Volume 34 Issue 2
In this issue, we roll up to Santa Barbara for an audience with an outspoken former surf star, slide along with a Japanese logger, patrol Namibia’s coast to free entangled sea mammals, view a surf resort photographer’s tropical money shots, hang at a prolific garage rocker’s pad, learn how the ocean can treat post-traumatic stress disorder, and more.
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34.2
Follow the Line
Mid-face tracks and anthropological theory.
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34.2
On Style
“Get on a single-fin. It’ll smooth you out.”
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34.2
Utility Infielder
Pulitzer-nominated columnist Jay Caspian Kang speaks about social media’s effect on surfing, the value of chasing something unattainable, and more.
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34.2
Space is the Place
High-orbit airs and galactic flash.
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34.2
The Line Cutters
Along the points of the Skeleton Coast, Ocean Conservation Namibia founders Naude and Katja Dreyer and their team work to unsnarl the marine plastics-pollution crisis—one seal at a time.
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34.2
The Medium Doesn’t Matter
The fine art, creative hustle, and innumerable influences of light-and-space installationist Robert Irwin.
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34.2
What Do You Think of Bobby Martinez Now?
On the record with one of surfing’s most candid voices and unforgettable talents.
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34.2
Nothing More. Nothing Less.
The traditional approaches of Seitaro Nakamura.
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34.2
Where Seabirds Soar
From the garage to the genre-bending, Ty Segall’s noise is singular and relentless.
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34.2
Portfolio: John Barton
A dash of White Lotus, a pinch of black mamba, and one heaping scoop of the moody tropics with photographer Johnny Jungle.
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34.2
Blue Antidote
Two intertwined surf lives marked by trauma—and the ocean as tonic.
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34.2
On the Rocks at Point Panic
Perfect scores and an ambulance ride at Town’s premier bodysurfing wave.
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34.2
A Kindred Spirit
Remembering Walter Hoffman, 1931–2024.
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An Activator of Creative Dreams
How Duke Boyd (1934–2020) revolutionized the surf industry.
