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The Legendary Photo Archives of LeRoy Grannis
There is an old surfer taunt: You should have been here yesterday. LeRoy Grannis was there in the 1930s and ’40s when a few hundred young men in California and Hawaii with heavy redwood boards represented surfing’s Camelot. Portrait photography had Felix Nadar and Mathew Brady. Fashion photography had Baron de Meyer an...
Great stories are meant to be told.
Below’s a story that captured my imagination. As we’re slowly getting ready to close down the editorial section of our site and moving all our content to this Medium Magazine, I stumbled upon this post by Bradley. It stands the test of time and I feel this must be updated with an interview to see where we both stand a ...
Time To Ship a Web3 Magazine
The LiveTheLifeTV Magazine sits at the intersection of storytelling, community development, and web3 technology. Images: LiveTheLifeTVPlatforms hold our audiences and content hostage. They have a monopoly on our IP, creativity, and the value we create. Content will no longer be built on platforms. Platforms will be bui...
Bruce Gold, the lord of the shells.
Exploding orange aloes. Caffeinated surfing addicts. A wooden boardwalk on the dunes overlooking the point, freshly repainted, carved with stories worth telling. And, not unlike, Bruce Gold, a bunch of escape artists on the prowl for fun.A solid 6 feet off Boneyards, unloading 50-yard sections before moving into the ma...
A Sport Of Kings @ P-Bay
Forty years ago, the Kingdom of Pavones was a well-kept secret paradise where only living legends of the surfing subculture were invited to exercise their art under the benevolent eye of Danny "Mack" Fowlie. He created jobs, infrastructure, and helped teach locals construction, heavy machinery operation, and gardening....
REAL WORLD ART
LIVETHELIFE.TV, the founder of IKIGAI LABS, embarks on a transformative journey by fully embracing TRACE (Tokenized Records for Artwork Certification and Evolution) technology. Developed by our esteemed partners at Transient Labs, this groundbreaking innovation is central to our mission of introducing real-world art in...
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Sustainable Surfing in PNG
While some exotic surf zones around the world are starting to struggle to manage crowds, tempers and expectations, Papua New Guinea has a ‘Surf Management Plan’ that appears to be working really well. White Horses magazine was intrigued by the idea that the rest of the surfing world could learn something important from...
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If Tripadvisor & Insta had a crypto lovechild
Destinations and accommodations worldwide are often chosen by individuals based solely on websites and online reviews. However, there's a pressing need for a platform where travelers can exchange personal experiences and advise peers contemplating similar journeys. The opportunity remains ripe to address unreliable rev...
Munga Boutique Guesthouse
Munga guesthouse is the perfect place to explore Taghazout and its surroundings. It’s beautifully designed with art and local materials. Salvaged wood is a common theme throughout the hotel. You can enjoy the different terraces, tea rooms, open spaces, a library, and a rooftop with a lounge pool. (Video)The guesthouse ...
From London to Sorake Beach.
It was time to go. The penance was done, the bitterness was over, and I wanted to go surfing again. In our squat in London, Dollis Hill, N3, 1996, there was talk of Indonesia, but Nias was beckoning.For perspective, the first surfers to discover the wave called Nias at Lagundri Bay was young Australian surf explorers K...
Bruce
If you have been to Jeffreys Bay South Africa, you cannot fail to hear stories of Bruce Gold `The Last of the Surfing Hippies` A tall skinny fellow dressed in baggy colourful clothing and a wooden staff in hand like a surfing Gandalf. He is as much a part of the scene at J-bay as the Aloe plants on the point and the `C...
Dramatic jungle-covered hills
Imagine hearing the sound of the waves crashing on a pure white beach, from the privacy of your own piece of paradise? Imagine feeling the sea breeze and using the views on as a perfect indication of swell size, tide and wind direction. Imagine not needing binoculars to spot the whales. Imagine a 5-minute drive down th...
A Decent Wave Count In Hawaii?
The North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii is a crowded place. Being one of the best surf destinations in the world, home to a handful of world champions, and venue for a list of Championship Tour and Qualifying Series events, it's going to be packed out.Hawaii is seasonal though, and it's the wintertime of November – January t...
Surfing In The Land Of The Vikings
Norway, the land of the midnight sun, home of aurora borealis, snus, fata morgana and the Nisse and the Tomte. Norway has so much to offer when it comes to surfing, and the Lofoten Islands are a place of unparalleled beauty and wonder.Lofoten Masters. Photo: Red BullIt's hard to get to Lofoten if you're coming for a vi...
Far From The Madding Crowd
It is a beautiful family destination with some great waves, but going surfing in Mauritius takes a whole different approach to get your fair share of waves.There is a crew of surfers in Mauritius that don't let you surf if you're not a local. They are heavy-handed and brutal, and the authorities look the other way. It'...
Coming Soon. Web3 Documentary
The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed. Previous industrial revolutions liberated humankind from animal power, made mass production possible, and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is, however, fundamentally different. ...
Interview Q&A
Introduce the subject, her/his history, and the background of our piece. The introduction should reflect on the article in general, and it should also frame the interviewee in some way.Warming Up Where are you based now?How would your friends describe you?What drives you to do what you do?What do you really wantWhat ha...
EOS captures the voice of surfing
The Encyclopedia of Surfing (EOS) is the greatest collection of surf matter on the planet. A gigantic aqua-blue-tinged mass of history, culture, and commentary. Imagine your local library packed floor to ceiling with surf-related books, magazines, newspapers, photos, movies, TV shows and documentaries. There's a friend...
Ireland and the Litmus Test
When the inimitable Litmus movie came out in 1996, there was a small section of Joel Fitzgerald charging a deathly left-hand slab called Pmpa. That's what sent us scurrying on our way. We wanted to discover precisely what was going on in the little coastal village of Bundoran.A cold, bewitching place that will keep you...
Heading Down South In Chile
We went searching for a wave that would handle the big, clean south-westerly swell. We had heard of a wave up north, and so we drove. The spot was a skunk. The boys went running the cliff, but I slept in the car. When we were driving away, out of the little dust road, another surf vehicle came tearing past us like a ba...
Peru. Longest Wave in the World?
Chicama is a surfers paradise. Waves can carry you as far as 2 km. The left hander at Chicama is the Queen of Peru’s northern region. Cristobal Col, a local surfing star, established a Guinness record for longest distance ridden on a wave. The young Peruvian surfer rode for 2 minutes and 20 seconds. And that’s not all ...
How To Handle The Supercrowd
The first ever event that the WSL ran, as part of their new ownership of the sport of surfing, was the 2014 Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro Gold Coast. During the opening days of that event the surf turned on, with excellent, barreling four to five foot gems peeling down Snapper and the Superbank. Then a very surprising bu...
A Shipwreck Leads To Perfection
In 1973 a 20-year-old Australian set off on a journey of a lifetime, to discover the world and to find his destiny. As fortune would have it, the boat in which Tony Hinde was in became shipwrecked, and his initial mission to reach Jeffreys Bay scuttled.The wreck was as serendipitous as could be, as the boat came to res...
Images straight out of a fairytale
Ralf v/d Veerdonk is 36 years old and based in the Netherlands. He runs his own film production company called Veerdonk Visuals. When he graduated from film school he immediately started his own film production company. That's now over a decade ago. It actually took off like a rocket and he never looked back. Where do ...
This was a year in the making ...
Julian Wilson has always had two sporting passions: surfing and skateboarding. For his latest project the Australian decided to combine the two in the water. In essence, the plan was to surf a makeshift rail in the water as he might on the skate park but the project was not without its challenges. Here is all you need ...
Kai Lenny made an indelible mark
Hawaiian star Kai Lenny received another accolade in his glittering career when he became the youngest person ever to enter the Surfers' Hall of Fame, aged just 26.He was inducted with Sam Hawk and Janice Aragon, their hand and footprints immortalised in cement out the front of Huntington Surf & Sport as the ceremo...
How to be part of the solution
The reason why surfing became a multimillion-dollar sports industry is that brands appeal to consumers' emotions and dreams in a very effective way. The surf industry is what it is, and surfing wouldn't be what it is today without the innovations and technologies companies have developed during the sport's first centur...
Healthy living starts with food
Jordy Smith has lit up the professional surfing world over the last decade with superhuman feats on the land and in the water. He is extremely excited to be representing South Africa at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Making the 31-year-old the first South African surfer to qualify for the Olympics. Trevor Moran/Ryan Miller/R...
Surfers are not very adventurous
Martin Daily is best known as the captain of the Indies Trader fleet, and for exploring the Mentawai islands. It is often said that Daly has discovered more high-quality surf breaks than anybody in the world.Martin Daily took the Rip Curl crew on the first filming trip to the Mentawais for The Search Film #2. They were...
Not always a Sea of Darkness
In his teens and early 20s, Martin Daly moved from New Zealand to the Philippines to Singapore to Bali, mostly working as a commercial diver for oil companies. In 1983, he and a group of friends began exploring the smaller islands along the Indonesian chain, in a 60-foot salvage boat borrowed from Daly's boss. By the e...
Fletcher: A Lifetime in Surf
Through fifty years of epic stories, art, and personal ephemera, The Fletcher Family spans surfing's golden era to the present day, when bathing-suit model Dibi and competitive surfer Herbie met, to raising talented Christian and Nathan on boards and waves, to passing the torch to their skating-phenom grandson, Greyson...
The Reality Of Reunion Island
Imagine a surf destination that is part-Indonesia with mechanically perfect waves, part-Maldives with turquoise water and part-Hawaii with some big waves and thundering barrels. It is an absolute surfer's paradise, a dreamy destination that was kept quiet and those in the know slipped off to, and rode perfect, uncrowde...
Finding Lance's Right
I didn't plan on going to HT's. There was never the intention of surfing HT's, or Lance's Right. I booked a ticket from London to Singapore, and the plan was to get across to Sumatra and find a way to Nias.Being There.Getting to Nias in 1996 was transcendental. After Singapore, I just started moving, and I would climb ...
Riding the world’s longest waves
Throughout his storied four-decade career, Robby Naish has been a true pioneer, ushering once-niche activities like windsurfing, kiteboarding, SUP, and foil surfing into the forefront of the global sports community, racking up 24 championship titles along the way. It is this lifelong quest to master all obstacles that ...
How to pack for an Indo surf trip
There is so much to think about when packing for a trip to Indonesia. More so for an extended trip. Surfers might not carry as much stuff as a kiteboarder, but a surfer planning on a more extended surf trip is going to need to pack carefully. There is a golden rule when packing for a surf trip or any trip whatsoever – ...
Surf charter etiquette is needed
The boat trip is a strange thing, an anomaly of surf trips. It has been around in its present form of luxurious travel for a good few years now in relative terms, and rules, laws and etiquette have slowly started to form around this form of travel. There are just a few points to remember when on such trips. Here's the ...
Nunti Sunya - Vincent Lartizien
Globally, cannabis has a long history as one of the mainstays and drivers of early industrialisation, providing fibre for ropes and canvas for sails that powered maritime trade to help build the global market that exists today, as well as textiles for clothing and an important role in medicinal apothecaries.The banning...
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