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A Beautiful Pandemonium: How Rick Griffin Became the Unlikely Herald of the Psychedelic Revolution
Steve Barilotti provides a biography of iconic surf artist Rick Griffin. This piece follows Rick from his days as a high school student contributing the Murphy comics to Surfer Magazine, to his eventual conversion to Christianity and illustrating the book of John. The path he took was anything but ordinary. He started the mid sixties in art school in Los Angeles, but ended up right in the middle of the psychedelic experiments at the height of the hippie movement in San Francisco. While there he created groundbreaking psychedelic poster art and album covers for the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and many others. He was also a part of the influential Zap Comix founded by R. Crumb. After an apocalypse scare lead him to New York in the late sixties he came back to Southern California and worked with John Severson and Surfer Magazine again, creating the tremendous artwork for Severson’s film Pacific Vibrations.
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UnderCurrents and Liner Notes
Nathan Fletcher and Bruce Irons at bombing Cloudbreak, July 12, 2011. Book reviews: "Ghost Wave" by Chris Dixon on the discovery of Cortes Bank by David J. Morris; "Lost in the Ether" by Andrew Kidman documenting a wide range of shapers; the author has found an interesting substitute to replace the 6-hour drive to the coast to surf, which would be recon paddling down the Thames; attendees gather at Surfilm Festibal 9 to pay homage to the victims of the Thoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan; Curtain Call: Mike Kasic at a Yellowstone River secret spot. Surfing Around: ASR Limited presents its side to TSJ's 20#3 article on artificial surfing reefs by Paul Holmes; Passings: Gordon Duane, Dave Dedrick, Catherine Rosset; Off the Lip with Steve Pezman. Liner Notes: The back story on this issue's Rusty Long's "Barometric Pressure, "The Bicycle Tour," by Kimball Taylor, and "Gods in the Machine," Bali's motorcycle shop/surfboard factory/photo studio/café.
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Dunes of the Anti-Atlas
Crossing a stretch of North African desert seeded with land mines and right points, a traveler falls in with a crew of experienced journeymen, finding that the surf quality leaves nothing to be desired.
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We Never Drive at Night
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Landfall
Dave Parmenter weaves the tale of a young Oahu lifeguard's introduction to humility via his participation in the Molokai Challenge paddle board race. Sentenced to participate in the race after a breach of discipline bred of Oahu summer boredom, lifeguard Willy Powers thrashes his way across the channel, inflating his self-regard. Any cockiness won in the race evaporates after a post-race conversation with his partner's grandfather, a WWII veteran.
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Wajung
Watch Dave Rastovich (and other forms of sea life) on the coast of New South Wales.
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