1,000 new subscribers by end of December or the plug gets pulled
Without 1,000 new subscribers by the end of the month to fund operations, the Encyclopedia of Surfing and its sister sites, History of Surfing and Above the Roar, will be taken offline.
When Matt Warshaw announced his new websites for HOS and ATR in January, joining EOS to form surf history’s royal triumvirate, the orbit of surf media slowed down. More specifically, it went backwards. Back to surfing’s beginnings, to its continental cross-pollinations. To its heroes, pioneers, and martyrs, figures whose lives were an effort to articulate that ineffable high of riding a wave. The life of a website today is a life of addition — what’s being added to the conversation, what’s now and new. HOS, along with EOS and ATR, reminds us that slowing down in the past, be it in an entry or a chapter, adds to our obsessive surf conversations is ways that going 85 and nine edits deep in the fast lane simply can’t, and never will.
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