Friday to Sunday, 13-15 November in Falmouth

As well as showcasing Cornish shorts, the festival will include National and international Film past and present, professional workshops and lectures.

Feature Films include the classic Eraserhead, and a south west premiere of Glorious 39 from Stephen Poliakoff, there are a number of short films on offer too, and Board shorts is taking place at the Stannary Bar Tremough for all those interested in UK surf film.

Another cover shot from surftwisted photographer Tony Plant. Taken in the dead of winter on the south coast in freezing temperatures, Tonys commitment to photography from the water paid off. Take a look at the surftwisted web site for more surf photography from around the cornish coast.

This years Screen Actions, is a two day event for young people, combining workshops, screenings and partys, last year saw 300 young people take part from schools all over Cornwall.

Board shorts is the Festival’s board sports film event, held at the Sandsifter Bar in Gwithian on the 8th November. As well as screenings there will be live music from Mark Kermode’s skiffle band The Dodge Brothers and local DJs Sir Vinyl of the Fattest.

This is a great event and although I am unable to make any of the screenings this year, we were fortunate enough to be able to supply some printed organic T shirts, we used water based screen printing inks for all the designs. The designs were created by A-Side a graphic design and illustration studio based in Falmouth Cornwall.

Suftwisted are in the process of a radical change, an interesting site is threatening to emerge from twisted towers in the very near future. The killer site is going to take bevel, emboss and shadow photoshop filters to the next level, no text or photograph will be left untouched.

In depth profiles of team riders can be found at the site already if you are willing to take the time to find them, but no sign of any merchandise for sale so far, the twisted merchandise is becoming very exclusive kit, and as a result the price is being driven sky high.

2011 update: Surtwisted remains in limbo, merch as illusive as ever, Tont Plant currently in Sumatra meditating on what the next incarnation will be. Can’t wait to find out what it is.

You can visit the twisted blog and have a go at name this spot Competitions, which are run on a semi regular basis, or even enter the tri annual shelf fest if you feel up to it. Better still, buy yourself a surftwisted T shirt! If you can figure out a way to purchase the Twisted merch, there is presently no online shop or retail outlet, you will need to track down Tony Plant, and if you are lucky, he will give you a screen printed organic T shirt in return for some cash. Good luck if you choose to pursue this.

A break from T-shirt printing for one moment to congratulate Tony and Troy on a fantastic cover shot. It seems a while ago now but finally some pictures from the Surftwisted Indo trip are starting to emerge. Apparently there was some doubt as to the true nationality of the twisted team rider, the name Troy Sinclair and Tony Plants surreal approach to all things, sparked a search for the supposed ‘Scottish’ surfer in an effort to ensure an authentic british rider was on the cover. More details within the pages of Pit Pilot. As yet this is all unconfirmed babble from Tony Plant, I look forward to a realworld perspective when I buy the magazine.

Despite all the rain, general gloom  and the end of summer things have remained busy, so a the second installment to the epic waterbased articles project goes on hold, and in its place a late arrival outside the workshops, nearly all the sunflowers here are long passed their best, and then out comes this little beauty, and a little blue sky to top it off. Looks like Tony Plant may get the Pit Pilot cover with an Indo shot too, well done Tony and respect to surftwisted. Catch up soon.

T shirt printers loving flowers.

With the current weather and surf situation set to continue a little retail therapy could be required, Empire are creating custom surfboards that take a different path. We like the look of their shorter boards. Designed to produce speed effortlessly and promote powerful and controlled turns, these handcrafted boards look like they will bring new lines to your surfing. All that is required to compliment these creations are waves. Which seem to be a little scarce of late.

Spin bodyboarding have more hoodies printed to meet demand, we love these designs by Nancy Meaney. The bold colours work well and are a pleasure to work with.

Grey skies and no swell to speak of in Cornwall today, there seems to be a mass of blue and yellow boards on the fistral webcam, and they seem to be having a really good time, it is quite tempting to invest in one of those big bouyant bomb proof boards and join them, but a day like this is a perfect oppotunity to catch up on a bit of printing. I will seek out a couple of brightly coloured screen printing jobs and hope for a glimpse of the sunshine tomorrow.

Organic T shirt screen printing

The most thoroughly road tested T shirt of my entire collection, this Surftwisted Organic T Shirt has been in and out of the washing so many times over the last 2 years it is now a very pretty pink colour, the water based print is pretty much as good as the day it was printed. I love these kind of T shirts, it has so many memories attached to it now it may have to be stored away somewhere safe, for revisiting sometime in the future.

Organic T shirt printers

Update 2011: Still wearing this T shirt.

At long last a combination of sunshine, swell and easterly winds, a great bank holiday weekend had to be extended a little to make the most of these conditions. Surf photography by Tony Plant.

Organic Tshirt printers

despite of all its magic, I am sure he is looking forward to some time out of cornish waters. a little sunshine and perfect warm waves. Tony is also road testing the surftwisted polyester retro T shirt in the tropical climate! Who knows, it may even be good enough for public consumption?

Almost certainly the kind of move I will be making this weekend. Photo by Tony Plant Cornwalls hairiest surf photographer.