The Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival is set to pulse once again this upcoming weekend. According to the festival website, “The Santa Cruz Surf Film Festival is a tribute to the arts of waveriding and filmmaking.” The event strives “to spread the stoke that we get from surfing, bringing together surfers, filmmakers and ocean enthusiasts to […]
Live Grateful Dead jam from the 70s, animation, and ocean based storytelling combine in Whale Tail for a mesmerizing few minutes of cartoon surf trippyness. Created and distributed by San Francisco based film teacher, Paul Ferraris, this short might pair well with a lava lamp, black lighting, and a fine strain of cannabis. But to […]
Thomas Cambell has been inspiring minds within the surf and skate world with a diverse array of mediums for decades. Surf films, photography, ceramics, textiles, and board graphics are a few of the modes he’s used while expanding his ever evolving repertoire of expression. His upcoming show at Mollusk, SF offers a glimpse at some […]
The Gudauskas brothers are frothing once again. Pat just ousted Julian Wilson from the number one spot on the WSL tour at Bells, and Tanner is in the midst of launching a new surf culture curating site dubbed The Paradise Projects. The idea behind it is to get collaborative – an online venue for sharing […]
What do you get when you mix art by Nathaniel Russell, film by Tin Ojeda, music by Hailu Mergia, and mash it together at The Chapel? – an interesting surf related musical and visual event to say the least. And that’s exactly what’s on offer this coming weekend in San Francisco. Tin Ojeda, who will […]
There’s never been a point in time when photography was as ubiquitous as it is right now. Seemingly everyone has a smartphone nearby at all times. We’re snapping photos of everything, at all hours, and posting it everywhere, immersing ourselves in a sea of imagery. So what makes a photograph stand out? What makes it […]
The Great Highway Gallery is putting on a benefit art show tonight, November 10, 2017, dedicated to helping victims of the Northern California Fires. The show will include photographs of the fires by Joe Aguirre and Jake Ricker. There will be a raffle at the event with prizes that include art and gift certificates to […]
With good waves, a beach clean-up, music, food, locally produced art and beer on offer, the inaugural Irving Fish Festival, set to run Saturday October 28, 2017, is guaranteed to go off in a big way. The beach clean-up, coordinated by Surfrider Foundation – San Francisco Chapter, starts at 9:00 AM at the Irving Street […]
The cosmos is all encompassing. According to Merrium-Webster it is “an orderly harmonious systematic universe” or “a complex orderly self-inclusive system.” By titling his new show We Are The Cosmos, Thomas Campbell appears to be reaching for an expression of universal connectivity. This theme manifests in the show through an exhibition of a diversity of mediums and […]
A group art show at ArtHaus in San Francisco titled Oceans 12 is set to run from Thursday, October 5th through Saturday, October 7th with an opening reception on Thursday from 6-8PM. Twenty percent of all proceeds generated from the exhibition will go to Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that seeks to create “science-based solutions for a healthy […]