..and then I noticed the skating. Pretty, pretty flick from Nathan Factor Sacharow.

Soundtrack by The Cinematic Orchestra.

I’m not a musician, but I can imagine it’s easy to murder a good Black Keys number. Alex Winston hasn’t. She’s not strayed far from the original, but she’s de-bearded it and made it her own.

Alex Knost: Single Fins

A little hit of California sun, punk and haircuts anyone? Well, here you go.

Featuring Alex Knost; music by Ty Segall; film by Taylor Bonin.

It’s freezing outside tonight. The woodburner is barely upping the ambient temperature of the room and the dog is practically melded to it. So when you see a shot like this by Clare Plueckhahn, you kind of wish yourself away.

Don’t get me wrong: I love where I live, but sometimes a tropical A-frame and a lava-like sunset will make me a little…. restless.

Lucy Rose

Something to add to that Sunday vibe before the Huey show kicks off on 6. The lovely Lucy Rose.

Amplitude Film Festival

Amplitude Boardsports are the shadowy surf ninjas behind a film festival which you’ll no doubt hear more of as we get closer to their grand finalé later on this year (there’s talk of a big screen and a plethora of deckchairs in a sunny, Cornish setting).

They’re encouraging independent film makers across the country to come up with some short flicks based around adventure and board-based sports, and the cultures and lifestyles that inherently come with them. Which leaves things open enough for most people to have a crack…

Early-bird submissions are due to close within the next few days, so if you’ve already got a film that you think may suit, visit the submission page here and get it entered forthwith.

Here’s what they’re about in their own words:

“The Amplitude Film Festival celebrates independent film from those who push limits, seek new borders and tread a slightly different path. We want to see stories through film of all the adventure sports, their cultures and their environments.

What will you tell us?

What can you tell us?

What do you do and why do you do it?

Don’t keep it to yourself: the Amplitude Film Festival wants to help you show the world. We want films about people, films about places and films that challenge us. Your film could be a documentary, a short or a feature, and it can be shot in any format. You’ve just got to get out there and film it.”

For more information on the Amplitude Film Festival, visit either of the following:

Amplitude Film Festival Website

Amplitude Film Festival Facebook Page

Vias: Michael Fordham, Finisterre.

If you’re one of the very, very, very few people who have yet to watch this, THEN I ENVY YOU.

Keep in mind – this is not a music video: this is live, on the street, one take. No better demonstration of contemporary talent and technology combined.

More on DUB FX here, and on Mr. Woodnote here.

Tim McKenna

If you’re a surfer, a real surfer, then the chance is very strong that at some point in your life you’ve sat glumly staring at flat surf, wishing those small inshore ripples, breaking so beautifully clean and hollow, were actually 600% bigger. Either that, or you wished you were a mouse.

A mouse with a quiver of boards, made by your trusted mouse shaper. Who you paid in cheese.

Using tilt shift photography, Renowned Australian surf photographer Tim McKenna has made those dreams seem almost true, with this odd perspective on Teahupo’o, a surf break that is so often visually terrifying.

See more of Tim’s work here.

Y Niwl

Accomplished surf guitar from the North Walian shoreline, via A Day At The Beach.

“Y Niwl live in the mountains and they’re the world’s highest altitude post-surf band. They sound like post-rockers gatecrashing a Tarantino soundtrack.” – Gruff Rhys

Damn fine video too.