Excerpt

Sketchbook: “Rad Cars With Rad Surfboards”

Drafting dream pairings with artist Kevin Butler.

 

Excerpt

West As All Hell

Dave Parmenter resurveys the “frontiers” of California. Excerpted from the new issue of TSJ.

 

Portfolio

The Half-Century Files: The King and I

Royalty, surf emissaries, and azure lineups in Tonga with Jeff Divine.

 

Excerpt

The Days We Swam

Changing expectations in Scotland.

 

Influences

Influences: Peter Halasz

The visual, photographic, and musical influences behind the artist’s work.

 

Excerpt

One Moment: New Zealand

Catnip for the surf starved.

 

Excerpt

JJF Imagic Ideology Notes

A gallery of classicist, Leitz-captured photos by John John Florence.

 

Film

Where Silence Reigns

Acoustic ecologist and bodysurfer Gordon Hempton on the “presence of silence” and the “laundering” powers of the Pacific.

 

Excerpt

Reviews: Two Tomes and Some Vinyl

Taschen’s "Surfing," Adler’s "An Uncommon Archive," and Kidman’s "Litmus LP."

 

Film

Collaborations

TSJ Photo Editor Jeff Divine talks surf legends and...socks.

 

Portfolio

The Half-Century Files: This Old House

“I slept on the floor. Weekends featured cockfights, gambling, and late night drunkenness.”

 

Film

The Blueprint

Shane Dorian (in human-scale surf) circa 2002.