Kelly Slater gives an insight into where his mind is at after a poor start to 2015, along with talk of his first trips to Cloudbreak in the early 90's.

Kelly Slater threading some nice backlit barrels somewhere in Western Australia.

Twenty year-old Floridian Evan Geiselman stole the show at the Volcom Pipe Pro today, eliminating defending event champion John John Florence in solid 10-foot barrels with the highest heat score of the competition.

In the promotion of surf books, four is not a bad crowd at all, as long as three of them aren’t immediate family. As a general rule of thumb, half the people who turn up at a book promotion will buy the book, particularly if there’s a lot of free beer being provided. 

In all the drama and emotion of the last day of the Pipe Masters, it was easy to overlook the fact that Robert Kelly Slater once again demonstrated, with an absolutely stupendous three-heat master class, that the day he leaves the tour will be sadder than anyone can imagine.

The 2013 Billabong Pipe Masters resumed today in six foot barrels and there was no shortage of drama in the ASP World Title race between Mick Fanning and Kelly Slater.

I like shooting with my Polaroid land camera, then taking a photo of the Polaroid with my Rolleiflex. I then develop that film, enlarge it in the darkroom and shoot the print with my 7D, email the file directly to my iPhone 5 via bluetooth, create negative space using Whitagram and upload to my Instagram.

Matt Warshaw has written a number of big books and he's just finished building an awfully big website - The Encyclopedia of Surfing online. In the EOS, Warshaw applied his prodigious surfing knowledge to a browsable online repository, and in so doing he's become a curator of sorts. Or, as he puts it, "a fuckin' curator!"