WILL ADLER: FOG HORN
Fog Horn | Travers Adler from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo. I stumbled upon this little video by photographer Will Adler and fell in love. Funny, unexpected and unusual, it’s as much a film about failure as it is about success. Enjoy!
Guiones Surf Photo of the Week
Grace down the line. Bird in Flight. Rell Sunn’s doppleganger: Aloha meets Pura Vida!
Thanksgiving’s Best Surf Bets
Surfer Magazine rounds up the best spots to surf stateside this Thanksgiving (below). Have a great holiday! No matter where your Thanksgiving travels take you, as long as you stick near a coast, you’re stoked. Late November is a surefire bet for good surf pretty much anywhere in the States. Crisp fall conditions, regular pulses […]
TCOLLA: NEW YORK SURF PHOTOGRAPHER
I met Long Island surfer Tommy Colla (who photographs under the name tcolla) a few years ago when he picked me up from a parking lot on Long Island so I could buy a board from him. As we drove a few miles to the closest ATM, we chatted. “I’m a photographer,” he told me. […]
Herbie Fletcher
“I’ve been surfing for so long that my perspective is really steeped in the way surfers see things,” said the artist, whose oil and fiberglass compositions “Backdoor” and “Pipeline” depict what it’s like to be underwater, behind a barreling wave, while another surfer is streaking through a tube above you. “I can look at them […]
HEADSPACE WITH KASSIA MEADOR
(HEADSPACE): Kassia Meador from The Inertia on Vimeo.Check out this nice little interview with Kassia Meador from The Interia’s program Head Space.
Donavon Frankenreiter at the Tropicana
If you happen to be one of the lucky people in Nosara as the cooler weather descends in other parts of the world, tonight’s your night to experience the Tropicana, the legendary local disco. Singer-songwriter and pro-surfer Donavon Frankenreiter is returning to Nosara after a two year absence and will be performing at 9pm in […]
HALLOWEEN PARTY TO BENEFIT NYC SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
What’s the most frightening part of being a New York surfer in ‘off season’? Taking a chance on water that’s untested for harmful bacteria. During the summer months, when beaches are protected by the city, the waters are tested regularly and notices are posted on days when the ocean is deemed dangerous (luckily these posts […]
GOLDEN STATE: BY JACK COLEMAN
Get stoked for Monday with Jack Coleman’s latest film, featuring Kassia Meador. Happy Monday!! Golden State | Kassia Meador from Mollusk Surf Shop on Vimeo.
Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin
The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickteron has a show opening this week in New York at lived in New York in the 1980s, and made work that was then classified (perhaps unjustly) as “Neo-Geo.” By 1993, he left the US and traveled around the world, mostly surfing and finally landing in Bali. For more on Bickerton […]
WILLIAM FINNEGAN: THE INERTIA INTERVIEW
For those of you who don’t know, William Finnegan is the author of one of the best pieces of surf literature out there. The piece, Playing Doc’s Games, which appeared in The New Yorker (broken into two installments because if its size) follows the small pod of Bay Area surfers surfing spots like Mavericks in the early 90’s. […]
DEAR SYLVIA, LOVE STEPH. FILM BY MORGAN MAASSEN
Check out this beautiful film of Stephanie Gilmore on some perfect Central American peaks. Need I say more? Happy Monday!
LAVA GIRL WOMEN’S SURF WORKSHOP SUNDAY IN ROCKAWAY BEACH
On Sunday Lava Girl will hold the second of their women-focused summer surf workshops. Titled “Surfitecture,” the workshop will cover the fundamentals of surfboard design and function, sustainable shaping and body surfing presented by David Murphy from Imaginary Surf Co.. and Mike Becker from Natures Shapes; ding repair by J Scott Klossner, followed by […]
TOM WEGENER’S PhD PURSUIT
Venerated shaper Tom Wegener (known mostly for his alaias) is pursuing a PHD in surf. Already a “huge fan of mixing surf and study” (according to one article), Wegner will spend the next three years looking at the impact of globalization on surfboard manufacturing, with a focus on sustainability and local markets. Read more here.
RIDERS OF THE CALIFORNIA SURF, 1947
Enjoy this rare color surf film from 1947. It features riders from Hermosa beach (and some amazing early shaping!).
Surf SurvivalCosta Rica
Just over a week until our second annual Surf Survival Camp at the Harmony Hotel. Another beat down story that happened near our own back yard. I was in Costa Rica for the first time, having traveled there alone. I was staying in Tamarindo and caught a boat ride over to Playa Grande. From the […]
Surf SurvivalNicaragua
Still time to sign up for the Harmony Hotel’s Surf Survival Camp that begins August 3. Another great beat down story from the contest. This past October in Nicaragua I had an experience that will stay with me forever, literally! It was early morning & the surface was already choppy with menacing clouds overhead. Even […]
SMASH FEST & BOBBY FISHER: TWO GREAT SURF / ART EVENTS IN NYC THIS WEEK
Two great surf and art events will take place this week just blocks from each other in Brooklyn. The first is SMASH Fest, a surf film festival and group photo show which will take place this Thursday and Friday. Get more info here (including info on their special event Saturday in Rockaway) and purchase […]
Surf Survival: Winner!
Reading through the entries for our Surf Survival Contest is reassuring reading for anyone who’s ever gotten an ass kicking in the ocean. We received so many great beat down stories from Australia to Chicago (yes, people do surf Lake Michigan!). Though our contest ended this week (meet the winner we pulled out of a […]
Surfing Madonna
Founded by Surfing Madonna creator Mark Patterson, agents of change (i.e. you can help reverse the serious degradation currently impacting the world’s oceans). Now the organization is challenging artists located near the world’s 10 deadliest waves—Banzai Pipeline, Ghost Trees, Mavericks, Teahupoo, Waimea, Shipstern Bluff, Dungeons, Cyclops, ours and New Smyrna—to create mosaics in their locations.
A HUNDRED TO THE END: SURF AFTER STROKE
After John Beattie suffered a stroke one winter morning, he was convinced he’d never surf again. For the life-long surfer (he learned when we was 13), the thought of a life without waves was a real loss. In order to process the loss (and celebrate the surfers he saw in the water), he picked up […]
