Cold brutal beauty

Many thanks to Carve magazine for alerting me to these 2 short award-winning surf films that epitomise the new Arty Farty Surf film genre.

'Dark side of the Lens' is shot in Ireland.


'Uncommon Ideals' is shot around the North Sea, including Norway.


Both ably demonstrate that the tropical ideal of surfing often peddled in our mags and in the mainstream media is only one definition of surfing beauty.

Historic day for UK surfing

Yesterday, the Museum of British Surfing opened to the public. The night before, about 200 local dignitaries and national surf legends attend a launch event sponsored by Finisterre, SAS and Skinners brewery. Everyone I spoke to was raving about the Museum which aims to be the best and greenest surf museum in the world.

The Coleman Brothers - surfing's Coen Brothers?

Actually, Jack Coleman and Dominic Coleman aren't brothers (or related to me, for that matter), but both are talented surf filmmakers. Jack makes arty retro (if sexist) films like Happy Beach, Dominic has made one absolutely sublime pisstake of a certain kind of newbie surfer, nicely reviewed by Surfer's Path.

Historic day for British Surfing

I've just been delivering some of these ace posters for the Museum of British Surfing's opening exhibition. Every shop and cafe in Brighton I've been to have commented on the great artwork. Surf art has been in us surfers' lives for ever and is increasingly making it into the mainstream.

Peter Robinson started his collection and had some early displays in Brighton, some travelling exhibitions and is opening the Museum to the public in its permanent home in Braunton, North Devon on Friday 6th April.

It promises to be an exciting start for a 'must see' venue for all British surfers. (I confess, I'm a trustee of the Museum!).