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Forgotten Local Gems

   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5SXucIJhFg[/youtube] Models – Two Cabs To The Toucan, et al I think it’s the whole Cut Lunch video, actually. Love the homemade quality, and the scenes in the pub, as well as the old Cortinas etc in the car yard   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nJuoyu4lC0[/youtube] Tactics – Second Language From Canberra originally, I think. They used to […]

Late night tunes: Island style

For post surfing chill-down tunes, I think a little bit of Hawaiian slack key guitar goes down a treat… Here’s a number performed in true aloha spirit by the great Ledward Kaapana and slide guitar maestro Bob Brozman . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLuFjK0BWs8[/youtube] Gonna keep the mellow mood happening with this next standard, “Grandfather’s clock” a as played […]

Late night tunes: Blind Willie Johnson edition

I was checking out the very excellent thread on our forums called What are you listening to today? and I saw Lucky Al’s briefest of posts extolling Blind Willie Johnson… So I went off to have a look-see, an’ heresa whut ah found fo’ y’all… Dark was the night, cold was the ground… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g[/youtube] Trouble […]

LNT: Seasick Steve

You know how it is. You’ve seen a name someplace and somehow it’s associated in your mind with “good”. Somewhere along the way I’d heard about this guy called Seasick Steve, so when I heard he was playing in Sydney, I checked youtube to see if I could find any of his clips. There are […]

Video: the Dolphin stampede

Who doesn’t love watching dolphins… a lot of dolphins! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiEXRMB-u8[/youtube] From the YouTube description: This video was shot in the Sea of Cortez between Isla la Guardia and Bajia de los Angeles. While fishing we ran through a pod of several hundred dolphins. This is part of what we saw.

Gallery: Carolines meet the women.

Blundering around the net in my ceaseless search for interesting stuff to share with those of you kind enough to add RealSurf to your visited sites, I came across a beautifully photographed gallery of waves from the Caroline Islands. As you’ll see when you follow the link below, these are pics are on American surf […]

Gerry Lopez & Jock Sutherland talkin’ Pipe

Came across this very interesting video of Gerry Lopez and Jock Sutherland talking about the history and their experiences of Pipeline. It’s part one of six and in this episode they give us brief bios before Gerry talks about trying to surf Pipe the first time in 1962 – and meeting Jock, who already had […]

The Mootrix

MAN vs. COW See the video.  Someone once told me I had a better chance of being attacked by a cow than a shark. Seems appropriate today given the shark attacks in Sydney.  Those aren’t funny. This video is hilarious. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByG3GmOg9I8[/youtube]

Weird waves: The Silver Dragon

In September of 2008, Greg and Rusty Long and Mark Healey joined writer Mike Cianciulli and photographer A.J. Neste from Gerard Sports Marketing on a mission to surf the Qiantang River bore in China Apparently the bore is known to locals as The Silver Dragon and is the focus of a riverside festival. The river […]

Have a laugh: Hitler’s shaper

I’d say every surfer on the planet will have seen this mashup within the next 24 hours… Mr Hitler isn’t happy about his surf trip, guess why…(click to follow link) …… Actually, there have been numerous other mashups on this clip. Here’s one provoked by, of all things, Nikon’s new D3x pro camera. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0[/youtube] and […]