A self-taught photographer hailing from San Diego, California, Brooks Sterling's weapon of choice is film. A creative in a number of areas (he designed and coded his current website), the encouragement of his friends (also photographers) James Tull and Russell Spencer prompted him to make photography his primary focus in the past year. And it looks like it's paying off. With a variety of...
By Vanessa Ratjen
Lately, it feels like every time I open my computer I find myself learning about another neat grassroots project I’d like to support. With crowd funding sites growing in popularity, the number of people bypassing traditional means of raising money and going directly to consumers is rising exponentially. Here at Korduroy, they covered a few Kickstarter projects they've...
"Made in prison, inspired by freedom" aptly describes the founding concept of Dutch-based apparel company, Stripes Clothing. The company consists of three founders and one designer living in Rotterdam, all guys in their mid to late 20s who had been looking for a way to fuse their entrepreneurial and creative spirit with a means for spreading awareness of ex-inmates' societal reintegration....
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MAKING IT: SINAI MEJIASHere Sinai shares her insight into discovering and playing with her DIY andhobby-based blog blog and art that she has turned into a budding online business.
Check out her work here: http://www.korduroy.tv/blog/2013/making-it-sinai-mejias
CALIFORNIA FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVEIn this article, French surfers Spoe and Olivier...
Today's roundup expands beyond surfing to explore some pretty interesting DIY energy consumption and production projects and gets back to Josh Oldenburg for some more details on his shaping philosophy. But, like always, we do have plenty of surf film trailers and short clips from of surf travels from around the world. Settle in, stay a while.
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It's officially really hot here in San Diego. Summer has arrived, with counties up and down California preparing for what they predict to be a brutal fire season, and people all over hurting to get into the water. As the sun beats through our ozone-reduced atmosphere, you need to make sure you're taking the proper care of your skin this season. So, for today's Throwback, we're making sure...
Sinai Mejias is from Caracas, Venezuela and now lives on Oz’s Gold Coast. By making surfboard covers and running a DIY and hobby-based blog, she has managed to combine her background with her many loves: friends, family and creating. Her light-hearted outlook has translated into very cheery, colorful products. Here she shares her insight into discovering and playing with the blog and...
As images of California and its surfers continue to flood the pages of the surf media, it's easy to think of the Golden State as the epicenter of the surf lifestyle. Even most travel articles are just exported Californian and Australian perspectives. So we thought it would be interesting to turn the tables to see how another surf culture views California. In this article, French...
When a broken arm took him out of the water, Zak Bush picked up a camera.
"I got obsessed right from the get-go," he says. "I hounded every photographer that I knew for insight, bought books and researched stuff on the internet."
He continued to join in on surf trips with his friends, but now behind the lens. It wasn't long before his talent was recognized and his interest grew into a...
Chris Nelson on what van life used to be
By Natalie Jacobs
Now that there's a van life hashtag, it feels like people are suddenly purchasing campers, gathering their partners, loading up their surfboards and hitting the road for indefinite stretches of time. But the internet has a funny way of making what's old, new again.
It is interesting to note that Volkswagen introduced its first camper...