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April 2023

2 years ago by Big Sky Limited

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2 months ago by Big Sky Limited

Honey For Sale

There’s barely a break in development from Coolum to Cabarita. ‘It's going to look like California one day,’ says the driver. Concrete, industry, brick-veneer, shopping centres, roofs as far as the eye can see.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Damon Bereziat Edited by Dave Parmenter

3 months ago by Andrew Kidman

ADISKIDETZEA • The making of – installment 1

Part 5 of an interview conducted with Lee-Ann Curren on 6 August 2024 as part of the making of Adiskidetzea*, a film/book/musical release currently being edited, recorded, and mixed. In late July, Lee-Ann returned to Big Sky...

Black Hole Transmissions Lee-Ann Curren Interviews Edited by Dave Parmenter

3 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Warriewood • Chapter 5 | Smoke

It was a typical summer Sunday at Warriewood Beach. The midday sun blazed down as the northerly airstream ripped across the surface of the ocean, anointing the air with the coolness of the sea.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

4 months ago by Big Sky Limited

It's Not Always About Your Cutback

It seemed he’d waited hours for this very moment. The man introduced himself as 'Nicko', he considered himself a local to the spot even after driving three hours to get here.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Josh Hoffman Edited by Dave Parmenter

4 months ago by Big Sky Limited

A Surfer In Search of Paradise

"He swung his board like an axe." This is how a reporter described the groundbreaking style of Australian surfer Nat Young. The year was 1966 and people were beginning to use shorter, lighter boards that made for more agile surfing, which this nineteen-year-old took to their upper limits.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Indigo Urdinaga Edited by Dave Parmenter

5 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Warriewood • Chapter 4 | Gone

He despised taking the bus because he felt uncomfortable around other human beings. He preferred to walk home and daydream about the things he found in nature than deal with the incessant randomness of personalities.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

5 months ago by Big Sky Limited

An Ode to the Remarkable Unremarkable Wave

This ain’t Da Bull at Makaha, Greenough at the Indicator outside the real Rincon. By now the thing is waist high, and I’m surfing it as a furious intermediate—at best.

Black Hole Transmissions Shane Herring N.E. Kachel Edited by Dave Parmenter

6 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Bluebird at the Bar

When the waves subsided it was a flat ocean with a clean run to the outside bank. I could see the other surfer paddling towards me. 'Great,' I thought to myself, 'there's a shark out there.'

Black Hole Transmissions Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

6 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Wayne Deane Interview

Wayne Deane sat for this interview with me in 2006. We were working together a bit then: he was glassing, sanding, and making the fins for a small run of surfboards I'd shaped for customers that featured Mark Sutherland's ‘Dream’ artwork.

Black Hole Transmissions Interviews Wayne Deane Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

6 months ago by Big Sky Limited

Groms in the Bay

‘Man, I think Dave's in town... Ank's invited us to hang out for the day.’ I cut him off there and assured him that was a far better plan than punching out 12 hours on the M1.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Josh Hoffman Edited by Dave Parmenter

7 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Warriewood • Chapter 3 | The Highway

Riding a pushie around the quiet, suburban streets of the Northern Beaches of Sydney in the early Eighties was a kid’s dream. There were no cops, no helmets, and there was none of the entitlement that comes with today’s giant SUV’s that choke the roadways in Australia.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

7 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Parko Story

Blakey called me and said, ‘Joel Parkinson wants to come out and shape a board with you. We want to run it as the lead feature in the design issue. It was early September 2010, and at the time Joel was in physical rehabilitation.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

7 months ago by Big Sky Limited

The Full Circle

Meet Santiago Martin, an Argentinian mariner, surfer, and artist whose quiver begins with a surf mat and ends with a ship as long as the average city block.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Santi Martin Edited by Dave Parmenter

8 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Steve Pezman Interview

I’d like to dedicate this post to my mate, Kirk Gee, who first published this material. A true believer. Rest in Peace, brother. — Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Interviews Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

8 months ago by Andrew Kidman

Circles in Sand: Jim Denevan

In March 2010, California surfer/artist Jim Denevan created a large-scale artwork on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia. At the time of its creation it was the largest piece of art that had ever been made on planet Earth

Black Hole Transmissions Interviews Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

8 months ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Warriewood • Chapter 2

There was no music in the house, just the constant hum of the ocean. Their home was built atop a cliff that reared out of the Tasman Sea on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

8 months ago by Dave Parmenter

Lost In The Seventies

Without mobile phones, internet, social media, or surveillance of any kind beyond some grumpy propertied white dude brandishing a rake because we did Berts on his driveway skateboarding down the sidewalk, we were free to be unique, separate, autonomous beings.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Dave Parmenter

9 months ago by Big Sky Limited

Hyndline BHT • Exercises in Hyndsight

Back in 2021, Black Hole Transmissions correspondent Derek Hynd launched Hyndline. HyndLine was to be a series of 30 hand-shaped board models — or codes — representing 30 years of Hynd’s surfing progression from 1973-2003. 10 boards being shaped per code.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Interviews Derek Hynd N.E. Kachel Edited by Dave Parmenter

9 months ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Interview with Cheyne Horan, October 2011

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cheyne Horan garnered acclaim as the messiah of a 'New Surfing' in a feature article by SURFING Magazine. Andrew Kidman engages in a rare interview with surfing visionary Cheyne Horan about surfing's evolution.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Interviews Cheyne Horan Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

9 months ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Warriewood

I wrote this book some years ago when I got sober. It was the first time I was able to write about the past with clarity. It’s a story about a boy that plays with flowers and can look into the sun without going blind. This is Chapter One.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

10 months ago by Big Sky Limited

The Super-Wank-Bank Report: 13 January 2024

It’s a blend of surprise and joy to encounter a young writer who can sketch a vivid mise-en-scène and be new enough to the craft to be an un-self-conscious narrator. Meet Joshua Hoffman, 23-years-old, who at 19 migrated in a rusty old van to the Tweed Shire from Adelaide.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Josh Hoffman Edited by Dave Parmenter

10 months ago by Big Sky Limited & Dave Parmenter

Rellics: From the Vault, February 13, 1996

Harken back to the close of pre-URL Hawaii. The Honolulu Advertiser comes to your house every day. No Craigslist, cell phones, webcams, or social media. Only landlines and the coconut wireless. You can see Israel Kamakawiwoole at the Waikiki Shell.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Edited by Dave Parmenter Rell Sunn

10 months ago by Big Sky Limited

Disgust

Herein, Black Hole Transmissions focuses on 1984. To wit: Mark Occhilupo's fall, and Cheyne Horan's rise, stemming from entwined negative and positive impacts in the same movement.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Mark Occhilupo Edited by Dave Parmenter Author Derek Hynd

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Dave Parmenter

Volume: The Thick And The Thin Of It

I flunked algebra in the 7th grade. The latest issue of Surfer Magazine fit neatly hidden behind my Introduction to Algebra textbook, and I was reading all about The Forgotten Island Of Santosha...

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

The Last Call Of A Giant

Andrew Kidman shares a personal philosophy of tending to sacred flames while exploring the profound connection between fire, trees, and the echoes of nature.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Edited by Dave Parmenter Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Dave Parmenter

Don’t Fuck With The Don

The Don was waiting there for decades in a dim and cobwebbed alcove at Burford Reinforced Plastics in southern Queensland, waiting for us to wake up to ourselves. The Don... through the gaudy Echo Beach years it waited, salvo after salvo of polka dots fired at it but it refused to topple.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman Derek Hynd Terry Fitzgerald Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

On An Arcane Plane: The Coolite 500

Join Andrew Kidman on a South African escapade with Derek Hynd back in 1995. Along the way, you’ll be privy to the squirrel’s nest of surprises that arise from hanging out with Hynd.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Derek Hynd Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Terry Fitzgerald and Estimations of Risk

Derek Hynd vividly recounts his experience being mentored by Terry Fitzgerald, sparked while surfing a spot linked with Terry’s legacy. At this surf break, Derek muses over crowd dynamics, recent changes in the wave, and the paradox of safety in surfing.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Terry Fitzgerald Derek Hynd Author Derek Hynd Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Dave Parmenter

Kobayashi Maru

In this poignant tale, Dave Parmenter reflects on travels with Brian Keaulana as well as life experiences with Rell Sunn. The story delves into Rell's battles with sharks and cancer, highlighting unwinnable scenarios and the quest for more time.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Rell Sunn Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

THE HOOK FIN BATCH 2 BY TOBY PRATLEY

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Surfboards Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Steel City

It’s a Saturday morning in the winter of 1994. I’m ten years old. An offshore wind carries the blunt smell of industry across the Hunter Valley and down to the inside bowl of one of the local reefs.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories N.E. Kachel Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

The Short But Explosive History of Australian Surfing, 1886-1919

Before getting to the catalyst — the most successful gentleman in Manly in 1911 blowing his head off with dynamite at a males-only artists’ camp of his own founding — a stage to set.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Derek Hynd Author Derek Hynd Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Left Hand Turn Into The Sun Dora

Jeffreys Bay, 1995. Into his 60's, Miklos Sandor Chapin Dora has seen, done, been it all. He is the one God of surf. Conservatively, 999 in every 1000 lives of surfers over the last 60 years exist solely due to this one person.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Derek Hynd Author Derek Hynd Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

KPH2 | Off Black Meets Echo Beach: Purism Crosses The Profession

“Awwwwww there goes Big Rog.” Flippy Hoffman growling, sitting on his deck off the sand at Pupukea. The surf had been dismal. Waist-high slop rolled in like the day before and the week before that.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Derek Hynd Author Derek Hynd Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Derek Hynd | Off-Black Fact

Worse than inserting yourself into a conversation is making a living out of doing it. Consider surf writing. 9 in 10 surf writers cop out with first-person narrative, flogging personal ego by 'being there for the reader.’

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Derek Hynd Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Andrew Kidman

Silver Foils |  A Visit to the Valla Surf Factory

In 2012, I wandered into the Valla Surfboard Factory in Nambucca Heads and was struck with those same tinfoil emotions Warhol had been struck by whilst having his hair cut in Name’s apartment in 1959.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Sage Joske Valla Surf Factory Andrew Kidman Edited by Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Terry Fitzgerald's Speed Continuum

Andrew Kidman on Terry Fitzgerald's innovative Hot Buttered Skateboards.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Green

Andrew Kidman writes about the planshape and evolution of Green.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited and others

The Hook Fin

Guest author Dave Parmenter on The Provenance of The Hook Fin

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Dave Parmenter

Cheyne The Seer

Guest author Dave Parmenter on Cheyne Horan

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Cheyne Horan Dave Parmenter

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Custom Surfboards

By Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Lee-Ann Curren | A Winter at Big Sky

By Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Music Lee-Ann Curren Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Andrew Ridgeley

By Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Music Andrew Ridgeley Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

The Sunset Cowboy Jack Reeves

By Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories The Windy Hills Jack Reeves Music Members Only Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Casper to the Dreamboard

Conceptual Surfboards Combined By Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Members Only Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Influences

Part 2 Tom Curren Interview by Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Tom Curren Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Surfs Down — Charlie Owen

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Music Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

Spirit of Akasha Tom Curren

Stories from the pages of DOGS

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Tom Curren Andrew Kidman

a year ago by Big Sky Limited & Andrew Kidman

Anderson / Kidman Edge Single Fin

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Black Hole Transmissions Stories

a year ago by Big Sky Limited

DOGS | SCOOTERS FOR PEACE TOKYO

Black Hole Transmissions Paintings Andrew Kidman

2 years ago by Andrew Kidman

犬

アンドリュー・キッドマンが「ザ・ドッグ」について回想...

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

2 years ago by Andrew Kidman

Dogs

Andrew Kidman reminisces about 'The Dog'...

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

2 years ago by Andrew Kidman

Patrick Trefz

I met Patrick Trefz in Alaska. This is Patrick cooking eggs with fire-roasted jalapenos on the beach in Yakutat with the snow-covered Wrangell-Saint Elias Mountain range behind him.

Black Hole Transmissions Stories Andrew Kidman

Black Hole Transmissions • Edited By Dave Parmenter

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