Volume 27 Issue 5
In this issue, we open with Greg Long in the far Eastern Atlantic, perhaps contemplating the benefits of length over height. The noted XXL-hunter journeyed toward African waters for the sole purpose of burning rubber down this quarter-mile, sand-bottomed drag strip. Check out the guts of the issue to read more from this trip. Various other points and personas also included within.
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Resin, Light, and Space
Thanks largely to his groundbreaking resin sculptures, Peter Alexander remains surfing’s most broadly acclaimed artist.
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Supplemented
Performance-enhancing drugs in surfing may have more to do with the mind than the body. What does that say about surfing as a sport, as an art, or as an addiction itself?
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Shocked to be Alive
An interview with Michael Scott Moore.
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Indronesia
The Mentawai Archipelago from above.
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Into the Forge With Ryan Thomas
Psychedelia, thrusters, urbanization, displacement hulls, untamed nature, and animation. The filmmaker’s lens captures—and transforms—all of the above and more.
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Brine Trust
In its early 70s glory days, Australia’s Tracks magazine was the loosest kid on the block, epitomizing the era’s sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll anti-ethos. Editor and emeritus surf journo Phil Jarratt tells all in his recent memoir, Life of Brine—and in this excerpt from the same.
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Hard Science/Native Son
From the lab to the pit with Clifford Kapono.
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Saharan Echoes
Cracking the code in the Eastern Atlantic.
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The Power We Get From The Sea
A Zambezi shark took Avo Ndamase’s brother, but not his commitment.
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Resin, Light, and Space
Thanks largely to his groundbreaking resin sculptures, Peter Alexander remains surfing’s most broadly acclaimed artist.
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The Westward Tilt
A transplanted New Yorker’s love affair with California.
