On Style
Exploring the raw-boned, disorderly, and idiosyncratic moments as a counterweight to the polished.
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Contents
Dancing About Architecture
The fraught practice and checkered history of writing about the physical act of riding waves.
Seeking the Surface
Bodysurfer Kalani Lattanzi on the physical and mental preparedness required to charge Nazaré and Jaws…sans-board.
Nordic Blood. Tropic Heart.
Arto Saari’s photography of the North Shore is gritty, beautiful, ground level, and alive with character.
Fetched Up in Amber
For Proto-Los Angeles surf star Mike Purpus, today feels a hell of a lot like 1974.
Seeds of Abundance
At an organic farm inside the urban sprawl of Orange County, Evan Marks sees farming as surfing—and as a path toward ecological balance.
Borderlands
Migration patterns, death winds, and exodus along Andalusia’s Costa De La Luz.
Big Game
Following the spoor with self-made surfer, shaper, and traveler Sam Yoon.
Regaining Control
A German master of the expressive figurative reflects on painting the surf.
Thirteen O’Clock
The End of the Worlds: Ocean Beach, California, October 1972.
Portfolio: Group Show
Visual surf stimuli from the game’s best photographers.
High Sheen
Maintaining the intricate and dying art of surfboard restoration with Horacio De Seixas.
Goosebumps
Surveying the outsize presence of a living icon.
