Almost two months since my last post here; sorry about that if you -whoever you are- expected more. The thing is that I've been really busy lately: working on a daily post for my spanish blog, setting up the whole AMSTEL Surfilm Festibal7 - 2009 txiringuito (check out the DailyMotion channel and make sure you send your surf clips; the Surf Short Film Competition is closing in 3 weeks time), putting together some nice texts for the special issue of the next 3sesenta mag, and... not much else really. Money is getting tight and foreign surf mags don't seem to be interested in new contributors. I was a bit bummed when a widely-known english mag that had commisioned something from me some time ago, once got the text asked me to give it for free. I said NO and asked to be paid something (I don't even know their rates), anything... but not for free. And all that in spite of the fact that I got them the photos (from a top local amateur photographer) for free. Problem is I'm a long-time subscriber to this mag and I see, issue after issue, some of the stuff they are printing and - I suppose- paying for and... no comment. Anyway, the text has not been published and sits -bored- in a file somewhere in my laptop guts.
On the other side the good guys of Kurungabaa asked me to send some texts and they selected one. It's going to be printed for free, but in this case I don't care as Kurungabaa is the closest thing to an NGO. And being printed next to some great surf writers such as DC Green, Nick Carroll or Tim Baker is worth more than the couple hundred € that my text would get in another rag. Kudos to them!!
Last Friday smwhere North of Hossegor. Courtesy of Surfing Biscarrosse.
On the surf side it's been a wet and stormy winter, very unlike the last two ones. And spring is doing what's supposed to do: offering a couple of glimpses of what might summer be in between showers. Wrong winds and lots of weak swells. I can't say I've been very happy with my surfing lately but I hope the best is yet to come.
Over & out.
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