Our spring issue just went to print this morning, keep an eye out for it soon. Here is one of our reviews from the seen and read section this issue.
West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origin of Belief
Steven Kotler
After paddling back out to the lineup in Indonesia following a serious wipeout that dragged him [...]
Over the last week I have been ignoring phone calls from friends calling to ask me to go surfing or skateboarding. There is only one reason for this and it has two wheels, one gear and no coasting capability. I ride a bike everyday but until recently it has been strictly for transport. In [...]
Issue four is winding down and will be out soon. It’s been madness for the past month…but today, the sun was out and I skipped out of the office— I just got a new surfboard that I was itching to try. Spring can be iffy for surf in the Pacific Northwest– [...]
In the upcoming issue of Wend, on stands May 22, I review Brian Eustis’s film, Mekong: Exploring the Mother of Waters. I spoke with Ryan today and found out that the film was recently accepted into the Telluride Mountain Film Festival, aka Mountainfilm in Telluride.
Congratulations Brian!
If you haven’t seen The Great Turtle Race yet, it’s worth a look. Biologists have put a little backpack on 11 Leatherback turtles in Costa Rica. Each one has a GPS to track the path and speed of the Turtles to the next Stop. The Galapagos islands.
Read the NY Times story yesterday-and go read Slaughterhouse-Five again.
Gerry Lopez once said that every surfer should make his own surfboard and I’ve been curious about the wooden ’surfboard kits’ that Grain Surfboards offer since they were featured in Wend #2. However, I’m not much of a handyman and so even a step by step manual with all the required materials, as provided in [...]
Photo courtesy David Potter, Stoke Films. (Casanova and Gnar Gnar a wee bit lost on the search for stoke.)
Planet C has run out of stoke. Uncle Blork has sent two of his most trusted envoys to earth to scour the earth’s point breaks—by surfing them, the envoys are able to energize their boards with stoke [...]
Mt. Ashland, the only resort in Oregon to be powered 100 percent on Green Energy, is also the only Oregon finalist in this year’s Golden Eagle Awards. The ski area is a finalist for the “Silver Eagle - Excellence in Energy Conservation/Clean Energy” and also for the “Silver Eagle - Excellence in Environmental Education”. Way [...]
Last weekend we “organized” a surf jam on the central Oregon coast, with the purpose of trying out various “experimental” and alternative surfboards. The only restrictions were the boards had to be less than seven foot long and have less or more than three fins. We had Singles, Twins, Twinzers, Quads, Bonzers and a few [...]
