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We are driving around Australia. Thought you might want to know ...
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New children's book, by Ted Grambeau and Tim Baker, featuring Dave Rastovich and Hannah Fraser
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Mick Fanning's book featured as book of the month on ABC Radio
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Ted Talk by Carl Safina on the real impact of the Gulf Oil Spill
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Exclusive live streaming images from the world famous "Superbank"
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Surf label and surf magazine combine brain power and come up with ... a pair of pants
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A wise man once said, most sports journalists would compromise themselves for a cup of tea
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Surf film maker Cyrus Sutton and friends launch DIY surf site
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Be among the first to heap scorn on this dubious undertaking
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How a humble surf writer came to deliver a keynote address to the Australian Primary School Principals' Association
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Was asked to blog for my publisher last week. Here's what I came up with
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Nice feedback from a couple of my writing workshop participants
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Instalment number one: How to promote progressive surfing on tour:
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Australian surfer survives quake, in midst of collapsed hotel
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Sneak preview of "Surf For Your Life" by Mick Fanning and Tim Baker
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South African legend Donald Paarman pens extraordinary autobiography
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The nine-time world champ breaks his silence on ESPN’s plans, the ASP and his critics
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Does anyone else think Dane Reynolds surfs like Shane Beschen?
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Joel Parkinson strengthens his headlock on the world title at J-Bay
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Occy and Curren discuss their Clash of the Icons heats at J-Bay
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Kelly's manager and ESPN promise big bucks and prime time TV
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Recycling, bio-diesel and solar hot water vs Nukes at one of the world's great pointbreaks
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There is more than one way to eat a bull's testicle in the new South Africa
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Tim Baker on ABC Radio National's Book Show, Thursday, June 25
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Occy's biography has been one of the top selling sports books in the country
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Surfer magazine ask for votes to decide best surfers in history
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The hilarious story of standup comedian who tried to become a professional surfer
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Ask not what the ocean can do for you, ask what you can do for the ocean
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Shane Bevan wins appeal against unfair dismissal for surfing on a sickie
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Joel Parkinson breaks with ASP tradition by giving an entertaining and insightful interview
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Insightful 6000 word article by award-winning sports writer Gary Smith
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Surf art, music, literature gathering at the Curve surf shop, Currumbin
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The Autumn festival of swell on the Gold Coast has finally subsided
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Great workshop for creative freelancers trying to run a business
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Why I like AFL more than skateboarding, graffiti art, DJing, Hip Hop and skinny jeans
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The democratisation of the media and what it means to surfing
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How economic rationalism and the "Two and One" theory can help alleviate surf rage
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Planes, helicopters, jet skis, 110 boards a year - but he separates his garbage!
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Surf writing panel and workshops at Australia's largest writer's festival
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Nick Carroll writes and researches "Bombora" a definitive history of Australian surfing.
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Hilarious article about Occy's commentary at the Pipe Masters webcast
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Occy, the rise and fall and rise of Mark Occhilupo, in stores soon
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Long awaited biography of '99 world champ Mark Occhilupo released early November
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An intelligent surf movie by young Californian film maker Cyrus Sutton
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Donate to the Surfrider Foundation before September 1 and surf muso Jack Johnson has pledged to match all monies received
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Ever wanted to show someone what it's like to get barreled? Get them to watch this.
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New feature documentary tells the amazing true story of the Paskowitz family
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Violonist Richard Tognetti's unique surfing and musical experiment
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In cinemas in the US July 25, 2008, premiering at Huntington Beach
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Check out this short trailer produced to mark the release of Tim Winton's first novel in seven years, Breath, the story of two young boys discovering surfing and its associated joys and perils in Australia's south-west.
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Puberty Blues was released in 1981 and includes a very quick cameo by future world surfing champion Mark Occhilupo
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Little music clip from an unrehearsed jam, at the fabulous Art Gecko nights in Currumbin
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I have been really touched by the response to "High Surf." Here are a few examples:
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Creative director and lead violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti, is embarking on an east coast tour playing live to surfing footage
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Surf Aid International has won the 2007 Humanitarian Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (WANGO)
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My new book, "High Surf," will be in stores in early October, through Harper Collins Publishers.
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Tanks a cheaper solution
Lachlan Heywood From: The Courier-Mail
April 16, 2007
EXPENSIVE water infrastructure would not be needed in southeast Queensland for at least a decade if extra rainwater tanks were rolled out.
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Angourie, in northern NSW, has been declared a national surfing reserve, only the second of its kind in Australia.
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I just followed the link from my own site to that of my publisher Harper Collns and then on to a few of the online book stores they send you to, if you want to buy one of my books. And on most of them, if you click on my name, it brings up a list of books I have allegedly written.
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Tim is currently working on a new surfing book, to be released by Harper Collins publishers in 2007.
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Tim’s surf writing workshop at the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival attracted participants from France, Germany, Canada and the USA, as well as Australia, equal numbers of men and women, and ranged in age from 20 to 70.
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Tim appeared at this year’s Byron Writer’s Festival on a number of panels, discussing writing on coastal settings and sports writing, and in conversation with surfing legend Rusty Miller.
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Tim recently staged a surf writing workshop in Newcastle at the invitation of the Hunter Writer’s Centre, to coincide with the annual Surfest surfing contest. This was certainly an Australian, and possibly a world first.
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