Bomb Planet Earth – Dotmasters & Teddy Baden from swinhoe on Vimeo.

and the Flickr set is here.

Last night I stayed up late to watch the WCT fellas finish off the contest in Tahiti. There’s nothing like a surf contest in a perfect location, streamed live over the web to get you pining for a wave. Sadly there ain’t nothing doing here for a week at least.

Taj was beaten by an on-form Bobby Martinez to take the title, with Parko, Slater and Bede all going out early.

Aritz had another good event taking out Kelly en-route to a semi’s spot.

And then after watching that last night, whilst eating breakfast I watched the second in the awesome South Pacific series on BBC2.

Awesome footage and insight into the world of the ocean and islands.

Then stupidly I link-out from a tweet and start reading about the North-east guys who are getting set for a Mentawai trip… which in turn reminds me that 5 good friends have only just returned from the damn place – where they scored (as you do in Indo…)

Some snaps from their trip are below…

Indo dream

Randall getting set-up to be slotted...

Mentawai Perfection

More Mentawai Perfection

Yet More Mentawai Perfection

Now, normally all this would be fine, I can handle a fair bit of land-locked torture – its good for the mind every once in a while. Except I have to drive to London tomorrow. And that just makes things worse.

In fairness, im going to see a good friend who has the Best Job in the World… so there are gonna be some good bits. But im also going to a funeral and that wont be so good.

Anyway, to come full-circle, envy is terrible, but Im not letting it get to me. Im using it to motivate and search for that trip of my own. I’ll ge my piece of Indo gold… im just waiting in the meatime. Making it work for me…

Well, ive been very busy, as you can imagine. Lost of things to tell you about, but lets start with something fun.

My Day -

My Day 28 October 2008 from swinhoe on Vimeo.

This was a short one-day project shot and edited in 24 hours.

So, apart from that, im currently very busy down at BDP Media, and have been for some time.

Im also still working closely with Leon/C6/Dotmasters crew on the work and site/pubishing of the art theyre producing.

Keeping a hand in with Mad Dog as we love them so much, and they have a new book out, Whistler – its number ten !.

Also, been running around a fair bit, Amsterdam, Prague, Beadnell, Exeter… all good. Even a day out with Steve in London.

My last post being May, its only fair to tell you about the summer – Dads 60th went-off well, and a spent most of July catching decent size wave on the north-east coast. Nothing stupid, but we had it head-high for a week or so…  following that it was back to the grind in the smoke.

Ok, more from me later, i really am going to try and keep this more up-to-date.. should be easier once i pick-up my new toy later today..

Oh yeah, and this happened….

The world became a slightly better place with the election of Barack Obama..