Raves & Rants . . from Penzance

From the lens of the hard working, far travelling and long suffering Mr B comes a new fillum ! Mr B's press department says..... As part of their ambitious screening network for 2008, Cornish film and theatre production company o-region have announced an exciting screening of the new surf film Substance by up-and-coming director Anthony Butler (or Mr B as he’s known in the surfing world) at Carruan Farm, Polzeath on Tuesday 22nd July. This hour-long surf epic is the long-awaited follow-up to the much admired Performing Monkeys. Described by Wavelength magazine as quite possibly "the best home-grown surf movie ever", Substance follows the adventures of a crew of UK surfers who travel the length and breadth of Britain in search of the perfect wave. Substance is entirely shot in Britain & Ireland and features some of the best waves and surfing ever captured in the British Isles. Perfect Waves, Epic Sessions, Incredible Surfing, ALL AT HOME! The film will also be showing ...

News reaches Ocean-Image towers of a fantastic new way to improve your surf skills by , quite literally, surfing online. This new viral surf game immediately has you dropping in to a double overhead peeling right-hander, something most of us rarely get to do, let alone practice. And then you can start cranking your manouevres. You can slide your turns, stall for tubes as well as bust prolonged floaters and aerials. The longer you stay in the tube, the more points you score - only you have to actually make it out of the barrel to claim the points, unlike some head-dip/wipeout scenarios I've seen claimed as ' Mate, I just got a stand-up barrel '. Designed by gallery owning tech-head Sennen surfer Toby Jones of Heading West Design , he's been so immersed in code, he hasn't been seen in the water at his local break for at least two years. But we say time well spent Toby, and congrats on finding a way toSurf whilst Surfing, and make us even more addicted to our sport. Ch...

Things that stop you going surfing: broken legs, the need to actually show up at work once in a while, even the lack of a decent wave, but what has stopped me a lot in the past few months has been the dreaded DIY. Without wishing to depress myself by going over this (self) enforced horror endurance, I will merely show you the results of said labour of (non) love on our two bed cottage near Porthleven : Click the pic for a view of the results of all my (er, our, actually, as I had much help from the estimable other half) latest labours. Anyway , so it's up for grabs as a home via Mathers , or for a great Cornish holiday, just e mail us. Me, I'm off for a wave. Bugger, it looks flat. Oh well, may as well put a face in at work, it can't be as bad as DIY.