INTRO

It’s an odd issue of a surf magazine where – photo captions aside – the written content has bugger-all to do with surf, surfing, surfers, waves or any of the usual stuff.

Indeed, Horsies’ benevolent overlord Craig Sims was more than a little wary when the idea of “Blue Minded” was put to him, and his response to a few early PDFs of sample spreads was one of restrained alarm. Like, with no literal connection between the content and the imagery, what the actual heck are we making here?

But the Horse has always tried to do things a little differently, and so here we are with “Blue Minded”. It’s an edition with nothing to say about surf, really, but a fair bit to say about existence, consciousness, religion, belief, history, the mind, humanity – basically the things