Here are handful of images from a recent trip to Japan. These are from Yokohama, Kamakura, and the Shibuya district of Tokyo. This beautiful country and it’s people live where ancient meets modern, creating a fusion of culture which is unique to the land of the rising sun.
Patagonia Cardiff is hosting a board swap on Saturday, May 5th, at 9 am. It’s open to the public and features some great deals on used surfboards. Sellers, contact the store to sign up. Buyers or browsers, just show up with your wallets! I provided the image for this promo and am always stoked to be involved with the community and a company like Patagonia.
Keith Malloy  screened his bodysurfing masterpiece, Come Hell or High Water,  last October at the Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente, California. The film is a series of wave riding vignettes filmed in California, Hawaii, Tahiti and beyond. With this film, Keith proves that bodysurfing, and riding waves without a traditional surfboard, is a moving and poignant experience. The screening also featured an exhibit of artwork created on Enjoy Handplanes. I set up a virtual studio and grabbed a quick portrait of Keith.
I shot this portrait of Surfer Magazine photographer Todd Glaser at my home in Encinitas. Todd is a versatile photographer with great skills in the water. Incorporating water into the shot seemed to be quite appropriate. Check out his work at www.tglaser.com
portrait - todd glaser
A shot from the “Wild Ones” art show at Surfindian of the super groovy and talented  Mattson 2… get their new album, “Feeling Hands” here on itunes!
The Mattson 2 jammin at Surfindian
Tyler Warren is a multi-talented artist, surfer, and shaper. Inspired by the past, Tyler is a forward thinker with a bright future. A couple shots from a visit to his studio in Dana Point, California. Check out Tyler’s blog at surf-knot.blogspot.com
california dreaming
palette
dana point
studio wall detail
tw at work
Created in 1979, Moonlight Glassing is a special sort of place where surfboards have been decorated, glassed, polished, and sanded for over 30 years. Understated and unpretentious, the factory has put the finishing touches on thousands of surfboards for pros such as Rob Machado and Taylor Knox and labels such as Channel Islands and the Campbell Brothers. They specialize in custom color, airbrush, pinlines, resin tint, channels and fin set-ups for seasoned veterans and backyard shapers alike. Gary Stuber is Moonlight’s laminator and is responsible for  applying the fiberglass to the shapers creation giving it both function and fashion. Gary is a master craftsman and has probably glassed more surfboards than anyone, which is no minor accomplishment.
many surfboards have passed though these doors...
if these walls could talk...
surfboard blanks
getting started
map of dreams...
garys ratios
at work on a red beauty
trimming cured fiberglass
resin, fiberglass, and craftsmanship
Moonlight laminate
Gary Stuber, laminator and master craftsman
“More than anything, Sacred Craft is a celebration of the surfboard – the philosophical icon of enduring youth. No other object stirs as much passion, as much stoke, and as much power”. The spring show held in Santa Cruz did not disappoint. Surfers packed the Rittenhouse Building in downtown Santa Cruz on a rainy weekend and feasted on freshly shaped surfboards, contemporary and retro models,  live shaping demos, surf art, and a chance to rub elbows with friends and legends. Local shaper Doug Haut was featured in the tribute to the masters shape-off competition. Local Ward Coffey took top honors over Wayne Rich, Steve Coletta, Mark Angell and Bob Pearson replicating Doug’s classic “bump” model.
The Rittenhouse Building in Downtown Santa Cruz
Mark Angell planning a Doug Haut replica board
thrusters
no shoes in this shaping bay
beautiful craftsmanship
art by John Holm
Doug Haut Classics
Iconic Santa Cruz local, "Stretch" Riedel
fresh Bings
shaping bay decal
Chris Christenson is a California based surfboard shaper who apprenticed under the legendary Dick Brewer and now shapes under his own label building boards for big wave chargers like Greg Long. Greg won the most prestigious big-wave invitational, the 2009 Eddie Aikau, at Wiamea Bay on one of Chris’s boards. Chris also shapes longboards and shortboards with fine craftmenship and attention to detail.
board rack
glasser Ninoa Speier’s mixing buckets
blanks
vintage logo
orders
still life on shaping bay wall with picture of San O
cc at work
mavericks gun
just liked this one
shaka
Cyrus Sutton filming with his handplane mounted Go-Pro Camera for “Stoked and Broke”
filming for Stoked and Broke
KEVIN ROCHE PHOTOGRAPHY 