Wednesday, June 15 2011
In Search of the Endless Summer: Surf Films
Surfing is a spectacle of sheer uselessness and excessive pleasure that most of us can only dream about. It provides an ideal image of how we desire to live -- devoted solely to a thrilling and utterly innocent pleasure.
Wednesday, September 29 2010
Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World
A journalist enters the dystopian world of Franz Kafka in an attempt to journey to Gaza to study the local surf scene.
Monday, December 1 2008
Megapuss: Surfing
The few moments of guileless, laid-back fun on Surfing are great, but buried underneath too many overwrought joke songs that are too stiffly self-aware to be funny or entertaining.
