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Film

On Style

Exploring the raw-boned, disorderly, and idiosyncratic moments as a counterweight to the polished.

31.6

Essay

Dancing About Architecture

The fraught practice and checkered history of writing about the physical act of riding waves.

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Interview

Seeking the Surface

Bodysurfer Kalani Lattanzi on the physical and mental preparedness required to charge Nazaré and Jaws…sans-board.

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Portfolio

Nordic Blood. Tropic Heart.

Arto Saari’s photography of the North Shore is gritty, beautiful, ground level, and alive with character.

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Feature

Fetched Up in Amber

For Proto-Los Angeles surf star Mike Purpus, today feels a hell of a lot like 1974.

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Feature

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.

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Feature

Borderlands

Migration patterns, death winds, and exodus along Andalusia’s Costa De La Luz.

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Feature

Big Game

Following the spoor with self-made surfer, shaper, and traveler Sam Yoon.

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Feature

Regaining Control

A German master of the expressive figurative reflects on painting the surf.

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Feature

Thirteen O’Clock

The End of the Worlds: Ocean Beach, California, October 1972.

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Portfolio

Portfolio: Group Show

Visual surf stimuli from the game’s best photographers.

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Blank Expression

High Sheen

Maintaining the intricate and dying art of surfboard restoration with Horacio De Seixas.