LONDON – The opaque visor of one of Britain’s most famous helmets has been lifted.
The identity of The Stig, the always-anonymous test driver on the popular television show “Top Gear,” has long been a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday, lawyers said the BBC had been refused an injunction blocking publication of a book revealing the identity of the character.
Shortly after, publishers HarperCollins said in a statement that a 33-year-old racing driver named … Details
Long before the Irons brothers roamed Kauai’s North Shore, the surfer’s road to paradise was paved by hippies who’d had enough of Vietnam and the capitalist society, and decided to move as far away as possible, to a place where they hoped nobody would find them. The North Shore of Kauai was as idyllic and remote as it gets in this country, and it just happened to have uncrowded world-class waves as well. As surfers began to hear about this paradise at the end of the road, and after SURFER magazine featured a story on the place, small communities of hippies began to develop on Kauai … Details
They created order without rules. . . A clothing-optional, pot-friendly, “grow your own” treehouse village at the end of Kauai.
In 1969, thirteen young mainlanders — refugees from campus riots, Vietnam War protests and police brutality — fled to Kauai. Before long this little tribe of men, women and children were arrested and sentenced to ninety days hard labor for having no money and no home. Island resident Howard Taylor, brother of actress Elizabeth, bailed out the group and invited them to camp on his vacant ocean front land. Howard then left them on their own, without any restrictions, regulations or supervision. Soon waves of hippies, surfers and troubled Vietnam vets found their way to this clothing-optional, pot-friendly tree house village at the end of the road on the island’s North Shore.
In 1977, the government condemned the village to make way for a State park. Within a few years the jungle reclaimed Taylor Camp, leaving little but memories of “the best days of our lives”.
TAYLOR CAMP reveals a community that created order without rules, rejecting materialism for the healing power of nature. We come to understand the significance Taylor Camp’s eight-year existence through interviews made 30-years later after the film makers tracked down the campers, their neighbors and the government officials who finally got rid of them
The last thing most surfers would want to see is a great white shark circling their board. But when two of the notorious apex predators began swimming around Chuck Patterson earlier this week off San Onofre in northern San Diego County, he saw opportunity … Details
“Shark Week” is over but a leading scientist’s revelation that great white sharks appear to be growing in number off California is sure to generate more heightened interest in the apex predators — particularly among swimmers and surfers.
“I think there are more sharks,” Christopher Lowe, a professor at Cal State Long Beach and director of the university’s Shark Lab, said during an exclusive phone interview. “And that’s not a bad thing … Details
After graduating from Pepperdine University with a degree in advertising, where she interned with MTV, Candy Harris began her career as a grip at Smashbox Studios, a premier photo studio in Los Angeles. It was a perfect complement to her studies, which included a focus in fine art photography, but it wasn’t exactly what she was looking for.
After dabbling in the world of big, corporate ad agencies, Harris found herself drawn to Laguna Beach for a handful of reasons: to be with her now husband Enich [Billabong’s marketing director] and to explore an opportunity with a start-up youth marketing agency called The Shop.
Like so many in the action sports industry, Danielle Beck’s career started in retail. Her hometown shop, Moondoggies in San Luis Obispo, California, gave Beck her first taste of the business side of surfing and helped launch the career of one the most influential women in action sports.
After a trip to San Diego to visit a friend, Beck decided she’d had enough of the cold waters of SLO and transferred out of Cal Poly to move to SoCal, where she began teaching surf lessons at the well-known Paskowitz Surf Camp in San Clemente.
During her first summer at the camp twelve years ago … Details
