Rob from surf plugs
Pardon what did you say? if this is a regular question you ask, get Rob to peer in your ear with his high tech equipment as you may have surfers ear! Even if you haven’t you should consider wearing ear plugs to prevent it, I should know.
The Soil Association
What has the soil association got to do with the coastal environment I might hear you say? Well, what runs off the fields flows into the rivers and out to sea, that’s what.
riverOcean
riverOcean is a largely voluntary, non-profit environmental organisation, specialising in water. riverOcean is made up of three areas – research, education, and communication – working together for positive change their motto ‘We All Live Downstream’ emphasizes this collective responsibility and interdependency, and highlights the links between river and marine ecosystems.
We have been providing design support to riverOcean for many years and would urge you to get involved in the brilliant work that they do.
Woolacombe Surf Lifesaving Club
The Woolacombe Surf Lifesaving Club do great work with lots of young people and have allowed us to film them for ONEDAY.
paddle4relief
Tim continues to do loads to help the victims of the tsunami. To see what he is up to visit him at the site below.
A1 Surf
David Somerville is one of my super enthusiastic old surfing friends from Brighton and he heads up A1, where is that eccentric photo Dave?
Little Comfort Farm
Jackie & Roger are inspirational organic farmers who sell direct to the public and you can stay on their farm.
they love what we do and the feeling is mutual!
Andrew at Pickwell Barton
Andrew and his family own and run Pickwell Barton and were kind enough to let me film them working on the brussell sprouts crop for my video journal ‘Brussell sprouts, Neil Clifton and a perfect swell’
Mortehoe Shellfish
Thanks to Geoff and his family for letting me film them for my video journals
Christie/Devon Estates Trust
Thanks so much to the Christie’s estate for allowing us to film on the burrows and the beach at Saunton.
Woolacombe Boardriders Surf Club
apologies for any content on this website for one of the UK’s oldest & largest surf clubs
Tim Kevan
Tim is one of my poshest friends an author and surfer just look at what he has done! Oh and he is going to read some poetry for a sound track to some deep north Devon video journals next winter.
James at JD Photography
James is that rare old breed, a seasoned travel photographer. Ive lost count now but he is in his late 60′s and you can still find him out the back on a solid swell at Saunton sweeping away with his mate Rob!
Clever Trevor at Eyeball Surfcheck
Trevor is my cultural fast track back to my youth in the 70′s he has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and films.
Buckie and Hunter Boardwear
Buckie is my unofficial and probably reluctant business mentor and one day I will film him in a deep skating bowl with his shirt off to return the favour.
Sally at Original Surfboards
Sally is featured in our Belly board championship video journal she has reinvented the British belly board
Dig at Bay Surf
Dig is the proprietor of one of the last real surf shops, give him a visit to see what I mean. Oh yer and he is also bit of an action man come adrenalin junkie and has taken me up in his helicopter check out the video from this trip.
Richard Asquith and Henry Price
Richard and Henry write and perform the most amazing music they been really generous and allowed us to use in on many of our video journals my favorite being Good Morning Cornwall
Peter Partington
Peter was my first painting tutor at college in 1976 he is a darling and taught me many things
Sereno
John and Rod are that rare bread: creative consultant techies. They built the last NOTCALIFORNIA site.
Brightboximages
Russ and Jill arrived in Cornwall via Brighton, a creative team, together they are helping me document the making of ONEDAY. You will find their images all over the south west. This image is of Jill and a friend at a famous party, Russ is shy.
Guts Surfboards
Aha! That loverly Welshman who encouraged me so much at the start. Chris built the first two camera boards that I used in the Brighton Project. They are still going – I’ve resprayed them for ONEDAY – thanks Chris!
Tyler Surfboards
Lord Tyler and Lady Catherine taking tea and scones in North Devon, Sir Mikie was out of shot scoffing scones. I do miss them and so does the little fisherman.
Emma Critchely
Emma helped me out with the first planning trip for the ONEDAY project and some of the footage in Lunch in Porthleven is hers. She is an award winning underwater photographer. She has bought some new kit since this pic was taken!
Steve Frost
My mate and co driver on missions, Steve has helped me with a lot of the onboard filming designing and building kit in his garage. The pic is from the 1975 the only thing that’s changed is the technical specs of his leash. Oh, and the tash has turned into a goatie!
Bone Idol
Martin was the first person to talk to me about surf boards, he opened his shop in an arch on Brighton sea front in ’92, is still designing and manufacturing his own range of clothes – another little fish surviving in a big pond.
River Ocean
The River Ocean Foundation is a charity dedicated to increasing awareness and encouraging care for our water environments. Their activities are focused in the fields of environmental education and research. They organize the global lowtide event and publish that splendid lunar calendar.
Gigantic Design
I met Mark on the MA in sequential design and he built the first NOTCALIFORNIA site for me. I owe him big time. He now lives in Oz and does much more meaningful things every day now, but I wish here was still here.
Sharkbait
One of the first community surf sites in the UK, James Onslow has been providing Brighton surfers with surf reports since 1999 and winning awards for it ever since!
David Kenard
Thanks to David for being a super shepherd
PP Surf Art
Steve is featured in ONEDAY living the life in Woolacombe & its all his fault that I live 200 yrds from the beach. Thanks Steve!
The Surfing Museum
The Surfing Museum is a real and vast collection and an online resource. Conceived and run by Peter Robinson a journalist and my mate, he has set himself the task of writing and documenting the history of surfing in the UK his tireless search for surfing stories, boards and paraphernalia means there is something to surprise and entertain everyone – check it out
Gulf Stream
Always up for a project, the men at Gulf Stream are a cultural beacon shining bright in North Devon. They don’t just make pieces of art that you can ride waves with, they do other stuff too, pop into their gentleman’s outfitters in Braunton, it’s full of girls stuff.
Surfers Against Sewage
Surfers Against Sewage campaign for clean, safe recreational waters, free from sewage effluents, toxic chemicals and nuclear waste. Using a solution based argument of viable and sustainable alternatives, SAS highlight the inherent flaws in current practices, challenging industry, legislators and politicians to end their ‘pump and dump’ policies. And sometimes they do this by cross dressing. Yeeeha!
