Is it a bird…

Cruising tight in the curl, so close to the face your eyelashes could touch it. The lip curving over your scalp as spray flies, spinning then turning as you rocket down the line, sucking every last drop out of the wave. Then back out for another. And another.

Whatever your board of choice, there’s no denying a session like that would make for a pretty hefty dose of stoke. But what if you were riding a 17 inch slice of wood that you’d carved yourself?

Welcome to the world of handplaning. Relatively new to England’s shores and set to take the nation by storm. Clare Howdle gives the inside track on a rather interesting experiment on Stranger…

Click here to read the rest of Clare’s story on Stranger

Film preview at Seed Surf Co.

There will be a sneak preview of the surf film Handplane to Rivermouth (not the entire film, as it’s still work in progress) on 18th June at Seed Surf Company, as part of Seed Surf’s Open Day & BBQ.

Handplane to Rivermouth is an independent production filmed exclusively in Cornwall, to be screened at the 10th annual Cornwall Film Festival being held 4-5-6 November 2011 at Newquay’s Lighthouse Cinema

Handplane to Rivermouth is entered into the Boardshorts category

The Boardshorts film festival offers an array of unique perspectives on surfing, surf culture and the power of surfing in people’s lives

The film is also being submitted to the inaugural London Surf Film Festival taking place in October

Handplane to Rivermouth is a collaboration between:

Clare Howdle – wordslikepictures.com

Mikey Koskela – seedsurfco.com

Shayne House – shaynehouse.com

I went to the woods

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” 
Henry David Thoreau

An idea. A film…

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”

~ Jim Jarmusch

An idea. A film…