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...
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...
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...
In part five of this photo essay series on surfing in South Korea, Shannon Aston explains a bit about the people and customs of this insular community.
Strange Tales from A South Korean Beach
South Korea. Get a room of ex-pats together on the topic and each will tell some amazing, strange and wonderful stories of life on the divided peninsula, all told with a good measures of humour,...
We already know that there is a lot of inspiration to be found in the water and around the surf lifestyle in general. Here at Korduroy, we're interested in how that surf inspiration manifests itself in and out of the water: in artistic ways, community-based ways, environmental ways, health ways. For most of us, it starts and ends in the water. Michael Kew and Jeff McElroy examine that...
We came across this gem while wasting time on Facebook, so, not all hope is lost in the void. The good folks at Grist, an environmental news site with a snarky twist, recently posted details a solar-powered, portable outlet designed by Yanko Design.
It is a circular outlet with a fairly tiny solar grid attached to the back, where the outlet can be suction-cupped to a window. From there, it...
Lindsay Henwood continues to share details about the things she has learned through travels around the world in our ongoing Wandering Education series. Here, she tells us about what she learned in Rwanda, a difficult place filled with unexpected beauty that Westerns could learn a thing or two from.
Wandering Education: Rwanda
By Lindsay Henwood
In 1994, I was in the second grade bringing...
ACID is a new surf mag out of Barcelona. The crew came to surfing by way of skateboarding and hanging out around the Mediterranean, but they are offering a unique perspective with an intellectual bent that they hope will make you want to surf, wherever you are. It's full of photos and laid out with the utmost attention to design, so while you can get the content on the interwebs, it's not the...
Sandra Tinari is a photo journalist who has written off-and-on for us over the years as she travels the world surfing, taking photos, and talking to people. Most recently, she travelled to Dubai, where she discovered the local surf organization Surf Dubai. We know you can surf anywhere there are waves, but it's still amazing to us that surf culture is spreading through the United Arab...
Barbarian is a relatively new band based in San Diego, playing trippy psychedelic surf rock. We caught up with them at a local show a few weeks back and thought they were the kind of people you might like to know. Here we've covered the basics -- from band member names to touring destinations to funding record releases -- with lead singer/guitarist Andrew Mills. If you'd like to know...