A short travelogue from Santa Barbara featuring surfing by Trevor Gordon. Film and direction by Alex Kopps with special thanks to Sudden Oak for the music.

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This video is a super quick documentation of the building [Ryan Lovelace] and subsequent surfing [Trevor Gordon] of the first ThrougHull.A pretty good lesson in acceleration and flow put on by Trevor [and briefly Mr.Travers Adler]. He and I originally designed the board for traveling and hollower reef or beachbreak waves on tropical adventures. It did really well and was mostly tuned for tubes and reef style waves, though it seems to go just fine in average surf back...

Johnny is perpetually jamming and I'm constantly taken by the loops he produces. So on a recent evening I sat my camera down and captured this, what is one of my more favorite loops improvised in the recent past. Listening to them develop and watching it progress is always a pleasure. I really, really like this one. Especially juuuust before the half-way mark, around 1:30.(via Ryan Lovelace)

Nico Manos in Alaska, April 2012. Camera/Edit: Michael Kew Song: Leo Kottke 2012 Peathead Publishing peathead.blogspot.com

Sorrel in JamaicaTypically consumed around Christmas, the red sepals of the sorrel plant, mixed with ginger, water, sugar, and occasionally wine or rum, provide several health benefits.Sakau in PohnpeiExtracted from the roots of a pepper shrub, sakau contains 14 natural painkillers that tend to benumb and sedate the drinker.Seagull wine in GreenlandA freshly deceased seagull is stuffed into a corked bottle filled with water, then left in direct sunlight until the...

Ellis reminds me of Terry Fitzgerald. Burch...no one is quite like him. Chojnacki? Refreshing. Cheers, lads.

Coastalwatch.com, Australia's leading surf website, published an interview with me today:http://www.coastalwatch.com/news/article.aspx?articleId=10507&display=0&cateId=3&

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In the segment of Rabbit's Foot-ery, Byron Bay local Ari Browne puts it down it on the 6th version of the Rabbit's Foot at a quick sunrise session before the day's responsibilities set in. In this one, the nineteen year old Mr.Browne is surfing at Lennox Head after no more than 8 sessions in varied conditions over two weeks...Stoking! Ari is one of the coolest and most potential-ridden people I've met in my travels and rides this design beautifully. I'm really...