A short film about the search and discovery of waves.
I used to meet up with Mike and Luke in remote parts of the country to spend a week surfing, camping in the dirt and telling stories, then part ways and plan to meet up again for the next swell or wind pattern. Having been away from that lifestyle for the past few years it seems foreign to me to now drive for a day to catch a break in the weather and surf, then drive a day to return home and study the weather maps to do it again wherever looks good next.
It turned out they had been planing a trip to a part of South Australia that I know well and used to call home, and thought this would make a good story.
I used to meet up with Mike and Luke in remote parts of the country to spend a week surfing, camping in the dirt and telling stories, then part ways and plan to meet up again for the next swell or wind pattern. Having been away from that lifestyle for the past few years it seems foreign to me to now drive for a day to catch a break in the weather and surf, then drive a day to return home and study the weather maps to do it again wherever looks good next.
It turned out they had been planing a trip to a part of South Australia that I know well and used to call home, and thought this would make a good story.
After spending 9 months roaming through East Africa Richard found himself watching kids backflip from pyramids and study traditional dance in amongst learning to re-enter school at a volunteer run community center in Tanzania. He had spent the previous months looking for community run projects but hadn't found the sort of social entrepreneurship he was looking for, upon hearing how the center had been formed from the ground up and continues to run he found what he had been looking for.
The Joske's seem to have salt flowing through their veins. Paul and Jenny started Valla Surfboards as a way to facilitate Paul's need to surf; and built a career of creating custom boards with a focus on the traditional roots of surfing. Eldest son Sage spent a number of years chasing the WQS circuit, before returning home to continue Valla alongside Paul, while Heath continues his climb up the WQS ranking having recently won the ISA China Cup (01/12).
I spent a week to find out what the Ocean means to them.
There was a time when Jackson, now 16-years-old, thought he would never be able to return to school.
Having lost his father when he was just a baby and his mother become feeble with illness, he went to live with his brother and sister-in-law. Though he was enrolled in school, he missed many of his classes and quickly fell behind as his sister-in-law felt that Jackson’s time would be better spent selling soaps at the local market. For three years he taught himself what he could using borrowed textbooks and reading the notes his friends had taken in class.
When he was 12 years old his aunty brought him from Arusha to live with her in Dar Es Salaam where an administration error once again held him back from attending school. After countless attempts to rectify the error his aunt heard about the drop out school program at KCC and after just one year Jackson was able to pass the entry exams and start mainstream school - where he quickly became top of his class. He still returns to the centre every day after school to attend drama and English classes and spend time with his friends, who he calls his “KCC family”.
The Gallery Project aims to raise enough money to pay two qualified teachers to work at the centre and ensure all the students have the opportunity for education.
Having lost his father when he was just a baby and his mother become feeble with illness, he went to live with his brother and sister-in-law. Though he was enrolled in school, he missed many of his classes and quickly fell behind as his sister-in-law felt that Jackson’s time would be better spent selling soaps at the local market. For three years he taught himself what he could using borrowed textbooks and reading the notes his friends had taken in class.
When he was 12 years old his aunty brought him from Arusha to live with her in Dar Es Salaam where an administration error once again held him back from attending school. After countless attempts to rectify the error his aunt heard about the drop out school program at KCC and after just one year Jackson was able to pass the entry exams and start mainstream school - where he quickly became top of his class. He still returns to the centre every day after school to attend drama and English classes and spend time with his friends, who he calls his “KCC family”.
The Gallery Project aims to raise enough money to pay two qualified teachers to work at the centre and ensure all the students have the opportunity for education.
As the storm nears.
When the predicted 40 knot winds hadn't hit by midday, the ocean was still playful and inviting. An hour later the wind hit with heavy rain; playful and inviting it was not.
When the predicted 40 knot winds hadn't hit by midday, the ocean was still playful and inviting. An hour later the wind hit with heavy rain; playful and inviting it was not.
When the swell dropped while filming Flux in New Zealand, I though of trying something new.
In 2009 Edify's Short Term Mission Program (STUMP) brought passionate youth into urban environments to learn from and serve their community. Facing homelessness, drug abuse and mental health issues the one week intensive opened their eyes to the realities of city based social work.
Addressing the need to provide further means of engagement after the Stump week, the Edify Internship and Cert IV in Youth Work was created. Charlotte was one of three youth accepted into the initial year of the Internship and Cert IV program in 2010.
This is her story.
This is her story.
Interview with Michael Campana, Professor of Geosciences, for The Guarani Project, May 2010.
