Looking Sideways: 10 Things
A HUGE Surf Forecast discount, Ed T from the archives, and a must-read Ed Caesar piece.
1. I’m down in Cornwall, where I’ve been seeing friends, doing some work, surfing, and recording, including a joyful and wondrous chat with the great
.Here’s a little clip of me, Seth and Ernest exploring an old copper mine, above. This episode will be out next week - check out the trailer for Seth’s new film with Mike Lay below.
2. Thanks so much to everybody who’s been in touch with yet more brilliant feedback for my Ed Templeton interview. And thanks also to Thomas Campbell, who sent me this gallery of amazing Ed-T related shots from his remarkable archive. Some real gold here, so make sure you click and dig in.
3. I loved this Ed Caesar New Yorker story about Daniel Kinahan.
4. Congratulations to my friends Jen and Trish on the launch of the brilliant Going Off snowboard history podcast, a lovingly-compiled and curated must-listen.
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5. If the clocks are going back, then it must be Kendal Mountain Festival season.
6. I absolutely loved this initiative from Sal at Yonder and Tom at Someday Studios. Their new surf zine Patience is a beautiful ode to analogue with sentiments that are right up my boulevard.
7. I’m a huge fan of Vittles. And this type of investigative journalism, which looks into the Gail’s chain’s exploitation of overseas workers, is one reason why.
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8. New Owen Tozer work alert!
9. Who is the Surf Poet?
10. Finally, my friends at Surf Forecast have given me the promo code LOOKINGSIDEWAYS for massive savings on a pro subscription, which with this code will cost you the not-so princely sum of £15.99 (a Surfline sub comes in at around £100, for comparison) for the whole year.
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