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Only in the 808 does such ignoble usage make a haunting sort of sense.

By Jeff Canham

Volume 29 Issue 4 (2020)

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Dark Renderings

A Wolfgang Bloch Portfolio

By Brad Melekian
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Sea Change

By Dave Parmenter
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On Style

The surf mat—plebeian on the surface but…

By Scott Hulet
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Lingua Franca

Musings on our strenuous idioms.

By Tim Baker

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Volume 29 Issue 4

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On the cover: Mikey February reminds us that good style is predicated on not thinking about style. Photo by Nick Green. Inside the issue, we hit check-points from Alaska to the Azores, take a close visual study of Tom Servais’ last decade of high-profile surf shooting, and pay our culture collection fee to the modern skimboard scene. Profiles of surfing satirist Sterling Spencer and shortboard-revolution performance pusher Sharron Weber lend human interest touches, while Nate Tyler’s hand-built home in Central California and surfboards recycled as signage on the North Shore are explorations in atypical craftsmanship.

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