Looking Sideways: 10 Things
This week's stuff to share.
1. Coming over the next two weeks - my interview with legendary skate photographer Skin Phillips, and a special reader/listener question episode with artist, film-maker, photographer and hugely influential creative legend Thomas Campbell. I put the call out for questions to TC earlier this week, and there are already some really thought-provoking posers in there, including this ‘shots fired!’ number, above.
There’s still time to ask any question you have for Thomas, so click this link to do so. TC has also graciously offered a signed print as a prize for best question from a paid subscriber.
2. Any new Ken Burns documentary is appointment viewing for me, and his latest is now on the iPlayer in the UK. Like his must-see series on the Dust Bowl, it tells a cautionary (and hugely-relevant) tale of environmental catastrophe. Watch the trailer above.
3.Jonathon Porritt’s furious, excoriating take on ‘the monstrous heap of Emperors’ clothes in the corner’ that was CoP 28 is a must-read.
4. What’s behind the recent spate of deadly shark attacks in South Australia? Friend-of-the-show Sean Doherty’s recent piece for Surfline finds more questions than answers.
5. New podcast alert: the new Sports and Outdoor Mentors podcast, sorta an outdoors take on The Diary of a CEO. Watch the latest episode of with friend-of-the-show Nick Hounsfield, above.
6. Just some incredibly stylish and beautiful surfing from Mikey, Dane, Devon and the rest during the recent California super swell.
7. My friends at All The Elements (that’s founder and friend-of-the-show Soraya Abdel-Hadi second from the right, above) are hiring. Find out more here.
8. The new Fargo is brilliant and the perfect midwinter watch.
9. As usual, I’m lobbing every song I like this year on one ever-evolving Spotify playlist. 2024’s (above) is off to a good start (be warned tho: that Silver Mt. Zion tune might turn you into a blubbering January wreck).
10. I’m also saving every book I read on the usual Instagram Story Highlight here, although if anything tops The Bee Sting, the first book I read this year, it’ll have to be some piece of work.
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Bee Sting, what a read!