For the last seven years Ray Collins has straddled two ends of the civic spectrum. Three days a week he was working down a coal mine, the rest of the time he'd spend shooting high end surf photography. Something had to give.

Angie Takanami is a Byron Bay-based travel writer, producer, and surfer who recently returned from a trip to Peru. Angie is now hoping to make a documentary about the environmental woes in Lobitos, one of Peru's great surfing towns.

Artist, musician, surfer, and skater, Ben Brown slides easily from role to role. Yet it's his art that's taken him beyond the tabernacle of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Ben recently spoke to blindboy.

Darius Devas is a filmmaker from Melbourne via Byron Bay. His latest film, called Within, draws on many feelings that all lead back to one life-changing experience.

A surf coach sceptic, Blindboy speaks with one of Sydney's best junior coaches, Matt Grainger, about his high performance coaching sessions. So is he now a convert to the coaching cause? Read on...

"I believe that anything can be analogous with anything if you are open-minded and creative about an outlook," so says UK author and longboarder, Sam Bleakley, who blends surfing, jazz, and culture into his written works.

Martyn Worthington is Australia's best known surfboard artist. He has produced countless images for thousands of surfers over several decades and is still going strong.

Martyn and Blindboy sat on the steps in the Clear Surfboard factory on Sydney's Northern Beaches and reminisced.

"I feel like Australian surfing's cultural continuum had been severed in '56, when the surfers left the surf clubs. Surfers just disowned their elders and their previous culture and I don't think thats healthy for any culture. I think a lot of the drug casualties we've seen since have been as a result of that. Modern surf culture suffered from not having a continuous lineage."

"We were at Wategos, it was perfect, small, hip high, shoulder high. I had all these unbelievably stunning girls come down the beach to tandem surf, and not one guy. Not one guy put up his hand."

"The shark is five metres long, he's stuffed and his name is Frankie. My father caught him in a 3.5 metre dinghy when I was about four years old."