Miguel Blanco!

There’s more to Miguel Blanco than that legendary rock jump gone wrong… Check his new edit for the more successful side of his surfing!

Burkie Does Ted!

Long time Carve mag contributor Chris Burkard has done one of them TED talks…

“Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit,” says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, most isolated beaches on earth. With jaw-dropping photos and stories of places few humans have ever seen — much less surfed — he draws us into his “personal crusade against the mundane.”

Eyre On A P-Thing…

The new issue of Carve is out now. In its papery* embrace you’ll see a feature on Luis and Keshia Eyre. We hung with them for a week in Portugal recently talking surfing, pastries, dogs and killing (digital) people. To complement the interview here are some moving pictures of them both. Proper multimedia stuff ain’t it.

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*If you’re reading this on your iPad then the vids handily linked into the article pages for ya…

Alex Gray: four spits for twenty Gs.

The GoPro of the World comp is done. The winner of 20K for selfie prowess in a bonkers barrel is Alex Gray. Enjoy him deep in a rabid Cloudbreak keg back in March. Hypnotising in slow motion…

5K Dane…

Once upon a time surf films were made very slowly and expensively on 16mm film cameras. They were a labour of love.

Then video cameras, Taylor Steele and the Momentum generation blew the doors off. Editing went from tape to digital meaning that dark art was available to all: thanks iMovie! And making surf films was no longer the preserve of the few.

Then HD came along and an HD video camera cost many thousands of pounds. Skip forward a few years and we all have broadcast quality HD cameras in our pockets for under a grand that are handy phones as well. Or one we can stick on our boards/heads for under £500.

Progress never rests so while most people are only just getting HD televisions at home the camera industry is jollying off into even greater resolution and detail. 4K cameras are the norm. You’re no one in the high end surf filming industry without a RED cam. Even though no one has a 4K TV or monitor. And really high end the BBC are filming nature docs in 6K and in between there’s 5K, like this clip of Dane from his filmer Mini.

This relentless march of technology means one thing. The art of surfing being displayed in increasing clarity, detail and in some cases slow motion. It means you can really appreciate every nuance of good surfing and understand the dynamics.

Pity that Vimeo defaults to 720HD eh? 😉