Thomas Campbell’s latest surf film “The Present” U.S. premiere tour starts tomorrow at the Montalban Theatre, Los Angeles…. Details
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Mark your calendars! With 4 months to go, the fifth biennial Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf Auction, presented by Quiksilver Premium, is set to raise the bar on international surf auctions once again when it returns to the Blaisdell Center, Honolulu, on July 17 & 18. Over the past four auctions more than $1,500,000 of the finest vintage surfboards and surf memorbilia have changed hands and over $75,000 has been donated to various charitable causes and foundations.
This year’s auction is already shaping up to be the biggest and best yet…Â Details
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For better or worse, over the last decade, surfers have gone retro.
In San Diego County perhaps more than in any other location, surfers have returned to longboards, twin-fins, single fins and five fins, quad fins and finless boards from nearly every era in surfing’s history. At times, it feels as though some surfers are merely skipping along the short timeline of surfing history and seemingly at random picking a place at which to stop, exhuming the surfboard relics from the era and applying them to the modern surfing culture.
Proponents call this freeing; naysayers say …Â Details
California, that fount of American cultural invention, has birthed many of our postwar cultural talismans, maybe none more idiosyncratic as popular surf culture. Looking back on it there’s a quaintness to its frantic assertion of the bohemian; we can see it now, with the distance of two generations, as a first innocent acting out on impulses of personal freedom and self-identity that would show up, by turns joyfully and tragically, across the nation before long. …Â
…Pop Surf Culture a splashy, capacious and readable history of the scene, brings together the strands of surfing’s multi-sourced past…   Details
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