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Impact Zone
While racing a Venice Beach closeout in 2016, artist Fritz Chesnut—a seasoned surfer raised on the pointbreaks of Santa Barbara—dove…
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Soup Jockeys
In one of his many Instagram clips, Jordan Rodin drops down the face of a head-high, mushy right-hander. He’s a…
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Aesthetics: Barry McGee
Reproduction If there’s a self-portrait in Barry McGee’s new book, Reproduction, it’s the photograph of a van with its rear…
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Portrait of the Surfer as a Young Man
Harry Bryant is cruising in his 78 series Toyota Land Cruiser, only 15 minutes out from my place, when he…
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Surfing the Internet
Try “surfing the internet” for the origins of that once-futuristic, now-antiquated term and you’ll find the first wave of articles…
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Tales from the Picture Stream
The mid-’90s were fat times for dead-tree surf media. Following a dark blip of recession triggered by Bush War I,…
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Evolver
Introduction When Derek Hynd approached us with this installation, we minced no words: “Yes” was a mere formality. We’ve been…
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Amphibious Enduros
The event begins on a September morning with a gathering of about 150 people in a quiet, small cove surrounded…
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The Vee
In the late 1960s, surfboard design was rapidly evolving as shapers and surfers raced away from longboards to shortboards, their…
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Super Magic
Corey Colapinto’s online presence is indicative and revealing of the state of surfing—and its expression in media—as it’s evolving in…
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Island Style
Long before Bernie Baker became the éminence grise of Hawaii’s Triple Crown of Surfing and Leonard Brady served as filmmaker…
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The Steady (R)evolution of Kai Neville
Kai Neville might be nervous. We’re bouncing around Byron Bay in his utilitarian four-wheel drive, looking for a quick surf…