Looking Sideways: 10 Things
The Announcement rides again, SAS x The Big Sea, and a brilliant riposte.
1. If you missed it, I’m continuing The Announcement as a standalone series - beginning with this conversation with Carl Rhodes on the myth of the ‘good’ billionaire. Listen above.
2. Thank you Huck Magazine for this really thoughtful and in-depth feature on The Announcement. Read the story here.
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3. After conducting north of a hundred interviews for snow mags as a journalist over the years, it was nice to get the profile treatment myself in the latest edition of the excellent Bomb Snow Magazine. We discussed my extremely weird career and all things The Announcement.
4. I absolutely loved Francis Ford Coppola’s fantastic art-for-art’s-sake riposte to ‘winning’ worst film, worst director and worst screenplay at the year’s Razzies awards.
5. A surprisingly sympathetic take on the old ‘hunt for the 100 foot wave’ canard from Tortoise, that avoids the car crash that usually ensues when mainstream media outlets have a crack at the nuances of sideways culture. Worth a listen.
6. A really great interview with Jenny Jones on the latest Board Women podcast.
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7. A very interesting (free-to-read) piece in the FT on freeride skiing heading for the Olympics.
8. I’m such a huge fan of the way skateboarding has room for cerebral thinking and writing like this. Thanks to Thom Callan for bringing it my attention this week - download and read here.
9. Brilliant news that Surfers Against Sewage are throwing their considerable weight behind the forthcoming Big Sea film tour.
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10. Finally, some much-needed mindless escapism in the form of this exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin documentary from Netflix.