One Love

A beautiful version of Bob Marley's song 'One Love' from the "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music" project.
http://playingforchange.com

Daryn McBride - "The Bar"

New Zealand surfer and artist Daryn McBride creating "The Bar"

Alaia avec Fed Compagnon et Manu Porte

Petite session retour aux sources avec Fed Compagnon et Manu Portet.

NeverEndingSurfari - only a month away...

Friday, 13th March - one month today - i retire from full-time employment as a retail manager and begin my NeverEndingSurfari. Traveling, surfing, painting, photographing, board building and living life a free man. There are so many places and people i haven't seen for way too long a time. It'll be good to be on the road revisiting all the beautiful places of this land and celebrating it in paint and photo, sharing it with friends old and new.

First stop is I-Nation Festival at my friend's farm.

I'm presently searching for the ideal vehicle but it's not this one:

A cool surfin' safari machine at Mollusk @ Gallery Space. Photo from Squishy's blog.

Chris Thompson - Crossroad Blues

My old friend Chris Thompson playing Crossroad Blues at Flagstaff Hotel, Hamilton, New Zealand.
13th December 2008

Video filmed by Michael Jeans.

Arctic Monkeys @ Wellington

On Tuesday we flew up to Wellington for the Arctic Monkey's gig at the Wellington Town Hall. It was their first gig in about a year. I saw them at the St James in Auckland in 2006. It was another great high energy performance with 4 new songs debuted - 'Dangerous Animals', 'Pretty Visitors', 'Would You Like Me To Build You A Go-Kart?' and 'Crying Lightning'. The new songs were good. The sound mixing was a bit crap but the band was tight. They're not as fresh-faced and raw as the last time i saw them. They played a cover of Nick Cave's 'Red Right Hand'.
Before the gig we passed the band walking up Cuba Street as we were heading down for a kebab at Abracadabra.

The Life and Films of Alby Falzon

One of the very best surf film makers ever and a man of great wisdom and enlightenment.
As a teenager Morning of the Earth and especially Crystal Voyager had a profound impact on my life. Tracks magazine started by Alby, David Elfick and John Witzig was also very influentual on me through its early tabloid era - it was very much of it's time.

There is a new DVD out celebrating his life and films. Available here.





Just grin and bear the hyped-up channel intro at the beginning of this next vid. The doco's worth it.



Alby's website
Alby's The Daily Lama website