This week, we have a packed lineup and to get things started we go to Tasmania for a wild ride on Shipsterns. From there, we bounce around a bit to Cape Town for some alaia sliders, over to someone's bedroom for a handplane quickie, over to Oz for an incredibly well-timed short by Kai Neville and so so much more. As usual, get comfortable and stay a while. We won't tell your boss.
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It's time to start thinking about your summer gardens, so for today's Throwback Thursday, we're taking it back to a D-I-WHY NOT? episode where we explore how to start from seed. Grow something!
Amanda Cooper is a California native, an avid board rider, and a vintage clothing/photography fanatic. She has spent more than 10 years as a professional art director and designer and recently founded a vintage clothing & California lifestyle brand, The Sunset Sessions. The Sunset Sessions’ online shop carries California designers’ vintage clothing (including swim and...
For Part 4 of our Surfing the 38th Parallel photo essay series, Shannon Aston tells us about what it's like to try to catch waves in South Korea's eastern coast.
Waves. Get Them While You Can.
Seoul is three long hours from the eastern coast, and the swells, when they arrive, are brief, so timing is everything in Korea. Surfers agonise over daily reports and surf cams to pick the exact...
Anna Ehrgott lives in LA, where there is plenty of ocean but not too many massive waves. With that, her photography is surf-centric, but it focuses less on the biggest turns, sprays and airs, and more on the little moments and bits of peacefulness that surround surfers when they are in the water. When she can swing it, she travels around the California Coast and down to Baja, so she's...
We have another surf film review from a reader we thought you would be interested in. There is talk about this documentary being one of the best, and with cold water surfing gaining the notoriety that we know it is, we can see why this excursion to the North of the Sun has been impressing festival audiences the world over. Here, a KTV reader shares a bit of detail on the film. We've...
Study Hull is an ongoing photo-journal blog series with Maker Kahana Kalama as he test pilots a variety of surf crafts and shares his insights into the mechanics of each board and how they perform. For more of Kahana's daily surf expeditions and more, follow him in Instagram/Twitter - @kahanak
Photos in this set by Wesley Scheler
Some of my first memories of the beach...
Brad Begent is an artist who works in various mediums--meaning he works on what he finds around his studio in Ramona, California. Ramona is pretty far from the ocean, but a lot of Brad's paintings take beautiful and subtle inspiration from the sea. He is also a sculpture artist, making lamps, benches, van roofs (he helped Cy trick out his rig), and whatever else he thinks of, purely based on...
Quiver of the week from Tatsuo Takai. What are you riding? Share with us at showusyourquiver.com
Name: Tatsuo Takei
Location: Carlsbad, California
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We're on a world tour this week to some traditional surf locales, and to some pretty unexpected spots... like a San Francisco dump. Cold-water exploration, an overlooked surf community, sustainable surf events, resourceful handplane-building, legendary surfer biopics, and a non-traditional take to snowsports – web surfing always makes for a fun ride.
A Ferrytale JourneyA few...