Archive for November, 2008

Wavescape Surf Film Festival 2008

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Wavescape Surf Film Festival Poster

Wavescape Surf Film Festival Poster

Wavescape has organised another Surf Film Festial between 5 and 14 December in Cape Town, where they will be screening epic surf movies.

They’ll have an art exhibition of nine crafted spoons, as well as a exhibition of underwater photographs by Tom Peschak. The exhibition will be held at the VEO Gallery from Wednesday 26 November until Wednesday 3 December, when we will auction the boards.

The final list of artists is Kim Longhurst, Scott Robertson, Trevor Paul, Ross Turpin, Leonora van Staden, Konradski, Motel7, Mak1, Willie Bester, and ND Mazin.

There will be eulogies to gritty documentaries about surfing in the Vietnam War; from big wave tow-ins at scary spot Aileens in Ireland to classic longboarding in two-foot Robertsport in Liberia; from the lanquid lyricism of longboard ballet in Beneath The Surface to an uplifting South African story about the Zulu surf riders of Umzumbe.

Wavescapes launches it’s Surf FIlm Festival on friday 5 December with a special outdoor screening at Clifton Fourth Beach (Saturday 6th is a weather day in case that southeaster is pumping!)

The venue is then move to the Brass Bell in Kalk Bay from Sunday 7 December until Wednesday 10 before returning to town for screenings twice a day at the Labia Cinema.

infoline 082 360 5231
Brass Bell: 021 788 5456
Labia Cinema (Orange Str): 021 424 5927
VEO Gallery: 021 421 3278

Firewire Surfboards

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Firewire Surfboards are an interesting and probably one of the best implementations of the epoxy surfboard solutions available on the market at the moment. 

You will most probably have seen the Firewire board with “Parabolic Balsa Rails”, which basically means instead of having a normal central stringer, the board has 2 balsa stringers on the rails. This makes the rails more rigid and the center of the board more flexible, so if you think a normal board has a rigid stringer in the middle and more flexible rails – thats how the sales pitch goes anyway.

Read more about Firewire Surfboards