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illustration by seamouse
All ordered KooKs now sent... thankyou to everyone who has bought one so far, enjoy! Reader-supported publication rules.
All ordered KooKs have now been dispatched, so please let me know if you dig em. A massive thankyou to all contributors. As someone said, all else fails you can eat fish & chips out of them...
I've created a dropdown menu for international postage. Please note, there will be KooKs in America and Australia later this year, so this is if you just can't wait.
For American, Australian, Canadian Kooks please use the button at right and select KooK USA, Canada, Australia.
For European Kooks, please select KooK Europe.
The prices quoted when you reach the paypal page include international postage. (£5.50 for USA, £5.20 for Europe.)
The first 100 numbered KooKs are fast disappearing so be lightning if you want one. Or, just write on yours in pencil.
KooK is a surfing newspaper, published independently and printed in the UK on paper from sustainable forests. No Paid-For Advertising. Please spread the word by reposting this!
Global contributors include Cyrus Sutton, Mike Black, Mark Leary, Ryan Heywood, Kassia Meador, Tom Haskett, Kate Czucsman, Andrew Kidman, John Eldridge, Jim Newitt, Alex Rowse, Michael Fordham, Ollie Banks, Mark Dickinson, Rob Royal, Seamouse, Ryan Tatar, Ryan Lovelace and many more.
KooK features Cyrus Sutton on handplanes, hulls with Ryan Lovelace, notes on flow by Mark Dickinson, John Isaac by Michael Fordham, Shayne House on tea... KooK includes illustration by Seamouse, Ryan Thomas, Simon Perini, Tom Haskett and many others... Photography by Friend of Mine, Ryan Tatar, Mike Black, Kassia Meador and more...
20 pages of full-colour surfing newsprint, email for details.
*If you would like more than one KooK, I will combine shipping, please use paypal to add further funds.
Coming to selected outlets shortly. Landing in America in April, Japan and Australia summer 2010. All art and text copyright of the respective authors. If you contributed to the KooK please send me your address, I will be sending UK/international copies soon and US copies in April.
something kooked this way comes... KooK is an extra-ordinary surfing newspaper Available online through this blog and selected outlets shortly. Stay tuned for an official launch... got more kooks than Newquay bay in the hall
Not only that, we just finished Without Thought, a short film that has been ten years in the mind. It is looking impossibly beautiful. A collaboration with Ollie Banks and John Eldridge. More soon...
Roadtripping with a shit phonecamera. East and west. Fine SW groundswell lighting up empty points, perfect testing ground for the big hulls. Weird B+Bs with a decaying, out-of-season feel. Short story ideas flooding, stopping the car every few minutes to write in laybys. Walking under railway bridges to remote rivermouths. The trip culminating in a peak session in thumping beachbreak and one lovely bottle-green glimpse. These are the moments we live for.
Oh, and one really odd experience. On a new swell surfing little rights on the 7'7'' Spence hull and swapping fins every few waves exploring the board, on one lap a huge boat came in close to the shore. Up went the ramp and it dropped boulders right into the lineup I'd been surfing all day. Spot destroyed.
Appeal to fellow surfers...
Please excuse the blanket email.
Residents of the St Merryn area were last week made aware of a worrying planning application to put in a drainage [including treated sewage] pipe flowing onto the beach at Boobys Bay in North Cornwall, which if granted will damage the surrounding area, the beach and the water quality.
If you would like to know more please read the relevant planning application 2009/01754 at the following link:-
http://old.ncdc.gov.uk/media/adobe/l/8/2009-01754.pdf
It also transpired during a St Merryn Parish Council meeting on Thursday that the plan is not as was originally stated on the planning application ‘to drain surface water causing a wet garden’ but is actually to drain the entire area to a depth of 3.2m to allow the construction of an intended new development at Little Polgarron overlooking the beach at Boobys Bay of which the first level is planned to be underground. The present water table is at approx 1m below the surface. This lowering of the water table would affect a large area of both Special Scientific Interest and Outstanding Natural Beauty. To make matters worse it was also revealed that the developer intends all sewage to be treated on the premises and the resulting liquids to be disposed of through a soakaway and hence into the ground water and then drain through the proposed pipe onto the beach.
If you would like to comment or object to the above proposal you can do so on the Cornwall County Council website at:-
It seems unlikely that such a scheme could get passed by the planning department but the original planning [2009/00850] appears to have gone through very quietly and now that we have the chance it’s important that normal people like ourselves stand up for what we believe is right but we may not have much time.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
From Adrian and the team at Fluid Juice.
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