Iced Pintail

I left my beloved pintail out in the yard the other night. I woke to a deep frost and this pleasing effect. Would look nice as a kind of acid-wash effect or something. Any experts out there able to recreate the iced pintail?

This may not be the place to betray my Essex soulboy roots, but this makes me smile in the same way that surfing makes me smile, and I wanted to share it. She's the coolest dread centre of a jazz-funk storm, and though it's from 1982, she wouldn't look out of place in a Shoreditch ravery right here, right now. I love this tune and I don't care. I might even use it in a surf sequence soon.

A closer look at the first edition

Here is a closer look at the texture of the first edition of the September Project. Stay tuned for news of the second edition.

John Isaac's Cornish Right

An elusive right hand point break on the North Coast of Cornwall. When it's on, you'll find a selection of stylists taking advantage of a long, smooth Cornish slide. These images from a behobbled John Isaac fresh from last week's pulse.

Alex & The Dolphins

Organic, textured subversion from the artist who's working on the film he's calling 'Displacement', exploring the hydrodynamic possibilities of displacement hulls and long black coats. I always found goths irritating. Manchester and all that. A buddy of mine I was travelling with in Australia in 1986 used to play a Joy Division tape over and over again. Ruined it for me. I was an east London soul boy in the mid eighties, and I preferred Luther Vandross and the Gap Band. Strangely, I kind of dig the trenchcoat stuff these days.

Reverb Central

Dick Dale was an absolute mofo on that Fender. He created the surf sound, and despite the surfsploitation that came after his hits of the early 1960s, it sounds as ruff today as it did over forty years ago. Take a look at Reverb Central, surf music archivist Phil Dirt's site, for everything you ever wanted to know about a heavily influential genre of surfin' art. I would have loved to have been present at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Newport Beach on a hot sweaty summer night in 1960. Killer.

Everything is connected by fluidity

Heartstoppingly brilliant contemporary painting inspired by the ocean and the earth. The September Project is all about how the planet inspires this kind of creativity.

What is surfing?

Big question. And a really simple one too. Every surfer has their own answer. Here's one perspective.