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.’

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.

In 2020 Patrick Trez made this film, Zoriontasuna Eta Askatasuna, featuring Basque surfboard shaper Peta Barrel and Lee Ann Curren with the assistance of Big Sky Limited.

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

Guest author Dave Parmenter on The Provenance of The Hook Fin

Guest author Dave Parmenter on Cheyne Horan

By Andrew Kidman

Conceptual Surfboards Combined By Andrew Kidman

Part 2 Tom Curren Interview by Andrew Kidman

Stories from the pages of DOGS

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.

A 2023 Limited Edition book and the 5 years in the making Big Sky Film

Watch Earth Ball, a film from Andrew Kidman about the devastating presence of pollution to our oceans. (English, Spanish, and Basque versions.)