Sam Larson comes to us from the Pacific Northwest, where the trees are green because it rains a lot. In addition to puddles, there are also beautiful coastlines that all kinds of kooks surf throughout the year. Sam is one of them, but he's also an artist who, like so many of us, takes that passion for the ocean into the art studio (and in this case, his desk at Portland State University). He's...
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HOW TO BUY, STORE AND CARE FOR A WETSUIT WITH SHELBY LINGShelby is an apprentice at Swell Stuff Surf Shop in Leucadia, she's seen suits in every manner of condition. She has kindly offered up these pointers to increase the longevity of your suit, keeping it out of the repair shop and in the water.
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This quiver comes to us from the avocado capital of the United States, or at least California. Manny's got a ways to go to get to the beach, but when he can make it out there, he's got plenty of boards to choose from.
Name: Manny GratzLocation: Fallbrook, Ca.Quiver:32 BoardsStarted in 1968Ranging from a 30’s “kit” paddle board to a mostly 60’s logs. Some nice...
Happy Friday everyone! This one feels like a long time coming and we have a good variety of videos this week to help you celebrate. We'll start off with some crazy new no-handed bike moves that you should totally practice this summer, check in with Kelly Slater on the GMO threat, and then we jump around a bit geographically and aesthetically for some slightly more experimental stuff toward the...
For today's throwback, we're taking a look back at Grant Brittain, legendary skate photographer. Most of the footage takes place in Bucky Lasek's backyard bowl in Encinitas, CA. Interesting side note about Bucky's house: it was featured on MTV's CRIBS in 2005. Skate something today.
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...
Hailing from Encinitas, CA, Shelby Ling is an artist in many mediums, including wetsuit repair. As an apprentice at Swell Stuff Surf Shop in Leucadia, she's seen suits in every manner of condition. Shelby has kindly offered up these pointers to increase the longevity of your suit, keeping it out of the repair shop and in the water.
The care and keeping of wetsuitsAn essential part of most...
Romain Juchereau is an independent filmmaker and photographer from La Rochelle, in southwest France, with a strong love of four things: analog cameras, vinyl records, longboards, and single fins. He has always wished he could have lived his youth in the 60s and 70s, at the heyday of surf culture and filmmaking. After spending time in Noosa, Australia with a 1974 analog camera and a few expired...
Lucy and Craig are artists of very different sorts--Lucy works with textiles and Craig works with wood--but their individual forms of expression come together beautifully in what they call a lifestyle, not a brand. Whatever Artlessliving is, the stuff they make is unique and inspired by their travels through land and sea, throughout New Zealand, from market to market. Working with natural...
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...