Swatch Girls Pro China, 2011 Some of my thoughts on the recent ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship in China, the first significant event to be held in China by the Association of Surfing Professionals. Champions in China and Meaning-Making Machines For more information about why I was not in attendance at this event:Why I’m Read more →
Globalization is a homogenizing mechanism of capitalism. It promises to erode borders, languages, races, ethnicities and genders and replace all identities with a single id drive: “BUY-your-SELF-expression-now!” and is undercut throughout by Greed. Capital has no home, it has no body, it has no single origin (not anymore)… it is a spirit with a single Read more →
Photo Credit: Alba Pardo I woke early the day I was to give my presentation at the Women in Boardsports retreat in Saas Fee. I had stayed up quite late the night previous in order to ensure I had noted the elements I most wanted to communicate. I had taught myself Keynote in the process Read more →
Last night I arrived home, exhausted but inspired and teeming with ideas, from a retreat nestled at the base of an ancient glacier in Saas Fee, Switzerland. The drive from Geneva to Saas Fee was easily one of the most beautiful I have undertaken. From fields of hay, corn and apple trees, to the expansive Read more →