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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....
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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...
Surfer, mum, and entrepreneur
My name is Imogen (Imi for friends). I am a surfer, a mum and an entrepreneur.I was born and raised in the UK in the seventies, and my lifelong dream was to live an adventurous lifestyle.  At a very early age, I was propelled into living like a nomad and at the age of 11 I had already moved to France and back…twice!  A...
nanoFlowcell, too good to be true
The invention of the internal combustion engine 130 years ago marked the start of automobile-driven mass mobility. There are now around 1.2 billion vehicles registered and roughly 90 million new vehicles are produced each year. Annual CO2 emissions from internal combustion engines are approximately three billion tonnes...
Nearly constant offshore breezes
December of 2019 marked twenty two years since six friends visited Nicaragua to scope out a piece of land for sale. They were introduced to a man named Antonio Granados, whose family owned the property. Sr. Granados personally showed them the rugged, sprawling 2,700 acres. As they walked and climbed and dined together,...
Jordy Smith. His breakout event.
There is a time in every surfer's professional career life when they burst onto the scene. Martin Potter was a great example, busting out and beating Shaun Tomson in a pro event in Durban when he was 15 years old.Jordy Smith didn't do too badly either, quickly launching himself onto the pro tour and elevating himself t...
Death By Mosquito
While much has been done in malaria research, it still kills hundreds of thousands of people. In 2017 there was an estimated 219 million cases of the disease, and 435 000 deaths from the mosquito borne illness.Speak to any surfer or traveller who has survived a bout of the killer disease and you’ll quickly come to unde...
Planet of the Humans
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corpor...
Designed by Nike's first employee
The Sunburst logo was originally designed by Nike's first employee Jeff Johnson in 1974. In 2019, with the intent of embodying the concept of circular design – and with the blessing of Jeff – Nike used the brand marker for Nike Sustainability. Today, it is exclusively the Move To Zero logo and denotes sustainable produ...
Not just a bunch of escape artists
Tony “Doc” Van Den Heuvel wasn’t the first person to surf Jeffreys Bay, but there is no doubt that he surfed it the longest. In the early sixties, Tony was the original South African competitor and by the late 60’s he was the original South African rebel. For most of his surfing life, he has gone against the grain of t...
Custodians of the SA surf culture
A friend of mine — a hot underground local surfer called ‘Roosta’ (Andrew Lange) has written a fine piece on Ant, helped by Bruce Gold and some of Ant’s other friends. To reflect Doc’s true message so he has enlisted three other ‘custodians’ of the South African surf culture; Bruce Gold, Christine Moller and Shorty Bro...
Vela. A web tv series from JJF ...
Between surf events, John and a group of friends have spent the last few years testing the limits of smaller sailing craft around their home in the Hawaiian Islands.  Looking to push their comfort zone further, John and crew begin to prepare VELA for an open ocean voyage larger than any they've made before.Cover Shot: ...
Transkei Dreaming
The wild coast – a beautiful stretch of deserted beaches and friendly people – isn't that wild after all.The rain had kept a constant chatter on the corrugated iron roof. We were thankful for the rain because it had filled up the tanks from their somewhat dry levels. Still, it had woken me up early, with the constant r...
There are no shortcuts to joy
Before Under An Arctic Sky was even an idea or a film it was a love affair with surfing in cold water. Over the last decade Chris Burkard (Director &) Ben Weiland (DP) traveled across the globe seeking out waves in some of the coldest and most remote conditions on the planet. Why would anyone ever want to surf in c...
A roll through the Sunset machine
You're always told that it's cool to push your limits a little when it comes to big waves, to paddle out and give it a go if you're feeling a little nervous and that it is all part of the learning process of being a surfer and of being a human.It's not all true.It's sometimes very foolish to paddle out when you're obvi...
Transformed by the Sea. Fishpeople
Fishpeople tells the stories of a unique cast of characters who have dedicated their lives to the sea. Filmmaking. Some people follow the storyboard, some follow their gut. Keith Malloy? Ten parts gut, zero parts plan. Well, I take that back. He’s got a plan, it’s just hard to discern it behind that beard. Fortunately,...
Lynne Boyer
Lynne resides ten months of the year in Hawaii and two months in Hungary. Her favorite medium is oil on canvas and linen. She was born with a keen interest in visual arts and started drawing and painting at an early age. Lynne grew up on Oahu and became a World Champion surfer winning the titles in 1978 & 1979, eve...
Dungeons, Dragons, and Duckdives
The Red Bull Big wave Africa ran from the first tentative steps in 1999, up until the extravaganza that was the 2008 event, won by Grant 'Twiggy' Baker.One of the years, I decided to surf this beast of a wave, to be able to report on it and understand more about facing big waves. Hawaiian big wave charger Jamie Sterlin...
Lockdown Dream. Hugo Boulenger
Fujifilm X-T4. Jolt to the Industry.
The Fujifilm X-T4 is a mirrorless camera with a split personality – on the outside it's all retro dials and analogue chic, but inside it's packed with more advanced features than we've seen from any Fujifilm X-T camera so far.The X-T4 fills the last gaps left by its predecessor, the X-T3, and is now one of the most wan...
Vincent Duvignac, 20 years later ...
Vincent Duvignac's new film tells the story of his last trip to Morocco, on a spot he first surfed 20 years ago."With optimistic predictions and after a year of injuries, it was finally time to return to that part of Morocco that I love so much. The day before the departure, when I was picking up the tickets, I realise...
Amid all the clouds of foam dust
On paper, shaping yourself a surfboard by hand would seem like a giant pain in the ass. Shaping bays are small, dusty, sweat-inducing spaces. Planer whirs are not anyone's preferred soundtrack. You'll make a lot of shit surfboards on your way to the first one that rides at all like you want it to. But when you stick it...
Pedro Winter x Ed Banger Records
If you haven't heard of Pedro Winter, you must hate electronic music, have no access to the internet, or else live in a cave! If this doesn't apply to you, you will have listened to one of the artists on his label Ed Banger Records without maybe even knowing it.Cover Image: Kevin MilletDJ, producer, art director, and b...
Joaquin Phoenix Drops F-Bombs
When Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor in a Drama at the Golden Globes for his role in “Joker”, he managed to drop a few f-bombs in his acceptance speech. Unfortunately, the imprecise nature of the bleep button (or, in this case, the mute button) means it was pretty difficult for everyone at home to know what the fuck he ...
Mavic Air 2 for next-level content
Featuring 4K/60fps video and 48MP photos, Mavic Air 2 is the ideal creative tool for next-level content. Fly longer and see farther with a max flight time of 34 minutes and 1080p video transmission at distances up to 10km. Take advantage of 8K Hyperlapse, and a whole collection of intelligent modes to create stunning c...
JoJo’s legendary energetic DJ sets
JoJo De Freq’s DJing career has taken her across the globe from Manchester to Moscow, Brazil to Berlin and beyond. She has played the smallest of sweaty underground venues to events of 5000 people at FIB in Benicassim. An unknown girl, a music obsessive from Vancouver, who worked behind a counter in a record shop who r...
Art is the frontend, and DeFi is the backend.
An NFT marketplace where artists digitally sign, verify and use their own unique minting contracts? What if every artist has their own minting contract?We're a DAO network of designers, visual storytellers, NFT collectors, artists, and web3 devs. We're using a creator-owned NFT minting smart contract, allowing creators...
The idea would never leave them.
Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque are twins. Born the 10th of January 1950 in Casablanca, five minutes apart. They spent the first 3 years of their lives in the mountains of the moroccan atlas, then 2 years in Egypt and 2 years in Lebanon.In 1957, at 7 years old, they return to Paris as their father Jacques Berque is name...
1984 De Tomaso Pantera GT5
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, and many more. He founded Silodrome in 2010, and his site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector. Photo: SilodromeThe De Tomaso Pantera is the blue-collar version of the La...
Hobgood: A Sibling Rivalry
A cinematic tale of adventure, destiny, and family. The story of iconic professional surfers and identical twins CJ & Damien Hobgood. Their sibling rivalry and struggle to each establish their own identity fuelled their careers, but ripped their personal and peripheral relationships apart. Cover Image: nickpumphrey...
Z-FLEX and The Z-BOYS Reunion
A drought in 1970s Southern California has an unexpected side effect: as people empty their swimming pools, a group of teen surfers from the Dogtown area of Venice Beach move in with skateboards, and a new sport is born. Based on a true story, this film follows "Z-Boys" skate team members Stacy Peralta (John Robinson),...
Wizard of all crafts and a mad hatter
This might get one wondering if he is a rocket scientist or just a character out of a Disney movie. Born and raised in Belgium but constantly on the move to find a new wave to surf. Besides being a rad fellow with a big, cheeky smile who likes to surf, he is a world class surfboard shaper. Building boards that look lik...
The unfiltered life of Andy Irons
Assuming everybody has seen the movie at least 3 times, but I can't image not having an AI4EVER memo on the site. The image from the cover was shot by myself a few years ago, the painting started fading, but the magic moment of reflection we shared, on top of the Tower at J-Bay, will last for ever. #AI4EVER Bipolar dis...
Unifying two cultures worlds apart
After gathering all 700-something boards, they put them in a shipping container and sent them from Southern California to Cape Town. Teaming up with two non-profits, Surfers Not Street Children and Waves For Change, they were able to distribute the boards to communities in need not only throughout South Africa, but in ...
A prolific legacy of skate history
The old adage has never rung more true: legends never die. In memory of beloved Vans family member and skateboarding icon, Jeff Grosso, some of Jeff’s closest friends come together to celebrate his life during a virtual birthday gathering.Grosso leaves behind a prolific legacy of skateboarding history, having touched t...
The godfather of skateboarding.
No doubt, one of the few things I regret, is selling this oak, signed by Tony Alva, skateboard. It was used during the making of the "Lords of Dogtown" movie. I bought it during a visit to Cali, a trip that was a reflection of a missed opportunity to start my life over at the age of 12. Yeah, I know. LOL. At that time ...
Good Vibes Ohmly
GVO is a membership community comprising of both digital and off-line benefits for members. It is important to note that we're not a currency or protocol. We are a membership community that leverages NFTs as proof of membership. Some NFTs’ main functions are to be digital art and look cool, some offer additional utilit...
The untold story of dance music
In the documentary "The Sound of Belgium", the filmmakers explores the rich and untold story of Belgian electronic dance music. A production of Visualantics, produced by Steven Dhoedt and Gert van Berckelaer and written by Jozef Deville and Pablo Eekman.The movie takes a trip through time from the grand dance halls wit...
83,000 nautical miles. Living Life!
Brian and Karin Trautman have been living on a sailboat for 10 years, and their boat is set up so they can be off the grid in remote places for months at a time with solar and wind power providing electricity, a water maker that turns salt water into fresh water, multiple freezers and loads of storage space for food, a...
In the forested depths of Congo
If you think you're not affected by events that happen on the other side of the world or in a different continent, you're mistaken. We have to share this plant with animals that are often much like us. So what gives us the right to ignore their plight! If there were only 800 of your kind left, what would YOU do?In the ...
Grace coupled with tenacity
Lisa Andersen is one of surfing’s few transcendent stars. She is grace and beauty coupled with tenacity and fearlessness. A 4x world champ and inductee into the Surfer Hall of Fame, she is a true icon.She discovered surfing when she was 13, though it was not what her parents wanted. They felt the beach was dangerous. L...
Docu about Morocco’s surf culture
This journey introduces us to people and stories sharing one common thread: the genuine passion for the art of riding waves.A journey lived through Redouane’s surfing and through the words of pioneer Randolph Benzaquen and shapers Thierry Delbourg and Tarik Zrilida.Morocco has been, for the last half century, a mystica...
The ultimate sense of freedom
Kiteboarding is one of those disciplines that’s still young enough to be a novelty for many, while having now seen a few generations of riders and styles along the years.Eyeforce documents the life-changing stories of kite boarders from all walks of life. Presented by WeTransfer, in co-production with Red Bull Media Ho...
A Film about More Love with Carissa
In RISS, a new film directed by Peter Hamblin, Carissa Moore discusses her road to finding more comfort with herself, greater joy, and her fourth World Title.Moore became the youngest WSL champion at 18 in professional surfing history and a four-time world titleist however, following her third championship in 2015, suc...
Integrity is telling myself the truth
Honesty is telling the truth to other people. But this is a story I kept mostly to myself. For good reason. Integrity is about telling yourself the truth, and nothing matters more. To those reading, I am truly sorry. Please know this is not your fault. I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for sharing the i...
Machine guns pointed at surfers
Last week, a group of three surfers had snuck out to a peak that is a couple of clicks from a beach car park and thus only accessible through the forest, when a passing Gendarme patrol helicopter seemed to have spotted them and changed course.“As they sheltered behind their boards from all the sand and debris flying in...
The Mirror House NFT Series
There have been several projects bridging the worlds of blockchain and real estate that make property transaction management, ownership, and liquidity ripe for disruption. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have recently taken the world of art by storm, and although slow to start, there are opportunities for tokenization in re...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Ocean Cleanup aims to develop a sustainable product made of the highest possible concentration of ocean plastic, with the objective of 100% of the plastic material being collected from the GPGP. "We are on a journey to repurpose this plastic. This will be the first batch that we recycle into a consumer product. We ...
A 65-year long surfing adventure.
Born exactly at the same time in 1950, in Casablanca, Morocco, with just 10 minutes difference, Emmanuel et Maximilien, spend three happy years in this beautiful country, but don’t remember a lot, except for the exotic smells and the heat.Then, they left for two years to Egypt in Alexandria. They enjoyed the real Arabi...
The world’s largest living structure
“The Reef Beneath” follows professional freediver Kimi Werner as she meets up with surfers Belinda Baggs and Wayne Lynch for a sailing journey along the Great Barrier Reef.  The reef is the world’s largest living structure and yet over half of its coral has been lost or damaged, mostly because of human impact.  On thei...
Cost of living on a boat year-round.
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. It's impossible not to dream of selling it all and living on a boat, year-round. In theory, it sounds like an affordable way to live life as close as possible to the ocean, especially in areas where prices of real estate went through the...
Summer, 1946. The Cousteau Story
Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family - Jacques, his wife Simone and their two children Philippe and Jean-Michel - live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean sea. By day they dive, by night they watch the stars. It's paradise on earth. But Jacques is never content. He lives and breathes adventure and believes absol...
Longhaul travel can be tiresome
Who would have thought that over 3.9 billion people worldwide could be confined in their homes and that most long-haul transport could be frozen? The C19 lockdown is hitting the long-haul transportation industry pretty hard. In just a few weeks, the world’s busiest airlines have grounded nearly all the planes in their ...
The colorful story of Coco Ho
Her rich surfing family history, ups and downs on the Championship Tour, and everything in between. Including exclusive interviews with brother, Mason Ho, father, Michael Ho, and world champion surfers John John Florence and Stephanie Gilmore.Coco Ho comes from surfing royalty, but living off the cachet of her family n...
Sex in the city or Sex on the Beach
A Sex on the Beach is such a classic cocktail. Containing vodka, peach schnapps, orange juice, cranberry juice, and a somewhat funny name, but honestly, I much rather enjoy some good old Bordeaux wine. At the end of the lockdown, you start wondering if you should still stay inside or waste time watching Netflix while t...
Truly the golden age of surfing
Kelly Slater, Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Taylor Knox, Kalani Robb, Benji Weatherly, Ross Williams, Pat O'Connell and Taylor Steele are the Momentum Generation. In the 1960s, surfing in America was known primarily as a California- and Hawaii-based phenomenon associated with surf instrumentals and Beach Boys songs. In fi...
Living it up, all the way down
Bunker77 is the wild true story of a young American rebel seeking freedom, love, and authenticity in a chaotic world. Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable's stepson and heir to a sugar fortune, turned his back on expectations and grew into a controversial surf star who expressed complete originality, like a cross between Jame...
Standing eight to 10 hours a day
In the early ‘70s, a young lady in Hawaii was interested in photographing surf. It took handshakes with the right people, the perfect lens, a sharp eye, the right moment, good timing, a lot of running around and a little luck to be that young lady. Shirley Rogers would be the first to tell you so. She was that young la...