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Michael Fordham
Created the ‘September book’
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Michael was born in East London in 1968, left school in 1984 and never had a proper job. He started surfing in 1986 whilst living in Queensland during a six year global wander. He returned to London to study anthropology in his mid twenties and became obsessed with war zones, waves and London.
Throughout the nineties he scratched a living by writing about all these things as well as a bunch of other stuff for magazines and newspapers. By the middle of that decade he scored a jumped-up title on the flannel panel at Dazed and Confused, and used that as a magic carpet to take him to places where he could indulge my various obsessions.
In 1999 he launched adrenalin magazine, thereby blagging his way around the world for another six years. In 2002 Michael married Lucy. They were blessed with three children in five years, in the middle of which time they moved to Somerset to live in a tiny village dominated by the Church Wardens and 300 head of cattle.
Whilst his fellow villagers are convinced he is on a Witness Protection Programme, he published The September Project in 2007 and The Book of Surfing: the killer guide to surf culture in 2008. Michael is currently writing a novel set in California in the year 1969, as well as a series of stories about Kosovo and Bosnia, and loads of travel, interviews and other types of hackery.
He is considering going back to study theology.
No, really.
What I'm talking about:
Embracing the beautiful meaningless.
Shameless subjectivity on how embracing the vacuity of surfing and other apparently pointless activities can inspire, create and define a boundlessly fulfilled existence.
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Websites
- Magic Seaweed
- Surf reports, pictures, news - anything surf related is on here
- The worlds most famous search engine
- Youtube
- People recordings
- The Book of Surfing
- Michael Fordham website from the book of surfing
- CUIL
- A new age of search engines
Books
- Collected Fictions
- An adventure into the Argentine writer's cavernous imagination. Thinking is doing!ISBN: 0140286802
- Moby Dick
- A sweeping paean to man's search for meaning in the oceanISBN: 0199535728
- Six Memos for the New Millennium
- Superb apology for the writing lifeISBN: 0099730510
- Walden
- An extended poem on sustainability from America before the fallISBN: 0192839217
- The AA IIlustrated Guide to Britain's Coast
- Every inch of the coastline of these islands documented beautifully and succinctlyISBN: N/A
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