!
It took me precisely five seconds to fall in love with this film. As a contributor to H9 I pride myself on trying to find ‘the new’, to try and post stuff that might grab someone’s attention and turn...
View ArticleKeep on keepin on
The Surf Magazines Don’t Talk About Lapsed Catholics from Todd Stewart on Vimeo.
View ArticleDane Reynolds
Dane Reynolds has Science Fiction type surfing skills. He is a difficult surfer to pin down – perhaps he is a neo-goth-hippy-no-wave-anarchist-beatnik…..perhaps not. He quit the ASP world tour in 2011...
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A Family that Slays Together Stays Together.
It is a strange feeling filming, and so knowing the truth, of a wildlife behaviour for the first time. There is of course the delight of the achievement – the pleasure of solving the puzzle. But,...
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