Peanut butter and jelly. Green eggs and ham. Gerry and Pipeline. Mikey and Twin Pin. Some things pair magnificently, and thus become greater than the sum of its parts. Such...
On a typical day in their charmed and sunstruck lives, Davis and Skyler Diamond will slide across waves on finless boards by morning and make music in their home studio...
Paz Lenchantin is a Pixie. Not the wild-eyed, supernatural kind (though she exudes some of that), but a Pixie as in the alternative rock band, for which she plays bass....
Aska Matsumiya spent her childhood in Japan, moved to California when she was twelve, and presently lives in Malibu, where she makes music and rides waves. I first encountered her...
I first encountered the work of Natalie Arnoldi at a friend’s house. Presiding over the dining table was a life-size painting of a great white shark. It was realist and...
“They were born out of the pandemic and the wildfires,” says Kassia Meador. “We couldn’t really go outside and we were like, ‘Man, we just want to be with people....
Rachel Lord shaped her first board at age 33. “It felt like a culmination of a lot of different areas in which my life had been previously compartmentalized when it...
“I blame it all on Keanu Reeves in ‘Point Break.’ Then I saw ‘The Endless Summer’ and my crush moved on to Mike Hynson.” That’s Mica Kramer talking...
Born and raised in Hawaii, Keith Kandell came to surfing at age ten, got good, won contests, but always knew there was something more waiting for him. Smart, intellectually curious,...
Born and raised in Seal Beach, Lisa Gonzales has lived a storied life. In 1975, age 18, she became the first female beach lifeguard in Orange County. Around that time...
An Aussie expat living in San Clemente, Andrea Coleman’s surf photography contains a distinct through-line: style. Check out her Instagram feed and you’ll see it: arched backs, loose shoulders, balletic...
Seven-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore calls it “an empowering history of badass women.” Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald hails it as “a great tribute to all of these...
I first met Alice Gu on the beach at Malibu a few years ago. She’d just come back from a trip to Fiji where she’d shot the locals and the...
Jeannie Chesser knows all about the highs and lows of life. Raised in Florida, she married her high school sweetheart, David. When David was nineteen and Jeannie was seventeen they...
Surfing sears deep into the memory banks. Sessions recall previous sessions, and so while we might be out riding waves in 2021, we’re also feeling the echoes of waves from...