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Super 8 Polyester Elixer
I grew up south of cool, which is to say I grew up at the south end of San Onofre,…
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Misadventures In Point Hunting
We stood in silence, gazing up at a muddy chute that led to the top of a headland. It had…
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The Gremmie
“I remember at one point a bunch of us gremmies were at a Bruce Brown movie and when The Beach…
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Revolución Continuó
The old man in aviator shades and revolution-inspired clothing wandered around the plane greeting people in Spanish, telling stories for…
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On The Edge Of A (Fever) Dream
For a filmmaker and renaissance surfer plying his trade in the digital age, Andrew Kidman keeps his cards close to…
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Ad Hoc Assemblages
Charles Adler’s apartment is tucked into a sleepy residential side street in an otherwise nondescript part of Long Beach, an…
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Everything Becomes Something Else
Being on the ground—and especially in the water—anywhere from V-Land to Waimea will put you in direct contact with legendary…
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The Shooter Walks Away
Dan Merkel, the great surf photographer, recently decided he wanted to take photographs of a tree. The palmate maple stands…
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The Venn Diagram of Pop
Alex Israel’s artwork blurs the lines between fine art, superficiality, and appropriations of surf.
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The Billion-Dollar Sketchbook
Animator and surfer Stephen Hillenburg’s brainchild made his debut around a Baja campfire. Knowing the artist’s background, that should come…
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Guardiani del Faro
Our finless traveler communes with the “lighthouse keepers” of surfing authenticity—Italian style. Pulled from TSJ 21.1.
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Extended Subversions
Twenty years after the release of his film The Seedling, which served as a key document of the burgeoning alternative…