Category: Deconstructing Surfing
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“embracing their femininity”
Three of the top five ladies chosen in this year’s Surfer Poll Awards have bared glistening, bronzed bodies to the world in nearly naked poses that range from playful and flirty to sexual and seductive. The only reason Alana trumped Sally Fitzgibbons in the polls is because Fitzgibbons didn’t get her skin-show on before…
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surfing 2.0: fetishism and spectacle
One of the most compelling traits of consumerist culture is the constant message of “never enough.” You can never have too much… S/he with the most toys wins… You can never be too successful… You can never have too many trophies… too much money… too many friends on Facebook/Twitter… etc. This is the fall-out of…
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Champions in China and Meaning-Making Machines (link)
Swatch Girls Pro China, 2011 Some of my thoughts on the recent ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship in China, the first significant event to be held in China by the Association of Surfing Professionals. Champions in China and Meaning-Making Machines For more information about why I was not in attendance at this event:Why I’m…
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Gone, The Deviants*
Once, surfing was a haven for those dismissed by society-at-large, shunned or otherwise despised by a protestant-work-ethic-entrenched culture and beloved from within surf culture, as deviants. The July 2011 issue of Surfing World from Australia, which focused on misfits, oddballs and eccentrics in the surfing world, asks: “Surfing has traditionally been the great refuge of…
