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G-Unit Gets A Cover...

 
My favourite lady surfer's gone and got her mug on the cover of Cooler. I fink it looks pretty sweet... 

See The Serendib Dreaming Videos On Your Mobat...

All you mobile internet browsing type people can now see the videos I've been making cos I've stumped up the cash for Vimeo plus so can now do mobile versions...

Just click here to go to me little video channel and check em all out on yer iPhone (other handsets are available).

If yer even more modern and using one of them fancy iPad things then I've added a link below the vids below to goto the Vimeo pages so you can see each one. They are working on embedding for the iPad now.

Oh No We've Spilled The Coffee!

The BP crisis explained with coffee... Cock on.

Surfer Jobs- Comp Commentator...

If you can breathe oxygen, have one functioning hand, a decent drug dependency and a very basic functional knowledge of the English language then congratulations you could be a surf contest commentator! It might sound far fetched but someone’s got to be the mouthpiece for all those World Tour events and now everything’s live on t’interweb multiple commentators are needed beachside and webside on the men’s and women’s tours not to mention the UK events. If talking poop 8-hours a day for a very small cheque sounds like your bag then here’s some top tips to help you get the job-

I Wish I Could Do This...

It Wasn't Me...

Snoop with a light sabre? Genius...

You Want To Know What The Most Annoying Sound In The World Is?

 I hate you. I hate you and your stupid noise so much it makes me want to bite the TV... Vuvuzela- South African for "frickin annoying droning noise that really gets up your shitter."

White People...

In the build up to the World Cup there is a media law that clearly states every news puff piece must either have a crowd of jolly South Africans dancing behind the reporter or in the near distance that the camera can zoom in to show the "excitement". Every South African from the age of 3 to 90 (not to mention the national team) can dance. Everyone is in time, everyone looks stoked and the overwhelming sense of joy is uplifting.

So. Fast forward to 2012. The build up to the London Olympics. What will foreign reporters use as a backdrop to their build up pieces? Because we cannot (with the exception of them Diversity kids) dance*. At all... Nope. Not a sausage. Ask a group of disparate English people to show a communal dance they will look at you with a collective "?" either that or chin you cos dancing's "for the gayers." Don't even suggest Morris dancing cos that's just creepy.

Apart from the nonsensical red buses/phone boxes/beefeaters/insert whatever else doesn't actually exist anymore but is seen as defining England/ we lack a decent image, let alone a common dance. Which is a shame. Oh wait, we do, everyone knows one dance- come 2012 we can be grinning in the background as whichever reporter beams their report to the world proudly doing the Hokey Cokey...

*White people cannot dance it is true, with the exception of one Miss A Rees. She can shake it good.

Stop What You Are Doing & Watch This...

An awesome flick, don't even want to think how many man hours went into making it...

Ooooh I've gone HD...

Finally bitten the bullet with Vimeo and upgraded to their plus service so from now on videos will be in HD, better quality when run small like here but also means you can hit the full screen button for a more TV like experience. Here's a little test run where I also dicked around with a slo-mo technique. If only it was so simple as dragging a slider in iMovie... (For you mobile internet types the YouTube version is after the jump)-

Toys I Want But Can't Have Pt1...

Ooooh shiny shiny! Bit of a bugger my contracts not up for another year!?

Flippin' Flynn Novak...

Flynn Novak is a Pipe guy. That's what his business card says. He charges Pipeline like a loon each winter and people love him for it. He is no small wave air monkey. Or so I thought. His Innersection section would tell you otherwise, there's a brace of sick punts and wheelies but the nutso one happens around the 1:50 mark when he sticks a proper backflip. Bonkers. Frame grabs below and check it out for real on the link above...

How To Lose Half A Stone In Two Weeks...

There’s a mind-bottling array of diets and advice out there if you’re thinking about shedding the winter moobs. Simple is best so here’s a sure fire way to drop a dress size/fit into your boardies without living on crispbreads less tasty than cardboard. 

All you have to do when you go down Tescos is this: shop only in the fruit and veg aisle and at the fish and meat counters. Simples. So no milk, no wheat, no processed or tinned foods, just wholesome food that’s not been mucked around with. If it grows, swims, flies or walks you can eat it. Avoid the following- potatoes, white rice, sugar, caffeine and booze obviously and drink tonnes of water. 

A sample days menu: brekkie- porridge and fruit, lunch- poached eggs on rye bread toast, mid arvo snack- banana/strawberry smoothy, dinner- free range chicken with roast veggies. Do it for a fortnight, do a bit of exercise and watch the pounds drop off. Can't promise a six pack but they're a myth anyway!

 

Win Seven & A Half Inches Of Surf DVD Pleasure...

Do you want an instant and exclusive DVD collection? Movies that are near impossible to get in the UK...
Well, I can help, I've got 23 DVDs that have come with ASL mag (Australia's Surfing Life) over the last three years including Volcom's BS, Rip Curl Search, Red Bull Mentawais and the awesome ASL productions like Lost & Running, Compressor and Stateside to giveaway.
Yup.
Free.
All you have to do is hit that FB Like button over there on the right.
Simple eh?
A week today I will choose a someone that Likes the blog at random to win the booty. So as someone wise once said- You've got to be innit to winnit...

Lego Star Wars Genius...

Does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin- the entire Star Wars trilogy (original of course!) in 2.13 minutes, in LEGO... Someones got faaaaar to much time on their hands... Clip after the jump.

The Black Santa...

It was a few years ago, I'd snagged a berth in the ASL house on the North Shore for the season to do the writing for their Hawaii issue as regular correspondent Nick Carroll was taking a year off from the circus. 

A free house in Hawaii is a bloody good thing, especially when its a pretty pimp house near Sharks Cove with a massive plasma and no ants or cockies.

The three bed house was home to pro surfers Dayyan Neve and Rhys Bombaci in one room, four backpacking Aussie chicks they'd sub-letted the tiny room too and vid guru Kai Neville, lensman Shieldsy and I in the other bedroom. 

It was cosy, especially in our room, Kai ended with the short straw (as he is a short person) and got the cushions on the floor, I got the other short straw, as did Shieldsy as we ended up having to share a double bed. It wasn't too bad, neither of us roll around or snore to badly but Mr Shield does like to sleep in a star, a kinda Vitruvian Man position, which led to me sleeping on the edge of the bed in constant fear of falling off.

ChatRoulette- Genius Or Downright Disturbing Weirdness?

The web has always been a strange place full of weird and wonderful concepts and people. The latest in a long line of freak shows is an addictive/horrifying website that goes by the name of ChatRoulette. The premise is simple, it does pretty much what it says on the tin, in that you can chat with entirely random people. Be they naked, a Nazi, Rick Astley or the more normal regulation bored looking fat guy. Check it out but don't blame me if you see things you might not want too...

Aquatech Waterhousing & Canon 40D For Sale...

I'm selling a state of the art Aquatech D35 waterhousing for Canon 40D/50D and a Canon 40D (with 2 cards, 3 batteries and  540 flash) on eBay. Click the links for the relevant pages, more photos and info...

Fings You May Have Missed...

     

How To Not Watch The Mavericks Surf Comp...

You may have read about the awesome Mavericks contest (full Surfline report here) which featured monster waves and a crowd smashing clean up set (BBC News version) but there's other bits of YouTube gold we've found... Clips after the jump-