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Category Archives: Soundscapes, seascapes
The Still Point (Trailer) by Taki Bibelas
Pixi Fish Films “I wonder if when I go into the ocean if I am not hiding from things” – Mark Cunningham. A T.S. Eliot Poem inspires a film about water and the ocean that is told by surfers. ‘ … Continue reading
Posted in Moving Pictures, Soundscapes, seascapes
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Shiver and burn
A friend emailed me today when I asked him about the surf where he lives to the south, I could not face the cold this morning for the reward of tiny 1 footers with long cold waits between sets, so … Continue reading
Posted in Soundscapes, seascapes, Works by Rebecca Olive
Tagged cold, light, Ocean, sunlight
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Portraits from the Edge – an exhibition by Jon Lewis (Reflections by Thomas Williams)
by Thomas Williams Photography by Jon Lewis Recently I went to the opening of the photographic exhibition ‘Portraits from the Edge’ at the Sydney Theatre Company. The photographer, Jon Lewis, wants his images to make us think about the people … Continue reading
Ice cubes? Ice tubes.
I love Surfbird. His pictures always add to my day! And these ones are rather captivating… (for the full series and more on the waves, click here) when seeing these blue barrels from the ship I assumed they were about … Continue reading
The Ikons
Hard, heavy, slow, dark Or so I find them, the hands of Te Whaea Teaching me to die. Some lightness will come later When the heart has lost its unjust hope For special treatment. Today I go with a bucket … Continue reading
Posted in Soundscapes, seascapes, Steps to an Ethical Surf
Tagged God, home, ikons, James K. Baxter, Mary, mushrooms, poetry, sex, Te Whaea, the beach
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On the Beach — Dennis Brutus
Seablue sky and steelblue sea surge in cubist turbulence, dissolve, reform in fluid light and cadences of sandsharp breeze; spindrift from sand-dunes tresses down to inlets where rock-fragments shoal, seaspray and statice distil the mood salt-sweet, foamwhite, seaweed-brown. All in … Continue reading
Winter
And the waves gush pearls from their snowy throats as they come leaping over the moss-green, black-green, glass-green roughage — as they crumble on the incline scattering whatever they carry in their invisible and motherly hands: stones, seaweed, mussels icy … Continue reading
