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BIG magazine, SURF: review from TRANSWORLD SURF

Big Surf
Big magazine has a pretty unique formula. Each issue is made in a different country utilizing a different set of contributors. This month, they’ve come to the shores of the U.S. and hired ex-Surfing magazine Editor In Chief Jamie Brisick and art-direction guru David Carson to do an issue titled simply “Surf.”
Slightly oversized and printed on paper stock that would make most book publishers green with envy, the surf issue of Big gives its readers a kind of grassrootsy view of surfing through the eyes of such contributors as Drew Kampion, Nick Carroll, Derek Hynd, and C.R. Stecyk. With an eclectic mix-ture of articles that cover territory as diverse as interviews with Malia Jones and Steve Pezman; photos from SeaGaia Ocean Dome’s wave pool in Miyazaki, Japan; and collages of photos and paintings; this issue of Big is a must-have for collectors of surf history.
 
Good newsstands should carry it, but if you’re having trouble locating a copy, you can get more into at bigmagazine.com –Joel Patterson