We are extremely proud of our surfing community here at Carve and we are always thinking of ways we can use our media to give someone a hand. While we have run photography and writing comps we haven’t done anything for the designers of the world. So we are running a Carve T shirt design competition.
We will be picking five of the best designs to be printed on our T shirts and our readers will be picking one as our winner!
THE PRIZE:
The prize for the best design:
Your design printed on a Carve organic T shirt and sold worldwide.
A Carve or SurfGirl subscription, your printed T-shirt, and an Amazing Waves book.
Your design included in a winner profile with more of your work on carvemag.com
THE DEAL:
Anyone can enter a design as long as:
You can supply us with your best original and unique design ready for print.
Finalists will need to send original files, provide proof of ownership and date.
The designs will need to be printed A4 with no loss of quality.
By entering you agree to Orca Publications using your design on Carve T shirts.
It must be original work, no copying!
The closing date for entry is August 20, 2020.
The Carve editorial team will select the top 5 designs and our readers will pick a final winner.
There are no cash alternatives to the prizes.
TO ENTER:
SEND A MAXIMUM OF 5 DESIGNS TO “T Shirt design comp” [email protected]
North Cornish coastline photographed under an imaginary scenario of invading red weed during and after the Covid-19 lockdown. Cornish based artist Andy Hughes explores virus paranoia through the eyes of 19th century author H.G.Wells, giving a fresh new perspective regarding the subject of waste, pathogens and the beach.
As the global pandemic continues to impact lives across the world, places like Cornwall which rely heavily on tourism continue to be affected greatly. The holiday season is now well underway, and many are heading to the coastlines of the UK rather than risk travelling abroad. As cramped beaches and overcrowding hit the national headlines this summer, concerns about increased waste and its effects on the environment have also resurfaced with a vengeance. During the lockdown, Cornwall based artist Andy Hughes walked his local beaches. These familiar places seemed to him to be different in some way. With fewer people around he imagined a new world, how might the beaches of Cornwall thrive in the future with fewer or more visitors?
A surreal version of the common seaweed called Gutweed. Normally vibrant green Andy Hughes saw it’s beauty in a new light, he imagined it coloured red, not vibrant green thereby taking on a new contemporary relevance.
Inspired by the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, Hughes has created a new series of photographs. Well’s imagined an advanced but ailing alien race struggling to survive on dying planet. For the aliens, the Earth seemed the perfect place to colonise, rich with life and covered in plentiful water. Along with the alien invasion came a weird and strange plant called the red creeper or the red weed. When exposed to water, it grew and reproduced flooding the countryside, clogging streams and rivers. Like the red weed, Covid-19 has invaded lives and destroyed economies and will through the increased production of single-use throw-away items of PPE potentially wreak new havoc on the wider environment.
All across the world, the plastic pollution problem has become very visible. Hughes has travelled far and wide making work about this subject matter for over 25 years. Covid-19 has given him a new perspective regarding the subject of waste, pathogens and the beach. Hughes’ history of photographing plastic combined with his longing to become immersed back in the watery world of the sea during the pandemic became tainted with virus paranoia and end of the world ideas.
When the lockdown measures were relaxed, he revived his coastal walks amongst the vibrant green seaweed called Gutweed (Ulva intestinalis). He saw it’s beauty in a new light, but also felt its invading presence. He imagined it coloured red, not vibrant green thereby taking on new contemporary relevance. His photographs were created using infra-red techniques, they explore a sense of the creeping red weed imagined by wells over 100 years ago and the parallels between fiction and fact. In Well’s story, the earth and all its inhabitants were saved by the “the littlest things which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth”. Many of us now put hope in science to deliver a vaccine, and that humanity might change its behaviour helping to shape a better world for all life to flourish upon this beautiful earth.
DEREK HO, 55 years old. September 26 1964 – July 17 2020
Masons tribute to uncle Derek….
REST IN PEACE, POWER AND LOVE!
Here is just a tiny glimpse into UNCLE D’s final 5 years. All clips were filmed in the last 5 years. You can see he was living life to the fullest till the very end!
This man was/is an INCREDIBLE Father, Brother, Uncle, Husband & Friend. Always inspiring people around him and BLOWING MINDS in the water or on land. The first ever Hawaiian World Champion. A scientist of FUN! 100% one of the Kings of Pipeline and was blown out of the barrel more than most will know. We will forever carry on your energy and passion for life and surfing.
ALoha. “Do not go gentle into that good night…”
Thank you & Filming: Rory Pringle, Alani Media, Michael Veltman, Freesurf Magazine, Larry Haynes, Justin Rutherford, Chris Latronic, Tyler Rock, Zac Ramos, Landon Hayashi & Mason Ho (GoPro).
During the quarantine, surfer Tomás Valente began to question the world that “robbed the waves around him”. In the days that followed where he spent his time absorbed by the catastrophic news happening around the world, Charlie Chaplin’s speech in “The Great Dictator” seemed more and more prescient: “nations, leaders, and societies that are so poorly equipped for abrupt changes and their inability to create sound solutions to problems that have happened time and time again in history.” Tomás exchanged the board for art and with this film hopes to promote freedom of thought to the events that he witnessed as a way to restore the world to the dignified currents that it once had.
On the cover: James Hendy, Padang
Words Steve England Photo: Nate Lawrence @lawrence_photo
The Rip Curl 2022 Padang Cup is back, so we have to rerun this story of mate who did well in the surf industry, and runs the comp but couldn’t help himself when he saw empty peelers at Padang.
James and I go way back to our grom days of Porthtowan and chasing surf comps around UK and Europe with a not so crack team of ‘athletes’. It was pretty bloody funny. All our young lives we were told POMS couldn’t surf, which may have been true in two-foot slop. But in heavier juice in Indo and beyond, everyone in our crew did their best to disprove this myth. In our minds we were repping ourselves, our crew, Cornwall and the UK.
So now we are way down the track and James has found himself running the Padang Cup in Bali. The last comp in 2020 at Padang was pumping, and with a 20-minute break before the final, James succumbs to his inner grom, tells the crew that he is going out to grab a quick one. I mean, when you’re the boss and it’s your comp, there’s an empty lineup, what else are you going do?
In return the crew lambast him with usual: “POMS can’t surf.” Unbowed, James borrowed Wilko’s spare board and paddled out in front of the packed cliffs… Banter continues from the channel. A bomb is approaching. James paddles in, takes off, get absolutely slotted, flies into the channel and fires off a double-fingered salute.
So the reason for the cover is this. All his life James chased a dream. He fought against sewage pollution with @surfersagasintsewage, got British and Irish groms sponsored and sent them on amazing trips with RipCurleurope. BUT more importantly when he got the opp, he used his position to pull rank and surf Padang solo. And when that bomb came through he went hard, got pitted and stuck it to the doubters. And if that isn’t reason enough for a cover, I don’t know what is.
For Redruth, The Badlands, Cornwall and St Piran! Oi oi!
