Makers

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The Makers are a collection of people who are shaping surf and outdoor culture with their hands. Each is equipped with their own blog and gallery of videos and photos. Many even have their own storefronts. Be sure to check out the Makers Wall to keep abreast with their latest blog posts - it's kind of addicting.

Nick Radford

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Based in Cornwall UK, Nick works as a musician and illustrator under the name Frootful, signed to Freestyle Records and on the books of London illustration agency, Folio. As an illustrator, he’s completed commissions for Google, Vodafone, BBC, Cadbury, Random House, The Guardian, howies and Ubiquity Records amongst others. On the music front, his debut album Colours in 2011 was album of the week on Jazz FM and has had airplay worldwide. He also plays with the Lack of Afro live band, who have done live sessions for BBC6 Music’s Craig Charles Funk and Soul...
Hank Johnson

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I'm a long time Swami's surf rat. I've made a lot of my own equipment over the years. It was a challenge, a bit of a mess but aways fun to try and create that perfect shape. For the past 10 years my quest for the perfect shape has led me into making custom ukuleles and guitars. For me, making musical instruments has been a gratifying transition from making those toys for play in the ocean to toys for play in the waves of music. This is my Aloha.
Andrew Jacob

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Andrew Jacob is a New England based surfer & artist. He prides himself as an all around waterman drawing inspiration from surfings stylists of yore. His artistic path has made dramatic turns over the years, with it's origins born in city streets, it now gives way to sleepy forest trails & beach ways. In recent years Andrew has been traveling the Earth in search of waves and sharing his artwork & stoke. His art has hung on gallery walls with some of the worlds leading contemporary artists as much as it has on bathroom stalls and passing freight trains. MM

"New England's...
Ryan Lovelace

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Ryan Lovelace has been shaping his surfcraft-fantasies since his first foray into foam and resin in 2005. Twenty Five years old and based around the painstakingly beautiful point breaks of Santa Barbara, he has developed a knack for building boards that tap into a speed and flow that is unique and buttery smooth. Starting and building the now defunct Point Concept Surfboards gave Ryan pounds of experience in hand shaping and glassing all of his own work, which is now continued in his own line: Surf | Craft. Ryan has been building a reputation as a unique and subtle...
Oj Newcomb & Shannon Sol Carroll

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Welcome to our Makers page. We are sonic artists inspired by diverse music from around the globe. We live a life dedicated to making sound waves and go about crafting our inspirations into performances and recordings, some of which are represented via our independent hub, Low Pressure Productions. Most sounds, however, were never recorded and briefly drifted past the ears of those present before trailing off beyond into nothingness. As is the way. Shannon Sol Carroll [Songwriter / Musician / Producer / DJ] Creative Director of Low Pressure...
Adrian Knott

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Adrian is an Australian Artist / illustrator / designer & shaper.

He has spent the last 2 decades working for some of the largest surf companies both in house & as freelance artist. After becoming dissatisfied with the generic surf mould he has chosen his own path & now spends his days working on his own surf company Rake Surfboards which specialises in alternate foam craft & clothing. Born from his passion of all things different adrian began making his own boards in his backyard shed as he couldn't find boards he wanted to ride in...
Jaimal Yogis

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JAIMAL YOGIS became obsessed with the ocean when his father, an Air Force Colonel and surfer, was stationed on the Azorean islands. When the family moved to Sacramento, Jaimal ran away to Hawaii to begin surfing around the globe. His first decade of adventures – from Buddhist monasteries to snow-covered beaches – is the subject of Saltwater Buddha, a memoir currently being adapted into film. Jaimal is also a journalist and children's book writer, his work appearing in ESPN Magazine, The Washington Post, The Surfers Journal, Afar, Surfer and many others. Jaimal’s next...
SPOE

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graphik designer / art manager / painter / photographer

Lives, works, surf in Biarritz . FR .

involved in art & surf culture & graduated of Art School in 2002 SPOE split his time between graphik- design, photography, paintings, shaping & surfing.follow his work on : www.spoe-art.comcreation & capture is the main line.
Nick LaVecchia

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I grew up in New Jersey skating and snowboarding the backyard hills with my brothers and friends. Started venturing to Vermont on the weekends, where snowboarding took over my life for a good 15 years. I snowboarded my way through college, and along the way, had my dad's trusty AE-1 with me at all times. Shooting and developing as much as I could afford. I luckily landed an internship doing graphic design for Burton in Burlington Vt. 8 years of desk time later my brother Mike and I packed up and moved to the coast of Southern Maine. 6 years later and here we are. I'm currently...
JULIE RAIS ELLIS

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Born and raised just north of Cincinnati, Ohio, Julie now lives in Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California.

Her first surfing experience was at age 20 on a trip to Oz. She felt and immediate connection to surfing which lead her to move to California. Now 10 years later she is married Grant Ellis, who both surfs and works in the surfing industry, it is needless to say that ocean has played an important role in Julie's day to day life. She teaches full time at Canyon Crest Academy, as a digital arts teacher. And in 2010 she started her own business, called Rais Case, where she...
Maggie Marsek

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I am a freelance Photographer and Artist living in Leucadia, California. I grew up in Wisconsin, nowhere near the surf, and now find myself submerged in culture of Surfing so I am embracing it. I primarily shoot film, capturing the life of surfers in and around the ocean.
Sandra Tinari

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I like to tell stories. With words and pictures. As a freelance photojournalist, inquisitive surfer and traveller, I'm drawn to the documentary power of the camera and the written word, and my work is infused with a love of nature and the road less travelled.

Born in Western Australia, I studied photojournalism at university in Perth and more recently at the University of Arts - London College of Fashion. As a stoked 20-year-old I had my first features published in Australia Surfing Life’s Chick Magazine (a supplement and then standalone women’s surf...
Billy Smith

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A California native currently living in San Francisco. His years of dedicated, full-time work with Patagonia's wetsuit design and development team can be found along a coastline near you keeping surfers and watermen warm and happy in all types of conditions. After hours, he takes refuge in the garage tinkering with different Sporting-Sail concepts in pursuit to "reinvent the descent." His recent works have captured the imaginations of creative professionals worldwide and have been featured in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The...
Heidi Redlitz

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Whether she’s living near the ocean or venturing far from it, Heidi’s adapted to her life the fundamental advice her dad gave years ago: Paddle hard, and never let a wipeout keep you down. Since returning home to San Diego, she’s ecstatic to stand behind Korduroy as the means for inspired DIY-ers like you to exchange brilliant ideas.
Cyrus Sutton

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The son of professors, I skipped college to pursue an early career of professional surfing. At 20, an injury placed me on the other side of the lens making his first surf film Riding Waves. Shorty after my 30th birthday I sublet my place in Encinitas, California and moved back into my van where you'll find me hounding for waves and taking photos.
Jay Nelson

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I built my first treehouse on the big Island of Hawaii in 2002. After finishing the treehouse I returned to San Francisco for an art show, instead of just showing the paintings that I had made in Hawaii I decided to recreate my Hawaii treehouse in the gallery and hang the paintings below the treehouse. I used materials that could be found within walking distance of the gallery in the same way that I used local readily available materials in hawaii. Soon after that I began working on building out the interior of the soon to be mollusk surfshop with owner John McCambrige. Over the next...
Skye Walker

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I am an artist- that is all I know and it's all I've ever wanted to do. I am always striving to evolve as an artist and keep up with a world that is changing at an ever increasing rate, which has lead me to graphic design and film making, both of which are incredibly fun and inspiring.

Some people say you are either a designer or a painter or a film maker. I like doing them all, so I'll continue to be as creative as I can in all realms.

I graduated from Oregon State University in 2001 with a BFA in Graphic Design and a focus on Fine Arts. As soon as I graduated, I headed down to Encinitas...
John Wesley Surfboards

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Based out of California, my boards are collaborations of ideas from past and present inspirations, test pilots, and theories in board design. Put through the paces by friends from unique corners of the world, developed in shaping bays and surfboard factories on several continents all to deliver boards for surfing everyday. As always each board is specifically handshaped & customs are encouraged continuing the evolutionary process.
Ryan Thomas

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Ryan Thomas spent much of the ’90s drifting back and forth between his native Southern California as a freelance artist in the surf industry, and extended escapes to Northern Cal for the study of marine biology. In 1998 he picked up a super-8mm film camera from surf cinematographer, Greg Weaver (Forgotten Island of Santosha, Stylemasters), and soon finished the mysto road/art/surf film Scratch Miscellaneous (2000). He graduated from Art Center College of Design in 2001, and since then has directed surf films such as The Bruce Movie (2005) while becoming a key creative at...
Seth Pettersen

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Seth Pettersen was born and raised in Ventura County California. He started writing songs at the age of 14. As a live performer, Seth has toured North America, Central America and parts of Europe. Seth has shared the stage with the likes of Feist, Kings of Convenience, Violent Femmes, Donavon Frankenreiter, Little Wings, and Frank Black to name a few.

Seth is always changing the format of his live shows, from completely solo (accompanied by loopers and effects) to a full blistering rock set with his backing band known as "the Undertow". Each show is a unique experience.

As of 2012 Seth is...
Erik Derman

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Born and raised surfing the beaches of San Diego county, Erik developed a few eyes for photography and filmmaking. In 2004, he graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and returned to San Diego, Since then Erik found the Korduroy crew and has been honing his skills and furthering his camera/edit talents to bring thoughtful documents of interesting humans.
Branden Aroyan

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Born in Michigan, USA and raised in Southern California, Branden Aroyan has traveled extensively. After graduating from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, his passion for photography has carried him regularly from the beaten path to many exotic locations and helped foster an appreciation for our small planet and its inhabitants.

In addition to group and solo art exhibitions, Aroyan’s work includes advertising and editorial work for environmentally minded companies and projects. The driving force behind his own organic clothing line Low Tide Rising is founded in his appreciation and...
Micah Wood

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Most people know Micah Wood for his great surfing and the beautiful boards he crafts for Wood Custom Surfboards, the company he started in 2007. But what many don’t know is that underneath that thick beard, lies one very talented artist. Never one to follow trends, Micah’s art mirrors the passion and creativity he brings to surfing and shaping, and it’s no surprise that his fine art blends his love for the ocean with the high standards of quality and aesthetics for which he’s known.
Kevin Roche

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Kevin Roche is a portrait, lifestyle, and travel photographer based in San Diego, California. With an emphasis on beach culture and the coastal lifestyle, Kevin brings the best of Southern California to editorial and advertising clients worldwide. His style, characterized by clean and vibrant imagery, is uniquely influenced by the tropics and Southern California. Kevin holds a BA in Visual Arts from the University of California, at San Diego. He lives in Encinitas California with his wife, artist Susan Wickstrand, and their daughter. A partial list of clients include, Qualcomm,...
Ed Lewis & Kipp Denslow

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Enjoy Handplanes was created by Ed Lewis and Kipp Denslow as a way to have fun, call playing in the water and tinkering in the garage work, and save tons of broken surfboards, old wetsuits and production waste from going to the trash. Their mission is to reuse everything they can get ther hands on and make products that are ridiculously fun to use and environmentally responsible.

All Enjoy Handplanes are made with either old foam from broken boards or ruined blanks from manufacturing and neoprene from used wetsuits to make the handles. How cool is that? Each...
Daniel "Tomo" Thomson

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Resides: San Diego California / Lennox Head Australia.

Occupation: Professional Surfer / Surfboard Designer / Shaper.

Mission: To create the most advanced high performance surf crafts ever built.

“For me, it’s all about top end speed. The more speed I can generate; the more radical my performance potential becomes”.

TOMO surfboards are an extension of a surfers body. A mind surfing experience…. Just pick your lines, and the board does the rest. Almost, like you can forget about a board beneath your feet altogether and just interact with the energy in...
Mat Desaphie

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Mat Desaphie is a french surfer-designer. When he turned 19 years old, december 1999, tired of seeing other surfing companies following all the same majors plan, he created his own label Sen No Sen.With friends, they organize contests, parties, concerts, shows, produce videos and t-shirts far from the surf business keeping intact their passion for surfing. In 2005, they open a first store where people can find Sen No Sen products beside selected brands of shoes, apparel and gear. Season after season, the French brand makes fine garments, quality made (made in France,...
Mark Leary

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Working as a photographer for the last eleven years, Mark predominantly shoots on a 10x8 or a 5x4 plate camera for all of his personal work and most of his commissioned work. He was known for shooting 'nothing' - just the corners of rooms, plug sockets and dangly wires - but a few years ago decided to get some fresh air and step outside with his camera.

He has surfed since he was a child and it's the only thing, along with photography and cycling, that has kept his interest for all of his adult life. Because of that he recently completed his second book, 'SALT+WAX', which is on the everyday...
Mike LaVecchia & Brad Anderson

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Brad and Mike head up a collective of craftsmen located in York, Maine where they build surfboards, hold classes, and try to think of new ways to reduce the environmental impacts of building surf-craft. They are the first to credit the great team of friends who collectively make Grain go. "It's the dedication and spirit of all Grain's people that really make it what it is" says Mike.

Mike founded Grain in his basement after the closure of Clark Foam for environmental reasons caused the Associated Press to write Mike into a worldwide side-bar blurb about alternatives to foam. ...
Jack Belli

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Jack Belli is a photogrpaher/ filmaker out of Orange County.
Riley Blakeway

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"Obsessive, critical, self-deprecating stickler for details."

Riley grew up with a father in Oz and a mother in Cali. He dropped out of high school hell-bent on learning the craft of filmmaking. After a brief stint in University for graphic design he ventured off on his own to create his first surf film "Spectrum" starring Andrew Doheny and Ford Archibald. Now at 22 years old he making clips for surf and skate industry big boys and traveling around the world. Riley's work has a sparce, modern feel mixed with a penchant towards gritty music and rich edits.
Dustin Miller

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Dustin Miller is a husband, dad, and amatuer bass fisherman. He is also a filmmaker who's worked with Marine Layer, Rolling Stone, Spin, MTV, Alt Press, Men's Health, Baron Wells, ESPN Surf, World Pro Surfers, Getty Images, Dalton Agency (McDonalds, Bealls, Jacksonville Jags), Quiksilver, FUEL TV, and BCBS of Florida. He directed the film "Thills, Spills and Whatnot" about the surfing of Dane Reynolds and was the director of photographer and editor of Mikey DeTemple's "Picaresque."
Kristyan Stjerne

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Born and raised in Southern California, Krystyan Stjerne has been making art sice he was two years old. After leaving the Art Institue of San Francisco to study yoga full time, he has been globe trotting, sculpting peoples bodies and minds, as well as painting up a storm. Nowadays, you can find Kristyan sliding in the surf on his little space ships and painting dots whenever and wherever his spirit moves him.
Nick Allen

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Captivated by the power, colors, and textures of the ocean since I was a child, I first started photographing waves as an art student at Humboldt State University in Northern California in the early 90s. I used analog cameras and felt my way through the darkroom, learning the basics of traditional photography while exploring the remote beaches of Northern California and the lower Pacific Northwest.

I continued my education at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, where I studied commercial photography—portraiture, studio lighting and digital imaging. Bringing my...
Todd Glaser

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With a young career as professional bodyboarder, Todd took a break from his travels to attend Brooks Institute in photography. Upon graduating, he promptly won the Follow the Light award for his photographic excellence and joined Surfer Magazine's premiere stable of staff photographers. Today he travels the world consistently nailing stunning imagery with surfing's most stylish riders.
Jamie Brisick

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Jamie Brisick is a writer, photographer, and director. He surfed on the ASP world tour from 1986 to 1991, and has since documented surf culture extensively. His books include We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations and Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow. His writings and photographs have appeared in The Surfer’s Journal, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He was the editor of Surfing magazine from 1998-2000. In 1981 he surrendered his virginity to a brown-skinned eighteen-year-old in a dinghy hotel room in Cayucos, California. Blue...
Matt Adams

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"We discovered this lo-fi unsigned band - which somehow evokes Belle and Sebastian, Pavement, and the Black Keys - in a San Fran coffeehouse (just like the old days.) Quick, somebody sign them!" -ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

THE BLANK TAPES is the monicker of LA/SF based multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Matt Adams, who has produced 7 albums of "winsome pop tunes" (OC WEEKLY) & "Kinks-plus-Creedence roots-rock ‘n’ roll" (LA RECORD) recorded almost entirely by himself on an 8 track cassette tape recorder in garages, basements & sheds across the coast. There...
Dougie Mann and Ian URT

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Amanda Chinchelli Greer

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Amanda Chinchelli connected with the ocean early on. Growing up on the island of Ilhabela, Brazil, Amanda played in the surf of the tropics until she was ten, when her family moved back to Italy, their native country. Reunited with her grandmother, Amanda learned to crochet and sew, and soon developed an interest in fashion and passion for design, which would serve as the basis for her career.

In her adult life, Amanda eventually made her way Stateside and settled on the West Coast of California, near the ocean and the waves. An avid surfer, Amanda spent as much time in...
Nat Lanyon

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I'm based out of Queensland, Australia. I work for Rhythm Clothing with the Sound of Change webisodes, I have also done some freelance work for Electric, Volcom, Armourdillo etc... Filming surfing can be a great thing, I love to make either super fun or emotive edits. I try to bring something a little fresh to my style of surf filming, at the same time though trying not to make it something more than it is, its just surfing afterall!

I also shoot photographically for a fashion blogger & various small boutique labels. I love to shoot people & I believe that fashion photography...
Michael Kew

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A native Californian, Michael Kew is a freelance writer, photographer, and filmmaker who began producing media when he was 12. In the 25 years since, Kew has been published extensively in many surfing and international travel magazines, newspapers, websites, films, and books. He has just released "Crossings," a compliation of travel tales from 2001 to 2011, and "Triptych,"his first full-length surfing film.
Christine Brailsford

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Christine Brailsford is an illustrator, designer, sculpture, and surfer living in North County, San Diego, California. A graduate of The Laguna College of Art & Design (BFA with honors in Illustration), she studied the art of children's books. She continually explores new innovative designs and mediums.

Christine's work is inspired by her imagination, personal experiences, love of nature and living things. She is mostly known for her ornate wood carvings and whimsical pen and ink drawings. Currently, she is shaping handplanes for bodysurfing and paipo/bellyboards.
Carlos Santana

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To start off, I am 22 years old and grew up in Stanton, California. I didn’t see the ocean till I was about 7 years old and the first time my parents barely let me set my feet in the water. I grew up riding skateboards, playing baseball, and taking trips to Huntington Beach about once a month to slide around on my boogieboard that my parents bought me at a swap meet. I stumbled up photography through a friend letting me take some photos with his camera around early 2008.
Steve Pendarvis

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Born and raised in San Diego, Steve began building wave-riding vehicles, beginning with a marine ply paipo in 1965, and then shaping surfboards in the late 1960s. Throughout his life, as a designer and board builder, a highlight has always been tinkering and innovating. He shapes and hand-crafts each board and is known for his Pendoflex high speed torque tail designs.
Julie Goldstein

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Julie’s art practice draws inspiration from the natural environment, the sea, urban culture, and experiences from her travels. In multimedia works on paper and fabric, she mixes lithographic and woodcut printmaking techniques with sewing, embroidery, and other traditional “women’s arts”—the result is a hybrid, contemporary style with urban motifs and lively depictions of friends and family. She has exhibited widely nationally and internationally since 1998, including solo exhibitions in 2011 at Gallery 1063 in Surf City, New Jersey, 2010 at Pacific Surf...
Mick Waters

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'From Day One, Mick's surfing life has been about bold journeys. Journeys fired by his infatuation with surfing and it's surroundings.' - Andrew Kidman
Corey Smith

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Corey Smith is a painter, sculptor and photographer from Portland, OR, who currently resides in downtown Los Angeles, CA. He has been exhibiting his work in galleries all over the US for over ten years. Smith has been featured in countless print magazines and online sources.Smith’s high-gloss, ultra-flat paintings capture the joys of plasticity and pre-fab environments, celebrity as the ultimate blank canvas, and the absurd hyperboles of modern leisure. But rather than repackage the manufactured world into an aestheticized form–a la post-Warholian Pop–Smith favors a...
Oskar Lindholm

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"Oskar Lindholm is an artist out of Stockholm, Sweden who works as a graphic designer doing a variety of projects including fashion/clothing design, print designs and film/animation. After being introduced to surfing in the early 90's during a blizzard in Sweden, he quickly fell in love with the sport and has used it as an inspiration for his life's work. It's not too often you hear of surfers from Sweden, let alone a creative like this guy..." from Korduroy artist interviewThe past few years I have been trying to work more with surf and art related projects and call Sydneys nothern beaches...
Jack Coleman

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Jack Coleman is 1 of 9 children, born on October 25, 1973 in Southern California. He studied photography and film at The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from 2007-2009. Jack currently lives close to the waves in Newport Beach, Ca. This is where he makes his photographs and films focusing around the surf and those who live in it. The Inspiration for the work is drawn from that - the life of tides, swells, light, and weather. He describes his photography and films as "senseless conceptualism - a way of bringing ideas and life into a moment for art. Fun."...
Kevin Cunningham

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I make functional art — art that is designed to get wet.

Not the functional art of a chair designed to rest comfortably in a living room and not the precious commodity of stainless silverware on a dining room table, but functional art that rides the waves and carries a passenger. And as a designer and an artist I feel the need to make this art have meaning, aesthetic beauty and sustainability.

Surfers traditionally respect the ocean and environment and actively work to protect it, yet we ride surfboards that are made from highly toxic materials that are a hazard to both the...
Ciro Bicudo

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``Ciro Bicudo is a brazilian graphic artists that creating art that captures the soul instantaneously ,his vibrant, saturated colors and attention to detail are something not really of the typical surfart realm currently. Ciro is a fine-artist that dabbles with everything; from paint pens to acrylics to ink & paper to crafting wood, and of course painting boards. His work is very nice and beautiful. Full of nature and soul. His inspiration comes from the streets, from the surf and from the skateboard. All mixed and full of grace that brings us a good...
Andrew Gough

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From city to sea, Brisbane born surf photographer and filmaker Andrew Gough has started into the surfing scene shooting and editing some interesting and organic shots of the ocean and the men who dwell within it. At the age of 18 Andy's work demonstrates that playing with cameras at a very early age pays off.

Now studying Journalism and Film at University,Andy balances his time between working at Queensland based surf company Ayto and filming and surfing the sea. His unique style and approach to surf cinematography has earned him the opportunities to work with such cool cats as Chris...
Jim Newitt

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Founded in 2009 by British-born designer Jim Newitt, 'Point Never' is an independent graphic design studio and small publisher, based in Northern California. Design services encompass art direction, book design, editorial and digital projects. From the outset the studio has combined varied commissions with personal projects, including a self-published fanzine titled, Point Never (2009 – 11), containing artworks, graphics and writings, serving as a developing manifesto.

In 2012, Point Never will begin publishing limited artist editions devoted to the culture(s) of Surfing: The...
Joe Curren

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Joe Curren is a photographer, writer, surfer and Patagonia brand ambassador based in California. He is also a designer, woodworker, shaper and an art framer.
Jeff Yokoyama

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Yoki (Jeff Yokoyama) is a twenty-five year veteran designer and creative entrepreneur who has spent his entire career dreaming up and creating youth-focused clothing brands.

The companies he has personally hand-crafted over the years have each come to represent marked changes in his industry and clear trends in fashion. Jeff got his start in the industry as a 24 year old Southern California kid with a vision for a youth oriented surf brand that would push the boundaries of surf and fashion.
Mike McCarthy

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Australian singer/songwriter, Mike McCarthy, has contributed music to films such as Stoked & Broke, Seaworthy, Lines from a Poem and Alaska Sessions.

Now with five albums, an EP, and a new album due for release in May 2012, he continues to tour in support of his music.

When not on tour, Mike can be found on the NSW Central Coast, surfing, fishing, teaching guitar or messing about in his home studio.

“McCarthy continues to imbue his sound with original brushstrokes. Without locking him in to a category, Mike's style is rooted deeply in blues-folk.” (Nathan...
Aaron Bravo

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Aaron grew up in Ramona, CA, a small mountain town north of San Diego. Upon meeting him, that might surprise you since he appears to be a natural in the world of surf and skate. Living in Encinitas for the past 8 years has provided him with his many inspirations. His first was painting; you may know his artwork under the name “Chivo”. His most recent creation is called “Seapod”, designing custom hand plane bags. While he may work in accounting at Nixon Inc. for his day job, you will find him after hours working in his garage, continuing to teach...
Alyssa Duhe

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Alyssa Duhe is a graphic designing non-stop doodler who believes in the power of a smile. Her passions are art, skateboarding and saving the environment one step at a time. She spends most of her time laughing, climbing trees and exploring the beautiful earth and taking in all its goodness.
William Sager

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William Sager’s fine art background, graphic design career and passion as a surfer bring a unique perspective to the art world. Through the combination of multiple mediums, including painting, illustration and vintage photography, Sager develops complex layers that give his work depth and a timeless feel. He currently resides in Southern California, where he has spent the last decade producing engaging designs for clients including Adidas, American Eagle Outfitters, Diageo, Starbucks and Yamaha.
Danny Hess

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Danny is a California native who started shaping as a teen and has refined a unique approach to building surfboards. Focusing on local and sustainably harvest materials, Danny has been blazing the trail for environmentally conscious surfboards for years now using his refined woodworking techniques. An all-round waterman, hess is also an avid bodysurf, his handplanes are a large part of why bodysurfing has become so in vogue lately. Danny can be found on any given day shaping and surfing around Ocean Beach, San Francisco quietly pushing the boundries of surfing innovation with his humble...
Ben Weiland

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Lately I've been traveling and working on some creative projects that include graphic design, writing, illustration, and music. I also have a blog called Arctic Surf Blog. It's about surfing in the coldest and most remote places in the world. Thanks for viewing my profile!
Maddie Joyce

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I’ve always had a massive appreciation for the ocean, the way it's constanly changing, adorning our coastlines with wildlife and unimaginable beauty. Drawing for me, is a way to express my inner child without getting weird looks. It keeps me positive and my mind healthy, it’s definitely feel-good food for the soul. There is so much art in surfing and the lifestyle that surrounds it, from the sport itself to the adventure, which ultimately go hand in hand. It’s where my heart is and the pen just follows.
Mark Marchesi

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Mark is a photographer and craftsman based in the historic New England harbor town of South Portland, Maine. Where the water is cold, the fog horns blow, the oil tankers hum, and sometimes we get waves...
Andrew Schoener

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Currently living in Santa Barbara,CA.
Ryan Burch

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While most guys his age are either frothing on the cutting edge of thruster performance or groping at surfing's roots cross-steping in beavertails, Burch is taking his own middle path. He's teaching himself piece by piece how surfboards move through the water by shaping and mastering every kind of board imaginable. He started by shaping alaias a couple summer's back, then got into shaping logs and gliders, next he moved on to Simmon's style planing hulls and finless pieces of foam. Recently he's been experimenting with more and more refined asymmetrical surfboards and he's pushing the...
James Bowden

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A photographer, surfer and aspiring vagabond. I make photos of the places I go to, and the things I see.

Sometimes nice people pay me to do this but otherwise I do it out of my own pocket and make zines and blogs from my experiences.

b. 1984, Devon, England. Now residing in Tasmania, Australia.
Chris Nelson

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Chris Nelson is a writer, author and Event Director of the London Surf / Film Festival. He cut his teeth surfing the unforgiving reefs of England’s northeast coast in the late 80’s where ice-cream headaches, leaky neoprene and pollution filled line-ups kept a small local crew on first name terms. The hook was set and he has been scouring the globe for empty, frigid waves ever since. His latest book Cold Water Souls: In Search of Surfing’s Cold Water Pioneers took him on a 3 year journey to the planet’s most inhospitable outposts, seeking out those hardy waveriders...
Ian Durkin

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My name is Ian Durkin. I live in Brooklyn, New York and work for the website, Vimeo. Outside of work I enjoy going fast through the streets on my bicycle and skateboard as well as riding the rails on the subway to surf. I do my best to keep a camera handy so that I can share my stories and remember.
Johnny Abegg

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I just turned 32. Feel more relaxed about life.

Maybe it's because I've learned a few things. I don't feel like getting loose or searching like I did in my 20's. Happy and content mostly in Byron Bay. Have a wonderful fiance, surf and grow lettuce, tomatoes and potatoes.

Lived in Tasmania before I was 15. Boots, gloves, Gath helmet were the norm. Loved it. Made me feel alive surfing those waves.

I lived in Nelsons Bay before I was 4, near Newcastle in Australia. I don't remember much except I didn't know how to talk properly and made a lot more mistakes than I do now.

Born in Waratah. I...
John Eldridge

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John is a multi-faceted artist and surfer from Cornwall, UK. His roots are planted in the UK yet his heart and mind have wandered further afield drawing his attention to the international surf/art scene. He has contributed to many publications as well as hosted various exhibitons both surf and non surf related. He has also produced and collaborated in various independent lo-fi and no-budget film projects including Across the Sea Sideways, Without Thought and the upcoming SINK SWIM fictional piece, a collaboration with partner in crime Mathilda Friström under the karmakaze guise. John...
Jeremy Rumas

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I'm from an area that's just called the region, Northwest Indiana, in the shadows of Chicago on the south end of Lake Michigan. The shoreline here is a mixture of sand dunes and steel mills as big as cities. It's a unique juxtaposition of natural beauty and something else entirely.

Living in Chicago at the age of 24, it hit me like a train, what on earth was I doing with my life? I felt like I had grown up quicker than expected. I decided to buy a longboard and head to Samoa and learn how to surf.

After that experience I decided I wanted to make a surf film. Eight years later and I'm...
Kyle Lightner

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I've been on a hiatus/break for the past 8+ months to return to a broken camera, busted frame advancer, & broken built-in loup- on three seperate bodies; This should be interesting... stick around for the ride.
Erik Maki

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Maki Longboards is a surf-skate company that brings together the creative interests, skills, and passions of Erik Maki.

Growing up in San Francisco, Erik spent countless hours in his grandfather's shop exploring the various uses of the hand tools and machinery from a bygone era. A true jack-of-all trades, "Grandpa Lou" has served as a source of inspiration and constant role model throughout Erik's life. Under his tutelage, Maki learned at an early age the value of quality craftsmanship and the rewarding feeling of a job well done.

In college at the University of California - San Diego, Erik...
Dave Allee

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Almond is a collaborative effort of friends who enjoy making things the old fashioned way. Every surfboard is hand shaped. So are the custom, hand-foiled wooden ﬁns we glass onto nearly every board we build.

We make our trunks, tees, and an assortment of other products, right here in California. This is the place we love, so we ﬁgure we should make the stuff we love here too. Come visit us at 367 Old Newport Blvd. Newport Beach, California; and see what we’ve been up to lately.

Thanks for all the inspiration and support. It means the world to us.
Nathan Oldfield

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Nathan Oldfield is a maverick, a filmmaker who wants a surf movie to say something important, to move us and make us grateful for the sea around us and the life within us. His films are quiet, beautiful and brimming with sacred purpose.

TIM WINTON, Award-winning Australian Novelist

Nathan Oldfield is a husband / father / surfer / shaper / photographer / filmmaker / school teacher / sea gazer from the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. He is interested in beautiful things & making stuff. Nathan has made two feature length surf films called...
Sean Tully

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A second-generation surfer with regard to traditional surfing aesthetic, Sean surfed professionally and has been featured in various publications such as Surfer, Surfer’s Path, and Surfer’s Journal. His travels have included North America, Central America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

As an artist, Sean has achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His practice emphasizes an exchange between painting, photography, object making and writing. The work is emotionally charged contemporary art, engaging influence from various...
Andrew Crockett

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Classic surfing with an Australian bent.

Two award winning coffee table books later, switch-foot.com is a go-to place for classic surfing images from the golden era of surfing.

Connect to crew like;

Dick Hoole, Albert Falzon, George Greenough, Peter Crawford, Cooper....it is a long list

Andrew Crockett runs this space and often interviews surfers/friends/bands and often uploads photos and short videos from Australia.
Yuta Koide

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A self-taught craftsman who makes skateboards and surfboards under Shakastics label in his little garage.

Specializing in building 60's-70's style solid wood skateboards.
Clare & Fran

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Hi! We are Cos We Can (Fran Derham & Clare Plueckhahn) - a team of content creators intent on telling stories through words, stills and film. While we both create and produce we have our specialties; Clare takes a mean photo and DOP’s all of our shorts while I (Fran) write and manage each project. We are our own people but we have the same taste in almost everything. We like really strong coffee with no sugar, surfing, snow and showing people who tell us we can't that we can. In 2012 we're doing a series of three surfing shorts for action sports online TV channel Inspired, while...
Ed Sloane

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Ed has been taking pictures of the Southern Ocean since he was able to walk, he just didn’t know it until he turned 25. With a professional background in environmental science the past five years has seen him monitoring the rivers and catchments surrounding the iconic Great Ocean Road, Bells Beach and beyond. The many hours spent working in the Victorian rainforest and coastal hinterlands sparked an early interest in photography that quickly led to a union with the surf and it was at this juncture he dived in.

His quickly growing body of work portrays an honest picture of the...
Jeremy Asher Lynch

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Born on a chicken farm in Hebron, Maryland, he has migrated between Alaska, California and Florida. Jeremy began creating skate videos and short films when he was just eight. Film school graduate. Self-taught artist with showings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Barcelona, and London.

Jeremy now resides in Santa Monica, California, working as a Commercial Director by day and an Artist by night.
Grant Ellis

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I am from Amanzimtoti, South Africa. I have been working as a photographer for the past 18 years. I started out studying commercial photography and right away I began shooting black and white fashion photography for Gotcha and MCD, which progressed into my career as a surf photographer.

I have surfed since the age of 8 so surf photography was a natural choice for me to combine my two passions in life surfing and photography. I have worked as the Photo Editor of Surfer Magazine for the past 9 years, and I am inspired daily by the great surf photographers and surfers I get to work with. I...
Rob Kulisek

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Rob Kulisek is self-taught photographer who has studied under numerous artists and photograpers, including Taryn Simon. He splits his time between NYC and Ocean City NJ working on personal and commercial work. Rob's pictures are inspired by the 50's and 60's beach cultures that he grew up fascinated with. Recent shows include work at Danzinger Projects, Nike Bowery Stadium, Saturdays Surf Shop and Saatchi & Saatchi.
Luke Taaffe

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Born in Wamberal on Australia's Central Coast, Luke Taaffe developed a desire for colour, art & design from his mothers batik collection & a fixation towards late 80's surf & skate graphics. After finishing his studies in Graphic Design & Visual Arts, Luke went on to work for a variety of surf companies until he somehow found his niche creating yardage prints & art for girls/womens label Roxy. His personal artworks reflect a respect for the ocean, landscape & a passion for vintage clothing prints so he can be often be found scouring flea markets or rubbish tips for...
Derek Dunfee

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Derek Dunfee:

29 years old from La Jolla, California

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Chris Burkard

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I am 24 years old and live in the small town of Pismo Beach, California. I have served as a freelance photographer for various publications and a staff photographer for Surfer magazine and Surfline.com. My passion for photography came about when I picked up a camera at a goodwill auction five years ago. I have always aimed to document the lifestyle of the sport more than the action, also focusing on the pulled back perspective to give the viewer a feeling like they are in the moment.

My inspiration comes from landscape photography and unique lighting situations. i have always tried to...
Tim Stamps

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“We’re the real deal from start to finish. No smoke, no mirrors, no slick marketing campaign; just foam dust, resin and salt water-that’s what’s running through my veins. It’s about making the best performing, highest quality surfboard possible.”-Tim Stamps
Meredith Ambruso

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MEREDITH AMBRUSO. A freelance artist, art show curator, nanny, co-founder of the non-profit, Milk&Honey-Providing Hope for India and surfer of the ocean blue in southern California. Growing up she was afraid of just about everything, but the ocean. Her dad taught her how to surf at nine years old on a very large and very heavy 1965, Chuck Dent longboard. There at Ray Bay, California she fell in love with surfing.

Growing up with a family that was half (very) itallian and the other half that was (very) western made for a great balance of learning many different forms of art. She was...
Jon Wegener

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Jon Wegener has been surfing since the early 1980s. He began shaping surfboards in high school for himself and a couple of good, broke friends. Attending Point Loma Nazarene College, Jon studied the various beach and reef waves San Diego has to offer. During this time he trasitioned from surfing and shaping 6' twin fins to mid length, fuller template thrusters and eventually to longboards. Once out of school, Jon shaped full time in the South Bay of Los Angeles. There he made boards for Wegener Surfboards, and did shaping for Hap Jacobs, Bing Surfboards, and Becker.

A big change in his...
Adam DeWolfe

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Born on a small island off of Vancouver Island Canada I have always had water to play in at my front step. My dad is an old fisherman and for most of my youth i lived on a sailboat so you could say the ocean is in my blood. I have been taking photos and capturing video for 5 years now and treat it more as a form of creative expression than work, but in the last year mostly have been contributing to the growth of a Canadian video based website www.gotsurf.ca who aim to showcase canadian surfing and its caricatures.

I now live full time in Tofino B.C on the west coast of...
Ryan Tatar

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Ryan Tatar is a photographer and surfer currently based in Northern California. His main body of work, entitled Sea-Tribes, is an ongoing photo essay “inspired by the ocean and marine layer... documenting various pods of eclectic surfers and coastal landscapes.” His photographs, all shot on film the past several years, have brought him international attention inside and outside of the surf world. His work and photographs have been mentioned or featured by magazines like the Surfer’s Path, Esquire, Complex, Huck, Blue Japan, and Desillusion France. ...
Karl Mackie

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Karl Mackie is an independent photographer, designer, and board shaper based by the sea in Cornwall, UK.

Focusing on sea and surf culture, art, and design, he is carving out a niche across a spectrum of creative mediums.

Film photography and board shaping are two of his biggest passions. Taking inspiration from local surf heritage, many hours are spent in his shaping shed crafting new ways to ride waves and enjoy the sea.
Ed Milsom AKA DROOG79

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Droog79 is the alter-ego of a salty-faced, suburbia-fleeing, inky-fingered, board-propelled artist, illustrator, designer and lawn bowls aficionado.
Droog’s weird and wandering work via ink, paint, pixels, words or just a line in the sand has festooned walls, bodies, beaches, posters, windows, shopfronts, skate and surfboards, phones, laptops, canvas, clothing and publications from Milton Keynes to Mexico.

It is an engorged outlet for a precariously overactive brain, imaginative escapism from the daily grind, influenced by everything he has ever seen, read or heard.

Born and bred...
Richard Kenvin

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His knack for cerebrally exploring surfing’s cultural and scientific depths coupled with his physical ability to draft his findings onto a wave’s face, makes Richard Kenvin one of surfing’s last Renaissance men. Residing in San Diego, Richard focuses his energies close to home, uncovering forgotten characters in his local surf scene like Bob Simmons and the proliferation of his planning hull designs.
Kahana Kalama

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Born and raised on the east side of Oahu, Kahana ventured to San Diego 10 years ago and has been splitting his time on both sides of the pacific ever since.

After nearly a decade of toiling in the surf/fashion trade as both a proffesional surfer and a hired hand for different brands in the industry, Kahana realized it was time to embark on his own journey. Today, Kahana is the owner of Aloha Sunday an American-made menswear collection and a retail store in North Park that offers surf inspired clothing and craft.
Scott Massey

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Born and raised in NY, not the city but Long Island. Moved west to enjoy the beach and experience life on another coast. The work and people, so far are amazing and interesting. Interested in telling stories through pictures (photos, drawings & collage). A designer by trade, my days have been spent inside of studios helping companies influence and intrigue consumers. While my nights are spent working on more personal and self–initiated projects outside of the studio. In the middle of trying to design a book like a movie, frame by frame, memory after...

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